[gentle music]
- Hi, I'm Maitreyi.
And I'm gonna walk you guys through
my everyday skincare routine,
and then also like a super glam makeup look.
We're gonna go in with this.
So it's just like a regular cleanser
but we're gonna also use a cleansing oil too
because I'm all about efficiency.
So I like to do two things at once.
So I got one of these little scrubbers
and I feel like this does a better job
of scrubbing my face than my hands do.
Take this one, put a little less, 'cause like it's oil, so.
When you're like on set every day,
for like 14 hours a day wearing some TV makeup,
which is a little bit heavier
than like I think regular makeup,
you gotta really make sure you clean your face.
My mom always did a really good job
of like taking care of my skin and everything.
And that's definitely paid off.
Probably from the night before,
I have some like mascara residue still there.
I'm gonna do this.
Next up, a hydrating mist.
You got this serum from Epicutis, a little goes a long way.
When I'm working, I feel like I'm more strict
and like diligent with myself and my skin.
When I'm not working,
I tend to make excuses and say, it's okay.
Just use a face wipe, also from Epicutis.
When I first got my nose ring,
obviously really sensitive and I did not wanna touch it.
Now I wear it all the time and I have been since I was 16.
We're gonna do some eye cream.
I really do like doing my skincare.
I think after a long day on set,
I don't enjoy starting to do it
but once I do it, I'm like, that was a good choice.
Sunscreen time, I barely ever use sunscreen too
'cause I never went to the beach 'cause I can't swim him.
I was very much so an indoors kid
that played on her GameCube.
Now it's time to move on to makeup.
I'll just take off this headband.
So we got Milk over here with their Hydro Primer.
It's always so hard to like color match as a woman of color.
I'm actually gonna use two different foundations.
This one is from PÜR.
This gives me better coverage.
This one is from Armani.
And this one gives me more of like the right tint.
I, being the Canadian person that I am, I'm not Indian.
A lot of people assume that I'm Indian.
My parents were from Sri Lanka.
They were born in Sri Lanka.
Was my culture, but I was born in Canada,
so Canada is my country.
It is hard to like get makeup sometimes.
I though am very cognizant of the fact
that I have the privilege of makeup artists
who really helped me find my match.
Before makeup artists in my life,
it would be me walking into a store
and praying I get a sales rep that was nice enough
to actually care.
Most my makeup tips and like makeup hacks
have all been from my grandma.
My grandma's a baddie.
She taught me how to do like eyebrows,
the importance of doing your top eyeliner,
not just your bottom like waterline.
It's so important to me though
that like my skin stays my skin.
I don't want to have like white cast
over my face or anything like that.
I wanna make sure that it looks like me.
Very thankful for my mom and my grandma
for the way that they raised me
because many south Asian people were told,
don't go out into like the sun,
don't go play outside in the sun, you're gonna get darker
and that's a bad thing.
My parents, my grandparents, they never did that.
And hopefully like moving forward,
other young little south Asian kids
and just kids of color have that experience
because colorism is fucking whack.
NARS concealer, this is the go-to brown girl concealer
I think 'cause it just gives you great coverage.
I don't do the whole sweep.
I learned that from TikTok.
Mainly 'cause like I don't want this part
of my face to be like a whole different lighter shade.
I'm happy with a little bit of eye bags action.
So I just go in to brighten up the corners,
then bright out the outside.
When it comes to my brows, I just sort of wing it.
I've been going to the same hair stylist
back home in Canada since I was born, my go-to gal,
and she also does my brows.
First step, we're gonna comb them out.
Though, now that I am in the middle of filming,
I like to make it a point
that I don't prim proper my eyebrows,
because I don't really like Devi
having prim proper eyebrows.
I try to do very little
'cause I've seen some past photos of me,
like when I was in high school
and they were chunky, like they were heavy.
So I don't wanna go back there.
Devi too, we do a little bit of eyebrow filling.
We keep it light.
I like to just keep her au naturel.
You know, we don't really do a lot
of like eyeshadow looks unless it's like date night
with Paxton or time for a winter dance.
'Cause A, I don't think Devi has the ability to do makeup,
like a straight line of like liner.
She doesn't have that in her, she doesn't.
I mean, there's like other shows of course
that are high school shows like Euphoria,
that have crazy makeup looks.
But I mean, hey, just realize there's a spectrum
of how much you can do your makeup
or how little you can do your makeup.
Brow gel time, this is from Kosas.
It's time for eyes.
I love doing eye makeup.
Okay, first up, we're gonna do some concealer again.
All right.
Really quickly, we're gonna go in
with this KVD eyeshadow primer.
