Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so
much for joining me. So today,
why do I feel like I have something to mention?
No, I guess not. Anyway, hi. So today we are doing another round of, these
products look kind of stupid so let's try them.
So I have a few things in front of me that have either been
sent to me like, these kind of look not that great or,
but I'm looking at it like, is this really necessary? And we're going to give them
all a go today. We have brushes, we have fragrance, we have
other things. So should we just do it? Just before we get into that,
if this is your first time here, hi my name is Robert. Thank you so much for
joining me. I'm a professional makeup artist
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go ahead and dive straight in. So, my first product today I wanted to do
this with no foundation on, and this is the Artis
Hyperblend Pro Finishing Pens, light shadow matte and gloss. So basically
there are four pens in here, as you guessed, one is light, one shadow,
one's matte, and one's gloss. Now, as a makeup artist I looked at this
and I was like what an incredible product. However there is a part of me
that's a little bit like, okay this is kind of unnecessary because the shadow
stick is quite literally this color, so it is like
a deeper shadow which is great because contour should be
shadow, and the light is like a nice like very
natural light shade, and we have matte and gloss finishes. So
what I want to do is, I kind of want to do a natural
highlight and contour with the light and shadow
and just see how we get on. Let's start with the light first.
The whole thing's just... one second please. Okay, so let's try it. Let's try everywhere we
would naturally want to highlight, so under the eye just here, and maybe I'll
do one side of the face first so then we can judge and see.
I'm gonna add like a light to this kind of like ring around my eyes.
Oh, that's, that's good, right? Let's tuck some in here.
What side is it again? This, this side. I'm going to just lighten up,
I'm going to, I'm going to kind of look where
shadow has formed on my face. You see like it's in here,
and lighten.
Just like a natural nose contour too. Now, I, it is very, in terms of the product
it's very natural so not a lot is coming off but look at the
difference it kind of makes. Okay, this is quite literally....
Let's do something quite dramatic with it and let's try and round off this
cheek and see how effective it is.
God, I mean, it's literally coming out like a grey-black
I mean, which shadow should be but we want like a tone of,
not a full-on. I'm not sure, I'm not sure on that one.
The highlight one definitely works like if you don't want to wear concealer I
mean I find that acceptable, you know. Let's try the matte
pencil. I'm scared it's gonna fly out, it nearly did.
And let's just go in the middle of the forehead here.
Oh, you can quite literally see the circle I did.
That's, that's good though. Be interesting to see how foundation sits on top of
this. Very nice, yeah. I'm just gonna have to go
over, perhaps I should have done this before
we did the highlight but... Oh yeah, extremely mattifying, extremely
mattifying. It doesn't feel too silky on the skin either which is nice. I don't
like mattifying products that literally feel
like silk. And this is the gloss one. Oh, I love that. Let's put it on top of
the cheek here and see. Oh god, that smells repulsive but a nice
Oh god, that smells repulsive but a nice
glossy shine. You know what I'm gonna, I actually, I
really don't like that smell. I'm actually just gonna blot that off.
I mean yeah, they, they do what they say they do for like, fact. The shadow one
I'm a little bit... I seem to have this patch of skin here at
the moment that just isn't taking on board
product very well. Anyway, gonna keep those. They come in a nice box so they're
easy to store, it's not like they're in my way.
I'm sure they'll come in useful at some point, right? Okay, what I want to do is
my eyes and then I'm gonna just like speed through it quickly
and then I'm gonna move on to some crazy lashes.
So, what I'm gonna use for my eyes is, is the
Revolution X Bratz collection. I got all the palettes.
And the reason I've chosen to put this collection in particular in
this video, is because when this was announced loads of people
were like sending me pictures of it like with eye rolls, or what do you think of
this? Or what do you think of this? I always say I love a heavily themed
collection, and Revolutions collaborations are always
good in terms of texture, so I was sold straight away. So let me
just speed through an eye look quickly and yeah, I'll be back. Oh, I just want
to introduce you to another product as well because I will be using it on my
eyes, and this is the Hex brush. Okay, a lot of
people, again, sent me this or tagged me in the brand's
post and things like that. It is basically, it comes with covers.
