Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me. So today what we are
doing is
second chances. Everyone deserves a second chances.
That's not really true. So I've got six products here, and one more which I just
want to touch on and... something in a little bit, that,
these products I've tried and I've been like, okay,
they're fine but I, they're they're good but like what am I missing? Like what am
I missing here? Why... I need to
try again. Maybe I just didn't quite feel the shade at that time or maybe the
application I did was a little bit dodgy, or something like that. So I want to give
these products a second chance and just see where I'm going to go with it. If
you've ever seen my keep it, fix it, dump it videos where I try different products
and see if I'm going to keep them or get rid of them, donate them, some of these
you may have seen in the like get rid of thing. And I keep some of them for videos
just like this where I think, you know what, I could have used it this way and it
would have been better. So, I have some of them here. Just before we get into that
today, if this is your first time here, hi, my name is Robert. I'm a professional makeup
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just jump... oh, you know what? Let me carve out my, oh no,
I'll do my brows first. So this is the Benefit Brow Zing.
It says Pro Palette. Zings, I miss... I knew I missed an 's'
somewhere but I couldn't... dyslexia. I couldn't see where the 's' was.
Pro palette. So it has three different waxes here, and then four
different shades of powder. Now, here's my issue with Benefit, right. They
actually really kindly send me a lot of brow stuff. And Benefit do have
incredible brow products, like I think they've covered everything when it comes
to brows. However, none of the shades are really good for me, their darkest seems
to be, correct me if I'm wrong, this really dark, dark brown. That doesn't
quite hit black, but doesn't quite hit
the kind of dark brown I need. So, I'm gonna try today their darkest color here.
I'm not going to use these waxes because I hate these, nothing is strong
enough for my brows unless they're laminated and I use something like, you
know, the brow things that you stick your spoolie in, the waxes. Not waxes,
like glues, basically. So I'm going to take this shade right here. So the powder
is the shade Cool Black Brown. So we're going to go ahead and use that one. Let
me sit forward a little bit. I'm going to use the tiniest, tiniest little brush
I could find to do like individual hairs. This is from Spectrum X Katie Jane
Hughes, and this is the brush number 23. Running out of breath there. I usually
like to use like a brow pen because I can flick and get like that hair-like
stroke. Powders, to me, sometimes are a little bit like, you know, they look like
powder, they look flat. And I like brows to have a little bit more dimension to
them but let's give it a go. I'm not going to start right at the front here, I
want to leave that like a little bit lighter.
Hmm, yeah. That's not bad, you know.
I do already have like a brow product in my eyebrow, so perhaps it's not going on
as pigmented as it could be but it is giving me a really good
build up of product. The only issue is I have, again,
it's powder so it does look very flat. Like it, it has no... I was
going to say expression.
There's no expression. Let's fill in under here.
I think it looks alright, I think it looks fine. Would I use it again? Actually
probably not, because my brows do look a little bit flat. I do prefer that
like very, very slight sheen you almost get from a pen, it just adds a little bit
more depth to the brow. And one thing I would have to say about the layout of
this product as well is I'm not quite sure why they have put the darkest
wax in the middle here, and put the clear one here. I would shift this over this
way. I've actually got rid of the powder but quite a lot of powder came off this,
and if that was to get into the clear wax it's a little bit annoying having to
wipe it off, and waste some product. So I would just shift that as far away from
the deeper shades as possible, and put the deeper shade here where the color
won't really affect it. See, it's just, it's just very powdery and I, and I worry
for the clear shade there. Like it needs to be,
it's gonna get dirtied, okay. Okay, I'm just gonna carve out my brows quickly
and put on some eye primer, and then we're gonna try an eyeshadow palette.
Okay, hi, I'm back. Okay, so the eyeshadow palette we're gonna use today is the
Bottle Blonde from Trixie Cosmetics. I use this once
and I haven't used it since because I wasn't
that crazy about it, to be honest with you. The finishes, this one in particular
sorry, the texture, this one here, Polished. It looks like it's going to be this
incredible shimmer and it really wasn't that. And I think it's the way... you can't
really use a finger in it because it's so like pressed in there but you
immediately like see, like it's come off a little bit. It immediately like
flattens. You know when you get that hard top on the product and you have to
scrape it off or get the tape out? It does that, and that's kind of annoying.
