MAKEUP MAKES ME LOOK WORSE

Hello everybody, welcome back to my blogg.

My name is Jessica and today's artical is going to be an in-depth beginner's guide to everyday makeup

I know I'm really late to this, but I recently started watching "True Beauty"

and there's this scene where the protagonist tries makeup for the first time

and she shows up to school looking like this

It reminded me a lot of when I first started wearing makeup

and even though I would follow tutorials,

I didn't have the basics down so my brows were too dark,

I didn't know which blush tone suited me,

the application was just not right

So today I wanted to do a comprehensive "Everything You Need to Know" artical

so you can find a flattering everyday makeup look for your face

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and let's get into the artical!

If your skin isn't well-moisturized before you start with foundation,

it won't look as smooth, especially if you have dry skin like me

I like to use serum to moisturize my skin right before makeup application

Serums usually leave a tacky base for your makeup

and they're quick-absorbing so you don't have to wait

I actually use this as a replacement for primer

Primers are meant to prep your skin for makeup

and some have specific functions, like skin blurring or pore filling

If you use primer, you have to check whether it's silicone or water-based

and make sure the foundation you use matches that

You can check this by checking the ingredient list and if you see words ending in these

listed in the first few ingredients, then the primer is silicone-based

Otherwise, it's water-based

If you use a water-based primer with a silicone-based foundation or vice versa,

this product separation and pilling will happen

For lip prep, I'm using the I Dew Care Glow Easy Nourishing Vitamin C Lip Oil

This lip oil has raspberry seed oil in it, which is rich in antioxidants

and softens the lips

It darkens to a really pretty berry pink,

which can become a brighter pink if you layer it

I have really dry lips and I've found that this works as a really good lip mask

while I do the rest of my makeup

So I'm going to let this sit like a lip mask while we do our base

Pump foundation onto the back of your hand and swipe it onto your face like this before blending

This ensures you get even coverage over your entire face

Remember to check whether the foundation is water-based or silicone based if you use a primer

and it's also just really good to check before you buy a foundation because water-based foundations

are better for dry skin and silicone-based foundations are better for oily skin

I wouldn't recommend using a brush to blend in your foundation for beginners

because it's really easy to make the mistake of not blending fully and leaving behind brushstrokes

A beauty sponge will perfectly blend everything in

Concealers are thicker, more full-coverage versions of foundation

They're meant to target certain areas of your face that the foundation didn't cover completely,

like dark circles and blemishes

You should use a concealer that's very close in color to your foundation

You could also use a concealer that's lighter than your foundation to brighten some areas of your face,

but don't use those for blemishes since they'll create a spotlight effect around the blemish

Because concealer is thicker, you want to use very little

If you use too much, it'll emphasize texture and cause creasing

Powder has a blurring effect and prevents the liquid base from transferring

so nothing smudges under your hands when you touch your face

Once you set your face with powder, the liquid products won't move,

so make sure to blend out any creasing beforehand

Dip a brush into the powder and sweep it back and forth against the holes in the packaging

to ensure there are no clumps

See how the evenly coated brush softly blurs the foundation?

Versus the clumpy powder, which leaves behind patches?

Pat it in and swipe it under the eyes

This is the best way to get smooth under-eyes if you deal with a lot of creasing

And then set any areas that get oily or would come into contact with something else

so you don't leave a stamp of foundation on anything

Next for contour, you want to make sure that you're using a shade that looks cool-toned on you

A lot of beginners will mistakenly use a bronzer as a contour shade

Unless you have really, really warm undertones,

you're going to want to use something more cool-toned so it looks more like a realistic shadow

'cause shadows in real life, they don't usually look like brownish red

So in the past, I would make the mistake of doing a 3 shape here,

which is just the standard that everybody knew

Like, that's what was taught by all the makeup artists,

but you want your contour to enhance your natural features

Don't follow what other people are doing to contour their face

Everybody's face shape is different and what looks good on other people might not look good on you

This step is going to look different for everybody,

but for beginners, I don't think you can go wrong with just a simple jawline contour

Blush can be used to add color back into your face and it also contours your face, depending on placement

So in the beginning, you saw me apply it here, right?

And this is where people used to tell you to apply it,

but you can see if you apply it here, it can really drag your face down

It's not very flattering, in my opinion

What I do now is I apply it right on top of my cheekbones

When I first started with makeup, I didn't think blush was an essential,

but now it's a part of my routine that I cannot skip

It makes a huge difference–you can see after we added the shadows here,

you look like a little bit dead, right?

There's like, not really much color going on in your face because of the cool tones

so adding some color back into here,

it helps create a sort of a transition into the cool tones; the shadows

And then you can apply a little bit of blush to the tip of your nose

The type of brush you use to contour your nose is actually very important

The brush should be dense, small, and have a flat side like this

I'm going to start from my brow bone

and then you can start blending it down a little bit

and then I'm going to move on to the tip of the nose

Next, I'm taking my sponge and blending it in

And then I'm going to take the Charlotte Tilbury finishing powder

This has a little bit of pigment to it,

so I like to use it to clean up the sides of my nose contour

Finally, the most important step of nose contour is actually the highlighting part

Use a small precision brush to apply highlighter to the very tip of your nose

If you apply highlighter all over the tip of your nose, it's going to make it look shiny,

but it won't contour it

So what you need is you need to apply it using a very small brush

You can lightly diffuse it; just make sure that the very center of it is the brightest

And then sometimes, I also like using it on the bridge of my nose

The three main types of eyeliners are brush tip, felt tip, and pencil

Brush tip is best used for sharp, precise lines, but it isn't as pigmented as felt tip

Felt tip is great for high pigment and thick lines,

and pencil is the best for smooth lines

I would recommend beginners use brown pencil liner over black eyeliner

The reason being, this is a lot easier to clean up if you make mistakes than black eyeliner

Here's a comparison between cleaning up black and brown eyeliner

If you make a mistake with black eyeliner, it'll smudge and smear,

which will mess up your foundation

Brown pencil is just a lot easier to use and is very suitable for everyday makeup

since it's just a little bit softer

So if you're not familiar with eyeliner, just create a very thin line here

For an everyday look, I also like to blend out my eyeliner with a brown eyeshadow

Then take a very small brush

Doing this makes the liner look cleaner while covering up any mistakes

Do you see how easy it was to do winged liner?

