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Game-changing Makeup Hacks for women over 50 · Create The Best Me

• 0:05
  I have to ask you, have you ever tried those so-called magnetic miracle lashes and end up with a mini disaster on your eyelids?
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  Yep, I've been there and let's just say ouch! But hang tight, because today's guest is about to save us from all future makeup fiascos.
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  I'm chatting with the fabulous Neelam Kaur, a makeup artist who turned marketing wiz, who built not one, but two blooming beauty businesses.
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  She's spilling every tip on how we midlife women can rock our best face, think glowing skin, perfectly chosen shades and insider tricks to help us love every feature we've got.
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  By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly how to avoid raccoon eyes, ditch those cakey concealer woes, and maybe just maybe feel bold enough to try lashes again without turning into a joker.
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  Ready?
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  Let's jump on in.
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  Neelam Kaur, welcome to Create the Best Me.
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  This is an honor to have you on the show.
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  Oh, it's an honor to be here.
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  Thank you so much.
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  And you are like, everyone's superhero because you make us look beautiful when we don't feel so beautiful.
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  Oh my God, that's so sweet to say.
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  I think everyone is beautiful, but we just have to get off Instagram and stop scrolling because that is what's really doing the damage.
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  Exactly.
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  Hey, Neelam, can you please tell the viewers and listeners a little bit about who you are and what you do?
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  Oh my God, okay, all of it.
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  Bits and pieces of it.
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  I do a lot of things.
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  I wear a lot of hats.
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  I bounce around all the time.
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  But, I've been a makeup artist since I was 18.
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  I am now 37.
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  So I've been doing it for quite a time.
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  Bridal has been my go-to forever.
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  It's a hustle.
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  It's demanding, but I absolutely love it.
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  It's such an honor to be in someone's home with their family alongside their loved ones on the most important day of their life.
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  And it is not a job I take lightly.
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  Being able to service the bride and the bridesmaids and the mother and the grandmother, like, it's such a beautiful time.
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  I grew up watching a lot of Disney movies, so that whole fairytale love gives me all the butterflies.
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  And being able to spend my weekends doing that is absolutely amazing.
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  So I went from being a makeup artist to also being an educator, more so on the marketing side and helping other makeup artists grow and scale their business as well.
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  And co-founded an app to help them do that too.
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  Uh, well, I will say right now, girl, you look absolutely beautiful.
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  I love your makeup right now.
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  And I think what I like the most about your makeup is it looks very natural.
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  You don't look overdone, you just look, I mean, it brings out your beautiful features.
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  Thank you so much.
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  I actually did my makeup at about seven o'clock this morning.
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  It is now almost 7: 30 PM here.
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  It is now almost 7: So all I have to do before the show is touch up with like a little bit of powder, but when you're layering correctly, you can get away with a lot and make it last a lot longer.
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  It is now almost 7: Well, you did mention that you do makeup for not just the bride, but for mom and grandma.
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  It is now almost 7: And I'm pretty sure one of the challenges that you are faced with is that mom or grandma want to have beautiful pictures that they can display in their house or show off to everybody, but they want to look beautiful.
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  It is now almost 7: They don't want to look like they're 20, but they don't want all the attention drawn toward those fine lines that we all tend to have as we get older.
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  It is now almost 7: And being that we are approaching graduations coming up, so not just weddings, we have weddings, graduations, and so forth.
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  It is now almost 7: That's why I invited you on the show so that you can teach older women how to show off their best features This is going to be so much fun.
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  It is now almost 7: And not look over done, of course.
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  It is now almost 7: And, and I'll just add right here, there are these two women right here, Salma Hayek and Halle Berry are women that I personally admire.
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  It is now almost 7: And the reason why I admire these women is because, not only because they're awesome, but because they're 58 years old, both of them, I found that out I had no idea until you told me that.
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  It is now almost 7: I was like, what?
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  It is now almost 7: I know, and they look amazing.
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  It is now almost 7: They're not overdone.
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  It is now almost 7: They look very natural and very beautiful.
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  It is now almost 7: And they are women of color.
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  It is now almost 7: And being a woman of color as myself, I find it very difficult to find the right color to match my face, to not make me look like, like I'm an Oompa-Loompa from Willy Wonka, or, you know, look like a ghost.
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  It is now almost 7: I totally understand that.
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  It is now almost 7: So especially growing up, there wasn't a lot of selection when it comes to foundations, and I think a lot of the default was Mac NC42, and I think there's a range, a very big range that was used in that foundation.
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  It is now almost 7: That foundation runs really yellow.
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  It is now almost 7: So when you're a person of color, when, especially like myself being Indian, I have yellow tones in my skin, so I do need a yellow based foundation, but I also run neutral in the winter.
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  It is now almost 7: So for me to use a yellow based foundation, I will go yellow or orange when it oxidizes.
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  It is now almost 7: So we really going to work on balancing that out.
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  It is now almost 7: I think trying to find a foundation that matches your skin tone really comes down to understanding your undertone.
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  It is now almost 7: Like, are you going to be running warm?
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  It is now almost 7: Are you going to be running cool?
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  It is now almost 7: Are you going to be running neutral?
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  It is now almost 7: I know it's a little bit complicated, but the easiest way to do that is just to find a couple of shades that you think are close and really just running them along your jawline and seeing how they set in rather than trying to figure out what color your veins are, rather than trying to figure out, and all of the other tricks that there are to it.
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  It is now almost 7: Cause it's a lot to remember.
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  It is now almost 7: It gets overwhelming.
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  It is now almost 7: It's like sometimes it doesn't always work, especially when you don't have like a color theory background.
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  It is now almost 7: Like color theory is not something that I learned in school as a makeup artist.
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  It is now almost 7: It's something that I had to teach myself and I'm still learning every day.
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  It is now almost 7: But really just knowing that usually foundation does oxidize and go a little bit deeper, starting a little bit lighter.
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  It is now almost 7: And also not being afraid of it if it's the wrong color.
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  It is now almost 7: Because a lot of the times your one color is not going to be the right color your whole year through.
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  It is now almost 7: And there's things that you can do to offset that.
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  It is now almost 7: In those summertime, you're going to be more bronzy, more tan.
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  It is now almost 7: So if you have a foundation that matches you beautifully in the summertime, because it does run a little bit more orange, a little bit more yellow, then in the wintertime it's looking like you're fully disconnected from your neck and shoulders.
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  It is now almost 7: All you're going to be doing is like not tossing that bottle, not even switching to another shade, either one, yes, you can use a color corrector, like maybe add some blue in there to kind of change the tone a little bit.
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  It is now almost 7: But even easier is using a concealer, just using a lighter concealer through the center of your face, under your eyes to kind of balance it out and making it look like the outside of your area of your face is still nice and bronzy.
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  It is now almost 7: And then the glow matches the center of your face, your shoulders, your chest, and then you naturally are contoured as well without actually doing the contour.
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  It is now almost 7: Mm, I think I just threw a lot at you.
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  It is now almost 7: You certainly did.
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  It is now almost 7: I'm like, holy smokes.
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  It is now almost 7: I told you that I didn't want to look like an Oompa Loompa orange and you just threw blue out here.
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  It is now almost 7: And then you also talked about concealer.
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  It is now almost 7: And I think that one of the challenges I have with concealer is that, around my eyes, under my eyes, and here into my cheekbones, I am very dry.
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  It is now almost 7: No matter what I do.
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  It is now almost 7: I'm very dry.
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  It is now almost 7: I, I think I set my face up and we'll go into that after I'm done with this.
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  It is now almost 7: But I put concealer and sometimes I look like a raccoon, you know, just like, whoa, white.
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  It is now almost 7: It just, it doesn't go.
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  It is now almost 7: So for the sake of education, could you please start off by saying, how could I prep my face?
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  It is now almost 7: I am dry here, my nose tends to be a little oily, and I'm oily here in my chin.
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  It is now almost 7: How would I prep my face before I even set up my makeup or begin to apply makeup?
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  It is now almost 7: So to break that question down a little bit and, and to break down your issue with concealer, there's two things that you mentioned here.
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  It is now almost 7: You're like, one, you look like a raccoon cause it's bright, right?
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  It is now almost 7: And then they also, that it's dry.
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  It is now almost 7: So when it's bright we're looking at is this a concealer that matches your color or is this a concealer that you bought to be lighter to do highlighting to make areas brighter?
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  It is now almost 7: Cause if you're saying that it's bright, I'm assuming that the color's too light for you.
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  It is now almost 7: And maybe you grab that to do highlighting.
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  It is now almost 7: And is that, is that correct or, I completely off here?
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  It is now almost 7: Well, I've, purchased two different concealers.
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  It is now almost 7: Now I've gone a little bit of dark, but here's my issue.
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  It is now almost 7: My issue, other than being dry around my eyes, I have, and this is just me naturally, and I know that Indian women also have this issue, is that I have dark circles around my eyes.
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  It is now almost 7: I look like I haven't slept in days, even though I sleep 10 hours, and I'll still wake up with dark circles.
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  It is now almost 7: Totally, a brown girl thing, yeah.
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  It is now almost 7: And then also like around the chin area, we get that all the time.
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  It is now almost 7: Okay.
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  It is now almost 7: So we have, skin prep, the different types of skin, the different areas of your skin, and then the color correcting, and then the dryness.
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  It is now almost 7: All right, let's break this down one by one.
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  It is now almost 7: And I'm going to lose my train of thought here.
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  It is now almost 7: So jump in please and keep me on track.
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  It is now almost 7: Okay, so first off, let's start with skin prep.
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  It is now almost 7: So obviously if you're dealing with dryness, any sort of fine lines, the best thing to do is hydrate the crap out of it.
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  It is now almost 7: Like really let it soak in.
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  It is now almost 7: Go do something else after you apply that cream.
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  It is now almost 7: And if there's anything left before you start your makeup, just give it a wipe to get rid of any sort of excess and then go in with your concealer.
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  It is now almost 7: But there's a certain way to do your concealer.
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  It is now almost 7: I'm going to come back to that in just a second.
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  It is now almost 7: Second, you have areas that are dry, areas that are oily.
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  It is now almost 7: So the oily areas other than maybe a light serum, cause you still want to hydrate the oily areas.
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  It is now almost 7: Otherwise you're going to get more, you're going to get more oil, right?
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  It is now almost 7: Your body's going to be like, oh, I'm not having any hydration here.
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  It is now almost 7: I have to compensate by creating more oils.
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  It is now almost 7: So.
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  It is now almost 7: You do want to use a moisturizer, but maybe if it's a big problem area for you, use it at nighttime.
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  It is now almost 7: Like drench your skin at nighttime, and then the morning after you wash your face, skip over those areas with the moisturizer.
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  It is now almost 7: Because when you're using a ton of products underneath your makeup, you're using lots of serums.
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  It is now almost 7: You're using lots of moisturizers.
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  It is now almost 7: Yes, you need them.
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  It is now almost 7: They're beautiful for your skin.
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  It is now almost 7: They're going to make your skin glow, but they're also going to affect your makeup, especially if you have oily areas.
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  It is now almost 7: Your makeup is only going to last as good as your skincare underneath.
