Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today I have a chatty video for you,
and I want to talk about six makeup mistakes
you could be making within your makeup routine.
Now, as I like to say in these kind
of videos, creativity and individuality have no rules.
But makeup has a theory, and that's where it comes in.
You don't always have to use it, but it
does come in handy sometimes when you're kind of
looking at your makeup and thinking, why doesn't mine look...
Why... what's not...
What's not happening, right or correct?
So I have six ones that I've kind
of seen broadly online from people saying things
like, what am I doing wrong? What's happening here?
You know, when you go on TikTok and they're like,
ladies, help me, I can help you too.
Just before we get into that, if this is your first time here.
Hi, I'm Robert.
I'm a professional makeup artist here on YouTube.
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Okay, let's get into our first mistake.
Something I see a lot,
and you would have seen me, if you follow
me on any kind of social media, you would
have seen me kind of complain a lot about how
professionals and... I wouldn't say professionals, actually. Salons
and people who are being taught makeup recently are
being taught to only use yellow undertone foundations.
And along with that as well, a deeper foundation.
You watch anything on TV, right, and look at
the difference between the face and this area.
You can see that what they've done is whacked
on any yellow foundation and just gone with it.
It's almost like the foundation
match doesn't exist anymore.
Another issue that comes along with that
though, is the depth of the foundation.
I see a lot of people wanting to be deeper
in skin tones, so they use a darker foundation.
Now, here's why I would
suggests, in my opinion, not doing that.
Say your whole body is tanned, but your face isn't.
I know people that use sunbeds only
on their body and cover their faces,
for example. Perhaps you use an
SPF 50 on your face daily. Good for you.
But this is my point is, I think there's nothing
more obvious than a foundation that isn't the correct match.
And especially when you're a little bit lighter
and you've put on a really deep yellow
or deep red foundation, it looks extremely obvious.
Your ears give it away.
Your hairline gives it away, your neck,
The back of your neck gives it away.
So one thing I would always say when it comes
to, and this is the question as well, it's like, do
I match my face to my neck or vice versa?
When it comes to your face, match your face.
I always will
bronze to match the rest of the body.
If somebody is darker, lighter.
Match their foundation because it
looks like their skin.
We can bronze this whole area here, even down the
sides of the neck, into the hairline, and it almost
gives that diffused look into the deeper areas.
And then it just kind of looks like you
have a nice highlight in the middle of the
face without going too crazy with any other products
to kind of match everything up.
There is nothing more obvious than an incorrect foundation match.
Back in the day, we used to be like, oh,
look, you're looking orange because your foundation is too dark.
Now it seems like we don't care.
Now it seems like even people
in professional spaces don't care.
What was I watching recently?
What's the one where they marry a complete stranger?
Married At First Sight.
The UK one. Not the brides,
the brides actually look incredible.
But some of the guests you can just see,
especially on TV, yellow face, completely different color neck.
Match your face exactly.
Fix the rest with bronzer or blusher, whatever it is you
want to do, but just match your face.
Okay, so this one is for, this isn't like you have to do this.
This is for people who don't like to wear
red lipsticks because they can't find their tone.
Or maybe they don't like to wear berries,
or maybe they don't like to wear pinks.
Any kind of color that has a red tone to it.
And something I always find that's really
common with these particular shades is people
say it doesn't suit me.
Listen, there is a red for everyone.
There is a berry, there is a pink for everyone.
And it's all about undertone.
There's many different ways you can
figure out what suits you.
But I like to give this advice to make it
super easy and it can be more in depth than
this, but let's just make it really, really simple.
To find a red lipstick that looks great on you, if you
have a yellow undertone, not the undertone of your foundation,
unless you have a perfect match. Like of your skin.
If you have more of a yellow undertone to
your skin, go for those reds that are more
orangey, that have that more orange tone to it.
They're going to look a little bit more...
What's the word?
I want to say natural, but more neutral to your
skin tone so it doesn't look as perhaps shocking.
I know some people really, when they put on
a red, they're like, oh, no, it's too much.
But I find that if you go for one that
has your undertone to it, it isn't too much.
If you are a pinker undertone, then go
for those kind of deeper bluer undertones.
I find they really suit people with red undertones.
And if you want your lip to
really stand out, just swap that over.
If you are yellow, go for those bluer tones.
