The Easiest No Makeup Makeup Look | 1 Eyeshadow, 30 Seconds

And just by doing this one thing, you can shave literally 10 years off of your face. And once you see it, you'll never unsee it. Hello, gorgeous girl. Welcome back to my channel. And if you're new here, hi, I'm Tracy. I'm 51 years old. I'm a lover of all things, fitness, wellness, skincare, beauty, makeup, fashion, and more. So if those are things that you love too, welcome home. Make sure to tap on the subscribe button and everyone click on the little bell so you always know when I have a brand new video that goes live. This video is going to break down something that I don't know why it's just not talked about, but honestly, it makes the hugest difference. And it's something that I've been doing for years. And I'm really just gonna break it down step-by-step of why you need to be doing this too. This is the exact reason why some makeup makes you look just tired and dated. And other times you have your makeup on and you're like, did I get a facelift? Like what is happening? So we're gonna get into it today. So celebrity makeup artists do this all the time. Artists like Mary Phillips, who does Kim Kardashian, Hailey Bieber, but I don't understand why no one ever talks about it. I don't ever hear anybody talking about this technique. So your brain reads age through the proportion of your face. And there is an actual term for this and it's called the baby schema effect. And it's the same thing that allows our brain to always think babies are cute, or puppies are cute, or small animals are cute. It's not a conscious thing, it's completely subconscious and it's working whether we know it or not. So I'm gonna put on my skincare as we're talking about this. This is the Timeline Mito-Pure Eye Cream. Really, really like this. Speaking of baby schema, hello. Hide those fine lines and wrinkles. And that wiring that creates that baby schema effect, it does not turn off, even if you're looking at an adult face. And like I said, it's subconscious. We don't even realize that we're doing it. This is the Elm Serums, the elemental serum I've been testing it. I really like it. This is the Martha Stewart one. And I do like three pumps of this because I also do my neck. I do three. So youthful faces have a shorter distance between our features. I have mentioned this in another video before, but I've never really walked you through exactly how to create this in real time. And that's what we're gonna be doing today. Now, as we age, gravity and volume loss create more distance between our features. And if you're over 45, you know exactly. Your brow starts dropping down. Your upper lip actually can get lower and farther away from your nose because of gravity pulling it down. Our cheeks, our apples of our cheeks that used to be so high, they're kind of like in the middle of our face now. And all of these changes together, when they're compacted, it creates to an older, more mature look. This is my Topical Estrogen Cream. This is a prescription that I've been using for over two years. And I really love this, especially as a prep for makeup. I only do it in the morning. Obviously everything that I'm talking about, I will leave you linked down below in the description. And of course, pinned as the top comment as well. So this trick that we're gonna be walking through today, it's not a hack. And it's really something that makes a massive difference in your appearance, I promise you. You're not faking smooth skin. You're not faking proportion. You're not faking anything. But again, like I said, it's a subconscious thing that we don't even realize. But once you see it, you kind of can't not see it on people's faces. Now I say this all the time on my channel, all this skincare that we just did and all this makeup that we're going to do, they all really help. But what really helps the most, and what in my opinion is the best beauty tool that you can ever, ever incorporate is sleep. More than any serums, more than any devices, and even more than any other treatments that you can do. And that's why I wanna thank the sponsor of today's video, BioOptimizers. Their magnesium breakthrough has kind of become my secret weapon. And I've been using it for a few months now. Most magnesium supplements only just give you one form of magnesium, but BioOptimizers has multiple different forms of magnesium working together. And magnesium plays so much of a bigger role in our bodies than most people think. It's tied to muscle recovery, mood, and yes, deep restful sleep that helps your skin actually repair overnight. I love to take mine in the evening as part of my like evening wind down routine, which if you know, you know, and you better be implementing. For those of us over 45, we are dealing with a lot. We have skin changes, hormonal changes, energy changes, all the things, and yes, sleep changes. And