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Today we are going to learn about makeup and all the words and verbs you need to talk about it. So
I thought the best way to teach you would be to show you my everyday makeup routine, so the next
time you see me there will be no makeup on this face so good luck! I wish you all the best. Um
I'm sorry for the fright you're going to have, but, uh, yeah. Enjoy.
Terrifying, I know. Let's get some makeup on before people start throwing up! Okay let's do
it. Let's start with eye shadow and I'm going to be using a palette which is how we describe
eyeshadow that has a bunch of things inside of it, it's really messy, it's really dirty,
don't judge me okay? These sorts of colours that we have here,
exhibit A. We often call them nudes because they're sort of skin tone,
they're not bright colours, they're nude tones, so I've got my nude eyeshadow palette and I'm going
to do a base. So the base is a colour, normally sort of for me, it's normally a cream or a white
that goes on the bottom. So if you imagine a house needs a base, eyeshadow needs a base as well
and I'm using an eyeshadow brush to do this, by the way, a brush. So now that the base is on,
I will put some makeup in the crease of my eyes. Now, I'm not a makeup artist so this is probably
not the best makeup routine but I'm just here to teach you about the terms alright? So,
okay I know it's not going to be perfect. So let's take a different eyeshadow brush and go for a
slightly darker nude. So the verb that we can use for everything to do with makeup for eyeshadow,
foundation, eyebrows, we can always use the verb to apply. So I'm currently applying eyeshadow
or more commonly you can use the phrasal verb to put on so I am putting on eyeshadow,
that's a bit more common, a bit more native. Okay so once it's applied, I tend to do a bit of
blending, now blending is quite a generic verb and it just means to mix things together,
so that it's not a harsh line, you know? You blend things together so that there's not
a distinct line where the eye shadow starts, so just a little bit of blending.
Okay next we're going to use a little bit of gold, sorry all of my palettes are disgusting,
by the way, so disgusting. So I love gold eyeshadow, it's my favourite, so I'm going over
the brown I just did with a bit of gold and blending it towards the brow bone. So this
part here I believe it's called the brow bone, so I want to blend it up towards there. Next I use
my ring finger which is probably not the best tool to use but I use a very light eyeshadow
here almost like a shimmery cream. Shimmer is a nice word you'll hear a lot in makeup,
something shimmers, it it shines, it's glossy. So I use a nice shimmery colour and I just dab it
right in the middle of my eyelid because I think it just brightens up my eye a little bit.
Then, I do the same shade on my brow bone, then I blend it all together.
And that's pretty much my eyeshadow done, I will probably tweak it a little bit once the final look
is finished but I don't spend time on eyeshadow, I just can't be bothered, I don't enjoy eyeshadow,
it's the worst. Next I use concealer, now concealer is this little thing and
it's called a concealer because you use it to conceal, which is a verb on its own, to conceal
things that you don't want to reveal. So if you conceal something, you hide it,
so if you want to hide something, so for me I like to hide my eye bags, my under eye bags or dark
circles some people call them. So I use concealer and my beauty blender which is also really dirty,
I'm sorry, I'm disgusting. Use my beauty blender to blend it and then we just dab dab dab dab
dab dab. Okay so I've used concealer on my under eyes, I also sometimes just put a bit of
concealer there, I don't know why and then just plop it anywhere where you see a little
spot or something that you don't want to show anyone so you can use concealer for
anything that you just want to hide a little bit. There we go. Next we need to apply foundation,
now foundation is called foundation because a foundation, the noun, a foundation means the base
of something. The strong base that means you can put things on top of it and that's what this is,
it is the thing that goes all over the face and it is the
foundation for the rest of your makeup look. So again I use my beauty blender and I slap it on.
Foundation done! Now the next step that a lot of people like to do, I don't do,
but I want to teach you about it anyway. So a lot of people use powder like this and it's called
setting powder or transparent loose powder or baking powder, it's got a couple different names.
And what people do is they dab dab dab and they put it on their under eyes or any place
that they think it might crease or their makeup might get a bit patchy. So you might have seen
pictures of someone like Kim Kardashian with just powder underneath her eye and that's called
baking, so if she says i'm going to bake my under eye it means i'm going to put powder on
top of my skin and it will set the powder, almost like you're baking a cake, it will
keep it nice and firm. But I still want to set my foundation to make sure it is set and
it's not going to move anywhere so I use this pressed powder and I just take a big brush,
do a bit of that and then just dab it on, just setting the makeup with pressed powder.
