How Does She Do It?? | Trying Nina Park Makeup

Excuse the dogs barking in the background if you can hear that, they're not even my dogs and I'm frankly not in control of them. But I do want my window open because I just like love kind of putting the opportunity out there for spiders to crawl into my home and just get like a cool breeze, you know? Those are my dogs and I still can't control them. Another thing that I don't want to talk about and yet I am going to acknowledge like first and foremost so that we must is my background right now. The desk background, first of all, just doesn't work logistically and secondly, I don't want it anymore. But I don't know what background I do. We got some things to figure out, okay? But I'm taking the approach of like let's make the YouTube exist first and then we can make it perfect later. Okay, as I talked about in one of my previous videos, I am trying to kind of figure out like what I want my new makeup routine to be. And much like everybody else on the planet, I'm very inspired by Nina Park's makeup. If you guys don't know Nina Park, she's a celebrity makeup artist. She does really incredible work. And I was looking at her work visually with my eyes as one does. Here's what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to like get really heavily into researching exactly what she does and exactly what products she uses and all those kinds of things. I wanted to like sort of zoom out and be like, what, what's going on here that makes her makeup so special? And what I noticed was that she uses very subtle contrast to like the maximum ability. So it's pretty easy within makeup to use high contrasting elements to make like a really striking feature, like really intense contour, really intense, like sharp eyeliner, cut creases, dramatic tone changes, you know what I mean? And this intro is getting lengthy. Yes. And yet here I continue. Maybe I should start doing my foundation while I, while I am. When I was looking at examples of Nina Park's work, it reminded me so much of the first time I figured out putting eyeshadow underneath my lash line, which like you have to remember, this was like a very long time ago when I first started really getting into makeup. It was probably like 2008, 2009 ish. So YouTube wasn't, I mean, YouTube was around question mark. I don't know. I wasn't watching YouTube. I was literally just doing makeup, you know, like I was just enjoying doing makeup and I was figuring things out as I went along and I cannot stress enough the way in which I thought I was a genius. If I figured out like the tiniest little thing, but I remember so distinctly the first time I put eyeshadow on my lower lash line and I was like, Holy ----. Like this just totally changed the appearance of my eyes. Like it made my eyes like really like pop, like they're like standing off my face. It feels like, and that's what a lot of Nina Park's makeup makes me think of because it's so subtle and it's almost like in the category of no makeup, makeup kind of thing. But it's, it's not, it's like very strategic placement of the most subtle contrasting colors ever. So like this image in particular was one that I was looking at where it's like, there's not like really intense blush, bronzer, liner, lip, anything like that. But it's like, you're taking just like, even right here, I kind of suspect that she used, um, an eyeshadow that has like the faintest amount of Pearl to it, like almost an indiscernible amount of Pearl. It's like so subtle, but it gives this really kind of like ethereal, almost like glow to the eye. And it creates dimension in such an unbelievably subtle way and same thing here. And I could be wrong. Like, again, I chose not to look into what products she's using specifically. But when I look at this one of Margaret Qualley, it's like, again, in that inner corner, it's like the most subtle Pearl. So where normally we would kind of opt for like either a brighter shade or a more intense Pearl so that we're getting this really dramatic kind of contrast. It's like going in the opposite direction, like doing less contrast to create more impact. And even what I noticed a lot with like her eye looks is she'll do like either black or a darker liner on the top. And then on the inner corner, she does like a Brown. And even like with the lip liners and stuff like that, it's like, there always is this really clear distinction between like, okay, there's clearly two different colors going on here, but they're not so dramatically different. I think that summarizes her talent. Well, it's just these subtle, but really thoughtfully applied products, colors, contrast. So that's what I'm going to be trying to achieve. I'm not necessarily, I'm kind of making like an amalgamation of a bunch of her looks. I think I'm going to be going down more the path of like this eye look from that she did on Margaret. Why can I not figure out how to like, okay, I have a bunch of like the screenshots of like the skin that she did on Emma Stone and the lips. But I like that this is like a more dramatic eye. And like, to be honest, I