Hello everyone.
Welcome back. Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today we are doing a reaction video.
We're taking a look at TikTok, Instagram whatever and
seeing what the hell is going on over there.
You can tag me @RobertWelshMUA
on TikTok and follow me, please.
I do things on there.
Robert... what is it? WLSH on Instagram. Okay.
And just before we get into these reactions
today, for those of you, if this is
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I'm a professional makeup artist here on
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And it's my goal to help you become a pro
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As I always say in my reaction
videos, individuality and creativity have no rules.
But makeup most definitely has a theory.
These videos are for people that have maybe
seen something online, tried it and been like, why
doesn't that work for me, how it did online?
And that's where makeup theory can come in
and help you out a little bit.
So, let's have a little look.
Just interrupting myself here to say thank you to
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Listen, Skillshare for me has become almost like a
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You know, so.
But one little venture I'm going into very soon,
which is kind of like a hobby of mine,
that I just wanted to share with everyone is
I'm going to start streaming on Twitch.
Now, I don't...
I don't know.
I don't know how it works, I don't know
how it works, I don't know what to upload.
You have to use a whole different
software to then be able to stream.
I'm not the most technical person,
let's put it that way.
So when it comes to things like that,
I have no idea what I'm doing.
Skillshare, I go over there, type in Twitch.
Everything is on there,
everything starting from scratch.
So I have been taking this Twitch masterclass by Amit Ray
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But he goes through everything from
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I'm then going to move on to how to set
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And you know what?
I promise you pictures of my dog.
So here's just some regular ones.
"Tell me why I just saw someone use fake tan where they put
their contour as a way to permanently bronze themselves.
We're going to try it. We're using the B tan. Tanned AF.
This is in the shade, the darkest.
This right here is their 1 hour bronzing mist.
All right, ya'll.
I don't know what to do, so I
think I'm just going to... oh.
Okay, we're going to keep going because I have faith.
I'm going to make sure I keep
hitting right under my cheekbone because that's
where I want the starkest contour.
Let me do the other side.
I'm going to come back in 1 hour, wash
this off and show you all the final results.
Okay.
I think what I'm going to do is put
concealer on top of it to show you guys
what it looks like once it's highlighted.
If this can take an extra step away from my makeup,
this might have to be a weekly thing that I do.
This is just from cutting everything with concealer.
Okay, girl. I see you.
I will be adding this to the makeup staples."
That's a really great technique.
I think people look at things like fake tan
and think, oh my God, it's so crazy.
But actually it's a fake tan, right.
It's going to cause not so much
a contour, but a structure on the
face, like a permanent bronzer, semipermanent bronzer.
But one thing I would recommend if you're going to
try this at home is start off in a small
area and then buff it out so you don't get
that, like, obvious blob of fake tan.
So don't go on with a massive
brush and start stamping it on.
Or if you do, just make sure you
buff out the edges with a smaller brush.
But I would start with a smaller brush because you
really want to define where you're keeping it.
Like she did in that video
really, like, sculpted her cheekbones.
Nothing wrong with that.
If you've got some fake tan at home
sitting around doing nothing, break it out.
Okay, was it just me, or was there,
like, a really creepy whispering throughout that video?
So obviously he was doing that blue
to show the evenness of the application.
Again, people, I've had some comments, and
I always say this, of people being
like, who uses their hands for foundation?
Guys, fingers are really good.
Fingers and hands are great for your makeup.
You can feel how firm you're pressing.
You can feel pressure.
You can apply more pressure, less pressure.
Blending is good, obviously
don't go crazy over the whole face.
You use little bits at a time,
just like they were in that video.
But that's not a bad application technique.
Fingers is absolutely fine.
Yeah, that technique is also absolutely fine.
"I can't believe I'm doing this.
This is my boyfriend's deodorant.
This is so gross.
He's down at the gym right now
and has no idea I'm doing this.
But apparently you can use deodorant as a powder.
Okay, I don't see any
shine getting removed.
I feel like nothing's happening.
This is a no from me, and I just... oh, my goodness.
It just ruined my makeup.
What do we think?"
So obviously all deodorants are different.
Deodorant can't be a powder because it's not a powder.
I think people look at deodorant and they're like, oh,
my God, mattifying cause it absorbs sweat, and
there may be some ingredients in there that
may help when it comes to oil production
and things like that, but absolutely not.
"Guys, it truly amazes me the amount of people who
don't know the true basic steps to learning eyeliner.
Like, hello.
Let me show you.
I am so sick of seeing beginner eyeliner tutorials
start off with a liquid eyeliner.
A liquid eyeliner, b*tch.
Get rid of the liquid eyeliner and then get
yourself a matte palette along with an angled brush.
Yes, I know you want to do all those liquid designs,
but, b*tch, you got to start off with step one.
You ain't there yet.
You can use any brown matte palette you want.
First thing is to lay down a piece of tape.
You ain't functioning enough to draw a straight line yet.
If you can, good for you.
I'm mixing these two together.
But go in your palette and
then just start stamping it on.
Just stamping it on right now.
Oops, and I forgot to mention, you can lay
the tape to do any angle you want, but
if you want the perfect ideal eyeliner style for
your eye, lay the tape and follow the direction
your bottom lid is going, if that makes sense.
You're welcome.
