Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today I'm answering your makeup questions.
Why is your makeup being ruined? What's happening?
I don't know.
Other things. So I asked you over
on Instagram, tell me your makeup issues.
Let me try and fix them for you.
I used to do a series like this a while back,
and it was, like, helping my subscribers with their makeup.
It didn't do so well.
So I'm hoping this might be a little bit better.
Just before we get into that today.
Who am I to be helping you? My name is Robert.
I'm a professional makeup artist here on YouTube,
also in real life. 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're
interested in, do please consider subscribing.
One of my huge passions as a makeup artist
before I was ever on YouTube was education and
helping people with their makeup and teaching makeup, basically.
So in this video, I hope to use my years
and years and years and years of experience to help.
Let's do it.
Let's see what questions we have. Let's go.
First question, "I cannot find a
suitable moisturizer to use before makeup.
Every single one made my foundation patchy."
Good question. Easy fix.
Skin prep is extremely important.
Even if you are oily, it is extremely important.
One thing that skin does when it comes to
makeup is, and even to like skin prep, I
have found, whether that's moisturizers, primers, whatever you put
on your face first, your skin gets to this
point where it's like, you know what?
I don't need this much.
And it almost starts to, in a way,
reject or not absorb what it needs.
And it leaves this layer on top of your skin.
So that can be from using too much prep,
something that is too much moisture for your skin.
And then when your skin starts to reject that
moisture, it's just sitting there as a layer.
You then put your foundation on top, and your foundation
can't really take, stick or stay on the skin for
that long because it's on this layer of moisture.
So when your natural oils get involved with the
layer of moisture that's sitting top of your skin,
it's not a good situation for your foundation.
It's not...
It's not good.
So what we want our skin to be is hydrated
to a point where the texture is really nice.
It's a little bit bouncy, but we
don't want a layer on our skin.
So there's a few things to do.
If you have a drier skin, use your richest
cream, whatever it is you usually, use that you find
sorts out your skincare issue for you.
Then after a few minutes, five minutes maybe,
we need to see what areas of your
skin have absorbed that moisture and what areas
of your skin is rejecting that moisture.
You can do this just by looking at your
face and thinking, where do I look shiny? Where am I
not shiny?
And absorbing oil in those areas.
With a cheap, like, beauty sponge, you can
literally like press that over the moisture and it
might absorb a little bit more.
You can use a tissue if you want just
to absorb that extra moisture in those areas.
But this way you also learn eventually where you
need the most moisture and where you don't.
And this also changes throughout the year.
So it's a good thing to test out occasionally.
If you have an oilier skin, do exactly
the same thing, use your serum or something that
is hydrating but not overhydrating, and see where your
skin is absorbing that product and where it isn't.
Now, the best thing, I find, to prep your
skin is a Hyaluronic Acid serum, for everyone,
in general. Hyaluronic Acid, ultra, ultra hydrating
without being... within that serum formula and
texture that isn't over the top moisturization.
So you have that perfect prep without doing too much.
The Inkey List do an excellent Hyaluronic
Acid serum, which I personally really like.
So, although really skincare is extremely important to us,
I always feel you need a separate skincare routine
for premakeup, for longevity, because over prepping the skin,
and we see this by dropping things on the
face, doing too much, is a recipe for disaster
for your foundation, 100%.
So that's why you're experiencing patchy places,
because the skin can reject that moisture.
"How can I even out redness on my cheeks
without using a stupid amount of color corrector?"
So, you know me, we've all been fed this
color corrector thing where you have to use like
bright green or bright orange under the eyes, where
it does help in extreme cases.
But remember, your depth and pitch of color
corrector is also dependent on skin tone.
So if you have a lighter skin tone and a lot of
redness, do bear in mind as well that yellow also kind of
for some reason helps to neutralize red a little bit.
So, for example, if I'm doing a client, I don't think
I've ever used a green color corrector on a paying client.
I think I've used it myself, but not on a paying client.
I would go in first with a concealer, a
very lightweight concealer that has a yellow undertone that
is maybe a tiny bit darker than their skin
tone if they are severely red.
