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- Hi guys my name is Yemi Alade.
For today I want to show you guys my go to makeup
for like any event, whether it's for stage performance,
or an appearance somewhere, no matter the weather,
the humidity in the air.
Now, before I even talk about makeup
I like to talk about skin, skin, skin.
I'm sharing some secrets guys, get your notepads.
[laughing]
So these are the soaps I like to use.
They are made for me at home.
For my face, I like to use this black soap.
It's made from charcoal, and some other really nice things
are good for the face.
I always feel good when I have my soap on my face.
I feel like nature's doing something to me that I love.
Oh, do you see how fresh I'm looking
all of a sudden just like that?
God bless you charcoal soap.
Moisturizing, my go to for moisturizing my face,
You won't believe it, coconut oil!
Take it round and round.
it's like a facelift, look, see.
Keeping it all up, facelift.
I just put very little around my nose,
especially this is an oily area.
The T-Zone's quite oily.
Your eyelids, I do that as well cause they deserve
the love as well.
I'm just using the tip of this to brush my eyebrows.
So when it's time to draw them in place,
it wouldn't be much of a hassle.
I'm gonna use this crayon, it's by Maybelline.
I'm a huge fan of this particular product.
It's wax, to be precise.
So I was gonna draw the outline
and then I'm gonna fill it in.
So, because I am a performing stage artist
and I dance a lot,
the most important thing is the primer,
cause primer keeps everything in place.
The better the quality of your primer,
the high the chances of having your makeup
stay in one place, just as it were in the beginning.
I don't know what i've done with this,
but it also Maybelline, but I can't see any of the details,
I've cleared off.
That's how much I use it.
I use it almost every time.
People sometimes use brushes and stuff
to work this in, but I find that the tips of my fingers
do a lot of good for me.
Yeah don't forget the nose.
This is Super Stay Full Coverage 24 hours.
You know how I do, I like to spray,
squeeze some of that good, good.
Concealer, there is this and there is this.
This is my Maybelline and this is my Fenty.
I like to use the Maybelline one, first.
So I'm gonna just take some with this brush.
The idea is to get[mumbles].
So after using your concealer, I take the foundation
and put on my brush again.
So it's the same color with my skin and I run it over that.
so that it doesn't seem like you know,
my eyebrows are separate from my entire body.
You have to blend it in.
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You wanna take this, and just push it in.
kinda like setting it again.
This is a face definer highlight contour and bronzer.
it's by Zaron.
Zaron also, a brand made in Nigeria.
You see the smile on my face,
I'm super proud because, I'm not just proud
cause it's made in Nigerian,
I'm proud because the qualities is up there.
Look at that.
So, I like to set my eyebrows.
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Now, setting it is just like you know,
imagine you're building a house, all the things you need
to build a house and to make sure that everything
is firm and all right.
So the powder just helps to reduce the level of oxidation,
that is exposure to oxygen and...
Cause the oxygen sort of like ruins everything.
[laughing]
When it comes to makeup.
Eyebrows, and eyelids, i do the same thing,
with a highlighter.
A little more concealer in my eyelid.
When I'm smoothing out there.
I use mac powder.
The main thing that pushed me to learn
how to make myself up is cause when I travel
around the world, i find that Nigeria is very ahead,
in terms of make-up skills.
And some people might wanna make me up
and end up making me up to look
like a grandmother or something.
But the Nigerian makeup artist
know exactly what they're doing.
Make up has really come a long way in Nigeria.
Well, I find that in Nigeria, people are 50 50
just like everywhere in the world.
Some people like a lot of makeup, they're like,
you to see their face before you see the rest of your body.
While some people like me, I like to highlight the details.
Like my eyes and my lips, those are the most important
things to me, my face and some shimmer,
cause I want the camera to hit my face
and the light to just, react with the shine and all of that.
So with this brush, I'm going to go into my crease.
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So blending has a very light touch to it, that's the...
You just lightly go over the same spot over and over
and over again till you get like a smooth feel to it.
The kinda definition between your eyebrows and your eyelid.
Ok, back to the Fenty, the fenty, fenty concealer.
Each time I have a new makeup artist making me up
I always tell them,
"Please don't forget, I don't like too much makeup.
" I don't like too much makeup, please."
I renegade like a broken record
and make sure that they hear my song.
And that is the,
♪ I don't like too much makeup oh ♪
♪ Please oh ♪
I like this brush cause it just, it sweeps,
like that on my face, the way I want it to.
The thing with brushes is that,
when you've already applied makeup,
it's good to dub dub dub dub dub dub,
swipe, cause when you swipe you're moving the primer
you applied, you're moving the foundation you've applied,
you're moving every product you've applied initially.
It's like you're blending and applying that same time.
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You must use your sponge.
This is the magic of makeup.
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I know a lot of people use like setting powder
to set their concealer and stuff,
but I'm a fan of just using my powder.
So I do this, quite lightly.
