Hello Youth Pride MCR,
my name is The Nightbus and today i'm
doing a makeup tutorial where we're
going to be transforming Jonathan.
So we're going to first go in with a bit of
primer, so I use a silicone primer. It's
really really good for preparing your
skin, makes sure that everything
sticks to it. Before you put this on you
want to make sure you've got a really
clean face.
So i'm just going to put it on the back
of my hand and i'm going to go and put
it on with an
actual brush. there's some there
So just to let you know this is Jonathan's
first time being put
up in drag which i'm sure he's really
looking forward to
Yeah you just want to basically put it
anywhere that you think you're going to
be putting foundation so I wouldn't put
it
where your natural eyebrows
are just because then it can stop the
glue from like sticking.
But anywhere else is fine
Get it all done make sure you do the
neck as well, one of the reasons I got
Jonathan to do it is because
I wanted to do a full drag base and if
i'd done it on myself
well as you can see it wouldn't have
been a full drag base. Right there how does
that feel?
Feels great. Does it? Very silky
Very silky, very smooth. Okay so then next
up is covering the eyebrows now there's
loads of ways on the internet you can do
this
um so if you watch any tutorials on
youtube or anything like that you'll see
that they use like glue sticks and
things like that
I am a big sweaty mess when i've been
performing so i like to use
medical adhesive this is pros a cream
it's used for attaching things to the
body and they
stay there for hours and hours and hours
on end um
and it's really easy to remove
afterwards you just need a little bit of
oil or a bit of like
cream and you just rub it in and it
naturally comes away, but
if you're sweating it doesn't come off
so it's amazing. So we're going to use
this to hide Jonathan's
eyebrows which are dainty as they are so
it might be a really easy job.
Like rubbing right onto the hair like
that and you're going back and forth
back and forth because you want to cover
every single little hair in the adhesive.
On the actual brush itself there's not
loads of glue because you don't want to put too
much on you just want to have enough on
and you can always add some more
if you think you need to and you'll feel
it like change a little bit as you're
doing that
you'll feel that it goes a bit more
tacky as you're rubbing it in.
Now i'm going to try my hardest to get
it smooth as possible
but pulling it up as much as possible
like this
you just want to make sure that all the
hair is kind of going in one direction
so with
this we're pulling it
up and away
Okay and then the other thing I like to
do is just dip my
finger in not like my index finger but
like my ring finger or my middle finger
and then I just kind of go over it again
just like swiping it on
so put a little bit on each side there
and you just kind of
rub it like this so it again adds to
like
flattening down everything there. Okay
so I have a beard
if you don't have a beard and you want to
really cover up like any growth say if
you
um you do grow beard or facial hair and
you're shaving it off and you want to do
drag
sometimes it can come through in the
foundation um and one of the ways to
like combat that
is using the opposite colour on the colour
wheel so if you think of like
Richard of York gave battle in vain, the
opposite color to
the blue that was created from hair on
your beard is like orange and reds
so on Jonathan because he's got a little
bit of like a five o'clock shadow i'm
gonna go
through with just a little bit of
lipstick. This is charlotte tilbury which
is really
expensive but i'm going to use it anyway
because
you're worth it. Thank you. Completely
worth it. Thank you
So i'm just literally dotting it on
where you see
any of the red oh sorry the blue or the
beard or anything like that so there's
some up here as well
there's not loads but it looks a bit
strange when you're doing it
put some there as well and some in the
middle
and when I first started drag this is
actually how I used to put lipstick on
and then we're just gonna sort of blend
that out a little bit
with a beauty sponge got one here
always dampen them just run it under a
tap like under some warm water squeeze
it out a bit
and once it's expanded then drain it as
much as you can of all the water that's
in there
and then you can use it for blending out
things like this or foundation
so we're just like literally dabbing it
in it doesn't look like it's doing much
but it just adds that like extra
protection
from what you might have underneath
so next up you want to set that. One of
the best ways of doing that is like
using a transparent powder or no colour
powder. So there's a company called
rcma which is the research council of
makeup artists and they do like a really
really good no colour powder it's super
cheap and you get loads of it like look
at the size of this
so I just like tap it out on the table
I get like a powder puff and Ijust go in
there
pick it up and then wherever that red
was i'm just literally like
and this part doesn't really matter if
it looks even not because you're gonna
put foundation on top
anyway
and then after that you just want to
check if the eyebrows have gone up tacky
enough that they have they've gone dry a
little bit but they're still a little
bit tacky
while they're tacky you just want to get
some more powder get the big powder puff
and then just like press it into those
eyebrows as much as possible
and really again squeeze it on
Then just grab a big flush with your brush
just take all that excess off super
simple super easy
now yeah you can still see the brows.
