#ad#sephora The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is back for 2026 and I had to recreate Candice Swanepoel's angel makeup! Pat McGrath did the makeup this year, so this is my step-by-step take on her runway look: glowy skin, a structured shimmery eye, lash clusters, and the perfect milky pink lip - plus my DIY headpiece and all my fashion show thoughts. If you're shopping the Sephora Savings Event, every product I used is linked below!
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hey it's jackie and welcome back
for another victoria's secret fashion show makeup tutorial
2026 edition. this of course is inspired
by candace swanepoel in the spring forward section.
i loved her headpiece and i was at michael's
and saw ribbon that looked similar so i diy'd
this headpiece this morning
and that is why i wanted to film this look. i know pat mcgrath did
the makeup this year so i'm assuming all pat mcgrath labs products
were used. i do have a couple
that I feature in this video,
but I'm also just using my all-time favorites.
You can find everything linked down below and in the top comment.
Everything you can find at Sephora.
And it is the Sephora savings event if you want to shop.
So let's get started with the base.
For skin, I just got the Dew Instant Angel Moisturizer.
I've been loving this so far.
This is just the mini size,
but I do think I will repurchase the larger one.
I just like to test a mini when it's skincare.
But this brand has really been growing in popularity
and I love how it gives such a hydrated base.
Plus the name is very fitting.
I'll go through the base fairly quickly
because it is pretty much the exact same
from my last tutorial.
But if you didn't see that one,
I love the Caudalie Premier Crew Eye Cream.
Adore this because it sits so well under makeup.
My go-to foundation remains the Armani Beauty Luminous Silk.
I use this in pretty much every
tutorial but today I'm using shade 3.5.
This just goes a little bit better with the blonde wig.
I just love how this applies and blends into the skin.
It gives medium coverage,
has a bit of a glow.
I'm also prepping over my lids and bringing down the neck.
Another new base favorite that I keep reaching
for is the MAC Studio Fix 36 Hour Smooth Angles
Concealer. This is a really thin formula.
I love it for brightening up so I go with a lighter shade.
This is NC10 and it's a nice neutral shade
that I find brightens up the skin
really nice and it doesn't look heavy at all.
I love this concealer. I wouldn't say it's super high coverage.
It's more of a natural skin finish
with a little bit of glow.
Another product I'm really impressed by is the LYS Cream Bronzer.
It's a really great shade. This is Motivate.
Great shade for this look, an everyday shade.
Not too deep, it's the perfect blend between a bronzer
and a little bit of a contour shade,
so you get that natural sculpted look
and there's no shimmer to it, so it just looks
nice and sculpted while also bringing some color to the face.
But it just blends in so smooth, it's
like butter, really enhancing those cheekbones.
I love Candace's kind of lower round cheekbones.
Basically doing a Candice inspired nose contour
with my favorite little pencil.
This is the Makeup Forever Endless Cacao.
Great for creating dimension around the lips,
also adding just a little bit of like structure
to the nose as long
as you really blend it out.
You also could go with this bronzer,
maybe I'll add a little bit more for contour with
this.
I feel like our natural noses are pretty similar.
Usually I make mine like more structured and smaller,
but I'm not really going to do that
this time.
Connecting the features.
Also, whenever my lips are already glossy it's
because I've applied my favorite lawless forget the filler lip gloss
I love how this is so moisturizing and glossy. It's mildly plumping
I wouldn't say it gives my lips like too much of a plump
But it doesn't sting so you can like not wear makeup with it
and not get like red around your mouth
I don't know if any of you have had that experience
with some other plumpers, but this one is my favorite
I just love the little applicator too
Moving on to blush, looking at all my reference photos, I knew exactly
which blush I wanted to use, and it's by Makeup by Mario.
This is one of the best luminous cream blushes.
It's the Soft Pop Plumping Blush Veil in Rose Crush.
I'm taking this up from my cheekbones, and I'm applying pretty heavily.
I know Sabrina Carpenter's makeup artists used
this on her at one point, and that's why I originally bought it.
And then my favorite everyday cream blush,
if you are shopping the savings event, is by Violette France.
Hopefully I said that right
but this is my favorite everyday shade and it's more matte
but this one is really beautiful
and luminous like it's kind of like a highlighter in one.
For highlight I wanted to bring in some Pat McGrath Labs.
This is one of their most iconic
products. It has a balm, oops,
it has a balm on one side so it gives you kind of that doll-like skin
and then on the other side we have more
of a traditional cream highlighter in
this pretty champagne shade
so I like to layer them. First I use the balm
and then i'll add some highlight on top
and it's a nice subtle highlight
if you want something a little bit bolder i always recommend
the charlotte tilbury beauty light wand
here it is my holy grail but this one is really nice
and it's blended beautifully
and gives more of a subtle glow
so i applied that to my cheeks i used quite a bit of the
champagne highlight on my cupid's bow
and i really like how that looks and this one would have been
too intense for that but i do want to add
this in my inner corner actually let's use a brush
Okay, we've definitely got that angel glow going on.