if your sleep isn't optimized and your magnesium levels aren't optimized, then you aren't optimized. So definitely check out BioOptimizers if you wanna try their magnesium breakthrough. I love it so much. It'll be linked down below in the description box. And of course, just like I said, everything we're talking about here will be pinned as the top comment. So let's get into the makeup. Our skin is prepped and that is also key anytime. Over 40, putting on makeup is you can't just put makeup on a dry old face. No, no, no, we need that preparation. And like I said, I just did three products here. So that's it. So we're gonna start off with tinted sunscreen. This is the Ontelio. I love this SPF 40. So I like to just put it on my hand and then I put it all over my face in lieu of foundation. Now I say this every time I do this because someone has to get going in the comments. I'm not putting this on to lay in the sun. I'm putting this on in lieu of foundation. If I was going to be outside and in the sun, I would absolutely put on more. Okay, so that is my tinted sunscreen all rubbed in and then, you know, a little cloth here to clean our hands. So we're gonna go into the first little trick that's going to shorten the features. Now, if you don't have eyeballs, I have quite a forehead. I've always had a forehead. It's not because of Botox, honey. It's because of the way my face is shaped. So we wanna shorten that distance a little bit and that's one of those hacks. So this is the Merit Multi Stick. This is in, do you see how far away I have to hold it? Someone needs readers. This is in shade Tiger Eye, okay? It's quite a deep shade, so I don't use a lot of it, okay? But I'm shortening the features. Next, I'm gonna shorten the feature between my cheekbones and my eyes. So instead of contouring down here, which would drag my face all the way down like one of those Sharpie dogs, no way, we're gonna put it right up high on the cheekbones and then I'm going to put it on my eyelid, okay? So that you're gonna see when I blend it in, that is going to also shorten the distance between my eyebrow and my eyelid and that's a good thing. Okay, so I'm gonna use a little brush here. I have my whole makeup bag here. And I'm gonna do this really carefully, especially in the cheekbones, of making sure that I am bringing it up, okay? Almost up to the eye socket, okay? So we just wanna really just nicely blend that in. You see how that's just like smooth? It's like your skin, but better, okay? Look at the difference. Even this cheek, it's like slightly lower, but we just shortened that distance. That's what we're gonna be doing today, okay? I think this is such a beautiful color. Now, we wanna shorten this eight head. What Spike Lee movie was it where they said they had an eight head? I can't remember. Anyway, so then we're gonna just take this and bronze up our forehead. Now, obviously, even if you have a small forehead, this is where you would normally get tan. So we wanna just fake that we're healthy and glowing and that we've gotten into the sun, but we don't do that, all right? And I'm keeping it in the center here to really just focus on shortening this distance, okay? I've had people like try to shade me and say, you look so great with bangs. I'm like, babe, I have wavy hair. I've had bangs. I do not look great with bangs. If you're trying to tell me I have a big forehead, I'm 51. You think I don't know that? Thanks so much though, Sally. All right, anyway, I'm gonna use a little brush to blend out the eyelids here. It's really nothing special. It's just a wash of colors. That's what we're gonna do here. But by creating this wash, do you see that we're shortening the distance a little bit? Okay? So we're not doing that old dated technique of the very light eyelid, the medium, and then the lightest on the brow bone. That is so 1985. No, no, no. Now this picks up on camera much darker than it really is, but I have to tell you, this is exactly how I do my makeup all the time. I'm clearly not a makeup artist, but I have learned a thing or two from over a decade on camera. Okay, then what I like to do is just make sure that there's no product coming down because what that would do would draw it down and we're shortening the distance. Okay, so that's it. Everyone always asks me, what is that eye shadow color? Bronzer. It's bronzer, okay? Now I wanna do a little bit of concealing. I really, I'm blessed. I take very good care of my skin. I don't have a lot to conceal, thank goodness, but we're gonna brighten up some areas a little bit. So I just do, and everybody can do this differently. I don't really have dark circles. I don't know how I got so lucky, but I don't really. And I just do it here and here, inner and outer corners. I do often like to do around my nose because I do notice with age, I have a little discoloration. I just