Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me. It has been
nearly a whole month since I have filmed.
I've moved house, despite this room looking exactly the same, I'm in a
different house, in a different room. And I've missed working, I know that's really
strange but I have missed working so I'm so happy to be back and happy filming. So
here's what I'm doing today, I was sorting out
my makeup, moving it into this room, you know, packing it up, moving it from one
house to the other. And I was looking at some products and looking at some tools
and I was like, these were so unnecessary and so like...
at the time, people were like, I need it, I need it, I needed it. And, you know. And it just made
me think and look back on techniques that are kind of like,
had their moment, they're a bit outdated now. I'm sure some people still use them, there's
a few that I still use as well. But I wanted to do a full face of
techniques that are a little bit outdated, so
let's do it. Just before getting into that today, if this is your first time here, hi, my
name is Robert. I'm a professional makeup artist here on YouTube and also 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 are interested in
then please do consider subscribing. Also by the way,
did you see my video with Selena Go... the actual Selena Gomez? We talked about her
brand Rare Beauty. I, I still can't believe it happened but go ahead and
check it out if you haven't already, it's, it's cute. She's really, really
cute. Okay, begin. So, I'm going to start with eyes first. Actually, let me put down
a base and then I'll be right with you. Okay, sorry about that. Eye primer on. Okay,
so the first technique that's a little bit outdated, as I said, is one that I
still do myself. Because I, I just really, really like it. And we're gonna carve our
eyebrows. Now, let me explain why I feel this is a little bit outdated. Again, I
still do it so no shame, no shame if anyone still does any of these
techniques. I feel like it changes with brow
trends, right? So at the moment we have like the spiky brow, like almost like
minimal brow. Whereas the like olden days of Instagram makeup and we had like
the solid really thick brows, I feel like it was better then because it almost
accentuated the brow a little bit. The reason I still do it is because,
honestly, because I don't sort out my eyebrows as often as I should, I kind of
just let them do what they need to do. And it almost tidies up that whole area.
And I think I would still do this on myself,
maybe on a client depending on what their eyebrows are like, if I was doing a
more dramatic look. But see how like it makes it look like I threaded my
eyebrows or like plucked them, or whatever? But like I said, with the
current trend of a more fluffier brow, I feel like
the, the perfect kind of sculpted brow isn't really necessary.
I just like it, I just feel like it tidies everything up a little bit more,
and I love like a little tidy eye area. But let's be real, brow trends come back
what? Every year? We get like a different brow trend.
So I'm sure sculpting and those thick blocked, like almost tattooy looking
brows, are going to come back at some point. Also I have to say, everyone please
excuse... my fingers at the moment are so gross because I've been opening so many
boxes. I, I got like cuts everywhere from opening boxes. Okay, so the next
thing I want to do, this might be a little bit controversial.
I love, I love a cut crease, right, and here's why I feel cut creases are a
little bit outdated, and I mean the particular shape I'm gonna do.
I feel like, and I, and this is going to be the reason for a lot of
the techniques I feel are outdated, is because
as people... not as just like professional makeup artists but anyone who does their
makeup. With all the resources we have online with, with how far makeup has come
people are better at doing their own makeup, a more skilled technic... skilled?
Skilled technically than ever before. So it's like we're learning, and learning,
and learning, and becoming better and better and better, and now we're in this
whole kind of like graphic liner kind of situation happening, and graphic looks.
And, you know, everyone's like Euphoria makeup but you guys have been doing your
Euphoria makeup for ages, you've been doing amazing look. So I feel like a cut
crease had its moment and we were, you know, Oh amazing, amazing cut crease.
And it's still definitely a skill to kind of like... why am I saying sk... skill.
Skill. Skill. "Skill". It's still definitely a really great
technique to practice in terms of learning how to get eye looks
symmetrical, I think it's still a really great skill to have. But I guess in terms
of social media, perhaps it's a little bit outdated. So I'm gonna do a cut
crease right now. I love, I love cut creases. I feel like I'm offending myself
almost. Have I got concealer in my hair? I'm so... honestly, I haven't done
anything for a month and I feel really out of my depth, I feel a little bit like,
oh, I don't know what I'm doing. Yes, so I'm going to use... I haven't unpacked all
my palettes yet so I have to go into my professional kit. Which of course I, I
sanitize and all that. And I'm going to use the Viseart palettes, a greeny purple.
I have these bases from Revolution that I'm going to do,
that I'm going to do? That I'm going to use. Guys listen, I don't know what I'm talking about
today. So I'll whiz through this cut crease look. If you do want to learn how to
do a cut crease because like I said, it's still an amazing thing to learn, I do
have a video which is super in-depth about cut creases.
