- Hi, sisters.
James Charles here, and
today, I'm at Buzzfeed,
and I'm about to play with some puppies
while answering a ton of
your sisters questions,
and I've never been more
excited for anything
in my entire life.
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Oh, hello, ah, hi.
They're all so cute, I'm gonna die.
Oh.
Oh, I would probably have to say
my brand new eyeshadow palette
that I just released with Morphe,
the James Charles Eyeshadow Palette,
literally formulated it so
there's every single color
in there to create any look,
so it's pretty much like
my go-to at this point.
Hi, sisters started
about two years ago now,
I believe.
Oh, it is two years now.
Oh my god, love my two year sisterversary.
It was actually on Halloween,
and my best friend's father
was helping me, cause I
was a deer, two years ago,
and I used to have disgusting hair, like,
the grossest hair in the entire world,
it was a man bun.
Thank god that phase of my life is over,
and I would always wear baseball hats,
because it was so ratty - thank you -
that I - yes, I agree - that I
knew it needed to be covered,
like I could not go out in
public looking like that,
absolutely not,
so my friend's dad helped me, like,
cut holes in a baseball hat,
so I could fit my deer antlers through it,
so I could be a deer and cover
the hair at the same time,
and for some reason when he
gave it to me, I was like,
thanks, sister Marco, and for some reason,
it just stuck, and my
best friends group chat
all started calling each other sister,
and then when it came
time to naming the fandom,
I hated the word fan,
disgusting, so I thought,
the sisters would be perfect,
since I already called all
my best friends sister,
that I should just make
everybody my best friends,
and just welcome them to the family.
Beauty for me is a hobby, but
what I'm really passionate
about and good at is business.
I love marketing, I love
numbers, and I love strategizing
and consulting with major brands,
so I feel like I'd be
running a major business
in the beauty space.
Makeup and also music for
me is a huge side passion
that I'd like to take more
seriously in the future.
I literally fell into
makeup by accident about
three years ago now, and I
was always just in love with
like, art, and I used to do
girl's hair for my school,
just for funsies, and
like a little side hustle
while I was still in school everyday,
just cause I really liked
making people feel beautiful,
and just like, the
beauty space in general.
I would always watch
Youtube tutorial on it, so,
some of that people that
inspired me have been
Nikkietutorials and Jacklyn Hill,
who are really great friends of mine now,
which is just so crazy that,
in the course of three years,
I went from like being
their number one fan,
to now, like, working
with them all the time,
and talking to them, and
just, like, sharing our love
for makeup together, which is so cool.
I would probably have to say Demi,
just because she's like, one
of my biggest role models,
and literally one of the
most talented musicians ever.
Her makeup artist already
does such a beautiful job,
I love Jill, but, Demi
definitely does rock, like,
natural makeup very very often,
so I really wanna give her,
like a full on, James
Charles colorful glam,
just for fun.
Like, a little Instagram picture moment,
or a Youtube video.
Brushes?
Oh, I have a lot of brushes.
I have like, three entire tubs.
Probably a thousand, at this
point, I don't even know.
My favorite shade in the entire
palette probably has to be
the bright red, which is
called You're Kidding,
just because I have always
wanted, like, a vibrant,
true red, in my collection,
since I started doing makeup
a few years ago,
and I feel like red is a
very very hard color - ah! -
to formulate.
All the names in the palette
are things that I either say
on like a very very frequent
basis, or named after important
people, or places, or things in my life.
After formulating the red with the lab,
back and forth, and back and forth,
probably like literally
six or seven times,
when I finally swatched the final,
I literally looked at everyone
and was like, you're kidding.
Whenever I was traveling, or
doing photo shoots on set,
I would always notice
that I would have to bring
so many different palettes
and products and glitters
and highlighters and everything,
to create whatever look I was going for,
especially if I didn't know going into it.
So I always knew that if I
wanted to create one product,
it would be a palette that I
could bring with me on set,
or just have in my makeup kit to literally
be able to create any look.
So literally one night I sat
on Photoshop and just played
for hours and hours on end,
just arranging all the
colors in different formats,
and I literally came up with the palette,
before I was even asked to do one.
So I was like, putting it
into the universe, you know,
very that.
And when I got asked, I
literally sent them the PSD file
that night and was like,
we're gonna make this,
and they were like, okay, sounds good.
I don't know, I guess like,
the palette would be like,
my favorite moment so far.
It sold out twice now,
worldwide, which is, like,
I literally cannot even believe it,
it like, oh, I could just
cry thinking about it.
Just to like, put it out
into the world was already
exciting enough, because
I literally was like,
giving birth, in a weird way.
Ew, that sounds so weird,
but like, that's true,
like, it was my baby.
My favorite skincare products
are Tatcha, not sponsored,
but would love that, please email me.
I take off my makeup
just using makeup wipes
every single night, but
them I'm super super careful
to wash my face very very well with like,
a makeup removing oil, just
to make sure that the products
don't get stuck there,
especially when you're caking on
literally 800 pounds,
and then once it's off,
I just moisturize.
If I had to pick one color to
wear for the rest of my life,
I would probably say a gold
color, as boring as that sounds,
just because as much as I
love playing with color,
I really like switching up my looks.
A go-to gold would be perfect,
cause I can just like,
put it on the middle of
the lid, the inner corner,
and the brow bone for a
really really beautiful,
and natural look, kind of like
the one I'm wearing today,
but just maybe a little bit more intense.
I think my biggest piece of
advice for anybody who wants to
join the Youtube space, or
be in the beauty community,
is find whatever talent, that
whatever makes you unique,
and really ride off that.
To make it you have to
work so incredibly hard,
and you have to really
set yourself apart from
everybody else who's trying
to do the same exact thing.
I would definitely say that,
once I started focusing
more towards entertainment based content,
and really doing the crazy
creative looks that I love,
and am truly passionate about,
is when people started to tune in.
So, I would definitely
say, you have to be unique
if you wanna make it in this space.
I got into a lot of drama
when I first started
in the beauty community,
because I wasn't really
growing that fast, as I was
also bitter at some other people
who were, like, ahead of me at the time.
I wish I could tell myself,
like, to focus on yourself,
and to stop worrying about, other people,
what they're saying about
you, what they're doing,
what videos they're doing,
like I wish I would have just like,
focused on myself, and
minded my own business.
I'm really great at that now,
queen of staying out of drama,
but back then, little bit rough.
All the pups were provided to
us today by Vanderpump Dogs
here in LA, and they are
literally so adorable.
I'm excited to be checking out,
because me and my little
brother are actually talking
about adopting a puppy,
but if you wanna learn more
about how you can adopt,
you can check out Vanderpump Dogs dot org.
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