You just put this on your lid with your finger
and it's gonna make your lid
a little like sticky to all the eyeshadows.
So this is the palette we're gonna use.
There's just some really nice shades in there.
I personally like the orangey-brown tones.
First, Orange Soda.
Oh I got some fall out, but it's fine 'cause you know why,
you just beauty blender concealer up that shit.
Last shade we're gonna use is Cyprus-Umber.
I think my first interaction with makeup
goes back to me being in grade 10
in high school and doing the school musical
because I was in the cast and they were like,
you gotta do makeup.
And it was Footloose, and it was eighties themed of course.
I made the choice to do a red lip for my character.
I looked like a clown, but I felt good.
Another reason why I went with the red lip
was because the guy that I liked,
I knew he liked red lipstick.
So as you can see, I brought it up a little bit,
just to like try to make it sharp.
I also brought a little bit of it into the water line
and then now we can go in with concealer,
I don't want clumpy lumps of eyeshadow.
Next up, eyeliner.
We're gonna just go with the pencil.
Urban Decay, just the darkest shade.
Now I use this for the water line on the top
and the bottom.
Key for on the top, it makes your eyes just.
So now we are gonna go into the inner part
and avoid the middle.
Feel like if you do the full way, that's a little much.
And it like closes off your eyes,
when you want your eyes
to be like big and bright, right.
It's time for the wing, the wing liner.
So I use NYX Epic Ink Liner.
You wanna follow the curve of like this,
like the bottom of your water line.
So that it also goes up.
One little last step, so what you're gonna do
is you're gonna take this right here,
do you see that gap, we're gonna fill her in.
We're gonna fill it right in.
This is so key, so freaking key.
We're gonna go with the shade Glistening.
Always do your inner corner, it is a game changer.
First up with the lashes, KVD lash primer.
I discovered this by accident.
I thought it was mascara, it was not.
It like curls your lash
and does half of the work a eyelash curler does.
Mascara time, this is YSL's mascara.
This is some falsies Huda Beauty.
I think they just have like the nicest,
most like dramatic ones for costumes or actually cosplays.
'Cause sometimes I do that
and people don't know that about me.
I do like the cosplay sometimes with my friends,
we all like using these for our characters.
Lash glue, pro tip, never put lash glue on
with the lashes facing you.
Like you don't want that happening.
'Cause now you're gonna get glue all over the lash.
My go to music while I do my makeup
are a bunch of anime opening soundtracks
and closing soundtracks.
Bam, who doesn't love lashes?
Charlotte Tilbury blush.
I like that it has like a little highlighter
in the middle and then the color outside,
we gonna take a nice blush brush.
This is very influenced by like TikTok, social media
and just seeing people do tutorials of like what works
for their face and how they achieve that.
But when it comes to like red carpet looks and whatnot,
I really like a lot of different aesthetics.
I like to sometimes do something really classy
but sometimes I wanna do something more edgy or whatever.
But my one thing is
is that it'll always be consistently smart.
I don't dress like I didn't think about it.
It's something that I care about.
Something that I'm happy about and it makes me
feel smart, regardless of the aesthetic.
Next blush, Tata Harper.
I like to just make sure we're still staying dewy.
This, I keep very concentrated.
I'm not gonna drag it down as much.
Contour time.
We're gonna go with Milk.
I wanna shout out the Never Have I Ever DP
and our good old department of lighting
because it is so important
that you light people of color correct.
I know this of course is a big priority of Mindy's
because your makeup can look great
but then the lighting just totally changes it.
You don't feel good.
You know, you feel like a clown,
but back to Mindy for a quick second,
I could talk about her for days,
because truly, she means so much to me.
I don't know really if I could have asked
for a better first boss, because she truly has my back
and I always feel super safe with her.
One thing I couldn't prepare myself for was just trolls
and like internet hate or just comments,
even if it wasn't like hate
but like just an overwhelming amount of opinions.
And I remember like feeling very overwhelmed, very anxious.
And you know, I hit up Mindy, literally within 10 minutes,
I got a response being like, hey,
like full detailed advice
about how this is like our job
but focusing on the good parts and all that.
We're gonna take this brush.
We're gonna hold it like this though now.
Highlight time, we go back in with this palette.
I use the eyeshadow palette for highlight too.
I'm feeling pretty confident right now.
I'd just like to say that,
I'm feeling pretty God damn sexy right now.
Okay lips time, a little lip mask.
We're gonna go in with a little bit of gloss.
It's tinted from Fenty Beauty.
Yeah, like barely there's a difference.
I just don't do much to my lips.
Last not least, setting spray.
I am done skincare, makeup, even my hair looks great.
And I'm ready to go, all right, bye.