If you have that red tone, go for those orange tones.
And you get more of a standout red.
But if you're kind of shy of red, then that
is a really good stepping stone to find a lipstick that...
a red lipstick that is more perhaps comfortable for you.
I know red can be quite an intense color to
some people, but if you stick to those guidelines, sam
with blush, a pinky red blush, you can go for
one that's a bit more orangey, a little bit more that kind
of bluer red. Then you'll get something that's a bit
more harmonious with your skin tone.
But that doesn't mean you can't wear anything else.
But for people that want to feel instant comfortable, instant comfort
with the red, if you're not too sure about it, then
that's a good way to warm yourself into it.
Step into it gradually, you know?
Sorry, I just had to put some eye primer on for something I want to talk about later.
Okay. So there are so many trends around at
the moment and so many, like, creative things
people are doing with like liquid liners, and those kind of like...
You know those liners you add water to and things like that?
And sometimes I see some, like, fails, liner fails.
And this is also the case with just liquid
liner, pen liners, or if you're just using a
brush, something I see a lot of people doing
that almost ruins the precision of your work, is
going back on themselves with a brush.
So say, for example... I would do it now, but I
have to film another video after this with this makeup on.
Say we have our makeup brush, right?
When we create a flick, we only
really want to go this way.
We can come back on ourselves and go up here.
But if we want to redefine that line,
coming back on yourself is going to completely
ruin your flick, basically. Because you've got that
precision with the one flick, now trying to
get dead on where you've created that flick
and in a point, going back over, you're almost
going to like... I'll have to film this off
camera and show you what I mean.
But you're going to ruin that flick.
Once you've got that flick, that's it.
Don't try and go back on it
coming down this way.
You can absolutely try and go back up
this way because you're creating that flick again.
But coming back this way, you're creating a solid end.
Does that make sense? I hope it makes sense.
I'm going to put a visual on the screen now
for you just so you can see what I mean.
Or maybe I've done it already. I don't know.
I don't know what editing me is going to do.
That's the future.
But coming back on yourself and second guessing yourself is
kind of going to ruin it a little bit.
You can come back on yourself down here and fix all
this in, but just don't try and go over that flick.
Come this way, don't then go back this way because
then you're going to ruin the precision off that flick.
Okay, our next little mistake here.
I put some eye primer on, but I have
concealer under it because I wanted it to crease.
And you know how much I hate concealer on the eyelids.
It's a guaranteed crease.
So just like this, you can see here, if
this was eye primer, my eye primer doesn't crease,
so I had to make that environment for it.
But if this is eye primer, one thing I see people
do is go straight on top of this with eyeshadow.
When you're putting a powder on top of a
crease like this, you're setting that crease in place.
So before you're going to put on any eyeshadow, take
a brush and just lightly buff out that crease.
Or you can even use your finger and just buff that
in and then go on top with your eyeshadow.
A lot of people set... let me just say, right.
If you have to set your
eye primer, your eye primer isn't that good.
Eye primers aren't meant to crease.
They're meant to stay completely
put where you put them.
So if an eye primer is like, set it with
powder, it's not that good because you shouldn't have to.
The whole point is that eye primers
stop the oil coming in this way.
You shouldn't have to set it from what's breaking down.
You know what I mean?
It's like saying like, this eye primer
prevents creasing, but it's going to crease.
So make sure you pair it with
this other product to set it.
Like that shouldn't...
Like just get yourself a better eye primer.
But yes, set any creases.
Same with under the eyes. Same with all that.
You know when people are doing that thing where they lift under
the eye and they set it, that's absolutely fine.
Just make sure those creases are all gone.
Because once you powder it, that's it,
until it gets all oily later,
if you're greasy like me.
Not the eyes, the under eyes.
So you may have heard me talk about too much product before.
There's nothing wrong with full coverage.
The one thing I have an issue with is too much product.
One, it's wasteful.
But one of my biggest issues with loads of foundation, and
you can see this a lot online, is texture.
There is a difference between skin texture and makeup text...
You don't want your makeup to look textured.
You don't want it to look creasy
and gravelly, like there's too much.
It looks more obvious when it starts to separate.
It looks more obvious when you're greasy, and looks
obvious if you're drier and it dries down.
It looks cakey.
