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I have a reaction video here for you today.
We are looking at some TikTok, some Instagrams.
And just seeing what we can find on the
World Wide Web.
Just before we get into that, as I always say in these videos,
creativity and individuality have no rules.
But makeup most definitely has a theory.
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And also, just before we get into this video, I
want you to help me find the most ridiculous hacks,
makeup hacks, wherever it is that you can, and send
them to me, either in a message, just @ me
on them over on TikTok, Instagram.
I'll leave all my links on the screen and also
down below in the description box, and just so I
can take a peek at them.
"When I saw Hailey Bieber pump her foundation into the palm of her hand, I
was like, what is she doing?
But she actually might be onto something.
The palm of your hand is the only place
in your entire body that doesn't have pores.
Your foundation is not going to sink into the palm
of your hand and you get more coverage from it.
Such a good hack. Thank you Hailey."
Erm, that...
that surface level might seem like
a good hack because, well, you know.
First of all, your skin doesn't absorb products anyway.
Your face isn't absorbing foundation, you know
what I mean, or anything like that.
That's like saying if you were to put, like,
water on the back of your hand, it would
sink into your back of your hand.
Our skin doesn't tend to absorb makeup
products in that way at all.
There's certain things in there that
don't penetrate into the skin.
So she's just using the palm of her hand
as a palette, which I've seen people do.
Yes, the one side of your hand may be more porous, so it may
grip onto certain things, but whatever way you do it, you're going
to lose a little bit of product on the way.
It's either getting stuck on your brush, stuck on your
Beauty Blender, stuck on your hand, stuck on a palette.
Even when you pump directly onto the
skin, it's still getting on a brush.
It's just the way she's doing it.
There's no real benefit to that.
"No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Exactly."
Now, this depends on the type of nose you want.
If somebody has a smaller nose, then you could
absolutely do a line down the whole nose.
Maybe with a shade, you notice the skin tone
that highlighter was silver against that skin tone.
If you were to go with a highlighter that
was a little bit more, perhaps rose gold, then
it would just look like a natural shine.
If you're going to use a highlighter that is
drastically looking like a highlighter, that's silver or metallic,
then of course it's going to look unreal.
So on my nose, for example, that is quite long.
The method they did in that video where they
did a bit here and a bit here is
really nice because it gives this area depth.
It cuts off the long length of that nose.
However, somebody's nose was turned
up already and quite short.
You're actually making it even more turned up
and even shorter. So you can elongate it.
So there's not real contouring and highlight.
There's not really one way to do it.
Depending on our bone structure,
everyone's face is different.
I always say to contour, look down, see
where the natural shadows are on your face.
To highlight, look up and around and see what
areas of the skin catch the light and then
pinpoint some of those areas with your highlighter.
The only one I agree with there is the
hairline one, but you should blend into the hairline.
However, again, it depends on bone
structure and what you want.
There's no same way to contour everyone's face.
The jaw is a difficult one because it really depends
if you want sharpness or if you want to keep
it soft, or if you're just contouring a double chin.
If you're just contouring a double chin, then you want
to keep it under the jawline and maybe even perhaps
bring it down to the neck a little bit more.
If you just want a sharper joy... joy line? Jawline, then
you can absolutely bring it up onto the edge of
the jaw a little bit and stop in certain places
and blend it into that one area.
Not too high.
That's good because when you're doing freckles,
right, when we look at people's freckles
in real life, freckles are sporadic.
They're not like... we see a lot
of these like, freckle tattoos or freckles.
Actually, they make me gag. Have you seen them?
They look like holes in the face.
They give them a shadow for some reason.
They look really strange.
I love freckles, but the
freckle tattoo transfers are horrible.
What was I going to say?
The one thing I question in that, is
hydrating it and then doing it on the face
with that pressure of your finger, you might
be breaking down your makeup a little bit.
The best thing to do is probably just use a freckle
pen on your fingers or even like an eyebrow pen.
Eyebrow tones, for freckles, work perfectly
because they're kind of like hair tone.
They have like a nice coldness to them.
Now we know you shouldn't be making homemade skin
care or makeup or anything like that, right?
Especially with limes and lemons and things and stuff.
You know we can damage ourselves with that, right?
I know it looks really natural, but
some natural things can have really intense
effects, side effects and really intense reactions.
Skincare and makeup products are made
with very well measured out ingredients
and tested effects of those ingredients.
We don't know how acidic one lime is
compared to the next. Wait, do we? No, I don't think we do.
Or how much Vitamin C one fruit has compared
to exactly the same fruit of another size.
You know what I mean?
We can't measure what is naturally occurring
in those single things and how that
is going to react with the skin.
Whereas in an actual lip scrub or a lip
tint, we can. So do just be careful.
