MAKEUP MAKES ME LOOK WORSE__ Everyday Makeup for Beginners (step by step, mistakes to avoid)

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So today I wanted to do a comprehensive
Everything you need to know video
So you can find a flattering everyday makeup look for your face
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If your skin isn't well moisturized
Before you start with foundation
It won't look as smooth, especially if you have dry skin like me
I like to use serum to moisturize my skin
Right before makeup application
Serums usually leave a tacky base for your makeup
And they're quick absorbing so you don't have to wait
I actually use this as a replacement for primer
Primers are meant to prep your skin for makeup
And some have specific functions
Like skin blurring or pore filling
If you use primer, you have to check whether it's
Silicone or water based
And make sure the foundation you use matches that
You can check this by checking the ingredient list
And if you see where it's ending in these
Listed in the first few ingredients
Then the primer is silicone based
Otherwise, it's water based
If you use a water based primer with a silicone based
Foundation or vice versa
This product separation and pilling will happen
For lip prep, I'm using the
I Do Care Glow Easy Nourishing Vitamin C Lip Oil
This lip oil has raspberry seed oil
In it which is rich in antioxidants
And softens the lips
It darkens to a really pretty berry pink
Which can become a brighter pink if you layer it
I have really dry lips and I found
That this works as a really good lip mask
While I do the rest of my makeup
So I'm going to let this sit like a lip mask
While we do our base
Pump foundation onto the back
Of your hand and swipe it onto your face
Like this before blending
This ensures you get even coverage over your entire face
Remember to check whether the foundation is
Water based or silicone based if you use a primer
And it's also just really good to check before
You buy a foundation because water based foundations
Are better for dry skin and silicone
Based foundations are better for oily skin
I wouldn't recommend using a brush
To blend in your foundation for beginners
Because it's really easy to make the mistake
Of not blending fully and leaving
Behind brush strokes
A beauty sponge will perfectly blend everything in
Concealers are thicker, more full coverage versions
Of foundation. They're meant to target certain areas
Of your face that the foundation didn't cover
Completely like dark circles and blemishes
You should use a concealer that's
Very close in color to your foundation
You could also use a concealer that's lighter
Than your foundation to brighten some areas of your face
But don't use those for blemishes
Since they'll create a spotlight effect
Around the blemish. Because concealer is thicker
You want to use very little
If you use too much, it'll emphasize texture
And cause creasing
Powder has a blurring effect
And prevents the liquid base from transferring
So nothing smudges under your hands
When you touch your face. Once you set your face with powder
The liquid products won't move
So make sure to blend out any creasing beforehand
Dip a brush into the powder and sweep
It back and forth against the holes in the packaging
To ensure there are no clumps
See how the evenly coated brush
Softly blurs the foundation versus
The clumpy powder which leaves behind patches
Pat it in and swipe it under
The eyes
This is the best way to get smooth under eyes
If you deal with a lot of creasing
And then set any areas that get oily
Or would come into contact with something else
So you don't leave a stamp of foundation
On anything
Next for contour, you want to make sure that you're using
A shade that looks cool-toned on you
A lot of beginners will mistakenly use
A bronzer as a contour shade
Unless you have really really warm undertones
You're gonna want to use something more cool-toned
So it looks more like a realistic shadow
Cause shadows in real life, they don't usually
Look like brownish red
So in the past, I would make the mistake
Of doing a 3 shape here
Which is just the standard that everybody knew
Like that's what was taught by all the makeup artists
But you want your contour
To enhance your natural features
Don't follow what other people are doing to contour their face
Everybody's face shape is different
And what looks good on other people might not look good on you
This step is gonna look different for everybody
But for beginners, I don't think you can go wrong
With just a simple jawline contour
Blush can be used to add colour back into your face
And it also contours your face
Depending on placement
So in the beginning, you saw me apply it here, right?
And this is where people used to tell you to apply it
But you see, if you apply it here
It can really drag your face down
It's not very flattering in my opinion
What I do now is I apply it right
On top of my cheekbones
When I first started with makeup
I didn't think blush was an essential
But now it's a part of my routine that I cannot skip
It makes a huge difference
You can see after we added the shadows here
You look like a little bit dead, right?
There's like not really much colour going on in your face
Because of the cool tones
So adding some colour back into here
It helps create a sort of a transition
Into the cool tones, the shadows
And then you can apply a little bit of
Blush to the tip of your nose
The type of brush you use to
Contour your nose is actually very important
The brush should be dense, small
And have a flat side like this
I'm going to start from my brow bone
And then you can start blending it down a little bit
And then
I'm going to move onto the tip of the nose
Next I'm taking my sponge
And blending it in
And then I'm going to take the Charlotte Tilbury finishing powder
This has a little bit of pigment to it
So I like to use it to
Clean up the sides of my nose contour
Finally the most important step
Of nose contour is actually the highlighting part
Use a small precision brush to apply
Highlighter to the very tip of your nose
If you apply highlighter all over the tip of your nose
It's going to make it look shiny
But it won't contour it
So what you need is you need to apply it using a very small brush
You can lightly diffuse it
Just make sure that the very centre of it
Is the brightest
And then sometimes I also like
To start using it on the bridge of my nose
The three main types of eyeliners are
Brush tip, felt tip, and pencil
Brush tip is best used for sharp precise lines
But it isn't as pigmented as felt tip
Felt tip is great for high pigment
And thick lines
And pencil is the best for smooth lines
I would recommend to beginners to use brown pencil liner
Over black eyeliner
The reason being this is a lot easier to clean up
If you make mistakes than black eyeliner
Here's a comparison between cleaning up black
And brown eyeliner
If you make a mistake with black eyeliner
It'll smudge and smear which will mess up your foundation
Brown pencil is just a lot easier to use
And is very suitable for everyday makeup
Since it's just a little bit softer
So if you're not familiar with eyeliner
Just create a very thin line here
For an everyday look
I also like to blend out my eyeliner
With a brown eyeshadow
Then take a very small brush
Doing this makes the liner look cleaner
While covering up any mistakes
Do you see how easy
It was to do winged liner?
