[upbeat music]
- Hi, this is Kehlani, and I'm
gonna walk you through
my everyday skin routine
and my very basic everyday glowy face.
So the first step it's creamy cleanser.
I like this a lot because I
have really, really dry skin,
so I kind of need
something that's hydrating
and doesn't leave me
feeling all tight and gross.
Lil' circles, you know, feel the vibes.
All right.
I use this toner from Belif.
So because I have dry skin,
I have to make sure that I continuously,
in between each step, I just
keep layering hydration.
So my third step is just this
Aqua Bomb mist from Belif.
Just a quick little spray.
[spritzing]
Dr. Dennis Gross.
This stuff is great, I use
this morning, night, all of it.
So gonna...
I'm-a lock all that in with a essence,
and mine is a snail mucin essence.
I know that probably sounds funny.
This is a major key in Korean skin care.
I don't know how to pronounce that brand,
but I just call it the snail stuff.
So, I just take a couple
drops, just like this.
See, it's really slimy.
So my favorite is the Paula's Choice
Omega Complex moisturizer,
which is a big barrier healer,
'cause I have problems
with my skin barrier.
And then I take my bio
essence vitamin C rose oil.
So I'm gonna take three little droplets
of that and put it in my moisturizer
because I'm super dry.
I started breaking out
here, here, here, and here
and here when I was pregnant
and so I had to use something
that would balance my hormones.
So I actually had to get an entire new set
of a skin routine because I was
just freakin' out everywhere.
And then after I had my baby, I feel
like my skin just got a lot more dry
and I think it's just now bouncing back
and getting back in the
swing of things and,
you know, but I'm hydrating a lot more
just internally and doing a lot
of hydrating sleeping masks,
so those are also a big secret
and tip.
[clicks tongue]
Okay, so my last step is SPF.
Okay, that's it for my skin care.
So I'm gonna walk you
through a really basic face
with a little bit of a
orange, sunset-y kind of eye
and I'm in no way a makeup artist,
but makeup artists always tell me
that I have really fun eye space.
They tell me this all the time,
so I really had no idea what that meant,
but apparently it means
I have enough eye space
to play on, so, I just
have fun with it sometimes.
The first thing I would take
is this Honest Beauty Magic Beauty Balm.
So I'm gonna take a little bit
and I'm gonna put it in my dryer areas.
So my forehead gets
really dry under makeup,
picks up makeup weird.
My nose.
So my first step that I'm gonna use
is the Pat McGrath foundation.
What I love about the Pat McGrath stuff
is it's so light.
It's just not super thick
and I feel like I need sheer stuff
'cause we have to layer on
a lot of stuff as we go.
So I'm gonna take my
MAC Prep and Prime spray
and spray it on my beauty blender
'cause I want it to be
wet, but I don't want it
to be too wet.
I'm gonna put a little bit
of the foundation on my hand.
I remember the first time I went on tour
and I couldn't afford a makeup artist,
it was my first tour.
I walked into the MAC store and
I grabbed the first person I could see
and she's actually a pretty
crackin' Latina influencer
and I just said, "Yo,
dude, show my a basic face
"and whatever you put in
front of me, I'm gonna buy."
And whatever she put in
front of me that day,
I bought that she used on my face.
But I basically just evolved from
that basic face that she taught me.
I have, this is a little bit thicker,
it's a NARS foundation.
So I'll take this and
get some of the spots
that I feel like that other
foundation couldn't get.
Right there, that breakout,
my chin.
And maybe my funny little bruise
that I've got goin' on up there
from a microdermabrasion home machine
I was not supposed to be using.
So I got my foundation.
And I dropped my lip liner
but it doesn't matter.
So I use NARS, don't know which way,
I think this is correct,
to do my contouring
or my highlights first.
This I remember being the
funniest thing I had to learn
because, at first, I came
out lookin' like a clown
'cause I just didn't get it.
And I think once somebody breaks down
the whole you're highlighting the parts
of your face that, you know,
I guess shadows, with highlight, you know?
You know the whole light thing?
I don't really know how to explain it.
Once I got that a little more,
it made a little bit of sense.
