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So today we have another reaction video.
We are looking at TikTok, Instagram, and anything else
you have tagged me in on social media.
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description box and probably on the screen now.
And as I always like to say at the beginning
of these videos, creativity and individuality have no rules.
But makeup most definitely has a theory, and
that's what we are looking at today.
Okay, let's just get showing into it.
You know, I love videos like that
because that's what makeup looks like.
We've all seen those pictures of like,
celebrities from Getty Images before they've been
retouched and actually seeing skin texture.
Makeup has texture itself.
Skin has texture itself.
We have hairs on our face.
We have uneven texture. We have pores.
We have everything.
So again, we need to stop believing these people when they're
like, how do I make my makeup look so smooth?
I do this. And it's like, no it doesn't.
It doesn't.
I don't know how safe that is, but who didn't use
to do that, like in their room, when they were younger
with that or Skittles or M&M's or if you're in the UK, Smarties.
It does give off a lot of color.
I'm sure they make them like safe and like
non-toxic now, as everyone's kind of into that.
So you probably could use them
on the face to be fair.
That orange did look incredible.
Would I do it every day? Probably not.
It might be a little bit dry on the lips too.
"You always want to use orange on the greenish
bruise-like spots, then green around all the reddish spots.
Then I use yellow around where I use the orange
spots because it cancels bruise like areas, and then blend
and it should be good."
Orange doesn't cancel out green necessarily.
It can kind of help, I guess, in a way.
But orange is aimed at more
kind of like bluey purpley tones.
Red actually cancels out green
and green cancels out red.
So that's not really the case.
And then she goes on to say yellow... yellow...
She uses yellow on orange spots
because it cancels out bruising areas.
I don't quite understand.
So there's even no need for that layer.
Again, because
it doesn't really do much, if anything
it's just kind of going to brighten that orange tone.
I don't quite... maybe, maybe...
I don't quite get that.
"Reverse contouring
and why do people do it?
I'll tell you, because I love doing this.
Reverse contouring is the opposite of contouring.
You can start with a concealer or a brightening powder.
You can even use a powder foundation.
You want to go two to three
shades lighter than your skin tone.
I'm going to start under my eyes and bring this
down the sides of my nose,
then lift up.
You always want to lift
up when you're reverse contouring.
What this is doing is bringing this area
forward instead of when you contour, it makes
areas recede and look sunken in.
Picking up some more, I'm going to go right under
my eye on the outer corner and lift up.
This eye is snatched compared to this eye.
When you contour, you usually apply it
into the hollows of your cheeks.
When you reverse contour, you take your
matte highlight and apply it underneath.
I keep it in line with my earlobe.
I also connect it by my mouth.
Lifting up. Reverse contouring gives you
a face lift with makeup.
It's pretty crazy. Just for..."
Highlighting.
Basically, you're highlighting the face.
She is already wearing bronzer or something like that.
So technically there's a bit
of structure there as well.
But that's just the highlighting stage of contour.
Contour isn't just applying the darker shade.
Contouring is sculpting the face.
So the term reverse contouring is kind
of not needed because it's still contouring.
So it's just highlight.
It's just highlighting.
And of course, if you... and it works.
It works because if you have something light against
something dark or contrast, it's going to create contour.
Beautiful.
We looked at that cheek contour a few weeks
back, if I remember, and somebody did it quite...
they filled it in almost like beardlike.
This is a lot more, in terms of structure and direction.
It's always great when you're contouring, highlighting
to have a point to look at.
If you want it like severely lifted, you
can draw that point in your hair, in
your hairline and aim for that point.
And that goes for everything.
If you want, again, severity with your lift, your eyebrows,
your eyeliner, your eye makeup, your lashes can all point
in that one direction and meet at that point.
Did we look at that already?
That's not really necessary because it just ended
up blended into, like, the normal cheek thing.
If you have fuller cheeks, if you don't like it,
you kind of want to leave this area alone.
If you draw underneath here, you're cusping that.
Let me do it now for you.
You're cusping the apple of the cheek.
So if you don't like a fuller apple of the cheek,
then you don't necessarily want to contour
it because you're just making it fuller.
You're making it more obvious and in some cases,
even like lowering the face a little bit.
You can tidy up under here, but can
you see how this bit looks flatter,
and this bit looks plumper?
So if you do have plump apples of
the cheeks, it's not really the best technique.
Let me even myself out.
If you want to accentuate it, then absolutely.
I'm not sure what that little round
ball on the end there was.
That's not really necessary.
I guess it's just to be like eye catching.
Okay, so this video has copyright music
in the background behind the person talking.
So I'm just going to read out.
I'm going to read the captions as we go. Okay?
So it says, I've always been bad at doing wings.
And then I looked at this and I
was like, this is kind of wing shape.
Watch this.
And then she stamps onto the eyelid like so.
Cute.
Now I can just... and then she does it again.
Stamp.
And joins the liner onto the rest of the lid.
Good discovery.
It would work, but yeah.
But I mean, you're going to poo yourself when you see
the actual eyeliner stamps that exists.
This is like, what's it called, these like, infographs.
And it's, "How to balance your excess foundation.
Do dab with a Beauty Blender.
Don't blend it with blend it with the..."
Huh?
"... blend it with a brush.
Blending it with the brush..." Jesus. Sorry.
"... may create a patchy look."
That's not necessarily true.
If you do have excess foundation on the face.
Beauty Blender is fine also, but
brushes are also fine as well.
If you just use a dense brush.
I love this one from My Kit Co.
And tap it in just like a Beauty
Blender but without the bounce, it'll be absolutely fine.
I swear people just make things up for, like, you know.
And then we also have this one
which is saying where to highlight.
Here's the thing, right, when you see
graphs with these lines on the face,
remember, everyone's face is different.
Where people contour and where
you contour, where you highlight
and where they highlight is completely different.
You don't have to do line, line, line.
For example, on a longer face, the highlight
going down like that will elongate the face,
as well as having it in the middle
will make it a little bit longer, too.
And same with the chin, you're doing
this light all down the middle.
So if you do have a longer face, it's nice to
do like brow bone, cheek here, cheek here, and then lip.
Keep it like this.
Whereas if you have a rounder face, it's
nicer to do it like this.
But if you want to enhance the length, if
you have a longer face, then do that.
If you want to enhance the roundness
and do it across as well.
It's so strange because we're so into makeup and we
all know that everyone's face is different, everyone's skin is
different, but yet when it comes to contour, a lot
of the time, people just do exactly the same thing.
It's a very like, you know, come on, guys.
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