Noooo.
Nooo!
I want to be sick.
Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Today I have a bit of an experiment lined up for you.
We are putting some of my makeup products here
in my beauty room to the ultimate test.
We are testing them for mold, germs, scientific
things I don't know the names for.
I feel like we have all kind of been in
this situation where we collect a lot of makeup over
time, over the years, from fear of missing out.
And we come across that like, neglected lipstick,
neglected, like water activated liner that we've kind
of just let sink to the bottom of
our drawer, our makeup cupboard, our makeup bag.
And maybe we've had that product now for weeks
or months or possibly even years in my case,
and thinking, I wonder how gross that product is?
So today we are testing some of my personal
products here in my beauty room, some that I've
had for a long time, some that are considerably
new, and to see if any of these products are
secretly a breeding ground for some kind of mold.
Now, you might be wondering, why should I
even care if my products are a little
bit moldy, a little bit out of date?
But imagine unknowingly applying a
moldy product to your face.
It can lead to skin irritations, breakout, infections,
and in some cases, really serious health risks.
So in the spirit of putting
your health first, you're welcome.
I'm taking matters into my own hands. We are doing this.
We are trying it.
I'm going to show you mine.
I'm going to embarrass myself.
We will get up close and personal with some of these
products to see which ones have kind of stood the
test of time and which ones I maybe need to
either sanitize or finally throw away, and which ones might
be hiding something a little bit extra below the surface.
So I prepared a not very well controlled experiment.
Complete with petri dishes, swabs, product to
detect mold or bacteria, whatever it is.
So I was heavily inspired by this user on Instagram,
Pamela Pedroza, who I am tagged in often and sent
their videos all the time of these swabs on products,
testers and the results after.
I'll link their socials down below so you can check them out, because it's worth
looking at and being slightly grossed out.
But I feel like we've all used testers in stores.
I feel like that's just something we
do sometimes, especially here in the UK.
They're kind of just out for you to try.
I know they aren't in every country.
Or whether we've just swatched a product on the back of our hand.
It doesn't seem unhygienic for a lot
of people, but, I mean, it is.
But let's get into my personal makeup.
I tested a few different products.
A lipstick that I use often, and
it sits on my desk right here.
And I use it if I'm just putting on, like, a
nude lip or something like that for a video like this.
A lipstick I haven't used for a very long
time, and it sits in my makeup storage.
I have, like, these acrylic drawers that are
made for printer paper, but I keep lipsticks in there.
In a dark place.
The lid on, the cap on. In storage.
A makeup brush that sits here on my
desk that I just reach for when I'm doing makeup
looks, et cetera, and I clean it afterwards.
And then they've been washed and ready to use.
And a powder that I use daily that
I've only had for maybe four months
I want to say. Three, four months.
To be honest with you, I'm not actually
expecting it much from these products because this
is quite a clean environment where I film.
I like to feel like I sanitize everything properly.
Coming from a makeup artistry background and even
beauty counter experience, I'm clean, clean, clean when
it comes to my makeup products.
And hygiene is probably the most important
thing when you're a professional makeup artist,
along with actually being able to do
makeup, hygiene is a very close second.
The thing I'm expecting to have the worst results is probably
the lipstick in storage because I haven't used it for a
really long time, and I don't know if I've sanitized it
after I've used it and then put it back.
You know what I mean?
And I do believe it's past its expiry because I
remember getting it, and I was in a different house.
Okay, so over to future me for
the swabbing and for the results.
So I've got these dishes here,
and I've got these, like, swabs.
So we're just going to try.
Okay, so let's just do it.
Let's just use the brush first.
Oh, I should probably write on them.
Okay, so we have a makeup brush first.
Just going to...
Next up, we have a lipstick.
Now, this is one of my Lisa Eldridge lipsticks.
You can see I use it quite a bit.
It sits up at the desk over there.
If I'm filming, and I just want, like, a nude lip,
then I'm like, I whack it out and do that.
I've called that one Desk lipstick.
Now, I'm sure this isn't the very scientific way to be
doing this, but it's going to give us a rough idea.
Then we have a lipstick that's kind of been
in my makeup collection for a little while.
That's just lipstick.
And then we have a powder that
I pretty much use every single day.
I writ too big, so I had to separate it.
So I'm going to leave them for, like, two or
three days, in complete darkness, doing what they need to do,
festering, and then we'll see how they are.
Okay, so I've just finished a video.
It is about... I think it's, like, four days later.
I can't even remember, and the dishes are over there.
So I'm going to get them out and go
back to the main screen for you and see.
Actually, let's go get them out.
You can see the reaction in my face.
Nooo.
Nooo!
I want to be sick.
Okay, please excuse my lips.
They look sore.
I'm going to save the best for last
because I'm actually kind of devastated about this.
Okay, so this was the powder.
So this is a powder I keep on my desk all
the time, sanitize frequently because I use it all the time.
It has a lid, it has a clasp that clasps shut.
And honestly, there's nothing on there.
Maybe just a little stain from where I
actually, the powder got onto the product, but
there's nothing on there, so that's good.
That sets my mind at ease.
So next up is our desk lipstick.
So this was my Lisa Eldridge lipstick that I keep
on my desk here because either I use it if
I'm heading out somewhere, I use it on camera if
I just need a nice nude lip.
And again, therefore, one that I clean frequently.
And again, nothing.
There's absolutely nothing in there.
Nice and clear, nice and clean. So that's good.
So not so good.
So this is a lipstick that is in my
lipstick drawers over there where I keep all the
lipstick that I don't really use often.
And maybe I pull it out occasionally to do,
like, a look with or something like that.
So they're not often cleaned unless I use them.
But this is what was in that one.
There's, like, two dots.
I don't know what that is, but they look gross.
One's like, bright yellow, and one's a bit more like
white, but it doesn't look too serious, so that's fine.
That doesn't worry me.
I'll just clean it before, maybe cut the top off.
Now, urgh, this is horrendous.
This is actually horrendous.
This is a brush, right.
I keep my brushes here on my desk because I
use them so often, I get through them really quickly
Then I'll wash them and I'll put them back out.
This is a brush that sits on my desk that
I would have just got and used on my face.
What the f*ck is all of that?
What is this?
Look.
What's this thing?
This piece here?
This white fuzz?
This bit is almost orange.
I'm devastated.
I don't know what do. What do I do with this information?
I'm going to have to full on clean it again
just before I use it because that is horrific.
Now, this was quite a dense,
thick brush, like, almost like this.
Oh, I don't want to touch this now.
So I'm hoping that has something to do
with it, because all these brushes I put,
like, around my eyes, everything like that.
I'm now going to find a brush holder that can
shut and close because I'm worried about it being out
in the open like this is doing something to it.
I mean, this is a clean room, but
you just don't know what's around everywhere.
So that is heartbreaking and devastating.
I don't want to look at anything.
I don't even want to know what else is happening
other places, on other makeup in this room.
Just in my mind, I need to remember to sanitize
everything before I even use it.
All right, well, thank you so much for
joining me for that little science experiment.
Any tips, just let me know.
Any storage that you have for
your brushes, let me know.
I have to keep it on my desk though so it's close.
Thank you so much for joining me.
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