Sometimes the natural way isn't always the safest.
And I know that sounds backwards, but it's true.
Let me tell you why I hate that.
Okay, one, lash glue as it is, can sometimes be a pain to
get out of your eyelashes, right, or along the lash line.
Have you ever sat there and you've just
been like, oh, my God, what's that?
And then you like, have a
little and you're like, oh, lash glue still.
It's horrible to get off the lashes.
We are doing this whole thing where people are
like, what's an easier way to do lashes?
What's a better way to get it close to
the lash line and in turn, like, really messing
up their eyes a lot of the time.
You don't need to put lash glue underneath your lashes.
Nobody is that close to you that they're going to be like...
Excuse me, your lashes is a one...
What's a really low distance? Millimeter or less further away
from your... no one's going to be that close.
Here's... okay,
here's how to get your lashes close to
your lash line without having to put them underneath.
Here's a mirror.
You're applying your lashes.
You tilt your head up.
You look down into the mirror.
This way we can see our lash line.
You take your eyelash and you come in from this way.
I'm holding it like almost flat
against, not like this, like this.
And I'm going to drop that.
I'm not actually using a mirror.
Maybe I should actually use a mirror and show you.
Well, I have lashes on already.
You're going to drop that along your
lash line and just drop it. Just leave it.
Okay, give it a few seconds and then you
can then start to press it along your actual
lash line and then match up all those areas.
I can't put it down because the lashes are too...
I have a whole video on it.
I'll leave it below.
But if you put mascara before you put your false
lashes on, if you just pinch your lashes together and
then I always slide my thumb up through the fake lash,
pinch and then slide your thumb up.
Your lashes are going to stick together and you're
actually pushing the rib of the lash onto the
real lash line a little bit more.
You really, really don't need to be sticking glue to
your actual lashes, which will take forever to take off.
Listen, one day you're not going to want
to wear fake lashes, but you're still going
to need your eyes and your eyelashes.
Maybe you will be in a nursing home at 90
years old, loving full glam still, which is incredible.
But some of us, I'm... me,
I'm not going to want to wear lashes.
I still want my eyelashes being in good health though, you know?
Okay, so straight up, let me just tell you, I could
tell that was the brand Seint, which is a
multilevel marketing company, which is basically a disguise pyramid scheme.
So no hate to the person in the video.
However, lifting your face, right, and
we've been through this before.
You can't just draw lines going
upwards and be like, I'm lifted.
Lifting, sculpting requires a little
bit of precision and definition.
What is great in that video, though, is the area
where the sculpting product and the lifting product and the
color were kept to this side of the face.
When you start to bring product in this side of the
face that's darker or color on the cheeks, it can start
to droop this area and darken it up a little bit.
I was going to burp, but I really held that in.
So we want to keep the brightness in its area.
Just because you draw a line up,
it doesn't mean it's going to lift.
Makeup isn't tape.
It doesn't physically lift.
Where you want to lift is absolutely here
and up the top round this area here.
But just drawing a line, it probably isn't going to
be enough product to make a kind of lifting effect.
You know what I mean?
That could have done with even without the lighter
one because the darkness and the blush lifted anyway.
If we want to lift, we need
to brighten this whole area a lot more
than just drawing lines on the face.
So that's skin prep.
Let me just tell you, that''s skin prep.
Apart from, of course, a wipe isn't a
cleanser, and it shouldn't be considered one.
That skin prep was such a beautiful
way of showing how skin should be prepped
for makeup without dripping it all over your
face and using too much.
The color corrector, however, I'm unsure as to what they were trying
to achieve with that much orange color corrector.
Under the eyes. Sure. Absolutely.
All over the whole face
like that was completely unnecessary.
Especially, I believe they're a makeup artist.
Coming from a makeup artist.
One reason, is because it's
not actually color correcting
anything on the majority of that individual's face,
considering color correction, it's not doing anything.
And number two, it's adding an unnecessary layer of
product and then going on top with something
that looked like a Kryolan paint stick, which
is pretty much like the heaviest foundation.
I would use that to cover tattoos.
I've actually used it to cover my tattoo in the past.
You don't really need a color corrector under
that either, because it is so heavy.
Nothing wrong with wearing heavy
foundation or full coverage foundation.
But when you are, just bear in mind that you can
take a layer away, especially something like all that color corrector
on the face to make it look less textured.
Full coverage has such a risk of looking textured.
And I don't mean skin texture, I mean makeup
texture, when makeup starts to look like makeup.
So, again, nothing wrong with full coverage,
but that layer of color corrector over
the whole face, completely unnecessary. Completely.
Like, where was the color
you're correcting on that?
Orange is used to cover thosr bluey kind of purpley
tones, and we weren't covering that, so.
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