If it's not so red, I'll just stick to
around their skin tone, not undertone, but like the
depth of their skin in a yellow, if they
aren't yellow undertoned. And I will just tap that
on the redness very delicately, very lightly.
And then I would go on with the foundation.
If I can still see redness come through, then I'll take
a yellow undertone, again, concealer that still has the same kind
of pitch and depth of tone of their skin, the same
shade but not undertone, if that makes sense.
And then tap that onto the redness
so it kind of levels itself out.
And then if you want to again,
you can go on with foundation on top.
But as you don't really want a lot of foundation,
a lot of corrector, which you absolutely don't have to
use, it is fine to use a yellow concealer.
Experiment a little bit with some more affordable concealers.
Grab like a yellow one that looks extremely yellow and tap
it onto the skin just a tiny, tiny bit.
Really use your finger to push it into
the area that you are finding too red.
And then you don't need to use
a green or anything like that.
"My eyeshadow primer is cracking on my eyelids.
Strange texture,
like I have super dry skin."
This always happens to me a
lot because my skin is dehydrated.
So our skin might not look dry,
but it can be extremely dehydrated.
Eye cream is always a must for me.
Not too much, because then your primer can
start to grease up a little bit.
So there's a few things you can do.
You can try warming up your eye primer first
on the back of your hand with your finger.
Really, really warm it up.
And then I literally take my finger,
this might ruin my eye makeup, so apologies.
I find the dryness kind of gets in here or around
this area or on the lid on the inside here.
Just get your finger nice and warm.
Warm it up a little bit with nothing on.
Put your eye primer on and
then just hold in those areas.
Just gently and just very gently,
I say push, but I don't want you to push your eye in.
Just push on very lightly and hold it
on those areas that are dry or textured.
And then you can go over with
maybe a little bit more.
Body heat is so good at getting rid of makeup texture.
Not necessarily dry skin, but it's the texture of makeup
because it warms it up again. You can even take
a little bit more and then tap it on top.
Don't rub that area too much, just push and tap.
I know that's an issue a lot of people have.
If you do have dry eyelids, you can buy antiaging
eye primers. But it doesn't mean your eyelids are aging,
it's just a lot more gentle and forgiving
on eyelid texture, including more dehydrated skin.
So this is from the same person.
"I can't use eyeshadow primer because I have freckles on
eyelids I like to cover so I use concealer.
I find eyeshadow primer so hard
to blend shadows on top.
What am I doing wrong?"
So I actually use my eyeshadow primer as my concealer because
I know it's not going to crease on my eyelids and
I know it's not gonna crease under my eyes.
So I use the Sigma one in Ignite because it's my flesh tone
on my lids. A little bit brighter, so it brightens up, but
it also has coverage because my eyelids are quite red.
The idea of an eyeshadow primer is
just to create that barrier between your
makeup and your oily eyelids, right?
And to make a better base for your eyeshadow.
So if you're finding eye primers don't give you
enough coverage, the next best thing to do is
to use like an eyeshadow stick because they dry
down and make a really good base for eyeshadow.
But they have more coverage because they are color.
But you can buy the ones in flesh tones.
Sigma do them, Vieve
do them, Chantecaille do them.
There's loads of different... even e.l.f make them.
So that's the next best thing, is an eyeshadow
stick and draw it on like an eyeshadow.
You'll get full coverage from it and in
a flesh tone, and you can just tap it
out like an eye primer and go on top.
However, the reason you're having trouble blending is
because you're used to a concealer texture.
Eyeshadow blends differently on a concealer
as it does to a primer.
And this is why I don't like concealer.
One of the reasons I don't like concealer as
an eyeshadow primer is because eyeshadow moves everywhere.
So it seems like it's easier to
blend, but actually you have less control.
Whereas with an eyeshadow primer that's a little bit
sticky and tackier, you do have to work a
little bit more to get that blend, but once
you get it down, it's easy.
It's a case of what you're used to.
So if you've been doing eyeshadow on top of
concealer forever, you've learned how to do
your eyeshadow on top of that concealer.
Then it comes to using something completely different.
You're like, oh, this isn't the same.
So it's a case of what you're used to.