This is also the setting process for me.
I like dramatic lashes
especially when I'm [mumbles] with my eyes...
My eyelids rather.
Before I draw my eyeliner with this.
I would like to apply some glue on this,
while it gets dried a bit.
Eyeliner by Maybelline.
I'm all about precision.
So just have to hold up this tip and make sure you go.
A bit of finishing touches here and there.
All right now that my lashes are mmhh,
I just need to, cause I have foundation
in my natural eyelashes, I need to get rid of that.
I use my powder to set my concealer and stuff.
So, I'm going to blend that in and brush off.
When I started music professionally,
I wasn't sure where it was going to lead to.
I was just going with the wind, going with the tides.
I really loved music as a hobby,
and everything else that added on to it
was like a huge plus for me.
You should see my makeup in those days.
I'm not sure what I was thinking.
It was like my own personal hurricane
was always hitting my face.
[laughing]
Sometimes I would end up with like the wrong color
of eyebrow pencil, so instead of like dark brown,
when the camera would take a picture of me
it would end up looking like burgundy or red.
How weird is that?
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Music has always been my passion
and looking good comes with it.
By my most popular song, which is about over 100 million
views now, the video for Johnny.
When it became, when it started to gain steam,
my life pretty much changed.
And I realized that this race I was running
wasn't just for me anymore and my family,
it was to represent the entire Nigeria and Africa
and my dream got bigger and bigger.
Now I feel responsible for a lot of people.
And right now I feel like this makeup,
and the tricks I'm teaching you,
I'm responsible for your next look.
So I have to come correct.
So this brush that I love so much,
it's also from Maybelline.
I'm just gonna blend it in.
Oh, you see, you see, you see the blend don't you,
you see, cause I see it, I see it.
This one trick that I find very handy
and I'll never stop doing, and that is the application
of some brown powder underneath the eyelid.
I use a nice brush with a nice tip there,
so it gets into the corners that I want it to.
So I'm just going to apply it like,
like I'm applying a bottom eyeliner
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and to be sincere if you look at your skin
without any makeup,
you find that right there underneath the eyelid
itself is a big brown, like it's a bit darker
than the actual eye patch here so,
why not just continue like this, look what you started
Okay, now that that's done, I'm gonna apply my actual color.
Contouring is also very, very, very, very,
very, very important.
So I'm going to use this brush, right there.
Now this is so my cheekbones pop.
When I smile, you can see,
when I give this side view like, ooh angles.
I have a significantly, nicely rounded forehead,
and because I don't want the camera hitting it
and making it look like it's a plateau.
I would normally put some brown contour around this area,
so I do the work for the camera
for the camera, so thank you in advance.
You're welcome.
And then, my beautiful nose,
needs to be a bit more pronounced in certain areas.
So I'm just gonna glorify the bridge of my nose,
and I'm gonna blend.
So that's the angle, that's the line we're following.
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I certainly love the way Beyonce applies her makeup.
For stage, I really want to know her tricks.
Like I would give anything to just be schooled by this woman
for like 10 minutes.
Tell me what I need to know.
How do you stay flawless?
I know number one, she always has a fan on stage,
or several fans on stage, blowing in her face,
keeping her air-rated and in a nice environment
while she's heating off the stage.
Rihanna on the on the other hand, has a lovely face,
has great features.
And I love that as well.
♪ Hee no no no no no ♪
♪ No no no ♪
That's my, I'm just making that up.
[laughing]
Okay, so I'm gonna just line my inner eye just bit,
cause I want it to pop.
Do you see that space, in between the bottom line
and the top line, wanna fill that up.
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So instead of going for the typical red,
which we have on my nails right here,
the tomato red, I'd like to go for a shade of red
that I just discovered.
This is by Revolution Pro, it's called 'Vamped'.
I'm about to vamp this face,
watch out! [snapping]
So my friend told me one time, when I'm applying my lipstick
it's always good to go with the X marks the spot.
New technique so here it goes.
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Do I look smoking hot or?
I'm hyping myself, I can't shower because I've really tried.
Okay, now the finishing touch.
The one thing that I always cannot wait for,
when I'm getting made up or when I'm making myself up,
is this Bad Boy.
Rare boosting setting spray, and it locks in all my makeup.
Now I'm gonna spray myself.
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When I spray myself, I make sure I don't like,
go like, cause when you do that, and the moisture hits it,
it leaves marks behind.
So your face must be as still.
Let that all sink in.
Two different people introduced me
to two different edge control products.
One is Murrays edge wax,
and the other one is just pretty much make your hair shine.
This one is from Nigeria.
This one's from London, and either one works.
I'm gonna use the one from Nigeria.
A lot of people like to apply this
and just put so much micky wavy,
no, just keep it as simple as we can.
So tell me what you think about this makeup,
cause I think I did a very good job
and I'm gonna have a great night out.
Watch my [mumbles] as I exit the building.
[speaks in foreign language]
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