Sam Visser’s Soft Bronze Makeup Masterclass with Meredith Duxbury

It's like the perfect amount of glossy wet. Exactly. Hey, I'm Sam Visser, global makeup artist of YSL Beauty, and today I'm here with the one and only... Hi, Meredith Duxbury. And we are going to do a beautiful, golden, toasted makeup for you all today. And the base of our makeup today is the new YSL Beauty Skin Affair Soft Glow Cushion Foundation. It's like any cushion foundation where you have a puff and you apply... Apply it, I apply it right here just to like get the excess off. What makes this foundation different than other cushion foundations is that it really just looks like a second skin. Just kind of go straight into the like the little net here, just like catch more product. And I blend it down the neck. I love it because people who love that kind of effect of like no makeup makeup love this product because it literally just looks like your skin but better. Supernatural. Exactly. I feel like cushion foundations are becoming more popular. They're super underrated, I feel like. For sure. And I feel like this is like the first cushion, yeah, here in the West. Exactly. I love that you're putting foundation on my ears. Oh, always, girl. I'm like, yes. Into the diamonds. You're like, it has to match. Yeah, literally into the diamonds. Into the diamonds. Into the rocks. How do I look? Flawless. I like building more coverage under the eyes to get more of a flawless under eye look. And usually I'll just like hold the puff differently so I can kind of get into a more detailed area. I like that the puff has like a triangular side. Exactly. So you can get into the under eye. The finish is so beautiful. I feel like it's nice and glowy too and it's giving me a very natural highlight where the light hits your high points of your face. It's like very beautiful. It's almost like no makeup makeup, which I love. It's natural, but it has a really nice coverage as well. And it gives you just like glass skin. And I do feel like a lot of foundations either oxidize or the shade is just not right. My freckles too, sometimes I find it harder to match the tone of my skin. Yes, exactly. But this is really beautiful. Right? Yeah, it's stunning. I love that you can see your freckles. Yeah, it's really nice and hydrating. And hydrating and gorgeous and perfect. Thanks, guys. Okay, so next I'm going to do some under-eye concealer. I'm going to use Touche Éclat, which works really, really beautifully with this foundation. So I'm just going to go under the eyes, up here in the corner, and then just on the end to kind of lift the eye. This is shade number two. Also on the edge here to lift. I feel like you're giving me a nice snatch. Exactly. That's what I love about it. It's like an editing pen, you know? I know, it's so precise. It's like so good. There's not a lot of concealers like this too with this application. No, it's literally magic. I feel like this foundation is like the new 2026 like invention, like the way Touche Eclat was so innovational for the period that it came out. It's just like a skin editor, you know? Let me here just a little bit on the cheekbones. Also, when I apply this, I let it sit for, like, a sec. I love doing that, too. To let it, you know, cook a little bit. A little more coverage. Exactly, a little more coverage, exactly. And I'm just kind of softly blending it under the eyes. Now, the way that you prep your skin before this also is super important. Like, the key to, like, beautiful makeup is having, like, well-prepped skin. Blend, blend, blend. Blend, blend, blend. Blend, blend, blend. Blend, blend, blend. You've been doing a lot of blending today. I feel like a lot of my lifetime will be consumed with blending. It will. But blending is like what makes everything come together so beautifully. Everything. Once you apply the Touche Eclat, you can use the puff with the cushion foundation kind of on top of it to like blend the edges so it looks, again, more seamless. So nice. And then you literally just look like... Glassy. Very glass. Yeah, it's like glass skin. Very glass skin. I'm using shades two and three of the All Hours Hyper Blur. And I'm kind of setting the general, like pretty much the whole face, but I've mixed the two colors to create more of a warmer tan tone to match the body because she's a little bit more tan on her body. I'm a really big fan of mixing powder to get a custom color. Close your eyes and just keep them closed. So quiet. With number two in the puff of the, this is the All Hours Hyper Blur again, and this is how I just get like the skin to look more flawless. So I'm going to