It's very intimidating when you think about it
With black eyeliner or with just one product
But already with just the pencil and eyeshadow
Combined
You can see it creates a really nice shape
So at this point you can use a liquid liner
To make it sharper if you'd like
And then this next step
Is very important and as a beginner
You think it doesn't really make a difference
But it actually makes a huge difference
And that's lining your lash line
You can see how between my liner
And my pupil there's a little gap
We need to fill that in
So for the lash line I use a felt tip liquid liner
I recommend using a felt tip liner here
Because felt tip doesn't have tiny little hairs
Or brushes that can poke or maybe
Like irritate your eyes going back and forth
And then take your pencil liner
And line the waterline
And then some people might not like
Winged liner for everyday
Or you might not like it for your eye shape
In that case you could just do the regular
Diffused liner and then not create the sharp line
We're going to do
The under eye makeup now
I'm just adding some shadows to the lower lash line
And then using a brown eyeshadow
I'm going to emphasize
The outer corner
And then let's do
The little under eye fat look
Under eye makeup is popular in East Asia
And uses contour and highlighter to imitate the look
Of smiling eyes
It's usually referred to as aegyosal
And emphasizes the area around your eyes
Which gives a subtle eye enlarging look
But a really common mistake people make
When drawing their aegyosal is
They use the bottom of their eye socket as a guideline
This looks really unnatural because it's not
Where the shadows naturally fall when you smile
If I squint slightly
This is the entire under eye fat area
We can see where the area sticks out the most
That's the area where the under eye fat
Is the chunkiest
So when the light hits it, everything above it should be highlighted
And everything underneath it should be a shadow
This is what the aegyosal looks like
If we follow that guideline
But now let's go back to that line
The most common mistake is people use the bottom
Of the entire section of eye fat as a guide
And highlight and shadow in the bottom
It'll look like this
Of course this is all based on personal preference
But I find this less flattering and I think it imitates
Eye bags rather than smiling eyes
I'll show you what they look like back to back
So you can compare
Next let's curl our lashes
Curling your lashes opens up your eyes
Since it makes your lashes point up
When you curl your lashes, it's not like you just
Clamp it and then you're done
Clamp once, release
And then sort of lifting it, curl the next section
Again, release
And then curl the top section
This creates a natural C curl shape
And then this step is optional
But I like to curl my lower lashes as well
How you do this is
You take the lash curler, hook it underneath your eye
And then move it up
And once it gets to the bottom
Of your lashes, you can see that
It'll lodge in between them
That's when you clamp down
A mistake I used to make is
I used mascaras that wouldn't work for me
And I just thought like
Oh it's just supposed to coat my lashes
So my lashes would always look heavy
They would never hold a curl
So now what I do is I only use Asian mascaras
Which are made to hold a curl for really straight
Stubborn lashes
These are my two favorite Asian mascaras
Both are made to hold a curl but the Clio Kill Lash Long Curling
Is lighter while the Etude House Lash Perm Curl Fix
Is thicker and more volumizing
Pinching the lashes
Together helps separate them and remove clumps
My favorite
Lower lash mascara is the
L'Oreal Telescopic Carbon Black Mascara
This mascara is heavy and really good at separating
Your lashes. We actually want the lower lash
Mascara to be heavy so it can weigh down
The lashes and make them look longer
Now for eyebrows, I've actually struggled
A lot with my eyebrows in the past
I had a dip brow phase and then
Even when I started using brow pencils
I made the mistake of doing a line here
A line here and then just trying to spoolie it through
If you do that, your brows are going to look
Very unnatural
So what I do now is I use a very fine-tipped
Brow pencil and then
Just create hair-like strokes at the front
And then use the spoolie
End to diffuse them
Slightly. I leave the middle of my
Brows alone. It's all about knowing
Where you actually need the pencil
So here I feel like my brows look pretty thick
So I'll just go to the tail end
And then create the shape
Using the spoolie just
Diffuses everything so it doesn't look like there are
Any harsh lines. So you can see now
It just looks like a very natural
Brow shape. Finally, let's move on
To lips. I'm just going to
Overline my cupid's bow
In the past, I made the mistake of overlining
All of my lips. Personally, for me
I think it looks almost clownish when I do that
A lot of people have said that overlining
Makes them look like they have a mustache
And that's the issue is you're overlining
Your entire top lip. You need to be
Selective with where you're overlining
And then I bring it back to my natural lip edge
Swipe it up at the end
There are many types of lipstick formulas
And each have their own benefits
So everyone has their own personal preference
I prefer soft matte liquid lipsticks
Since they blur your lips. But the con
Is they don't last very long. Not all
Nude lipsticks are going to look good on you
There are some that are too warm toned
Some that are too cool toned. And what
You see that looks really good on somebody else
Might look very different on you. So you want
To choose something that matches your skin tone and undertones
I'll show you a few lip swatches
Of different nude lipsticks on my skin tone
So this is my perfect nude. It just looks like a good
Everyday lip color. Make sure to blend out the edges
Of your lips slightly. This helps with a soft
Blurred lip look and it helps mask
Any application mistakes or uneven lining
And that's it for this
Beginner everyday makeup look. Thank you so much
For watching. I hope this video was helpful. If you want me
To go more in depth on any of the steps mentioned
Like brows or blush, then
Let me know and I will see you in my next video
Bye!
