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"I know I look crazy, but I
really need to show you this brush.
I swear, no matter what I do, my undereye
concealer just never looks smooth and seamless until this.
Until this.
Okay, let me just show you this magic.
The way it blends in the concealer, it's flawless.
Are you looking? The coverage...
It literally looks like it's just my skin.
It's the Sigma F03
High Cheekbone Highlighter brush. You need it."
You know why?
Because it's fluffy, but it's flat at the same time.
So with a flat brush and concealer,
you're pushing it into the skin.
You get more of a tap into the skin,
whereas with something that's wider and fluffier, for example,
although I do like eyeshadow blending brushes for concealer,
it's going to spread it out more because you're
doing more of this sweeping motion.
Whereas if you're going in with a flat brush
and tapping, but you also have this fluffy curve
to it, you're getting a really nice mixture of
tapping in and buffing at the same time.
So you get a really nice natural finish.
It's a great brush for powder.
It's a great brush for anything
you want to have that good smooth coverage, but not
heavy because you're buffing but pushing at the same time.
I love Sigma, by the way.
I have my own brush set with Sigma, so.
"No.
No. No, no, no, no.
Exactly."
Beautiful.
We still doing this powder thing under the eyes?
Is that still happening?
Like, yes you...
Like use powder under the eyes, absolutely, because,
because you can and because you absolutely can.
But the baking thing has got to stop.
It has to end soon because it doesn't look nice.
And when people are like, I do it
and it looks really nice to me. And then I'm like...
I'll tell you why.
Under eyes are drier then our eyelids. Eyelids, oily.
Undereyes, dry.
We're going to crepe it all up with powder.
People are like, it stops my creasing.
What makeup can't do is stop your skin's movement.
It's not going to stop your undereyes creasing.
It might give the appearance of,
your makeup, might physically not create those lines.
But your skin looks dry.
It looks dry.
Now, if you're very lucky and have incredibly
smooth undereyes then you're good, if you
have more of a textured undereye, don't bake.
Hydrate, don't bake.
"If your makeup always looks dry and cakey, no
matter what foundation you use, I'm going to show
you a simple hack to fix that.
This is going to sound crazy, but you're going to
apply moisturizer on top of your makeup.
To do this I like using Eco Fabulous Ultra Hydrating Moisturizer.
You're going to apply it on the back of your
hand and lightly press it in with a beauty sponge.
The Niacinamide and Squalene from the moisturizer is going
to melt all that makeup into your skin, leaving
you with a smooth yet glowy complexion."
The reason that's probably not a good thing to
do for most people, squalene is an oil, and
it's actually in a lot of makeup removers also.
But putting an oil on top of a foundation that
has already been broken down, more likely by oil,
it's not going to smooth it out in any way.
If your makeup looks like that, I would just go
ahead and give up and take it off and reapply.
There are certain places where you can
fix it, around the nose especially.
But I would think about what's breaking it down
in that case for it to be that bad.
"Bro, who is paying you bitches to
lie for these [___] makeup brands?
Bro, I'm done.
If you'll don't get on here and start telling the [___] truth about [__] bro...
I am so [___] irritated right now.
And don't come from me when I bring
out these two products that I [___] got
that I absolutely [___] despise right now.
Because you'll ride or die for this [__].
And I literally see it on TikTok all the time,
which is why it took me literally months,
months to get this [___] [__].
These bitches.
$80, bro.
There's literally... you hear that?
There's literally no product in here.
When I tell you that I had to literally squeeze
and I felt how much product was in here, bro,
literally nothing. Nothing. I had to squeeze.
Literally, there's probably maybe this
much product in here.
$80 for these two things.
And honestly, I'm not even that frugal with my
money because I believe in investing in good makeup.
Like, if it's amazing and it
blends well and [__] like this.
But, bro, literally, two out of ten. Six out of ten.
I would rather use my [___] Makeup
By Mario or my Rare Beauty
[___] bronzing, stick over this [__], bro.
Over this [__].
Literally, it damn near blends away to nothing
if it even blends away at all.
This is the same [___] way, bro.
So stop lying. Like, I'm...
I ain't never been this shitty,
but this just pisses me off."
Overpriced, overhyped by influencers constantly.
That brand, Charlotte Tilbury, is at best just fine.
Just fine.
I've used some of their products, that night
cream is like sleeping with, I
don't know, glue on your face.
It's not the best.
And here's the deal as well.
There's something about that brand that
influencers just love hyping up.
And it really isn't...
There are better.
There is better.
I don't know what it is. I don't know.
