Today, I'm going to go through key make-up related terms
that will help you understand make-up tutorials.
Make-up tutorials are huge right now,
and a lot of them are in English.
My name is Zina,
I'm an English teacher at the British Council,
and I love make-up.
In today's video, I'm going to start with a classic,
the no make-up make-up look.
Let me explain this term to you.
The no make-up make-up look just means
creating a natural look without creating any harsh lines.
This is my personal favourite. When I just wanna go teach
and I don't have time to put on a full face,
the no make-up make-up look is just perfect for one of those days.
So a very important step in the no make-up make-up look is skin prep.
You need to prep your skin.
To prep the skin or to prepare the skin
using skincare products to make sure that your skin is ready for make-up.
Now I already did this off camera.
In order to prep my skin, I used moisturiser and tinted sunscreen.
So that's why I kinda look shiny right now.
But we're going to mattify that.
In general, to mattify means to remove the shine.
In this context, we use mattifying powders or creams
in order to remove excess or too much shine or oiliness.
So, I'm going to use a mattifying gel or cream that's going to
take the shine out of my face.
By the way, I broke my nail.
I don't wanna see any comments talking about my broken nail
because (a) that hurts and (b) I know. Okay.
So, a very important part of the no make-up make-up look is
making it look as natural as possible.
We're going to enhance the features, but we're not gonna make any drastic changes.
So I'm going to use concealer.
In make-up related terms,
to conceal means to hide something using concealer.
So it can be an imperfection, dark circles, etcetera.
Again, I'm going to use my fingers. The good hand, not the bad hand.
I use the good hand to blend the concealer.
To blend, means to use your plunger,
your brush in order to make sure that the make-up
application is flawless and it looks natural.
And the idea is we need to even out our skin.
To even out means to unify, basically. To make your skin have one unified colour.
The next step is to set the face.
And I'm going to use a little bit of powder using a powder puff.
Anything works here, but this is the only part that you
can't use your finger to do. You need a powder puff or a brush.
That dewy look is very important for a no make-up make-up look.
Dewy.
Now this is the good type of shine.
Dewy comes from the word dew,
which refers to the tiny drops of water that you see on the ground in the morning.
Now in this particular context, dewy means shiny, moisturised, healthy.
Make-up gurus usually say I look like a glazed doughnut.
I like that look.
It just means that you are highlighted in all the right places,
like a glazed doughnut.
So, we're just gonna put some colour back into the skin.
For this look, we're mostly going to use cream products to make it look natural.
Does that look good?
If you're doing this on the go, then cream products are the way to go.
On the go means that you are travelling somewhere or going
somewhere and you need to do something quick, right?
So you're on the go, you don't have time to do something.
And using cream products is the way to go,
it means it's the best solution or it's the best option.
So, just setting and just removing that extra layer of powder.
Make sure you do this properly because you don't want your concealer to crease.
Creasing is when your concealer sits in the fine lines or
in the wrinkle-like areas on your skin and it kinda exaggerates your wrinkles.
So that is our base. Oh, but remember the glazed doughnut comment?
I just can't stop there. I have to use a highlighter.
Just look at that.
Does it look natural?
You can tweak or change anything about any make-up look.
It doesn't have to be completely like the one that you saw in a make-up tutorial.
Moving onto the eyes, so again a natural look,
you don't want it be overdone or too much,
so I'm just going to put some mascara.
Focus on the outer part of your lash line because it's gonna give you, like,
this full, like glamorous look, that you again probably don't need in a no make-up make-up.
So that's it for the eyes. And then we're going to end with the lips.
So for this part, we're just going to line.
You can overline if you want.
Overlining. So it's to use lip liner in order to exaggerate
the natural shape of your lip to make it look fuller or bigger.
Now you can line your lips using lip liner or you can overline.
I love that it started as a no make-up make-up look,
and now it's just turning into a glam look.
And then we're just gonna end with a nude lipstick.
So that's it for our make-up look.
I hope that you learned new make-up vocab or terms that will help you understand
make-up tutorials a little bit better.
Check out our other videos to learn more English.
Not all of them are gonna be make-up based, but I'll try to make it happen.