- We made the very regretful decision
to swap morning routines for a week.
- It's really terrifying.
- I have never been more over anything
in my entire life.
- So today kind of sucks.
So I'm gonna be swapping beauty routines with Tan
and I don't know what hers is
but I don't think it involves much makeup at all,
which is kind of scary.
I'm kind of concerned for you as well
because when I started wearing makeup,
I don't know, you start with the basics,
but I feel like the amount that I wear isn't the basics.
- Great.
Alright, let's go.
- Okay, so.
(squeaking)
Next.
(squeaking)
Does that make sense?
- [Tan] Yeah. - Kind of?
- Like relatively, yup.
Where's your notebook?
- Oh, sorry, can I please borrow yours.
- Okay, it's pretty complicated,
so I'll wake up.
Are you keeping up with all this information?
- Yeah, I'm just trying.
- Yeah, good luck, Gyan.
(moaning)
- When I imagine what I look like, I have makeup on,
so it's kind of like a bit of a sense of identity thing
I guess, like when I don't have makeup on,
I just don't feel like myself.
I just don't feel like me.
- Ready.
I'm really scared about what my colleagues and friends
are gonna say.
I'm gonna have to explain myself to everyone.
This is way too much foundation.
Even an idiot like me knows that.
But who knows, there might be aspects of it
that I enjoy.
I've never tried it.
So far so good,
I don't feel like I've completely changed as an individual.
- I have to blend you.
- Did I do it wrong?
- Um, not wrong.
You just didn't blend.
- I was just having a drink with a friend
who kept saying, "What's different about you?"
All I could think about on the way home was how
good it would be to just lie down in bed and fall asleep.
How does this come off?
Ah.
I just wanna go to bed.
(sighing)
- So one good thing about my new makeup-free lifestyle
is that I can just press my face on anything
and anyone I want.
- My housemate's teasing me.
- I'm so done with this challenge at this point.
I feel like I'm missing a part of my identity
and a step in how I get ready to face the world
every morning.
- So it's only day two,
and I've been teased by three
of the closest people in my life.
It shouldn't matter so much to them
whether I wear makeup or not,
but obviously people are really affected by it.
I really like this eyebrow part.
- Okay, one good thing about not wearing makeup
is that if you get an itchy eyebrow,
you can actually scratch it.
That is one perk and that's all I'm giving you, Tan.
(yawning)
- I'm running late,
I'm already supposed to have left the house by now,
but I've got to contour.
Done.
- This Snapchat filter has been getting
such a run this week.
- I've never left the house so late in my life.
Eyebrows on point, though.
- So I have a beauty launch tonight.
I have to leave in a few minutes
and I just don't know if I can go without makeup.
- What a week.
We're halfway through now.
It's been interesting.
- I just hate it.
I hate it so much.
- I was trying to be a little bit, like.
- I just feel like a bland, boring version of myself.
- I'm getting the strangest looks.
Everyone's kind of doing double takes.
Mostly, like nine out of 10 people are laughing at me
and teasing me.
- Who are you?
- Being bullied.
I feel like it shouldn't matter
whether someone's wearing makeup or not.
No, not again.
I have never been more over anything in my entire life.
- So today kind of sucks.
I'm starting a art course tonight.
- I'm going to my mum's house for a family lunch.
She's going to see me in makeup.
- I feel like,
I don't know, just like I'm giving off
this weird first impression that isn't actually me.
- You don't look like yourself.
- I had a pretty average day to be honest.
It just sucks.
- Out of about 50 interactions,
only one person has said a nice thing about my makeup.
- This is not normal.
I'm freaking out right now.
- [Tan] Why?
- You have lipstick on.
Mm-mm.
- This is very different.
- [Woman] I should probably highlight your cheeks.
- I don't know.
- [Woman] I mean I like it. - I feel uncomfortable.
- I don't think that I've ever seen you go out
on a Saturday night with no makeup on.
- [Gyan] Do I look okay?
- Yeah, you look good.
- [Gyan] How is my makeup-free week been?
- It's been good, it's been really good.
I really enjoyed it.
- [Gyan] Why?
- Because I think it's good to see
that the rest of the world gets to see
what you actually look like.
- It's weird but no one has actually said anything to me
about the fact I've stopped wearing makeup,
and I seriously think it's because
they don't want to offend me.
- This is me trying to put liquid eyeliner on
and ruining liquid eyeliner for the whole entire world.
- [Gyan] I'm coming for you tomorrow at daybreak.
I miss you guys.
- It's the last day of the makeup challenge.
I'm so happy.
In four hours I can go back to looking pimple faced
and tried as fuck.
- I felt like I'm not myself.
I felt really boring and dull.
It was kind of a good realization
that I actually wear makeup for me.
It's been fun, like it's been kind of nice
not having to do it and having that extra time
in the morning, but I missed it at the same time.
- To be honest, I kind of had a love-hate
relationship with it.
I just love these eyebrows, I'm gonna miss these eyebrows.
Just so big.
Like I really actually enjoyed sitting down every morning
and having time to myself,
but at the same time,
people in my life reacted really negatively toward it.
So pretty much everyone from like my ex to my best friends,
even my mum.
It really goes to show how much makeup and clothes
and generally the way we present ourselves
affects how other people see us.
- [Woman] Don't you love this happening to you?
- No.
- And I think in the same vein,
it showed me how much the way I present myself to others
makes me feel about myself and like my identity.
- Yeah, I guess at the end of the day, each to their own.
We all do things for ourselves
and it's not up to anyone else.
It is fun sometimes stepping out of the bubble
and trying new things,
but essentially we present how we feel inside
and that's all that should matter.