Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so, so
much for joining me. So, what I'm doing for you today is a
reaction to some of those incredibly helpful
makeup hacks, TikTok hacks, yeah. So that's what we're going to be
doing, looking at some of those, talking, discussing them. I'm not just going to
be like, oh my god, you know. I actually want to talk through them,
see exactly how helpful they are, because not all hacks on TikTok are terrible,
some of them are actually genuinely quite good. So,
we're going to take a look at that today. If this is your first time here to my channel,
hi, my name is Robert. I'm a professional makeup artist here on YouTube, and also
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your first time here, my background used to be just plain, just
like one color, it was plain purple. But the camera would focus really
poorly, and I wanted to incorporate more
natural light into my video, so I'm sitting right opposite a mirror now.
Mirror? Window now, and I've changed, I have like different color lights
in the background so my camera isn't going all weird, because whenever I would
like move my hand, the camera would suddenly go all dark, and then lighten up
again. So I'm hoping this kind of helps it out a
little bit. It'll give you something else to look at as well.
Okay, let's, should, yeah. Let's yeah, let's do it,
let's start with our first TikTok. “Stop color correcting like this. When you
go to blend it out, you're going to have so much orange on
your face. We normally only use the orange
corrector, or peach light corrector to correct our darker areas, so I would
say just doing a little dab there, and there, blended out. So now you
can see that my dark circles are now covered,
and it's lightly covered, so you just can't see them at all. So now, I'm going
to take a little bit of a setting powder.”
How perfect, how perfect was that? And you see people
with not even dark circles using more color correctors than that,
and exactly what she was saying about the tone of the color corrector, you
should kind of level up that color corrector with your skin tone as well.
It doesn't have to be red, red lipstick.
It's meant to slightly correct, not cover completely,
otherwise, that leads to more coverage, you need more product,
and your under eyes just become more cakey, and more obvious, and more
noticeable in the long run, and then she went over with a powder, and
it looked absolutely perfect. If you want to step that up again,
use a peach tone powder underneath your eye. You don't need that much color
corrector. I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it until my career ends.
“Have you ever loved a lipstick color but it didn't come in matte, and you really,
really wanted it to? Well here's a hack on how to do it, and
it will be waterproof. Pick a lipstick of your choice, I really
love this one by MAC, and I'm just gonna go ahead and put that on my hand.
As you can see it is not waterproof, and it slips, and slides everywhere. Now, we're
gonna take this again, put it on here so you can see it, and
then, here's where the magic happens, take any
translucent powder, doesn't matter what brand it is,
and make sure it's translucent. You're gonna get a good amount of it on a brush,
just like that, now take it and put it...” Okay, so that audio was really out of
sync for some reason. That's, that's fine to do. The only thing
that I would be concerned about, is think of texture when you add, it's,
it's fine to put powder on top of something like a foundation of course
but do think of texture, think about how that powder changes the texture
of your foundation. Now, imagine it on something thicker like a lipstick with
more hydrating ingredients in it, it might clump a little bit more. Now
there's a trick you can do, which is a very old makeup trick but it's only kind
of come to light recently, I was tagged in it maybe a few
weeks ago, and in my last reaction video I actually reacted to it. And it's when
you take a tissue... oh, that's an old tissue. I'm not,
I don't want to waste a tissue, I'll put in the clip here. You take your tissue,
2 ply tissue and tear it, not that way, you
separate the, the layers, and you gently hold one layer over the lip, and
then tap the powder on top, and that acts as almost like a filter
for that powder. So you get a light dusting of powder, and it
gives you more of a velvety matte finish.
With some lipsticks, and with some powders, if you just go ahead and put
that powder directly on top of a lipstick, you're
going to get this weird curdled texture, and it doesn't look very nice on the
lips, and doesn't sit very well either. “I'm going to show you a hack to have
perfect eyebrows. For my routine, eyebrows are the first
step. Now, what you're going to do is take your
concealer, and this looks scary but you're just going to go...
and blend it out. I'm only going to do this on one to show you the difference.
Also don't come for me that this don't match my skin, because my face has a lot
of redness but my skin actually pulls really yellow.
Next, just fill in your brows as normal. I'm using a brow powder.
Now, clean them up with that same concealer, and a flat brush.
These are the brows. Now, let me show you the differences, this one is perfectly
carved out, it seamlessly blends into the skin,
because the concealer was already there, whereas this one, you kind of can tell it
was carved out. When I carved this one out, I
only carved like this bottom part, whereas this one, I
need to put the concealer all around, so it's not this color skin, if that
makes sense. Like in the front, there's a little gap where you can see
my natural skin tone I just love the look of this one more.”
