Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so, so much for joining me. Now listen, I may
have seen something that could be kind of useful coming from TikTok.
I know. So, I have seen these filters everywhere
and I'm sure a lot of you have as well, and especially some of you have been
tagging me in them. They're filters that help to map out where you can apply
makeup on the face to make it easier, and to make it more precise.
We use kind of rough guides in real life, in makeup, you know when we're like
measuring out our brows for example we do this whole thing. We use like preset
positioning, where to place things, and these filters kind of help with that
which I think is potentially a good idea. So I'm gonna try those out today, let you
know how I get on. Well, you'll be here too.
Let's see what happens, shall we? Anyway, just before we get into that today, if this is
your first time here on YouTube, my name is...
on YouTube? On my channel. My name is Robert, thank you so much for being here.
Please subscribe if you haven't already. I'm a professional makeup artist here on
YouTube and also in real life, and it's my goal to help you become a Pro yourself
or just someone who's really good at makeup. Yeah. So let's go ahead over to
TikTok and have a look at what's happening. I am on TikTok, Robert Welsh MUA.
Sometimes I post for a while, sometimes I don't. So let's start with the one that's
kind of been the most recent and we'll use her videos as the example, let's have
a look. “Hi guys, I created this filter to help you sculpt your perfect cheekbones
according to Dr. Marquardt's golden ratio. First, prep the high points of your
cheekbones with a touch of highlight. Then, using the filter fill in the blue
areas with your cream contour.
This placement will lift your face and give you that v-line shape.
Then, using a sponge or brush blend up and out.
Remember we're lifting so we definitely want to brush up and
blend out.
Amazing.
Repeat on the other side blending up and out.
You can really see the gorgeous lift here.
Amazing.
If you want to deepen the contour, apply
a second layer and repeat the process. And this is me with the second layer.”
Okay, so let me... there's a few things which I'm a little bit concerned about
using this filter to kind of map out you know your contour.
Let me shuffle this way. It's going to be the same on everyone, which we all know
isn't a thing. Now, the kind of shape that's she's talking about and the layout,
the structure, the golden... the golden ratio, is something that people use a lot to
kind of map out where things are meant to be. I'm going to do this a lot. Meant
to be but unfortunately, we can't all crack our bones into place. So, for some
people putting up the contour that high isn't going to be so complementary,
especially on a longer face. If you're trying to not elongate it even more,
you're going to elongate even more. Even more so, something else which
is... actually, I need to grab two products.
Okay, so like as I said I've been tagged in like loads of these people using this
filter, and one of them I was tagged in was a video from Rose and Ben, Rose Siard. Great
makeup artist and always brings up some incredible points. And something that she
mentioned in the video, which is a great great point, is the difference between
contour and bronzer. So, we all know bronzer is to bronze the face,
bronze. So it's going to have a bit of redness to it. It mimics the effects of
sun on the skin, basically, that's what bronzer does.
And that's quite literally why it was invented.
And then we have contour which is meant to mimic shadow, it's meant to mimic bone
structure and alter the bone structure or the appearance of. And when you look
under the bone structure shadow, for example, the shadow down the side of my face
here, it isn't bronze, it's grey, right? And the same down the side of my nose, we see shadow,
it's not bronze, it's grey. So we mimic sha... so we mimic shadow and bone
structure by altering it with a cold, really cold, almost grey, not completely
grey tone. So, take a look at my contour and my bronzer. This is my bronzer that I use,
my... you can see it's really, really used. And this is my contour.
Can you see the difference? So if I was to... and I'll do this and I'll show you, if
I was to use my contour up there, this color, is going to look a little bit
strange. However, if I use my bronzer up there it's nice and warm. It's where the
sun hits your face normally, up on the high points of your face. And it also has
a redness to it so it's not like drastically different from using a blush,
or something else we use in that area, so it's going to look great with a blush.
Let's give it a go and let's see how it looks, okay.
I'm kind of excited about this one. Okay, so do excuse my phone just slightly in
the background here. So okay, let's do this, I'm going to grab a brush. And as we
can see on the screen here... one second, let me point it down so you can actually see.
I'll crop into it but I'm just on TikTok, like I'm not actually filming this. So we
have this here, whereas on my face which is a
little bit longer, where I would usually contour would be
down this way and then wrap it just stopping here. Because look, if I stop
there, now what's happening? That's way too high for me. So we're gonna do the
contour cream this side, and the bronzer this side. Let's start... no, what did I say?
Yeah. So let's start with the bronzer first.
I'm going to place it right here where the filter suggests.
And I don't know if anyone's noticed but the filter has dropped slightly,
so it hasn't necessarily stayed in place as it was before. So to be fair that's
actually not really that far off where I would usually apply
my bronzer anyway. But like I said, I would bring it further down
and actually even further up. I'll whack it right around here to try and round
off my face, because I do have a longer face. I feel like this filter will work
quite nicely on rounded faces, this guide, sorry. I keep getting spots
right on the side of my face.
That's fine, right? Looks fine. Just looks like bronzer. Okay,
let's do our contour then. The contour shade on the other side which is more of
this cold... oh no, contour meant to be... it is this side. So it's more of this cold grey, and let's
see how that looks. See, I mean that is further up on my face, right?
