Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me. What we're gonna
do today is, a part two of a video I've
done before, and I think in my mind it's called these
brands f*cked up but I think because of the YouTube,
the YouTube like, you know, censorship whatever, I called it messed up. But
basically I want to look at some brands that kind of slipped up a little bit, and
maybe messed up a tiny bit on YouTube on, on social media. And nothing
crazy, well actually, yeah, some of the stuffs crazy. I just
want to know your opinions as well and what you think about
these, what I'm gonna bring up today, do let me know. Just before we get into
that today, if you have never been here before, if this is your first time here on
my channel, hi, my name is Robert. I'm a professional makeup artist
here on YouTube and also in real life, and it's my goal to help you become a
Pro yourself or just someone who's really good at
makeup. So, if that sounds like something you're interested in
then please do consider subscribing. Okay, let's get into it.
Let's take a look at our first slip up. I want to know something though, I want to
know if you think this person's lashes are
real or you think something fishy is going on? So this is a post from, I
believe it's a representative of Rodan + Fields, I think I'm saying that right. And
it's a multi-level marketing company, company, an MLM. And by the way MLM
representatives, I see you in my inbox. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And here's the
thing, and I'm not going to say everybody who
works for a multi-level marketing company
does this or is like this. I know there are some pretty intense sale methods out
there and pretty intense like, come and join my
team methods out there, and this is probably one of the most
questionable I've seen. And it's this girl's lashes. So she
claims that within a certain amount of time
this lash serum has done this to her eyelashes. Now,
take a look, let me know what you think. Let me know if you feel this is like
fake, false advertising, false promises, is something fishy going on? I have to be
honest with you, I've zoomed into those lashes and I've
zoomed into the base, and I can't quite figure out has she
gone and got crazy lash extensions to sell this product.
Because I know people will be like, why would they do that? But have you seen the
lengths of some multi-level marketing like representatives go to? Or, is this
just, you know, her natural lashes and you know she's, she's, she's naturally
born with these lashes and she's claiming the serum does it.
I don't know. I would love to know your opinion. But for me, I'm gonna
verge on the edge of caution and just, and just... not that I would ever buy the
product anyway but, and just say that, you know, these do
look a little bit questionable. Moving on swiftly, Beauty Blender. Okay,
so there was a video of the foundation and somebody was trying it on their hand
and their arm. Listen, I have Beauty Blender products,
they're Beauty Blenders. I like them, products are fine.
But here's, here's what we shouldn't be doing online, here's what we don't do.
Don't sell a product that is a foundation,
and then claim it does something that a filter is doing.
I believe they claimed in this video that the quality
of the ca... it was the quality of the camera that made it look like they had a filter
on this one patch of skin. But I mean, I doubt it very much picked
this exact same spot where the foundation was being applied. I'd be like
oh I'm going to make that bit less quality,
I'm going to make that blurry, you know. I don't see why, if your foundation
is good enough and you're happy with your foundation, and you're happy that it
works, put it out there without a filter.
Explain why it works, explain why you're happy with your foundation,
why it's a good product, if it's a good product. And, and let the people decide,
people online are doing reviews. Don't, don't put a filter,
it's so obvious. I know a lot of people don't realize there's filters on,
on some videos sometimes. But it is so blatantly obvious when a bit of skin
is completely blurred and you're rubbing it in and, you know, the fingers are
becoming blurred. Now here's the deal, I understand that in editorials... I need to
drink. I understand that in editorials there's
a need to want to edit the picture, that's fine.
That's fine. Like someone's skin. But when I, I believe
if you're gonna put a foundation on someone's skin and then edit it,
if you're trying to sell the foundation, if you don't mention what foundation
is fine, whatever. But if you're going to be like, look how amazing my skin is, look
how much this foundation blurred my skin, and then you're blurring it and fixing
it, that's not realistic. That's not real
advertising, that's false advertising, right. Because it's claiming it's going
to do this to the skin, it's claiming it's going to do what
photoshop has done to the skin. So it, I don't know. I just feel like
brands need to stop thinking that people are dumb and stupid.
