- Hey everyone, it's Michelle Lee,
editor-in-chief of Allure.
Today, I'm gonna be doing a
real good everyday makeup look
that I saw on Kim Kardashian
that Mario did on her
and they called the
shimmer and shine look.
So let's go.
As I've started, I've
actually got foundation
and a little bit of powder,
and I've done a brow already.
What I'm gonna do that
I saw Mario do first
was if you don't want
to go ahead and start
with an eyeshadow primer,
what he did was he took
some Laura Mercier translucent powder,
and I've already put some
foundation on my eyelids,
but I'm just gonna go ahead
and powder those as well,
just to kind of prime those
for some shadow going on,
just a light dusting.
Okay.
So I'm just gonna start
with a brown eyeliner
just on the top here.
And I'm just gonna wiggle
this into my lash line.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and do both of these.
These are pretty messy right
now, but I'm gonna go ahead
and smudge them out.
With a brush.
Okay.
So I'm gonna grab a brush
here just to smudge that.
Okay.
So I just want to create a
really nice diffused look,
so I'm just gonna smudge
that really nicely.
Okay.
Then I'm gonna go over
this with some color
and I'm gonna grab my
Tartelette Toasted Palette.
So the one that Mario used
in their video was actually
his sold-out palette which we of course
can't get our hands on anymore.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and go in
with some of these colors from Tarte,
and I'm gonna mix them together
and just go over that color
just to set it and add a
little bit more color to it.
Gonna use another one
just to smudge that out a bit more.
And then in Mario and Kim's
video, they actually used
a highlighter, a gold highlighter,
but since this Tarte
palette is so good anyway,
I honestly am just gonna take
one of these bronzey shades
and mix it with a little bit of the gold
and just go over that, which is gonna add
that nice shimmer and shine
that they were talking about.
So if you look at Kim's eyes,
Kim has a very, very defined crease,
as you notice on my
eyes, I have no crease,
so when Mario was doing Kim's eyes,
they talked about defining the crease
with a darker color.
I am not gonna do that, though.
I think that on mono-lid eyes like mine,
what looks a little bit better is,
someone was just telling me yesterday,
your eyes should be a
sunset and not a parfait.
So I think with mine, what I like to do
is create sort of an ombre look.
So I'm gonna go in with
these slightly darker shades
and just go in to create a
little bit more of an ombre.
And especially defining that outer corner.
And don't worry about building it up.
If you want to take a step back,
take a look at yourself
in different light,
sometimes it's good just to see
have I gotten too much,
do I want to build up?
Remember, it's always easier to build up
than to take away.
Okay.
I may be doing these a
little bit out of order
from what Mario did.
He also used some different products,
but I'm gonna choose a
couple different things.
Let's see.
So on the under-eye, I think
he did another brown pencil
that I'm gonna smudge out.
So go ahead and just define
that whole lower lash line.
And then repeat.
And I'm gonna go ahead and take a brush
and just smudge that
so it's not so defined.
We don't necessarily want
that 90s heavily-lined look.
And I'm just gonna smudge that.
Okay.
And then let's see.
We've got this Becca, Light
Shifter Brightening Concealer.
This is a great one.
I love this little sponge-y on the end,
which makes it really easy to apply.
I'm just gonna go ahead and put that
under my eyes to brighten.
So I'll take a beauty blender,
which has been dampened already,
just to blend that in.
It's gonna help just open up your eyes.
And then also, like Mario did,
he and Kim have been
notorious for starting
and really popularizing a
lot of contouring trends.
They obviously didn't create
it, but they really did
make the Instagram look really popular.
He also took this concealer highlighter
and put it onto the
bridge of her nose as well
just to add a little bit
more definition there.
Okay.
So, like I said, I think
Mario and Kim have been
very known for doing a lot of contour.
I am not typically a big contour person
every single day, so I'm gonna try this.
I'm a little bit nervous about it
because I'm definitely not Mario.
But, so this is the Tom Ford
Shade and Illuminate Palette,
and this has a highlighter,
and also a contour on it.
So, like Mario did on Kim,
what he did was he just
sort of tapped the brush into the contour
and then defined the jawline,
and tapping in as opposed
to swiping it or rubbing
because you don't want to
take your foundation off.
And this is just gonna give
you a nice, defined jaw.
