Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me.
I'm wearing the same thing I wore in the other video because I'm
filming it straight after and I'm, I'm being lazy. So I couldn't be bothered
to get dressed. So what I wanted to do for you today is, do you know what, I've run out
of ideas, so I thought let's... I Googled really bad celebrity makeup, and saw what
came up. And what I want to do is look through them with you.
Let's have a little chat, let's see what made them
not so great. Just before we get into that today, if
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Yeah, let's just get into it shall we? I've saved some pictures to my phone, so.
I want to start off with this like infamous, one of Tyra Banks where she
has this really dark eye makeup, this really like intense lip. At the time this
color combination was, you know, it was great. Here's the deal right, I know what
they were trying to do here, this is meant to be like quite editorial, quite
intense. And I think it works really well on like runway, and I think it works
really well on set where you can control the lighting. But, if you're going
to go out in public being a celebrity right, or even like we do, we will go to
like the shops or we'll go outside in daylight or we'll be in someone's house.
If you're going to go outside in public, your lighting is going to change every
single time you step into like
a pharmacist, and it's that industrial like, oh my god, you know, kind of lighting.
Or you step into someone's home and it's that warm, kind of like yellowy
lighting. So it changes. Black eyeshadow looks
different in every single situation, right. For example this picture, where
there's clearly a flash, see how it washes out that black? So this kind of
intense black, almost like messy black, would make
sense on a red carpet if it was a certain shape, a particular shape, blended
out gently. Used as a tone to add depth or just as a really solid dark smokey
eye but with a controlled shape. This is quite a messy grungy kind of like... oh,
I think it's meant to look quite oil slicky look.
But when that flash goes off, it does just look like a mess, and you can see
every brush stroke, and everywhere it's been like attempted to blend. And then
you can see that gold on top of the black where they try to make it look
iridescent, kind of like that oil slicky look, and it just doesn't work
under those circumstances. So, under controlled lighting, on a shot, or on
runway this kind of messy look would look great. But no, no for everywhere
else. Next up, Mariah Carey. Hey.
Yeahhhh. Now, I always talk about this blush color
because it's the kind of tone where you have to be really, really careful putting
it on certain skin tones. Everyone can absolutely wear what they want,
absolutely fine. And we're talking about makeup theory here so it's, you don't
have to listen to it, it's just, you know, like a thing. But with these kind of like
pastel shades, like Mariah Carey could wear a pink for sure. But pastels I
always find you have to be really careful, because it does verge on that
could be, could be grey, could be slightly ashy when it goes
on the skin. So, that's the only real mistake that was made here. To be fair,
and I see what they've done with the lip, ah! And I see what they've done with the lip
color as well. It's almost trying to be that like combination situation, and
that lip color looks great, looks absolutely fine. It's just that blush,
that intense blush. Colors of course in makeup, like in most kind of art forms
are going to change when you layer them up, so do bear in mind,
do just bear that in mind. Yeah.
I forgot this lady's name, is it Julia? I want to say Julia. Here's what's happened
right, for some reason she has,
she has this kind of more... it's like a mix between like a diamond face shape
and also one that's a little bit more, it's not heart like but almost has a
heart like here, and rounder. So there's a few different things here. I'm
not sure why they've put this stripe of contour across her forehead. If anything,
on her kind of face shape we'll take the contour wrapped, almost like what I've
done here, like wrapped around here but without this gap, wrapped up that way.
This is a bit more of a dramatic look. But because, again,
I hate to use the word correct but on like this kind of face shape
this is a, she has this wonderful jawline, and like a wider, a wider forehead, it
comes out this way. And on the faces that tend to be wider, you kind of want to
level it out with this part of the face. So you kind of want to push it in a
little bit. So you would, so you would achieve that by contouring this
and then stopping at the cheeks. So where, what they've done with her forehead
there is visibly made it look a lot, made it look wider, like longer across. This is
why sometimes, you know when you see people, when you see people draw on their face just
random contour stripes and everyone does it in the same place, it's not the same
for everyone. Because it can look, you know, like this. I, I like the eye makeup, I
think it's really nice. And what we should bear in mind as well, when we're
looking at these pictures is, is that these pictures are showing us what real
skin texture look like. It's not been retouched, it's not been, you know. And
that's real life. I think we assume that, you know, everything should look a
certain standard of perfect when actually, in real life, it doesn't at all.
And no one can achieve that standard of perfect. Okay, Jennifer Lopez. Oh.
I'm guessing this was uh... what? Like early 2000's or something like that. Here's a
few things I want to say about this look. The only thing that has a definite
outline is the lashes and the eye makeup. And it's given this weird kind of like,
I don't know, a really strange, strange look.
The eye makeup is literally like a, a shape. It hasn't been blended really, at
all. Okay, so let's start with the lashes. It's a bit too bitty if that makes sense.
It would be nice to have those little bits in between. And you can achieve that
with a lash, by using that lash and stacking another thinner lash on top.