I'm going to quickly set with a pressed
powder. I don't love using loose powder,
so I just lightly dab over my skin. That way I don't lose
any of the highlight, and plus I don't really get super oily,
but if you do get oily, I would
go in after this pressed powder with like a looser powder.
I really like that.
Brows, my brows are naturally quite a bit darker
and thicker so I've started to tone them down. I
just used a L'Oreal brow pencil
because I do have one in a lighter shade and then because mine are
so much darker I went with a beautiful shade
from the Soft Glam palette. I broke one of them
but I'm taking Glistening.
I'm just trying to lighten up my brows a little bit. Also I have
a couple sparkles on my face
because I filmed an alien look that had tons of sparkles and it's
And it's just like floating around my room.
so i might have some extra sparkles
but that's very victoria's secret so it's fine.
a similar of a shape that i can do on me
and let's just set them with charlotte tilbury. this is the
brow fix, just a clear brow gel. kind of brushing them down
so they're not as thick. as i'm filming
this i just got a letter that i was chosen
for jury duty. is that even legal for me to tell you?
brows done i'm so excited to do beautiful eyes
if you can't tell i am wearing
lighter contacts right now i tried a different pair
for this little nostalgic candace wonderful
look that i did over on shorts i forgot that i had
these that look a lot more natural loving
this blonde hair blue eye combo pat mcgrath
and her team did more of a structured eye with some
shimmer this year so i'm starting with makeup
by mario i use this all the time whether it's
colorful looks or neutral looks because it's great to just have a matte
crease shade that's well sculpted.
So I like this one here.
I'm taking this tiny brush.
I love rougher brushes for eyes
and I'm connecting it to the nose once again,
doing an exaggerated crease
and winging out, faded.
I also brought a little bit underneath the eye.
My eye shape is a lot bigger than Candace,
so that'll be where the look differs.
And then I really wanted to use more Pat McGrath.
This is the only Pat McGrath Labs palette that I
have. It's the Bridgerton collection
but I think these shades are perfect and I'll have the palette
on screen that she actually used.
This has a lot of different like blues and greens that I wouldn't
really grab for as much so I don't think I'll invest in that one.
But if you're looking for
a similar palette from Pat that isn't limited edition,
this quad has really similar shades
So you could always use that or another option that you might have.
The Soft Glam palette, I think you could create a very similar look.
Not exact, but we have, you know, some maroon tones here.
You could do like a rose gold outer corner.
This palette is so pretty, especially as a Bridgerton fan.
I think I'll likely use these three shadows up top.
Might not be exact because I want
to keep it pretty much within this palette.
Highlight.
I think hers is a little bit more sheer white,
but this is really pretty.
This right up
to the crease.
This over the inner corner now taking
the tiniest bit of this maroon
and building up that other beat
I love that this palette does have both matte
and shimmer taking this shade starting to build up the other corner
Pat McGrath
has really
Glittery shimmery shadow. So i'm taking
this on my finger just pressing on the outer corner. Oh, that's so fun
These are best applied with fingers like you don't get the same effect
When you use a brush a bit more because it's so pretty
Okay every photo I look at the makeup looks
slightly different just because of the lighting
but the main screenshots I'm looking at this is pretty accurate
but then I do see little pops
of silver so that's kind of cool.
We have like kind of rose gold but then let's do a bit of a
pop of silver through the brow bone
and then through the lash line.
Silver underneath the
bottom lash line. The eyes were different
per model and I did notice some like silvery lids
but then some images of Candice it does look more like rose gold.
It's up to you. You can skip this silvery step if you prefer champagne.
Oh, I forgot how much I love the MAC Brushstroke liner.
For this year's show, there was a slight wing to the eye, which I love.
A bit of light shadow right above the wing.
That picked up the light and then the deeper shade
fanned out in a wing up top.
Kind of a double wing situation.
I'm gonna soften the liner a little bit.
Again, I'm back with the Makeup By Mario palette.
I'm taking this dark brown.
And I'm just fading the tight line into the black liner
and then adding a touch of brown liner.
This is totally optional, you can keep it black,
this just softens it a little bit and makes it a bit more seamless.
Also taking the brown and creating a little bit
of a bottom liner just to pick up the lashes when we apply mascara.
And finally inner corner just to give us more of a cat eye.
Fanning out my lashes, touching my bottom lashes as well
and then I know these were actually used
on set. Maybe not on everybody but on Kylie Jenner.
Her makeup artist confirmed that the
clusters were used from velour
and these are my favorite. I've used them
for years. I'm using one short
and one medium on the outer corner of each eye.
