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- Hey guys, it's Shalom Blac.
And today I'm going to be showing you guys
my skincare routine and also
a really quick glam that I like to do.
So my first step that I like to do
is to actually shave my head.
So for me to do like a bald look, cause you guys
I love rocking my bald head.
So I'm just applying shaving cream
and then we are going to be shaving this hair.
Well, I don't know what hair,
but you know what I mean.
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Know I'm just going to be taking my pre cleanser
and I just do about like three pumps of this on my hand.
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Honestly for my skin,
I don't really do much to it.
Cause I kind of figured out that when I
try to use all those different products
or a lot of products,
my skin doesn't really do great.
So I keep my skincare routine very simple and basic
and just straight to the point.
I just like to add a little bit of water.
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That feels so good.
This is what I'd like to use for my second cleanser.
And this is from Tatcha.
This is like life-changing
because I feel like it just makes my skin
very plump and smooth.
I just added some water to make it foamy.
I like to go underneath my eyes and just work that.
You gotta go down to the neck,
do not neglect the neck.
Okay, so now I'm just gonna go ahead and rinse that up.
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I'm going to be taking my toner
and this is also very good for dry skin.
So I just press that into the skin.
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I like to make sure I focus around my lips cause
around the lips area can
does intend to be a little darker.
So next step this moisturizer
that I actually custom made for my skin.
It helps me even out my skin tone.
So you can basically customize it to your skin need.
Mine is fading out scarring
and I've been using this for what about
maybe two years.
And I honestly cannot live without it.
This is SPF 50 from Dermalogica.
I'm just gonna pump two pumps of that.
I don't know why I do this
but I've seen like people do it
because they say like helps with blood circulation
on the face so, I'm doing it.
I'll go on to moisturize my lips
because it is dry baby.
So I'm gonna just take my lip mask
and just put it all over my lips.
So that is pretty much it for my skincare.
And now we're gonna get into the makeup.
So my first step is my brows.
All right, so I'm just going to be following
the little brows that I have
and creating a shape.
Honestly, as a kid
I've always loved to do makeup
or I didn't know how to
but I loved seeing my mom doing her makeup and stuff.
I was introduced to makeup,
to sort of kind of help me conceal
the appearance of my scars and all of that.
I struggled for a couple of years
trying to learn how to do it.
And it became something
I eventually fell in love with that
now I'm more so like comfortable
coming in front of the camera
without the makeup.
And then showing people like
how I could slay some Face.
It wasn't easy for sure
and it wasn't something that happened overnight.
It took years for me to like leave the house without makeup.
But I think finding myself and finding my own words
I honestly, I feel so comfortable
being in front of the camera without my makeup.
And then I love the artistry of it all.
Right now I'm just pretty much cleaning out my brows.
And now you guys can see it
a little better because it's popping
and I'm using the Calvin Klein concealer.
Next step is priming.
So I'm going to take in this primer from Tatcha
this is the silk canvas primer.
It also like helps smoothen out my makeup.
And I actually use two primers.
This is the grip primer.
And again, this, oh my God
it makes my makeup last all day.
For my next step I'm going to be taking
the Fenty stick concealer.
And this is in the shade espresso.
And I just like to use this to help my skin look glowy.
Apply it all over.
And then for my foundation,
I'm going to be taking this foundation from PUR cosmetics.
This is my every day, every single day foundation.
I like to focus my foundation on my scar
because it gives me,
the coverage that I need.
Then I put some on my forehead too.
We are going to be applying foundation on my head
just because I like the way it looks.
It just evens out everything
and just blend the foundation out.
And I like to do it in like stippling motion
because then I get the pretty much fullest coverage.
Nigerians really do be beating their face, okay.
They beat their face to the gods.
And I really love it because they're not afraid of
wearing makeup and to be seen as,
yes I'm wearing makeup.
I just make sure,
I apply it all over again on my head.
I'm just going to be applying my concealer.
When I was growing up back in Nigeria
I wasn't wearing wigs or anything like that because
I didn't really know much about it.
And my parents couldn't really afford
until I bought new wigs, so.
I used to always just wear hats or scarves over my head.
But I remember the first time I got my wig
was actually when I moved here
and it was my first Christmas in America.
My aunt actually bought me a wig.
Probably what, maybe
a year or two ago,
my first time like actually
posted a picture on Instagram without my wig, maybe 2015.
And I did it
and then I decided to log off of Instagram
because I was so scared.
I was like oh my God,
people are going to drag me.
But the crazy thing
it was like completely different than what I expected.
One of my classmates
decided to like take the picture from my Instagram
and they posted and he said
Shalom is the real MVP.
And that's when I started getting comments
and like messages from people just like
sending me so much love
and people telling me how much I inspire them.
I was just like, what?
First, I just like dip in there
and I press it into the skin.
And what I like to do is just go in
and just keep pressing that powder into my skin
onto a pretty much sort of
dissolves into the concealer.
All right so onto the next step
I'm going to be taking the
Makeup Forever microfinishing powder.
And I just pretty much apply this all over my face.
And this again, just like smooths out the face honestly.
I'm all about like smoothing out my face.
A lot of people think I use some sort of like
special makeup for my face, the scarring,
but honestly I just feel like
it has to do with the technique of how I do it.
So yeah, and most of it is me
stippling my product instead of like moving it.
So next step I'm going to be using the
Fenty Beauty sun stalk'r bronzer.
I started doing YouTube videos, 2014, 2013.
And I started because honestly I came across
beauty channels on YouTube
and I just fell in love with the idea
of people like sitting in front of the camera
and putting on makeup.
I thought it was the coolest thing.
I'm going to be taking this eye shadow palette
and I'm gonna be taking this pink carnival shade
and then this light and airy shade.
And I'm going to be using it as my blush today.
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Next step we are going to be doing this dramatic eyeliner.
I'm going to be taking this black eyeliner paint
and an angled brush.
You guys know how eyeliners can be a struggle.
One will look okay
and then you try to go in to fix the other one.
And then it just keeps getting bigger.
So here goes nothing.
I like to start like this.
This is when I wanna do a dramatic eyeliner.
So now I'm just gonna go on top here
and just make another line.
I'm just connecting it to the first liner.
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So now I'm going to be taking this
blue eyeshadow powder
and I'm just going to be laying that
on top of the black eyeliner.
Take my makeup spray
and just sprayed on the brush,
just so that it makes it much more pigmented.
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This blue is so pretty.
Oh my God, look at that.
Isn't that gorgeous.
All I'm doing right now is just padding
the loose eyeshadow onto the eyeliner
and I'm making sure I'm following the eyeliner.
So I'm just gonna go in with the concealer
and just sort of clean this up.
Okay, so now I'm just gonna go ahead and apply my lashes
and the trick to like applying lash glue
is not applying too much.
A mascara to blend in the falsies with my real lashes.
So now I'm just gonna go ahead and take
Fenty Beauty highlighter, and then just top that on top.
Lining up my lips.
And I just do a little bit of over lining
cause like this side of my lips is like orange,
so it's not even.
I do think that
we all struggle with our makeup at some point.
And for me as a beginner,
child, it was a struggle.
But I don't know.
I think with time
you just kind of get better and better
but I would never, never want anybody to see
like those pictures of me back in the day.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and pop a Clare lip gloss on.
Okay so for my last step
I just like to go in
and set my whole entire face.
You see the globe.
All right guys,
thank you so much for watching this video.
I hope you enjoyed it.
And remember to always be your own kind of beautiful, bye.
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