Absolutely fine, it wouldn't be too heavy either. It's like nothing is defined in
the look at all, it's a really strange look. And the lip, of course, at that time
that was a great lip color. But again, it's that, it's that dark hair
with that lip shade doesn't look quite right with the rest of the makeup. I
don't know what else to say about that one, to be honest with you. I'm not sure
what to say. Baking, baking, baking, baking,
baking. Oh baking. I think we get it, right? Okay,
let's talk about Selena Gomez. Now, this is going to be a really unpopular
opinion but I quite like this look. I do like that nude lip,
I think it needs a little bit more her fleshy tone to it, to make it look
truly nude. And I like the eyes, and I love the brows. But you know what I think
it is about this look, is it needs to be constantly... the skin needs to be
constantly matte, otherwise it looks too shiny. But it's almost impossible
because you have to touch it up like every five seconds,
you know. I don't mind this look. I know people
were like, oh her fake tan but I don't see it. I actually quite like it. And I
think I understand what the look was, it's very clean, it's, it's meant to look
very fresh, you know. It's just the bronzing maybe I would have calmed down
on a little bit more, and maybe made it less orangey
I would say. But I like it, I like that look. Okay, let's look at these pictures
of Kelly Osbourne, right. [Laughter]
This is one of those classic cases of somebody using
the wrong undertone foundation. There seems to be this thing in makeup at the
moment right. When I was taught makeup and I'm sure when a lot of makeup
artists out there were taught, we were very much taught how important
it was to match people to their undertone
to get the right foundation. And you know, if skin needed altering, match their
undertone first, and then fix, you know, whatever you need to on top. But there
seems to be this thing at the moment, and it's in like these like makeup academies
as well, people just use yellow foundations, full stop. Everyone is yellow.
Everyone has to have yellow. It's not, that's not the case. Because when a
picture goes off like this, and this is quite... I'm pretty sure this picture
has been retouched because that's almost verging on green it's so yellow. But
again, depending on the lighting situation it can look, it can look that
tone. So we need to be really careful with what undertones you're using. Make sure
you are matching your clients if you have clients. Or yourself, to the right
undertone. Yes, yellow is great because it kind of neutralizes red, same with green,
you know that kind of thing. But at the same time do that afterwards, you know. Or
do that before with a bit of color corrector or a bit of concealer. And
make sure your skin tone matches your skin tone. That's all I want to say.
Because in pictures... imagine it's someone's wedding day, and they get these
pictures back and they're pure yellow, and their chest, and they're all like red, you
know? Or neutral. Go neutral if anything, don't
take the risk. Everyone knows how much I don't like that lip color. I don't know
what it is, I don't know what it is. Okay, we can see Bradley Cooper here with a
very tanned face, and not so much the rest of him. This actually looks like
maybe it was one of those bronzing gels that people use, because it's meant to
be a little bit more natural, a little bit more man like. you know. A lot of men,
make up for men brands sell them but they're actually not that easy and
simple to use. They can almost stain the the skin if not blended in properly. And
actually, I wouldn't even consider that like a beginner's product. Assuming that
most men that go for men brands makeup, don't really want to go too much
into makeup and it may be their first time using makeup. So you can see where
it's been taken into the beard but, but it just completely stops.
It's a little bit patchy, it's gathering around the hairline.
There's loads of different issues with this. And again, this is a case of not
matching undertone. You can match the person's undertone, do your foundation
the correct color and then go in with a bronzer to bronze them up. I, I don't, I,
I just don't think it's the best way to go into makeup to deepen someone's skin tone
by just whacking on a deeper shade. No, no, no. If they're fake tanned everywhere else
except for their face, or some people, you know, use some beds everywhere except for their
face, then absolutely, but. Okay, let's take a look at Jessie J
with this, with this shade. Now, where we were talking about... who was it who we
looked at first? So Jennifer Lopez with that nude lip, right.
The rest of Jessie J's makeup like this, is a great way to do this nude
pastel, with a neutral face. However, maybe I would have added like something a
little bit more through the socket of her eyes, a little bit more intense than
that maybe. Just to give everything else a little bit more of an outline, because
as soon as you put that color on you wash out everything. Everything gets
washed out. So it's almost like you need to redefine some areas but not too much.
The only issue with this and I think I saw her talk about in one of Nikki
Tutorials videos is how yellow it can make your teeth look. Those pastel shades
on the lip can really, can really make your teeth look, look
really nasty. So I would have, in this, I would have maybe made her brows
a little bit stronger to give a little bit shape of there. And maybe like
the tiniest, tiniest amount of like a sculpting shade on her cheeks, nothing
too much, like really not too much at all. It's like everything needs re-outlining
once you wash everything out, you know, a little
bit stronger. So it's definitely a case of, do everything first,
apply the lip color, and then add as you need to. Let's take a look at this
picture of Drew Barrymore. Now, this isn't... I don't think it's like the worst.
