Hello, everyone.
Welcome back. Thank you
so, so much for joining me.
So today we have a reaction video.
So you have been tagging me everywhere
on everything, which I absolutely love.
You can tag me on TikTok @RobertWelshMUA, Instagram
@RobertWLSH, and I think that's pretty much it.
Just before we jump into the reactions, if this is
your first time here, hi, my name is Robert.
I'm a professional makeup artist here on
YouTube and also in real life.
And it's my goal to help you become a pro
yourself or just someone who's really good at makeup, so.
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And also, as I always like to say in my reaction videos,
there are no rules to individuality and creativity,
but makeup most definitely has a theory.
Okay, let's take a look at some
of whatever you've been tagging me in.
Okay, let's start with TikTok, shall we?
What have you been tagging me in this week?
"Here's a fun eye shadow technique.
No brushes needed.
Starting off with the middle finger, I'm going to use a
color closest to my skin tone all over the eyelid.
This is called your base color.
If it's slightly lighter or
slightly darker, that's okay.
Next up, we're going to go with a darker tone.
I'm going to use my pinky with this one.
Point that pinkie towards the end of your brow
tail and keep it right in the corner.
Make sure you're not on your brow bone.
As you can see, I'm tapping, and I'm not rubbing.
Check out your process.
All right, now, ladies, pull out that ring
finger, tap it into some gold, and tap
it right in the center of your eye.
Final step, we're going to go on with our pointing
finger with the more champagne tone right in the
front of your eye, make sure you're tapping carefully.
Done."
What a great technique. This reminds me of...
I always remember when I watched a makeup artist who I
was very lucky to be able to watch do makeup, and
he got a brush and did a whole smoky eye with
three colors and just, like, three movements, but it looked like
something I would take, like, 15 minutes to do.
This is such a great technique.
We always forget our fingers are such a good tool.
I don't know... a lot of times I get
tagged in people doing things with their fingers because
people are like, aha, they're using their fingers.
But it's a good tool.
It's fine to do your makeup with
your hands, your foundation with your hands.
This is a really great technique because blocking those
colors from dark to, like, your medium or shimmer
to a light is something so simple but so
good in terms of depth of color.
And when we do an eye like
that, that's what we do anyway, right?
We stack our colors next to each other.
We blend, or we blend them all in together.
That's such a quick and simple, easy way to do it.
And sometimes it's easier to use your fingers for
things because you can feel what you are doing.
If you really want to buff it out then, of course, a brush.
But with a brush, sometimes you can't quite
feel what you're doing, whereas with your fingers
you can quite literally feel like.
I'm just going to change this gloss because
it's white, but it keeps gathering, and
it looks like I'm foaming.
"Feel like your makeup always looks like
this no matter what you do?
Just dry and cakey and not laying on the
skin the way that you want it to.
I'm going to show you guys the makeup artist trick to fix this and
leave your foundation looking like real skin.
So I've been a model for over a decade, so I've
had a lot of makeup artists do my makeup, and it's
all about the no makeup makeup look on set.
And the way to get your makeup to look
like skin has nothing to do with primers, but
it has everything to do with skincare prep.
Right here is my little secret to makeup prep.
This is the Triple Peptide Cactus Oasis
Serum from Youth to the People.
Make sure that your skin is nice and damp,
so those humectants can do their job.
Not only is this going to leave your skin
looking super juicy, magical, and hydrated underneath your makeup,
no desert skin this Summer, but it's also
going to help your skin with longterm use, because
this includes peptides, Hyaluronic Acid as well as Cactus
Stem to help support your barrier and keep your
skin super healthy and happy.
Proof is in the finished product. Look at the skin.
It's giving glow, it's giving
dew, it's giving dumpling.
Trust me when I tell you, once you start
prepping your skin with the Oasis serum from Youth
to the People, you are not going to look back."
Oh, that was ad advert for that serum.
But it's a great point. When you're doing things like
no makeup makeup, which is actually a trend
right now anyway, but that's all people are doing
most of the time on runway.
It does involve a lot of skin prep because there's a
lot of things you can do with makeup, but at the
same time, like, it's just better to prep the skin.
Models are lucky because they usually have great skin.
Do wait a few minutes before
you put on your foundation.
Let the skincare do what it needs to
do, because your skincare is going to break
down a foundation if you go too fast.
But exactly what they said.
Exactly that. Skin prep is so important.
And I think when people think about
keeping your foundation on and making sure
it lasts a long time, they think powder.
They think setting spray.
They think more, more, more. Start, less makeup. Less makeup
there is, the less there is to ruin, but
if you prep your skin, you're going to
have like a nice base for your foundation.
"One talent that I have that is probably the worst advice
to give you guys is I can sleep in full makeup,
and I could sleep like this and never ruin my makeup.
So sometimes you'll see, if I have to get
up really early in the morning, I'll do my
makeup the night before and have it done, sleep,
not move, and wear it the whole next day.
And you would never know.
My makeup lasts a really long time on my face.
I don't know why."
Okay, so usually I would say don't sleep in...
We all know you don't sleep in your makeup.
