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Hi, my name is Robert.
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Let me say something right.
For those... if this is your first time here.
As I said, I'm a professional makeup artist.
So I've been doing makeup way before
I've been doing YouTube.
I've been doing YouTube now for about...
full time, for about three years.
I'm 33 and I've been doing
makeup since I was 18, professionally.
And one thing that you notice after even
just doing five years, you know what?
Even a year of doing makeup
is how trends circle back around.
And a lot of you will know this anyway, in a lot of, in a lot of
careers?
Professions, a lot of professions,
and just people who follow fashion and who follow makeup.
A lot of trends come back around over time.
And we see trends come around a
lot quicker now because of social media.
So I wanted to do a video today of trends
that I'm seeing coming back that maybe we should be
a little bit afraid of.
Because, you know what?
We have been there already and mistakes
were made and permanent damage was done.
So let's get into that.
And let's start with the first one.
Just so you all understand where I'm going
with this and exactly what I mean.
And this is a prediction I made on Twitter.
Is it? I can't remember.
I did like, I see in the future.
And I did like this Twitter thread.
I predicted like fragrance was going to be like
this year's skincare, you know, when skincare had
a huge like thingy, and everyone went crazy for it.
I was like, fragrance is going to be that.
Skinny brows.
Skinny brows are making a comeback.
So, we were there, we were there. We've been there.
We've done this.
And let me tell you something.
I quite like the way they look because
when these trends, at the moment, because when
these trends are coming back round, of course,
they're done a little bit differently.
And these thinner brows are being done with a
lot more detail than to how we were used
to back in the 90s, early 2000s, where it
was almost like one hair thick of brows.
These have a little bit more definition
and a little bit more precision.
And you can see strokes to it.
Now, the danger of thin or skinny brows and, you know, why we
should be slightly afraid of this trend is because if we're
going to jump on this trend and of course, you don't
have to jump on any trend, and especially brow trends that
change... what? Like every year now or every six months.
If we're going to jump on this trend, I would recommend
taking this on in a way where you almost manipulate your
makeup to making it look like you have skinny brows.
If you don't already. If you have very
thick brows, I wouldn't go plucking them or
shaving them or anything like that.
Ask anyone, ask your mom, ask your Auntie,
ask yourself, ask a big sister, whoever.
If you're under a certain age,
don't over pluck your brows.
Because let me tell you something, they are not coming
back, your brows will never be the same again.
If you are going to...
get rid of them.
And especially nowadays, you know, it wasn't just over plucking.
We can wax and we can thread them.
We might, people might be...
People might go as far as to... can you laser brows?
No, I guess not. It's too close to the eyes, right?
And also the upkeep of a skinny brow.
It's almost like, I remember a lot back in the 90s.
There'll be a lot of people with almost like a
5 o'clock shadow to their brows.
Because brows are annoying to keep up, right?
We don't want to thread them all the time,
we don't want to pluck them all the time.
And it's just occasions where you look in the
mirror and you're like, oh...
yeah, I need to do my brows, but I'm not going to.
And it would almost have that like greeny kind of like greeny
blue growth coming back, especially if you had darker hairs.
One thing that, for me, that skinny brows or thinner brows
that aren't kind of part of your natural makeup, not
makeup, as in makeup, as in your natural features.
I find a lot of people with naturally
thinner brows it kind of... this doesn't really apply to.
But for people who over pluck or who make them skinnier,
it kind of adds... you can kind of see where they've
been taken up further than where the natural growth is.
There's almost like this invisible
ridge that's slightly visible.
So it's not invisible. And it almost looks skeletal.
It almost looks like skull-like. Do you know what I mean?
It's almost like we're accentuating that roundness
or that shape off the eye hole.
Where your... how do you describe this?
A thicker brow always looks more youthful, let's say,
because if I was to make my brow super
skinny so that it was exactly with the ridge
of where my eye skull is, what's that called?
Eye hole?
And then, you know, contour my face completely to
where... you know, you're verging on theatrical elderly person makeup.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, it's those lines and that accentuation of what we think
of when we think of an old person's, an "old person's" face.
So I would be very, very wary of taking them too
thin or making them too thin or too fine.
You can make them look smaller or thinner
by using just literally a lighter eyebrow product.
You can laminate them, but don't brush them up.
You can just brush them outwards.
And that way you're going to get a thinner brow also.
You can just carve around them.
It doesn't have to be rigid.
You can use a concealer tone that's exactly your
shade or like a lighter, more liquid product to,
like a BB cream to kind of carve around
them and make them look thinner.
I just personally wouldn't go plucking them away.
And here's... this leads me onto another thing that's
still part of the eyebrows and something I've
seen a lot and I actually really, really love.
