hello gorgeous welcome back to my Channel today I'm beginning a new series
and I'm excited about this because we've been talking about doing this particular
series on my channel for probably a couple years now but this is my
beginner's guide to makeup series and I'm going to attack basically different
parts of makeup and beauty for beginners so I'm taking it back to the very
beginning and I'm gonna start today with the base of the face which is foundation
so I'm gonna dig into how to prop properly apply your foundation talking
about the different types of foundations you know CC creams BB creams yadda yadda
yadda and just getting really deep into the beginnings of it I'm so excited
alright let's do this get started I hate that I'm kicking this off of a cold but
you know it is what it is we got to do it so before we apply foundation we want
to first prime prep and prime our skin and so I'm gonna prime it today with the
primer I've been using a lot which is the Tasha sole canvas let me know in the
comments you guys want to see a video dedicated a primer like the reason
behind wearing primer and like the different types of primers and things
like that because I typically do more than one primer and keeping things
simple today but let me know in the comments if that's what you want to see
but I'm just gonna quickly prime my face and then we'll go into the the
foundation part okay my skin is primed and I'm ready to go typically when I'm
doing my makeup I do my eyes first then I go into foundation I'm doing things
backwards today for the sake of the video but now I'm going to talk about
different face products so let's start with foundation first when it comes to
your face making something always here guys asabi
when it comes to coverage on your face there are three levels of coverage I
actually there's four levels of coverage but technically there's three there's
full medium and light coverage I say there's four because I think there's
full medium light and sheer i think that that sheer needs to be in there as well
full coverage is your you know your your acts of the makeup world some people
might consider this more of a medium coverage for me it's a full coverage I
don't like heavy heavy makeup I just don't for myself unless I'm
having a major break out or I know I'm gonna be under heavy lights I like a
medium coverage it's just my my personal preference yesterday we had an event and
I went for a like a fuller coverage makeup look and I used my Mac Studio Fix
fluid and this foundation always gives me a really beautiful flawless finish I
love this foundation I think it's great so this is what I would consider on the
fuller spectrum I'm going to talk about specifically high-end foundations right
now and then I'm gonna get into drugstore and then I'm gonna get into CC
and BB creams so on the higher end here these are the ones that I have so I have
a tower shelf of makeup immediately to my right over here at my desk and that's
where I keep my products that I'm currently testing and using and so I
just cleaned out my foundation drawer and that's the products that I'm going
to show you because those dual ones I'm actually using right now so in my Tower
I pulled out first my high-end foundations that I've been using lately
and of course I have the Mac the Studio Fix fluid that's one I just talked about
I have the Smashbox Studios skin 15 hour where for the hydrating foundation you
guys probably saw this on my stories I have the Marc Jacobs the shameless up
youthful look 24 hour foundation I have the Bobbi Brown Skin long wear
weightless foundation this one is an oil free so it's in its shine control so if
you have a oily skin the home be a good one for you to try out and then also
over the Charlotte Tilbury this is the magic foundation and this was a little
bit lighter that I would like it looks actually pretty good on camera but it's
a little bit lighter than I would like typically so then for drugstore I have
four right here one of which I'm not going to show you because I don't love
it and I don't want to like to show you a product I don't love but I have two of
the covergirl trublend not made I did a whole video on these they're fantastic
it's great product great foundation it's a medium to full coverage and then also
I have the L'Oreal True Match this is a super blendable foundation I really like
this so those are the foundations the true foundations that are in my drawer
that I reach for all the time depending on what kind of
coverage I'm looking for what kind of finish I'm looking for and you know what
kind of look I'm going for that that's usually I'm gonna find what I need
within that bunch right there okay and then now we're gonna move to and I have
a cough drop in my mouth sorry guys we're gonna move to the CC creams and
the BB creams and the tinted moisturizers of the world bitch that is
where the light to sheer coverage comes in unless you're dealing with a specific
CC cream which is my favorite which is the it cosmetics CC it's your skin but
better I feel like this technically falls under the medium coverage category
and then this is what I wear on an everyday basis I love the matte the
illuminating is just as pretty honestly and I think that it looks so good on
your skin it just really it covers everything that you need it needed to
cover it looks so beautiful you don't need to set your whole face with powder