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  It is now almost 7: So if we are doing makeup for a special event, this is different than everyday makeup.
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  It is now almost 7: If we're doing makeup for a special event, I would go a lot lighter with my skincare products.
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  It is now almost 7: All of your fancy serums, creams, things like that, do it the night before.
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  It is now almost 7: Let it soak in so your skin is beautiful and plump the next morning.
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  It is now almost 7: Then wash your face.
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  It is now almost 7: Get off any of the oils that are already on there.
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  It is now almost 7: Go in with a very light layering of moisturizer and let it seep into your skin before you even start going in with anything else.
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  It is now almost 7: So we got our moisturizer.
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  It is now almost 7: And if you're dry, then go in with all the moisturizer.
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  It is now almost 7: Embryolisse.
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  It is now almost 7: "Lait-Crème Concentré'' is amazing, it work doubles as a primer.
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  It is now almost 7: Go in with all of it.
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  It is now almost 7: Let it soak.
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  It is now almost 7: If you have flaky areas on your skin that are like patchy and you can really see the texture from the dryness, not the texture from pours the texture from dryness, same thing.
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  It is now almost 7: Apply a thick layer, like a face mask or something.
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  It is now almost 7: Let it soak while you're doing your hair and then wipe it away.
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  It is now almost 7: And then you have your base for your makeup.
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  It is now almost 7: Are we good on skin prep?
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  It is now almost 7: Well, you mentioned primer and you said that there was this particular product that is a two in one, it was a moisturizer and a primer.
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  It is now almost 7: Yes, Embryolisse Lait I, I hope I'm saying it right.
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  It is now almost 7: I've been using it for years.
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  It is now almost 7: Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré it's like a makeup artist, holy grail.
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  It is now almost 7: I use it on almost everybody unless somebody has really, really oily skin.
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  It is now almost 7: Cause it just, it has that slip to it, and it preps the skin really well for makeup to go down smoothly on it.
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  It is now almost 7: But if you have an oily, like you have an oily T-zone and those oils bother you, sometimes a little bit of oil is okay.
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  It is now almost 7: Like I have some glow going on on my cheeks right now, and I think if I didn't have that, my face would look too flat.
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  It is now almost 7: So, if you have an oily T-zone where you have like a really like disco ball, shiny nose and you're like, I don't want to look like this.
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  It is now almost 7: Then using a primer just in those areas that's going to combat that oil or help the foundation stick better to those areas.
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  It is now almost 7: Unless you have larger pores in your nose or you produce more oils in your nose, sometimes the foundation doesn't stick.
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  It is now almost 7: Or sometimes you're so dehydrated that the foundation goes on and then you just see spots on your nose cause your skin's absorbed it.
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  It is now almost 7: So using a primer in those areas, like the Milk Hydro Grip, or something, the Poreless from hourglass.
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  It is now almost 7: Something that is going to absorb oil or help your foundation like it's tacky and it's going to help your foundation stick better is great, just for those areas.
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  It is now almost 7: Like you don't have to go all over your face.
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  It is now almost 7: Cause we're still trying to make it look like it's life.
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  It is now almost 7: Right.
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  It is now almost 7: Mm-hmm.
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  It is now almost 7: What about around the eyes?
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  It is now almost 7: Would you put the primer around your eyes as well?
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  It is now almost 7: Honestly, I don't know if you're supposed to or not.
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  It is now almost 7: So I don't, because I have moisturizer there, I have skincare there.
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  It is now almost 7: And I also don't know if the products in the primer are going to be safe enough around the eye area if they're fragrance or anything like that.
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  It is now almost 7: So, as a precaution, I don't, um, I also like, I feel like I haven't had the need to.
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  It is now almost 7: I have on occasion with clients with fine lines that were very, very self-conscious about it.
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  It is now almost 7: I would take a little bit of like eyeshadow primer and put that on the fine lines and then go in with my concealer, very, very sparingly.
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  It is now almost 7: Okay.
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  It is now almost 7: And just, for education purpose, cause you just threw something, I don't know anything about What does eyeshadow primer do?
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  It is now almost 7: Okay.
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  It is now almost 7: so eyeshadow primer helps grab your eyeshadow.
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  It is now almost 7: So there's a couple of things.
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  It is now almost 7: There's lots of different ones out there, but the way that I like to use them is, one, I want to use an eyeshadow primer because I want my eyeshadow to show up better.
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  It is now almost 7: I want it to grab that color.
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  It is now almost 7: I don't want it to crease.
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  It is now almost 7: But I only use an eyeshadow primer when I'm doing my makeup for special events.
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  It is now almost 7: If I'm doing my makeup for work or like day to day, I'm not doing that extra step.
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  It is now almost 7: So I will just use my concealer.
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  It is now almost 7: I'll just use my concealer and I'll set it with powder, and then I'll just go back in with my bronzer, do my eyeshadow.
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  It is now almost 7: But another easy way is when you're doing your concealer and if you have like an oilier eyelid and it creases, no matter what I do, and my eyeshadow always creases, or my foundation is always creasing, even if I'm setting it with powder, my, just, my foundation on my eyes is creasing.
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  It is now almost 7: Just take a little bit of that eyeshadow primer, like a tiny little drop, mix it in with your concealer before you put it on your eyes.
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  It is now almost 7: And that's just an easy way to keep it in place.
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  It is now almost 7: Okay, so you talked about, setting your face by putting this two in one primer and hydration.
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  It is now almost 7: How long would you let that set before you start doing your makeup or moving on to the next step?
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  It is now almost 7: Five, 10 minutes, the longer the better.
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  It is now almost 7: Mainly because I don't want to get too technical and complicated here and give you more stuff to think about, but your foundation and your moisturizer, or your foundation and your primer have to play well together.
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  It is now almost 7: It's an ingredient thing.
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  It is now almost 7: If you have a thick layer of moisturizer on your skin and it is like an oil-based moisturizer, and then you're going in with the silicone based foundation, and they mix, they're going to start pilling where you get those little flaky parts that come off.
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  It is now almost 7: Like there's a lot of videos out there giving you a lot of information and really, like, we want to simplify things.
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  It is now almost 7: So if we just use less of the moisturizer and we let it absorb into the skin so that it's not sitting on top of the skin when we go in with our foundation, it's not a problem.
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  It is now almost 7: But then we don't have to worry about matching our foundation with our moisturizer.
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  It is now almost 7: Cause who wants to think about that?
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  It is now almost 7: I don't want to think about that.
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  It is now almost 7: Do you want to think about that?
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  It is now almost 7: I don't, but I tell you one I have stopped using primer for that reason because I guess I didn't let it sit long enough.
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  It is now almost 7: Because then I apply my makeup and I'm like, oh my gosh, I have like all this like little silicone, feels like, you know, like little silicone bubble or not like peels or rolls on my face.
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  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
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  It is now almost 7: I actually just like dust them away sometimes.
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  It is now almost 7: I'm like, it's fine.
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  It is now almost 7: They'll go, go away on their own later.
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  It is now almost 7: Um, but that's the other benefit to using a primer just in the areas that you need it.
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  It is now almost 7: And also, I feel like if you're prepping your skin correctly and you're good with your skincare, you don't need a primer.
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  It is now almost 7: I used to use "Smashbox Photo Finish" on everybody.
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  It is now almost 7: That was my holy grail for a long time.
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  It is now almost 7: Watching it on, the shopping channel, I remember when I was younger and I was like, this is magic.
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  It is now almost 7: Like this is everything.
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  It is now almost 7: I was obsessed with Smashbox seeing those commercials on the shopping channel.
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  It is now almost 7: And I was using that on everybody for a long time.
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  It is now almost 7: But I think I just got lucky.
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  It is now almost 7: It was early in my makeup career and the foundation that I was using just played well with it.
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  It is now almost 7: But when I started adding different foundations to my kit, it was not always playing well anymore, and it took a while to realize the culprit.
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  It is now almost 7: So then, okay, we've let it set for five minutes, five, 10 minutes.
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  It is now almost 7: What do we do next?
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  It is now almost 7: Okay, so next we're going to go in with our color corrector.
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  It is now almost 7: So day to day wear, I like Vasanti VO2.
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  It is now almost 7: If you don't have like extreme dark circles.
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  It is now almost 7: Like if it's just like a shading issue, you know, like there's just like a little bit of shade, you can see a little bit of darkness.
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  It is now almost 7: Then the Vasanti V02 is so light, it is so creamy that I just like, I go in and I apply it to like the areas only on top of the areas that have darkness, cause we're trying to color correct.
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  It is now almost 7: We're not trying to cover that whole area, and then spread onto the normal skin tone color because now you're color correcting the normal skin tone color and that area is going to go orange.
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  It is now almost 7: So you want to keep it in that very concentrated area, very light dabs of that product, and then just press it in with your finger, and let it sit.
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  It is now almost 7: And we're letting it sit, cause you want it to dry down before you go in with your foundation, otherwise you're just spreading that product around.
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  It is now almost 7: And again, like if you're in a rush, what you can do is take like a makeup setting spray, not the hydration spray, the setting sprays that really lock in your makeup, like Urban Decay All Nighter or the Charlotte Tilbury Spray.
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  It is now almost 7: Spray your fingers, spray your brush, and then tap it in.
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  It is now almost 7: And that'll just lock it in a little bit stronger.
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  It is now almost 7: And you can also build up your layers with that.
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  It is now almost 7: But if you have deeper, darker, deeper, darker, if you have more darkness, darker circles, then you're going to need something a little bit more hardcore for color correcting.
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  It is now almost 7: I'm saying orange, cause I'm assuming we're talking about brown girls, cause like, we're both like in, in like the middle range kind of area.
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  It is now almost 7: But there's peach, there's salmon.
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  It is now almost 7: What?
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  It is now almost 7: There's peach, there's orange, there's salmon.
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  It is now almost 7: That's probably not in the right order.
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  It is now almost 7: But there's usually three.
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  It is now almost 7: Most brands have three.
• 19:09
  It is now almost 7: So I'm saying, orange for like the middle range, but it doesn't have to be orange, orange.
• 19:14
  It is now almost 7: Like I don't even know what, color I have here.
• 19:17
  It is now almost 7: I have my whole kit here with me.
• 19:19
  It is now almost 7: Like the LA color corrector, pro conceal, this is like an orange.
• 19:24
  It is now almost 7: This is too dark, this is way too dark.
• 19:26
  It is now almost 7: Like I would use this very sparingly, mixed in with my eye cream maybe, and then letting it dry down if that's all I had.
• 19:34
  It is now almost 7: What does that look like when you put that on?
• 19:35
  It is now almost 7: Are you going to look like you got orange?
• 19:37
  It is now almost 7: Uh, it's pretty orange.
• 19:38
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, so that's like if, when you're using like orange, orange.
• 19:41
  It is now almost 7: Like you want to make sure you're going with the full coverage foundation afterward.
• 19:44
  It is now almost 7: Or cause like, this is hardcore.
• 19:46
  It is now almost 7: Somebody that has a lot of darkness whether it's hyperpigmentation along the chin or certain areas of their face, this actually looks less orange cause we're only putting it on top of those areas.
• 19:57
  It is now almost 7: But the NARS has really good creamy ones as well.
