- (React) Today, we are going to try out
a full face of jailhouse makeup hacks.
- Ooh! - Hmm.
- Listen, I've had jail food, ingenuity is here.
- (React) So in jail, makeup is not sold in commissary,
so women do have to make their own.
- Interesting.
- I was excited to try makeup in general,
but then to learn that it's like ingenuity, creativity.
- DIY makeup.
- That's amazing, I'm so here for the hacks, work.
- (woman) Let's make jailhouse foundation.
- Oh!
- (woman) We just need a few things, such as coffee.
- Coffee? - Oh, oh.
- (woman) Lotion, baby powder.
- Okay, so coffee's your color. - (woman) And a spork.
- Oh!
- (woman) We're gonna mix all that together.
- Oh!
- (woman) We didn't have a beauty blender.
- Nature's beauty blender.
- Oh my God, I'm sorry, her color match.
- You would set it with baby powder?
- That's what I was thinking, but I was like,
I didn't even know if you'd be able to get baby powder.
- I feel like you have to be careful about,
like, the distribution for color match.
- Exactly. - 'Cause hers was really light.
- Well, you could tell she had experience, honey.
- Yeah.
- Woop.
- (React) And then a couple pumps of lotion.
- This is science! I'm a chemist!
- This is kinda cool!
- (React) Yeah, yours looks really good.
- Wow! - Wow!
- Look at that, there we go, look at that!
Look at that paste! - Here we go.
- There we go!
- This is milk chocolate.
- Give me that instant coffee, now we're in!
- If this works, whoever came up with this is a damn genius.
- We're going in with shade N423.
- (React) Beautiful. - Yeah, good, good.
Yep, yep.
- Oh, I'm ready for this.
- (gasps) They don't have access to mirrors, what would you use?
- Okay, I feel like, I feel like it's good.
- Oh my God, ew, this doesn't feel good.
- It feels like a little bit of paste.
- (React) Okay. - A little pasty.
- It's the smell, for me, dude.
Like there is no way I could walk around all day like this.
- Surprisingly not sticky.
It feels, like, moisturizing, which I'm quite surprised by.
- Is it concealing anything?
Or is it more of like... - (React) Not really. (laughs)
- A suggestion, cool.
- I feel like I may have gone a little too pale.
(both laugh)
- I'd rather go au naturel.
- I'm really here for the coffee aspect of this.
- Yeah, no, I like the smell a lot.
- Yeah, I don't notice a difference,
but I think that means that it did a good job?
- This is cute, yeah, I like this.
- I'm sure that if I had however much time it is
that they have there, I could perfect that.
- (woman) Now I'm gonna do a little blush.
- But we're here to learn from you, queen.
- Okay!
- (woman) Color to this face.
So I'm going to find...
- What is she using a magazine for?
- In paper? In a magazine?
- (woman) This looks like a pretty color blush.
- Oh, okay.
- Aww, wait, deodorant?
- Oh! - You out your mind!
- That's so smart! - Wow!
- That's, see, ingenuity babe, ingenuity.
- Like how did they figure this out?
- What, who thought of this?
- Yeah no, this is all really impressive to me.
Like, if there's a will, there is a way.
- And I love a good terracotta blush.
- Interesting, yeah.
- It gives that sunburnt look, so I'm personally gonna go
where I usually go on my blush,
which is like across the nose a little bit.
- Ooh, this is a slay. - (React) Wow!
- Let me see yours?
Oh, yours looks so good! - (React) So peachy!
- I'm actually confident with this color.
- That one actually, that did work.
- This works? Okay.
- That worked!
- You wanna aim for like about here, yeah.
Good, good. - Yeah?
- Yes, slay, oh my God, that's actually working.
- Yeah? - Woah.
- Do you like it? - It's great.
- (React) Oh yeah, it's working, no, it's working!
- Oh my God, it is!
- Woah!
Woah!
- Give myself just a little bit of nose.
- (React) Totally! - A little bit,
a little bit of cheeks.
- It's nice application, because of the foundation.
I'm telling you, that foundation made my skin soft.
- Wow! - The baby powder and the lotion mix.
- The look I was going for is like fresh vacation sunburn.
- (React) Yes, it's giving that, definitely.
- Oh, honestly, yeah! - Is that what it gives?
- Yeah!
- This almost feels like I have a freckle moment.
- Yeah!
- A little bit. - Yeah, it looks good!
- I'm sorry, whoever thought of this is a damn genius.
- I actually am so obsessed with this hack.
- (woman) Hey you all, good morning!
Let's talk about makeup while you're incarcerated.
So no, in the county jail that I was in,
they did not sell us any cosmetics.
We had to make our own. - Oh, work.
