Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today we are doing a review of a foundation
that I was extremely, extremely excited about for the launch of.
It looked incredible, and it's by one of my
favorite brands by an incredible makeup artist.
And we're going to be looking at the Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin...
Let me just get the name right way round.
Blurring Balm Powder.
I have semi tried this but I'll get into it later.
Let me just show you what I got first.
I got four different shades because I wanted to be 100% sure
that I was going to have a shade that fit me.
One of them, including the Universal
for not really a shade.
And it says that you can use, not just this one,
all the shades on face and eyes.
I did use this one when I first got
my package, just out of sheer excitement, and I
used it on my nose on my forehead. It definitely blurred.
I didn't do a wear test, though, because I washed
my face not long after. Not to get the product
off just because it was early in the morning.
I got shades two, which is slightly too light for me.
You can see I have swatched them all, but
this one will be good around my eyes.
So we'll try it around my eye area.
So shade three was my match and you can
see I've definitely been in there with a brush.
And shade four was just very slightly too dark.
If I get a good tan, this will be my shade,
but I was using this around the edges of my face almost
as a bronzer. Just before we get into review.
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So as I mentioned, I did what I would consider
a quick test with this product. On the day,
here's why I don't consider it a good test. On the day
my skin was extremely dehydrated.
It was dry hair, dry here, dry here.
Sorry, dehydrated in those areas.
I didn't prep my skin correctly.
I actually just used a hydrating mist and then whacked
it on, which isn't how I prep my skin.
I usually just use a serum
and go on with the foundation.
It went on fine.
It did cling to some dry areas around here and here.
Sorry, dehydrated areas around here and here.
However, when my oils got involved because
I'm an oily person, looked absolutely fine.
Later on in the evening, I got to a restaurant,
I went for dinner with friends about half seven.
Or was seven? Seven?
And I ended up taking off
my makeup around twelve, midnight. That's the latest
I've been out, by the way, in probably years.
And there were some areas that did look
a little bit textured around here and here.
But that's, to me, not prepping
my skin how I usually would, anyway.
My way of prepping my skin, as you all know, just serum.
Yes. Okay.
So should we just get straight into it?
I'm going to be using the number three on my whole face.
Number four around the edges,
number two under the eyes.
Number one, like I said, I tried Universal.
I'll wear that on a day when I don't really want to wear makeup.
Okay, so number three, I have prepped my
skin, as I usually do with some serum.
I have seen Danessa Myricks herself used the C41
brush from Rose and Ben, so, you know, why not?
So initial impressions of this foundation when I tried
it the first time, and I do have to
say it was a very rushed test.
I think I got a little bit carried away with the texture.
It goes on quite lightweight and almost undetectable.
But you can definitely build it
up to look like a foundation.
You can see on my cheeks there,
it's covered that redness.
If I keep blending almost, it will
sheer out a little bit as well.
Let me do that for you. There you go.
So you can see if the redness comes back a tiny bit.
But if I just pack it on like this, which is
how I usually like to use, like a cream or a
balm, is by pressing it into the skin. On my nose
I'll use a different brush because I can't quite get that angle.
Bit of a bigger nose you see.
It doesn't smell like makeup, but
then it also doesn't smell like anything much.
But there is a slight smell to it, but nothing crazy.
I guess it just smells like cream, a cream foundation.
So that goes on really, really nicely with this brush.
And you can see I'm just tapping, tapping, tapping.
I'm actually going to take a smaller brush
and just get in those around my nose here.
And I'm going to build up the coverage a
little bit more on the bridge of my nose
here because I do get some redness up there.
So this shade is almost a little bit too light.
But we're going to bronze it up a little bit,
so I don't mind too much.
I need a mirror. I can't see. Who am I kidding?
One thing about this foundation as well, my friend who
I was out for dinner with, who's a makeup
artist as well, she said my skin looked really good,
and that was at the end of the evening.
So that's always a nice thing when
a makeup artist says your skin looks
nice and you're trying a new foundation.
Okay, so that's enough coverage for me.
I think that looks nice.
It feels really good on the skin.
It's a bit of a strange one because it's a balm.
You think, oh, it's going to be hydrating and whatever.
But it is a powdery balm. Excuse me, oh, my God.
So it is a little bit more...
It does feel a little bit more...
dry is not the right word because it isn't uncomfortably dry.
It doesn't feel greasy,
is probably the word I'm looking for.
Okay, so I'm going to take this brush. This is from e.l.f.
This is for their Putty Bronzer.
I'm just going to put that in shade number four,
and I'm going to build that up around the edges.
Actually, you know what?
I just cleaned that recently and it's a little bit wet.
Let's just use the brush we used before.
And I'm literally just going to use this how I would use the bronzer.