And I, right now, as you can
see, I'm nine months pregnant,
so I could use a nice
defined jaw right now.
Just a little bit more.
I tend to go pretty light on these things
even though I probably should
go a little bit heavier,
but I'm always, like I
said, a little bit nervous
about it looking too severe.
So again, you can always
add rather than take away.
And then putting it up
onto the hairline as well,
because that's gonna help to define
the shape of your face,
and just patting it in with this brush.
And so what we want to do, because this is
a cream contour, is we want
to take a little bit more
of that powder, and just set it,
because we're gonna do
another bronzer over the top.
Nice fluffy brush.
I'm just gonna lightly powder that.
And so the finished look of this
is gonna be really dewy.
We don't want to matte
out the entire face,
but we just want to make sure
that we're setting some of that cream
so that we don't take it off
in our next steps.
Okay.
So, like Mario did, I'm gonna
be doing a bronzer next.
And I've got this great Sigma
soft angle contour brush,
and I am going to take, let's see.
I've got this FENTY one.
What you want to do with bronzer is,
they have some that has some shimmer.
I like that to use one that is just matte.
Because they add something kind of nice.
I'm just gonna go over those areas
that I did with the cream
to define a little bit more.
In the Mario and Kim
video they used I think
probably about three or
four different bronzers
and contours, which I'm not doing today.
Just because I like to
simplify a little bit.
But I think it's a really
interesting technique,
which obviously has worked for them.
And so a lot of times with bronzers,
you think about where the
sun would hit your face.
If you use it as a contour, though,
you can also think about
doing the shape of a three,
like this, like you go along the forehead,
along the contour of your cheekbone,
and then under the jaw
which is kind of the thing
that I'm doing today.
Okay.
And then I am going to take a peachy blush
just to give myself a little bit of color.
This is bareMinerals
Gen Nude in Peachy Keen.
This is actually one
of my blushes from home
which I really like.
So just go ahead and tap that out
and just on your cheeks right here,
add a little bit of color.
I find that blush is one of those things
where it's really easy to leave the house
with a little too much on,
so I like to before I leave check myself
in a different mirror just to make sure
I don't look completely crazy.
And I feel like I went
a little bit too severe
on this one side, so it's really easy also
to just take a beauty blender, again damp,
and just kind of pat
that out a little bit.
I am going to powder my
T-zone, again just to make sure
that when you are adding highlight,
you want to make sure
that you are matted out
in certain places where you
get oily during the day.
And that typically is around the nose,
it's also a little bit on the forehead.
That way when you do
highlight, you make sure
that those parts are standing out
while the rest of it
looks a bit more matte.
Okay, so the other thing that Mario did,
was he took another bronzer contour,
and he started to softly
contour Kim's nose.
I will readily admit, I am not
good at contouring my nose.
So I like to go very light
on this type of thing,
which is totally fine,
because honestly the whole
really harsh contour of the nose
is kind of not so cute anymore.
So I take a fluffy
brush, and I'm gonna take
this bronzer by Lawless,
and I'm just gonna
very lightly kind of contour here.
But again, I'm not going
for anything too stripey.
Just making sure that you're really
blending that out, too,
because you don't want
people seeing the makeup here.
Okay.
And then one of the most fun parts for me
is really about the highlighter.
So I've got two here.
I've got this Becca one,
and also this Revlon.
I'm actually gonna use the
Revlon on my cheekbones.
Which brush do I want to use?
Use this brush.
And just on the tops of my cheeks here,
I'm just gonna go ahead, and this is like
a really beautiful, gold color.
Tap that out, and you
just want to put that
on the tops of your cheekbones.
I do usually do a little
bit right here as well,
because when the light hits it,
it's really pretty.
A little bit more here on this side.
I love watching tutorials,
because I feel like
I always pick up something.
But it's always just about,
like not following it exactly,
that you really need to
adapt it to your own face.
Like I said, my face is
totally not like Kim's.
My coloring is different,
my eyes are different.
So I can pick up a lot of different tips,
and the overall look, without necessarily
copying it exactly.
And I think it's also important to look
at your own makeup kit, too.
It's totally not necessary to use
the exact same products that we have here.
You have to remember, that
especially as beauty editors,
we get everything sent to us for free,
which I completely understand,
not everybody has that situation.
I can certainly pick drug
store options for everything.