Hmm...
I mean, I don't know. I've never seen that before, it clearly
works for her. Let me just, let's just for one second forget eyebrows, I just
want to touch on something she said in that video, about the skin tone, where
she used this yellow tone on her face. And she mentioned how her cheeks
were predominantly red, a lot of people confuse redness on the
cheeks for being their skin undertone. If your cheeks are red, it doesn't mean
your red undertone. My cheeks are extremely red,
and I'm neutral, or leaning more towards a yellow undertone,
that's not your undertone, that's just like surface color. So, it's a very
good point, if, just because you have red cheeks, doesn't mean you're a red
undertone. I can't really comment on that, because I've never
done that. Now, I doubt very much it would work for thick eyebrows like me,
I wouldn't dream of doing that, because they would look dusty and crusty.
It's a, you know what, try it, try it, and let me know. It's a, it's a strange one.
“I think sometimes people get confused when they see a makeup video,
and are faced with texture. Many people grew up learning the art of makeup
through the guise of YouTube. Many grew up unaware of camera filters,
the intricacies of photo retouching, how makeup actually looks in real life.
Beauty gurus lied to you, they sold you foundations while donning a blurring
filter, without showing you the way it truly looked.
They told you that makeup was undetectable,
they told you that it looked like an airbrush, while airbrushing their skin
in post-production. So let me let you in on a secret, makeup will always look like
makeup, not skin. By its nature, it sits on the skin,
and being human, texture is normal. Humans of all sorts have pores, and lines,
little bumps. Your skin carries the memory of where
it's been, and makeup can't hide that. It's not cake,y you're just seeing
texture.” Yes! That was like f*cking poetry, that
was so, that is such a, such an incredible point.
And I'm hoping this year, I feel like maybe this year, people will start to
like normalize seeing texture on videos like
this. I don't mind texture showing on
Instagram, on YouTube or whatever, especially if
they're advertising a product, and like, like what was said in
the video, YouTubers have told you, and influencers
have told you my skin looks airbrushed, like she said,
while using an airbrushing filter or physically having their skin airbrushed.
Now, is it a standard of the industry? Absolutely. When I was doing like
editorial work, I was very much aware of editing,
and post-production, and things like that,
because it's something that would be done
to create a whole image, whether that be the lighting was changed, the color was
changed, maybe a mole was removed from the skin,
maybe there was a piece of texture, maybe there was a brush hair, you know
what I mean. Things are corrected. So I feel like, myself
personally, I'm very aware of like skin editing, and post-production, and
everything like that, whereas all these people that have maybe not
worked in the industr,y and have grown up, again, like it was said in the video, growing
up with learning makeup techniques online, they're
techniques that don't really work very well in real
life but look incredible on camera, because, filters. Here's the
deal, I don't think we're ever going to get rid of filters,
or post-production, or editing or, anything like that, and as I said before
in a video, I quite like some post-production, to make a whole
image. To me, the makeup, the photography, the
lighting, the clothing coming together, is like an
artistic, it's like a piece of art. But it's
when it's advertising, when it's saying, wow,
look how my skin looks, and actually it doesn't look like that, and it's very
prominent but not just, but it's very prominent more in the
social media influencer, beauty industry, and skincare industry.
You can't, why are you faking results? Why are you reviewing a product? Let's
say you're not getting paid for it, why are you reviewing a product, and then
faking the end result? Right, right, right.
Yeah, so here's why that works. A lot of people have been doing this thing
recently where they're like, let's face... get a
facelift, and then at the end of the video like this, it's like nothing's f*cking
happened. This one in particular works really well,
because you have to counteract highlight with contour.
Let's say for example, let me get this really light concealer, okay.
So let's put our concealer here, and a little bit here,
and we'll just blend that in. And here's the deal, for it to look
highlighted you, it has to be, I'm just gonna take it into my hairline, and I'll
just wash it off in a minute. It has to be
obvious, and noticeable, because it needs to be in contrast with
the rest of your skin, you know what I mean. So highlight first,
get all the brightness in, and then some people do it here as well,
which is fine but really when a face is lifted it all comes from,
from this area. So to me, that doesn't look lifted, it just looks
bright. So I'm gonna do it quite obviously. So before, we were putting
the lighter shade where we kind of just have a higher,
the higher points of our face, sorry. Where Gwyneth Paltrow would apply
sunscreen, and then you kind of wanted
everything to meet at a point. So let's say this is our point,
we want our highlights to go in that direction and we want our bronze to go
in that direction too.
So, we're gonna sculpt out a new cheekbone but you have to be
dramatic with it, if you actually want it to,
to take any kind of effect. And then, because we're contrasting as well, we
have to deepen that temple.