We're going to cover them up again with
that lipstick so you can like
really get them hidden. Let's see if this
works
so a bit of the red will cancel out
the blue that you can see
in the hair of the brows
grab the beauty blender again just like
dab it out
it does look a bit weird before you put
the powder on and then put the
foundation on but it's supposed to do
that because it's just two colours
melding together
when I first started out which was
god 2006 now w as the first time I
like first was in drag. It was more like drag
creature stuff it wasn't really drag
queen
and that's what I really like about drag
it's basically just like creating
whatever sort of persona or character or
image you want to
and playing with like the idea of being
someone else which in itself like when
you become someone else
you're kind of like channeling a
completely new version of yourself and
that's
being created by what you already know
but it's kind of limitless as well so
it's not like you're just stuck thinking
about okay well this is how I
am every single day, the drag can be
whoever you want and that's really
exciting.
Okay so next up is foundation time so
I use a foundation from a company called
Kryolan um
so Kryolan is a theatre makeup company
they have been going for years and years
they
are the drag 101 of foundations
they usually do these like sticks which
are like foundation sticks they're
really thick and greasy and they cover
up everything. And then a few years ago
they released this one vitacolour
Hashtag sponsor me please! um and this
one's basically the same thing but it's
in liquid form so it's
just as full coverage but it's like a
bit easier to work with
um this is my shade so i'm gonna dilute
it down a little bit with a revolution
foundation because
um we're not the same shade and it'll
just mean it'll cover up jonathan
probably closer to matching and the way
that i'm gonna do that is just mix it on
the back of my hand
so just like this
and that's just to sort of start it off
for now, I might need a bit more than
that
so i'm taking the other one now which is
the one that I use, it's a bit deeper
but hopefully if you mix these together
on Jonathan's face
then it will actually give the colour,
well that's not actually a far
match from what you are
some under brows there and then what I
want to do is just blend all of this
together so
i'm gonna use a beauty sponge again for
that
okay i'm grabbing another beauty sponge
this is clean
rather than the one that I used before
i'm just gonna dab everything out like
this
and blend and blend and blend and blend
and blend until it just kind of covers
up what's
underneath
and you can see as you're doing it
that everything's actually starting to
come together and change into one colour
which is exactly
what we want. We want to just cover up
all of that boy so we've got a blank
canvas to start with
and start painting on top and creating
whatever we're going to get to create.
How you feeling? Feeling good.
Smells nice. Does it? It does. That's me.
Okay and then what we'll need to do is
create a highlight and contour so a
highlight is basically where you put
lighter color foundation
um so it looks like there's more light
hitting it that's what the purpose of it
is
every time you watch these tutorials
there's always the same thing they put
it here they put it here
on the chin down the nose you can put it
wherever you want because it completely
depends on what you want to make if you
want to make some sort of creature
that isn't even like a queen or a king
you might want to put it in different
places like for drag kings for example
they put two lines that go along
on either side of their temples and with
that it makes their foreheads look
broader so then
it adds like to the masculine features
of their face so you can put it wherever
you want
for drag queens you would usually put it
in the places that are most prominent so
that would be in the middle
but yeah play around with it there are
no rules to any of this no matter
what the tv and youtube tells you put
some
underneath there
and then some on the chin as well
because those are the areas that I want
to highlight and just a little bit down
the bridge of the nose
as well blend that
in as much as possible so that you can
see that it's created a bit more light.