I am going to take it slightly further in
because the shade is a little bit lighter for me.
This is foundation, like, what do you consider a foundation?
Because I believe it can be used in multiple ways.
Well, I probably should have mentioned
that at the beginning of the video. That's fine.
Yeah, so I'm just going to blend that in, that's much better.
Okay, so let me just read what
the website says about this balm.
"It's a texture-reducing coverage-boosting
blurring balm that balances oils throughout
the day while maintaining hydration."
So it's a, "Cutting edge technology, balances
sebum and reduces oil throughout the day
for a natural clean glow.
This petal-like texture..." Ooooh. "... feels like a balm, but sets
like a powder for a long-lasting shine-free look."
It says, "You can use it to prime,
to highlight and contour, to set foundation, to
add sheer coverage to set and add coverage."
So you can use it for pretty much everything.
I'm using it as a foundation now.
Oh, you know what?
Let's use the lighter shade number two, and
let's just add a very gentle highlight.
Nothing too crazy.
Then use an eyeshadow blending brush
just to blend that in.
It's very, it's smooth to apply.
I do really, really like the way it applies.
It's so soft. Blending in those edges here.
So I'm having one issue and it's around my nose here.
Actually, it doesn't look too bad, but you can
see I have some flakiness on my nose.
That's my actual skin.
I really need to exfoliate desperately on my nose.
But everywhere else, I'm feeling like I
have a nice glow to the skin.
It looks pretty smooth.
So what I'm going to do is refocus my
camera, and then I'm going to do some eye
makeup, some blush, all things like that.
I'm going to use all Danessa Myricks products.
So I have the Light Work Volume III. You know what?
I'm going to make a TikTok.
So I'll just put the TikTok on the screen here so you can watch me do it.
And I should be about an hour because I'm just going to take my time.
I'm going to watch some YouTube, do whatever, okay.
Okay, so I've just done a whole look using all Danessa Myricks
products, which I think I would have put in
the thing, if I decide to keep it.
The foundation's held on quite well.
My nose is looking extremely dry, like really, really dry,
but the rest of my face is looking absolutely fine.
So I'm going to put that down to my skin condition underneath.
I'm going to put in a wear test so
you can see my skin on a better day and
see once I've exfoliated, and actually done correct skincare.
So I'll put that in right here.
Okay, so this is my wear test.
It is 09:51, to be really precise
in the morning. I did exfoliante my nose
so it is sitting a little bit better.
I didn't go full coverage on my nose because
you can still see some skin showing through, which is fine.
I keep saying full coverage, but this...
it's kind of a foundation, kind of not.
It's kind of whatever. I am noticing it is...
let me just focus here.
It is a little bit drier on my cheeks and
when I look a little bit close at my cheeks it's...
it seems a bit dry, but it's not heavily textured.
It's very comfortable in my skin.
And here, this looks like acceptable skin.
Maybe I will do a little bit more on my nose here actually.
Okay, I've done a little bit more coverage on my nose.
It's a really strange one.
I'm kind of, at the moment, at this stage,
I'm caught in this in between of whether or
not I like this on my skin.
Because sometimes I look at areas of my skin
and I feel like it's kind of caught there
and gathered there, like around my nose here.
It blends in some areas and some areas it doesn't.
I've exfoliated my nose.
I've used my serum like always and actually
I use, today I used... where is it?
I've used a Yummy Skin Serum which I really like and
I've seen that being used alongside with it as well.
It's fine, like, it's sitting on my nose fine.
I'm just a little bit concerned...
I don't know what it is.
Like, I'm happy...
Like, if someone was like, you have to
use this, I'd be like, yeah, fine. That's great. I can do that.
It's a really strange one.
Right, this is definitely a case of I'll
have to get back to you
once this is sat on my skin. This is fine
at the moment. I can just see some areas, in my mind,
this is what I'm thinking.
I can just see some errors that look
powdery and like it's gripping to my skin.
So, we will see in a few hours how it's looking.
I'm recording today for my joint channel with James.
When I get a chance to record an update, I will, okay.
Okay, so it's an hour later and
my skin still looks absolutely fine.
My nose has improved.
I was a little bit worried about the dryness.
I have noticed the dryness is around this area.
I still think it's my skin
that is the issue because everywhere
else, this foundation looks absolutely amazing.
I'm extremely, extremely oily as a person in general.
My forehead, I mean, where's, where's the shine?
It's a tiny, tiny, smallest bit shiny,
and that's it. And not even like... to me in real life, it still looks matte.
It still looks completely matte.
And this is an hour.
People with oily skin, an hour on my forehead.
Usually after ten minutes,
it's completely shiny, completely oily.
One thing I thought, right, I was... I applied this
and I thought, you know what?