I don't know whether they give them loads of
PR or they love buying their ads, but it's
just not as great as people make out. Like, it's fine.
People use it, and they like it.
But the overhype of that brand is something else.
That is horrendous.
But let me tell you why I'm not surprised.
Let me let me tell you this, right.
In most makeup... let's start from the thing.
In most makeup schools, they do not
teach how to do all skin tones.
They do not teach it.
You do it on your friend next to
you or another person in the class.
And what if everyone in your class is white?
Where are you going to get that experience from?
I mentioned this before, but I used to
help people put together their kits, right.
So they would come in from a school,
and this is when I worked for MAC.
And they would come in, and we'll spend, like,
a good few hours with them before we opened,
and we'll help them sort out their kits to
go into the world of business in London, the
the world of being a makeup artist in London,
everyone exists and everyone lives of all ethnicities.
And I don't know if it's something they were being
told while learning makeup, but when it came to sorting
out their foundations and what they need, right, we would
always do, because they were students on a budget.
We would have maybe, like, three light tones, right?
Maybe two mid tones, and then three
or four deeper tones and mix.
When you're a makeup artist, you don't
want your kit to be too heavy.
You want it to be quite light, and you
can decanter all these foundations into something else.
So you should have enough shades
for everyone, and I mean everyone.
So what if your clients aren't usually
black or they aren't usually that pale?
What if you're on set one day and you have
a model and you don't have their skin tone?
How [___] embarrassing.
How embarrassing for you as a makeup artist.
How embarrassing.
I've had to help people who couldn't do deeper skin
tones for some reason, were unable to do it.
I've had to even lend people bits
from my kit in professional settings because
they don't have the right stuff.
There's this mindset in these schools that are teaching
people and also, like, from makeup artists where they
don't need to cater for deeper skin tones because
they rarely do a deeper skin tone.
Okay, fair enough. But what about when you do?
What about when you do?
What about when a time comes to it?
What's that conversation like? Oh, I'm so sorry.
I can't do your makeup today. Why?
Because I don't have anything for you in my kit. Why?
Why?
Embarrassing.
Just a little heads up here.
I forgot to record again on my microphone,
so the sound is for my camera. It's not too bad.
It's bearable, and there's not long left of the video, so.
It's okay. Sorry.
"One tip I have as a makeup artist is
when you're young, a lot of times to balance,
you have a ton of vibrancy in your skin.
A lot of things.
You're worried about looking too orange.
You're worried about looking too red.
You're trying to get a little depth and structure.
And so you use a lot of cool toned products.
And as you age, you lose a
lot of the vibrancy in your skin.
So think of products that look almost
neon, blushes that look like hot pink.
You're going to be able to use less product,
which is always great and helps with the texture,
helps with everything lasting a long time.
And then you'll also just be balancing, where you're balancing
when you're young with a little bit of cool.
As you age, you want to kind
of move that to the other direction.
So I would say avoid cool toned
blushes, avoid cool toned contours or bronzers,
and really think of warming everything up."
That's the one thing I get asked a lot,
like, throughout makeup, my makeup career.
Any tips for mature skin?
Now remember I always say this
mature skin isn't an age.
It's a skin type.
So it doesn't mean just because you suddenly
hit like 50, you have mature skin.
You might have a skin that's
actually quite young for your age.
But if you do feel you have mature skin, exactly
like the artist said in that video, and I find
it quite funny how she said almost neon.
And I think by... not saying that she means this,
but I think in my mind, what comes to mind
when she says neon is those glow from within products.
So to me, that's something like a baked mineral
blush, a pressed mineral blush that has this glow
that looks like on the cheeks, it looks like
a flush of color, but with that mineral aspect,
it gives this glow from within kind of look.
So it's adding that healthiness and that glow
and that vibrancy back to the skin.
Think radiation.
You want products that look healthy.
We don't want to powder too much.
We don't want to mattify too much.
Again, we don't want those cold gray tones because
that grayness adds that lack of light and vibrancy.
Again, I mean, you look here on my cheeks,
there's nothing light and vibrant about this.
There's nothing light and vibrant about this.
Whereas if this was a pinky peach or like
a nice soft coral, it adds that vibrancy back
to the skin, and it adds that healthy glow.
I've been eating my vegetables, you know?
I don't think that's a good idea, do you?
Gray. It looks really gray.
Your contour is meant to be gray, but it's
meant to be a controlled amount of grayness.
Even the highlighted areas look gray.
So you have this gray patch just
in the middle of your face.
It doesn't look good.
It looks fine on camera.
Well, fine loosely, but it doesn't look nice.
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