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We are, of course, doing a reaction
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No lashes today, because they were itching my eye.
Just before we get into it, as I always
say in these videos, creativity and individuality have
no rules, but makeup most definitely has a theory,
and these videos are for you, people who want
to learn that theory, and maybe you see somethings
online and you're like, a little bit questionable.
Okay, let's get into it.
I was tagged in comments
because somebody said cream pro...
Prueducts?
Cream products don't go over powders.
Cream products first, then apply powders.
And then Patrick Ta Beauty replied, saying, there are
no rules to make up, and somebody tagged me underneath.
So this is why I say there
are no rules to creativity and individuality.
Meaning you can do whatever you
want, but makeup has a theory.
And something I always say, and I did a whole
video about it, is once you learn the theory or
rules to makeup, you then know how to break them.
You can absolutely use cream on top of powder.
I do it all the time.
I will powder my face.
Oh, I'm not even in focus, sorry.
I will powder my face, and then I
will put, like, a highlighter on top.
It's absolutely fine, but just be careful that
it doesn't cut away at the product underneath.
That's all I would say.
"Makeup products I would not
purchase from a makeup artist.
You are wasting your money if you're using primers.
Unless you're using primers for a specific issue like
oily skin, they're a waste of your money. A lot of time
primers can actually make your makeup look
worse, which is not what we want.
I just wouldn't put it under
my foundation if I was you.
I'm sorry to tell you, but
setting sprays don't do anything.
Setting sprays might feel nice on your skin, but
they're not doing anything to hold your makeup on.
A lot of setting sprays claim to keep
your makeup on for the entire day.
And I'm sorry, they're just lying to you.
And guess what?
A lot of these can make your makeup
look terrible if you use too much.
If you do a bad job putting on your makeup and
use a setting spray, it's not going to do anything.
Full size mascaras are a waste of your money, honestly,
full size mascaras harbor bacteria, and you're only
supposed to use them for about three months.
Chances of you using the whole
bottle in three months, pretty slim.
Full size mascaras are expensive, and you just don't get enough
use of them for them to be worth the money."
It's so true.
Primers are great if you have a very, I always
say, dramatic type of skin, dramatically oily, dramatically dry, and
you need a little bit of help that day.
Totally agree.
Most primers, we went through this
phase of selling these really silicone
based primers that were really slippery.
Most of the time they'll peel on the skin, they wouldn't sit
right with your foundation, and they're just not necessarily
a good... I always just think of serum.
A good skincare routine is perfect.
Setting sprays. Now, a lot of people do this test
where they put something on their hand, spray
it with setting spray, and then rub it off.
The reason your makeup doesn't last most of the time,
unless it's like rain or something, the reasons your makeup
is being ruined isn't coming from this way.
It's coming from the skin outwards.
It's your oils and things like that.
So spraying something on top and having
it like, congeal with your foundation isn't
really the best route to go down.
Grab a setting spray, but use it as a primer.
"I'm sorry to break it to you, but
your concealer is always going to crease.
The makeup industry hasn't been fully honest
with how they're promoting their products. What a shock.
No matter what makeup product or technique you
use, creasing is inevitable because makeup doesn't stop
your under eye skin from creating that physical
fold when you moved your face.
In this video, I'm going to show you the
things that you can do to help diminish the
appearance of creases as best as possible.
First step, skincare.
You can go in with your favorite eye cream or
any plain old moisturizer that you use for your face.
Hydrating the area is very important.
Now, if you're lucky enough to be able to
skip color corrector, I hate you, but if you're
like me and you've been blessed with these babies,
then you're going to want to use one.
Now, this is something that is super crucial
when it comes to color correctors or concealers.
And I cannot stress this enough because they've
made a world of difference for me.
The amount that you use and placement.
Obviously, the more creamy and hydrating
the formula is, the better.
I'm going to place it on the darkest parts of
my under eye, and I'm going to let it sit.
Only used a little bit, but even this
is too much if you ask me.
I didn't put it too close to my bottom lash
line, which is where most of the creasing happens.
Take a very fluffy blending brush and start
feathering the product around while avoiding placing the
concealer directly where the creasing happens.
Now that you've blended everything, take whatever product is
left on your brush and lightly feather it into
the areas where it creases so that you're getting
the effect of the corrector, but without creating too
much buildup in that delicate area.
Now that you're done with that, you take
your concealer and do the exact same steps.