• 19:59
  It is now almost 7: Like this one is in light and this one is like really light.
• 20:02
  It is now almost 7: Like that's a very light, light, creamy, peachy color.
• 20:05
  It is now almost 7: And that one is a little bit less scary to work with.
• 20:07
  It is now almost 7: So we apply it and then we wait and go like do something else in the meantime.
• 20:12
  It is now almost 7: I have a question to ask you.
• 20:13
  It is now almost 7: Does that also help with, scars from zits?
• 20:17
  It is now almost 7: Sorry, I get zits.
• 20:20
  It is now almost 7: And because I am a brown girl, I end up with dark spots on my face that take forever to go away.
• 20:26
  It is now almost 7: Same product, same application.
• 20:29
  It is now almost 7: You want to just pad it in.
• 20:30
  It is now almost 7: And then again, after you're putting on your foundation, if you're putting it on that area, you want to make sure you're padding and that you're not like brushing back and forth and moving it around.
• 20:38
  It is now almost 7: You really want it to stay set.
• 20:41
  It is now almost 7: And then for someone else that has, breakouts from acne, if it's a red breakout, like it's fresh, then you're not going to go in with orange, you're going to go in with green because it's on the opposite side of the color wheel.
• 20:50
  It is now almost 7: The green is going to cancel out that redness.
• 20:53
  It is now almost 7: Where would the blue fit in?
• 20:54
  It is now almost 7: Because I know you mentioned blue.
• 20:56
  It is now almost 7: Blue.
• 20:57
  It is now almost 7: You know, I don't know why I do what I do sometimes.
• 20:59
  It is now almost 7: So in my mind, like I could be wrong and I'm going to get called up for this later, so do your research before you quote me on it.
• 21:05
  It is now almost 7: But I would put blue if something is too orange.
• 21:08
  It is now almost 7: That is making sense to me, is blue and orange against across the color wheel from each other.
• 21:11
  It is now almost 7: I need to look this up.
• 21:12
  It is now almost 7: Hold on.
• 21:13
  It is now almost 7: Color wheel blue, orange.
• 21:17
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, okay, perfect.
• 21:18
  It is now almost 7: That's exactly what it is.
• 21:19
  It is now almost 7: Had to make sure before I make anyone else into like an Oompa Loompa or Avatar.
• 21:24
  It is now almost 7: So if your foundation is getting too bronzy, getting too orange, mixing in a tiny bit of blue could help neutralize it.
• 21:32
  It is now almost 7: So then that could be like your winter foundation as well.
• 21:34
  It is now almost 7: Oh, so like for example, this is what I use because like I said, I'm drier than dry.
• 21:41
  It is now almost 7: I use IT foundation, and it has a CC Nude Glow.
• 21:46
  It is now almost 7: And it's supposed to be little, I don't know, the computer's not I see the bottle.
• 21:50
  It is now almost 7: I love IT cosmetics.
• 21:51
  It is now almost 7: I think they have done an amazing job with their line.
• 21:55
  It is now almost 7: And the foundation as well as the color corrector as well as the BB cream.
• 21:59
  It is now almost 7: Like they're all amazing.
• 21:59
  It is now almost 7: Even the green rescue cream phenomenal.
• 22:02
  It is now almost 7: Like I've had mothers, mothers in my chair.
• 22:05
  It is now almost 7: They're like, can I just use my foundation?
• 22:07
  It is now almost 7: Usually I'll say no, because like things don't play well, together.
• 22:10
  It is now almost 7: I don't know if it's been compromised bacteria, all of those things.
• 22:14
  It is now almost 7: But then they pull out like IT cosmetic CC cream or like the silver bottle even.
• 22:17
  It is now almost 7: I don't know if they changed their packaging, and I'm like, okay, yes, we can totally use this because it blends into the skin like butter.
• 22:23
  It is now almost 7: It does something to the texture of the skin.
• 22:26
  It is now almost 7: I don't know what the ingredient is.
• 22:27
  It is now almost 7: I don't know how they formulated it, but it literally just.
• 22:31
  It is now almost 7: It's going to be maybe silicone.
• 22:32
  It is now almost 7: Cause it really does smooth out the skin beautifully.
• 22:35
  It is now almost 7: And it's just, it's pillowy.
• 22:37
  It is now almost 7: I don't know how to describe it, but nice, it's pillowy.
• 22:40
  It is now almost 7: I, I like it because I can smile.
• 22:42
  It is now almost 7: I can move my face and not feel like it's going to break.
• 22:45
  It is now almost 7: You know, some products do that.
• 22:46
  It is now almost 7: I feel like it dries my face too much.
• 22:48
  It is now almost 7: And what I liked about this is that I can move my face without, you know, I think it's going to tear or anything like that.
• 22:54
  It is now almost 7: And it has SPF 40.
• 22:56
  It is now almost 7: And I think if you're worried about like, things seeping into fine lines or like texture, I love silicone based foundations for that because the molecules are a little bit bigger.
• 23:06
  It is now almost 7: They just sit on the skin rather than like a liquid where it's going to go into the pores and into stuff.
• 23:11
  It is now almost 7: I mean, if you're experienced, experienced with these bunny ears kind of thing, you can find a way to work it and make it work for you.
• 23:18
  It is now almost 7: But if you want something effortless, like Cinema Secrets has been in my kit forever, like literally 20 years.
• 23:23
  It is now almost 7: I keep replacing it.
• 23:24
  It is now almost 7: I think it's a professional brand though, but let me try to think of one that's mainstream.
• 23:28
  It is now almost 7: Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk is another one that is silicone base and then FACE Atelier is the pro version, but you can also buy it as a normal person, to the Giorgio Armani.
• 23:41
  It is now almost 7: Giorgio Armani runs for like, I think $68 a bottle Canadian, but the FACE Atelier, I think is less than half that price.
• 23:47
  It is now almost 7: And it's almost at a complete dupe.
• 23:49
  It is now almost 7: Again, like silicone based, so the molecules are a little bit bigger.
• 23:53
  It is now almost 7: If you have dry skin, normal skin, it's a beautiful foundation.
• 23:56
  It is now almost 7: It sits beautifully, sits on top of the skin beautifully.
• 23:59
  It is now almost 7: It's glowy, without being like overly wet or anything like that.
• 24:03
  It is now almost 7: But if you're oily, then silicone is a little bit tricky because it will slip and slide a little bit.
• 24:09
  It is now almost 7: So what about if you are on a fixed budget and you know, Giorgio Armani is a little bit out of that budget?
• 24:16
  It is now almost 7: Is there like a drug store brand that people can go to?
• 24:20
  It is now almost 7: I wish I had an answer to this.
• 24:22
  It is now almost 7: I haven't been to the drugstore to buy makeup in a really long time.
• 24:25
  It is now almost 7: Not because I'm bougie, but because I have a lot of pro discounts.
• 24:29
  It is now almost 7: I wait for the Sephora sale twice a year, so like April.
• 24:33
  It is now almost 7: Usually it's like around April and November, they always have the 20, 30% off.
• 24:37
  It is now almost 7: So whatever I need that I can't get from directly from a brand, I'll get it from there.
• 24:41
  It is now almost 7: Like those are the two times of the year I restock.
• 24:43
  It is now almost 7: I wouldn't be frugal unless I have to buy it otherwise.
• 24:46
  It is now almost 7: And then if you're buying a foundation at like 30% off or a high end foundation that you absolutely love, then you're buying it once a year.
• 24:54
  It is now almost 7: That's, it's not too bad.
• 24:56
  It is now almost 7: FACE Atelier though, is like a perfect dupe for the Giorgio Armani and it is at a fraction of the cost.
• 25:02
  It is now almost 7: Also, a lot of my clients have sworn by the Maybelline Fit Me foundations, and they absolutely are obsessed.
• 25:09
  It is now almost 7: So I, I, I think that would be a good dupe.
• 25:11
  It is now almost 7: I just haven't played with them myself.
• 25:13
  It is now almost 7: I mean, I use my eyeliners from there, but I just haven't foundations.
• 25:16
  It is now almost 7: I'm picky with my kit.
• 25:17
  It is now almost 7: Okay.
• 25:18
  It is now almost 7: So I've let the, I have orange eyes now because I've let this stuff sit in my face.
• 25:24
  It is now almost 7: How am I going to apply the foundation?
• 25:27
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so you're going to take foundation or concealer?
• 25:29
  It is now almost 7: Where am I going?
• 25:30
  It is now almost 7: We're going to go with foundation first because foundation, if we go, we could go in with concealer, but then you're adding coverage where you may not need coverage and we're adding too many layers.
• 25:39
  It is now almost 7: But if we can go in with foundation first, we can see what areas need to be concealed afterward.
• 25:45
  It is now almost 7: Cause concealer's a lot thicker too, right.
• 25:47
  It is now almost 7: So, I like to use like a dense kind of fluffy brush thing.
• 25:51
  It is now almost 7: If you can see the video, if you're watching on YouTube.
• 25:53
  It is now almost 7: Something like this, either side, something small, not too big.
• 25:57
  It is now almost 7: I'll put a couple of pumps onto the back of my hand so that my skin will also warm it up.
• 26:01
  It is now almost 7: And then I'll press down like this and I'll press my brush into my hand quite a few times so that all that product goes into the bristles.
• 26:09
  It is now almost 7: And then the same way I'm pushing onto my hand, maybe less aggressively, I'll take it to my face and I'll just push it onto my face.
• 26:17
  It is now almost 7: So like I'm not swirling, I'm not going, back and forth.
• 26:20
  It is now almost 7: I'm literally pushing it into my face.
• 26:24
  It is now almost 7: And because I've pushed a lot of that product into the brush, I also say for the people that are listening and not watching, when you're pushing the product, when you're pushing the brush into the product onto the back of your hand, take one dab into the product onto the back of your hand and then move it off to the side and keep pushing.
• 26:41
  It is now almost 7: What we're trying to do is get that product into the brush, so that you kind of have like a smooth effect, not a wet effect on your hand, and then push it onto your skin so you're not getting a heavy dose of foundation in one area.
• 26:54
  It is now almost 7: And then you're just going to go in all over your face, just pushing like kitty cat paws, they're waking you up in the morning.
• 27:00
  It is now almost 7: And do that all over your face.
• 27:02
  It is now almost 7: And then go back and repeat on your hand if you need more product and go back and push that all into your face.
• 27:07
  It is now almost 7: But we're going to skip right underneath the eye area here, cause we're going to do that with concealer.
• 27:12
  It is now almost 7: Concealer's going to sit better, it's going to last longer, and then we're going to use a different brush for that area.
• 27:17
  It is now almost 7: But if you have color corrector on your chin over any pimples, anything like that, you're going to do the same thing.
• 27:21
  It is now almost 7: You're just going to take this, you're going to push.
• 27:23
  It is now almost 7: Just keep covering and you might need to go back and do a second coat or a third coat.
• 27:27
  It is now almost 7: But because we're using such a small amount of product and we're working into the brush and we're pushing it onto the skin, it's a light layer that it's drying in between coats.
