Hey, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so much for joining me.
You're probably thinking, what is going on here?
Why are you just in a t-shirt?
Well, I thought I was going to get really messy,
so I thought maybe a button-up isn't that good.
And I realized, actually, I'm not
going to get messy at all.
And now I can't be bothered to get dressed.
Anyway, I have pre prepped my eyes.
Today I am showing you some more techniques, that I
really hate when it comes to makeup, doing makeup.
I have my reasons behind them.
Some of you may love his techniques, and that's fine.
It's just personal preference.
I just want to explain why I don't like them.
And I've prepped my eyes for our first one.
But just before we get into that today,
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So let's dive into it.
Techniques I really don't Like when it comes to
makeup. Our first technique is going to involve this,
and I've done quite a messy shape.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to
carve out the shape, not just how, you know, you usually carve
it out with a bit of eye primer or whatever.
I'm going to completely remove this shape with
micellar water and create my desired shape.
Now here's why I don't like this.
And I wonder... here, let me zoom in.
And I wonder if it's going to show up.
But the reason I don't like this is
because, yes, the micellar water may remove the
makeup, but you'll notice that it almost starts
to bleed into the rest of the makeup.
I'll show you what I mean. Can you see here?
Can you see this dark line forming?
That's the micellar water now
becoming part of that makeup.
And what does micellar water do?
Removes makeup.
That's exactly what we're doing now with it.
So instead of a nice solid edge, we're
going to get this kind of uneven...
You can see it's starting to
dissolve away, especially up here.
We're going to get, like,
this dissolved crooked line almost.
So then you see people go in again
with their base and almost start again.
This is also why I personally don't recommend making
these bits with micellar water or makeup remover.
I prefer just to go over with concealer.
You see me do it all the time.
If you ever see me do, like a winged out eye look,
you'll see that I always just use concealer to wing it out.
Can you see we get these really frayed edges?
This is still eating away at the makeup here.
You can almost see it almost
makes it like textured as well.
So can you see this darkness here that's gathering?
It just kind of makes that blend that
you've done a little bit dodgy.
Now, if you were to do this.
Oh, by the way, please never use Vaseline.
Please don't use Vaseline.
Vaseline should never be a base for anything.
And I know you wipe it away, but
it's still there on the skin.
Please never use Vaseline. Okay.
What was I going to say? So you don't get that nice blend.
And if I wanted to go in now, can
you see how that line is becoming darker and darker?
When you wet a powder, it gets darker.
So you have to be really, really careful.
You can do it with a brush as well, a makeup
brush that has a more defined edge, which is a great idea.
However, again, getting the eye makeup
wet, it just doesn't look right.
And you don't know how it's going
to bleed out into the eye also.
So I'm going to go in,
this is Fractal Eye Paint from About Face, in Smolder.
And I'm going to use that now
to create that cut crease shape.
Oh, I do just want to mention as well, the products
that I'm using are all products I like, is not,
they're not anything to do with me not liking them.
You know what I mean?
Okay, give me a moment.
So actually, what I would have done is
just gone over with an eye primer that's
solid enough to cover that color.
I've done it before with even the darkest
of colors, and it works absolutely fine.
Okay, so now moving on to cheeks.
And this is something that has been
around, of course, for many, many years. Under painting,
it's called under painting, which I used to
just call it putting your blush on first.
So if you don't know what under
painting is, it's basically where you put your
blush on before your foundation, basically.
But people have started to do it with
liquid lipsticks and things like that.
And going, and going crazy with it, like, way, way too much color.
I know it's under your foundation, but
you don't have to be ridiculous. Okay let's...
So I'm using more of this moussey product.
This is from Rare Beauty, and
these products are absolutely beautiful.
They're the matte lip cream.
And people do shit like this.
They go all up here, and then they're
like, oh, my God, I'm so crazy.
And then they'll put their foundation
on and it will be perfect.
Oh, I hope this doesn't stain. Okay, here we go.
And people are just doing, like, a little bit too much.
I mean, you would think this is an
exaggeration, but you see some things online, and
it's like, you need to calm down, please.
Now, you could achieve this with
just doing the smallest, smallest amount.
It doesn't have to be crazy.
And you also don't have to
blend it across your whole face.
Just do it where you usually do your blush.
You don't have to cover your whole cheeks like this.
And a lot of the point as well, is to
kind of like, do your foundation in a way where
it's going to show through a little bit more obvious.
So less coverage where you want the blush to
show through and a little bit more coverage where
you don't want it to show through.
But here's the issue with this, right?
When you do it like this, like crazy, you have
to use a full coverage amount to cover the rest
of your face, you know what I mean?
So then you're just going to full coverage over
all that sh*t you just done on your face.
And then sometimes people leave a gap here, but...
that means you're just leaving a gap of skin.
What if you have really textured or really red
skin like me, and you just want that area
covered with foundation?