basically bake under the eyes. This is the puff that comes in the powder, so it's a little bit of a more velour soft puff. And then also here in the center of the forehead, I'm going to go kind of over the brows. A little bit as well. Even with the powder on, it still feels like I really have nothing on my skin. Basically just mattified the whole face. So I'm going to go back in with glow at the end, and I'll show you how the cushion can really kind of transform a flat face into something with a lot more dimension and glow like your body. So I'm going to use a matte brown shadow. I'm kind of mixing a warm and a cool tone to create more of a neutral brown for your eyelids. I'm using this palette, but you can also use a CMC from YSL with, like, kind of a taupe-ier color, neutral brown. And I'm basically just applying this brown all over the lid. What would you say is key for an everyday natural makeup look? I mean, I love to create, like, basically a shadow tone on the eye, and I feel like that really makes makeup look so natural when you just have, like, a color like a taupe-y brown. Or like a neutral brown, kind of as like a natural shadow. Yeah, it like warms up the face a little bit. Exactly. Makes you look like you've kind of been sitting in the sun. It's like kind of unseen secret eyeshadow in a way. And it gives nice dimension too. Exactly. And so that's why I like to mix together kind of like a warm and a cool tone brown, because then you can really like control the depth of it in the shadow. This is the All Hours Hyper Bronze in shade two and three. I'm going here on the perimeters and I'm going to just go kind of on her eyelid again. This is like such an easy way to do your eyes in the summertime but I also kind of bring it like out a little bit more like this and this just kind of like snatches the eyes even more. Also I'm going to go On the tops of her cheekbones with the same color and across the face a little bit. We're creating the toasty effect. Exactly. You're in the toaster. We're toasting me up. We're toasting you up. What's your bronzing technique? I mean, I love just using a really light hand and applying it like with featherweight almost, but just like lightly building it like layer by layer. Do you do the jawline? Always. I do like the whole. Like the three? The whole three. Yeah, for sure. It creates like symmetry and like A very like unison color story. Yeah and almost like a nice shadow effect on the jawline. Exactly. So it gives you that. Even if it's bronze because like when you're in the sun and you're like laying out you often like will get sun on like the on your neck and on your chin so it just looks natural. I always put some here on the nose. I'm gonna take the foundation again and I'm gonna go kind of into the excess product I had here before so I don't get like a ton on the puff and I'm just gonna turn your face. And I'm just going to kind of press it onto the cheeks where I applied maybe a little too much bronzer. And literally that adds the glow right back onto the skin that we were missing from before. But also the bronzer still shows through, so she looks like a mannequin, literally. Clearly. You said she looks like a mannequin. Meredith is a mannequin, like it's actually nuts. Just like here on the high point where I applied. A little too much on purpose. Could I use this as a highlighter if I wanted to? Totally, yeah. I'm actually going to go back into the product here and just put just a touch bit more right there. Literally looks like a wet glow. It's so beautiful. And then here and this is also great if you feel like you've over powdered and you've done too much powder. You can literally bring back the shine so easily and naturally and also just kind of do it strategically because you can really choose where you're applying the glow. So like there also maybe just a little bit down the center just a little kiss right there. So pretty. Okay, now we're going to do blush. I'm kind of doing all the skin stuff first. Since it's like a summer vibe, I feel like it's all about the like bronze and the base. Exactly. And then I do like the mascara and the step after. This is blush number 12. Again. So pretty. Super pretty. Kind of peachy. Peachy, summery, toasty color. Me and these chairs. You just like fall. The whole chair breaks. Great. I love a peachy blush because I feel like it kind of acts a little bit as a bronzer as well. And they blend really beautifully together if you want more of like a sunburnt, toasty look. It almost looks like that little bit of like sunburn, which I love. It's super cute. And when I put blush in my brush, I usually like