Jonathan if you look up and keep looking
up while I do this
so all i'm doing is like just tapping
this
underneath and as you can see again it's
creating a bit more light under his eyes
next we're gonna do the contour part so
i've got like a little flat brush like
this because I really like the shapes of
them
and i've just bought like some cream
foundation
like I can see the sort of stuff it's
like a grease paint
this is also from Kryolan these are
super cheap so if you are starting out
or you want to just be playing with
stuff but you
don't want to spend too much money like
10 pounds on a foundation you can order
Kryolan stuff online
or they sell it in Manchester as well in a
couple of stores
you go in and you can get the refills
which are like two or three quid
and you've just got enough there to
maybe get in drag like 10 times and
it's the best way to start out if you
just want to play with things and find
out what your shades are
this is the thing I recommend doing
rather than going out and buying like
all of that makeup that you could buy
just buy some small pots and play with
them. So with the contour
you're basically putting darker shadows
where you want it to look like there's
less light so you can carve out the face
and you would have seen this done before
it can like be used to feminize faces
and again for drag kings it can be used
to masculinize them so like
when you see like a really beefy man
on their cheekbones they might have like
a line here which indicates where their
cheekbone is
so a drag king might want to hollow that
out a bit more so they might put a
contour underneath there so it looks
even deeper
kind of bit like a skeleton actually
it's all the problems with the men in it.
Right so i'm going to put some here
some more so just like a little bit
along here, so what if I put it in the
corners here there's gonna be a wig on
anyway
um but it just means that it's bringing
in
sorry the um the size of the forehead
which
is not huge it's just that if you look
make it look smaller then it kind of
looks a bit more feminine which is the
whole
point of drag is like you're playing
with the idea of what it means to be
feminine and masculine you can do
whatever you want with it
and it's just paint. People getting upset
about a bit of paint or a bit of makeup
it's like it's just
literally oil in the tube. So Jonathan's
got really nice cheekbones anyway
so we're just basically accentuating
those we don't even need to like
create a new one because they're already
there pretty much um
but what Iwill do is just bring in the
size a bit more
to make his face look a bit smaller and
petite
and then one thing i never do is contour
my jawline because you wouldn't see it
so bear with me i'm gonna try this just
want to turn a little bit more towards
that side
and then where the jawline is you're
just basically like creating a little
line
to almost give the illusion that that's
where the jawline starts
again on this side
and then if you just face me so
Jonathan's got like quite a square jaw
like a square chin um i've got like
quite a heart-shaped one it goes down
into a point
um and like generally if you've got a
square one you might want to just like
narrow it down so it does look a bit
more heart-shaped
there we go so just a little bit on
either side of there
and this will all get blended out so
don't worry about it and then the last
bit is just to
create a new sort of nose so
this is very rough because we're going
to go over it anyway but
i'm just basically creating a bit of a
line on either side where the new nose
would be and again it's that same idea
if you're just creating
new shadows where you'd want them to be
so now we're just going to go in with
the
beauty sponge and just blend it all out
again so where you can see the contour
all I want to do i'm using a different
part of it now it's a flat bit and we're
just going to blend out
all the places where I put the contour
so
okay so just blending now the thing is
there is no reason or no need when
you're doing drag
to be trying to aim for perfection you
should be doing whatever
feels good so if I look back at some of
the photos of me when the first time I
did drag
I literally look at them the ones from
10 years ago where I started like
hiding my brows and buying wigs and I
genuinely still think I look like the
most beautiful person in the world
I looked a bit like something you'd
serve to a dog for dinner
um but part of doing all of this is
you're just doing whatever feels good
you're just doing things that you're
playing with because
it's part of fantasy you're just
literally playing
so all of this isn't going to be perfect
because we're under
time constraints but by the magic of
editing it will look like it's only