And the color payoff wasn't that great with,
with a brush. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use something, another
product with this as well. But we're going to do a just a purple, I want to
keep it kind of like monochromatic a little bit. Not really. So I'm actually
going to start with the shade Blowout which is this brownie shade.
And it's not like, it's not like the texture of the other ones, there's
nothing wrong with them, I quite like the matte shades. I don't know, I just
wish it was a little bit more... I don't know. I don't know what's missing.
I actually really like this color. This, it kind of looks, it looks brown in the
palette but on it's like thid really nice deep, deep purple. Has anyone watched
the new Saved By The Bell? It's on Sky here in the UK. It was, it was actually
really good except for what they've done to the theme song, that was terrible but
it was actually really good. I really enjoyed it. I'm just going to do
concealer quickly. I don't usually do this but I kind of need, I want like a
different shape today. I don't know why I just used that much concealer. I keep
doing this, I keep panicking.
So I want to go into Purple Shampoo, which is this one here. And I was, and I
just want to kind of like halo the whole look almost.
I'm gonna go in with I Got Bangs, which is this one, which is just like
straight up purple and use that on my lid.
Okay, and then... oh, you know what? Let me just, I want to darken up that corner
again. So, I'm going to take Lash Lift which is just black, basically.
Okay, so the product we are trying next is one that everyone went kind of crazy
for, and this is the the Danessa Myricks...
what are these called? Bits? No, I'll put the name on the screen.
Incredible brand Dennis Myricks, so if you haven't tried anything from her brand,
beautiful. She's an extremely amazing makeup artist.
And everyone kind of like sold these out. And when I tried them I was like, oh,
alright. But you know what I think the issue was when I did it the first time?
Is I don't think I had a good base color down, I feel like this, it looks good on
like a background almost, and I don't think I used enough. And I didn't
realize the texture as well, it's quite a sticky texture which I really liked
because it means it isn't going to flake around everywhere, and, you know, do
whatever. So, I'm going to build it up quite intensely this time on a good
purple background, and then I'm gonna let it dry and set.
That's better, okay.
Now, do I think... oh that looks good actually. Let me just...
See, because if, if I spread it too much
then it gets a bit patchy. I don't know if you can see that. Okay, I'm gonna let
that do whatever it is it needs to do. I mean, it looks pretty cool like that. It
will look great with some lashes. So let's just, I'm just gonna kind of keep
my head like this. I don't have a foundation I'm giving a second chance,
so I'm gonna whack on my foundation very quickly right now for you. Okay, let's
talk about bronzer, this is the Inglot AMC Advanced Makeup Components... what? Oh,
that's what AMC... sorry. Multicolor Bronzing, bronzing?
Powder. When I used this I was like, this is literally the worst bronzer I've ever
used ever, because the shade was really strange. Like I, for me,
it didn't fit but as somebody who would be building a kit or, you know, somebody
who's used many bronzers on many different people, with many different
skin tones, this would never be... when it's altogether, a shade that I would have
reached for, for anyone. Sorry.
But I'm going to try it again because I feel like I was having a bad day.
Let's just mix it all together, tap it off.
It's raining so heavy outside, it's so nice and cozy in here.
I, I just think, I just... no, I'm still not into it. It still looks orangey to me. And
you know what, yeah, some bronzers are going to be orangey on you if you, if you
get the wrong shade but this is just like...
I don't know, there's just something off, you know what I mean?
Yeah, not for me. Not for me. It's not as bad as I made out it was the
first time, like the day I used it, it genuinely was the worst thing that had
ever happened to me. And no one take that seriously. I know someone in the comments
it's gonna be like, well you haven't lived a very bad life... Okay so, so next up
is the Youthforia chemical reaction blush. Now, I had a good experience with this. I
really, really liked it. But what I wanted to do... when I used it I was doing like
this orangey tone eye and I was like, okay that doesn't quite fit for me. So I
wanted to do it with a purple. So I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm gonna do...
I'm gonna concentrate it up in this area here because I feel like a pinky tone on
myself, personally, if I bring it too far here it starts to look a little bit like...
... shit,
basically. And I know it looks kind of neon but it did settle down last time.
Can you hear that rain? I love it. I love, love, love days like
this where it's like pitch black outside at 2 p.m, and it's
pouring with rain. You know how I would treat this blush?