People might look at that, and I was reading through the comments, and people
like, wow. So there are people that can't see that
filter which is kind of dangerous. Like it's, it's, everything online is
edited or there's, you know, there's lights. We know this right? There's lights
here, I have three lights here, and my camera lens it is a good quality lens,
so it makes my skin look better than it is in in real life, it makes everything
look nicer than it is. But I personally wouldn't put a filter
over my videos because what's the point, you know? If I'm
trying to show you how a foundation works but I'm filtering it there's no
point, right? That's kind of a little bit narcissistic to be like,
oh I'm trying to review a foundation, let everybody know how a foundation is but I
want my skin to look perfect. It's a little bit like, well...
but you're not really reviewing it. So I, I just, I just don't know why bigger,
big brands like this choose to believe that a lot of people are f*cking stupid.
It was, it's insane. It's almost like you know those adverts... by the way, a lot of
people tag me in these videos saying, does this work? And, you know, it's
like that, I don't know what it is, it's like that green thing that people put on
their nose, and then loads of like blackheads appear,
and they wipe it off, and then it's completely blurred underneath. It's an
obvious filter in a circle. It doesn't work, that's not
how it works. If you have that many blackheads in your nose then,
and they're that dark and, yeah, no. They're like poppy seeds or something.
Talking about filters, actually we have two more with filters.
Let's take it back to Kim Kardashian. Someone posted this IGTV, or was it
TikTok? I don't know what it was, you know they're all kind of cross-platform
at the moment. Of her. I mean, let's talk about
production value as well. She's kind of like
selling her, what's it called? You know the like nude underwear and the
shapewear and all that kind of stuff. And she's running her finger across her
body and then her finger just like, like completely like moves and
bends and, and it's all disfig... it's all morphed because there's an obvious
filter on it. "I cannot believe what I'm seeing, I mean I, I can
but I can't. Look, look at her finger. This video is photoshopped. Look
at the finger. Kim photoshopped her body on her Skim's campaign. I cannot." Why are
we doing this? One, one, one, first of all, whoever put
that out there was like, yeah this is great you can't see that filter.
Who's your team? Who's your team letting that happen,
you know. If you, if you're gonna lie, lie all the f*cking way.
Don't make it too obvious. But at the same time as well, again, you're selling
underwear, you're selling shapewear. And of course it's come to be expected
from a Kardashian, Jenner, you know, group. That these filters are
used quite heavily and a lot, a lot of the time. But
honestly, who, who let that, who on your team
watched that and was like, yeah that finger's fine,
that finger that turns into a... I don't know, some kind of salad finger. You
remember Salad Fingers? Who, who said that was okay. Hey, I just
wanted to jump in here really quickly before we get into the
next half of the video. I just wanted to let you know about The
Double Cleanse Podcast which is a podcast by me
and my brother James. And we talk about more things exactly like this over on
that podcast. We talk about influencers doing influencer stuff,
influencing, the truth about it, about being YouTubers.
And we talk about everything in beauty related as well, not just
YouTube stuff. So if you want to hear more like deep dives into the beauty
world then go ahead and check out The Double
Cleanse podcast. It's available on most podcast streaming platforms.
Yeah, thanks, bye. Let's talk again about filters right,
is it Rodial? Is that their name? So they shared a video. Here's another
thing as well, and my brother James has this list on
Instagram of brands that pay influencers to do
adverts for them, but allow them to use filters on the products they're trying
to sell. So for example if a brand is trying to sell like a,
a foundation and there, it says AD on it and there's an obvious filter,
that's added to the list because a brand is allowing an
individual to falsely advertise the effects of this product.
Obviously, if they're advertising it to you, trying to sell it to you, you want
to get, you know, the benefits that they say it
has. You want to get that from the product. So Rodial
put up this, I believe it was a video about a primer. I'm doing this video kind
of blindly because I saved all the videos somewhere.