and I just think it it just is overall a really really awesome product for a more
of a traditional CC cream that's a lighter coverage my favorite would be
the shouldn L CC cream it looks like this which I heard that they're not
carrying this currently because they're getting ready to come out with a new one
but it really does make your skin look beautiful really luminous if you have
oily skin this is probably not gonna be your best friend because it is a very
luminous product so it's gonna make you look a lot shinier than you want to look
and then this one is considered a hydrating foundation this is from laura
geller this is a quench intent I think that this is super light I think it's
more of a BB meets a tinted tinted moisturizer because I think the coverage
is so light regardless it really makes your skin look really nice and dewy and
fresh again if you voya least scan it might not be what you want to use but
there's a whole array here of products for you guys to choose from and they're
all from different price points as well okay so it got my hair up and out of my
face so that I can show you guys proper application so for elimination let's go
ahead and use the Mac I think this is a great one to get acclimated with and
chances are no matter who you are you have something Mac in your makeup
collection like something typically so there are several ways to apply
foundation most popular is probably gonna be with your fingers I don't love
applying makeup with your fingers the reason is is I feel like you're never
gonna get a really even coverage not only that but you're
really pulling your skin think about when you're applying you're pulling your
skin I just it's just in the worst part is that your hands are dirty I just
touch my face and immediately thought was the last time I watched my hands
which it wasn't that long ago but still you have dirt deposited on your hands my
favorite application for foundation is a two fold I like to apply with a brush
and then finish off with a damp Beauty Blender that's my favorite but I'm gonna
give you a couple different different ways to apply
let's leave the fingers out of it because everybody knows how to apply
makeup with their fingers and I just I don't love it so if you have a pump on
your foundation and a lot of foundations do for instance like the Bobbi Brown
what I would do is I would just take a pump and put it like in various places
on my face and then I would apply this particular foundation does not have a
pump so what I do is I like to just add a little bit on to my brush directly and
for a brush my favorite brush is the Marc Jacobs the face - this is a price
here makeup foundation brush but I just love love love the way that it just it
feels the bristles are so soft but I feel like it applies really nicely now
one thing that I want to say about your foundation brush is you need to be
washing it consistently because you for instance if you have a breakout like
you're putting that bacteria onto your brushing your letting it sit there and
fester and stew you don't want to do that so make sure you're washing your
makeup brush how often you want to say you want ask me I think at least once a
week for a Beauty Blender I wash it at least every second use personally and
the reason is is because as a sponge and you know germs get in there and that's
lutely gross okay so I got my foundation on there and I'm gonna just add some
dots okay so the one thing that I want to talk about foundation this is maybe a
personal preference may be proper but I think that your foundation should go on
your eyelids personally too the reason I think it should go on your eyelids is
why would you want your face all one color and then it stopped right at your
eyelids I think that it should go everywhere and the other place that
needs to go down a girl on is to your nook you need to blend from your face to
your neck because you don't want a line of we're gonna makeup starts and ends
okay so now that I've got it everywhere I'm
gonna apply it with my brush and I'm using just Swift soft motions and
stippling it on there okay now that I've got my foundation everywhere it's not
blended out as you can see so you have a couple of options you can continue
blending with your brush that is not my preference my preference is then to
blend it out like I said with a damp beauty blender you can also use one of
the round brushes this one's from Hiro but I think our teeths is the other
brand I have some of their brushes somewhere too and this is a great option
as well I'm gonna do one side of the face so you can see how it looks I like
to push my foundation into my hairline not only not like into my hair so that
my hair is dirty but into my hairline so that there's it no distinct difference
as to what my skin color is and then my heroine is you know to me but as you can
see I use the brush to really just blend it out and you get a really nice blend
so that's the side with the the round brush or whatever kind of brush do you
want to call that okay so this is gonna be the bee blender and I'm gonna just
pounce it into my skin and this is damp with just water I was ringed out ringed
rung rung out I'm just gonna pounce that into my skin to get that really pretty
flawless finish as you can see both side is pretty sides are the same your get
the same outcome I personally like this better than this because I feel like as
