Hello everybody!
I'm about to get ready for an event and I thought that we would do a Get Ready With Me today because I feel like I've never fully done one...
I don't think I have, so, I want to do that and
just have a little chitchat about life lately.
So I'm going to the Bali event tonight and
they're launching a new capsule collection that they did in collaboration with Shock One who is a very famous artist in London and
and the invitation is sort of this...
gray and black, really cool edgy looking invitation. I don't know if there was a dress code or...
maybe I'm reading into the invitation too much.
But I wanted to do a cool smokey eye look with a nude lip, and I was inspired by MILK 1422.
I just love all the lashes and contour. I don't usually do my makeup like that,
so I'm gonna give it a go! 4'o'clock, I have about an hour and a half to do makeup
I'm giving myself a lot of time because
I don't know why I always have like three nervous breakdowns at least before I go to an event cuz I always think I don't look good enough (you always look good Tay!)
So we're gonna take this slow.
Hopefully works out. We're gonna start with the eyes. No, we're not. We're going to start with our
Tatcha water cream, I've got clean skin right now. So we're gonna need a little bit of moisture and we're gonna use this one because
Jeffree Star and James Charles tell us to!
So now we're going to start with my eyes and I usually don't start with my eyes even though I know you should.
Technically, I don't know why I just don't but today since we're doing a black smokey eye look.
I figured I better cuz there's definitely going to be some fallout that will ruin my face makeup
So I'm gonna start with the Stay Don't Stray in light medium. Eyeshadow primer from Benefit.
Can you guys see? I have... of course you can see, I have these pimples that have been here for so long.
Right inbetween my eyes is the most interesting place.
But it's actually the worst because you know those deep headaches that you get sometimes, inbetween your eyes
it feels like I have that all the time with these (pimples).
I think I got it from when I did the spirit gum when I created the fake nose.
My skin did not like that at all! Okay now,
Hmm.
Sort of a brown smokey. For eyeshadow I'm gonna use the Naughty Palette from Kylie Jenner cosmetics.
First, I'm gonna go in with Snowball. It's a white eyeshadow colour.
Just throw it all over my eyelid as a base.
Now taking Hot Toddy. I'm gonna use this as my transition colour.
And I'm also gonna add some on the bottom lash line.
I just want to quickly get the eyes done because we're losing light and I think that's the most difficult part for me...
and then we will talk! Next, I'm gonna go in with the color Kohl.
I'm just gonna put it on the outer corners of my eye.
Also a little bit on the bottom.
And then I'm gonna use this taupe colour, it's called Tipsy, right on the centre of my lid.
I'm just gonna blend a bit. Some winged black eyeliner.
A touch a Black Rainbow from the Jeffree Star Beauty Killer Palette just to line my bottom lashes.
And I'm gonna make this line a lot thicker on the outside edge.
Now I'm just lining my lower eyelid with the Makeup Forever eye-pencil in Beige.
From the Jeffree Star Platinum Ice Palette.
I'm going to take this Ice Cold highlighter and place it on the inner corners of my eyes.
Now I'm just gonna take a thin liner brush and dip it back into Black Rainbow.
I'm gonna add about half of a fake eyelash the end of my eye.
All right, I'm gonna start with the eyes here,
I'm gonna put the final touches on at the end. But now I'm going to move on to face makeup.
For foundation, I'm using the Cover FX one in the colour N0.
I'm right at the end...
This is my everyday foundation and I mix in a little bit of this Creme De La Mer soft fluid long-wear foundation
in the colour Porcelain 01, just a tiny bit to get the right colour.
All right. Now let's chat! Let's chat about life lately! I've had a really good week actually. I think it was a good mixture of...
socializing with friends,
work and, like, taking care of myself.
Starting out on Saturday. I actually got my hair done!
I wonder if you guys noticed!
Now it is Saturday! And I'm about to head out to get my hair done...
I know a bunch of you have noticed and of course
I have noticed myself! Because believe it or not when you're filming videos.
Or actually when you look at yourself in the mirror just as a general person.
But when you're a YouTuber and you film videos and you have to edit and look at your face and listen to your annoying voice
over and over, you do notice things about you.
Erm but yeah, the comments made it very clear that my hair is turning a lil bit yellow and I knew that but um
I just didn't have time to go get it done! So I'm doing that today! After washing it my hair has faded into a
brasier colour, it's not as icy and bright as it was when I first did it.