kind of even out there and I have one little sunspot here. I have another one up here, but my hair always covers it, so it's fine. And then for this, I use my fingers. This is not a shortening technique. This one is just brightening, okay? But again, we're creating more brightness, more in like the center of our face. Oh, I forgot one place, another place I like to conceal. I open my eyes when I do this because I do have fine lines around my eyes and I just wanna get in there. But this is also why I don't use a ton of concealer because Lord knows we don't wanna put a ton of product in there to like highlight, you know, our wrinkles. What I forgot to do is I often will do just a little, like a couple, like three little dots there in the middle of my forehead. And what that's doing is just brightening the center. So we shortened and then we brightened. You see how like all of the brightening is like in the middle of my face. All right, my favorite. So another shortening technique here, again, that they don't talk about, is brushing up your eyebrows. So easy, but let me try and brush them down. Let's see how weird we look. Look at that, that's hilarious and horrible. No, no, no. We wanna brush them up. So even if I just did that, which sometimes like when I go to Pilates, I will often just brush up my brows and put on lip balm and that's it. But that makes a huge difference. So I like the Merit, this is the 1980, this is the Brow Pomade. I love this because it is tinted and I have gray eyebrows, which seem to be getting grayer by the second. So I do dye them with Just For Men and I look insane when I do it. But in just one little, look at the difference. You see how this side of my face is more lifted between this and the shadow and then this and the bronzer, we have really lifted, okay? So now we're gonna do the other side. This side, for whatever reason, I have more gray. So what I do, I just realized this, is I go a little slower on this one to really just get that color, okay? So that I don't have the gray. Okay, very simple. What I didn't do is one other shortening technique is I'm gonna just take the excess that was on the brush and I'm gonna just do it around my jawline, okay? And again, that's gonna just sharpen this up and create a gentle contour to, you know, give you more of a jaw, all right? So that's it. But I don't put extra product to do that. All right, next, we are going to use a brow pencil. This is the Kosas. I believe this is this is Brow Pop, also in Taupe. And I'm going to line the bottom of my eyes, okay? This is so subtle, but you're gonna see what a difference this makes. Now this, because it's really for brows, it's like a drier pencil, if that makes sense. Do you see how it just finished my eye a little bit? I love that. I don't always do this. I just sort of started doing it again. And I just think that the payoff is worth it. The juice is worth the squeeze, okay? So that's that, okay. Next, and then if my eyebrows were feeling a little gray or patchy even, I think this one always, this is my troubled child. I'm gonna just put a couple little strokes here in the eyebrow just to fill it in, okay? And then I just, here, I mean, the Brow Pomade, that 1980, really does a great job. I bet if you don't have gray eyebrows, you probably don't have to do this at all. But I just like to make sure that they're even, because sometimes, especially like on camera, I'll notice this one, it'll look thinner than that one. So we're just faking. Fake it till you make it. All right, then what else are we gonna do next? Blush. This is another one, but I need a sip of matcha, so hang on. You're not gonna put it on the apples of your cheeks. If you did that, look at how low that would be. No way, Jose. We need to shorten that distance. So we're gonna kinda go super high and mighty. This is the Milk Cheek Stain in Shade Chill. I also do my nose. That's not shortening any distance. It just makes it look cute, I think. And then we're gonna just rub that in, okay? And it just adds like a cute little pink little stain, which we love. But you see how we're just keeping everything really high on the face, which kind of gives you like a facelift effect. It's crazy. All right, I love blush layering. And if you're not new here, you probably know that. I totally have blush blindness. But you know what? It is what it is. So I have been loving for a long time the Happy Blush from Rare Beauty. I think it's just such a beautiful shade. It has a little bit of iridescence. Same thing here. I put it really high. This one, I really focus it like where the apples of my cheeks would be. And so I make it nice and high up here, okay? I take it out a little bit. I save it because a lot of times after I do everything, I find that I wanna add a little bit more, okay? Everything is soft, but we are tricking the eye. And it's crazy how