So do practice with an eye primer, an eyeshadow or
an eyeshadow stick because it is so much better.
You'll see, your color is better, it
lasts longer, the blender doesn't look...
I find the blend with concealer can...
You can't get like that really soft
blend a lot of the time.
I don't know, but just try it.
"My neck is darker than my face.
I'm told my neck is neutral,
face is warm with red undertones.
Any tips?"
So, if your neck is neutral and your face is warm with
red undertones, you can use a bronzer to warm up the areas
of the face to then blend it with the neck.
So, here's what I would do.
I would find a bronzer or a face powder that
is a similar tone to your neck, whatever that may
be, and use that almost as a bronzer.
Don't do like this because you'll get like a
beard almost, but something with a warmth to it
that you can, that blends nicely with the face.
So your neck is darker.
So imagine bringing that darker and wrapping
it around the rest of the face.
So you get this really nice
almost like deep into light.
And that will give you more of a blend around the neck.
It doesn't have to be full
coverage or super, super noticeable.
That subtle difference is going to make a difference.
So don't go covering your neck with your
face's foundation or anything like that.
It's normal to have a darker neck than your face.
Absolutely.
You just want to balance and fade in the two.
"I'm really pale, and bronzer makes me look orange.
Do I have to use it?"
You absolutely don't have to use bronzer.
You do not have to use bronze... bear with me.
This is a good example of what I'm talking about.
This is the Lunar Beauty Nude Prism...
Nude Prism palette. Okay.
If you are really, really pale, a color like
this, this kind of like, it is warm, but it
also has this really cold tone to it.
A color like this is going to be
an incredible bronzer on you or a contour.
Even if you're super, super light, you'll be surprised how gray
some pinks can come out on your skin as well.
If you have a deeper skin tone, browns like
this that are, again, cold, they're not red or
anything like that on your skin, look incredible as
a bronzer or incredible as a contour.
So experiment with nude eyeshadow, and don't
just look at things that won't work.
Take a color that you think won't work and just try
it and just see what that does to your face.
See how, if it warms it up, see if it
makes it colder than it will be a contour.
See what happens.
Let me show you on my nose, because, for example...
okay, Milk Tea, this kind of like purpley gray.
Look, like it just looks like a contour shade on me.
So do really, really experiment
with your eyeshadows and
just see what works on your skin as well.
This Vibes color,
I can totally use that as a bronzer on me. Look.
Look at that.
But you look at it, you wouldn't think
it would make it like a good bronzer.
So take a look at what you have.
Experiment with what you have, and just bear in
mind that you may have to use, and this
is what makeup artists do as artists, is take
products from other places that you just want that
depth and tone of and use it somewhere else.
If a brand isn't going to make it
for you, find it. It's somewhere, trust me.
"The placement of bronzer and blush on a
long, oval face and not a wide face."
So here's, when we're thinking of...
I have this about a round face as well.
So let me explain.
When we do bronzer and blusher, right, especially on particular...
so my face is quite long and oval.
When I do my bronzer and blusher,
I should do, what you want,
but if, to correct, I hate the word.
Correct. But to level out, let's say, the face.
If we go down like this, right?
It's just going to make my face look even longer.
That's why I take my eyeshadow,
it always points up this way.
So when I'm doing... let me get, let me just take a
color, just a really harsh one so I can show you.
So for my blush, if I was to go down
like this and follow my cheekbones, that would make my
face look longer because I'm going with the long stripes.
Now, if I was to take this and kind of go against
my cheekbones and bring it more this way in my face rather
than this way.
I just want to show you the placement.
It breaks up that longevity a little bit.
I'm not taking it too far in.
It breaks up that longevity a little bit.
So can you see?
It gives, like, the illusion of.
And almost, try not to take it too high.
Let me cut it off there.
Try not to take it too high.
You want that more of a line
rather than long. And vice versa,
if you have a rounder face, do this.
If you want it to appear
longer, so it's cutting it off.
If you're longer, cut it off here.
Try not to shape things up too much.
This is the thing we make up nowadays.
We shape a lot, whereas you don't
really need to do that much.
You don't need to draw lines everywhere on your face,
because then it kind of muddles up the face shape.
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