hey guys it's Jen and recently on Instagram there's been this huge wave called the ten year
challenge and everybody's been doing it they put a picture of themselves from 10 years ago
right next to one now and just sort of comparing and seeing how much they've aged how much their
style has changed and all that and so that got me thinking wouldn't it be kind of funny for
me to recreate one of my tutorials that I did ten years ago because the picture I ended up choosing
for instagrams 10 year challenge was a video it was one of the first videos I ever did for some
reason I think the original one I deleted it from YouTube because I think I was so embarrassed and
then after I started doing videos again for a year people were asking me to reload it so it's
back up so it's not my first video up on YouTube but technically it was one of my first youtube
videos ever it was done 10 years ago in 2009 is currently in 2019 I'm a little bit nervous
about it because as I was preparing I realized so many of my styling choices are young and I
feel like it's just a big departure from Who I am now the tutorial was using like this bluish
greenish light eyeshadow color for a smoky eye look which is just absolutely not what I would
wear now but I think it'll be fun recreating it some of the items aren't exactly the same
so I'm going to do my closest approximation with what I own now I tried my best to style myself
similar to how I was in that video including I uncovered these earrings the same earrings I
warned that video from 10 years ago I still have them styled my hair a little braid headband like
I did then a little striped shirt and let's go ahead and hop right into it you're gonna
pull it up on YouTube okay right off the bat I am so incredibly awkward it's a little bit
cringy for me to watch this because I wasn't even smiling I wasn't even showing any personality I
was kind of almost like dead a little bit I think I was just so nervous and awkward
I wasn't used to being in front of a camera and I felt a little silly about it actually really
like how the makeup look looks even though not what I would wear now so I'm starting off using
an eyeshadow primer that's same old still do that now oh and another thing I was too self-conscious
about my voice back then and that's why I would do tutorials and just write stuff on top of the video
because I just hated hearing my own voice which some of you might be surprised to hear because
after doing videos for such a long time you kind of get used to it but yeah definitely back then
was not comfortable hearing my own voice I don't have a regular big jumbo NYX eyeshadow base on
me so I'm just using a pencil eyeliner instead hopefully it doesn't set too quickly just shows
I don't really do this same technique all that often anymore oh my goodness this is setting
so quickly easy no wonder I use that NYX shadow base you guys need a very waterproof pencil Marc
Jacobs right here not blending out very easily next I'm taking that light greenish shadow so
I don't have that exact ones I'm using my Urban Decay Born to Run palette has this green shadow
right here that I'm hoping might be similar ish seems like a pretty teal called big sky
so I'm putting this on the inner corner and sort of blending it over the whole thing so what that
black base does is it kind of makes the color pop which you can see that technique still holds up
over time looks very pretty and it gives it almost like a depth because the shimmery parts sit on top
of the black so when it reflects against the black base it just looks extra poppy so far so good then
I'm taking a black eyeshadow and I'm just going to contour with that so when I sweep it up out
here I'm not really blending it into a crease I'm just sort of blending out that teal color in the
edges I'm doing sort of this like oval teardrop shape and I actually went back with that first
teal color and I gave it a little bit extra after doing the black he's Dan opal color to highlight
the brow bone regular light highlight next step is using a gel liner I don't even own a gel liner
but man that was like one of the first waterproof liners that worked really well for monolids gosh
it makes me think maybe I should pick some up again and try it out I really loved it and it
was so cool that you could use it on both your upper and lower lids kind of forgot how well it
worked for that without smudging all right looks like I did my signature thick liner here and then
I'm gonna use some edgy one on my lower lashes which I would only recommend if it's dying like
this one is blend that went back with the black eyeshadow and I'm smudging out the edges of the
liner so when I was doing this tutorial I think I remember the reason I used to do this why I would
blend out the harsh line is that for monolids sometimes when you have a really thick wing it
can look really sharp when you're blinking your eyes and I wanted to have the depth of having
that black line near my eye because you know I don't want my eyes to just be swallowed up and
have you not be able to like see them but I also didn't want it to look like black holes on my eyes
so I thought if I blended it in then it would be a little more seamless when I would blink and still
give that open eye effect then I took the same light eyeshadow the green one and I used that