It's very intimidating when you think about it with black eyeliner or with just one product,

but already with just the pencil and eyeshadow combined,

you can see it creates a really nice shape

So at this point, you can use a liquid liner to make it sharper if you'd like

And then, this next step is very important

and as a beginner, you think it doesn't really make a difference,

but it actually makes a huge difference

And that's lining your lash line

You can see how, between my liner and my pupil, there's a little gap

We need to fill that in

So for the lash line, I use a felt tip liquid liner

I recommend using a felt tip liner here because felt tip doesn't have tiny little hairs

or brushes that can poke, or maybe like, irritate your eyes going back and forth

And then take your pencil liner and line the waterline

And then some people might not like winged liner for every day, or you might not like it for your eye shape

In that case, you could just do the regular diffused liner and then not create the sharp line

We're going to do the under-eye makeup now

I'm just adding some shadows to the lower lash line

and then using a brown eyeshadow,

I'm going to emphasize the outer corner

And then let's do the little under-eye fat look

Under-eye makeup is popular in East Asia

and uses contour and highlighter to imitate the look of smiling eyes

It's usually referred to as aegyo sal and emphasizes the area around your eyes, which gives a subtle eye-enlarging look

But a really common mistake people make when drawing their aegyo sal is they use the bottom of their eye socket as a guideline

This looks really unnatural because it's not where the shadows naturally fall when you smile

If I squint slightly, this is the entire under-eye fat area

We can see where the area sticks out the most

That's the area where the under-eye fat is the chunkiest,

so when the light hits it, everything above it should be highlighted and everything underneath it should be a shadow

This is what the aegyo sal looks like if we follow that guideline

But now, let's go back to the outline

The most common mistake is people use the bottom of the entire section of eye fat as a guide,

highlight and shadow in the bottom, [and] it'll look like this

Of course, this is all based on personal preference,

but I find this less flattering and I think it imitates eye bags rather than smiling eyes

I'll show you what they look like back-to-back so you can compare

Next let's curl our lashes

Curling your lashes opens up your eyes since it makes your lashes point up

When you curl your lashes, it's not like you just clamp it and then you're done

Clamp once, release, and then sort of lifting it, curl the next section

Again, release and then curl the top section

This creates a natural C curl shape

and then this step is optional, but I like to curl my lower lashes as well

How you do this is you take the lash curler,

hook it underneath your eye,

and then move it up

And once it gets to the bottom of your lashes and you can see that it'll lodge in between them,

that's when you clamp down

A mistake I used to make is I used mascaras that wouldn't work for me

and I just thought, like, "Oh, it's just supposed to coat my lashes",

so my lashes would always look heavy; they would never hold a curl

So now what I do is, I only use Asian mascaras which are made to hold a curl for really straight stubborn lashes

These are my two favorite Asian mascaras

Both are made to hold a curl, but the CLIO Kill Lash Long Curling is lighter,

while the Etude House Lash Perm Curl Fix is thicker and more volumizing

Pinching the lashes together helps separate them and remove clumps

My favorite lower lash mascara is the L'Oreal Telescopic Carbon Black Mascara

This mascara's heavy and really good at separating your lashes

We actually want the lower lash mascara to be heavy so it can weigh down the lashes and make them look longer

Now for eyebrows, I've actually struggled a lot with my eyebrows in the past

I had a dipbrow phase, and then even when I started using brow pencils,

I made the mistake of doing a line here, a line here, and then just trying to spoolie it through

If you do that, your brows are going to look very unnatural

So what I do now is I use a very fine-tipped brow pencil,

and then just create hair-like strokes at the front

And then use the spoolie end to diffuse them slightly

I leave the middle of my brows alone

It's all about knowing where you actually need the pencil

So here, I feel like my brows look pretty thick,

so I'll just go to the tail end and then create the shape

Using the spoolie just diffuses everything, so it doesn't look like there are any harsh lines

so you can see now, it just looks like a very natural brow shape

Finally, let's move on to lips

I'm just going to over line my cupids bow

In the past, I made the mistake of overlining all of my lips

Personally for me, I think it looks almost clownish when I do that

A lot of people have said that overlining makes them look like they have a mustache,

and that's the issue, is you're overlining your entire top lip

You need to be selective with where you're overlining

and then I bring it back to my natural lip edge,

swipe it up at the end

There are many types of lipstick formulas, and each have their own benefits, so everyone has their own personal preference

I prefer soft matte liquid lipsticks since they blur your lips,

but the con is they don't last very long

Not all nude lipsticks are going to look good on you

There are some that are too warm-toned, some that are too cool-toned, and

what you see that looks really good on somebody else might look very different on you

so you want to choose something that matches your skin tone and undertones

I'll show you a few lip swatches of different nude lipsticks on my skin tone

So this is my perfect nude

It just looks like a good everyday lip color

Make sure to blend out the edges of your lips slightly

This helps with the soft blurred lip look and it helps mask any application mistakes or uneven lining