I'm still going up with it though, I'm not going to meet that other point, and
then also coming from this way, because the skin is going to stretch in this way,
and of course blend it in. I'm just doing this so I can show you
the directions to go in. It's like we're tugging our skin, you know, almost like
we're, we're pinching, and pulling, and that's
the direction that, can you see, everything's going up in
that direction. So now, just by doing those little simple things,
this... which side? This side looks more lifted, easy peas. But you have to
contrast them both, so just by putting brighter, it
just looks like a lighter patch of skin in
daylight, you, you really want to give quite a heavy contrast to it.
Okay, so there's a few things in this video, not, not just
what Huda Beauty's doing but this is, again, a trend, she's just doing
some trend. One, you don't need that much product to
exfoliate your lips. Second, this whole contouring around the whole
mouth...
So, let's take this for example, let's think about how contour, and highlight
sits. If you are contouring around your whole
mouth, what you are contrasting against is now,
the lip in the middle but more so, the lighter skin around the edge.
Contour pushes back, so we're con... so we're pushing this back,
and then bringing this skin forward. So, so when we're contouring our lips, I
see, I saw people doing this all the time and
it just doesn't make sense, and then you cover it completely with foundation. So
why are you doing it in the first place? Contouring your lips is better done
after foundation anyway. When you're contouring
your lips, how many times can I say that. We want to focus on the areas that we
want to pout, so when we think of a pout, we can go
just here, again, I'm gonna really really not blend
it in so you can see. So we're gonna push that back to make
this bit look more defined and forward, then I'm gonna go
under the lip here,
because we are quite literally trying to make a shadow
of the lip. We're not trying to get like, spaghetti mouth, you know.
And I wouldn't use this orangey, I wouldn't use a bronzer shade. I'd use
more of a contour shade. So you can see on the bottom here,
it makes, it now look like my mouth is drooping but it makes this side
look bigger. Imagine this, not orange, more of
a greyer kind of tone but not completely grey. You don't need to do a hoop,
a whole hoop around the whole mouth. And I would also contour... you know what, sometimes
my beard really gets in the way, just here.
Like so, and it'll make it look a little bit bigger. Now, let's talk about the
edges of the mouth thing. Again, a lot of people are doing this,
this was just a good example of how not to do it. And again, this isn't
a new technique in any way, drag queens do
it, which is where most of our techniques come from
now. Follow your mouth, but the actual line of it.
What happened in that video.
Follow your mouth but the actual line of it, what happened in that video is
it, her mouth was open, and she just did two random lines, and it actually
went down and hooked under her lip. Here's the deal though, sometimes you
can't just do a line like that, you kind of have to come
up a little bit more. So you see where my lip wouldn't actually go out,
I'm going to flick it up, like an eyeliner flick, I'm not hooping it down.
But now, can you see how that just looks like a line? So then you kind of have to
join it into your lip itself.
This is another thing that lot of people are doing on camera, and looks great on
camera but in real life, it might be a bit questionable.
So use whatever like lip liner you're using, if you haven't got anything on
your lip just use something that's a little bit
more natural, that you can blend into the lip. I wish my beard wasn't there.
So it looks more like that, and it just brings that lip to a point.
Just doing two random lines is a little... I'm actually surprised they put that up,
because it wasn't very, I mean it's, you could do that, again,
quite easily. Okay, let's carry on with all this crap
not blended, look. I look like I've been eating like food, and just forgot to wipe
my mouth.
So that's, it's a nice makeup look in general.
Here's my concern, again. To influencers, or want to be influencers, or people who
are trying to get into it, be careful what you are saying, and be
honest. “Foundation hack alert. If you have not
yet found a way to make your foundation long, long-lasting, and have a flawless
finish, then try this, I guarantee this will help."
I guarantee that this will give you a flawless
finish. "It's only a few simple steps. Dot the foundation over the face, spray a
setting spray on top, allow it to dry down a little, about 30
to 45 seconds. Blend it out as you would, and prepare to
be amazed.” Now, there's quite clearly a filter on
this video, and I'll tell you why, because when she applies those dots of
foundation, let's say here for example, that dot has no edge, it blends perfectly
into the skin. And that, that one has completely
disappeared before she's blended it. So there's like some kind of softening
filter going on, yet the claim of this hack, is she is
guaranteeing that this is going to give you
flawless foundation. Do we also need the filter, or is there an option without the
filter? Just be careful what you're promising,
and what you're saying, you know what I mean. Okay, well I look
like, I, that looks like poo. That looks like
human feces. Let's get rid of that quick.
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