Like a Swiss Army knife makeup brush. So you
have a big powder brush this side, a small like, I would consider it like a
concealer brush or something like that, and then this side you have more of a
powder brush, small like blending brush. Which I'm going to use for my eyes.
This is a nice like buffing brush, oh there's kind of two of them but I think
that one has more of an angle. So here's the deal, this is why I
thought this looks stupid right because, for me, a good makeup brush...
let's take for example a Sigma brush which are extremely high quality, amazing
brushes. I have my own brush set with them I'll
link it below. They are weighted, you can feel a weight
to them. There's a process that goes into this part
down of the brush, that actually plays a big part in the application of makeup,
more than you would think. So when I, for example, I saw a powder
brush that was kind of like this... ah, but saying that, it's weight, it is
weighty. It is weighty. The weight just kind of helps to balance in there for
application of the product. And it does feel good on the skin, it
feels good quality. So let's give it a go, let's not judge it
just yet and see how we go. Okay, so let's just start straight up with
this brush and see how it blends. What am I gonna do? There's so much
color. It picks up, how do you tap it off? I guess just like this?
Okay. Okay, so here's one issue already, is I can't get to my lid at the angle I
would like to, because it's just gonna rub against my face.
I can lift it up and I guess this will be like a travel
thing, like you wouldn't, like it might not be your main application,
well I guess it could be but you know what I mean. It wouldn't be like your
main brush set. Does it come out? It doesn't come out, okay.
You know what, once you get used to the feeling... so when I'm doing it this way, I
have to hold it this way, and then I just twist it around when I get to the other
side. Once you get used to the feeling of it
it's, it's just like a normal eyeshadow blending brush.
It's really soft actually, the brush quality feels
really, really nice. It's, it feels... I keep smiling because it feels weird, because
it's like such a chunky brush for like a tiny
little end. But if we're talking about the brush itself,
it's a really nice brush. Like it's doing a really great job. I,
I actually quite like that. To clean it I'm assuming... should we just try and
clean it now? I've got some like fast drying brush
cleaner. Cleans up nice, and you just slide it
back in. Okay, so I'm gonna use this a little bit
later on, I'm just gonna finish up this eye look
and I'll be right back with you. Okay, so I just wanted to do my
foundation with this brush as well, the Hex brush, and I'm using a cream
foundation and I do like to use like stubby powder
brushes usually for it. So that's exactly what I'm doing now. By the
way these eyeshadows aren't so great, just so you know. They don't blend
very well with each other. This brush is incredibly soft and
actually feels really, really nice. I have to be honest, I
had my doubts about this brush. I saw it and I was like, it's kind of
gimmicky. And sometimes like travel brushes and
things like that can kind of, the quality isn't so good.
The practicality is there but the quality isn't great.
And this is kind of a bit of everything. I, I really, really like the
quality of these brushes so far. Why is that not... oh, I've got wax above my
eyebrow, okay. I'm just gonna finish up under the eyes.
Okay, so I'm gonna leave lashes to last and what I want to try next, I'm gonna go
in with the Hex brush again, and this like
smaller brush. We're gonna go into Beauty Bays highlighter. Now,
remember there was that time when everyone was using like,
erm... it was like rainbow highlighter and stuff like that, and it was a bit of a
phase. Well, I'm looking at this and getting the
same kind of vibes. So let's give it a little go with my
brush. I'm just going to swirl it in so I get a bit of everything.
Oh, I actually I really like it. You know what, I think I'm so used to using
uh... highlighters that are just like a gold tone or, you know,
neutral to my skin tone, that when something a little bit different comes
along I'm like, no. I thought it was going to be like pretty
aggressive in color but it's really, really not. I actually really like that.
So let's use a bit of blush. I'm going to use
the Pat Mcgrath, what shade is this? Desert Orchid. I, I don't think this one
looks stupid I just wanted to use it because I haven't used it yet.
