Emma Chamberlain on Her Acne Journey, and Guide to TikTok Makeup | Beauty Secrets | Vogue

Hi, I'm Emma Chamberlain, and I'm going to be taking you through my everyday skincare, my everyday makeup, and my everyday hair. I just changed the color of it, so this is a big deal, and, you know, it deserves a little bit of life. And my dream is coming true right now, because I've always wanted to do one of these, so... Let's do it! Okay, so step one. I'm going to take the nearest headband I have and put it on. Hydrating face mask. I do this probably three times a week, four times a week. I'm honestly kind of somebody who just follows my instinct. If I feel like my skin is dry, I'll do a hydrating skin mask. If I feel like my skin is gross, I'll do some sort of detoxifying skin mask. I just... I'm intuitive with the whole thing. I've had on and off acne my whole life, both since, like, puberty. But my skin got really bad in high school, and then it got bad again as, like, an older teen. And so I decided I would go on Accutane, which is a very intense acne medication. I did that for seven months last year, and my acne went away. But I still have to maintain my skin. It actually made me fall in love with skincare in a whole new way. Anyway, I'm going to leave this on for ten minutes. This is a very crucial part of my morning routine. I have a really love-hate relationship with my acne journey, and there was good and bad moments. But y'all saw all of it. You can go back to see any of it. It's been ten minutes. I'm washing this off. Now I look like a newborn. Oh my god, my eyebrows. My eyebrows are very neglected, guys. Please don't give me a hard time. I really don't do anything to them. But moving on. First, we have this serum that has some sort of snail. I mean, according to this, it's supposed to—oh my god, this is going to prevent wrinkles. That is something I'm starting to worry about. Anyway, I drop a little bit into my hand. I'm always, like, putting it in my hands more than putting it directly on my face. I feel like it always just, like, falls off. You know, you always see people on, like, TikTok and stuff going like this. I'm like—mine just goes straight onto my shirt when I try to do that. And I'll understand. Then I use a tea tree relief. Whenever I'd have a pimple in middle school, and I lived with my dad, he would tell me to put tea tree oil on it. And that's what he did when he had acne. Thank you, dad, for the acne tip. But it's actually—it was kind of nice growing up with parents that also had acne because they kind of felt my pain. It runs in the family, so I felt like I had this support system of parents that were like, we get it. Next, I'm using an niacinamide serum. It's so funny because with skincare, I'm very interested in it, especially recently and especially since I got off Accutane because I was like, wait a minute. I don't want to go through acne again, so I need to really work on maintaining my skin and keeping it as healthy and happy as I possibly can. The crazy thing about skincare that I've realized is it is so different for everybody. I've tried hundreds of products. I'm constantly switching it up. I'm constantly trying new things. This is literally my favorite product. This makes me look like a baby's butt on my face. It's a hemp oil. It's unreal. When I wake up, I look like a vampire. I don't know what it is. I feel like while I'm sleeping, I just lose all of my life in my face, and I can't explain it. This product truly brings the life back to my skin. I also try to avoid dairy, not only for my extremely disgustingly sensitive stomach, but also because I think that dairy does make me break out, although sometimes it doesn't, and then I'm like, okay, so I can put unhealthy amounts of Parmesan cheese on everything that I'm eating throughout the day. Last step of my skincare routine, sunscreen. I just recently started wearing it daily. Wear sunscreen, please. Don't be like me and starve when you're 19 and already have had too many sunburns to count on two hands. You know what I mean? It's just not good. I feel like I'm probably wrinkling from it. You know? Whatever. It adds personality. Lip balm. This is huge. I'm kind of addicted to lip balm, and I have been for many years. I always have a lip balm on me, and if I don't, I'm begging someone to let me borrow theirs, which actually is not allowed anymore and never will be again. It's crazy that I ever did that. Now I retrospect. That really is some food for thought. It's makeup time. I am a huge fan of a light makeup. This is a tinted face oil. Life-changing. It basically acts like a super light foundation-ish type of thing. So I put a little bit on my hands, I rub it, and I just literally lightly rub it in. It's so nice and light. I started wearing makeup probably 8th grade slash freshman year of high school because I became a cheerleader competitively, and we had to do crazy hair and makeup, and I just ended up getting kind of decent at it. Then when it came to day-to-day wear, I never was huge into it