to highlight the inner corners right here I feel like the shadow I'm using today is a little bit
darker than the one I used in the video so maybe I'll mix that a little bit of the lighter shade
okay and then the next up is tightlining which is super hilarious because I do not tight line
my eyes are actually really sensitive to having makeup products right up next to it so that's a
habit that I have kicked ten years ago we're gonna do it just for this video it does look nice for
those of you who don't know tight lining is lining the waterline which is the part right next year I
so do you see the difference here in here this one's a little more dramatic because it's black
definitely a personal preference thing if you don't have sensitive eyes you can definitely
try this out or if you're like me it's also okay to just avoid this stuff freaks me out even doing
this now this is the thing though everybody back then did tight lining their waterline for makeup
back then yep my eyes are still sensitive I think it's done next step I am curling my lashes another
thing that I did differently than I do now is after curling I just want straight for the fall
season instead of putting mascara on them first so we're gonna do it that way I'm using very similar
crisscross lashes like I used in the video then I used the gel liner to cover the glue line I'll
just use my eyeliner from before then I went back in with my lash curler to combine the lashes and
used my mascara to blend them together then I used a brow product it was like a powder so I'm using
this powder today Urban Decay DoubleDown brow and I said to fill in the sparse areas I kind of
forgot how much I like using brow powder it's like so soft and fast to fill it in for a lot of people
the worst part of their tenure challenge was that they had really thin brows back then but I kind of
always liked a more natural thicker brow my brows actually look pretty similar no as they did back
then I'm not saying it as like a bragging thing at all but it just goes to show that different
people can have preferences that are different from each other and just because there's a makeup
trend going on you don't always have to follow it you can just find out what works best for you
your style your own features and I know ten years from now everybody's gonna look at bushy brows and
be horrified again next I'm going to add a peachy blush so I'm using this one from Tarte to do any
contouring or anything just stuck with this one blush color and then I am using the exact same
lipstick color this is from YSL number 13 it's their rouge bull upped in this peachy color that
I probably would not wear now that is so pastel on me see this is why I think I used a lip gloss
after it to sort of neutralize it a little bit because there's a very powerful color I don't have
a gloss on hand that is a little bit of a brownish shade I'm gonna take a little bit of a more
neutral lipstick and see if that helps so I guess this is the final look I mean I will say there are
some differences because eyeshadow formulations have changed over the last 10 years they've really
improved so much I'm also using some different brands and that has an effect I probably would not
wear this lipstick with this eyeshadow look but doing the really nude it out lips was such a cool
thing to do back then and I feel like now people just go for a lot more natural looks the eyes on
the other hand I am loving this even though bluish greenish teal is definitely not what I would grab
for it looks really cool and it's something that I would do again and maybe even experiment in a few
different colors I'm like re-inspired which is so funny to say because I'm inspired by me ten years
ago that's a decade ago that is a ten year old human being which is insane maybe in another ten
years we can do this again and call it the 20 year challenge anyway I really hope you guys enjoyed
this I really had a lot of fun especially walking back in memory lane not only for the finished look
but the actual products I use and the way that I applied it has really changed over time so it was
a nice refresher remembering some of the things I was really in love with and some of the ways
I used to do my makeup that is like so different than I do it now still have the wonky eyes same as
in the video overall I think it looks very similar and I had a lot of fun if you guys remember this
original look please just give this video sup let me know down in the comments I would love to know
what was the first video you remember seeing of me like what was it that brought you to my channel
made you subscribe or just like the video that you used the most and that actually helped you with
your makeup journey I love hearing stories like that so please let me know that in the comments
down below give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe if you're brand new here
and have no idea why I would be doing this look in the first place I've been around a while if
you want to see this original video I will leave a link in the little thingy above and in the infobox
below so you'll be able to find the original video either way go watch that one in the comments of
that one if you came there from here leave a comment on there so I know cuz I think that'll
be really interesting too anyway I love you guys so much and I will see you in my next video bye