But, if you are someone like Kim Kardashian who's probably
going to get 4 hours sleep or 5 hour sleep,
what's the problem? If you're just going to get out up
the next day and you need to look amazing.
Like, imagine waking up at 2 in the
morning to leave for4 in the morning.
And there's cameras going to be everywhere you are.
It's going to be all this stuff.
If you could just get up, do your hair
quickly and have your makeup done and have everything
ready to go, I would do the same.
I would do the same.
Don't sleep in your makeup.
Yeah.
That look, first of all, is beautiful.
All those angles all leaning into
the same direction is stunning.
That's a cute little hack.
Here's the deal with preset shapes.
They're not really for everyone. On my eye,
because my eyelids are quite long and flat
it will kind of be okay, but I feel like there's
better shapes for better eye shapes, if that makes sense.
So I think it's so much nicer to be able to learn...
To be able to learn what your eye shape is rather than use a stencil
like a... what's it called? Eyelash curler. Especially if you have a rounded eye, and
then you're going to use that long shape.
When you move your eyebrows up and down, the shape
isn't going to quite look right, but that looked amazing.
It works on some people,
it doesn't work on others.
"Why is there a big divide between the beauty
content creator and the pro make up artist? Stitch this.
I want to know what you think."
So, I've seen a lot of people reply to this
and give some really good answers.
Right, why is there a big divide between the
beauty content creator and the pro makeup artists?
And a lot of people are saying,
what's the difference in the comments.
Like, one has qualifications, one
doesn't, one is for entertainment.
But I'll tell you why there's a big divide,
in my opinion. And this is from being an
influencer and also having worked as a professional makeup
artist as the influencer industry was coming into existence.
And this is just personal opinion, and
this isn't the only reason why.
There are some valid reasons why makeup
artists maybe don't take influencers as seriously.
But one thing I have seen, and it
tends to be from older makeup artists.
Is...
there's a bit of bitterness involved, right.
Let me explain this.
So when you're a make up artists, before the
Internet world of social media existed, becoming a makeup
artist was a difficult thing to do.
There wasn't as much competition, but there
was quite a few people doing it.
But for me and for a lot of people that
I knew, it involved a lot of working for free,
working horrible hours, assisting, working your way up, and really
trying to develop your craft and develop your artistry.
Understand things like lighting on set, understanding things like packing
your kit and what to pack and what not to
pack and customizing your kit so it was easier for
you to move around and all this stuff.
It involved things like learning what color light is going
to cancel out this color on the face, how a
bride's makeup is going to work throughout the day.
All this stuff you have to learn and educate
yourself on as you went through the industry.
And that could take years and years and years, until
you make it to the top and become this makeup
artist where you're actually getting paid to do work.
You're doing shoots, you're doing things, you're
requested to be on these productions, you know?
You don't just show up as an assistant.
And I think because that is such a long,
treacherous process for a lot of us back in
the day, now it is almost instant
you can become a makeup artist. Which, a lot of
people say they are a makeup artist in their bio and they're
like very young and probably aren't a makeup artist yet,
or haven't gone through the school. And I think it's
almost that earning that title of makeup artist as an older
makeup artist, and then seeing somebody who's a lot, lot younger
than being like, makeup artists. And then they're doing things
like crazy hacks and things like that.
It kind of just, in my opinion, belittles the term
makeup artist for those people who have worked extremely hard
to become one. Whether that's going to a school and
getting a license or starting off yourself as a self
taught makeup artist and making your way to the top.
So I do think that older makeup artists
look at these younger people becoming makeup artists
and quite famous with it, as well as
influencers, and not actually doing things correctly, you know?
And I say that as just one example.
That's absolutely not it for a lot of
makeup artists, but that is one example
I've seen from some older makeup artists.
And I think actually something I said goes
for the majority of makeup artists is when
content creators call themselves makeup artists and they're
doing things that aren't actually technically right.
It's like, that's not makeup artistry, that's playing
with makeup or having a good time with
makeup, which is also absolutely fine.
But there has been times as well where the influencer
world has kind of ruined makeup artistry because people... you know, your clients
will ask for dumb techniques to be done on their
face because they've seen it work, or they'll hold up
a Photoshopped picture of an influencer
and say, I want to look like this. And it's like
the influencer doesn't look like that.
The makeup artist doesn't look like that.
So it's a difficult world, I think, to be in.
I feel like there's still a transition going on
in the editorial makeup world, almost, and the online
makeup world, which in my opinion are two different
things that are both great by themselves.
But I find it unfortunate when somebody in the
editorial world is being hired based on how many
followers they have on Instagram, because that is bullsh*t.
There are extremely incredible, incredible, iconic makeup artists that
have less followers than me on Instagram, and they
are better makeup artists and more experienced, and I
would hope that somebody would hire them over me
if I was to apply, I wish I wouldn't.
But that's the way it should be.
Does that make sense? I don't know.
I think she's joking.
I hope she's joking.
Is she joking?
I think that's a joke.
And it's...
Also, don't do it.
You could do it to be fair,
you could do it if you're just
grooming your dog, and don't cut your dog's hair out like,
outrageously.
But I guess you could try it.
Try it.
Let's let me know how you got on.
Anyway, thank you so much for joining me.
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