Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today we are doing a reaction video
to those crazy videos we see online on
TikTok, on Instagram, on YouTube, whatever.
We are having a little look, and you can
tag me on these social modia... media...
Social modia.
Social media platforms if you see anything suspicious.
Crazy suspicious.
Just before we get into that today,
if this is your first time here. Hi. My name is Robert.
I'm a professional makeup artist here on YouTube
but also in real life. It's my goal to help you become
a pro yourself or just someone who's really good at makeup.
And sometimes that means clearing all the BS of social
media, looking at what works in real life, and looking
at what is just there for entertainment purposes only.
So you can use that.
And don't waste your money.
Don't waste your time when it
comes to doing your own makeup.
Let's jump into it.
Let's have a little look at what we have today.
Oh, and as I always say in the beginning of
my reaction video, creativity and individuality have no rules.
But makeup most definitely has a theory.
Okay, am I recording my sound? I am.
"If you're lining your lips like
this, please seek immediate help. Stop it. Right now.
I'm going to show you how to
overline your lips without looking like this.
When you're overlining your lips,
you leave these lines alone.
You want to find the tip of your cupid bow.
Draw one line and another.
I like more of a rounded cupid bow,
so I connect them in the center.
Then very lightly, you want to
connect this line down there.
Don't overline.
You should have something like this.
If you want to overline, you can always make
the cupid bow area a little bit thicker.
Then for the bottom lip, you only
want to overline this center right here.
You only want to focus on overlining the center.
Don't overline any of these edges.
And you're all done. It's so easy."
Okay, here's how I think, right, when we present makeup
content and we say, do it like this, it should
be more like... if you're not a makeup artist, right,
and you don't have the experience of doing it on loads
of people and it's your own way of doing it, especially
when she goes into, this is how I do it.
Say, this is how I overline my
lips, to suggests that people need professional
help because they overline their lips.
It's a little bit strange.
So I'm going to approach it from that
way that she is stating this as fact.
The fact is she doesn't overline
her lips once in that demonstration.
In fact, if anything, she underlines her bottom lip
and doesn't overline her top lip at all.
In fact, she's just, we just call that lining your lip.
That's how you line your lips normally.
If you are over lining your lips
and most professional makeup artists will agree with
this, you can absolutely overline these outside corners.
Don't overline the rounded part of the mouth.
Start from within that inside corner of the lip
overline and then meet the top of your cups bow
to the point, and then join it together.
You can also overline your cupid's bow, but it
gives you more of that like Bratz pout, you know,
it's more of that elongated lip. Like pout, pout.
Whereas if you want to overline
naturally, even the tiniest, tiniest amount,
over these lines is absolutely fine.
Don't overline this bottom bit here because
for most people it tucks underneath, it
can look a little bit strange.
Again, overline very gently these bits here
and then go across the whole way.
Don't just overline that bottom bit.
You're overlining your cupid's bow and overlining
this bottom bit, which is something you
can do and not overdoing this. Think about it.
It makes almost like a pyramid shape on each part.
So you're almost getting that Bratz pout where it's,
the pout is all in the middle here,
like your lips are being turned up.
Whereas if you want it to be a
bit more natural, you overline the outside lips.
So you don't need professional help for overlining
your lips the way you overline it.
You can actually overline your lips however you want.
The only thing I would watch out for, and I
call it drag queen overlining, is where people over line
so high above their natural lip line that when they
turn to a side, you can see where the natural
lip line stops and where the fake one begins.
So do bear in mind that even the
tiniest, tiniest amount of overlining can have a
really great impact on overlining your lips.
But that video was just lining your...
that's just lining your lips. I don't get that.
Also, when you do your makeup any way you like.
I know I do these reaction videos, but
like I say, they're for people who have tried
stuff online and it hasn't worked for them.
And I'm showing by reacting that actually,
that might not work because of this, this.
It looks great on camera.
It works that way.
You don't need professional help because you
do your makeup in a particular way. That's insane.
"That is disgusting.
You literally marketed an eyeshadow palette to
not be intended for the eye area.
Huda Beauty settled a class action lawsuit
last year for almost $2 million.
And this is what it tells me as a brand owner.
The claim was against four colors in these palettes that are
restricted for use around the eye area in USA.
Apparently, there's a hidden label mentioning this.
So let's take a look.At the bottom right, I
see a label and icon that says Peel Here.
I wouldn't call it hidden, but I think
they did this because of space limitations.
And after peeling it, I saw the rest
of the ingredients and also saw the disclaimer
that said, not intended for the eye area.
But here's what you didn't know.
These colors are very common for blushes and
lip product, and it's only restricted for the
eye area in USA, but not in Europe.
I'll explain why in a second, but chances are
you probably use these colors in your eye area
from other brands, but you didn't notice the label.
Legally, they're allowed to do it because the product
is labeled as a press pigment, not an eyeshadow.
And there are many brands with bright
neon colors that do the same thing.
What you need to know is that brands use third
party compliance agencies to make sure everything is compliant.
So I'm sure this was approved by the agency,
and the labeling is likely compliant with the FDA,
which explains why the FDA isn't fining Huda Beauty.