• 27:37
  It is now almost 7: So it's going to, you're not going to use the least amount of product that you need, and we're building up layers to get the coverage that you want without going in with a ton of product and having it s swish around and then it just be really heavy and you're like, how am I getting this to blend anywhere?
• 27:51
  It is now almost 7: I usually use a sponge.
• 27:54
  It is now almost 7: That's totally okay too.
• 27:55
  It is now almost 7: There's no wrong way to do makeup.
• 27:57
  It is now almost 7: You do what works for you.
• 27:59
  It is now almost 7: I like a beauty blender sponge, or what kind of sponge?
• 28:02
  It is now almost 7: It's a beauty, Or like a triangle.
• 28:04
  It is now almost 7: It's a like a teardrop almost.
• 28:06
  It is now almost 7: cause So how do you put your foundation on?
• 28:08
  It is now almost 7: I squirt a layer on my hand, and then I wet my beauty sponge, take out all the water out of it to make sure there's no water, and it's just nice and bouncy.
• 28:19
  It is now almost 7: And then I dab it into my hand and I dab it around.
• 28:22
  It is now almost 7: And then where I don't, where I didn't put makeup, I'll dab it over there so I'm not getting too much.
• 28:26
  It is now almost 7: And then I'll just like dab dab onto my face.
• 28:30
  It is now almost 7: Amazing.
• 28:31
  It is now almost 7: That's perfect too.
• 28:32
  It is now almost 7: Okay.
• 28:33
  It is now almost 7: Because I wasn't sure if maybe using the brush technique created more of a, feathered look or an airbrush type of look as opposed to the sponge.
• 28:41
  It is now almost 7: I, I think it's literally the same thing.
• 28:43
  It is now almost 7: I like using the brush because I have control of where I'm putting the product.
• 28:47
  It is now almost 7: Whereas like the beauty blender, like you can't see like if it's all along the bottom, if you're hitting it at the right angles.
• 28:52
  It is now almost 7: Also, I love a beauty blender.
• 28:54
  It is now almost 7: I use it afterward to finish my makeup.
• 28:56
  It is now almost 7: I just don't use it to apply my makeup because it's soaks up so much product cause it's a sponge, like you're using a lot of foundation in there as well.
• 29:03
  It is now almost 7: So sometimes on clients I will go in with like a flat foundation brush to apply foundation and then I'll go back afterward to use my beauty blender.
• 29:11
  It is now almost 7: I use my beauty blender for finishing.
• 29:13
  It is now almost 7: So most of the time, so I'll do like my foundation, my concealer, my highlight, all of the things and when everything's on and then I'll go back in.
• 29:21
  It is now almost 7: But instead of wetting my beauty blender because I want my makeup last, I'll spray it with like Urban Decay, All-Nighter.
• 29:27
  It is now almost 7: And then I'll go and I'll press it into my skin.
• 29:29
  It is now almost 7: So one, I'm making sure everything's smooth, flawless airbrush, but I'm also setting it with the All-Nighter spray to make sure it's going to last me all day as well.
• 29:37
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so if I did apply the orange around my eyes to take care of that dark circles, am I putting the makeup on that or am I still waiting for the concealer?
• 29:47
  It is now almost 7: No, you're going to rock it like that all day.
• 29:49
  It is now almost 7: That's it.
• 29:49
  It is now almost 7: That's your look! Okay, so now that your foundation is on, you skip the under eye area, you're going to get a concealer that is pretty much your actual color.
• 30:01
  It is now almost 7: This is to conceal, we're not brightening here.
• 30:04
  It is now almost 7: If you still find that you have a little bit of a darkness, you can go in with a concealer that's a little bit darker.
• 30:09
  It is now almost 7: I know it's the opposite of what we all want to do, but it'll just help get that coverage better.
• 30:14
  It is now almost 7: So I like having a wide range of concealers for a wide range of reasons.
• 30:18
  It is now almost 7: Like I'll have my one foundation that I absolutely love, or I'll have my daytime and my nighttime foundation, but I have a lot of concealers, which is kind of ridiculous, but there's method to the madness.
• 30:26
  It is now almost 7: So using a concealer that is the same color or tiny bit darker if you need extra coverage, but we're going to apply it the same way that we did our foundation.
• 30:36
  It is now almost 7: So I don't recommend, especially if you have any sort of fine lines that you don't want product to seep into, or you don't want it to look cakey or heavy, you're going to put the applicator onto the back of your hand, wipe off some product, and then using like a small dance brush, even like an eyeshadow crease brush.
• 30:53
  It is now almost 7: Like, you know, the round ones that we use for the crease of her eye, that same type of brush.
• 30:57
  It is now almost 7: We're going to take a little bit of product just on the tip of the brush.
• 31:01
  It is now almost 7: I don't want you to put it on the sides of all of the brush.
• 31:03
  It is now almost 7: So that's, that is a lot of product, just a tiny bit on the tip of the brush.
• 31:07
  It is now almost 7: And then same thing, pressing it into your hand, making sure that product is worked in there and that there's not like a whole ton of wet spots.
• 31:14
  It is now almost 7: When I say wet spots, I'm kind of talking about like peaks.
• 31:17
  It is now almost 7: Like you know how liquid makes peaks when you pick it up?
• 31:19
  It is now almost 7: It's those peaks that we don't want because if you're getting peaks on your hand, you're going to get peaks on your face.
• 31:24
  It is now almost 7: So just making sure it's all in there, you're not getting those peaks anymore.
• 31:28
  It is now almost 7: And then moving your hand to the back of the brush so we're not holding it all the way at the front of the brush like a pencil.
• 31:35
  It is now almost 7: We're going further back to loosen our pressure because we just want to go in here and just lightly tap onto that color corrector and that under eye area.
• 31:47
  It is now almost 7: And it might not cover it the first time, but that's okay.
• 31:50
  It is now almost 7: We use such a tiny amount of product that we can go back, do it again, and slowly build up in the areas that we need to get that coverage.
• 31:57
  It is now almost 7: And just very, very light layers and really making sure that that product has worked into the brush.
• 32:02
  It is now almost 7: Cause if that product's worked into the brush, it's so much less work that you have to do on your face to blend it into everything else after.
• 32:09
  It is now almost 7: Okay.
• 32:09
  It is now almost 7: And so by doing that, does that help eliminate from its setting into those fine lines?
• 32:16
  It is now almost 7: There is nothing that's going to completely erase those fine lines, but the less product that we use, the less setting in that it will do.
• 32:25
  It is now almost 7: And then the other thing is like, if you are worried about it setting in, there's a couple of things that we could do to help minimize it, not completely stop it altogether, because if there is texture, things are going to move, but we want to move a little bit less so we want to use less product.
• 32:39
  It is now almost 7: So it's moving less.
• 32:41
  It is now almost 7: We want to use a little bit of powder so that it's like sand, it kind of slows it down for moving a little bit of powder.
• 32:48
  It is now almost 7: And then the other option is like if I, you absolutely hate powder and like I'm against it.
• 32:54
  It is now almost 7: I don't want it.
• 32:55
  It is now almost 7: I don't care how little it is.
• 32:56
  It is now almost 7: Then skip the powder and then just be okay throughout the day just taking your finger, like your warm finger and just lightly pressing it under there.
• 33:03
  It is now almost 7: Who cares if you have to touch it up.
• 33:05
  It is now almost 7: Better to touch it up and be okay with the finish than having to cake it on or do all of these things and be unhappy with your look.
• 33:11
  It is now almost 7: Like I used to wear liquid lipstick because I hated touching up my lipstick.
• 33:15
  It is now almost 7: And like I would always do liquid lips.
• 33:17
  It is now almost 7: I'm like, and I hated the feeling of liquid lips, but I was just lazy that I didn't want to touch it up.
• 33:22
  It is now almost 7: And now I as after I turned like 35, I'm like, forget it.
• 33:25
  It is now almost 7: I love my Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks.
• 33:28
  It is now almost 7: They're creamy, they're hydrating.
• 33:29
  It is now almost 7: They don't last for shit.
• 33:31
  It is now almost 7: But I'm okay with that because the colors are beautiful, they feel amazing.
• 33:34
  It is now almost 7: And I just keep it in my purse.
• 33:35
  It is now almost 7: Now it's fine.
• 33:36
  It is now almost 7: I'll touch it up.
• 33:36
  It is now almost 7: I don't care.
• 33:37
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so, we lightly applied the concealer under our eyes.
• 33:43
  It is now almost 7: And we can either, you talked about you can put powder.
• 33:46
  It is now almost 7: Now would I be using my loose powder?
• 33:50
  It is now almost 7: cause I use the Mac Studio Pro Set+ Blur because I'm older, I want to blur everything.
• 33:57
  It is now almost 7: Or do I use like my Tarte, high performance press powder?
• 34:03
  It is now almost 7: Carmen, which one do you love?
• 34:05
  It is now almost 7: Which one do I love?
• 34:06
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, Well, I was always told, you want to do the press powder?
• 34:09
  It is now almost 7: I was told to do the press powder because if I don't like the fine lines, which I don't, this is the one I want to do.
• 34:15
  It is now almost 7: I like the blur.
• 34:16
  It is now almost 7: But what I don't like about this Mac blur is that, and I think we, I talked to you about this offline, is it creates a lot of, glow to my face.
• 34:25
  It is now almost 7: Oh, it's one of those It's one of those.
• 34:29
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, I bought a couple of those by accident.
• 34:31
  It is now almost 7: Okay, well you can return that.
• 34:35
  It is now almost 7: We don't need that.
• 34:36
  It is now almost 7: I don't know why they do this.
• 34:38
  It is now almost 7: They said it's because, I have certain areas where I'm dry, so it's supposed to give me the glows, supposed to give me the hydration, but I'm like, then it The glow is just too much.
• 34:48
  It is now almost 7: I'm like, put your sunglasses on cause I'm going to like throw your eyes out.
• 34:53
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so Hourglass makes these light finishing powders and they're amazing.
• 34:58
  It is now almost 7: Like you don't even notice them on the skin.
• 35:01
  It is now almost 7: If you do one side of your face and you don't do the other, you notice there's something different about your face.
• 35:06
  It is now almost 7: Like, but you don't notice like there's no shimmer or anything that really reflects a ton of light, even though it's light reflecting, it's not obvious.
• 35:14
  It is now almost 7: But it just, it, just gives the skin a really nice finish.
• 35:16
  It is now almost 7: Okay, going back to that compact loose powder question, you use what you want to use, it's all in the technique of how you want to use it.
• 35:22
  It is now almost 7: So that the tart powder, I'm not sure if that one is a, it's a probably a pressed compact, so probably has color to it as well, which makes things a little bit tricky.
• 35:34
  It is now almost 7: Cause like, oh are we adding another layer of foundation on top of foundation?
• 35:38
  It is now almost 7: Which is cool cause that is a look too.
• 35:40
  It is now almost 7: Sometimes you want to layer your foundation with foundation to get more coverage.
• 35:42
  It is now almost 7: But cause I'm not familiar with the tart, I'm going to talk about the airbrush, the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless.
• 35:50
  It is now almost 7: And these come in minis, which is great.
• 35:51
  It is now almost 7: Charlotte Tilbury only has one line of the compact powders anyways, but the good thing about this one is that it doesn't have a ton of color to it and it's so finely milled.