taken a short amount of time
but if I had more time yeah I could
perfect all of this
on Jonathan's face but that's not the
point the point is we're just having fun
and you should have fun with it too
everything is pretty much made of water
or oil
in the makeup world if it's water-based
it will sweat off so you don't really
want to be using water-based stuff for
drag
um but if you use oil-based stuff you
can set it with a powder and what that
does is it absorbs the oil that's in
there
um and stops it from moving and that's
why we powered up our faces to sort of
set it all
and um definitely don't use talcum
powder for this
i see a lot of people saying that they
use talking powder it's not a good idea
it's not good for you
um but this powder is the same one that
i used before it's the rcma one
from like boots and stuff you can get
this stuff called um coty powder it's
like airspun
and that's super cheap um so i'd
recommend getting that it's like three
or four pounds
and it lasts forever and it pretty much
does the same thing
okay so just dusting all of this
off and as you can see it has
set everything underneath oh yeah so now
we're gonna go in
and draw on some eyebrows I use eyeliner
gel um
and this one's just a brown one so it's
really good for like making it look like
your brows
grab an angled brush
just like this and just draw on a bit of
eyebrow
um when you're drawing on the eyebrow
you maybe you can put it wherever you
want I just usually start it where the
original eyebrows
was and just go up
and then create a bit of an arch
it looks really weird color actually
so
okay so i've drawn on like random
sketches of brows
i'm usually doing I usually do it on
myself so they look a bit better than
that
but the only great thing about doing
makeup is that you can just correct it
with more makeup so that's what i'm
going to do
so i'm just going to go over and like
pat this onto to set them
so set down the brows
and then dust them off and then what
we're going to do is just cast them so
they're like
really precise take some clown white
and just basically carve out what's
already there
so even though it looks a bit messy at
the moment it's not even all the way
around
you just basically go around the edges
and do it with a white so that it's then
precise
so as you can see like i've just
literally gone around the outside of it
with this white and then with the white
you're just going to blend that out
because it'll make it pop even more
anyway
this way
and yeah we're blending it out but it
doesn't matter that it's all white
because we're going to put powder on top
of it anyway so it will look more
natural it's just at the moment. We want
to make sure that the brows are like as
perfect as they can be
now at the moment it kind of just looks
really sort of pale because of all the
powder that's on there the clam white
we're going to correct all of that by
putting powder on top of it so don't
worry too much
it just kind of all comes together as
you add to it. Okay right so now for the
eyes i'm going to go in with another
brush
another brush even with the clown white
and put that all over the eye
lid so it acts as something for the
eyeshadow to stick with so just close
your eye and then
brush this on this is the easiest sort
of primer you can use for your eyes you
can buy
so many different primers i've got all
of them they're all great
but you can't really beat a bog standard
just
a bit of clown white because it just
adheres and it creates like that blank
canvas to stick all the things on
so that's why I like using it
you really want to bring it as far as
you can down to the lash line
um
and then if you just turn this side
now loads of people don't like shimmer
powders when I first started doing drag
people were like why are you wearing a
shimmer powder you should be using matte eyeshadows
like I said there's no rules do what the
hell you want
the exciting part of drag is that you
can do whatever you want to do
I hope you're getting really excited and
getting lots of ideas of what you'd be
doing on your face if you have all the
makeup
so i'm just going under
Jonathan's new eyebrows with a bit of
shimmer
the other good thing about the shimmer
is the first few times that you do drag
and as you'll see here you can still
sort of see Jonathan's eyebrows a little
bit
if you put a shimmer on there because
it's playing with light and reflecting
back
the light that's hitting your face it
doesn't make the
eyebrows show up underneath the makeup
as much
so it's a really good way of like
combating the fact that it might not be
the best first time you've done it
and now i'm gonna do pink a bit of a
blue
eye so
this you can use any eye shadow for
um so i've got one from revolution here
which is really nice I will show you the