Like that lip color looks really, really nice.
On the eyes though, however, that kind of like all over, like almost like blown out
yellow or blown out any color, I feel like you need to add more depth to it. So
under her eyes, I know they've added this kind of like black around the eyes but I
definitely would have added like a warm... like a, like almost like a honey brown,
just to add dimension to the, the shade. Although we want it to give
the impression of one tone all over, we do still want to add depth and dimension
to everything. Otherwise it just looks like one shade everywhere. So I
definitely would have said, so I definitely would have taken like that
warm honey brown shade a little bit through the socket. Maybe done a tiny bit
of a cat's eye with it, just very subtle. It's almost like, if that yellow wasn't
all over shade, it's almost like we want to contour
that yellow, if that makes sense. So, like we would with our skin, we don't,
if we're doing like an everyday maybe we don't want our contour to stand out too
much, we want it to be a tone, a deeper tone of our skin tone,
a deeper shade, sorry, of our skin tone. So, that's what I would have done
with that look. Okay, so this one is very obvious, like visually. This is Lindsay
Lohan's contour. Listen, there was a time, and I believe it's when YouTube like
started, when makeup started to get like quite popular on YouTube, where people
were doing the most horrendous contours and
highlights. And they were kind of molding them together. And people would be
walking around with these pure grey metallic, and not silver, it was like
grey metal highlights. I think everyone just kind
of got carried away. But this is just, she's obviously done
this maybe in a room that has like different lighting, again, and gone into a
room that has quite bright lighting and this is, this is what's happened. This one
comes up a lot when you type in like, you know, bad celebrity makeup. And I actually
don't see much wrong with it. This is Leighton Meester. What does she do?
She's on Gossip Girl. I never watched that.
But here's maybe what could have been done. Everyone's saying like too much
blue eyeshadow, too much red lipstick gives us, gives an unflattering look for
her. I actually don't agree. I think the tone of lipstick they've chosen is
really, really nice for her skin tone. I also think the blue is really nice
because it's more that, it has a very slight hint of like a lavender tone to
it, in this picture. The reason why it may look a little bit
off-balance, again, is that definition under the eye. I think we need a little
bit more definition. We can't just do a line in the eye because it gives us a
really solid sharp line, and makes the eye look a little bit smaller. So I
definitely would have defined, maybe a deeper blue under the eye there, again, to
give it depth and dimension as well. And actually you know what, I would have
skipped the blush on this one. Because the blush makes it
like, lips, pink, blue, and it does give it that kind of unflattering color story.
And again, I would have defined her brows a little bit more. And I don't mean by, I
don't mean like a block. I would have gone through and done like strokes,
individual hair strokes, and added a little bit more definition to those
brows. But I don't, I don't hate that look. I don't know why it comes up so often.
Okay, this one of Sharon Stone. Again, I don't think this is terrible. However, on
the lips it looks like there's a slight gloss on there.
It would be nice to have a little bit more texture on her lip, so
more gloss. That's it. It can be nude, just a little bit more gloss. Again, more
playing with light on the face, so a little bit of highlighter or something
that gives off a glow to the skin, would have been really nice also. But I
don't, I don't think that's terrible. God, people just take a picture of anything
and be like, that's sh*t won't they. Okay, let's end on Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj has
an incredible face, so to see this from back in the day...
[Laughter] is... Listen, when Nicki Minaj
first became like, like popular I would have people ask me all the time, oh I
want the same lip color as Nicki Minaj. And I used to have this combo I would
use all the time on, on clients that would be my like Nicki Minaj lip combo,
and it was like, it was the perfect match. And that was a thing, that was a thing
for ages. One thing I've noticed about Nicki's, about Nicki Minaj... Nicki
Minaj's older makeup, back in the day, it was very much
shapes, if that makes sense? So her eyelashes were this shape, they're very
like plasticky looking lashes as well. But they would always come out a lot
further than her actual eye, which is absolutely fine because it gives the
impression of a longer eye. But it was very obvious, if that makes sense. It went
out like this. It'll be nicer if it kind of went up and feathered across.
This nose contour is...
again, probably looked okay in the lighting where she had her makeup done.
But on the, but in real life it's just... this is
why it's so important to blend. And when we're doing like contour, you don't
always have to use a highlight, and then a contour, you can literally just contour
down the side of the nose and stop. Because in comparison this bit is always
going to look, you know, straighter then, right. You don't
then have to add a white stripe down the middle. Or if you want to,
add a white stripe down the middle, you know.
But that's just a very poorly executed nose contour, very poorly done. Okay,
well I think I'm gonna stop there because I find myself speaking really
quickly through them, and I feel like this video is gonna be about 10 seconds
long. Thank you so much for joining me. I would
love to know your opinions below. Listen, let's talk about... let's talk in the
comments about some of our personal big makeup mistakes, and I'll join you
below and talk about some of mine as well. Thank you so much for joining me.
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