There are great dupes for a lot
of different things nowadays.
Okay.
So I'm gonna do that,
and then I'm gonna use
this other Becca one, which I also love.
This is another one of
my favorites from home.
I'm gonna use that on a
couple of different places
on my face, and I'm actually gonna take
this eyeshadow brush,
and I'm gonna put that,
and I use that to define
the bridge of my nose.
I'm also gonna put it right
here on my Cupid's bow.
Again, keeping in mind where
the light would hit you.
Little bit on my chin.
I'm very extra when it
comes to highlighter.
I typically will layer a
couple ones every single day.
Usually what I'll do is I'll use
a cream highlighter first,
and then a powder over,
because I like a very
extreme highlight look.
The reason that I'm using two today
is I have them, and also the Revlon one
is a little bit more
bronzey, while the Becca one
is a little bit more light golden.
I feel like the light gold
on my cheeks sometimes
is a little bit too extreme,
a little bit too light,
which is why I went for
the Revlon one on cheeks.
So I'm also gonna take
that, and it's really nice
to define your brow bone right here.
I'm just gonna put a little
tiny bit right there.
And then as a final step
for eyes with eye shadow,
it's also very, very
pretty to do a little bit
of a highlight in the inner corners,
so I'm gonna find a color here,
this one called Candle looks perfect.
I'm just gonna dip my brush in there
and do a little bit into the inner corner
which makes your eyes look
like they are really lit up.
So I've got some balm on already,
but I'm gonna use this
Beautycounter lip conditioner,
which I really love.
You can take a Q-tip, or I
used my nail, which whatever.
And that's gonna just help
plump up your lips, and prepare them,
I love this one because
it tastes sort of minty,
and also it's nice and slippery.
And then I am gonna use this
Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat.
The shade of this one is Pillow Talk,
and then the lipstick is also Pillow Talk.
I'm just gonna mush that
around a little bit,
and I'm gonna start to line my lips.
So this is sort of a nice
rosy pink nude shade,
which really looks somewhat similar
to my natural lip shade,
and on a more natural look like this,
it's really nice to go for something
that matches your lip.
Just a little bit more pumped up.
So I know a lot of people
like to over-line their lips.
I like to go a little tiny bit over,
but not too much.
Okay, nice and lined.
And then I'm gonna go
in with the lipstick.
I could use a lip brush,
but I probably will just do it
straight from the tube.
As you can see, it's
a really pretty shade.
Okay, so the other thing
that Mario worked on
was he had this lip gloss that had little
blue flecks in it,
we do not have that one,
but I have this great MAC,
what is this one,
this was MAC Lipglass,
and so when you put that
over anything, it's gonna make
it really nice and glossy.
A big trend right now is vinyl lips,
so this kind of helps to
create a similar look.
Okay.
Finally, lashes.
So, in the video with Mario,
he used a shadow stick.
It was a shadow cream stick.
I actually have a bunch of these,
and they are fantastic.
I didn't use one today because I went
for smudging the eyeliner instead,
which is perfectly acceptable.
Whatever works for you guys.
Okay, next up I'm going to curl my lashes,
and so even though Kim and Mario didn't do
a fake lash, Kim's got
either naturally long lashes
or she has lash extensions,
because her lashes
are crazy long.
So I am going to do fake lashes today.
I've got this adhesive,
and also these are,
I think this are Ardell
110s, these lashes.
I've actually cut these already
so that they fit my eyes.
And I'm gonna take a strip of these.
I haven't done mascara
yet, because I'm gonna do
mascara at the end.
I find that because my natural lashes
are so itsy bitsy and straight and short,
I like these 110s because they don't look
too, too extreme on me.
So I'm using a black glue
because it dries nicely, and doesn't leave
any white residue on my eyes.
I also want to make sure
that when I'm doing the glue
that I get enough on the ends,
because especially on the inner corner,
that's where it tends
to fall off of me first.
Okay.
So always what you want to do when you've
put on some lash glue is let it set
for about 30 seconds first.
If you try and do it when it's too wet
you're gonna have
problems, because it's just
gonna fall straight off.
So if you let it rest
for a little bit first,
then it gets a little bit tacky,
and you'll have a better
chance of making this work.
Okay.
I'm nervous about doing this,
I just hope you know.
As many times as I've done a lash strip,
I'm not great at doing it myself.