• 36:01
  It is now almost 7: So I love using this.
• 36:04
  It is now almost 7: Okay, but we're not talking about how I would use it on myself.
• 36:07
  It is now almost 7: We're talking about how I would use it on other people.
• 36:09
  It is now almost 7: There's a difference.
• 36:10
  It is now almost 7: I like to cake my face sometimes.
• 36:12
  It is now almost 7: So I like to cake my face with this and I use it with a sponge, like, you know, those triangle sponges.
• 36:16
  It is now almost 7: So I'll like scrub the triangle sponge in here and try to get as much color payoff possible and press it onto my face.
• 36:23
  It is now almost 7: But when I'm doing it on other people that don't want it to set into their any fine lines, and they don't want it to be super powdery, I would take a flat brush or like a dense brush, even like the end of like a clean brush.
• 36:39
  It is now almost 7: And instead of like, swirling it and then swirling it onto my face, I would just go tap, tap, tap, tap on both sides to press the powder into the brush, and then I would very lightly not starting with the under eye area first, like probably along the sides of the nose or other shiny areas first.
• 36:58
  It is now almost 7: Cause wherever you put your brush down on your face right now is where you're going to get most of that powder.
• 37:02
  It is now almost 7: So I would literally just tap it onto my skin the same way we were tapping on the foundation.
• 37:07
  It is now almost 7: We're using the flat end of the brush to push it into the skin.
• 37:12
  It is now almost 7: Now we're going to use the side of the brush to just lightly tap those areas.
• 37:16
  It is now almost 7: And that's how we're going to apply our powder.
• 37:17
  It is now almost 7: And then whatever's left on the brush afterward, then we can take it and just tap it under the eye area.
• 37:23
  It is now almost 7: And that's going to give you the least amount of product.
• 37:25
  It is now almost 7: Cause again, we don't want product moving, but it's going to help keep things set and also help keeping things like not so shiny.
• 37:34
  It is now almost 7: So now we have our canvas together.
• 37:39
  It is now almost 7: Where do we go, do we do the eyes first or do we do cheeks, nose?
• 37:44
  It is now almost 7: Okay, I'm going to go back to this picture Salma and Halle.
• 37:47
  It is now almost 7: So in the picture, especially the one of Halle.
• 37:51
  It is now almost 7: She definitely has some contouring going on and she has some blush going on, but because it's so glowy and melted into her skin, I really think it's cream.
• 37:59
  It is now almost 7: So I think before we get to the powder, if we're going to go buy this example before you powder, we're going to go in with like a cream bronzer or a cream blush.
• 38:08
  It is now almost 7: And we're going to apply it the same way that we did our foundation.
• 38:12
  It is now almost 7: So remember we talked about putting it on the back of our hand, usually cream blushes, you need the tiniest little drop.
• 38:18
  It is now almost 7: And if you're worried that it's going to be too much when you're put it onto your skin, mix it in with whatever leftover concealer foundation you have on your hand to tone it down a little bit.
• 38:26
  It is now almost 7: And then apply that first before you do your powder.
• 38:28
  It is now almost 7: So we've done your foundation, so we've done your color correcting.
• 38:32
  It is now almost 7: We've done your foundation, we did your concealer, and now we're going to go in with a cream blush just on the apples of the cheek here.
• 38:38
  It is now almost 7: Cause we're going to be youthful.
• 38:39
  It is now almost 7: So most of the color is over here.
• 38:41
  It is now almost 7: Forget the TikTok videos, that are telling you to put it here, here, here, everywhere.
• 38:45
  It is now almost 7: Like focus it, on the apples of your cheek, just under your pupils.
• 38:50
  It is now almost 7: And then you could pull it back a little bit to get like that contoured effect.
• 38:54
  It is now almost 7: But most of the color needs to be on the apples of your cheek.
• 38:57
  It is now almost 7: And then you can go in with a cream bronzer if, or a deeper foundation that's only, you could skip these steps too.
• 39:04
  It is now almost 7: This is just going back to the example photo because she does have like this contouring going on, but it's not like a gray chiseled stone bone contour.
• 39:14
  It is now almost 7: It's very warm.
• 39:16
  It is now almost 7: So just going in on the outside of your face, kind of making a three is probably the easiest way to do it.
• 39:22
  It is now almost 7: The simplest way to remember, that's the way I do every single morning I take a cream contour and I'll go along the, my hairline, I'll go down my cheeks, like where my blush would go, and then I'll go along my jawline and just kind of warm up the perimeter of my face, making a three on both sides, like a three and an E. And then I would go in with my powder.
• 39:40
  It is now almost 7: Okay, because I found that, you know, because I do have the cream blush and the cream bronzer, it looks like a crayon, sort of like a big fat crayon.
• 39:51
  It is now almost 7: And I've seen like YouTube videos where, and I don't know how these women do it, they put, they like do a line on their face and then they rub it with the brush.
• 40:00
  It is now almost 7: And I'm like, I can't get that stuff to move.
• 40:02
  It is now almost 7: Once I put it on my face, it's not moving.
• 40:04
  It is now almost 7: I'm not blending.
• 40:06
  It is now almost 7: I'm irritating my skin.
• 40:08
  It is now almost 7: Especially when the product gets older too, right?
• 40:11
  It is now almost 7: It loses that slip too.
• 40:13
  It is now almost 7: But I feel like putting everything on the back of your hand first, working it into the brush, it's just so much less effort.
• 40:18
  It is now almost 7: Cause it's true, like once you get a straight line on your face, then you're working to blend it out.
• 40:23
  It is now almost 7: And I do do that sometimes, but again, like I do that when I have a lot of time.
• 40:26
  It is now almost 7: I don't do that in the morning.
• 40:27
  It is now almost 7: In the morning I'm putting it on the back of my hand and I'm working my brush, and my brush is blending it for me as I'm applying.
• 40:34
  It is now almost 7: It's just so much easier.
• 40:36
  It is now almost 7: The only reason I would do it differently is if I wanted like, nighttime, straight chisel.
• 40:41
  It is now almost 7: I really wanted darker lines, but we don't want that during the day because you're going to see it, it's going to look like road marks on your face, and we don't want that.
• 40:49
  It is now almost 7: We need it to look good in real life, not great under like all these studio lighting, right?
• 40:54
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, and what I enjoyed about like Halle Berry there is I could see the slight chisel.
• 41:01
  It is now almost 7: But I felt like that that slight chisel was only enhancing her beauty.
• 41:06
  It is now almost 7: I mean, it was like bringing out her cheeks so that you could see how beautiful her cheeks are and you know, and then how beautiful her eyes are.
• 41:14
  It is now almost 7: And I felt the same way Salma too.
• 41:16
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, both of them.
• 41:17
  It is now almost 7: And if you look really closely at their cheeks, like you see, like you see the blush on the apples of their cheeks, it may be pulled back a little bit, but then their contour is not really harsh, like it's more of a bronzer than it is a contour.
• 41:30
  It is now almost 7: And then even their blush is like a warm, like orangey, bronzy tone as well.
• 41:34
  It is now almost 7: Like everything's very monotone.
• 41:36
  It is now almost 7: Mm-hmm.
• 41:38
  It is now almost 7: And because those two women are, women of color, there are certain colors that we can't wear cause we just look like we got into a fight before we.
• 41:46
  It is now almost 7: You can wear whatever you want to wear.
• 41:48
  It is now almost 7: Literally, literally whatever you want to wear.
• 41:50
  It is now almost 7: But I get what you're saying.
• 41:52
  It is now almost 7: No, um that was hard because even women of color have different undertones and different seasons, and I'm not going to go down the season rabbit hole again.
• 42:00
  It is now almost 7: TikTok had me questioning my whole life for way too long with those color analysis and what season I am.
• 42:06
  It is now almost 7: I went from Autumn to Winter to bright Spring.
• 42:09
  It is now almost 7: I think I've settled on bright Spring with my own professional opinion, with my self-analysis and all these TikTok videos.
• 42:15
  It is now almost 7: But it, it's so hard and like that goes to show like it's, literally, it's more than just your color tone.
• 42:22
  It is now almost 7: Like there's all of these things that go into it.
• 42:24
  It is now almost 7: And if you want to wear pink, you can wear pink.
• 42:27
  It is now almost 7: You want to wear purple?
• 42:27
  It is now almost 7: You can wear purple, you want to wear blue?
• 42:29
  It is now almost 7: Go ahead.
• 42:30
  It is now almost 7: It's just going to be the right shade.
• 42:31
  It is now almost 7: That's all it is.
• 42:32
  It is now almost 7: The right undertone and the right shade.
• 42:34
  It is now almost 7: But I find when you match your lips, your blush, your eyeshadow, everything just looks very soft and like unified rather than going with like, that was a bad example.
• 42:47
  It is now almost 7: I was going to say red lip and pink cheeks.
• 42:48
  It is now almost 7: But I do that sometimes too, but it's a little bit trickier.
• 42:51
  It is now almost 7: Like it looks great on some people.
• 42:53
  It is now almost 7: Uh, but let's say like you want to do a look that everything just feels very soft pulled together, not overly played up.
• 43:02
  It is now almost 7: But you still feel really pretty and, and beautiful in.
• 43:05
  It is now almost 7: Then going in with like, okay, let's say we want to play up this bronzer look like going in with like an orangy, peachy or bronzey blush tone.
• 43:13
  It is now almost 7: And then sticking with those same type of peachy nudie tones on your lips.
• 43:18
  It is now almost 7: And then doing a wash of bronzer over your eyes and all of it together just comes together beautifully.
• 43:24
  It is now almost 7: I don't know if that made sense.
• 43:25
  It is now almost 7: I'm like, good at like physically doing it on people, but then having to explain it afterward, my thought process is just like, like a circus in my brain, you know?
• 43:34
  It is now almost 7: Well, I'm pretty sure you see this where when as we get older, our eyebrows start to drop.
• 43:40
  It is now almost 7: We start to get, there's less space, above our eyelids.
• 43:45
  It is now almost 7: So our eye shadow's a little different.
• 43:47
  It is now almost 7: You know, I'd love to be able to show my eyes off like you, but you still have more lift here and you can show off your eyes.
• 43:54
  It is now almost 7: But we tend to have a little bit of, of a droop.
• 43:58
  It is now almost 7: So how could we make our eyes look beautiful.
• 44:02
  It is now almost 7: But at the same time, you know, work our eyeshadow like Halle Berry or Salma Hayek, cause their eyes look beautiful in those pictures.
• 44:11
  It is now almost 7: And their eyes are so minimal.
• 44:13
  It is now almost 7: Like if you look, okay, so Salma has like this wicked, smokey eye, whole edgy look going on over here.
• 44:20
  It is now almost 7: But you notice like it's all to her eye shape.
• 44:22
  It is now almost 7: Like, but It also had an artist do this, right?
• 44:23
  It is now almost 7: Like it's very shaped and like you could do this.
• 44:28
  It is now almost 7: How do I explain this?
• 44:30
  It is now almost 7: Okay, cause it's, it's angled up.
• 44:32
  It is now almost 7: It looks like a what is it?
