- Hello, friends.
It's me, Ginny Di and I am not wearing makeup.
You know what that means.
♪ We're doing makeup in the video today ♪
New original song, coming never.
Everyone's pretty much done with this trend by now
but there was this trend online
where cosplayers did six makeup tests
for six different characters.
I did the first two a few weeks ago
on a video where I transformed myself
into Yasha from "Critical Role"
and Elphaba from the musical "Wicked".
I'll link to the previous video in the cards
and the description in case you want to check it out.
And today we are going to do the next two makeup tests.
(playful music)
You may have seen a previous video
in which I taught you how to make little candy hair clips.
And that is because my very first makeup test today
is going to be Vanellope von Schweetz from "Wreck-It Ralph".
Vanellope is a character
that I have seriously considered cosplaying more than once.
The first "Wreck-It Ralph" movie was really good.
We don't have to talk about the second one.
By the way, this is not a tutorial,
so I will talk a little bit
about the makeup choices I'm making
but I'm not gonna like show you
how to do this look necessarily;
especially since it's my first time doing it,
so who knows if it'll come out well?
But I will put links
to the makeup items that I'm using in the description
in case you want to buy any of them.
Real talk, I don't think anybody gives "Wreck-It Ralph"
enough credit for casting raspy-voiced Sarah Silverman
as this tiny adorable little race car anime girl.
One great thing about doing a baby-faced character
like Vanellope, is that I do not have to attempt
to contour my face.
I have applied foundation and powder
to kind of try and flatten and even everything out.
The main stuff with Vanellope is going to be blush
and her little pert nose.
I don't think this should be too tough of a look,
I think it should go pretty quickly.
I guess I'll start with the cheeks.
All right, we're going to really overdo it here, folks.
Oh, boy.
Those are some pink cheeks.
You know what? We should talk about "Wreck-It Ralph 2".
Why was it so bad?
Or more accurately, just why was it so not good?
♪ Circle nose, circle nose ♪
♪ Nose is a circle, a circle of a nose ♪
♪ Circle nose ♪
Woo, that came out really well
for the fact that I just drew an oval
around the tip of my nose.
I was like a Who.
Anyway, here's my theory
for why "Wreck-It Ralph 2" was not good.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this,
this is just the thought that's in my brain.
It was basically just Disney being like,
look at all the properties we own.
This is something that I think
is a really easy trap to fall into,
is sort of this like fan service trap of being like,
instead of creating something new that's good,
that you'll like,
we will simply remind you of something that we already made
that you already like.
Oh, it's so pink. Too pink?
Science may never know.
You know what it needs?
A good highlight.
The Disney princesses like, definitely fell into that trap.
Where they were like,
hey we all like Disney princesses, right?
I'm like, listen, I love Disney princesses.
But I didn't love them,
just like lampshading,
all of the issues that other people have
brought up about Disney princesses over the years.
And they've done this in a lot of movies.
Like they did this in "Enchanted".
They even did this a little bit in "Frozen"
but they sort of do this thing where they're like
hehe so dumb.
How we used to just be really not feminist.
The true love trope sure is silly.
Disney princesses sure do sometimes
come off as shallow, wink.
But like you can't really wink at us about it.
Like we can wink at each other about it
but like them doing it just feels so false.
I call this look, "Has the cold, but in a cute way".
Okay, I suppose it may be worthwhile
at this point to use some of the little tricks
that people use to make eyes look bigger
since Vanellope's eyes are like half of her face.
I'm going to try something.
I've never tried this before
but I've seen people do it, which is putting your eyelash,
your false eyelash just a little bit past
to the outside edge of your eye,
to try and elongate the eye visually.
So I'm going to start by doing a little bit
of an oversized wing with my liquid liner.
And then I'm just gonna set the lash a little further out
than I normally would.
Fingers crossed this doesn't go terribly.
I'm not gonna do the lash yet.
Cause I want to do some other stuff.
I'll do the lash last.
So what I'm gonna do next is I am going to
put a brown eye shadow powder on my lower lash line
but I'm actually gonna put it below my lower lash line.
And then I'm going to put white above it,
to try and sort of visually oversize
the white part of my eye.
I'm doing brown instead of black
because I feel like a black lower lash line is
a pretty heavy eye makeup look and Vanellope,
it has such a youthful face.
It feels like it'd be overkill.
I'm gonna do the white part
actually with a white face paint
just because I want it to be very opaque.
And my white pencil is dead.
I think this might actually be too white.
I might have to tone it down with some powder.
I also don't love that it's all over my lashes.
Okay, we're going to soften that up with a little powder.
That's too much.
I'm just going to do some mascara
on the lower lashes because I turned to them white
and I think it's contributing to the freaky look.
Yeah, that seems a little better.
All right, we're gonna do lashes now.
I have a brand new pair.
I usually trim them
but I guess if we're going for oversized.
But I think that's pretty good.
Oh man, this is looking wild.
All right, Vanellope has powerful black eyebrows,
a theme with these makeup tests so far.
Oh man.
Great, now I'm just going to put on the wig
and my little candy hair clips
and we'll see how it all looks together.
(electronic music)
I tried to be nice.
You're mimicking me.
I actually really like how this one came out.
It came out pretty cute.
Without the wig
I was worried that it looked a little extreme.
I need like prosthetic ears
like people use for Hobbit cosplays.
What's that?
I didn't hear you.
Your breath is so bad
It made my ears numb.
All right,
that's enough of that.
All right,
let's move on to the next one.