mirror because that would look really
weird
but this is a revolution one it's got
some nice blues in there and then i've
also got this one that I bought from
sleek
makeup years ago but I still really like
it because it's really pigmented what
i'm gonna do here is basically carve out
a new eyebrow
sorry a new eye crease where the eyelid
is
um which will be a bit higher than where
jonathan's
natural eyelid crease is so
now you can't look in the mirror so
let's just put it
there that sounds like a nice place now
you can draw this on with a pencil
i'm taking it out so once you've got a
bit on there
then grab like I use microfiber cloth
because it's really good at getting rid
of the excess on the brush
just wipe it off like that and then use
the same brush to blend it out a little
bit
just blend it blend it with blending
i'm gonna pour it down into the corner
Johnathan's eye
there's something on the lid but we're
gonna cover that up anyway and all we
want to do is create a bit of a gradient
between where the shadow was before
when we block blue eyeshadows
and because we put that clown white down
first
the blue is really popping so you can
really see it
and then using a smaller brush i'm going
to go along where the line is that I
want to
start the eyelid cream crease and put
some black in there
and then we're going to cover the actual
eyelid with some more white and put some
glitter
to get some black eyeshadow as well
and just go along the same part
don't have to go all the way along it
you just go to like the outer corner on
the inner corner
and again don't worry about like any
mess on the actual either because we're
going to tidy that up anyway
so a bit of black and just turn this way
so with that same brush take the excess
off
and then blend that black mixes into the
blue which in turn mixes into the
shimmer
so this is just to create a bit of a
shadow it's not actually like
the colour of the makeup that we're
trying to highlight it's just kind of
putting some color on there and blending
it and playing with it
so i'm just blending that black so it
doesn't look as deep black but it
creates
a shadow
now I would recommend taking your time
that's something that I haven't got
on my side i'd be here for hours if it
was me but you just kind of go with what
time you've got
have fun with it just literally put
glitter on it now and once the glitter
is on there
we'll put some eye liner on there
and then we'll do the bottom lash so for
the glitter
we are going to go in with this glitter
primer primer
sorry glitter primer um and this is just
a really good way of getting it to stick
to things like eyelids you can use it on
your cheeks as well
festivals or like once COVID is over
if we have Pride again you want to put
some
glitter on anywhere you can use that and
it just sticks and holds it really
nicely but it's not too harsh on the
skin
just just like smoothing it on to where
I want to place the
glitter
pick up some with the same brush that
you had the primer on
and then you're just pressing it
on top of that primer so it sticks
nicely
and I really like this one because it
creates so many nice colors
and then again just putting glitter
on top
now because it's like not very defined
between where the glitter is and the
eyeshadow is i'm going to go back in
with some more black just to define it a
bit more
using the same brush I used before
blend blend blend
and then we're gonna do the eyeliner and
then do
the lower lash line as well so for the
eyeliner i'm gonna use
an eyeliner pen it's really easy to do
and you're basically just creating a bit
of a catwing
so just like create a bit of a wing like
that
it doesn't have to be like really
precise because remember we're going to
put lashes on top of this as well
so even if it's not completely connected
up
you'll have something covering up a
little bit as well
it means that on the lower lash line I
could just get a bit of blue on there
and that will complement the blue that's
at the top
let me use this palette this time
because it's got a nice blue in there
that'll match it
there's a blue there lovely put a bit of
that in there i'm gonna
blend this in as much as possible on the
lower lash line so
now you can use primer and put a bit on
that on the bottom lash line as well
i'm not going to do it because
Jonathan's eyes, he's not used to having
makeup on so I don't want to put too
much in the middle of
or on like too close through the eyes
okay so that's kind of
it for the eyes now i'm just going to
finish off the rest of the face and do
the lips
so with the rest of the face we're going
to put some powders on so it kind of
like defines everything up
um the last tip that you have for
or the last step in doing makeup is
the lashes and that's what adds and