It does take a lot of practice,
and especially when you
are looking in a new mirror
and trying to figure
out how do I get this on
the right way, so bear with me,
hopefully this works out.
Sometimes it's easier, also,
without the tweezers,
just stick them on yourself
with your fingers.
Success.
Okay, I'm just gonna hold
them there a little bit
and make sure that they're on.
You don't want to
necessarily open your eyes
too quickly, because it's
gonna get all sticky.
And then stick to your
eyelid, and nobody wants that.
So once those are in, I'll do mascara
so that I really set my
other lashes into these
so you don't really see
too much of a difference.
And just make sure that
those are really in there.
Sometimes it's easy to make a mistake,
and your lashes are stuck.
It's not actually stuck on your skin,
it's stuck more on your lashes.
You want to make sure that
you're kind of pushing
the strip in there, so
you've got the strip
stuck to your skin.
Okay, now take the other side
and do those.
And do the glue.
And then again, let this
get a little bit tacky.
If I could wear fake
lashes every single day
I would totally do it.
I, like I said, am just
not super fantastic
at doing it every day, so I think it would
be a bit of a chore.
I know plenty of other
people who've gotten
lash extensions, too,
and they look fantastic.
I'm just too nervous
about doing it, though.
Okay.
Let this glue set a little bit longer.
I feel like always everyone has one eye
that's easier than the other.
My right eye is always easier,
my left eye is the tricky one.
So we'll see how this one goes.
Okay.
Let's do this.
You know what it is,
it's that when you're
looking in the mirror
it's a little bit harder
to get that view right.
And again, just stick that one down
where it belongs.
And then make sure this one is stuck
to the eyelid properly.
And don't stick yourself in the eye
with the tweezers.
Okay.
I'm proud of myself.
Okay.
So you're gonna let
those dry a little bit,
and then when we're done,
we're gonna do some mascara,
just again to make sure
that your actual lashes
and the fake lashes look like one.
You don't want to see two layers of them,
because that's not cute.
And so today I'm using one of my
absolute favorite mascaras.
This is Maybelline Total
Temptation Waterproof.
For anyone like me who's
got short straight lashes
that need to hold a
curl, waterproof mascara
for whatever reason works so much better
than other mascara.
Maybelline also makes such great formulas
that I'm crazy about a ton of theirs.
Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead
and do this mascara now.
And I don't need a lot,
because these lashes
are gonna look pretty extreme on me.
It's again more to get the bottom lashes,
or not the bottom lashes,
like my actual lashes that
are underneath the fake ones
to look like they are blended in,
and that they hold a curl as well,
that by the end of the day,
my real lashes have not fallen.
And so one thing I was really upset about
was in the video, Mario
uses this really cool
Tweezerman tool for your lower lashes
that's sort of like a lash guide,
or lash guard.
They don't sell that anymore.
What it does is it helps
to protect the skin
under here, so whenever we've done
these lower lashes, it's really easy
to get the mascara onto your skin,
so because I don't have that,
I'm just gonna be real careful.
Just do a little bit of mascara
on the bottom lashes here.
If you do get any on your skin,
and your under eye,
usually if you just wipe it
really quickly, it'll go away,
or you can also just take a makeup wipe,
wrap it around your finger
and just sort of catch
any of the fallout there.
Okay.
Let's see.
And then my final, final step
is to really complete this dewy look,
I want to take this Tatcha Dewy Skin Mist,
just again, one of my absolute favorites.
Just gonna do a final mist,
take out my clips,
oh, I'm very dewy.
Very, very dewy.
And then I'm done.
I'm ready for the day.
All right, and that is it.
That is my complete look.
I am extremely dewy right now.
I think also the lashes
make a huge difference.
I feel like when you're dealing
with any professional makeup artist
they have so many different tricks
in their toolkit, and
a lot of times they use
way more complexion products than I would
probably use on a daily basis.
Again, I am not a
professional makeup artist,
so I am not great at doing contour
and tons of bronzer and everything else.
In my own personal life, if I were to do
maybe a little bit of bronzer
and a little bit of
blush, that's probably it.
But because I'm trying to
really recreate this look,
I used a lot more complexion products
than I probably normally
would, which is fun
especially if you are
going out for a night
or something, just to sort
of play with your look
and try something different.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
See you next time.