So I'm gonna just get them to touch up on that and maybe tone it to cool it down again.
Nothing that Amanda did wrong!
She did everything right because she matched the color exactly to how I wanted it and I was very happy when I left!
It happens and who knows while we're there. I might go a little bit shorter! I might go like two inches shorter
And I might layer it.
Because I feel like some layers would make it look better when it's waved and it's a bit easier to put in extensions.
But I like the blunt cut when it's straight, so I don't really know, I'm gonna ask them.
I at least, I feel like I should cut off another inch or two because look how much it's grown!
Hello roots! How do we feel about these? They're the paper bag jeans.
I don't know. I ordered done from Stylenanda. I guess it's trending in Korea. Do I look like a kpop star yet?
I've been wearing a lot of their clothes lately. I've always loved Stylenanda though.
That's one thing that hasn't changed over the years. Although a lot has, my love for Stylenanda still remains strong
Hey, I just finished my hair and I'm so happy with it! I didn't film anything because...
It happened really fast! It was actually two girls working on my hair which was
really nice because they could make everything super even and
done quickly, so it didn't damage my hair so much. It's a little bit shorter.
Like here. I'm very happy with it. I went to the salon, if you're in Hong Kong or you're travelling here.
The salonI went to is called Paul Gerrard and my stylist's name is Sandy.
And I'm very happy. Thank you so much Sandy!
The foundation I'm using is...
quite thick in coverage and I'm doing this because my skin is pretty red.
Especially in this area as always,
and this giant pimple is forming deep within my skin and it's really painful and
the whole area is red. That and I always feel like
super nervous and shy and I go red really easily out of it.
I haven't been to a fashion event since I've been back in Hong Kong, I think.
Have I? I feel like I've only gone to beauty events. (?), Benefit, so.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I get really anxious for these things and I never used to, er, yeah I did.
I always got like pretty red and nervous for these things.
I never got used to it. I don't know why, you would think the more I did.
I think like I did a lot of events as 'Taylor the model' so,
before I started social media, and that was fine.
Like the client would hire me to show their collection, but now that I'm going as myself and viewing the collection or the jewellery.
I get so so nervous. It's weird because modeling I'm always in front of people.
I'm always in front of, I was always in front of the camera and like doing all this stuff talking to new people.
But I felt like I was almost playing a character like I wasn't really me.
You're kind of being who your client wants you to be so if they want like this...
strong confident walk like you can do that but like the REAL you maybe isn't like that, but when you like change clothes and put on
This makeup and become this new character. It's almost like I'm not even there.
But when I go now as myself I get really nervous.
So I need a good thick layer of foundation!
To cover up those nerves especially around here. And then I also got new glasses because I don't know where they went.
I had them in Canada
And then, when I got back to Hong Kong, I couldn't find them. So obviously I lost them in Canada. They're a really interesting hexagon shape,
so the bottom isn't rounded, it's like *choo choo choo*
They're very light, I really like them!
So these are only to see far away specifically when I'm watching TV or like YouTube on the TV.
I need them things get a bit blurry and then it gives me a headache. So I'm very happy to have glasses once again!
Let's move on to concealer! As always, just create upside down triangle
to brighten this whole area and I also put some on the corners of my mouth because I have acne in this area, but also
because the Queen Michelle Phan once said that if you put it this way...
It kind of lifts the corners of your mouth and then even when you're not smiling, it looks like you have a little one.
Monday morning was all about
renovations and now things are getting really exciting for the renovations because we're buying furniture and lights and art and things like that!
And this week I had the very difficult tricky task of choosing between three shades of white.
I didn't know there could be so many different shades of white
But we went with bright white and then I had quite a bit of shooting and editing this week with the wedding dress videos!
One of them was sponsored.
So when you have a sponsored video,
it's a lot of back and forth with planning what you want to do and I'm agreeing to your plan and then shooting it and
then when you edit you go back and forth and like change things here and there
This photo has quite dark, thick eyebrows.
Probably won't achieve exactly that but I'm gonna try my best to make them a little darker and thicker.
And brush them up.
For my brows, I'm gonna use the Benefit Brow Contour Pro.