- (woman) Once I got to prison... - Okay.
- (woman) Texas prisons sell makeup on commissary,
so they sell mascara, eyeliner, foundation,
not necessarily that matches your skin tone.
Some of the girls...
- Mm. - Mmm.
- (woman) Used makeup to express their personalities.
- Yeah, I mean like, I get it, they were definitely in prison
and jail for a reason. - Right, right.
- But like, why do you have to like stop them from
feeling good about themselves?
- (woman) Got shipped out from jail to prison.
- Okay, this whole like jail versus prison situation
is a new concept to me. - Yeah, concept.
- (woman) Commissary items to create my own makeup.
- (woman) The deodorant, and you're gonna wipe...
- Alright, deodorant, multi-purposeful, yes.
- (woman) You're gonna take your finger,
and you're gonna rub it on...
- That's crazy! - This will work.
This will work though, because the blush worked.
- Imagine you're in prison,
and you have a cute boy coming to see you.
You don't wanna look busted! - Yeah.
- Eye shadow's gonna be real hard to do
with no reflective surface.
- This part, without a mirror, terrifies me.
- Yeah.
- Okay, I'm getting it on my finger.
I'm gonna grab this dark brown.
- (React) Zaria, yours looks so good!
- (laughs) I mean, she is really...
- (React) She has no mirror, either. - I just can't.
- I know!
- (React) Try to like focus... - Is it?
- (React) Just on like, the lid.
- Oh, see, I don't know how to apply makeup.
- I was gonna say,
I was like, how did it get underneath your eye?
- Yeah. (laughs) I didn't know what to do,
I just kinda put it on.
- (React) So good.
- I'm actually like kinda shocked.
- That blue is bluing.
- A little bit, it's like a smokey eye.
- (React) Yeah. - A little of that.
(both laugh)
(camera shutters clicking)
- Did I do a good job? No.
But did it show up? - (both) Yes.
- I kinda eat. - (React) It kinda eats.
- Yeah, it's not, you know, it's not the worst.
- I'm damn nailing this.
- (woman) So you need coffee, okay?
- Oh, okay. Again, coffee, terrified.
- Ooh, Vaseline! So smart!
- Wow!
- Yeah, mush and smush.
- Wait, is this eyeliner or mascara?
- Mascara, but you could probably use it for eyeliner as well.
- Mm-hmm.
- No way! - Oh!
- (woman) Yeah, it's kinda messy to do this.
- Okay, this will work, I believe.
- Oh yeah.
- That don't seem like it's worth it.
(both laugh)
- I feel like if they had Oreos, that might be darker for lashes,
might be a little bit better of an option.
- (React) So you want it to be like a thick kind of paste,
and then if you have to thin it out a little,
like that's from the drop of water.
(Dani giggles) - So I definitely...
- This is so fun!
- Okay, so what I'm doing is I'm rolling the Q-Tip in these grains.
- I will figure it out. - Okay.
- I'm in their shoes.
If they put too much on accident, too bad, so sad, figure it out.
- You can kinda like see the Vaseline through it,
so I think maybe you need to like spread it a little bit,
like maybe use your nails
to kinda try and like spread the lashes.
- (React) How does it feel?
- Clumpy.
- Uh-huh, like I have clumps Vaseline on my eyelashes.
- Like everybody has a mascara face,
but like do you have it
when you're not looking at yourself in the mirror?
- Okay.
- I have no idea if this is working for me, like, at all.
- I mean, to be so fair, we are working with coffee.
It's not exactly gonna be the darkest shade.
- Oh wow.
- Like, it's... It's there.
- Yeah, it's definitely there. - It's there.
- Yeah, this one isn't my favorite,
but Vaseline itself can actually do stiffer lashes, so.
- I think it's cool how,
you're like recreating the normal pattern that you may have had
when you weren't in jail or prison.
Like, that's kind of control of yourself.
- Yeah. - Not just expression,
but the idea that you can have kind of normalcy, and a pattern,
and the idea that you do want to look better,
so I can, like, I kinda like that, I don't know.
- (woman) So why do women wanna wear makeup in prison?
We want to look good.
If you look good, you feel good.
- Yeah, but also, like... - True!
- (woman) Like, you're in prison,
and you shouldn't care about your appearance,
it's just wrong!
You wanna look good, hygiene.
- That's really important. - I believe that.
- (woman) And looking good is important,
and I think that if we start telling people in prison
that they can do anything they want to do.
- I get that.
- I just don't get it, it's like also, like,
society pushes those beauty standards onto women.
- But it's also fun!
- (woman) Stop pushing out people that are told they're nothing.
- (React) They still wanna look good, they still wanna feel good.