And I kind of cheated the lashes slightly up the wing.
Speaking of Kylie Jenner,
I know there was so much like controversy about her
wearing the fantasy bra.
I thought that specific fantasy bra really suited her.
Nothing beats Candace's fantasy bra. I love that color combo.
When Victoria's Secret was super popular in like the 2010s, 2016,
Kylie Jenner was also like a huge cultural phenomenon
and I feel like there's a crossover.
The girls with the full beat wearing Kylie Jenner lip kits
also were wearing Victoria's Secret pink.
I feel like anyway so to me the crossover made sense
and I'm sure if they keep doing the fantasy
bra they will give it to an angel next year but why was Romi not there?
I don't think Kylie took
her spot or anything but she's such an iconic angel.
Anyways let me know your thoughts as long
as they're not hateful. I've never watched Keeping Up
with the Kardashians but I feel like I have
seen the show just through funny viral clips that I've seen
but I like Kylie. Let's move on.
So the lip combo. I started with Endless Cacao once again. I started to
overline a little bit,
mainly the upper lip like Candice.
And I'm taking Pillow Talk Medium. I
don't love Pillow Talk on me, but I love Pillow Talk Medium and Deep.
This is a really nice shade
and I cooled it down a little more because I already put Endless Cacao.
Again, overlining,
blending the product in. I love how her lips look quite contoured.
And then for a perfect pink,
I'm a huge fan of the Maximal matte lipsticks. They're so nice. And
this one is Honey Love Perfect Angel Pink. Yeah,
that totally looks like the photo I'm looking at.
Yeah.
Ooh.
Of course, we need gloss.
For this video, I really wanted to try
the Pat McGrath Labs Angel Duo.
There is a limited edition set,
but it is sold out right now.
So I managed to get it, but not for this video.
But because I sadly don't have it with me,
I'm going to go with a Victoria's Secret gloss.
I love these.
I have quite a few of them.
Which one?
I was kind of between these two shades.
I'll go with the Pink Sparkle.
I love these glosses.
That looks really pretty too.
And this is a cheaper option.
I have come back to doing long form tutorials
and usually I've been trying
to shoot long and short at the same time
but it was getting just a little bit
overwhelming the amount of footage
and I decided that you know what I will do
long form and short form separately
so you will see this look again but I will
try on the iconic lip combo on shorts so follow
me on instagram and of course I will
be posting them to youtube shorts as well
so excited to get my hands on that lip
gloss duo another product that is worth
Worth it from the support savings event.
I got this one, I think two years ago, is it expired?
I don't know, but it's beautiful and it's a great face palette.
So I just use a little bit of this bronzer slash contour
to deepen up the cheekbone.
And then I love this blush up here just to add
an extra pop has a very luminous, stunning
finish.
One of my favorite face palettes.
I also like to take these lighter powders.
Just add them underneath the eye as a finishing touch.
So they have new updated versions of these palettes
with really pretty packaging.
This one has a dragon, but look at the new ones.
They are on my wishlist,
but I still have so much in this palette.
So I'll have to go with a different color story.
In my previous VS Angel tutorials,
I usually have a Victoria's Secret haul and I recently
went to the store. I just picked up pajamas.
I didn't see like lingerie that really popped
out at me like last year. I loved this set.
So I wasn't super obsessed with any
lingerie that I saw in the show, but then Pink dropped this bra.
So this is on my wishlist.
I want this for Christmas.
It is so cute and reminds me of the old school pink section
in the Victoria's Secret show
when it was themed and like really fun.
I feel like the pink section was a little bit of a mess.
Like there's a lot of layering going on.
I don't know.
But yeah, that's the main thing on my wishlist.
And if I was to recommend any fragrance
from Victoria's Secret, I love,
and I say this in every Victoria's Secret video,
the Tease Cream Cloud.
It's my favorite.
I don't love a lot of body mist, but I love this one.
Oh, it's so nice.
And of course I have a couple of the robes.
So I'm wearing one of the Victoria's Secret
fashion show robes.
I also have the Shanghai one and the blue robe. But again,
I would love to know your thoughts on this show.
Tate McRae was incredible.
I don't listen to a ton of Tate McCrae,
like I know sports car, but now I'm a fan. Like the way
she performed, the confidence, I'm obsessed.
Side note, but I have been loving vlogging on
my second channel and I did film myself watching
the Victoria's Secret fashion show alone with a
burger and sangria and it was so much fun.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you did,
make sure you give it a thumbs up
and don't forget to subscribe if you're new here. If
you want to keep on watching,
you might like the iconic 2008 Victoria's Secret fashion show look.
Or, my latest upload was a Bardot-inspired smokey eye,
which would be perfect for the
holidays.
Honestly, this is a really pretty holiday look, too.
It's kind of Sugar Plum Fairy-esque.
Anyways, I will see you in my next one.