I'm going to take the iconic creamy concealer
from Nars just so you can see that
even with one of the most iconic concealers
in the makeup industry, you're going to crease.
It has a really lightweight formula, so it's
really good if you're worried about that.
Now that my under eyes look really
bright and beautiful, it's time for powder.
Once you've made sure that any crease has been blended
out of the way, you're going to take a little bit
of powder on a fluffy brush, tapping the excess off.
You're going to very lightly press
the powder into the area.
You're going to go in with a very light hand,
and then you're going to brush off any excess.
And there you have it.
It looks like a perfect under eye, right?
This is not even 2 hours
after and it's already beginning to crease.
Don't believe everything the makeup industry tries to sell
you and just remember that you are gorgeous."
So true.
I think a lot of people really rely
on their makeup to fix issues, right?
And it's not going to stop our face moving.
Makeup can't stop... like trying to be like, how do
you cover, people who have heavy ones of these,
how do you cover this? You can't.
That's your face, hunny.
You can make it less obvious for a period
of time, but it's just how it moves.
A lot of the stuff that we haven't
figured out in the makeup industry yet is
because it can't be fixed with makeup.
Surgery can fix it, but makeup can't.
It's never going to stop your
face moving and your skin folding.
For concealer to have to stop creasing completely,
again, not slow it down, but stop completely,
it would have to tighten your skin to
a point where the creases no longer appear.
And you can't do that.
I was tagged in videos like this so
much with people saying, like, does it work?
Yeah, because you're just putting concealer where
we usually put concealer, but in triangles.
But you know what I do like about this
technique, is that it's slowing down the application of
concealer and being a bit more mindful about the
placement and the amount of product being used.
But when you look at the final result, it's
where everyone puts concealer anyway, just a lesser amount.
So I do like it, but yes, of course it works,
because the end result is just where you put concealer.
These trends come around and people end up with
product looking exactly the same as it was before,
just applied in some new gimmicky way.
"This video of mine went completely viral.
This is the Jour powder reason I'm using. Just watch.
I get asked about pores all the time.
So I'm going to show you again. Just watch.
No filter.
Gone.
Watch here.
I even have a hole in my head.
Woo!
Magic.
If you have enlarged pores, texture on your skin,
there is absolutely nothing like the Jour powder.
I get a code for my followers.
You cannot go wrong with this one."
You all know what I'm going to say.
I'm not even going to say it.
When you're watching videos like this, right?
They don't even need to have a filter on,
the upload quality of TikTok's, poor upload quality is
enough to add some kind of blur to it, so.
When you're looking at this, right,
as they're applying the powder, focus on another area of
the skin where the product hasn't been focused yet.
And see those pores still come in and out of focus.
Mattifying your skin and stopping shine so the camera
can't pick up the detail is not the same
as blurring your skin or filling in pores.
Please be real.
Even if you're trying to make money, please be real.
People appreciate your honesty over anything else.
Please.
Have we not had enough this week?
Okay, again...
This is something that's coming up a lot recently.
And when you... we seem to be getting into
this place of placement. I'm going to, let me show you
this screen grab of that right here.
This is heavily making the face masculine.
It looks like 05:00 shadow.
It looks very heavy.
And it's how, again, in theater, you
would make someone's face more masculine.
Drag kings do it. Like it's...
Be really careful.
It's a great place to shade,
but do be really, really careful.
Contour tends to have a grayer undertone.
05:00 shadow has a grayer greeny undertone.
But just do be really careful, please.
Also, you can see I put the main
picture in the middle from the video.
But that isn't even how the
cheekbones on Bella Hadid are achieved.
It's a contour where you typically put contour under the
cheekbone, and actually the jawline is a lot lighter.
These are pictures from multiple different
occasions throughout time, throughout all history.
But that's not actually how
that look is achieved either.
I think that's a good little trick.
This under eye thing is a really cute trend.
Again, another thing that's come from South Korea is putting
that little dot there and that redness tone under there
is actually a tone that is under the eye
in a lot of people, they either have
redness or blueness or something in between.
So it doesn't look that unrealistic.
And it's that triangle. I don't know if you've see me
talk about the triangle?
The Illuminati.
No, I'm joking. Just how much of the human eye
is attracted to triangle shapes or triangle points.
I think that's a cute little tip.
Just be careful when you blend it in.
Yeah, precision would be a good one there.
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