The next thing I like to do, as you can see I've got sort of foundation all over my lips,
so I like to use a lip scrub which is basically lip balm and sugar it tastes amazing.
So I just scrub my lips with the sugar to get rid of the foundation that's on my lips
and it also helps your lips be nice and plump, there we go. Next up is eyebrows, now there's a
lot of different ways you can do your eyebrows some people use eyebrow gel, some people use an
eyebrow pencil, some people tattoo their eyebrows on. I personally like to use a square brush
and some eyebrow powder, again, it's disgusting. So I've got my eyebrow powder and my eyebrow wax
which I use because it's the only way I have learned how to do my eyebrows. So I start with
the wax and what I'm doing here is a very common phrasal verb you will hear in regards to eyebrows
and it's to fill in. So to fill in your eyebrows means to fill all the parts that are empty,
so if you have eyebrows that are quite sparse, there's not a lot of hair, and you want to make
them thicker and more dense, you fill them in. You might also hear the phrasal verb to fill in for
things like forms because you are making full all the empty parts in the form. But in this context,
fill in just means to make your brows look thicker. So that's the wax done, then I use
the powder. Eyebrows done! Next it's time for contouring, yes contour can be a verb, to contour,
but also contour can be a noun. So you might hear something like: the contours of her face,
so the movement of her face, the bits that go inwards, so when we contour our face
it's basically making our face look like a different shape or it's defining
to define to make more obvious. You're defining the lines and the shape of your face, so for
example, I use a contour brush and a darker powder and I just put that in there then I go like this:
So do you see how I'm defining my cheekbones and everything so that is where the word to contour
comes from. So now I feel like I have more defined cheekbones. Next up, we have blush for the cheeks,
so red on the cheeks to make it look like you're healthy and alive and awake. Most people,
well some people, will use powder blush like that. However, I use this blush and it's like a
liquid cream blush so it's sort of a cream and you dip your finger in it and then you apply.
Ah! Awake! Alive! Refreshed! There we go. Next we need to highlight using highlighter, so the verb,
to highlight, using the noun: highlighter. So I use that same shade that I use for my eyes
and just, I don't know why I do that, I saw someone do it and now I do it every day.
Then I just highlight the tip of my nose with a bit of a pinky highlighter,
just like that, okay now this is my favourite part of the makeup process: eyeliner. Some people use
pencil eyeliner, some people use liquid eyeliner, some people use gel eyeliner, there's lots of
different ways. I like to use a pen, I think it's easy, it just looks like this, it's like you're
drawing a picture, just makes it nice and easy and there are many different styles you can do,
I always go for a winged eyeliner or a cat eye, it's the only one I know how to do and it just-
I think it looks good on me, that's the only reason. So, a winged eyeliner let's do it.
That's one done, so you can see now it's called a winged eyeliner because you have a bit of a
wing sticking out and also a cat eye because it looks a bit like a cat's eye, there you go.
Both eyes done! Next I take my eyelash curler and I curl my eyelashes,
this looks a bit like an instrument of torture to a lot of people who don't put makeup on
but I can assure you it doesn't hurt, it's very painless and then I apply mascara using
the mascara wand as we call it, like harry potter, I put on mascara,
So as you can see that's the top lashes done, now it's just time to do
the bottom lashes and it is impossible to do the bottom lashes without going like this-
Okay we're nearly done, I promise! Next I go back to my eye shadow palette from the beginning and
I take the same colour that is on my eyes and I put it on my lash line which is the bottom
of your eye but I only do it halfway, I take this shade, the one that's on my cheeks
and I put it in the middle, in the corner of my eye, in the inner corner of my eye. Okay
finally finally finally, we need to do lips. Now there are lots of different options for lips,
I always like to line my lips with a lip liner so you are literally drawing the outline of your lips
on your lips. Some people like to over line their lips which is drawing a line
higher than your actual lip line to make your lips look bigger, juicier,
more plump. But today I'm just going to draw the actual line of my lip.
So once we've done the lip liner, we have a few different options: you can use lip gloss
which is the shiny stuff, you can use a lipstick which can be a bit more matte, but I like to use
this it's like a chunky lip stick, but I wouldn't call it a lipstick it's more of a creamy lip...
something? It's basically a creamier version of a lipstick.
And then the final final final thing I do is use setting spray, so this is a spray
that you spray all over your face to set your makeup and make sure it doesn't move
and make sure it doesn't run or smudge. Notice by the way how the verb and the noun are the same
so this is a spray but the verb is to spray. Easy peasy! So let's spray.
Just let that dry and there you have it! A full face of makeup! Thank you so much for watching,
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