- I have a date later so this better not make me look crazy.
Oh my God.
- So many regrets right now.
I do not think that this is going well.
(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Megan and this week we're trying fake freckles
four ways.
- So each day for the next four days,
I'm gonna be doing my normal makeup routine
and then a full freckle technique per day.
- I've definitely had friends make fun of the trend,
which I think has like deterred me a little bit
from doing it myself.
- The products we're using this week are Freck,
the OG Tik Toker e-girl product of choice,
brown eyeshadow and a mascara brush.
- This liquid eyeliner.
- And L'Oreal root touch-up spray.
I've tried applying fake freckles once or twice in the past,
but it never looks great.
- The trends that come out of certain attributes or aspects
of one's physical appearance that they may or may not
have been made fun of for growing up,
it's like a little bit if I had freckles all my life
and then there was a full freckle trend,
I'd be pissed.
I've already done my makeup.
So I'm just gonna jump in
and try the first full freckle technique.
Gonna start with the easy one first.
- Based on what I've seen,
it looks like it gives the most realistic fake freckles.
- It's so tiny.
- You have one job and if you don't work,
then you are useless.
- Shake before using.
- So I'm dotting without a plan
and then you take your finger and you stamp it.
- Stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp
and I can blend it out 'till the desired opacity,
oh my gosh.
- I think I'm bad at this.
(screaming)
- Okay, now we know that if you drop the bottle,
the liquid isn't gonna come out everywhere, that's great.
- Oh wow, okay.
I was actually able to wipe it off really fast,
which is super nice.
- Pretty easy once you get the hang of it,
it's subtle, it's fine.
I mean, you know, I'm getting the message across that
I have a freckle look happening.
- What a fantastic first day.
Freck gets five out of five stars.
It was really easy application,
I think that they look really natural and like honestly,
no one would clock these were fake if I were out in public.
- It's $22 to me,
that's like four bobas, you get four bobas with $22.
Knowing the price,
I would honestly give this five stars out of five stars
just because it does exactly what I wanted it to do.
- I would have to give this one a five out of five,
I don't really have any complaints.
- Today's full freckle hack
definitely feels like the riskiest.
Here's the Tik Tok we're following.
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- Now, I don't know how I feel about
flying liquids towards my eyes but I signed up for this.
- I've made some pretty good looking splatter paint
in the past and now I'm just making it on my face.
- So I guess I'm just supposed to get the spoolie wet,
roll it around into my eye shadow.
All right I'm just gonna ruin this eye shadow here
by digging around a bit.
- I felt that one.
Oh, I see, okay.
- Now I'm supposed to just splatter this out on my face,
let's see what happens.
I'm feeling the water
but are there freckles showing up?
No, these are my actual freckles.
- Oh, this is gonna be bad.
- You can probably see the little tiny dots around my face.
Very cute, very subtle.
(laughing)
- I get the logic here, it's just not working.
- All right, I think part of the trick of these looking good
is not being super up close.
I feel like in a picture for Instagram
or with a mask from six feet away,
these look really cute.
The more I look, the more I love it.
This looks good right?
Am I crazy?
- The only problem is the ones around my nose,
around here to me just look like clogged pores.
- I see nothing.
There's nothing here.
There's nothing for me here with this technique.
- I actually would give this like a four,
the only con like I said, being, I don't really like
how it destroyed my eyeshadow
and just the time that it takes.
But in terms of how it looks, I really like it.
- I'm gonna give this technique four out of five stars.
I liked the way it turned out but it kind of makes a mess
but it turns out well, right?
It's been like an hour and I've come to check in to say,
doesn't really have the staying power I'm looking for.
- So today's product,
I'm actually just using the OG classic,
brown liquid eyeliner.
This one's from L'Oreal.
- I believe that people just gently dot it on.
- With a very steady hand
and artistry that I may or may not actually have.
- These are just gonna be more so be me
strategically placing freckles all over my face.
- Alrighty, well here goes nothing,
let's do this thing.
- I'm just scared okay.
Oh that's, oh God.
How do I lighten that up?
Oh no, no.
- And things that are immediately to dark,
what do you think?
I feel like it just looks like
I have a ton of clogged pores.
- I'm gonna fix it.
I'm I'm gonna fix it.
Oh, no.
- Okay, I mean this, this is happening.
- I feel like no part of this looks good.
There's no part where I'm like looking at it
and I'm like, oh yeah, that's a cute patch.
- I feel bad about it you guys.
- They're kind of cute.
I actually think I may prefer the way
the L'Oreal eyeliner works over the Freck.
I think it just looks a little bit more cohesive
and it's cheaper.
So always gonna go with cheaper.
- I'm gonna give it a three and a half
because it's not as realistic as I would've liked
but I don't know how much of that is user error.
Maybe I should add some to the rest of my face.
I've made a terrible mistake.
- This is a maximum effort here.
We're drawing on every single individual freckle
and if you draw one that looks janky,
it's so much work to get off that one little freckle
so I think this is a bit of a bust for me.
- All right y'all,
today we're trying
what I think is by far the trickiest technique,
the L'Oreal root touch up spray technique.
I saw this on Tik Tok and the result looked incredible.
It's like the most natural full freckle
I might've ever seen.
Oh, also I'm in a wig.
- I'm actually really excited to try this
because I feel like I've seen results on Tik Tok
that looked really good.
So my expectations are high.
- Based on the Tik Tok, you hold down the nozzle,
like just slightly so that it's just like spitting out
and then you just let it like spit on your face.
- Let me just practice spraying this
do I have a piece of paper?
I'm nervous, these freckles could go anywhere.
(spraying)
Dribble technique.
Take two.
Well, really take like five.
- Okay, so that's
what you're not supposed to do on your face.
Oh my God, I really can't do this.
- I'm just gonna dribble it on I guess.
Oh, okay.
It sort of worked, look, come closer.
Oh my God, cute.
- Oh, I'm nervous, I'm nervous.
That was really strong.
That was it, that was the level of spray that I wanted.
- Definitely feel stuff falling on my face.
It's just wet.
Maybe I need to do more force.
- Look, that looks real, except for that.
- Get that really light, I got it.
Okay I just continued it and sprayed more on my face
but that makes them look really natural,
like this little cluster over here, this is cute.
- Like, I feel all of it coming onto my face.
I'm spraying even more than what I've been spraying before.
I'm really going for it you guys.
I'm going for it, I'm going for it,
it's really cold.
So it's like, now it just feels like it's ruined my makeup.
Look at my sink.
So it's definitely coming out,
I don't know why it's not showing up on my face.
- Out of five stars,
I'd give this like two and a half, three.
I also personally try to avoid aerosols in general
for environmental reasons
that there are probably other more eco-friendly
and skin safe ways to apply fake freckles.
- Maybe there's it's like a little bit
but I just think it's making my makeup look bad.
- This gets a five out of five.
It's hard to control but it's so realistic.
Like those are like cute little real freckles,
except for this one.
- I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna continue
to do a full freckle look.
- I really love that this trend is embracing
a lot of different types of skin that we see
on this planet and that freckles are beautiful.
- The freckle trend,
isn't something I'm going to do every morning
but I think that we can all conclude
that freckles are so beautiful,
whether you grew them yourself or put them on this morning.
(upbeat music)
♪ You could have had it all ♪
♪ All off my good stuff ♪
♪ All of my ♪