As you're keeping your eye open and looking straight, go to the
hill of your lid and then just follow it downwards.
Just downwards.
Don't go across yet, just follow it downwards.
Follow along your lid.
Now we're going to fill in that little curved gap.
Keeping your eye open.
You're going to start back here
and then literally go straight across.
And that's it. Look at that.
Look at that, period.
Finish filling in the bottom part as well.
Now the inner corner.
Now taking a smaller angle brush or a pencil brush.
And we're going to start working on the inner corner.
Some people say it's best to work your way inwards
than outwards, but honestly, I hate doing that sh*t.
I don't like it personally.
So we're doing it differently.
Or do it however you want.
As a beginner, I am going to take the angle in
of a pair of tweezers and then just gently place it
right there and just following along it, like so.
And you keep building onto it until it's ideally what you want.
Now you can use any highlighter you want, but I'm
going in with my Jaclyn Hill putty highlighter, and I'm
gently placing it right on the bottom in this inner
corner and on top of my lid.
And that step is optional.
And now I'm just going to put on mascara and lashes
to finish the rest of my face and I'll be back.
Yeah. pur, pur.
F*ck, I'm hot.
Remember, you'll need eyeliner to look like this.
Let me know if you want a transition video.
Other than that, I hope you enjoyed."
This is something, right, when everyone's like
super easy eyeliner tutorial for beginners.
And then they get a liquid liner and they go, do
a line here and then join that line to the eyelid.
That's the hard part, drawing it on.
Otherwise you'll just be like, yeah, draw it on.
That's not like a hack or anything.
That's just doing eyeliner.
So to use an angle brush and powder and literally stamp it
on, and have a guide like tape or hold a bit of card
up is a perfect way for beginners to learn their angles.
And once you kind of learn that angle, then you
don't need the tape and then you don't need powder.
You can go on with liquid if you want to.
But when people are like beginners eyeliner and then they
just do their eyeliner, the straight lines are the difficult
part of the liner, you know what I mean?
And learning your shapes and that's the difficult part.
And it's okay to need a bit of extra help
when you start off doing your makeup, a guide or
something like that, within reason, not a fork.
So that hack is just making sure that
you don't powder over creases under the eyes.
You don't actually have to lift up the eye like that.
You can actually just look down into a mirror
like this and look up and into your mirror.
And that will kind of like,
smooth everything out a little bit.
Or you could push up.
It doesn't really matter.
But to be honest with you, it will work for a while.
But if you find your under eyes crease
a lot, it's just going to happen more.
Here's the deal, right?
If there was some magical way that we could
stop creasing and stop something, and some brand invented
some product to do that, they would be billionaires.
And if they could stop oil from
coming through. There is no real way...
People always ask, how do I
stop my smile lines from creasing?
How do I stop this from increasing?
We can prevent it from happening faster than it
does, and we can repair it throughout the day.
But to stop it completely is, to
be quite honest with you, impossible.
But I think we come from this place where there's
all these hacks and all this stuff, and everyone acts
like there's a cure for everything, and there really isn't.
It's just skin.
It's just how skin works.
"Obviously I had to test out that powder.
If it manages to do that, that's amazing.
It comes with this little poof thing."
Okay.
I swear I do one of these every
single time I do a reaction video.
It's not even makeup.
This is science.
And it is a light. Okay.
So you see, for example, my eyeshadow, right?
It is sparkly, it's sparkles.
And you can see how each individual sparkle
picks up the light as it catches. I have a light here.
If I was to put my hand, you see, it blocks the light?
So can you see on my eyelid how all
the different sparkly bits are picking up the light?
When these shiny bits, a shiny bit of
skin, is mattified or can't pick up light,
look how it just mattifies.
Now imagine that on an area of skin that
isn't glittery, isn't shiny, but just has,
like, some shine around a pore.
You see here, you can see all this detail on my nose.
I block out the light.
It looks smoother. As soon as it stops picking up light...
Okay? So watch my nose now.
I'm going to take a powder and I'm
going to take a brush and I'm going to
mattify it, meaning it can't bounce off light anymore.
See how instantly it looks blurred?
It's not a real thing.
It is a camera and lighting trick.
In real life, it's still very much textured.
Look, you can still see the
skin detail, but it looks blurred.
My lighting is set up, so my skin still
looks real on camera, but it's the same thing.
You see, again,
shimmer, gone.
My highlight here, gone. When I stopped
the light from bouncing off it.
These products don't do that.
If you want it to work on
camera, yes, it looks good on camera. Great.
Everyone's on camera nowadays, great.
But if you're looking for something to do it
in real life, it is primer, it is skin
prep, and even then doesn't do it completely.
So let's just bear that in mind.
I'm so sick and tired of
these, it blurred my pores, videos. No, it didn't.
It didn't.
On camera, it did.
In real life, it didn't. Specify.
On camera, it blurred my pores. On camera,
this blurred my pores.
In real life, you can very much see them.
Okay, well, that's that.
Let me know what you think of some
of these hacks and things down below.
Some of them are always really useful, and some of them
are a little bit like, okay, we see you trying.
You can go ahead and tag me in
anything @RobertWelshMUA on TikTok, RobertWLSH
on Instagram.
If you don't want to tag me in it, just slip it
into my inbox and I'll always be checking over there.
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