For a product that was meant to blur the skin. Again,
obvious filters. Why are we allowing this to happen?
It may not have been a paid advert, I actually can't remember if it was.
But they shared it, they shared it. Remember, was it Laura Mercier who did it
before? I can't remember, in my previous video.
But they shared it and put it out there, therefore saying,
yes, we approve, this is what our product does. It doesn't add a filter to
your skin, we're not there yet with these products. It does not
completely get rid of pores. Your pores cannot completely disappear
first of all, texture cannot complet... if you saw someone in real life with no
texture on their skin at all, you'd be like what the f*ck is
wrong with your face? You have a very slippy weird face, you are an alien.
Everyone has pores. Having pores doesn't mean you have big
open pores, everyone has pores. You have to have, it's skin, that's how skin is.
You're gonna see texture, you see texture on the skin. So to claim that it gets rid
of pores, and to claim it does it the way that we
can see it visually happening in this filter,
is insane. It's a false claim. 100% allegedly,
in my opinion but fact, but my opinion. You know what really pisses me off?
Is how much money makeup is at the moment, right. And how quick we
are, especially on certain apps like Tik Tik to
big up a product, to say like this product is amazing,
this is amazing, this is amazing. People's money has been spent on makeup,
people spend their money trying to find that product
that will, you know, change their makeup, change the way their face looks, change...
And it's really disappointing to see people and brands
put out things like this and be like, yeah, we're good, this is what our product
does. No! F*cking stop. Especially if you're
less affordable, more on the luxury end. You stop conning people into using your
products. Talking about fake, talking about false advertising,
let's talk about fake swatches. Now, I'm gonna put up some
swatches here, and the brand I'm using it from I absolutely adore.
But fake swatches are very... I, I put on Twitter, I was like, is it just
me or are brands using fake swatch, swatches? :ike
Photoshop swatches? And everyone was like, yeah of course, it's been going on for
ages. I'm like, where have I been? I didn't realize.
And the more you look into these right, like a picture of an
arm and it's, what's wrong with my arm? There's like a picture of an arm and then
it's like a swatch, swatch, swatch. And then there's somebody who has fairer
skin, like a medium tone skin and a deeper skin tone.
All the swatches look exactly the same. You can zoom in
and see, like even like the crevices of glitter, for example, are exactly the same.
Or they've been changed very slightly, or they've been completely drawn over, or
painted over with some kind of tool in
Photoshop. Here's, here's my question right. Is, there must
be some kind of, and I think this has been proven before,
there must be some kind of like royalty-free image where,
or like you pay for a stock image of three people's arms,
and then you take a picture of a product, a close-up picture of a product, and then
you, you know, cut it out and stick it on the
arm. You can cut off the ends, you can easily,
you can easily shade the outside corners and lighten the middle
to make it look like, you know, a real swatch. Like lights hitting it and a
shadow around the arms. And again, it's that false
advertising. If you want, if you want a swatch like that then just put up a
picture of the palette and zoom in, because
you haven't actually tried it on other people's skin tone, you're just putting
the picture on top of a person's skin tone.
So how do we know, how do we f*cking know? Like what, how do we know what's, what,
how it looks? We don't. Because you've taken,
like yes you can build it up, you know, to that kind of pigmentation if you just
keep going and going and going. But at the same time, that's not how much
people use on their eyes, or how they, or how, how much they're using on their
cheeks. For example a blush right, if someone's swatching a blush
but it's just, it's just, it's just the product taken and stuck on someone's
arm. No one builds up their blush that much,
where it's a solid color. You kind of still want to see a bit of skin through
it, right? Like, like blush like this. You don't build it
up so it looks like exactly like the color,
you don't build up to the pigmentation that you may have on your eyes,
for a lot of people. So to suggest that that's how it's going to look isn't,
isn't right. We need to see how it looks in like a sheerer
tone on top of skin tone. How it looks sheerly done on top of a deeper skin
tone or a fairer skin tone, on a medium skin tone.