Including like the angles that you hold your brush at and all this kind of stuff,
it's really, really in-depth. I'll leave that below for you. This is meant to be
this color, it doesn't look anything like it, anyway.
Okay, I just did some concealer. Let's talk about foundation,
and here's something that we were seeing for a really long time and you know what?
I have to be honest, I get tagged in certain creators videos,
not creators, like studios, like makeup studios,
and there's people that do this next technique and
they really try to defend it. I have to say as a professional makeup artist,
before a YouTuber, before an influencer, it's, it's un...
reasonable to do this. And I'm talking
painting on foundation like this and then just tapping it into place. Now,
professional makeup artist, you would know out there,
how terribly this is going to photograph. How awful it's going to be to keep
touching up throughout the day because you're just not taking your time
to blend it in. Your foundation is meant to be almost like part of your skin, it's
meant to look like skin. It's not meant to be a mask. And you can get full, full
coverage, it doesn't have to be done like this.
And there's a certain salon that I get tagged in all the time and they do
this. And you can see them defending themselves for their lives in their
comments, and it's like no, it's unaccept...
unacceptable. I would never in a million, million years do this to someone's face.
And I definitely think that this was a social media
trend. A lot of trends that start on social media start because they look
visually intriguing. Like you see a thumbnail of
somebody with like foundation, too much foundation, painted on their face and you
click on it because you want that interaction, you want that almost....
click-baity attention, you know? Because, you know, that's how you get ahead on
social media, you need the views, you need people to
watch your videos. But then people do take the advice quite literally and
think that maybe it's a good option for them which, you know, it really isn't. And
I do think, I have to be honest, I do think it's kind of lazy. I think if
you're doing, if someone is paying you to do their makeup you should take time to
give them the best result and the best color
combination. I do just think painting it on like that
is careless and completely unnecessary. I actually didn't use as much as I should
have done but you know what, I mean. There was, there was one... I'll see if I can find
it and I'll put it, a clip of it here, that was infamous. And it went around
forever and ever, and ever. And it was just... oh, it was the f*cking worst. Oh, you
know what I forgot to do? Let's do it right now quickly under the
eyes. Another like extremely outdated
thing. Here's what I think happened at some point, right, people
took tech... makeup techniques and overdid them and that became the
norm. So, let's talk about color correcting, okay, and I'm gonna use orange
because everyone just uses orange for everything. A good alternative to this is
just a darker concealer, one, one or two shades depending on how dark your under
eyes are, you could, you could just use that. If your skin tone is deeper, a redy
tone like this would be great mixed in with maybe a little bit of the orange. Again,
customizing that shade to your needs, not just one flat out color. That's why when
these brands come out with these like color correcting concealers I think
great but let's, let's use them properly, you
know? So if you did want to use this in a way that was like a little bit more
realistic, you can just use the tiniest amount
in the area where you need that correction. For me
it's right up along that lash line. We don't want to completely cover, we want
to slightly alter. We know, now we know how to use color to correct
but we need to get a little bit better on our application techniques. I, I, in my
opinion. I just think we're smarter than that now, we've outgrown
the like insane color corrector. Where's my sponge I was using? Here. But also as
well, color correction is different in a lot of ways. I made a Tik
Tok once and this girl used red over her her whole face and I was like, you know,
you know red can cancel out green but red can also block out certain
bluey undertones, certain ones, and darker tones. Like for example we would use red
to cancel out my eyebrows because they are so dark, so it's blocking out the color.
And everyone was like, uh red doesn't do that. I was like no, red definitely like,
you know, it is a technique I've used before.
Red definitely cancels out like darker, darker areas. It's not necessarily color
correction, it's more like blocking that color out. But I just... I deleted it
because everyone on TikTok thinks they know f*cking everything. You've got 12 year
olds on there telling like rocket scientists how to do their job. Not, I'm
not comparing makeup to rocket scientists by the way.
They just look the same, different amounts of products but they look
exactly the same. Okay, let's go to my enemy of the makeup world, my, the technique
I despise.
Baking, baking, baking, baking.
Now don't get me wrong, using powder under the eyes, absolutely fine, the
smallest amount. Baking was just the most insane horrible
thing ever. It looks great on camera, looks great under certain lightings
but the skin... okay, so the skin under the eye is dry, we know this, right? Compared
to our eyelids which is more, has more moisture. So we are drying out the
skin under the eyes. You know when you dry something out that's already dry and
it shrivels like a raisin? Creasing, that's why you get creasing.
You need to hydrate under the eyes. But people go for this thing where, you know,
powder sets so surely putting loads of powder on under your eyes
must, must work.
What's happening? I f*cking... I [Chokes]
I hate this so much. I hate this so much. Why is it still... I don't want to do this. No, this
is... I just... okay.