I just want to touch on lips very quickly, and I've used this before,
and this is the Revolution lipstick for men from the Friends collection.
And it's that blue lipstick because you know in that episode of Friends it's a
blue lipstick but this is meant to be like, you know, a
wearable lip balm. I actually really, really like it. It does look, when you
look at it you're like, why is that in existence?
But I do kind of like the way it neutralizes the lip, to then put
something else on top. So I'm going to let that sit and do
whatever we're going to try from Kiss Lashes Falscara. The
new way to lash. And basically, the wisps go
underneath your lashes. Do I apply mascara first?
"If you can mascara, you can falscara." What? "Step one, bond: Infuse with... something
bond is non-damage and primes the natural lash
to prep them for the wisps. Seal: formulated for nourishing Vitamin E seal
removes any flaky residue and locks in the..." and this, this is
this thing by the way. And then the applicator has
a unique... oh, okay. Okay, I see. Okay. Now, I'm not a fan of the lashes
under the lash line situation. So let's go in with the bond
stage first, do I need to put lash mascara on?
So I'm guessing this is like the glue.
So this is obviously quite sticky it's kind of sticking my lashes
to the bottom there. That's gonna go underneath
the lash.
And the reason I'm not really a fan of lashes underneath the lash is because
I, I don't like the idea of glue going, like latex based glue, going
so close to like in the eye. But because this bonding is just on
your lashes... Erm, honestly, I'm actually, I think I'm
just gonna take them off. I think it's, it takes more time than
it's worth for not, not really any kind of overall...
I don't know. I don't know. Let me just grab some false lashes.
Yeah, to be honest I think it, it took a bit of time to do that.
And for the final look it has, like you could probably just have, get like a
quite a good mascara. It's a lot of like fiddling around for
not much of a result. Okay, so let's do a little bit of powder
with this brush, and get right in the edges there.
Yeah, okay, okay. So, this brush... brushes. A brush? brush set? Brush-i? I really
like this. So here's the deal, I think this will be
great as a travel brush, a touch-up brush to take
out with you. It's also kind of great for application
as well, like I don't, I don't hate it at all, it's a good product. I, I really
like that. Lips, let me put something on my lips, and then what did I have... oh yeah.
And then I just want to finish with the fragrance. So, I'm just going to finish with
Velvet Fawn, which is by Lisa Eldridge. Okay, so recently I was sent a fragrance
from Missguided, and this is called Real Babe. It's meant to be like a
gender-neutral fragrance basically. And when I first
heard that I was like, okay like that's great, let's see it happen.
When, when it comes to fragrance I don't typically wear like man
fragrance. A lot of man smells and masculine smells to me
smell like someone's gone for a sh*t, and they've
tried to cover it up with men's deodorant, and you get this kind of
like horrible like fragrance plus poo
smell. And this, I hate like typical men's, for men fragrance because
they just smell, it either smells like copper, no, no... the silver, like
nickel. I don't know, it just, they just have
the most horrendous like under notes and I hate them.
So I tend to go for more like uni sex or gender neutral
fragrances in general. So, when they offered to send me this I was like, yeah
amazing. Let me just... I absolutely adore the smell
of this. It is so nice. It is, I would say if we're, if we're
thinking about what typically people consider masculine feminine
fragrances, it does lean a little bit more towards feminine but it's in no way
like floral or too sweet or anything like
that. So, when I first saw this I was like,
interesting. Will it work? Maybe not but it is a beautiful, beautiful fragrance.
Okay, so that was everything. A few hits, a few
misses there. I would love to know what you think of each individual product
below, let me know. I will actually be posting a link to,
some of you may have seen it already it's called Shop My Shelf,
and on that site you click on it and you can see all the products I used
in every video, rather than single links, single link, single link,
you can see everything in one. And also on there, I have all my favorite
foundations, concealers, blushes, bronzers. So if you ever wonder what it is I like
to use, you can go ahead and check that out.
There are affiliate links on there as well so just
just bear that in mind. Thanks again for joining me, and I will see you very soon,
bye.