Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me. So, today we are
doing a reaction video. You have all been tagging me in TikTok's, Instagram Reels,
which are pretty much the same thing now, cross-platform. Yeah, so should we just
take a look at them? Just before we get 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 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 if that sounds
like something you are interested in then please do consider subscribing. And
as I always say in these reaction videos, or sometimes forget, individuality and
creativity have no rules but makeup most definitely has a theory. And these videos
are for people who have maybe tried some things they've seen online, didn't quite
work for them, and maybe something in this video will kind of help explain why.
And why it isn't you being bad at makeup or makeup not suiting you or you
been left out of the makeup industry, some things are just for entertainment
purposes only. Okay, let's have a little look what we have
today. "So I struggled with the same exact thing and because of that I always
thought I needed more mattifying products and a ton of powder under my
eyes but that's absolutely not the case, I needed hydration. So just apply your
concealer as you usually do, and then before you put your powder on take your
eye cream, I use the Lilyana Naturals eye cream.
Take a little bit, just like that much, and dab it directly on top of your
concealer, just a little bit. And it's gonna feel wet, you're gonna wait for it
to dry in. And then after like 20 seconds once it's all dry you can apply your
powder. And as you can see it dried in perfectly. By the way I used the
Covergirl Clean Fresh Hydrating concealer. I just realized I'm covered in
dog hair but. I'm not going to be doing a wear test in
this video because I've done wear tests for this before on my page. Also, I'm not
wearing this makeup all day but I can vouch for this, it works, at least for
me, this is how I wear my concealer so I recommend that you try it out.” Let me
just start off by saying Alina Victoria on TikTok is probably one of my
favorite creators on there. Everything she does just makes sense,
and it's like, it's good, good information. Here's the thing, and exactly, like she
mentions in the...
TikTok, the key to keep... Oh, I look so
tired today, sorry. The key to keeping your concealer on under the eyes and to
stop creasing, we always want to... I think when we think of creasing we
think we need to set it, we need to press powder into it, we need to build up more,
we need to do more coverage, all this other stuff. The key to underneath the
eyes is hydration, it's the opposite to the lids. So I would always go in on a
client, or even on myself, with a priming oil under my eyes, like the tiniest
like, boop. Like microscopic amount. And make sure
that's all absorbed, no layer on top of the under eyes,
and then go in from there. For a lot of people it is drier under the eyes. We
very rarely have oily under eyes, oily eyelids, yes, but oily under eyes we don't
really have. So, hydration really is the key. This is an interesting technique
that I, I've never tried but I would love to try it. But I don't see why it
wouldn't work, yeah. “There is this one spot here on your cheek that if you poked
a hole through it would touch your teeth. If you softly blend it out you'll create
the most soft looking high cheekbone for those who want to look good from the
side, and from the front.” Okay, so let me tell you why I really like that. Again
it's, it's, it's pointing at the same place in
everyone. But, she's saying there's this one point in your face, if you go under
your cheekbone and if you were to poke a hole through, if would go right through your teeth,
that, that will create a perfect place. That's going to be different on everyone,
so everyone's point is going to be different. And I think that's a really
good... should we try it right now? One second. So this in comparison to... do you
know like when people just go, draw a line here, draw a line
here? We're trying to find that place on everyone's face shape is going to be,
it's going to be the same place but the cheekbone is going to be different,
so I think that's a really good idea. I'm going to use a Makeup By Mario Soft
Sculpt Shaping Stick. I'm going to try and get a dot just like she had in that
video. I'm just use my fingertip, actually.
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go here. That for me is where
my teeth are.
And can you see on, on her version of the video it's a little bit higher but on me
it's a little bit further down. So again, it is kind of like that personalized
sculpting. Let's blend that in. So I'm going to use a smaller brush first to
kind of like buffer out.
Oh, I like that. Oh!
I do have a longer face so on me, and maybe I'll do it on the other side, I do
have a longer face, so. Okay, so it's there, it's there for me.
So, instead of going up like I did just then I should really,
should really go across like this to kind of
round off my face a little bit. You don't have to, you can do whatever the hell you
want. I would say maybe don't let it sit on your face, that dot, for a little bit
because you don't want some like dot right there. I even like that in terms
like, like roundness that it's given to my face. I really, really like that tip, that
is such a good tip. This is one thing I really, really like about makeup, I feel
like for however long you've been doing makeup, I could be doing it for 10
million years, you're always learning something new. And
it can be from professional makeup artists, it can be from clients, it can be
from anyone. I, I just think there's always something new to learn. I like
that. I have a really natural foundation so it's kind of taken away a little bit
but I like that, you know. I really like that.
That's a good one. “You have to try the new eyeglasses concealer trend.” No.
Wait, wait a minute. One... please, one second, please. Oh my God, I'm really excited to try this.
So this is the stamp, stamp and drag
from Ciate London. Let's take the stamp side here.
I'm really excited, okay. Okay, so if I was to use... I don't use these
to be honest with you because I hate having to stamp it and then like
draw... I just, I would just rather use normal liner. But I have never... okay, here
we go here, we go, okay. Okay, I'm excited, okay. Oh my God, I'm
nervous too.
Okay, no, let me try that again I wasn't ready, okay.
Oh my God, that makes so much more sense, that makes so much more sense, okay.
And I'm gonna sit here like this now for the next few minutes.
Okay, there's a difference between editing a
video and low, a low quality video. The, I, I
uploaded on my TikTok a clip and it was the highest quality video recording I
could achieve, and that was with lighting, this camera,
putting it onto my computer on Final Cut Pro
to... and then putting that onto TikTok. And that was the highest quality I could
achieve. If I was to film it on my phone it'll be a lot lower quality, and then
upload it onto TikTok, even using the HD option, it's still quite a low quality.