well this works. Okay, next little trick, curl your lashes. Again, why? Shortening that distance. So very easy. I like the Tweezerman Eyelash Curler. And I just give it a couple little squeezes here. You have to be really gentle, but you wanna get in there. And no, this is not dangerous for your eyes. People often are like, oh my God, don't curl your lashes. I've been curling my lashes since I was like 14, okay? That's it. I mean, look at that. Look at that. How crazy is that? Look at the difference between my eyes. That's insane, okay? My lashes are very straight. So this just really opens it right up. So let's make our face even. Okay, our eyes are even again. Thank goodness. I'm gonna line my eyes with brown. So another little trick that I have learned is black is way too harsh, way too harsh at this age, especially with my coloring. If you have darker skin and darker hair, you might be able to get away with it or even gray. But for me, soft browns or plums are so much better. So this is the Jones Road, the best pencil in espresso. This one, I gotta say, this took me a little bit to get into, but now I really love it. What I love about it is a really smooth formulation. I didn't tell you what I was doing. So I'm doing the waterline, okay? But I like to, and you don't have to do this, but I like to bring it in the waterline all the way to the corner of my eyes. I started doing that probably about two years ago. It just really, again, check out the eyes. It really just defines it, and it just makes your lashes look fuller and thicker. And because I do not use lash extensions or any of that kind of stuff, no fake lashes here, I find that this is really helpful to create definition. And again, you see what I just did. I got a little bit, you know, it came down into the corner a little bit. Just take your finger, because again, you don't want anything drooping that face down, okay? That is just not the look. Droopy face, okay? Pretty. Then because we already curled the lashes, now I'm going to do the same thing. So this is, again, shortening the distance. I lift up just a little bit, and I draw like a check mark almost. So I'm going to go right here, okay? See what I just did there. And then, and it looks weird. It's totally going to look weird, but don't worry, it won't look weird. Okay, so you see what that is? See that shape? And I am not trying to be perfect with it, because Lord knows I am far from it. But then I just take a rounded brush like this, and I just kind of blend it in, smoke it out a little bit so it's soft. But again, it's giving you that pull. So it's shortening that distance, okay? So we're going to do that on the other side. So we shorten this distance. We shorten this distance. We're shortening this distance. We shorten this distance, right? We created a little contour here. We're going to go into mascara. This is a Merit mascara that, I love this mascara so much. I forget what it's called. I'll leave it here on the screen, but it is incredible. And it is so, it's a tubing mascara that doesn't feel like a tubing mascara. I don't know the voodoo they have. It's got this incredible kind of brush like this, and it lasts all day. No flaking, no smudging. But what I really like about it is it's not clumpy. My experience with tubing mascaras is a lot of them are really like clumpy, but I feel like this one is really, really nice. So I don't know if it's the brush or the formulation. Honestly, who cares? But it is so gorge what it does for your lashes. You get length, but you also get separation. There's another mascara that I really love, but it's like so expensive. It's kind of insane. It's like $70 a tube. It's, you know, it's lovely and it really does work, but I feel like this one is a little bit more cost effective and is so much better than the other tubing ones I've tried. Okay, you see the difference? See how this is, again, a little bit shorter, a little bit less distance because we have on that mascara. But I'm telling you, if you are still doing heavy lashes or lash extensions, I know everyone's different, but I really think it is not a, it's just not that flattering as we get older. I used to, man, did I do lash extensions and I used to use magnetic lashes when I was shooting and they just look bad. Like I look at those old pictures and I'm like, on what planet was I living where I thought that looked good? Okay, see how we shortened that? It's lovely, beautiful. Okay, and then we're just, I like doing a little bit, you don't have to at all, but I do like doing a little mascara. Again, I don't have dark circles. I think if I did, I probably wouldn't do that, okay? I told you I had blush blindness. We're just gonna do a little bit more on, okay? Shorten more distance. Then we're gonna highlight. Highlighting is the best thing ever. This is also Merit. I use a lot of Merit products. This