This is one of those things where you think it's so much nicer
Just do your blush on top like you would normally.
Oh. Oh, I don't know if you can see it on
camera, but in real life, my skin is... here,
maybe I'll take a picture of my iPhone so you can see.
The color of my cheeks isn't,
isn't my skin tone, it is,
it's like an orangey...
I was in orangey beige.
People do on Tik Tok.
But TikTok has that smoothing field so that everybody
uses, and it just makes everything look good because
it's literally not skin, you know what I mean?
Can you see it on camera?
Can you see this color?
I hope you can.
And that's the thing.
Red is such an altering color.
Like, it can literally... like we mix redness
into foundations if it's too yellow.
So you're literally creating, like this whole... yeah.
So there are two lip things... by the way
I'm going to do my eyes later
because I want to keep this look.
I want it to look nice, and I want to take a picture.
There are two things with lips
that I really don't like. Okay.
One is an ombre lip.
I love an ombre lip.
I love a bleeding lip.
I'm going to use this lipstick that people are
talking about for like a week on TikTok.
So I haven't gone like, perfect with it
because this is a technique I've seen people
do where they do their lipstick and then
they'll go slightly outside their lip line.
Then they will grab their concealer, and usually
they'll use the tip of their concealer.
But I don't want to put an
orange tip back into my concealer.
And they'll dot around the lip like this.
And then blend it in.
Here's my concern with this, though.
Blending it in the lipstick is
becoming part of the foundation.
Now, the foundation... you can see now instead of
this nice ombre effect, we have this kind of like
spaghetti mouth where the foundation and where the
concealer and lipstick have all mixed together.
Let me just show you how I would do this.
Because it's what I do on myself.
Because it's what I do on myself
anyway, with any lip color.
I'll take my foundation brush and I'll make sure I'm
muting out all the lips, even the corners here.
And then I just go in with a lipstick.
It's just really easy. But I make sure I'm going
in at this angle, thicker in the middle, and then
tapping it closer to the inside as I go in.
And then you can just tap so it gently joins in to your concealer.
And you can get more of a
tidier ombre, rather than that whole thing.
Here's what I'm going to do, though.
I want to show you another thing I really
don't like with lips, and that is when people completely
overline their lips. Overlining your lips is absolutely fine.
However, the way you do it should be a little
bit more controlled than just drawing over the whole lip.
So I'm going to take quite an obvious pencil.
This isn't actually a lip pencil, but I
really want you to see what I mean.
And people start just by drawing
on top of their lips like this.
And then they'll kind of like tuck it
in last minute here,
and then go around again
like this, like nowhere near their lip shape.
And then they make this round, too.
If you're overdrawing your lips, do you need to start
tucking in this corner into your lips in here.
Otherwise...
oh, you can't really see. But it looks like...
can you see that corner? Like what's it doing?
Where's it going?
Where's it coming from?
And then you don't get a lip outline.
This is like a drag queen lip.
It's fine for drag queens, but you
get like this hoop around your lip.
See, for me overdrawing your lip is accentuating certain parts of
your lip, like the pout in the middle, for example, is
a good place to accentuate and tuck in here.
These outer corners are a good place to accentuate.
This just looks like...
So one more thing I want to touch on, right.
And this kind of came into trend a little
bit because people wanted fuller lashes, spikier lashes, and
they were using their mascara wands, where they would
take their mascara wand and rub it along their
lashes like this, let me zoom in.
So they would take, like, the clump of
mascara on the end of their lash and
then just basically do this on their lashes.
Now, my only issue with this, I
don't see that clump? I need to go up like this.
That clump there.
But here's the deal, right?
Get a better mascara.
Get a better mascara wand
if you want clumpier lashes.
If your lashes aren't thick enough for you
or they're not, you know, making the right density that
you want, then you're using the wrong mascara.
It's not the texture that matters, it's the brush.
If you want lashes that look a bit
spiker, spikier, look how horrible that is.
And you already have quite dense lashes.
Get a comb that's going to, that's more separated out.
It's going to almost like clump through a
little bit but separate at the same time.
If you have smaller, more sporadic lashes
get a brush that's a little bit dense.
Get a mascara wand that's dense so it's going to
group together a little bit more and comb through.
If you're going on the side like this and rubbing,
it's a little bit too clumpy and it doesn't quite
have the sameeeeee....
effect that like a really good mascara...
Can you see my skin now?
Can you see the redness in the skin? Yeah.
If your mascara isn't performing the way you want it to,
listen, find a brush, find a wand on a mascara that you really, really like.
It doesn't even have to be expensive.
Once you find that wand, you can use it in like
any cheap mascara and the wand is going to do wonders.
Keep the lid to your mascara that you bought, take it off, dip
your good wand in, use it and then wash it,
rinse it under a warm sink, sanitize it occasionally and
that's your mascara wands, forever, for life.
Anyway, let me leave you with this close up.
Those are a few techniques that
I didn't really like so much.
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