And that is taking off the corner of your brow.
So on me, we would just
completely take off this corner.
And it's something I've done
before and actually really, really liked.
Again, it's something I would advise against because
it means that you have to almost, like,
change your makeup shape, your eye makeup shape,
the shapes that you're used to.
It might not grow back as nice.
And again, brow trends change all the time.
It's just something that I wouldn't do.
And again, please, no one take offense
to this if you have permanent makeup.
But that's why I don't like permanent tattoos.
Like an actual tattoo. Microblading, fine.
Because that, you know, looks very natural.
But when people unfortunately, people, I think,
took advantage of the tattoo trend and
gave people full on tattooed brows.
You can never change those brows now.
You can never comb them into place, you can... you know?
Because they are full on tattooed.
And of course, that doesn't apply for
people who have had to have tattooed
because maybe they lost their brow hairs.
Just bear in mind how much trends change.
Yeah.
That's my, that's my old man warning.
Also, don't get a credit card when you're 18.
Okay, so my next one is glitter.
Right, listen, I know some of you are going to
be like, oh, well, Robert doesn't like glitter.
Of course he doesn't like this trend.
However, I can appreciate why people like glitter.
I just personally don't like it.
But as a makeup artist, I'm not going to
be like, no one can ever use it, you know? Of course they can.
Okay, and one thing I have noticed
coming back is glitter in everything.
I always have this memory of going to like,
a disco, you know, back in the day when people
had discos in like halls, like community halls.
And going with my friend and her mum was taking us.
And just before we walked out the front
door, she was like, oh, wait a minute.
And sprayed glitter absolutely everywhere.
The face, the hair, everything like that.
Back then, it was the thing to do, right?
Roll on body glitter, all this kind of stuff.
And this is a very particular reason why I
don't like this, is because of the way glitter
looks in photographs and how our phones have come
along, how cameras have come along, how film has
come along since that time of using glitter.
There's something about sporadic pieces of glitter that
pick up differently on camera. On the face
it can look like texture, like textured skin.
on the hair it can look like dandruff, on the clothes
it can just look like fluff
because it has that reflective surface.
So as great as glitter looks packed together tight or
close up in very controlled lighting situations, if we dim
the lights, glitter looks really, really nice on camera.
However, somebody just takes a flash picture
of you and you have glitter, It's going to look like...
random bits of texture everywhere.
That's why I personally don't like glitter
in highlighters, bronzers.
It's cool in a lip.
Sometimes you get like a little bit up there and it looks like
a bit of food. In the hair, on black clothing, you know,
it's just something about it
that doesn't look quite right.
Now, here's hoping that brands kind of think about
this before they put it out there, their products
out there with glitter in. I don't think you can, because how
can you, you know, decide what direction glitter flies
in once it's dispersed from a can or on a
brush, you know? I think that's something very difficult to control.
So glitter isn't something I would recommend if you
are conscious about maybe excess texture on your skin.
It doesn't add to anything really.
It just kind of adds this extra texture.
I do have quite a bit of texture on my cheeks
here, so I personally choose not to use glittery products.
I don't mind metallic or a bit of a shine.
There's a difference between, you know, a shimmer and a glitter
where you just have that occasional like sparkle, but those
glitter chunks that fly out everywhere, I just... I would be
very wary of if you have certain skin concerns.
Maybe fine lines you don't like too much.
And also you need to bear in mind that
the tone of the glitter, is a silver glitter? Is it gold?
If it's silver, is it going to look gray on your skin?
Is it going to look gray when
it's mixed with a certain product? Glitter is like a...
I can see why people are liking it with all
this kind of like early 2000s stuff coming back.
But at the same time like let's be, let's be
cautious of texture and how it looks.
This is the modern... a lot has changed since
then in terms of how we see things, how, you know,
we see pictures online of people.
Whereas before it was just like people saw
you face to face and that was it.
And I don't even think a camera quality
back then would... well, an everyday camera would pick
up the texture of glitter or the, you know, individual
sparks of... what? Reflections of glitter.
So next up is blush on the apples of the cheeks.
Now, this isn't something that you absolutely
shouldn't do because blush on a squarer
face, on the cheeks, looks great.
Blush on the apples of the cheeks, on
a longer face, great. On a rounder face
it's something you should do with caution.
You can offset it with
something deeper, like a contour.
However, I've seen this trend a lot of every single
person, no matter what their face shape is, no matter
what kind of thing they're trying to achieve.
And of course, they can do this.
But again, in theory, so please don't take it personally, on the
apples of cheeks, doesn't look that great on every
single person, especially if they're rounder in the face.
Or perhaps you're trying to give
yourself a really sculpted look.
