hey guys it's anna and today I'm going to be showing you how I transformed from this
to this in less than an hour I thought this would be a great video to give you guys some makeup hair
and outfit inspiration especially if you're going back to school so that you can feel like your most
confident self obviously you definitely don't have to get done up and do your hair and makeup
to feel confident but I just personally love to play around with makeup and pick out cute outfits
so if you do as well this video will be great to give you some ideas don't forget to give
the video a thumbs up I'd really appreciate it and let's go ahead and get right into it
to start I'm going to be showing you my favorite way to style my hair at the moment
surprisingly I always get a lot of questions asking how I curl my hair
so to curl it I almost always use a curling wand and I like the ones that are thicker like this one
then I just divide my hair into layers because obviously that way my whole hair will be curled
and not just the top of it does anyone else hate when this happens the ponytails are like
stuck so hard to get them out okay so once I have the top layer of my hair up like this I
just divide my hair into two sections and then I just take little sections like this and curl them
outwards from my face just a little tip if you didn't know this already I find the curls look
a lot nicer and shape around your face better if you do them outwards compared to if you were just
to curl them all the same way or if you were to curl them in towards your face so if you're
confused what i mean by that is I like to go out like this and not in towards my face like this now
this first layer is all curled I then take a flat iron and just curl the tops of the pieces this
just gets any bumps out of the top of your hair and then I just repeat those steps for every layer
my hair is pretty thick so usually i have to do around three or four layers but it really
doesn't take that long overall it usually takes me around 20 minutes or so to finish my whole head
I definitely prefer my hair curly over straight though straightening it is just a little bit
easier but I'd love to know in the comments how you prefer your hair whether that's natural, curly
straight, ponytail whatever your favorite hairstyle is okay so this is the second layer done I'm not
sure if I'm going to need to do three or four layers today we'll just have to see how thick this
is okay there is a lot of uncurled hair left so i'm going to do four layers just to make it easier
okay now on to the last layer
as you can see my hair is all curled now even though I do like it just straight down like this
another way i also like to style it when it's curly is by pulling a few pieces in the front
back so sometimes i'll go like this and then just use a clip to clip it up so this is what
the clipped back hairstyle looks like obviously I'm going to do it on the other side as well
it's just a super easy way to make your hair look a little bit different one tip if you're trying
this and using a bigger clip like i am i like to clip it in backwards like this and not forward
like this because if your clip kind of sticks out like this and you put it in forward it will
look like something is sticking out of your head but if you do it backward that kind of fixes that
and as you can see for this hairstyle I also like to leave a few pieces out in front just to kind of
shape around my face I find that looks nicer than just pulling everything back
and this is the finished hairstyle I love how simple this is but the clips still make it
look like I styled my hair a bit now let's go ahead and move into some makeup ideas
I usually don't like to wear foundation i'm just not a huge fan of how it feels on my
face so to start my makeup I usually just apply some under eye concealer
now that my concealer is all blended in I'm just going to apply some powder all over my
face just to get rid of any shine in case you're wondering this one is from the sephora collection
by the way I feel like you guys already know this but just in case you're new by no means
am i any kind of makeup expert this is just how I like to do my makeup and what works for me so
I wanted to show you my routine so you can get some ideas from it but by no means am I
any kind of makeup artist here so yeah i'm just putting this powder all over my face
so that is pretty much what I do every time I apply makeup for like the base of my face
and now it's time for eyebrows the first step I do for my eyebrows is fill them in
using the precisely my brow pencil from benefit cosmetics who is sponsoring today's video
and I have loved benefits products for the longest time so I was so so excited when I
found out that they wanted to partner with me on this video so to use this I
start with the pencil side and then just do some strokes to fill in my eyebrows
and then I just brush them up with this other side to blend it in a little but what I love about this
is it doesn't really take much blending because since the tip of it is so thin it makes the
strokes look really natural also mine is in the shade warm light brown so obviously it's important
to use a shade that matches your eyebrows to make it look natural after that I used benefits gimme
brow plus in the shade warm golden brown and this is a volumizing fiber gel so it fills out
and volumizes your brows even more what i love about this one is that it has tiny microfibers
that create a natural looking fullness which for me is a must because even though I want my
eyebrows to look full I don't really want them to look like I filled them in if you know what I mean
and the final step I do on my brows is apply benefits 24 hour brow setter so this is basically
an invisible gel that helps to shape and keep your brows in place all day and that's it for
my eyebrows I feel like they're definitely an important step to my everyday makeup look and now
I'm going to move on to how I usually do my eye makeup I personally love a very minimal looking
makeup look so I'm not going to do anything too crazy on my eyes I'm going to use the seeing
stars palette also from the sephora collection and use this lighter gold color all around my
eyelid and then a little bit of this darker gold shade just on my outer lid and the final
thing I'm also going to do to my eyes is apply some of this mascara which is also from benefit
I feel like contour blush and highlighter all add a lot to a makeup look so i'm going
to add some contour next
I personally find just a tiny bit of contour goes a long way
you definitely don't need a lot next I'm going to add some blush and finally some highlighter
and the final thing I like to do for my makeup is lipstick i'm using this pinkish one for
mac but I feel like lipstick can be so different for everyone even no lipstick or like a lip gloss
can look cute and this is my finished makeup look I know it's very simple it only took me
like 10 minutes but i think this is a great everyday look for like high school or college
and the final step of my glow up routine I guess is picking out a cute outfit and
I love skirts so I was thinking a cute outfit could be this jean skirt paired
with this ruffly crop top kind of shirt I think this shirt is super cute I just got it
from garage but it's like extremely short it's like the length of a sports bra so i think i'm
going to pair the shirt with this jacket that I also think is super cute it's from the gymshark
recess collection this is a new color though so I'm not sure if by the time I post this video
if it will be released or not yet but they do have other colors of this on there as well if
it's not out yet and I'll leave a link in the description anyways I just love this jacket I
think it looks so cute on I have like three different colors of it now since the outfit
doesn't have a ton of color i'm going to pair it with these mauve sneakers from
soludos I think these will add a nice bit of color to it anyways I'm going to get changed
so you guys can see what the outfit looks like on i think this would be a super cute look for fall