Model Alex Consani’s Guide to Smoky Eyes & Bleached Brows | Beauty Secrets | Vogue

Hi Vogue, it's Alex Gonsani, and I'm gonna take you through my everyday skincare routine and my beauty tips. I like to get ice, and I just hold it, pat it off. Actually, don't wash my face, don't come for me. I'm gonna start with the Youth Eye Complex. This is such a good product for when you wake up and you feel a little bit tired. I actually did this thing last night that my agent told me about. It's called the vampire sleep. You sleep like this on your back, and it's supposed to circulate your body. Y'all tell me why I woke up and I feel snatched. And then I use the Peter Thomas Roth eye patches. These are so good. I learned about these first on set. Just voguing for Vogue. I'm gonna use this serum to do gua sha. This serum is really hydrating, and it helps the gua sha glide, and that's what's really important when you do this step. I'm gonna start with this gua sha rose quartz. So I learned from the last 10 years of modeling all of the points you have to hit when you gua sha. You wanna go start in the middle, go out, because you're trying to pull everything out of your skin. You're not like pulling it in, you know? I go under the eyes. And for me, the main point I like to get into is under the nose, and then you go up. And I'll show you guys how I do it with my fingers, because honestly, sometimes it's actually better. And what I like to do is I tap. All of the girls that I've met in the fashion industry who have the most amazing skin, they do this. They go in. And then I like to do this. And you go above your eyes like this. You hold it for a second, kind of push the product in. And then around. I hope I don't look crazy doing this, y'all, but it really does work, and you feel so snatched and refreshed. And then I get into my moisturizer. This moisturizer is my favorite. When you put it on, it doesn't just absorb immediately, so it's good to kind of do another level of emphatic drainage with this. I was on a flight back from Korea, and I saw all of these women slapping their faces really intensely with their moisturizer, because it causes blood circulation to really go into your face. I'm already feeling fat, but we haven't even started the makeup. Sunscreen is so important. I just don't want something that's too thick, so that it doesn't clog my pores. And you see, every time I put any product on my face, I'm using it as a chance to kind of just remind my face where to go. Go back. This, the hands. My grandma taught me this. Day one, you always need to do your hands, because when you get older, that's what shows your age. You could be fabulous in the mug, but if your hands aren't hitting, who's gonna hold them? Just kidding. I use Lumify eye drops. Another thing I've learned from my years in fashion is that you always do a hydrating lip. This is it! Just kidding, y'all. But now, let's get into the actual makeup routine. The first product, and one of my favorites, is the Chanel Water Tint. It's really good when you're trying to do like a light, natural makeup. I feel like sometimes it's better to do that as well if you're doing a heavy eye like I am today. And then I'm kind of just gonna take this. I like to start in the middle. I don't like to go under my eyes either with foundation or tint or whatever when I'm first starting, because it can sometimes catch onto the concealer. It's like taking away all of this redness that I have in my face. Today, I think it's really just gonna be about the eye, because for me, that's one thing that I feel like I'm known for within my friends. It's like this Tom Ford Gucci kind of reference eye. It's what I do when the girls need a good beat. They come over, because girl, I know all the tips. So y'all are here to get all the tips! It's looking pretty, pretty gorgeous, you guys. Something in my family. Everybody got these bags, you guys. It's just how it is. But we're gonna fix it with this concealer. This is the Saint Laurent Touche Eclat. This is what the girls love in fashion. Also, this is another fashion staple. I feel like I'm using all of the favorite products from all of the girls. I usually like to put it on my hand first, just to kind of remove some of that product. And what I learned from the beginning is you're supposed to put the product on and let it sit. Another thing that I do that really chisels the cheekbones is you take the concealer, and you wanna go from your, basically this point in your ear, down. So I like to kind of fake it. It's called reverse contouring, I think, where you use the highlighter or use the concealer as a highlighter to kind of contour your face. I also have these marks. I don't know if other people have those, but it's from being a side sleeper. That's why I'm using my vampire sleeping method, you guys. I feel like as somebody who's a minority in the fashion industry, and there's so many firsts that I'm doing right now, there's definitely an obligation to use my voice. And yeah, I mean, I didn't sign up when I first started fashion to be the spokesperson for trans people, because I'm definitely not. There's so many people in my community that do so many different things than I do and represent so many different facets, I guess, of the industry. It's important to speak on my experience, but with the input that I've heard from them. I don't know if you can see, but I have, if I look down, I have these bags that are actually protruding. And someone told me this hack, where you use highlighter under your eyes, like right where the bag is, and you highlight it, which for me, I would assume that would do the opposite of what I want, but I tried it, and it actually does completely get rid of that shadow. The next product that I'm gonna use is my tried and true road. This is in the color Freckle. This is some of the best blush that I've ever used. My first ever beauty campaign was actually with Road, and it was such an amazing experience because I'd obviously been a fan of Hailey forever. I feel like she's so down to earth, and she's really a part of her brand, which I feel like is why it's so successful, is because she really appreciates and wants to understand how to make