So next, I'm going to take
my Fenty Beauty Stick,
love you Rihanna.
I don't do my nose because I just don't
understand how that works.
It's very crazy to me.
Shout out anyone who
can contour their nose
because that's a big deal.
Oh my goodness, my makeup routine
since having a baby.
I have a one year old, so first of all,
you gotta imagine, she walks now.
So she walks into the bathroom
and she's already ripping
everything off everything,
got my mascara with the
top on in her mouth,
try to open it, tryin'
to draw on stuff with it.
I've caught her in the room, at my vanity,
about to put her whole hand in a palette
or about to flip over the press powder.
There's levels, it's definitely hard,
and sometimes you have to decide,
"Do I only have time to
cover my couple blemishes
"and throw on some mascara
"or do I have time for a full face?"
And most days it's mascara and lip gloss
and some concealer, so.
I'm showing you guys the
Kehlani the Artist version
of the makeup, not the mom version,
or else we'd be here for
five minutes, so. [laughs]
I'm going to set with the
Laura Mercier setting powder.
Ooh, okay, well I've got
some foundation on there.
So, while that's setting, I'm
gonna focus on my eyebrows,
which, to me, has always
been the struggle.
First of all, we're in quarantine,
so my eyebrows haven't
been done in centuries.
So, I'm showing you the struggle eyebrow.
So, first, I'm gonna take
my 24-hour brow setter
from Benefit.
I stopped wearing lash extensions well
before the quarantine.
I just wasn't into looking
very like a stray cat.
[laughs] That's what
we call it in the house
is we look like little stray kittens.
But I just wasn't into the
freak out craziness it looks
when you only have four
eyelashes on your eye.
So I'm just gonna do my real lashes,
which I've been taking really good care of
and using castor oil for.
And just curl them.
[clicks tongue]
[hums "Jeopardy" theme]
What I feel like works for
me is layering mascaras.
I don't know if that sounds funny,
but, to me, they do different things.
So the first one is the
Lancome Doll Lashes mascara.
I don't use these in any particular order,
I just, you know, I just go.
So I try to focus on getting
the outer lashes longer
so it can have a cat eye effect.
I think that the face people make
when they're doing their
mascara is the funniest.
Does anybody else feel like their lashes
on one side is shorter than the other one?
Go Big Or Go Home from Kat Von D.
I just keep layerin' it up.
This, I feel like,
always makes them really
the pigment makes it
really dark and thick.
So I'm gonna
wipe this off before it
gets too powdery on my face.
I'm gonna do some bottom lash.
Okay, got a little bit here,
but you can see it look
like I have eyeliner on now.
I think I need to do, just
give myself a little more color
in the face, so I use this YSL blush
liquid blush thing and I just,
I just do this a little bit.
I don't even know if that's the right way
to go about it, but
that's just how I do it,
so who knows?
And I take one of these.
Now I feel like I have lot, so.
I just need to go back
with my beauty blender.
All right, now I think I can do my brows.
I think we might, we
might be at that point.
So I'm back to my Benefit brow pencil.
You mess up your eyebrow, you
mess up your whole face kinda.
So there's so many times I do my makeup
and I save my eyebrows for last
'cause I was terrified.
And the next thing I know,
I'm wiping my eyebrows
off a million times.
So I'm just tryin' to make sure
that it isn't too heavy in the front
'cause no one likes a Sharpie brow.
We'll see.
You don't know until they're done.
Now just gotta clean these things up.
I know they probably look
a little harsh right now,
but wait 'til it all comes together.
I am cleaning up my
eyebrows to fake the funk.
So nobody know that I
haven't seen my eyebrow lady
since the beginning of the century.
Okay, I feel like that made
the world a difference.
I don't know if you can tell,
but I feel like I can tell.
So, shout out Supa Cent.
Black woman owned, black
woman created makeup brand.
So this is part of hers
called The Crayon Case.
And right now we're gonna
be using these two colors
to kind of create this sunset
thing that I'm recreating.
So I also am using a lot of her brushes.
Not this one, this is a MAC brush.
So I'm gonna take the
orange 'cause it's darker.