Hate it, I it hate.
Oh, I can't breathe. But this is, baking is most definitely making a comeback like
I've seen it loads on TikTok. People have been doing it, and doing it.
My eyelids are... the bottoms are creasing already. I just
think technically it goes against... I can't, I'm gonna have to move.
Oh, I forgot to do something before this, whoopsie. Okay, so my under eyes are all
dry and horrible. Let me get rid of this. I f*cking hate this so much. So baking
is great for stage,
maybe certain kinds of photo... I wouldn't,
I personally wouldn't bake if I knew pictures were being taken because
of how crusty and dusty it looks. Oh, I just, I hate it so much.
Feels horrible, it looks like sh*t, and look you can literally see where it's
like stained the skin. I, oh, I really hate it. And I, it just, it just takes away some
product there. Oh, why am I orange suddenly?
Just look at this. Oh, it's awful. Like imagine, like it looks
super, super smooth in certain areas but... Where's my concealer gone? It all, it like
dries and shrivels up your concealer. I hate it, I really hate it.
Creasey, creasey and dry, and creasy. What the f*ck has happened? What happened
there? Let me tell you something, I know there are makeup artists out there who
like bake under the eyes,
I just wouldn't do it, I would just use powder. The visual effect lasts like
10 minutes and then it just looks horrible for the
rest of the evening. You know what? Moving on. I just, I hate it.
You get the point. Next outdated technique
is going to be lines on the face of product. Now, we all know now that we
kind of need to work a little bit more on giving ourselves more of an
individual custom made, you know, application when it
comes to contour, bronzer, blusher. Maybe back in the day while people were still
kind of learning how to do their makeup it might have been a good
starting point, a good guide almost. Which is when we see that famous picture of the
lines all over the face from way back. That wasn't the makeup artist saying
this is how you do this, that was a makeup artist saying this is the areas
where I contour, this is where you apply lighter and darker color. They weren't
literally saying, you know, this is the way to do it. There's still powder in the
air. Is that coming off my face? Now, I'm gonna have to blend this in for a while
now because it's going to sit on top of the powder. Again, it was another
thing that was kind of like visually like, oh my God that's so crazy. But again,
everyone out there is more intelligent now, they know exactly what to do with
their makeup. They know that, you know, it needs to be a little bit more customized
to their face. What's going on... what's going on here? Where... here. I, I think that
is probably the third time I've baked, ever. I don't do it, I wouldn't do it and
if somebody asked me to do it I'll be like no, you can do it yourself I'm not
doing that. I'm just so against it, I'm like really against baking. Because I
wouldn't want to do someone's makeup and then they go out into the world,
and then a few hours later because I've baked their skin looks like
sh*t, you know? And then they'd be like, who did your makeup? Oh, Robert Welsh did,
and it looks like this now, you know what I mean? Okay, let's finish up under the
eyes. Look I now, I can't go on top of that powder with my eye makeup.
Look where that powder's sit, sat like I can't put makeup on top of it now. And
you know what? Sorry to keep going on about baking again. But that was another
thing brands were doing, they were re-releasing like this nasty
90s sh*tty powder and calling it baking powder. I can't, I can't go on top of
there with eye makeup. Look,
you can see where the powder sat. Can you see, like here? I was going to
take a nice picture of this, now I can't. So I would actually
fix that with a pencil, a pencil that's a similar color and then go on top with
the eyeshadow. Oh yes, that's another one right, contouring. Again, back to
contouring. Another thing that I think is extremely
outdated is the lines down the side of the nose like this.
Again, because we all know how to like custom do our noses now, right? Like we
know that two, two straight lines just aren't gonna cut it. Like we need a
little bit more...
Everywhere. Again, should have done this before baking but here we are. Again, the
shape, the shape of everyone's nose is different. So you don't need to
do two lines, you can always do just like a little bit in the, these areas here
or underneath. Or for me it would just be like more bulbous bits here, than a
little bit under the nose. You don't need to do like this four,
like two stripes down the nose. Yeah, okay. Well listen, I was gonna put on
lashes and I was gonna do a lip and everything like that but now I don't
feel like it because it looks like sh*t. Those are some techniques I feel are
slightly outdated when it comes to our makeup routines now. And I think that's
thanks to people's skill level being vastly improved, all the time, constantly,
constantly, constantly. And also because social media trends just keep changing,
changing, changing. Which is great, fine, let's keep going.
Yes, I would love to know what you think below. Please don't be offended if you
use any of these techniques, as I said I still use two of them so we
like what we like, right? Thank you so much for joining me, please do consider
subscribing and I will see you very, very soon. Bye.