It just doesn't add up. Swatches I find are super unreliable, that's why I never
do them on my channel. Because the way people go into eyeshadow
palettes with their finger, they're pressing so hard you see all the blood
rushing into their fingernail, and they swatch like this. You're never
gonna put that much pressure on the eye either.
Swatches I think are useless from the brands. It's great to see people doing
them on their YouTube channel where they do one swipe, one swipe.
But there's also like, recently a brand put out a
video where they're like, we're gonna swatch this and, to show that our
eye primer is great. And what they did is, they showed them dipping their finger
into, they showed them putting primer here, and
concealer here, or something like that. And they dipped their finger into the
eyeshadow palette on top of the primer and it came out really well.
Then what you didn't see is, you know, a clean finger going back into the product
and then wiping again, they just went back in with the finger and
swiped. So yeah, if you put all your product here and then less product here,
of course you're going to get a difference.
Of course I prefer to use eyeshadow primer over concealer
but I mean, you still get heavy pigmentation on top of concealer,
it just doesn't sit as well, it doesn't blend as well, it doesn't last as long.
So the purpose of that video was to prove a point
but it was a missed point, and it seemed like a manipulated point,
you know what I mean? So swatches I just really don't trust, especially from the
brand. Let's talk about the last thing, and this
caused quite a stir on my inbox. And this was Dior, creating these
looks. Listen, I find Dior packaging very questionable, right.
I think it's very old-fashioned, I think it's very much,
you know. It reminds me of some cheap makeup I
used to buy when I first started doing makeup, and I wanted to practice.
And it's a little bit like, why haven't you advanced with your packaging just
yet? It's, it's strange. And to have those kind of like sponge
applicators I think is very old-fashioned.
They're very good for packing on eyeshadow, for using like glitters and
using shimmers and things like that but to use them as an actual applicator,
not mixing them with brushes, just using them, is very questionable.
And you all were outraged by some of these looks
that Dior were putting up using this thing. Now listen,
I, here's how I feel about this. In the, in the world's current climate
right. Is, on social media. There are so many people
doing incredible makeup artistry online. 12 year olds to, you know, 90 year olds
making incredible eye looks. Just, just, you know people, not necessarily make up
artists, not necessarily people who are in the world of makeup or beauty, just
people doing their own thing. Who create,
who create these amazing amazing looks, who are incredibly skilled and
incredibly talented. And then you're putting this out,
from a big fashion house, a big... You know, who are known for some iconic beauty
products.
You know, you're going to get taunted to sh*t. You know, and you may look at this
and think, you know, it's more editorial, it's not so Instagram. I'm very aware of
the difference between, like online makeup, Instagram makeup and
editorial makeup. Do it in a magazine, do it for Vogue, do it for I.D, do it for
runway, you know. But when you're going to put it on
Instagram where everyone can see it, and you're,
you're pitching basically to the Instagram audience
who are going to see it. If they're interested in makeup, if they're going to
see your page, if they're going to see your post.
You can bet their For You page has these incredible looks. You don't want to be
putting that there, you know. You want to kind of keep your,
that to like the editorial realm. And you know what, even editorial I would
question this. If I was doing, you know, like if I was doing like fashion
week, or a show, or something and the key artist was like this is the look we're
gonna do, I'd be like... okay let me, let me...
I'd be like, oh. I won't question it because I'll be paid to do it.
But it's, it's very odd. I do find it very strange. I'm not one to question
someone's... Yes I am. Yeah, I just feel like it was
an odd marketing decision. We'll leave it at
that. Thank you so much for joining me. I would love to know your opinions on
the things I've covered, what I've said. You may agree, you
may disagree. There may be an explanation I'm unaware
of, let me know. Thanks again for joining me. Keep an eye
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