But that doesn't prevent someone
from wanting to sue you.
And that's where the class action lawyers come in.
As for the safety of these pigments, Europe is
known to be more stricter with their compliance.
I'm just speculating, but it's likely that there are studies
in Europe to show that these pigments aren't harmful for
the eye area, and maybe in the US
they're not up to date.
So to change this in USA, a brand needs to do
its own studies and submit an appeal to the FDA.
But that costs a lot of time and money.
So brands that use these bright colors,
label them as press pigments, add the
disclaimer, and nobody gets sued.
I'm sure Huda Beauty didn't do this to
be deceptive because this is actually common practice
for brands that sell in Europe and USA.
The dispute was with just the inner label, even though
the FDA doesn't appear to have an issue with it.
So the lesson for a brand owner
is to make sure that your disclaimers
are clearly visible on the primary label.
A class action lawsuit like this is just
bad press because consumers panic since they don't
have full exposure to the details unless they
watch a video like this." 100%.
I've seen this a few times.
Somebody did it with a Kylie palette and their
reactions are so over the top.
It's disgusting you've done this.
Calm the f*ck down.
It is not disgusting.
It is not insane.
I'll never use this brand again.
It is not a bad... it's not that bad.
It's not that deep.
It's just like, just in case.
And it's only in the US.
Here in the UK, we get it with
some pigments, but it's the same with things like deep,
deep reds and things like that.
Well, not so much anymore.
It's only in your country.
It's only in the US.
The process in the US
of saying what's safe and what's not
in cosmetics is really, really far behind.
You need to look deeper into it.
And maybe I'll leave some, like, links below.
It's only in the US.
It's your FDA that haven't gone into this
process to figure it out, then they haven't
gone further to check that, oh,
does it actually do this?
Whereas in Europe, we're fine, we're good.
And that's not like America versus Europe.
It's the FDA. That's it.
If you see, not suitable for the eye area,
on a pressed palette and you're in the US. Don't worry.
Just know that people in Europe are using it
on the eye area, and there's no warning label
it's because that process of approving it for the
eye area is years and years and years behind.
It's not that deep.
It's really not that deep.
People are really overreacting.
"Oh, okay, I love a makeup challenge.
All right, so I'm going to put one swipe on
just like that, and we actually have three minutes.
So I'm going to let it sit
for three minutes and watch it change.
This is a color changing foundation.
It claims that it matches every single skin tone. Right?
And I've just been putting it on wrong.
So, this lovely young lady told me
that I should let it sit.
She said, Girl, let it sit for a second.
Okay, so we're going to let
it sit for three whole minutes.
Is it getting any darker?"
I'm just adding this in because, yes, she
does leave it on for three minutes.
But I am cutting this video just
for the length of this video.
But she does leave it on for
three minutes in her original TikTok.
"Okay, I'm going to start.
Dab, dab, brush.
Dab, dab.
Oh, it looks exactly the f*cking same. Wow."
So if you haven't seen these videos from Darcy
on TikTok, she has this color changing foundation that
is meant to suit every single skin tone.
And when she tried it and it didn't work, people
were so intent on saying, actually, you're using it wrong.
Here's the deal right?
Here's how something like this works.
Let me tell you this first.
This more than likely is a product
from Korea, China, or Japan, where these
products do incredibly, incredibly well.
There is almost like balls
of pigment within this product.
When pushed or brushed, they burst and release pigment.
Now, within each of those individual pigment balls, there
can only be one shade, and there can only
be a certain amount of shades within those balls.
So you're not going to get the whitest of
whitest to the deepest skin tone within this product.
So when you rub they burst, you're dispersing it in.
Those pigments, then can't magically decide what skin
tone you are and based on, like, body temperature,
or they can't see, it doesn't work.
Why these have maybe some good reviews or
positive reviews, or maybe why they're more popular
in certain countries is because a lot of
people with a similar skin tone use them.
Or the trend is being fairer in skin
tone, and they suit maybe three to four
different skin shades, and that's it.
Skin tones, and that's it.
But in countries where skin tone is more
diverse, it's not going to suit everyone.
It it just doesn't work.
It is impossible to work like that.
Sorry.
"Okay, I don't understand all these young kids
now with all this, like, painting their face like
they're going to to be on stage.
They do, like, all the shading and contouring.
This is how 44 year olds get ready.
Pull their hair back.
I wash my face and moisturize.
Got my good old fashioned powder blush.
Imagine that.
I make a weird smile so I
can find my apples of my cheek. Yeah, look at...
oh, contour. Oh, my God. That really happened.
Okay, cool.
Now, because I'm blonde, I take my good
old fashioned, almost gone Lancome blonde eyebrow pencil.
And I darken in these bad boys.
We don't have to use, like, a stencil
like these girls use, no stencils needed.
Imagine that.
I can freehand this after 40 years.
No, that would mean I started at 4.
30 some years of drawing these bad boys in. Okay.
See how it ends up.
Voila. Okay, now, tell you what, I am going to do this.