is not sponsored by Merit, obviously, but I really do love their stuff. I think it's just so easy to use and it's great quality. So this is the Day Glow in Citrine. And I like to put that, again, high on the cheekbones, like almost in my eye socket. And I put it on my nose. But by putting it high on the cheekbones, it, again, creates light reflection. So that, again, is giving you that distance shortening. Do you see that? It's so, so pretty. Okay, so the lips. This is always a big one for me. Kind of gross, but I just like making sure I don't have a lot of lip balm on. So I contour my lips in a very specific way. Which, again, shortens the distance. It shortens the distance between my lips and my nose and also my bottom lip and my chin. So if you're thinking, oh, overlining, you are correct, my friend. You don't have to overline, but I'm using this. This is brand new. I've never used this before. Tower 28, and it is in the shade Paint My Number. I have 8,000 liners that are basically this kind of color because they are kind of like naturally contouring, but very flattering for my skin tone. So if you have color like me, try it out. This is my first time using this. I have no idea, but I put it on my hand and I was like, oh, that's really pretty. So you see what I'm doing. It's very weird. I get it. We're creating an oval. This is a really pretty color, I gotta say. So, see what I did there? I overlined, so I shortened the distance between chin and lip. And then the corners, I drew right on there. Let me see if I can zoom in a little closer. Okay, see what I did? We're gonna do the same thing on the top. So you kind of have to make a goofy face. I like getting rid of my Cupid's bow. If you don't like to, then don't. But even if you don't, you're still gonna be shortening the distance, okay? But I like a more rounded looking lip. And I also don't have a super defined Cupid's bow. I never have. It's like lip filler without the lip filler. Okay, then, see what I just did? Shorten that distance, honey. Shorten that distance. And then we're gonna just take it down, okay? But you do need to fill that in. I have made that mistake where I don't fill it in. And then you can kind of see it. It's weird. No one's really looking at you that close, though. Let's be honest. Only us, but still. Okay, so, okay, really pretty. Love this color. Formulation's great, too. Tower 28 is great, man. Then I like to do this. You don't have to do this, but I like to just draw in a tiny little line. It creates like a more pouty appearance. And then I usually just take my finger and blot it. But I have to say, this color for me is so pretty. It's like a Your Lips But Better. So I almost feel like I don't even need to blot it at all. Then I'm gonna do Colorgram. I've used this color before. What is this shade? I don't know. But it's really nice. It's a Korean brand. And it's kind of like just slightly lighter than the liner. And they say that it is a blurring lip color. I don't know if that's really true, but I really like this color. I've been playing with my lip colors lately. I used the same color for like the first year and a half I was back on YouTube. And now I've been playing, but they're all like my favorite colors. You like what you like. You know it works. See that? So you don't even realize it, but we did it. We shortened all those distances. I normally am not a big powder person. I don't really like powder products, but I have the ILIA Soft Focus. What is it called? Soft Focus Finishing Powder. I do tend to get a little greasy in my middle of my forehead. So this is great for a little touch up. And I like that there's just like a little coudre pouf. And there's a little mirror, which is nice. Okay. Ooh, that is nice. A little filter. Okay. Just kind of hides the pores. Okay. I just did a little powder in the center. You don't have to do that. And then I'm going to finish it with a little setting spray. This is the One Size Setting Spray. This stuff lasts forever. Like your makeup will last forever. How much do we love this? This is, this, it's a trick. It's a trick. Okay. In Italian, makeup is called trucco. Trucco. Which really means trick. We tricked ya. So shaving 10 years off is not about putting on more makeup. If anything, I think it's about putting on less makeup, but really about the placement of your makeup so that you look fresher, you look glowier. You really have that kind of subconscious trickery happening and it really does make a huge difference. I want to hear from you in the comments, if you like this. A lot of you actually talk about my makeup on my channel. So thank you so much. I'm clearly not a makeup artist, but I do think that I've kind of figured out what works. So get active in the comments with me. And if you want to keep hanging with me here on YouTube, check out this video next. I'll see you there.