probably am going to put lashes on, but like, that's just who I am as a person. Okay, great. So I'm just putting down my eye base, which is the now discontinued Rare Beauty, but I have backups. Okay. So I'm like prepared for at least a little bit. This is, if I may gush, part of what I love so much about makeup because it truly has all been done before, but it's like someone that's just paying attention and taking the time. And honestly, sometimes it's not even like on purpose. Like sometimes people just have their style of makeup and that's how they apply and other people kind of like read into it and make it something more than it is. I don't know what her philosophy is around makeup again. Like I had chosen not to look into it because that's like the joy to me is being able to just kind of like look at a photo and try and discern on my own behalf, you know? Okay. So this looks to me like there's something, I'm probably just going to put this up on the screen instead of continually holding on my phone like I'm 70 years old. It looks to me like there's a very subtle wash of color going through the lid. I don't think you've had an official introduction. This is one of our kitty cats. This is Pumpkin. She has her arms shaved because she got spayed. Oh my sweet. Yeah, you're such a little love bug. And by such a little love bug, I mean she's like insane. She's just like feral. It's something else. She's like a nightmare. It's crazy. Yeah, I'm a freaking nightmare cat. Oh my love. I'm probably not going to call out exact shades of what I'm using on my eyes in particular because the whole purpose here is that we're choosing shades that are kind of like more low contrast. So you'll need to choose things that are appropriate for your skin tone. We want a wash of color rather than like a really concentrated kind of like design. Like we don't want like a really obvious crease. So I'm going to take a little bit of a bigger, fluffier brush. This is a Smith 235. And I'm just going to dot in there, tap off the excess. Starting at the outer corner, you always want to place your brush down first where you want the heaviest deposit of color. And I'm just going to sweep that across. This is just like so simple and basic. And then I'm kind of blending down towards the lash line. And everything in my body wants to define that more than it is, but I'm honestly going to leave it there. I'm going to kind of start really light and we can build to it later if we want to. And then it looks like she kind of lifted it towards the outer corners a bit and kind of like up towards the brow bone. So I'm just going to continue to sweep whatever excess is on there up towards my brow bone. Okay, so it looks like she took kind of like a gray and smoked it across the lash line. I'm going to do that with a brown. I'm going to use my Sigma detail pencil brush for this. I don't know if this is still available, to be honest, but I digress. Actually, I'm going to take the same shade that we went through the crease with. I'm going to take that on my detail pencil brush and I'm going to again tap off the excess. I'm going to start on the outer corner and lift up towards the crease. And then once I have less on my brush, I'm going to start working more towards my inner corner. Again, I'm always placing down first on that outer corner and then working my way over because it's like such subtle definition that I really don't want to risk overdoing it. So every single time I put my brush back down, I'm putting it back down on that outer corner where we want it to be the darkest. Let's say you picked up more product than you anticipated or suspected or whatever. You'd rather put down more product where you know that you're going to be building up color and definition rather than in that inner corner where you want it to remain pretty light. Now, I'm taking a slightly deeper shade on that same brush. I'm being conscious of where I'm concentrating the product. So when I dip down my brush, I'm putting it more on that very tip rather than like on the belly of the brush closer towards where the ferrule is. And then that's the part of the brush that I'm touching down directly into the mic, directly purring into the mic, touching down right along that lash line, working over. And this is not something you'll really be able to tell on camera. But like as I'm working more towards the inner corner, I'm touching the brush to my skin less and less. So when I'm going on my outer corner, I'm really pressing that brush down and onto the skin. And then as I work towards my inner corner, I'm basically like just feather light, barely tapping my brush to the skin. It looks to me like she used actually, I thought that she had used a liquid liner, but I think that she actually used a really fine angle brush and an eyeshadow. So I'm going to take my Hindash palette and a Smith 205 brush, and I'm going to basically stamp on that liner on the outer corner. Hold on. I also kind of want to see the placement. It looks like she placed it a little bit over. So, so, okay, here's like the outer corner of my eye. It looks