• 44:34
  It is now almost 7: Like a cat?
• 44:35
  It is now almost 7: What is It is, it's cat eye shape.
• 44:37
  It is now almost 7: So like it's angled up because I'm trying to think of how to explain this for like listeners as well.
• 44:42
  It is now almost 7: Like if they're not watching, because I can't just poke to my eye right now.
• 44:44
  It is now almost 7: It's a little bit tricky.
• 44:45
  It is now almost 7: Like it's lifted, it's angled up, and it's very sticking to the eye lid area.
• 44:52
  It is now almost 7: Like it's not going high up into the crease, high into the eyebrows.
• 44:54
  It is now almost 7: Cause you still want to make sure that you see that space and everything Is really shaped.
• 44:59
  It is now almost 7: And like, the easiest way to do this, honestly, like if you're looking for a hack and you want to do this with low effort, you go in with your colors, do your eyeshadow, forget trying to get this perfect cat eye.
• 45:09
  It is now almost 7: Like just blend everything out towards your temples, take a makeup wipe and then just pull it from like under your eye, towards your temples.
• 45:15
  It is now almost 7: And there you go.
• 45:16
  It is now almost 7: You have your cat eye.
• 45:17
  It is now almost 7: As long as you stay like on your lid and you're blending out towards your ears and towards your temples, if you just take a makeup wipe bef like so start with your eyes and start doing your foundation first.
• 45:27
  It is now almost 7: Do that take a, makeup wipe from under your eyes and just literally go like this.
• 45:32
  It is now almost 7: Clean up everything underneath that is the easiest way to do a cat eye?
• 45:36
  It is now almost 7: And like half the time, You know, I've seen people do, and I've never done it, scotch tape.
• 45:42
  It is now almost 7: Yes, scotch tape too.
• 45:44
  It is now almost 7: Okay, but, okay; if you are going to go the scotch tape route, make sure, please, please make sure that you de-tack it at least once on the back of your hand.
• 45:55
  It is now almost 7: I feel like I have to tell you a story.
• 45:56
  It is now almost 7: My mom, bless her heart, she has been my guinea pig growing up.
• 46:00
  It is now almost 7: Like anytime I had like new beauty services, new trainings, new waxing lashes, absolutely anything, like she's always first a model for me, like always putting her body parts at risk for me.
• 46:10
  It is now almost 7: Like she's down.
• 46:11
  It is now almost 7: So this one time when I first started lashing, I was using her as my model, but I had run out of under eye pads, right?
• 46:18
  It is now almost 7: The ones that we used to tape down the bottom lashes.
• 46:20
  It is now almost 7: My dad works for a label manufacturing company, so I'm like, this is amazing.
• 46:23
  It is now almost 7: Let me grab one of his labels.
• 46:25
  It is now almost 7: Did her whole lashes set.
• 46:26
  It is now almost 7: She must have sat there for like three hours.
• 46:28
  It is now almost 7: Tried to do a whole set.
• 46:29
  It is now almost 7: Looked like a half set.
• 46:30
  It is now almost 7: This is probably like my first or second person I've ever worked on.
• 46:32
  It is now almost 7: Probably my first went to go take off the tape from underneath the eye afterward.
• 46:37
  It is now almost 7: Totally ripped her skin complete.
• 46:39
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 46:40
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 46:41
  It is now almost 7: I, uh, never made that mistake again.
• 46:44
  It is now almost 7: She's a trooper.
• 46:44
  It is now almost 7: Uh, and I never charge her for services.
• 46:48
  It is now almost 7: I don't think I would've, even if that didn't happen, like till today.
• 46:52
  It is now almost 7: She always tips me though.
• 46:53
  It is now almost 7: She's so cute.
• 46:53
  It is now almost 7: She would not leave ever without tipping me.
• 46:55
  It is now almost 7: But point of the story being, well, you have to de-tack that tape at least once before you put it down on your skin.
• 47:05
  It is now almost 7: And then when you're removing it, like, please hold your skin down and peel very slowly, like, it's really important to hold your skin down for the part that's not peeling with the tape.
• 47:14
  It is now almost 7: And then slowly, slowly pull And that is exactly why I've never done the tape, because I'm like, you know, cause I already told you about my magnetic eyelash story.
• 47:26
  It is now almost 7: Oh my God that was horrific, Carmen.
• 47:29
  It is now almost 7: Horrific.
• 47:30
  It is now almost 7: I do not want to rip my skin off.
• 47:34
  It is now almost 7: And then I'll really have like a cat look with red.
• 47:37
  It is now almost 7: Oh my God.
• 47:40
  It is now almost 7: Oh, you just put that image of your lashes and your bare lash line back into my head.
• 47:46
  It is now almost 7: And for those people that have never heard this story, cause I've never really told it other than to Everyone needs to hear the story.
• 47:54
  It is now almost 7: Other to Public announcement.
• 47:56
  It is now almost 7: The other day.
• 47:58
  It is now almost 7: I got on this bandwagon where I wanted to wear fake eyelashes because everybody wears 'em and they look so cute.
• 48:06
  It is now almost 7: And so I decided to jump on the magnetic eyelash bandwagon.
• 48:13
  It is now almost 7: And so we went to Maui and I saw we were at poolside and I saw this one girl who had her beautiful false eyelashes on.
• 48:23
  It is now almost 7: And so the next day I thought, I want to look cute just like her.
• 48:27
  It is now almost 7: My husband rented a cabana.
• 48:29
  It is now almost 7: I'm going to be under this cabana.
• 48:30
  It is now almost 7: Why not?
• 48:32
  It is now almost 7: So I put on these be I put on my makeup.
• 48:34
  It is now almost 7: My husband's like, why are you putting on your makeup?
• 48:36
  It is now almost 7: We're going to go to the pool.
• 48:37
  It is now almost 7: And I said, because I'm not going to go in the pool.
• 48:39
  It is now almost 7: I'm just going to sit here and, you know, be the cabana queen.
• 48:42
  It is now almost 7: And I put my eyelashes on, put my eyelashes on.
• 48:46
  It is now almost 7: And there I was thinking, oh, I'm so cute, I'm so cute.
• 48:50
  It is now almost 7: Went out to dinner that night, you know, I left, 'em on all day at the pool, went out to dinner.
• 48:55
  It is now almost 7: And then that night when I was taking off my makeup, I'm like, oh, I going to take my eyelashes off first before I start removing stuff.
• 49:00
  It is now almost 7: And I went, I tugged to try to remove them.
• 49:03
  It is now almost 7: And I'm like, whoa, what the heck?
• 49:05
  It is now almost 7: Because it hurt.
• 49:06
  It is now almost 7: It hurt really bad.
• 49:08
  It is now almost 7: And so I'm like wondering what happened here?
• 49:11
  It is now almost 7: And as I, and I thought, I going to pull a little harder.
• 49:13
  It is now almost 7: So I pulled a little hard room.
• 49:15
  It is now almost 7: When I pulled a little harder, I ripped my skin off.
• 49:18
  It is now almost 7: Oh my God.
• 49:19
  It is now almost 7: And my eyelashes were, I mean, the skin on the top of my eyelids were just basically gone.
• 49:24
  It is now almost 7: And it was stuck on the magnetic eyelashes.
• 49:28
  It is now almost 7: So.
• 49:28
  It is now almost 7: I didn't even know that was possible.
• 49:30
  It is now almost 7: That's what I'm saying, everyone needs to know this story.
• 49:32
  It is now almost 7: Literally, it reminds me of that scene from Matilda, like the fibers are fused to the head.
• 49:36
  It is now almost 7: The fibers are fused to the head.
• 49:38
  It is now almost 7: Oh my God.
• 49:40
  It is now almost 7: So you just had like a bare raw lash line for the rest of your vacation.
• 49:44
  It is now almost 7: You were swimming like that in the sun like that, but in like, oh God.
• 49:48
  It is now almost 7: No makeup, the next day.
• 49:49
  It is now almost 7: I didn't look cute cause it burned so bad.
• 49:53
  It is now almost 7: It burned so bad to just wash my face, burned my face to take a shower.
• 49:56
  It is now almost 7: It was bad.
• 49:58
  It is now almost 7: Oh, it sounds, oh.
• 50:02
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 50:02
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 50:03
  It is now almost 7: No, I, I don't think, I know you said it was like, just for that trip that it happened and you still wear magnetics after that.
• 50:09
  It is now almost 7: I could never, I would never, like I have them in my drawer and I've always been like kind of iffy about them to begin with and like after hearing that, like, nah, nah, they could just sit there.
• 50:19
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 50:19
  It is now almost 7: And in fact this afternoon I put them out and I thought, I'm going to wear 'em.
• 50:23
  It is now almost 7: And I thought, nah, I'm not going to wear 'em.
• 50:26
  It is now almost 7: What if same thing happens?
• 50:27
  It is now almost 7: Cause you know, my studio light's going to be pointing right at my eyes.
• 50:31
  It is now almost 7: And speaking of lashes, like that is such an easy way to just elevate a look.
• 50:37
  It is now almost 7: If you don't want to do a lot of eyeshadow and you don't like doing a lot of eyeshadow, just a false pair of lashes filling in your eyebrows a little bit, a pretty lip color, like you're done, you're done.
• 50:47
  It is now almost 7: It's all in the base.
• 50:48
  It is now almost 7: And everything else after that, it's just like a definition of details.
• 50:52
  It is now almost 7: And for those people that have never worn fake eyelashes and are going to steer away from the magnetic ones, which ones would you recommend?
• 51:00
  It is now almost 7: Ooh.
• 51:01
  It is now almost 7: I mean, I know you're biased, but.
• 51:03
  It is now almost 7: I know, I'm also old school like, cause I learned with the strip lashes.
• 51:07
  It is now almost 7: But I've recently started seeing these trends on TikTok where they have the cluster lashes And they put 'em from the bottom instead of the top.
• 51:15
  It is now almost 7: And the videos make it seem like you can do this in 30 seconds.
• 51:18
  It is now almost 7: It does not take 30 seconds, at least not the first couple of times.
• 51:21
  It is now almost 7: Because I tried this on vacation and my daughter was like, let's go to the pool, let's go to the pool.
• 51:25
  It is now almost 7: I'm like, okay, let me just get my lashes on.
• 51:27
  It is now almost 7: It took me almost like an hour.
• 51:29
  It is now almost 7: Like easily like 40 minutes, and I am a lash stylish, like I do lash extensions.
• 51:35
  It is now almost 7: I've been a makeup artist.
• 51:36
  It is now almost 7: I put lashes on people all the time.
• 51:38
  It is now almost 7: It was just a new technique like you literally, just going to have patience.
• 51:42
  It is now almost 7: But the second time I tried it, I got it down to like 15 minutes.
• 51:46
  It is now almost 7: I've only done it the two times so far, so I really think you can get this down to like five minutes easily.
• 51:51
  It is now almost 7: The thing is like when you're doing cluster lashes, you're doing it from underneath.
• 51:55
  It is now almost 7: It's a whole different look.
• 51:56
  It is now almost 7: They look so natural, they're so light, you don't feel them all day.
• 52:00
  It is now almost 7: They're not heavy.