I think I've applied too much
and maybe it's too much coverage.
But I have noticed you can see,
you see this faint yellow mark here?
That's a bruise on my face and
you can still see it through.
So I haven't applied too much.
I thought it was maybe too much.
I don't care that that's showing because
I don't like full coverage.
And if I wanted full coverage, I do feel like I
could just put on concealer, maybe a little bit of this.
It has, of course, creased through the eye socket.
It's my belief that only eye
primers will last in the socket, you know?
But that's fine, I wouldn't,
I personally wouldn't use it as that anyway.
But if you were going to use it on the eyelids, maybe...
maybe do be aware that it could crease as well.
But so far it's really good.
It does still feel a little bit dry on my cheeks.
That to me isn't bad.
As an oily person, I do like a drier
feeling, not dry as in like, oh, my God.
But I do like a tighter feeling, but not uncomfortably so.
And this isn't very uncomfortable at all.
And it isn't like dry texture, like it still looks like skin.
I would, if I wasn't doing a wear test, I would
probably powder my nose a little bit now
just because my nose is getting a little bit shiny.
But I didn't put as much product on
my nose as I did on my forehead.
And I would maybe add a contour
because I'm looking quite flat in general.
But yes, so far so good.
I am very, very impressed at how long it has
sat on my forehead and even my nose.
I mean, that's not terribly shiny or oily.
And it's not much difference to how it
was when I first put it on.
Yes, so far so good.
I'm just going to look close up. You know what?
I would even go as far as to say maybe I
would use a hydrating mist on top of this right now
because it is a little bit drier. On a drier skin
it does make me wonder how this would
sit, being a powdery kind of product.
Powdery balm.
But yeah.
So as a foundation, so far it's acting pretty good.
And there's a whole pile of brushes that I need to clean.
Don't look.
Let me actually see how it looks.
James, stop making noise. J: Sorry.
Why don't you, why don't you shut up!
[James Giggling]
Right, no, actually serious.
Okay, so it looks fine.
Okay, so it's been about 4 hours and you know what?
It actually doesn't look that bad. Around my nose
is still a little bit of a trouble area.
Like it looks shiny.
I wouldn't say it looks completely greasy but I'm definitely
dehydrated in this area here and this area here.
And I really do put a lot of the wear down to how,
my skin condition at the moment, because it's not the best.
But looking at my forehead, looking at my cheeks, I wouldn't
say it's greasy in any way, would you say James?
J: No. R: Since you're skulking around my room.
J: Not greasy at all. R: I don't think it's greasy.
My nose looks a bit shiny. Like now
I would put powder on it if this was like,
if I wasn't doing the wear test again.
But actually it's still not that bad.
I do think my skin isn't the best condition at
the moment, but considering like how it sat for hours and
hours as an oily person, this doesn't look greasy or
shiny and it's still really comfortable on the face.
That tight feeling is kind of gone now.
I do want to mention as well I
was watching some people's reviews for this and I'll
leave their videos down below because they do really
thorough reviews as well, and their different skin types.
So I'll leave a link to theirs. And there was one lady
who was trying it and she has really oily skin, and when
she put it on her skin looked really nice and shiny and
when I put it on it was instantly matte.
So I really, I really don't think my skin is
in its best form at the moment,
let's just say. I just wanted to add that in there before I forget to mention it.
But yeah, so far so good.
Okay, it's a good few hours later, or more than
a few hours later and I've actually been sweating.
So I have to say it's held up really well,
apart from in this area here where it separated a tiny
bit and it is looking a tiny bit...
the smallest amount textured.
But I have been sweating and I haven't used
any powders throughout the day, anything like that.
This has held up really incredibly well.
What's the time now? So it's been about seven,
it's been about 7 hours, and it's sitting really, really well.
I would be happy with that.
If this was my makeup at the end
of the day I would be extremely happy.
I even feel like I could go on top with
a little bit more, if I primed it better.
Mattified it more. This would be really good.
So after 7 hours, this is how it's looking.
I think it's okay.
Obviously my nose has kind of come off a little bit.
I didn't use... but look how... my forehead is still pretty,
for an oily person, that's still pretty good.
And you can see the coverage and the
color is still very much here. Looks good. Cool.
Okay, well back to me.
Okay. Well, I would love to know your opinions below.
I do really like this foundation
and I will keep using it.
I do have to bear in mind and I think
you should bear in mind also when you're using thid
foundation, your skin prep, I think is very key to
this, especially if your skin is more dehydrated.
Yeah, do bear that in mind.
But I haven't really considered this a
struggle, like with some foundations, I kind
of struggle to get it working.
I know what's wrong in this situation. So yes,
I would love to know your opinions below.
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