like it's placed almost a little bit more over, and that's what I'm going to do for my first line. And then I'm not dragging the brush. I'm literally just like stamping it down, which is going to give me the most concentration of color. And it's also going to give me the most control over where that line ends up and how thick it gets. So when you're wanting to create like a nice thin line, like she does in a lot of her eye looks, stamping rather than like pulling the brush is going to help you keep that line more thin because you can kind of build up the color without extending it in a way that you don't want to. And then always look at like how you're positioning your brush. Um, when I first went in, I took that eyeshadow, like right on, like perfectly center on the brush and stamped it down perfectly center. And then when I'm going to kind of clean up that top part, I turn my brush around, I pick up the eyeshadow on the edge of this brush. So when I'm turning it around, that's where my eyeshadow is going to be concentrated is right along that edge. So it'll help us to create a nice crisp line guys. Honestly, when I get back into the swing of things, I'm almost like, damn, I, I like, I know how to do makeup. I'm going to take one of the lighter colors. I'm taking it along the edge and same thing. I'm stamping along the lash line with that lighter color. Always thinking about that low contrast moment. Like that is where the magic is coming in. It's like that subtlety. So even just like looking at my eyes, like it might not look like anything on camera to you, but in person it's like, you can see how the subtle contrast of adding a little bit more definition with like, not a dark color, but just a color, like a color that's like even kind of darker than my skin tone, adding that subtle definition, like does help to make your eye pop. And then when you have the whole thing of like all these kind of little moments of minor contrast coming together, then it creates this really beautiful, like, wow, how did you manage this look in theory? We'll see how this ends up. And also it's like little details that help to make the look, look really finished. Um, so when you think about something like tight liner, it's like that, like tight liner is one of those small things that it's like, do you have to do it? No, but it's like, you, you absolutely get a different outcome when you do something like tight liner and you're just making conscious decisions to kind of like cross your T's and dot your eyes. That said, I'm going to use, um, this Swede eyeliner in the shade mink grayish. I need a pencil, a sharpener though. And I'm going to tight line with the mink grayish. And then I'm also going to take that into my inner corner. And basically we're going to go into our inner corner and then stop once it meets the lashes. Oh, that feeling is just awful. I'm going to give my eyes a hot second to bounce back so that I don't like cry off my eyeliner here. And then in the meantime, I'm going to dig out a spoolie brush because when you look at her mascara in particular, like the ways that she does mascara, not a clump in sight, baby. And then I do think I'm going to do, um, some kind of like bunchy little lashes on the outer corner rather than like a full strip lash or a half lash or anything like that. So I think I'm going to use the Swede no lash lash, but in the meantime, we're going to curl our lashes. I'm going to put on my mascara and then I'm going to use my spoolie to work through, Oh my God. The blast from the past booty call. This has more Pearl than I want it to. So I'm going to kind of dot back and forth between foxy and booty call. And I'm going to take a very tiny little, this brush. I'm actually going to dot some off on the back of my hand because I really don't want to go overboard. I'm going inner corner upwards. And again, we're just creating this really, really subtle highlight on the inner corner. Now I'm going to use that same brush. I'm going to grab a product right on the very, very, very edge of it. And we're just going to do a really thin little line that we're going to really smoke out. Um, not smoke out. We're going to blend the ---- out of it basically to make sure that it's like the most subtle line ever. I'm picking up a really similar color to what we used through our crease. And then I'm going in the outer corner about like halfway in maybe a bit more. Did I forget to turn my, um, audio back on? It would seem. Okay. I'm going to hop. I'm going to do my foundation. Um, and probably my brows, I think. And then we'll jump back for the rest of the skin and the lips, which like the lips is really like kind of the star of a lot of Nina Park's show. Okay. Foundation is done in an effort to not go overboard with my bronzer, which I think we've like come to understand. Um, it's just like an inevitability for me. I'm going to use a powder. It's already going down a dark path. I'm going to use a powder. I'm gonna use a powder that's discontinued. And I'm gonna use a powder. That's not actually a bronzer. This is the Becca perfecting powder in the