- Who doesn't? - Yeah.
- (woman) It helps them get their identity back
in a place where it's like really stripped from them.
- And also something that makes you feel like
you're a little bit connected to the outside world.
Something that makes you feel like you just have
a little sense of control, and like, your humanity.
- (woman) Then I would take a toothbrush,
and I would comb out my eyebrows.
- A toothbrush.
- (woman) The toothbrushes in there are nowhere near as nice as this.
- Fair.
- (woman) Crayola colored pencil.
- Crayola, yeah, you get those wet. - Oh yeah.
- You can get those wet, and it'll be like watercolor.
- (woman) And wet it a little bit.
- Wow. - So, ugh!
- (woman) My line underneath.
- Oh! - Hmm.
- Woah, that's impressive, she had nothing there.
- Yeah.
- She totally stenciled it out herself and filled it in.
- She knows what she's doing.
- She knows exactly what she's doing.
- It's just, you just... - Man!
- That's crazy!
- (React) Alright, start by brushing those brows.
- I like a good brow brush, that's good.
- I'm going for like the feathered up situation.
- Yeah, I was gonna say,
I'm going for like a laminated look.
- Oh yeah, okay, so usually you brush upwards.
Right, perfect, you're flipping so well.
- Okay, thank you.
- (React) Okay, so it's coming out.
- Don't lie to me. (laughs) I'm kidding.
- (React) I see it, I definitely see it.
- I can't, I need a...
- (React) (laughs) No, you're on it, you're on it.
- I don't know how they would do this with no mirror.
- We're doing the licking, we're doing the lick and draw.
- (React) Lick and draw.
- Love a good lick and draw.
- I hope they have different toothbrushes though.
Like one for the teeth, one for the brow.
- Oh!
- I don't think I would brush my teeth with the...
- I don't think they have that choice, to be honest.
- That's very fair.
- I just want you to know I feel like I did nothing at all.
- Use your other finger to sort of... Oh, you got back to your eye.
- Yes!
- Okay. - Pop off!
- By your reaction, I'm clearly nailing it.
- I don't think it's happening. - Magic is happening.
- Okay, wonderful.
- (React) Are you gonna use this one?
- I think, I would if I had a mirror.
'Cause it kinda came out the same way as a regular brow pencil.
- Yes, this is the one I saw on TikTok!
- (woman) I made it, it's a little bit of my contraband.
- Not her actively saying contraband.
- (woman) The M&M is for my eye shadow.
- No way!
- Woah!
- And it's helpful, because it makes a stain.
- Yeah.
- So it like actually stains your lips
instead of rubbing off like lipstick.
- Unbelievable.
- This is so crazy, have you ever had like a handful of Skittles,
and you know, your hand gets a little sweaty.
- Yeah. - You know, yeah.
- And it gets a little colorful.
- It has a built in lip plumper 'cause it's cinnamon.
- Is it working?
- (React) Yeah, it's totally working.
Oh yeah!
- Oh, that looks good. - (React) Oh!
How does this feel on your lips?
- Sticky. - (React) Sticky.
- Super sticky.
- It's definitely, okay. - Ooh!
- Yeah, that's definitely giving color.
- Yes. - (React) Okay!
- Okay.
- Slay! That's like looking good!
- Is it good? - Yeah!
- Woah!
It kinda looks like I ate a big meatball.
- I think I'm serving.
- (laughs) I can't believe it ended up like that on her.
- Oh snap!
- Oh!
- I look pretty! (laughs)
- We look so good. - (React) Yeah, you look so pretty!
- This one, I like,
I feel like not even necessarily in like jail or prison,
but like, you could do this on the schoolyard.
- (narrator) Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
has found a unique way to ease its overpopulation problem,
providing beauty behind bars through its cosmetology program.
- Yeah, learning a craft.
This is totally... - That's cute!
- That's awesome.
- I love that.
- (narrator) Inmates must have a track record of good behavior
and a desire to change. - That's really important.
- Yeah.
- (woman) Maybe it's not a matter of deserving these things,
it's a matter of rehabilitating people or giving them hope.
- Oh. - Man!
- I love that!
- Look, at the end of the day, we all wanna feel pretty.
(Zaria laughs)
And whether, it doesn't matter your circumstances.
- I love that, you're giving them skills
that they can like take into a job outside of it.
- Mm-hmm.
- Very slay. - Yeah, yeah.
- If, as an inmate, you're doing something
to be a better person and feel better,
and hopefully, like, rehabilitate yourself,
if makeup is gonna get you there, then like, that's important.
- And also, like, individual health too.
- Yeah. - Yeah, man, you get to help yourself
and you get something... - Help other people!
- Yeah. - I really like that.
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