Almost as if you're applying your skin care and you're being very delicate and
very... yeah, I like that. I really, really like
that. I always get these little red bits here no matter how much foundation I put on.
Sun damage. Wear SPF. Yeah, I, I do really, really like that and
I like it even more... I liked it anyway but I... are my eyelid stuck to my eye...
I liked it before but I like it even more now that it's paired up with something a
little bit more complimentary. Okay, this is one I was so disappointed
in because I, I really... when I saw this online I was like I need, I need, I need
that. Look at all those fingerprints. And this is the Fenty Diamond Bomb
Triple Dip Palette. Now, I came to the conclusion that this will look
incredible on the body, and if you don't mind your
highlighters having like a shitload of glitter in them.
That was the problem for me with this one, was the glitter. It was just too, it
didn't look like a highlight it looked like a fun glitter product. So,
here's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna use it wet today to see if it helps make it
even smoother. And I'm going to use a setting spray, I'm going to use the Nimya
setting spray. And the reason I'm using this one is because I wanted to bring
this up. I used this on a night out in
London. Lisa Eldridge opened up her studio in Covent Garden, and I went to
the opening. She very kindly invited me along. And I used this setting spray
after, afterwards. Lucky I was drunk and I didn't realize, because when I got back
to the hotel room my face...
It was like, it almost had this finish to it where it looked like vinyl. Like it
was really shiny and plasticky looking but not in a nice way. It was, it was
really strange. I don't know if I used too much maybe
but I didn't use that much at all, I'm very minimal with my everyday makeup.
I would never do something like this outside. So I was a little bit
disappointed in the finish. It was a, I'm gonna have to test it... maybe it'll be in my
next second chances video. Next time I go out somewhere
I'll give it a go. But I'm gonna wet a brush today and use it in the
highlighter. It's just a really strange thing. I'm
gonna use quite a dense brush because I want to get as much as I
can from the highlighter itself. But I do feel like this kind of, especially when
they're domed like this they tend to be like baked. I do love the smell of that
setting sprayer, though. They tend to be more baked so they tend to go nicer with
something wet, a wetter product.
Is anything coming off? Or have I just f*cked it up completely?
Is anything coming off? Finger, maybe?
Is anything happening? Oh my God, I'm gonna, I'm gonna dampen it and use my
finger. Wait, no, that doesn't quite make sense.
Much better. Oh, my God, a million times better. Oh, my God.
So much, so, so much better. I like that now.
Yeah, that's nice. And it kind of has this nice pinky
undertone to it so it goes well with the blush. I'm gonna take a little bit under
the brow bone.
I think we've got like severe weather going on here because it is, I don't know
if you can hear it?
That's rain. Oh, I love that wet. Oh, my God, okay, so I'm... this is fine, that's fine. I'm
gonna use it damp with, with this setting spray every time. I know they work
together now, that's fine. This is a strange texture
on the lid. Oh, I just... look, it just breaks up in all
the folds. But I mean, I'm not necessarily going to
walk around like this, but. I don't know.
It's nice. I wonder now if I go on top with more if it will break it down, shall
we try? Would it break it down or will it just give it more staying power?
That's actually sitting quite nicely on top, okay.
Okay, so that's the key, let it dry then go on again,
sorted. Yeah, oh, that high... I, oh, the highlight is
so much better, so much better damp. Does it say... I bet it says like use this wet.
Damp on the face, dry on the body, beautiful. Okay, let me stick on some
lashes and we'll be done. The camera's there. Done.
Okay, well we are done with second chances. Everything was fine but yeah,
this is the finished look. These, these flakes things
you really need to let them dry before you even think about moving your eye
because as soon as it creases, it will leave a patch. It will leave a patch on
your eyelid. So, if you have creasy eyelids like mine,
just let them dry, just close your eyes for a good 20 minutes and just let them
dry because otherwise, they're going to move around. Yeah, everything was fine apart
from the Benefit thing, I'm not really into, and the Inglot bronzer. Everything was
great. I'm happy I got this to work, the Fenty highlighter,
because look how, that does look really, really nice. I knew it, I knew it in my
heart of hearts. I knew it was gonna work. Alright everyone, thank you so much
for joining me. And just another huge thank you to Karma for sponsoring
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