• 52:01
  It is now almost 7: They use less glue.
• 52:02
  It is now almost 7: So all of the appeal is there.
• 52:05
  It is now almost 7: You just need to have a little bit of patience just watching those videos and just practicing just the placement.
• 52:11
  It is now almost 7: And if you know, the best thing to do is like instead of waiting for a special event to pull out the videos and pull out all your supplies and do it just like a day to day where you want, you want to feel a little fancier, you want to feel a little cute, you go to the grocery store, you're wearing a proper outfit instead of sweats today.
• 52:25
  It is now almost 7: Cause you're like, okay, let me get out, a little bit differently today.
• 52:27
  It is now almost 7: Just put on like two pieces, like two clusters on the outer corners of your eye.
• 52:32
  It is now almost 7: Use like a larger one and a medium one, or a medium and a small, so it blends and transitions.
• 52:37
  It is now almost 7: You'll get like this little cat eye effect.
• 52:39
  It is now almost 7: But that's the perfect way to practice so that when it does come to the event, you've had the practice of putting the glue on the lash, sticking them to there and just, I think the hardest part is just waiting for that glue to get tacky.
• 52:49
  It is now almost 7: And that might be a problem with my own patients, just waiting for it to get sticky enough to stick it on so that you don't have to keep playing with it.
• 52:55
  It is now almost 7: That might be the key.
• 52:56
  It is now almost 7: I think I might just crack the code.
• 52:57
  It is now almost 7: I think you just have to wait a little bit longer to put them on.
• 53:00
  It is now almost 7: And do you have to put mascara on when you do that?
• 53:03
  It is now almost 7: I you don't have to.
• 53:04
  It is now almost 7: Okay.
• 53:04
  It is now almost 7: No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 53:06
  It is now almost 7: I take that back.
• 53:07
  It is now almost 7: If you're only putting on, one or two on the ends then definitely put mascara on the rest of your lashes so that they blend.
• 53:15
  It is now almost 7: Cause otherwise you're going to have like just two pieces sticking out on this side.
• 53:18
  It is now almost 7: You want, you need mascara, like curl them and put mascara on, especially focusing on that inner half so that they do transition really well.
• 53:27
  It is now almost 7: On all of my clients, when I am working on them, I always curl, I always put on mascara, like I just feel like it's just part of the service.
• 53:36
  It is now almost 7: On myself when I'm getting ready in the mornings, I don't always put on lash, I don't always put mascara on my lashes, but I also, I have dark hair so it blends a little bit better.
• 53:46
  It is now almost 7: If I'm going to be fancy, nighttime, yes, I'll put mascara on.
• 53:49
  It is now almost 7: But the reason I don't put mascara on my top lashes, I'll put it on my bottom still is, cause sometimes I want to reuse my lashes.
• 53:54
  It is now almost 7: So like when I take them off at the end of the day with like micellar water, I spray them down with alcohol.
• 53:59
  It is now almost 7: I only reuse mine once.
• 54:00
  It is now almost 7: I know people say you can reuse them, like, 20 times.
• 54:03
  It is now almost 7: I personally think that's disgusting.
• 54:05
  It is now almost 7: I think Carmen will think the fact that I reused mine even once is disgusting.
• 54:09
  It is now almost 7: Cause you wouldn't, even sleep with your magnetics that night.
• 54:11
  It is now almost 7: Right?
• 54:12
  It is now almost 7: I wouldn't.
• 54:13
  It is now almost 7: I'm glad I didn't.
• 54:14
  It is now almost 7: They probably would've been more, more stuck in my eyes.
• 54:18
  It is now almost 7: So I like to not put mascara on them so I can reuse them once.
• 54:22
  It is now almost 7: But if you're reusing your lashes, like please clean them, spray them with alcohol, 70% alcohol, making sure that they're saturated has time to evaporate and kill stuff.
• 54:30
  It is now almost 7: And if you constantly touch your eyes throughout the day, then just don't reuse your lashes.
• 54:34
  It is now almost 7: Just don't do it.
• 54:35
  It is now almost 7: It's not worth your eyesight.
• 54:37
  It is now almost 7: It's not worth getting anything.
• 54:38
  It is now almost 7: It's gross.
• 54:39
  It is now almost 7: But we all do gross things sometimes.
• 54:42
  It is now almost 7: So tell me what about lips?
• 54:44
  It is now almost 7: Because a lot of people say, oh, when you reach, over 40, over 50, you'll find this out when you get older.
• 54:51
  It is now almost 7: We start to lose a little bit of volume or a lot of volume in our lips.
• 54:56
  It is now almost 7: And so I've seen some TikTok videos that say when you put your lip liner, don't go this far because I don't know, I think someone said you look like the joker.
• 55:05
  It is now almost 7: Oh, when you go all the way to the corners.
• 55:08
  It is now almost 7: To corners.
• 55:09
  It is now almost 7: You know, shorten it up.
• 55:10
  It is now almost 7: I mean, I don't think we go to the corners that much anymore, period.
• 55:14
  It is now almost 7: Because yeah, it just smudges on these two little outer corners here.
• 55:19
  It is now almost 7: And kind of just go to here on everyone though.
• 55:22
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 55:23
  It is now almost 7: I, man, how do they phrase these things look like they're joker.
• 55:27
  It is now almost 7: I'm picturing the joker now, um, lip liner.
• 55:34
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so I can't just put everyone in a box like that.
• 55:38
  It is now almost 7: Everyone's lip shape is different.
• 55:40
  It is now almost 7: This is not an age thing.
• 55:41
  It is now almost 7: This can't be an age thing because like some people have beautiful full lips until like they're 80.
• 55:46
  It is now almost 7: So this is just like, it might happen with age, but it's not for everybody.
• 55:51
  It is now almost 7: So if you have lips that are drooping on the outer edge, which is rare, it's not everyone just, Well, no, the volume, sweetie.
• 56:00
  It is now almost 7: The volume.
• 56:01
  It is now almost 7: They're not they're not as, you know, as like puckery as they used to be, but maybe I want to little puckery.
• 56:07
  It is now almost 7: If you want to look puckery, then you line your lips as usual, skip the outer corners, like these outer little indents here, just cause like they bleed, they have moisture there.
• 56:17
  It is now almost 7: It's just, it's just not a good look.
• 56:19
  It is now almost 7: Crusty build up, it's just a whole thing.
• 56:22
  It is now almost 7: Line your lips as usual, first saying, following the lip line as it is.
• 56:27
  It is now almost 7: Then go back and then you can just go at the bottom of your lip, just overline the bottom a little bit, overline the top a little bit and leave like the rest of it alone.
• 56:37
  It is now almost 7: But when you overline the top, you obviously have to connect the top to the rest of it over here.
• 56:40
  It is now almost 7: The thing, the whole thing is when you're over lining that you just don't want to overline the outer corners from the top and the bottom.
• 56:46
  It is now almost 7: So you're kind of mainly over lining the center area of your lips and making sure that it blends with the rest.
• 56:52
  It is now almost 7: And then that way it still looks really natural, but it also using like a highlighter in like the middle of the lip area is also going to reflect light and make them look fuller.
• 57:02
  It is now almost 7: If you are using a lip color, taking a tiny little bit of your lighter concealer and adding a dab dab of that to the center of the lip or gloss to the center of the lip, is also going to mimic the illusion of it looking lighter and brighter in the center of it as well.
• 57:17
  It is now almost 7: Would you use a dark lip liner, not a lighter lip color.
• 57:21
  It is now almost 7: Either or.
• 57:22
  It is now almost 7: I know everyone's by and everyone's always like, use the darker color to do your lip lining and to do your over lining.
• 57:27
  It is now almost 7: There's so many good lip colors out there.
• 57:29
  It is now almost 7: Like again, going back to Charlotte Tilbury, I can overline, like today I used the pillow talk lip liner and the pillow top lip pillow talk lipstick, and I overline, like I didn't go in with Mac World or any brown liner and it was, it's perfectly fine.
• 57:41
  It is now almost 7: They're creamy.
• 57:42
  It is now almost 7: They last long, they're pigmented, they're so smooth that like, I can get that over line at nighttime.
• 57:49
  It is now almost 7: If I want to be like bougie and like a little bit like a Kardashian.
• 57:52
  It is now almost 7: And I know I'm not going to be in daylight, like if I know like it's going to be dark outside cause there's stuff you can do at nighttime, you can't get away in the dark.
• 58:00
  It is now almost 7: Then I'll pull out like my brown liner.
• 58:02
  It is now almost 7: I will overline.
• 58:03
  It is now almost 7: I did this once for work and it was, it was not good.
• 58:05
  It is now almost 7: I got into work and I was like, what did I do?
• 58:08
  It is now almost 7: And this is like my first week at a new job.
• 58:10
  It is now almost 7: And like you could literally see like they were just looking way too big and it didn't look natural at all.
• 58:16
  It is now almost 7: But that at nighttime and taking a photo, especially with flash lighting would look amazing.
• 58:21
  It is now almost 7: But I, I would say if you're very comfortable with over lining and you want it to be more dramatic, sure go for the brown liner, like a medium brown liner.
• 58:32
  It is now almost 7: Otherwise, just choose something that's very creamy, very pigmented and just doing that over lining, like with the Charlotte Berry lip liner like that, it's called the Lip Cheat.
• 58:40
  It is now almost 7: That's probably why they probably made it specifically for that, considering it's called Lip Cheat.
• 58:45
  It is now almost 7: Um, that's perfectly enough like that.
• 58:48
  It is now almost 7: It'll do the job and then you don't have to worry about blending like different shades together, making sure the brown blends in with your lipstick.
• 58:54
  It is now almost 7: Like I'm all about not making things complicated, making it as simple as possible and yet getting the best result.
• 59:00
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so you just did my makeup for either the graduation or the wedding that I'm going to go to, and so, this is a big event.
• 59:09
  It is now almost 7: I want it to last all evening.
• 59:12
  It is now almost 7: I don't want to have to touch it up because I don't like touching up my makeup.
• 59:15
  It is now almost 7: So how am I going to ensure that that makeup stays on?
• 59:18
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so when we did your foundation and then we went over it with a beauty blender at the end, we sprayed it with the so that was one layer of like protection and now we're going to take that Urban Decay all-nighter.
• 59:31
  It is now almost 7: Or something hardcore.
• 59:33
  It is now almost 7: So not like the Mac Fixed Plus, cause that's going to give you hydration.
• 59:36
  It is now almost 7: If you're feeling powdery by this step, you can go in with a Fixed Plus, but we haven't used that much powder.
• 59:42
  It is now almost 7: So you shouldn't need the Fixed Plus.
• 59:44
  It is now almost 7: But you do need a setting spray because we have not used that much powder.
• 59:47
  It is now almost 7: We have like creams on our face, we have liquids going on.
• 59:51
  It is now almost 7: So we do need to set that and make sure it's not going to go anywhere.
• 59:55
  It is now almost 7: So now you've done like your makeup, you've done your blush, you've done your eyes, you've done your lashes.
• 1:00:00
  It is now almost 7: At this point, if you feel like you're getting shiny, you actually need, you need to go in with more powder, probably a lot more powder than we did the first time.