The issue here is a lot of people nowadays have
been brought up with learning how to do makeup online,
which isn't a realistic way to do makeup.
It's in front of a camera.
It's in front of lights.
It's in front of low quality
cameras, phones, uploaded onto TikTok.
And it's not a realistic way to
do it in the real world.
And the issue here is, of a way we
can fix this, is by gradually building up product,
gradually building up foundation, gradually building up concealer.
You would have heard me talking about with my
money saving video, because it's a good way
to save money by using little bits at
a time until you achieve your full coverage.
It doesn't mean you have to sit there forever doing it.
It just means start with one dot on the cheek.
Don't dot around the face, one on the back of the hand, dot, dot, dot.
And no, your hand isn't going to absorb the
foundation or anything like that. And just add coverage
until you get to that full coverage.
If you're going to put loads on
instantly, one, you're not taking notice of
the texture that you're building up yourself.
You may be adding texture to your skin and then
complaining, why there's so much texture on my skin?
Because you've used too much makeup.
Makeup doesn't cover everything.
It needs some help, too.
So, for example, I'm so, so textured on my cheeks here.
You can see. If I put loads
and loads of foundation on that. Oh my God. Oatmeal.
It looks like oatmeal on my cheeks.
If I start to get all greasy there,
you just see all the texture, foundation separating.
Horrible.
Oh, you know when you have popcorn and then
for like hours, it's just caught in your gums.
Same again with under her eyes, maybe your concealer
is creasing, too much product. Anywhere on your face that
has movement, creases, folds is going to crease, that's a fact of life.
It's going to crease.
That's why we always have...
And people are like, stop creasing.
You can't really, the best you can do is
prevent it from happening as quickly as it does.
And things like eye primer can do that.
What else can do that? Other things.
Powder's, of course, like a tiny bit of powder.
But again, that's another thing.
Building up powder slowly, because if you just go
straight and put loads on, that's the texture, done.
You can't go back.
One thing I was always taught when I was learning
makeup is to start with less and build up.
Yes, makeup can come off, but you don't want
to have to take everything off because you've used
too much product. Slowly and gradually wins the race.
I don't know.
How do you relate that to makeup? I don't think you can.
I need to do my eyebrows, right.
Okay, so here's my final like, don't do that.
Is setting your wet product.
So, I see there's one brand in particular
where it's an eye primer and they put
powder or eyeshadow over a wet eyeshadow.
Or people do concealer and then instantly put powder on top.
Or they do their foundation and instantly
pack loads of powder into it.
You are congealing all your products and
they're kind of like getting, you're making
your powder damp and clay-like.
Yes, it's powder, but it's also absorbent.
So it's also going to absorb
that excess moisture from these products.
Do a little experiment, right?
Put your foundation on straight away and
then straight away powder on top.
And then on side put your foundation on, let it sit
for a little bit and then put your powder on top.
And look at the difference in the texture, the way
the powder is sitting, the way the foundation looks.
You'll be much more impressed with the way it looks after
you've let it sit for a little while.
If putting wet...
Putting... putting a powder on something wet...
Like for example, watch these videos where people are putting
eyeshadow on a wet eye primer, right.
And you'll see that it looks
dark and almost like too dark.
And then when it blends out, it
just doesn't look that great.
And it can become extremely textured after a while.
Let your products sit properly.
And here's the deal with eye primer
you don't need to set it with a powder.
Just don't use too much.
Eye primers aren't there for extra coverage.
They are there to even out the lid.
There's color on the lid, but you can
do that with a minuscule amount because then
you're going to cover it again.
And they're there as a protective layer between your eyelid and
whatever products you're using on top.
To build up color to make it look as strong as possible.
To stop your eyeshadow from creasing.
To neutralize the lid on your tone.
To neutralize the tone on your eyelid.
You don't need a full coverage eye
primer and then put eyeshadow on top.
You're going to get coverage anyway.
So there's no need to use excess wet amount of...
You have to sit there for ages to let an eye
primer set that is that wet and that full coverage.
You are going through layers and... oh.
Give your makeup time to do what it needs to do.
And then learn... it's like you need to
learn how your face deals with product, you know?
Setting a wet product is a recipe for disaster.
So those are a few things that may be ruining...
no, what was the theme of this video?
Ruining your makeup.
I can't remem... six things that were not great.
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