Then this side was. Okay, let's do it.
So I'm just following that blue area. Okay, let's blend that in.
Okay, so you can see quite a big difference between the contour shade and
the bronze shade. Look, I had a spot here and now one's
right there, I just can't win.
Yeah, so you can see the contours very cold, and looks absolutely fine actually in
terms of positioning. I would have...
I, see, I want to wrap it around here
slightly but according to that filter we can't take it any further down. That's
worked out quite well for me. I still, it's still kind of like up here, I still
want to wrap it around but it's not bad, it's not bad at all. It's, I think it's
quite a fun thing to try and see what, what it looks like. The demonstration she
did it looked quite high up, and I'm seeing on everyone else it looks quite
high up. So if it does go to about here...
I'm worried about the tone, the, and the shade of whatever product
you're using, you know what I mean? Interesting. I think it's quite a good
one though. Let's add a little bit of highlight. They said to do it before but
whatever.
Okay, so let's take a look at our next filter and see how helpful it is. I'm sure
it'd be, I'm sure it'll be great. “Hi guys, I created this filter to help you draw
your perfect eyebrows according to the golden ratio.
First, you're going to take your eyebrow pencil and make a mark where the blue
dots are, these are going to be your eyebrows
start arch and end points.
Next, using your natural eyebrow shape connect the dots,
brush out, and fill in as needed.
Also, tap the screen to turn the filter on or off.
And repeat on the second eyebrow.
Take the q-tip and erase the marks.
Brush up with brow gel.
And you're done.”
So that is the brow kind of guide I was talking about. Now, this is a good
general guide to figure out where to place brow product, whether it be powder,
pen, pencil, whatever. However, it's not, it doesn't work for everyone
and I do have concerns on me, you know.
Yes, okay, let's just try it, let's try. Okay, so here is my concern
for my brows and this filter, how far this one comes in and how far
this one comes in. I'm all right on the edge, I need to bring it out a tiny bit
and my arch needs to be here, whereas my arch kind of rounds off on these outer
corners here.
Okay, so how I'm gonna do this is I'm gonna use a pen to add in the bits, and then I
might have to add some powder to give it a bit more depth and texture. So,
I don't... that doesn't seem right but we'll try it, we're just doing whatever it
tells us to do.
Okay, so once my brows start there, let me make that more obvious. That's where it
wants my brow to start, here, and that's where my brows should start, there,
apparently. Okay. We're gonna do the arch that needs to
start about here, and here on this brow.
This needs to come out a tiny bit about here,
and this is gonna come out here. Okay.
Okay, okay. So let's, let's fill in the gaps.
I, listen, I actually love a mono brow, I'm not even
joking. I think mono brows looks so cool on certain people.
This isn't terrible because it can slim down your nose, having your brows
coming in a little bit further. Okay, let's do it.
Okay, so I'm gonna go around them with concealer. The only problem is it,
some of my eyebrow needs to go and I'm definitely not taking it off just for
this filter, so I'm gonna carve them out just to make it look a little bit more...
how the filter wants it to be. Okay, so these are my eyebrows now and
they almost meet in the middle, so. And they're uneven, they're
uneven. So look, this one although this is where...
which eyebrow? This is where, technically,
my brows actually should be.
Actually, that should be higher up, technically.
It looks terrible. That's a terrible shape for my eyebrow. Look how
far down it brings the outside edge of my brow.
I couldn't quite get the arch on this because my brow physically goes out
further, so I couldn't get it. And then, that's fine where that stops but
they're uneven. It's where the guide told me to do
it, so. I'm just doing what it tells me. So I
would just go ahead and do what you think is best for your brows. My arch
should be over here. I've actually combed my brows down there with wax
because they, they come out to about... over here, can you see? They come out
further?
When they're combed out, so. We're gonna give that one a no.
Okay, so we have one more from the same creater and this is a eyeliner filter for
hooded eyes, which I think is a great, great idea to have a template.
I'm assuming it's going to be the batwing liner. Let's have a look.
So this one wasn't so much a guide but people were using it as a guide, and
people have been sending me videos of people using it as a guide, so we're
gonna do that also. Let me grab a liner. Okay, so I'm gonna have... okay, so I'm gonna
have to get quite close up to this camera for this.
And I'm not gonna cheat, I'm just gonna try and draw under...
oh no, my camera's gone dark. Don't move, please don't move.
It keeps moving.
No, I mean we can color it in.
Ii just moved, again.
Help. Okay, no. Okay, it keeps moving, it keeps
moving.
Okay, let's try and go from there.
We'll, we'll take out that bottom line.
Okay, so I followed what was there and what I had under the filter. One eye,
successful in a way, it's quite skinny but it does have that really good shape
for a hooded eye, which I quite like. This I... the filter switched because of course you
put your liner in and it kind of has like a panic and, and changes, so. I mean
that could be changed to a nice double liner.
But not bad. I think it's, if you're very careful and take it quite slow I think
you could really get like a good lineup. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's not, it's not
terrible. Okay, well I would love to know your
opinions and what you think below. Do you think it's easier to use filters like
this as a rough guide? Or would you rather just go at it alone? Thank you so
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