I'm going to do the little, voila. Here we go.
Curl them.
This is about, like, 20 years old, by the way.
No need to buy the new ones.
They're no different, folks.
No different.
Okay, now we're just going to put a little
bit of, like, a brown in the crease.
I know they're going to tell you to
do it different ways now, but guess what?
It may not be the thing now, but it looked pretty
good on my eyes for the last few years.
Never had a complaint.
Voila. Put a little whiter kind of color up at the top.
And I'm feeling spicy.
I might do a little bit of liner.
They're going to tell you, don't line the bottom.
It's not cool.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why not?
I just do a little bit.
I go halfway across.
Just a little bit.
Makes a little shadow there.
There we go.
All right, so they're lined.
And now we're going to take our mascara.
And this is the last step, folks. Oh yeah,
if you want to get real spicy,
you can put on some lip liner.
We'll do that.
Yeah, I go ahead and I put it on the bottom row.
Why not?
I know they may not nowadays, but guess what? I do.
And it's always worked pretty well for me.
So here we go.
Voila. Now, to get the excess mascara
off, you just lick a q-tip.
Boom.
And last of all, there's this random Clinique
liner that I got in a free gift.
And I know Clinique is not cool, but
this stays is on all freaking day. How'd I do?"
Okay, there's so many points in that that I
need to go through maybe one by one.
First things first, right?
What is a real mum?
Real mum getting ready.
As opposed to what?
I don't know why she's so pissed off or
why she's angry at the way people do their
makeup nowadays compared to how she did it.
Even though she uses techniques that are
from nowadays, still, people still use them.
She's like, they might not do it now.
I don't know why she's angry.
Let me, let me just... oh, okay.
So she starts off by saying, this
is how 44 year olds get ready.
You as a 44 year old get ready.
Here's something that happens in beauty, right?
As people get older, as they age,
as they mature. I say mature.
Is, I think once you're over the age of 40,
people start categorizing you in this mature skin or
something like that, and then suddenly everybody over that
age range does the same thing.
They don't dare use color or
glitter or, you know, they have mature skin.
I always say, a lot of people who
think they have mature skin have much better
skin than people in their 30s.
You don't have to categorize yourself in a group
of mature just because you are a certain age.
You can use whatever the f*ck color
you want, whatever texture you want.
It's absolutely fine.
So this isn't how necessarily everybody
in their forties gets ready.
Okay, so she's like, good old-fashioned powder blush.
Imagine that. We still f*cking use powder blush.
Are you mad?
Cream blush has been around for years.
It's not new.
And people still use powder blush.
What is in... what is...
And then she's like, oh, look, contour. That's not contour.
You put blush on. It's not contour.
Yes, it's added structure to your cheeks because
you've gone like this in a straight line.
Also, she's using a filter. Can we just say that.
You can see the lashes glitch and the freckles.
That's a filter. How are you going to tell
people that their makeup is unnatural
looking, or something like that, when you're using a
filter, your version is better, but you're filtered.
And then she's like on her brows, right?
She brings out a pencil.
You don't have to use the stencil like these girls use.
No stencil needed.
Imagine that. Nobody's using a f*cking... we went through
a phase of using stencils as an experiment.
Like, look at these crazy stencils.
No one actually uses them properly, unless
maybe perhaps they don't have eyebrows.
And a stencil comes in really handy.
But nobody does really use a stencil.
People still use pencil and pens and actually
more advanced methods than just a pencil.
And she's like, I can freehand this
after 40 years, so can everybody else.
And then she uses an eyelash curler, the most basic eyelash
curler, and is like, this is about 20 years old.
No need to use one of those new ones.
What's different?
Eyelash curlers have been the same
for a really f*cking long time.
The only thing that's different is maybe you
can buy the half lash colors now to
get right into his inside bits. They're still the same.
Where are you living?
Where have you seen these things where
you're like, this world is so crazy.
And then she's like, we're going to take
some brown through the crease and they're going
to tell you to do it different ways.
Who?
Who is telling you you can't put brown through your crease?
Everyone puts brown through their crease.
It's up to you how dramatic your look is.
No one is telling you, you
can't use brown in your crease.
And then she's like, it may not be the thing now.
It's a f*cking thing.
People use brown eyeshadow.
What are you talking about?
And then she uses her mascara and she's like, yeah, I
go ahead and put it on the bottom row, the bottom lashes.
I know they might not nowadays.
Where? where have you seen people not putting mascara...
people saying, no, that's not a thing anymore.
Literally, right f*cking...
People do it all the time.
Where are you getting your infor... why is this so angrily unhinged?
Where is this spite coming from?
Of people doing their makeup different to
you, but you're insulting with it?
Do you know what I mean?
This is the weirdest video, it's
not even like, there's just something really weird.
Like, it's not factual.
There's no fact based on what she's saying.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, like she's doing things like...
They might not tell you to not to do it nowadays.
No one said.. no one ever...
Everything she's doing, people do.
Really strange, really f*cking weird.
That's actually one of the weirdest
things I've seen on TikTok.
And 5-Minute Crafts exist,
so that's telling you something.
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