• 1:00:06
  It is now almost 7: So go a little ham with your powder.
• 1:00:08
  It is now almost 7: That's a step if you're getting shiny, because if you're shiny now you're going to be shiny later on?
• 1:00:12
  It is now almost 7: So before you hit it with setting spray, make sure your powder is in check.
• 1:00:16
  It is now almost 7: And then use a setting spray that is designed to make your makeup last.
• 1:00:20
  It is now almost 7: Not the ones for hydration, the ones that's going to make your makeup last.
• 1:00:23
  It is now almost 7: And go ham with that.
• 1:00:25
  It is now almost 7: And that's going to lock it in as well.
• 1:00:27
  It is now almost 7: And so what powder am I going to set my face before I do my, uh, spray setting So, because I'm not going for brightening, if I was going to go for brightening then I would go in with like the Huda Baking Powders or like the Kat Von D Powders or something like that.
• 1:00:42
  It is now almost 7: Because I'm going for the glow.
• 1:00:44
  It is now almost 7: I'm trying to get rid of some of that matte, I would just go in with my compact powder and it's, press it into those areas if you have a lighter powder.
• 1:00:50
  It is now almost 7: Cause usually when you get that glow it's again, like, it's usually this inner corner of the eye area right around the nostrils, a little bit above the lips and the sides of the mouth.
• 1:00:57
  It is now almost 7: It's usually the areas where the oils start peeking through.
• 1:01:00
  It is now almost 7: That's all the center of your face.
• 1:01:01
  It is now almost 7: And usually we like our center of your face to look brighter.
• 1:01:04
  It is now almost 7: Cause it just makes everything look nicer.
• 1:01:06
  It is now almost 7: So going in with the powder that's a little bit lighter is really helpful.
• 1:01:09
  It is now almost 7: That as well, if you want to use a translucent powder, you can, but we already have a pressed powder, so we just go back in with that pressed powder.
• 1:01:18
  It is now almost 7: Okay.
• 1:01:19
  It is now almost 7: And then we spray that, setting spray.
• 1:01:21
  It is now almost 7: And are we good to go?
• 1:01:23
  It is now almost 7: Yeah you spray that setting spray, you're good to go.
• 1:01:25
  It is now almost 7: If you're looking in the mirror, after you spray the setting spray, you're like, something's missing.
• 1:01:29
  It is now almost 7: You know, like everything doesn't feel as smooth as it should.
• 1:01:31
  It is now almost 7: It feels like it's missing that je ne sais quoi.
• 1:01:33
  It is now almost 7: Then the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powders, like just take that on a big fluffy brush or any brush, literally any, any, any powder ish brush and do like a swish of that, like under the eyes through the T-One kind of thing.
• 1:01:46
  It is now almost 7: And that just does something to the skin as well without leaving it super shiny.
• 1:01:51
  It is now almost 7: Like it reflects light, but without like blinding you like the sun.
• 1:01:54
  It is now almost 7: So, if you want to look a little bougie.
• 1:01:57
  It is now almost 7: Yeah, you're like a little bougie.
• 1:01:58
  It is now almost 7: Then the Hourglass, Ambient Lighting Powders are amazing, Hmm.
• 1:02:02
  It is now almost 7: But you know what, before you go out and buy that, please test it on the back of your hand because it what it does, it's so minimal, but it's so beautiful and I don't want anyone to take it home and spend that money and be like, what did she recommend to me?
• 1:02:14
  It is now almost 7: Like, I can't see anything.
• 1:02:15
  It is now almost 7: So please test it out.
• 1:02:17
  It is now almost 7: Like I, I like, I think it's absolutely stunning, but to each their own, and I just don't want you to hate me later.
• 1:02:24
  It is now almost 7: Start sending you a bunch of hate emails.
• 1:02:26
  It is now almost 7: I know like, what is this?
• 1:02:27
  It is now almost 7: It didn't do anything because like I see stuff on reviews on Sephora where it's products that I love and people are hating it underneath, and I'm like, that's not my experience with it.
• 1:02:37
  It is now almost 7: And they start questioning your own experience.
• 1:02:38
  It is now almost 7: I'm like, what?
• 1:02:40
  It is now almost 7: I always think about that, perhaps it's a user error.
• 1:02:44
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  It is now almost 7: Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  It is now almost 7: That definitely makes sense.
• 1:02:48
  It is now almost 7: That definitely makes sense, especially the skincare ones.
• 1:02:50
  It is now almost 7: Like, this burned my skin.
• 1:02:51
  It is now almost 7: I'm like, who told you to use Paula's Choice BHA every single day?
• 1:02:55
  It is now almost 7: That is not something you use every single day.
• 1:02:58
  It is now almost 7: Saying, don't get all your advice on TikTok.
• 1:03:00
  It is now almost 7: There's some great advice out there, but you really like going to vet your choices.
• 1:03:04
  It is now almost 7: Um Mm-hmm.
• 1:03:06
  It is now almost 7: So, Neelam, what is the one thing that you would want a woman listening or watching this today to hold close to her heart.
• 1:03:18
  It is now almost 7: Oh my God, stop picking at yourself, you're absolutely freaking beautiful like everyone is in their own way.
• 1:03:25
  It is now almost 7: I know that's such a cheesy, cliche thing to say.
• 1:03:28
  It is now almost 7: But the thing that I cannot get over is that every time someone sits down in my chair, it doesn't matter if they're 20, it doesn't matter if they're 80, they're always just pointing out something or an insecurity or something that they hate, or something that they want.
• 1:03:45
  It is now almost 7: And I think that we all just have to get out into the real world a lot more often.
• 1:03:51
  It is now almost 7: Online, it's hard.
• 1:03:52
  It is now almost 7: Like we're seeing everyone's best selves, everyone's filtered selves, and we begin to think that that is real life and that's what we should be like.
• 1:04:01
  It is now almost 7: And that's what everyone should strive to be.
• 1:04:04
  It is now almost 7: Or if you're not, you're not enough.
• 1:04:06
  It is now almost 7: And I think that if we just got out into the real world a little bit more, spent a little bit more time appreciating what we have, where we are in each phase of our life, we'll spend less time looking back and being like, oh, I should have been happy I was so cute then.
• 1:04:22
  It is now almost 7: Or like, look at this, like look at my hair color here, my hair length, or like my eyes, like everything was beautiful.
• 1:04:28
  It is now almost 7: And then you spent so much time picking yourself apart instead.
• 1:04:31
  It is now almost 7: Like everyone, like literally everyone's just too hard on themselves and, there just needs to be more love and kindness to go around and just knowing that you're absolutely perfect the way that you are.
• 1:04:43
  It is now almost 7: And then also, like my best friend told me this when we started doing hair and makeup.
• 1:04:47
  It is now almost 7: Like literally anybody can look like a supermodel with the right hair, the right makeup, the right lighting, the right team, like absolutely everybody.
• 1:04:55
  It is now almost 7: But that's not an everyday thing.
• 1:04:57
  It is now almost 7: So for that one event.
• 1:04:58
  It is now almost 7: I don't know what I'm trying to say anymore.
• 1:05:00
  It is now almost 7: I keep going off on tangent, so like following my heart, and then all of a sudden my brain takes over.
• 1:05:07
  It is now almost 7: You're funny.
• 1:05:08
  It is now almost 7: So for the people that cannot get services from you, because they don't live in Canada, how can they use your app?
• 1:05:17
  It is now almost 7: Okay, so my app is actually for other makeup artists.
• 1:05:20
  It is now almost 7: So if you are booking another makeup artist and you want them to remember everything about your conversation, your email details, what you want for your look, your inspo pictures, it can all be loaded up into that app?
• 1:05:33
  It is now almost 7: And then they can just pull it up on either your wedding day, your daughter's wedding day, your special event, and all of their conversation, the pictures, your notes are all there to just recreate that look without having to like go through emails and all the back and forth of figuring out what we were supposed to do this day.
• 1:05:53
  It is now almost 7: Oh, so it's kind of like running notes of what the expectation was, what the bride, the everybody's expectation was.
• 1:06:01
  It is now almost 7: Yes.
• 1:06:01
  It is now almost 7: So you can just go in and get it done without having to ask questions when Exactly everyone is stressed out up to here.
• 1:06:08
  It is now almost 7: Literally.
• 1:06:08
  It is now almost 7: So before I, before this app, like my brain was all over the place.
• 1:06:12
  It is now almost 7: Like we, I would have so many bridals from so many different teams as well.
• 1:06:17
  It is now almost 7: And sometimes I didn't even have the bride's name in my calendar.
• 1:06:19
  It is now almost 7: It was just like, this team show up this time.
• 1:06:21
  It is now almost 7: And I'd walk into the house and the bride is so excited to see me.
• 1:06:24
  It is now almost 7: Cause we did a trial like a year before.
• 1:06:26
  It is now almost 7: And I'm standing there like, I recognize you but I don't know who you are.
• 1:06:29
  It is now almost 7: I don't know when we did your trial, I don't know where your notes are.
• 1:06:32
  It is now almost 7: I don't know if they were in a notebook.
• 1:06:33
  It is now almost 7: In my notes app, I emailed 'em to myself.
• 1:06:35
  It is now almost 7: Like everything was so scattered.
• 1:06:37
  It is now almost 7: So we just, just, me and my husband just designed this app where every time we do a trial, I put everything into the app, all the client's information, things like that.
• 1:06:45
  It is now almost 7: So when I show up on the house on the wedding day, I pull it up and all of the details from her trial are there.
• 1:06:51
  It is now almost 7: Placement photos, absolutely everything.
• 1:06:53
  It is now almost 7: And it's great cause it's any special moments from that day when I'm with the bride that I want to use in like a thank you card later or in a Instagram caption, I can write down those details before I leave and just open it up and have it to reference.
• 1:07:06
  It is now almost 7: But also like if I am doing a client for a special event or if the bride is not getting a trial, I can just send them a link and they can upload all of their inspo pictures and all of their notes straight into that app.
• 1:07:19
  It is now almost 7: So when I show up on their house on the wedding day, I'll open the app, open the date, everything's there for me.
• 1:07:22
  It is now almost 7: I know exactly what I'm doing and it saves so much time during the booking, especially when it's a bridal party of like eight people.
• 1:07:28
  It is now almost 7: That consultation can take like 10 minutes sometimes.
• 1:07:31
  It is now almost 7: So saving 10 minutes off of everyone's service, that's 80 minutes.
• 1:07:35
  If you going to get ready for like 11: 00 AM that's like two hours, one hour.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: My math's not math thing today.
• 1:07:42
  If you going to get ready for like 11: It's like an hour of service time that we can reduce from the service as well, right.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: Mm-hmm.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: That's great.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: That is so good.
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• 1:07:54
  If you going to get ready for like 11: I will make sure to include your links in the show notes so that any professional makeup artist can buy your app and start using that to just make their life so much easier.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: It nice to have like a raw conversation and just do this one-on-one like this.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: Now you are officially in the know all about things, no more eyelash disasters.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: No more tape, no more magnet, and definitely no more drama.
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  If you going to get ready for like 11: Huge thanks to Neelam for sharing her inside tips on looking fabulous without all the fuss.
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