I'm gonna try not to get it
all over the rest of my face.
To me it already looks pretty cool,
but we're gonna get a
slightly smaller brush,
this from her brand, and I'm gonna go
into the yellow
and go into my inner eye in the middle
to kinda do this sunset-y type of thing.
I know most people might
probably use a eyebrow primer
so it can show up more,
but I didn't intend
for it to be that bright.
I want it to be a little
more subtle than that,
so that's why I didn't use a primer.
I really think that who kills
the makeup game the most
is watching trans women who have had
to not even just learn makeup
as modes for expression
but learn makeup to kind
of transform and assist
in the entire identity
affirmation for themselves.
They just do it the best,
everything from drag
to transformations to just feminization
or just being incredible
makeup artists in general,
they just always kill it the best.
I recently got this Juicy
Couture whatever this says,
Bling Queen highlighter.
I'm only gonna use a little bit,
but I like that it's
liquid because, to me,
it just hits the sun in a different way.
But I'm only gonna use
a little bit right here
because I'm also gonna
use a powder highlight.
Laura Mercier,
gold ass whatever this color, Addiction,
but I called it the gold
ass powder just now.
But it definitely has a name. [snorts]
One of these.
And just...
[blows]
And then I'm gonna take
a teeny tiny brush.
What I'm about to show you
is the secret to my life.
If I could marry this
compact, I probably would.
So I'm just gonna take this brush,
just take a little bit.
You see the difference already?
I don't know if you can tell,
but I feel like I can see the difference.
So just little minor areas
like your laugh lines
or right around the chin.
Okay, so I'm pretty sure
that all I have left to do
is to spray my face,
so I'm just gonna set it and I feel like
this spray just makes it look
like you've had makeup on all day
versus just applied it.
'Cause no one wants the instant,
you know, cake situation.
And then we'll take my
Urban Decay All Nighter
setting spray.
So before I do my lips, I would like
to just double check that I
have cleaned my nose ring off.
No one likes a super
makeup-covered nose ring.
I'll never forget one of my
first times meeting Cardi.
Well, our first time linkin' up
after we had did our song,
we was at a music festival,
we was at the American Music Awards.
Wherever I performed,
I performed with Eminem
and I sit down and she goes,
"You better clean your nose ring, girl."
[laughs] And ever since then,
I'm on my makeup artist's head
about cleaning my nose ring off.
Now, besides that, I also need
to clean my tattoos off.
Because I'm not tryin' to cover them up,
I'm very, very proud of my tattoos.
I got this tattoo in Germany.
To me, my tattoo kinda reminds me,
you know, when you throw a paper airplane
and it doesn't just go straight down,
it kinda floats and goes down.
It reminds me to, you know,
on the way down, just float it out.
Don't just allow yourself
to just shoot straight down,
just, it's cool to just
do this on the way down.
I have other face tats.
These dots
that I got done matching
with a friend of mine.
Sometimes it leaves a funny hole
in my makeup but okay
it's fine, I'll live.
Everybody knows I love lip gloss.
I don't go nowhere without lip gloss ever
in a trillion, zillion years.
So first, I'm gonna take lip liner.
I use various shades of MAC liner
depending on how dark I wanna go this.
I already did a eye, so I don't wanna
go too intense to control that out, but...
I might overline the top lip a little bit,
but I try not to.
It's usually by total accident because I
can never get a straight line,
just how I don't know if you guys noticed
that I definitely got
concealer in my eyebrow,
but I'm just not good
with the straight lines.
And I'll go in a little
bit in the corners.
And around it.
It kinda creates this 90s, ombre
type of situation.
And then I just have
any type of clear gloss.
I really like this rose
hip oil clear gloss.
It's super hydrating, so,
and I get, just like the rest of my face,
my lips get really dry, so...
You can use dollar store lip gloss,
you can use beauty supply
lip gloss, who cares?
All right.
That is my face for the day.
Let's see, hope you like it.
Hope you try it.
Shout out to anybody who's ever taught me
a tip or a trick as to
how to do it better.
But, yeah, I appreciate
it and I hope you enjoy.