elevates everything that's in there so
it's kind of amazing
because i've just got like a big wide
feather brush like this
this is really good for doing like
powder contour underneath
along the same places where we put the
brown
earlier so remember I said like at the
top don't worry about the
the fact that there's that harsh line
there we're going to tidy it with powder
that's what we're going to do now
and also remember that this is all going
to be covered with a wig so it doesn't
really matter that it's not perfect
underneath because this isn't
for tv this is just for fun that's what
you should be doing with right she'll be
having
fun with it
and then again here so just
adding a bit more brown so it adds that
contour that we created before
you just turn that way and then look up
all the way up so again where I put like
the contour on the chin
i'm just gonna add some powder on top of
that so it like
blends that out
and then yeah where I try to make the
chin look a bit more
pointed we just want to add a bit on
either side there so it can add to that
as well
and for where the white powder is in the
middle we're just going to put some
powder foundation on top of that to hide
that a little bit
so with that let's grab another sort of
fluffy brush
this is just like a powder foundation's
l'oreal one
and just go over
that harsh white line so it kind of
disappears a little bit it won't
completely disappear but remember
there'll be a wig on distracting people
from the fact that it's not
completely perfect and if you really
mess it up just throw glitter on it
which is
what I might potentially do after i'm
done with this
and again a little bit for the middle of
the nose and just some
here for where the chin is just
I liked it as well and then for the nose
you just want to add a bit more contour
there
so a little bit of a fluffy brush that
same contour powder I was using before
which is just dark brown
and then just very gently go along the
sides of the nose to etch out a new one
okay
so now just as some finishing touches
first thing i'm going to do
is to set it all so i'm just going to
use some setting spray, this is an urban
decay one it's a really good one
um so first of all this just makes sure
that everything melts together there's a
lot of powder on there at the moment you
just kind of want it to all blend and
mix with each other so it doesn't
disappear
and then on top of that we're going to
just do some finishing touches like
the lips um i'm sorry I forgot to tell
you what it's going to do
a bit of the blush so blush is like a
really nice thing to add just to make
sure that your face has got a bit
more colour to it
when you put all of these skin tone
foundations on this stuff it doesn't
really look that natural
you're not going for natural if you're
doing this but a bit of blush can just
make it look a bit different from
being a bit flat and foundation shades
over and over again
so i'd like to put a little bit on like
that
the lips i've just got a liquid lipstick
it dries matte
the really good thing about matte
lipsticks is that they first of all
don't move
which is great because you can just wear
them and not have to top them up loads
and loads through the night
and you can add a bit of gloss to them
on top of them so
like you put layers on there that's
really cool so if you just smile like
the joker
and open your mouth a little bit
wider. And that's a
very red lip
you can also get really precise with
them
liquid lipsticks and I mean
although it would be nice to use
a lip liner, I don't so
and just let that dry, you don't need to
rub them together or anything it will
just dry naturally
okay so because that looks quite bright
on um
Jonathan's skin tone because on me it
just obviously looks flawless
i'm going to just make it a bit darker
on the outside so it looks a bit more
dimensional
so i've just taken some like darker
liquid lipstick on the back of my
hand i've just put it on a brush and i'm
just going to try and darken these edges
a little bit so they're a bit more
defined
okay so now i'm going to stick the wig
on put on the lashes and then we'll be done!
well just a casual Tuesday afternoon
right?
um close your eyes and when I put this
on don't open
open
open again
oh my god!
wow, it looks really good
you've done a great job wow
thanks for tuning in guys and girls and
everyone out there
we will be back with Youth Pride Mcr on
the 30th to do a live tutorial
i'm gonna be taking some of your
questions and i'll actually be in drag
for that as well
um and i'll be talking about some of my
favourite products that I use and like
little secrets that I use on my own face
so thank you to Jonathan thank you to
everyone at Youth Pride MCR
and have a great Pride 2020! Bye!