It has different colors and layers so I can make them look thicker. So I'm gonna start with the lighter shade and just fill in...
the whole brow pretty much!
And then I'm gonna go on with the darker shade and just on the second half like my tail end.
I'm gonna add a bit more because that's where there's the hairs aren't as thick.
Finally I'm gonna add some of this Gimme Brow by Benefit in the color 1.
This just gives them even more volume and keeps them in place.
Look at that before and after!
On Tuesday, I met a new friend, her name is Samishome. Some of you might have seen on my Instagram stories.
I shouted her out. I basically found her, I was like scrolling through the list of, what's it called...
like the recommended page
and I saw one of her photos and then I saw I went to her Instagram and it is so,
SO pretty and SO cohesive and
SO aesthetically pleasing!
So I was like, oh my god, and then I shared her page to everyone!
Cus I felt like everyone needs to see that! And then she reached out to me and she was like "Hey!
Thanks! Do you want to meet up sometime" and
I was like, sure let's do it!! Let's go for coffee! Then we decided to meet
last week and I LOVED talking to her. She's actually from Toronto area too,
so we clicked right away, and I didn't know that when I tweeted her out,
but just looking at her stuff and then I watched a couple of her videos on Instagram
I was like, oh, I feel like we're really gonna click.
Look at our breakfast! I'm with Sam! AKA @samishome.
I reached out to her, put it out in the universe and we're meeting today! It's happening!
After that, I also met with
Jessica and that is always a giant catch-up session like we just talked so, so much cus'
Yeah, she's planning her wedding!
Quite busy with work and that was really fun and then I met with Number Seven the next day.
I was so social this week!
I don't know what I just did actually, I feel like I didn't do this?
Did I do the darker shade?
I don't know. Let's do it again.
I was so social this week and I always stay in, I feel like my social
capabilities are maxed out especially after tonight. I actually go and make small talk with people I don't really know, so
This week is very social so I also met with Cece who,
I worked in Paris with, she's Number Seven on Instagram and we hung out for a bit.
She always brings a proper camera. So does Samishome,
so I really feel like I need to step up my game and at least
Not take photos with just my iPhone.
Blend this part in.
Alright, now, I'm gonna set my under eyes with the KKW Beauty in number 1. I just put some on a damp sponge.
I kind of add just the right amount, because my eyes get pretty dry.
That's just a little bit and now I'm gonna powder my whole face with the Laura Mercier translucent powder.
I actually like to powder my face before I conceal, like my pimples and stuff because I find the concealer..
sticks and stays better this way.
I always powder it first. And then now I'm gonna do the thicker concealer...
on my blemishes and acne scars.
With the Hoola Lite by Benefit. I'm going to contour under the cheekbones and on the bridge of the nose,
and also to the underneath (of the nose)
and right across here.
So this is really gonna lift and isolate the tip, I think. A little bit of light pink blush.
And lastly, a highlighter! I'm gonna use the Jeffree Star one in Ice Cold.
A tiny bit to my nose.
Underneath my eyebrows.
And I'm just gonna reinforce this cuz the concealer took some of it off.
Phew! Okay, mascara and then lips and we're done!
I'm just gonna coat my upper and lower lashes very thickly.
And finally for the lips!
Hmmm.
I want to do a nude lip.
I'm gonna line it with Candy K from Kylie Jenner, which is almost finished. This is my everyday lip liner.
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Oh my god... we have a tiny tiny bit left and I almost lost it. Oh my god. That was scary. Okay.
So I think we're gonna go with this lighter one. We're gonna use the Jeffree Star Cosmetics, matte lipstick in Skin Tight.
Now for my hair, earlier, I just, I'm not going to do on camera because you guys have seen me many times,
I just take a small- this one
one-inch curling iron and I wrap it around quickly,
and I alternate between
going back and going forward every other piece and then I just kind of pull it out like this to release the wave and
I added a bit of gel to give it more texture. And I also put some dry shampoo on my roots to lift it a bit and that's it for my hair!
Okay!
So I'm gonna get dressed and then I'm gonna the final touches to my hair if I need to and
then we're ready to go!
Looking for Natalie.
I haven't worn heels
in so long!
My calf muscles forgot how to work!
But I'm making my way over... slowly.
It's so busy in TST (?) on Friday night.
:)
(You looked amazing Taylor!)