it better. She was very open to conversation, which I feel like is such a rarity. It's also just such a good shoe. Putting a little bit more blush just up here. This section of your face, that line that I talk about is something that I use a lot in my makeup because you really don't wanna bring the blush up over this. There's a white line right here. You wanna take the blush above it and below it, but you should always have that highlight that goes up to here because that's what pulls your face back and gives you that feline snatched mug that the girls are out here obsessing over. So I'm gonna take a little bit of this Chanel highlighter, and you put it above, you put it on the back. Also, I really only have a bag on this side. That's the thing. It's like sometimes your face is unsymmetrical. It's important to really match your routine to your face. I wanna say third grade, my mom got sticker eyeshadow things in magazines or whatever, and you would put it on your eye, and you would rub it, and then you would peel the sticker off, and it was an eyeshadow look on your face. My mom and I did that, and I actually have a picture of us. That was the first moment that I really remember. Makeup and beauty. Since that moment, I really was enamored with it. Also, just being queer, being trans, I think that there was always a real big focus around beauty for me, and I think that sometimes unrealistically, but I think it's important to note that a lot of people within my community are very centered around makeup, and it's a big part of expression in the community, and I think that if you're gonna express it gray, you better express it with a smoky eye, period. This is the real tip for the nose because I'm very picky about my nose. If you look up, there's a line right there. You take it onto the sides. Just that one line there will bring attention to that part of the nose, and then the bronzer will push it up, and the highlighter will be there, kind of like a focal point. And then I'm going to use my favorite ever powder. I learned about this powder when I was getting my makeup done by Pat's team for the Oscars. Probably one of my first shows was Tom Ford in 2021, 20. All of the supermodels, all of the girls that I looked at for years online, I met them, and they were so nice, and that's one thing that I always talk about is just how nice people were, and I always had this perception that models were mean, or they were standoffish, or they felt like each other were a competition, and that was really what showed me that that isn't true. I was welcomed with such open arms, and I feel like that's something so rare, and I remember that, and I think about that to this day. I'm ready to get into the eye. This is the eye that I've done since I was in eighth grade. Literally, it's always been this one smoky eye. If you're talking best products, Pat McGrath, when it comes to eyeshadow, Chef's Kiss. I have a brown similar to this that I use all the time, and I'm just going to put it in my eye and close it and go up like that. And then what you're gonna do is you're gonna connect the end part to the front of your eyes. And I'm going to just blend it out with just an empty brush. There's the base, and then we're gonna continue doing this. You see that side profile? Ah, look at that. You see this? So anyway, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do the same thing where I put it into the corner of my eye and close it and pull it up like that. This is my go-to when it comes to eyeliner, the Byredo. What I really, really love when it comes to eyeliner and eyeshadow is getting really close into that waterline because it gives you that Adriana Lima stare where it's muggy. I met Adriana the first time I did the Victoria's Secret movie and it was so incredible because I was, again, so nervous to meet all of these girls just considering that they were in fashion at a different time and I feel like there was a lot more competition than there is now. And when I tell you, she was literally the sweetest person I've ever met. So genuine, so nice. She literally said hi to everybody when it came to the atelier, the casting, the PA. Every person felt welcomed around her. I feel like that's something I really value. I'm gonna use another round of Touche Eclat. I'm just gonna go over my eye one more time with this. So now, while everything is setting and I'm kind of figuring out if this is what I want, I'm gonna do a quick singing break. Okay. Hey, come on, go with me. Hey, girl, you better come in. Hey. Okay, well, there's somebody here really trying to help me, but she's scared to sing right now, but it's okay, you guys. And then this is the tip that I learned that I have taught all of my makeup friends. Take a really good black pencil liner. Go up on top. And the color that you started with, that brown color, which you're gonna do on the black, you're gonna take a bit of that on a really flat brush. But you pat it and it'll set the pencil liner so that it stays all day, all night. I'm going to dip back into this palette and grab just a little shade. Maybe it's like this one. And there you go. So this is the final eyeshadow. I love a good curl in the eyelashes, so I'm gonna probably spend a second doing this. After I curl my lashes, I'm gonna use my Saint Laurent mascara. I feel like this is a really good mascara. It adds length, but it doesn't really clump up. Glossier brow in clear. It's nice because when my eyebrows get a little bit yellow, it's not fully clear. It's like white, so it kind of gives you some dimension in your eyebrows. I bleached them at Versace a couple years ago. Ever since then, I've had them bleached. Like, I tried to dye them back and it just, I didn't feel like myself. And I'm like, you know what? A bleached brow it is, a bleached brow it is. Y'all see what it's doing to the eyes. I love a good lip, Pat McGrath. I like to do overline because someone told me once that I have slit lips and I've never let that rest. And my last step, anytime I get Fabulous is a good perfume. Oh, this is that, like, get you a husband with, like, a Birkin scent. Like, yes, girl, you will get that bag. This is the final beat. Love you guys. Bye, Vogue.