apply it to the brush, but not directly to the face because I feel like you can get really patchy that way. I usually like break it up a little bit on my hand or on the back of my hand. Does this have a little sheen to it? Touch, like very touch. It almost looks like radiance, but it's just like a touch of sheen. I'm almost putting a little bit under your eyes to give you a little bit of a blushy under eye. And then just like here on the top of the forehead. Whenever I do anything bronzy, I tend to like put it on all the high points so it looks really uniform. It brings it all together. Exactly, and then it looks more natural that way too. So this is the Make Me Blush in number 12. Creates such a pretty sculpted, blushy glow. And I'm actually gonna go back in with the bronzer again. Okay, so this is Lash Latex. Can I try? Please. I love this name. Right? Ooh, the applicator's nice. And it literally is like latex for the lashes. So pretty. Like coats the lashes. Ooh, oh my God. Yeah, it's crazy. This is insane. And also like it holds the curl. Okay, so now I'm using the All Hours Hyper Illuminate in shade number three. This is going to be our glow, so look up. So I'm applying this onto the inner corners of the eyes. This just kind of like opens the eyes more, like gives them more light. Also going to put just a touch here under the brow bone to give you like kind of like a wet, lifted look. So pretty, I love the brow highlight. Because also when you turn your face, it just looks like... Where the light hits. Yeah, it's really dewy. And then I'm going to go in with a face brush and just kind of blend over that. And I'm going to do the same thing up with the cheekbones. So there, also just here on the forehead a little bit, on the ear. And again, with highlighter, you want to apply it really like in soft layers. I feel like that's like the best way to get like a gorgeous 3D effect. also here on the bridge of the nose can all of these products like the cream ones be blended in with your fingers or hands too totally i mean this is really pretty with your fingers as well yeah like on your eyelids even this is really gorgeous i love the shade right the pinky it's so cute see right there like a little button a little dot yeah i love that too so this is the kiss shaper in 108 And you can really sculpt your lip which is what I love. I love that you can kind of like sculpt it or you can blend it out while it's still wet and create kind of like a blurry lip effect. This is Candy Glaze in the shade 2. It's like a sheer translucent baby pink. I think the smell of Candy Glaze is like... I want to eat it. Yeah, exactly. It's like candy but you also like want to be on the beach. It's like a beachy summer candy and super moisturizing for your lips as well. So it's literally the perfect mix between a gloss and a lipstick because it has a tint of color but it also just creates like the most beautiful shine ever. So pretty. Looks like wet, like glass. So you could stop right here. She looks incredible. And you could just have this like more of a little bit softer. But I want to amp this up and make it more of a glossy, dramatic summer look. And it's really easy, only using like two products. This is shade number 10 of the Love Shine Plumping Lip Oil Gloss. I love the tingly. It's so good, right? It gives you such like a gorgeous glass finish but also plumps your lips. And the shimmer is so beautiful as well. Right? Literally looks just like glass. Glass lips. Glass lips, exactly. And then I'm going to take our Candy Glaze and I'm just going to apply this all over the lids, the brow bone. It's because it literally creates like even more of a summery, mermaid-like... Wet eye vibe. So this also lasts for a long time on your lids as well, especially with a natural color like we did underneath. And then I'm going to take our candy glaze and I'm just going to apply this all over the lids, the brow bone. I love this because it literally creates like even more of a summery mermaid, like wet eye vibe. But also it's great because this product is So this also lasts for a long time on your lids as well, especially with a natural color like we did underneath. It just looks like a soft, glowy gloss. It also gives you such a summer vibe. Yes, beautiful. It's so pretty. So pretty. I love this. Thank you guys for watching. Here's the final glam. It's so beautiful. I feel like it's the perfect glowy summer glam. And thank you, Sam. I'm ready for my night out. And let us know in the comments what products are your fave, what you want to try next. And thanks for watching. Yeah. Thank you, Sephora. Love you guys. Bye.