you could see when you're pulling this your skin is being pulled but with a
Beauty wound or you're just pouncing it into your skin it's a lot less taxing on
your skin all right so I got my foundation in place I'm gonna go ahead
and finish the rest of my face and I will be right back alright so now that
I've got my full face done I want to talk a little bit about matching your
foundation because this is probably my most asked question that I get
everywhere mostly DMS on Instagram but a lot of girls ask me how do you match
your foundation so first off if you feel like you're not gonna be able to go into
a store and match your foundation properly go somewhere like Sephora or in
the mat counter or wherever and let somebody who works there match it for
you and tell you exactly what shade you are that way there
no question but if you want to do it yourself here's what you do you go to
you go to the the makeup counter you go to the makeup counter and you test the
foundation on your neck not your face your neck technically your jawline
because this is the area that you want for transition because you want your
face to match your nook you don't want your neck to match your face because
you're not playing makeup to your neck you're playing it to your face so you
want a seamless transition you want everything to to match perfectly so you
want to test it right along your jawline and make sure that it blends perfectly
and then it's the right shade that is how you find the perfect shade of
foundation okay so let's say also here's another hack let's say also that you
only have one foundation and it's a medium or a full coverage and you want a
lighter coverage for daytime wear all you have to do is blend it down so put
some foundation on the back of your hand and add a little hump of moisturizer
blend it together on your hand and then apply and that is how you get more of a
BB or a tinted moisturizer coverage so that way you don't have to buy another
product you can use what you have and multi-purpose if you want to avoid a
cakey look I think I mentioned this earlier
don't powder your entire face only powder of the areas of your face that
you see oil pop up throughout the day you see it creep up or you see oxidation
happen a lot of times you're gonna see an ox and oxidized look which wait a
minute let's first rewind what is oxidation do you know what oxide you
know like when you are wearing makeup throughout the day and then all of a
sudden like dry patches should pop up and when you look close it's like oh
that's not dry that's actually my skin showing through and there's like the
makeup is like kind of like wearing off that is oxidation it's literally your
makeup is like disintegrating into thin air it's like magic
it's not magic it's actually really frustrating and annoying and the way to
stop that is by using powder but also the issue with wearing powder all over
your face is that's when you start to get a really cakey appearance so for
instance today with this makeup look the only area that I have any type of
pressed powder on my face obviously I have it under my eyes to set my my
concealer and then I have it only on the oily parts of my face so that's my no
and then right around my mouth and my chin sometimes I'll put a little bit
here because I do get a little bit oily through here during the day but other
than that no more powder because I don't want a cakey look I want my natural skin
to be able to breathe through and this particular foundation it doesn't oxidize
so I don't have to worry about it so I just put my my bronzer i contour
directly on top of the foundation and then I spritz with a makeup setting
spray and I'm good to go all right so that is how do you apply
foundation for beginners most of us already know how to apply it the
foundation so if you watch this in you're like I already knew that of
course you did foundation is pretty pretty basic but I just wanted to start
at the very beginning with makeup basics and take you back to the very the basics
of how to really get your makeup looking good
so next I'm gonna dive in and do a different part of the face or a
different product let me know in the comment section below what product or
area of the face you want to see next you know do you want to maybe take it
back to the beginning for contouring do you want to see eyeshadow you will see
brows you will see lips whatever let me know in the comments below I'm really
excited to do this because I am my bread and butter of hello gorgeous has always
been makeup I've loved makeup since I was 4 years old and my very first job
was applying makeup at a kind of a glamour shot to ask situation back in
Ohio and I have given makeovers to every literally every woman who has allowed me
to get my hands on them like I love it so much so I'm just really excited about
this I'm really excited to share my knowledge that I have gleaned through
the years since I've been applying it now for a long time I'm not gonna say
how long but it's been a long time so I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I
hope you're looking as forward to the series as I am because I am just super
stoked to Lincoln and and like just getting them some elbow grease open
there and learn about the basics of makeup I'm so excited so let me know in
the comments what you guys want to see for me next in the series and don't
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