up until recently. Let's really make sure we're looking okay here. See how nice and light it is, though, on your skin? It makes you look glowy. It's an amazing product. Concealer. I'm always trying out new concealers because these under-eye bags are not going away anytime soon. They are, in fact, genetic. It's funny because I'm starting to see people on TikTok draw on under-eye bags or under-eye dark circles with dark eyeshadow, and I'm like, wait a minute. Under-eye bags are trendy now? Under-eye circles are trendy now? Count me in. I like to put this in with my fingers. I used to use a sponge, but I find that it looks more dewy and natural. If I use my finger. I also like to put the excess products that are on my fingers on my eyelids. It just creates a nice, light base for the things that go there next. I use powder early in my routine because I feel like it just prevents from any creasing in my base of whatever is going on here. Let's not comment on my brush usage because I literally just choose whatever brush I feel like would work best for what I'm doing. I think setting under-eyes, forehead, and chin is the most important that I've found. And under my nose, actually. So now we have a nice base. I'm having a good makeup day. Sometimes I have fully bad makeup days and I do my whole face makeup, and I'm like, this just looks wrong. But today's a good day, so I'm glad that you're here with me. We're bronzing now. Just a little light dusting. Highlighter. The thing I've learned is less is more, and that's because you watch a tutorial and you realize you don't need to put the whole bottle of foundation on your hand to make your skin look good. You know? If anything, it'll look worse. Eyeshadow. A little bit of a color like this into my crease, but I make sure I don't overdo it because it's very easy to overdo it. My eyes can get overpowered very easily, so I always try to avoid that at all. I am not a big eyeliner person, so I like to take this kind of medium brown and maybe mix it with a little bit of this brown. This side is just a nightmare for me, trying to get my hand in. Can you not go inside of my cat? What's up? Okay, you're gonna go back outside. That's fun though, right? Okay. If you keep scratching on the door, though, you're grounded. Back to work. Being a cat mom is not easy. Take a little bit of this. Rub it. Eyes up. Into the brow gel. Keep them nice and fluffy and natural looking. Then I take a little bit of tinted brow gel. The next few steps of this routine is just out of order, but that's the way I like to do it. So bear with me. I like to wipe all the excess product off my lips. And then I take this plumping lip cream and I put this on. And I let it sit while I do the remainder of my look so that my lips can kind of fluffen up. I think that I could use some blush. This is the only blush I literally own. I hate the way you have to smile when you put on blush. Can you guys look away for a second while I do this? Oh my God, this eyelash curler is so gross. But I've had it for so long. It's just the only one I've ever found that I like. All right. Then we have my mascara. It literally is the coolest shape. Look at... How fun is that? I love the, like, twiggy look with, like, the crazy lower lash line. And I really want to play into that this year. 2021 is the twiggy lower lash line year. Lip liner. I've always neglected my lips, but I feel like they actually pull together a full makeup look. And I've recently learned the importance. So here we are. What do you think? Now I need to do hair. I did just go brunette. I was blonde for, like, eight months. And I loved every minute of it. But my hair got extremely damaged. And so just a few days ago, I cut all of it off and dyed it brown. Dry shampoo. This one's really good. This one has been amazing. Especially with brown hair, it's hard to use dry shampoo because it really just shows up. Dry shampoo's also great because it adds volume. Like, why not, you know? Okay. I'm also somebody that's always loved to have my hair up in a ponytail or up in some way. And now that my hair is literally this short, I can't do that. So I have to adapt. The dry shampoo honestly, like, weirdly styles it enough to where I'm, like, satisfied with it. But I do like to add a little bit of hairspray. I don't just do anything for volume. See? Now it looks good. Because I have to see my own face on the Internet every single day, it's made me a little bit more obsessive about how I look. But at the same time, it's just about practicing resilience and realizing that, you know, hopefully people aren't following me because they care about my hair color. Hopefully they're following me because they want to hang out with me. When I start to get two in my head, the phone's off. And I'm playing drums. I'm hanging out with my one friend, talking to my parents on the phone. That fixes everything, I think. This is the final look. I feel good about it. Thank you for hanging out with me. I had a lot of fun with you today. And I'll see you around. Bye. Yay!