This one sprang from
everyone's recent re-obsession with
"Avatar the Last Airbender".
Suki, the Kyoshi warrior.
Sokka's one true love.
Bad-ass feminist.
I am excited to try out her Kyoshi warrior face paint look.
I don't have a whole white cake of Mehron yet.
So I'm going to be attempting to use this like
tiny little palette.
We'll see how that goes.
Especially considering that I have like
already made a mess out of the white.
Pray for me that I don't mix up my paint water
and my drink.
Did they really paint their necks?
God!
I don't have a high necked green shirt,
So I'm gonna have to paint my whole chest?
Hate that.
Anyway, we have Avatar on DVD.
So it's not like I couldn't have been re-watching it
before it got put on Netflix.
But it got put on Netflix
and suddenly it was just so convenient
and we re-watched the whole thing.
And like, I don't need to tell you guys this,
you know that Avatar is one of the best shows ever written.
But like God, it's so good.
If you haven't re-watched it recently
highly recommend, it's time.
It's a good thing this looks so clean on camera
because it does not look clean in the mirror.
Oh, here we go.
I guess I'm doing my whole neck and chest.
I need some kind of white powder
to like seal this with,
but I don't have that.
I mean, I guess I have it on my like rainbow colors palette,
but a very small amount.
Okay, I guess we're just going to do it this way.
One zone at a time.
The neck is not my best work
but I feel like I can work with the face.
She does not appear to have any blush whatsoever,
but I think I am gonna do
just a little bit of contouring.
Cause I feel like otherwise
face paint can feel really flat.
I'm gonna try to use like a cool gray.
Hmm. Yeah it's too much.
We're gonna blend it.
Sure.
Time to focus,
cause we all know what the most important part
of the Kyoshi Warrior's makeup is.
And it's this crazy red eye situation
that they got going on.
You know what sucks about Avatar? Nothing.
You know the only thing that sucks about Avatar,
it's not even Avatar.
It's not even Avatar's fault.
It's Legend of Korra
and Legend of Korra isn't even that bad.
It's just like, you can't be Avatar.
Avatar is just so good.
What's weird about Korra though,
is that it absolutely gets better as it goes.
Like the first season,
really quite bad.
But by the time you get to the final one,
it's like a good show.
Not as good as Avatar, but good.
Alright I can't talk I have to focus.
Oh my God I'm gonna mess this up
I can just feel it.
Cool.
I'm gonna get it in my hair.
I'm gonna have to take my second shower today
because I was a mermaid earlier. know
You know I just feel like everything I could even say
about Avatar is not exciting.
Cause we all agree, you know.
Like, who's your favorite character?
Uncle Iroh, obviously.
That looks pretty good.
Now let's see if I can get the other side to match it.
Sometimes I feel like you have to ask yourself, like why,
why do other shows not get it as right as Avatar did?
Like what did they have?
There are a lot of shows that are like pretty good
but they aren't like Avatar.
That's pretty clean
to be honest.
Oh my God, I just almost lost my mind.
I kept smearing it
and my paint water was red
and I almost gave up
I went into the kitchen and I was like, Josh, I ruined it.
And he was like, can you just use a makeup wipe
and take off the bits that you smeared and try it again.
And I was like, yes.
I feel like there's some context that you're missing here.
And that context is that
it is hot as balls in Denver this week.
And we have an upstairs apartment with no air conditioning.
So like right now I have a wet washcloth
that I put into the freezer on my lap,
because that is the only way that I can not
sweat this makeup off as I apply it.
I don't know about you guys
but when I'm hot, my patience, it grows thin.
We did team.
We fixed one side.
Sorry I'm not gonna be as chatty in this portion
because it's just hard for me to be chatty
while I'm doing highly specific face paint.
It just occupies all my attention.
Can't chat and paint.
I feel like David Bowie would really respect
the Kiyoshi warriors make up decisions.
This is making my eyes like, disappear.
I know there are people who just like
use a paintbrush to apply liquid liner,
like for their daily liner.
And those people are witches.
I look like a Poke ball.
Now the question is to lash or not to lash.
And normally I would of course say, to lash.
But to be honest, I'm a little worried that if I mess it up
I'll like peel off all this face paint and then I will cry.
Kyoshi warriors just have a red lip.
So we're going to do that.
And then I will get to show you
my cool headdress that I made.
Guys, this is such a cool look.
Do I look like I could beat you up?
Cause that's the goal.
Okay. I'm gonna put the wig and my fancy headdress on
and we'll see how it all comes together.
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So there you have it numbers three and four
of my six cos tests.
I know I'm moving very slowly through this.
But I still want to do the other two.
So if you have any suggestions for characters
you would like to see me do makeup tests for.
Please drop them in the comments.
If you like this video, make sure to subscribe.
I have a new video about my D and D character,
Ashlyn coming next week,
that I am very excited about.
And of course an extremely mermaidy new music video
coming to you before the end of this month.
In my mermaid unboxing video
I talked about how I like the drowny kind of mermaids
I believe is the language that I used,
and people are just tripping over themselves
to tell me that those are called sirens.
As if a self-professed lifelong mermaid obsessor
would not know the word siren, which by the way,
originally in Greek myth
referred to women that were part bird.
I'm not saying the word siren can't be
used to describe mermaids.
And it frequently has been throughout mythologies.
But you just know, you just know,
that if I had used the word siren
people would be correcting me
telling me that sirens are part bird.
This is just such a quintessential internet experience right
Like there's literally no right answer.
No matter what I say, someone's going to correct me.