So this powder is mattifying the face. And I
did, I did like an example on, on one, one other video. It's mattifying the face,
right? So let's look at her face. First of all, let's look at this video compared to
the quality on this camera, it's not the same. TikTok's are lower quality video,
right? Like if you were watching a 20 minute video of this quality you'll be
like what the f*ck is happening? Why, why is this video from like the 90s?
And no offence to the creator, that's just the quality that TikTok allows you to
upload in. Because as the skin moves we can see, look, even pores are disappearing
without the powder on.
And it's, the same is happening on the right hand side. Even if this is a filter,
the... let's say it isn't, right. If you mattify an area of skin on a low
quality video it is going to look blurred, 100%.
All the detail we can see is because there's light bouncing off. You see the
pores, we can see all those pores because they literally all have like almost a
ring of light around them. So when we mattify that, all the detail on this
upload quality is gone. So is it a filter? Perhaps not. Is it a
good representation of how the product works?
No. What we do need if it's... not saying it doesn't work because I know there are
powders that do a really nice blur on the skin. However, what we do need from
this video is to see it... first of all that's one
ring light and I think... there was no natural light involved here.
What we need is a good quality HD upload. This creator in particular has a YouTube
video where the videos are much higher quality, so maybe we could use whatever
production value you use on your videos to then put onto your TikTok's as, you
know, just... I don't know.
Because they're two very different qualities. And I think a lot of people
know that, a lot of advertisers, a lot of brands know that, that they can get away with
claiming a product does a lot by not actually saying it does something,
by visually saying it does something, in my opinion.
"I've never tried this, I have never tried the Maybelline Dream Matt Mousse but
I've never heard a good thing about it either. This foundation is sh*t on so
much, I questioned how I was able to find this at Target. I I feel like Maybelline
keeps it around because it's literally a meme.
Okay, so I got shade Porcelain Ivory, it's the lightest shade available. You want to
know what two foundations I was obsessed with in high school? Let me show you. I
don't know if they still make these, the L'Oreal True Match Lumi Cushion. Oh, my
God I loved this, I loved it so much. And the Maybelline Dream Wonder Liquid Touch
Foundation. This I used so freaking much, this was one of my favorite foundations
of all time, I still really like It. Okay, let's see what this bad boy looks like
on the inside.
And it says to apply this with your fingers, I really don't want to, so I'm
going to use a sponge. I understand that I have good skin so most foundations
tend to look fine on me but I don't know, this could be the one that looks bad. Oh
wow, the texture is very moussey like, you know, I want to eat it.
Alright, let's see. I got a little bit on my sponge.
Wow, this is the lightest shade? I see what people mean
when they said it made them look orange. Hey, it's not that bad once I blend it in,
the color kind of forms a little bit better. It's really matte, it like takes
away all the radiance that I put on my face.
Applying it with a sponge is like super easy. Look at this,
look at how that's just like, it's like melting into my face, honestly.
It doesn't look bad guys.
Wait.
I love how easily this is blending in, like I'm barely blending and it like,
just like melts into the skin, it's crazy. I was expecting this to look really bad
but it doesn't, it looks really good. Like in person I cannot stop looking at
myself, what the hell bro? It's so lightweight, I feel like I put nothing on
my skin. Why don't people like this? Is it just because they got a too dark of a
shade and it gave it a bad rep? I don't know dude.
I think the biggest downfall is it does oxidize and it's just, they don't have
light enough shades but it looks f*cking fabulous.
I'm really shocked. Like I would use this again. I wish they did have a lighter
shade. Let me finish the face because I do, I do hate when I gotta do this, this
sucks when you gotta do this when you're really fair and they don't make a shade
light enough. Is this my new favorite foundation? No.
Do I hate it? No, I don't hate it. I thought I was gonna f*cking hate this
sh*t, I thought it was gonna look like trash on my skin. But I have really good
skin, so a lot of things look good on it. Damn.
Maybelline Dream Matt Mousse. Did you hate this? Did you love it? Do you still hate
it, do you still love it? Let me know." Let me tell you about this foundation,
right. I used this in a video I did... I can't remember when but it was
basically a video I asked everyone like what were the products you hate, I want to
try them. And Dream Matt Mousse was one of them. And I had never really tried it
before, maybe I tried it once years and years and years ago. And I tried it and I
was like, I was like, I was expecting I would try
it, it would look gross, we would all have a laugh.
It, it was, it was really, really nice. Here's the deal, here's why I think we
hated it. It hit its peak when we were kids, right? Well, a lot of
like Millennials when we were children and we were using this foundation in
school. Didn't know sh*t about skincare, the skincare available to us was Clearasil,
And at our age it was like acne, acne fighting skincare that would dry
out your skin, so we didn't really have great skincare routines. Primer, what the
f*ck was primer, you know? So that moussey matte texture that will cling on to
every text... every textured part of our skin, every dry part of our skin, did look
terrible. And oh my God we didn't know how to shade match ourselves back in the
day. So now with our advancements in makeup where we know how important it is
to prep the skin, we know how important sunscreen is to give us, to protect from
the sun. But sunscreen by itself could be an amazing primer. It actually does kind
of work. I, I really like... I haven't tried it again, actually, it's still up there.
But I, I liked it. I didn't, I didn't really have a bad thing to say about it.
I think I got a shade that was maybe too light. So maybe I'll whack it out and give
it another go and see what you all think. But I personally I, I don't mind it at
all. I think it's... if you prep it well to work with your skin then it's going
to look good. Okay, well thank you so much for joining me. Like I said you can go
ahead and @ me at RobertWLSH on Instagram, Robert Welsh MUA on TikTok.
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