shade beige. I'm going to take that on a big brush. I'm going to tap off the excess and then I'm just going to press that onto my cheek. And then I'm taking that around the temples and I'm kind of like pressing basically onto my lid as I go past as well. Like that outer kind of portion of my temple lid area. Um, just to sort of make it a little bit more of a seamless, I don't know. And then honestly, it doesn't look like there's ever a lot of nose contouring going on, but I am going to take a little bit of that powder and press it kind of like almost on the edges of my nose as if I'm contouring, but I'm like very clearly not. Nobody's contouring with this, but almost just to add a little bit of depth there. I want to do a more subtle blush as well. And same thing. I'm going to take it on that same big brush. I'm using tart risque. I don't know if this exists anymore in the world. Same thing. I'm tapping into that blush, tapping off the excess, and then I'm just going to like barely touch it to my skin, kind of starting not on the apples, but like halfway over and then just tapping to add more. Everything in me wants to just like pile on this blush right now, but I'm trying to stick to the theme. I suspect that she is using a lip tint, but honestly, in some of these photos, I'm like, maybe not. Like it could be like a lipstick that's really been pressed into the skin. But regardless, I'm going to use a lip tint because I just don't, um, typically. So I think that this could be a fun time. Okay. I'm going to use this, um, one from Sachu. This is in the shade 01 nude. I'm going to put that all over my lips. What are left of my lip balm. I'm just going to basically press it into my lips to more evenly distribute it, not take it off completely. When I'm putting on that on my lips, I'm just barely underlining my lips, uh, so that I don't actually end up with a tint where I don't want one. Okay. And then I'm peeling that off once it's dry. And then any excess pigment, I'm taking a little cloth and wiping it away. So we have as even of a base as we possibly can. Now I'm going to be taking two different kinds of like lip linery things, um, to start creating that really specific kind of like Nina Park lip. Um, I'm going to be using the KJH, uh, precision sculpture Stilo in etch. And I'm going to be using the Jones road lip liner in mauve, mauve, mauve, whatever. I just have to say quickly about these. They are the ******* best, no surprise. Like obviously Katie Jane Hughes is just like perfect in every way. It's just the very distinct difference between when a makeup artist formulates product. It's like for what this is supposed to be doing. It is the perfect texture, blend ability, pigmentation. Like it's just everything. So I love them. They're phenomenal. Um, I use them on my lips all the time. I usually use the shade deeper than this. I'm pretty sure it's just the shade deeper, uh, which is chisel chisel, but I'm going to use this shade edge today to create more of that kind of like, almost like contouring our lip shape. I don't know how I'm going to make this not go down like a very like butthole esque path. Um, but I'm just going to try my best. Okay. So I'm going to start by just like ever so slightly underlining my lips and then I'm going to take a fluffy eyeshadow brush. This is the Smith 230 and I'm going to use that to start blending this out and creating a little bit of a kind of shadow here. So the reason we want to underline is because when we start buffing this out to get that kind of like soft dimension, we don't want to have already overlined and then we're blending out way further than that. Do you know what I mean? So if we underline, we can be a little less precious with how we're blending it out. Um, but if we overline them, like we're just, I don't know, I don't know. We're going to go down like a buttholesque path. Also, I want to be like crystal clear. I'm talking about it. Like I know what I'm doing here and I just simply do not, but I'm actually fine with how this is going so far. God, I hate to say it. I think I might ******* like that lip tint. That's no shade to the brand. I just like, I'm not typically a lip tint gal. Okay. Now I'm going to take my Jones road, um, pencil and I'm going to do a little bit more definition around our actual lip line. And as you're going sketch your line, buff it out with your finger, sketch your line, buff it out. Okay. I'm going to take plush ritual and bear, and I'm going to take the tiniest little bit of that on my finger. I'm going to blend out some of it on the back of my hand. And I'm going to take that down the very center of my lips because I want to create like the most subtle contrast by way of texture rather than color. I mean, I know myself and I think that I will likely end up adding a lash to this, but I, I do like the lips. I like the skin being like a less dramatic kind of contrast. And overall, I think it's just kind of fun to do something different with your makeup. That's it for me today, guys. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will catch you in the next one.