If you put the blush here, it's going
to kind of offset that sculpt. Like I said, with like, the rounder face shape.
And this kind of comes from this trend that people
are doing a lot recently of like a more of
an ombre blush, which is a normal thing to do.
But of course, it has to be a trend, where
it's a little bit darker, a little bit lighter.
That's what it is.
And of course like, you kind of run out of room.
So you need to use a darker and your
lighter here instead of using the darker underneath, maybe,
and the lighter like this, people are bringing
it right onto the apples of the cheeks.
Now, this very much reminds me of the 40s, 50s,
80s... no, 80s was up here. You know, like, way back kind of trend
where it's just like put your blush where you look
jolly, you know? Rather than, you know, sculpted or beneficial to your face shape.
However, I do think people are a lot more educated in
terms of their own application, own makeup application, that maybe not
everyone is going to do this, but we kind of went
through it with the blush that kind of went across the
whole face here, on the nose, on the cheeks, because it
gives that plumped up, like, rosy effect.
But we need to bear in mind when we're
going to use that, along with what, you know?
If you do want to put blusher on your cheeks, however, maybe
you're redder on the cheeks, you can go for a blush
that's a little bit peachier because that helps kind of tone
down the redness a little bit.
If you do want to bring it in a little
bit more, but you want more of a sculpt, I
would 100% recommend bringing your blush... you want to
bring it in under that apple of the cheek, right
under here, because you're still getting that flush of color.
So you can do like half on, half off.
But yes, just watch that one, try it and
see how you feel about that placement.
Okay, let's... this is the last one.
And this is like a look back on the 90s,
this whole thing in general, the glitter, the eyebrows.
And this is one again that I see brands doing, again.
And it's the old school kind of textures.
And I'm talking about powder foundations.
And I know powder foundations have been around for
a very long time, but we were making progress
in terms of the textures and the applications.
And now I see a lot of brands
bringing out basic powder foundations that remind me
of the 90s and mousse, mousse foundation.
We all remember Dream Matt Mousse,
which actually wasn't that bad.
I tried it a few months back and it was actually okay.
If you prep your skin right, it wasn't too terrible.
So there's a few different things with this. mousse textured
foundations tend to get caught almost on
dryer skin, dehydrated skin, facial hairs.
Even if you just have a tiny little bit
of hair around the mouth, that mousse
texture looks very obvious around there.
Maybe you have some hair just down the side here
it gets caught on.
That texture really does show up.
There's something about mousse where
it's like, almost like this matte...
not quite Matte...
You can see everything kind of situation.
Now, my one concern with these textures, the old powders
and I just used one recently that reminded me
of like an old school powder foundation, is that
brands are just turning out these products and maybe
not investing in as much time into the formulation
and how these products actually look.
I mean, they didn't look good back then, so why
have we not thought about reformulating them?
I saw a mousse foundation recently
and someone sent it to me.
I wish I remembered the name. And it was one
color and it said, suits all medium skin tones.
So it suits all medium skin tones.
It just gives this, almost
like cheapness to the product. And it's a bit like...
Mousse textures always seem to settle in lines as well.
You know what, you know what it reminds me of, right?
You know when someone gets a really bad spray tan and they're
like a little bit darker like here or a
little bit darker in this crease here.
Mousse has this almost like velvet...
brush it this way, it's one color.
Brush it that way, it's another color.
I would be very wary of mousse textures.
I think a lot are going to come out soon.
It might be worth testing and seeing what's good.
Let's hope again,
brands actually maybe see it as, as much of a needed
thing that they invest a little bit more time into it.
Powder foundations as well.
If your powder is giving off a lot of powder,
to me, that isn't a very modern powder foundation.
That gives me very 90s, like
this will do, Avon kind of vibes.
And it's almost just to fill a gap, you know?
If everyone's bringing out powder foundations,
then we should bring one out. What's the one
we can do the quickest?
So those kind of textures that are a
little bit more old school need a little
bit more work, in my opinion, from brands.
We can apply them however we want, but we know
how to prep our skin a little bit more now.
We know how to finish our skin a little bit
more now. Whereas back in school, we just kind of
woke up, washed our face and whacked on Dream Matt
Mousse, only to here. And had that divide,
it was getting all caught on like, you know, our dry skin, all this kind of stuff.
So providing that a brand can give us a
really nice new formula, a nice new texture, then
we should be okay, but do just watch out
for these rushed out, hurried through textures.
Okay, so those were a few makeup trends
I see coming out and creeping out
the woodwork that we should be wary of.
Slightly scared off, but don't be too scared.
Is there anything that you have seen that
reminds you of back in the day?
How you to do your makeup? Or something
you've seen come back and you're like, oh, but why?
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