- Hi sisters.
- Hi sisters.
- James Charles here and
welcome back to YouTube channel.
As you guys can see, I'm with
a very, very special guest.
Magic.
Makeup by Mario, Mario Dedivanovic.
King, we're here in the
studio set up you guys.
A few weeks ago, we did
an iconic beauty battle
with our good friend, sister Kim
and so many comments were saying you guys
wanted to see Mario glam me and we just
like needed to have you back.
I feel like this video has
been in the works for so long,
we wanted to do this forever.
So like, I'm very honored
to have you here today.
- You know, thank you.
I'm very honored to be here.
This is like my first YouTube,
My first time being on a
YouTube channel doing makeup.
- Oh, I love that.
It's a good first one to be at.
Are you excited, are you
nervous, how are you feeling?
- Alright so, I'm a little nervous,
I have to be honest and I
never get nervous from anyone,
but I don't do guys makeup,
this is literally like the
first time I'm doing a
glam makeup on a man,
on a boy, on a sister.
So when I worked in television news like
12 or 13 years ago.
I had a really bad experience
with one of the male
anchors, basically like push me because
he didn't wanna have a
guy doing his makeup,
and so ever since then I vowed to never
doing men's makeup.
- Well I'm basically a
woman anyway so it's okay.
- Yeah, so this will be interesting.
I'm excited though.
- So for those of you
guys who do not know,
sister Mario or daddy Mario
is a legendary makeup artist
and he is Kim's makeup artist but also,
a lot of other celebrities as well.
Would you like to do a
humble little brag and
do some name dropping?
- Well I've worked with
Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry,
obviously Kim, Arianna
Grande, Mary.J Blige,
Gabrielle Union, just a lot of people.
- So many people and they
all look absolutely stunning
and he also has a master
class that he runs
with makeup classes.
I've been to one of them, going to another
one coming up very, very soon.
- Every night you're coming, yeah?
- Yeah, absolutely.
I will be there sitting
at front row, so much fun.
You guys should definitely
check those out for more
information but Mario is just
a living legend and I am so
excited to have him here today.
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- When I first you, I
discovered you online,
not discover you but I first saw you
online before CoverGirl.
- Yeah.
a very, very long time ago
- I'll never forget, that
day that I discovered,
I said he's gonna be such a big star.
Yeah, so I have like a
huge knack for discovering
or like knowing whose gonna
be really, really big.
- Oh, that is so sweet, you're the best.
What do we wanna do today?
- I don't know, I'm so used to
talking to a crowd of people
at the classes, this is weird.
'Cause I wanna ask them but I can't.
Do you guys want glam or
do you guys want natural?
- I feel like we should do a glam look,
especially if we're using the palette.
Just because I've done
so many colorful looks,
everyone's like,
"We get it, you can do a rainbow.
"We wanna see something pretty."
- Alright.
- And I feel like there's
nobody better to do that.
- We'll do pretty makeup, alright cool.
So when I start doing
makeup and especially
if it's a new client which
you basically are right now,
'cause I've never done your makeup.
I just sort of start feeling
the features of the face
and just envisioning the
techniques I'm gonna be doing.
Like if I want hairs
to go higher or lower.
I'm gonna start bu
filling your eyebrows and
then while I'm doing that I'm
gonna start planning the look
'cause right now I have
no idea what I'm doing.
- That's honestly how I go into most of
my makeup looks as well.
- Yeah.
- The eyebrows are always
the hardest part for people
whenever they do and they--
- Really?
But you have such a good brow raise
and I feel like it's easy.
- Thank you.
Well just 'cause they've gone
under such a transformation.
- Oh my God, can we talk about
your brows for the holidays.
- Oh God, they were disgusting.
- What were you thinking?
- I don't know.
And the thing is to sulk,
everyone told me that they were bad.
There was not a single person
within the makeup community
and be like, oh yeah.
Your eyebrows are good.
Like everyone's like, ah huh.
Like even Anastasia was like--
- Isn't it crazy how no one says it?
When I first grew a
mustache two years ago,
it was literally like
so long, hitting my lips
and when I look at pictures I cringe.
I'm like how did no
one, not even my family
told me like you need
to trim your mustache.
- 'Cause no body wants to be mean,
but I wish more people had
bullied me about my eyebrows.
I could've fixed it sooner.
- If I was close to you at
that time I would've told you.
- Okay good.
- I'm gonna go back to the
brows, try a little application.
- Really?
- The reason I do that is because I'm,
it depends on how dramatic
the eye makeup is.
If the eye makeup is super dramatic then
I don't want to go too heavy on the brows.
Just feels like I've mentally
point with the brows now
and then go ahead and deepen them
a little bit more over here.
- Okay so do you wanna tell
the sisters a little bit
more about how long you've
been doing makeup for,
your education and
training just so they know
a little bit more about--
- Yeah, so I started makeup in 2000.
So it's gonna be 19 years now.
- Oh my God.
- How old are you?
- 19.
- You're 19?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Well, I was born in 1999 but yeah, 19.
- So he was like four months old when
I started doing makeup.
- Oh my God.
- Isn't that crazy?
- That is insane.
- That's so cool though,
just the level of success
that you've reached and the
fact that you've been doing it
for how long now?
- Only three years.
This is not about me
though, talk about you.
- Oh sorry, okay.
I hate talking about myself.
- No.
- I started doing makeup
19 years ago in New York
and I got a job at Sephora when I was 17,
as a fragrance consultant.
And I started doing
makeup there, its where
I discovered makeup on
the first day of work and
I got obsessed with it,
fell in love with it.
Started researching it.
At this time in the
industry, it's very different
than it was, than it is now.
- Yeah I definitely wanna talk on that.
- Yeah, it was really,
really hard back then.
There was no social media,
there was no way to get noticed
and so I started working retail and then--
you know I really struggled,
I wanna say for the first
seven or eight years and
when I say struggle I mean
barely being able to pay
rent, eating pizza and
eating tuna fish and it
was hard because you had
to assist and a lot of the assisting
jobs you had to do for free.
- Right.
- So you'll be on set
for 16 or 18 hours a day
working with these master make up artists
but you'd be doing it for free.
- Absolutely not.
- Well, that's how it was and
then I'd work retail on the
side and then when I
eventually stopped retail,
I started working in television news
on the weekends so I could
make some steady income.
- Right.
- Started doing my own clients,
started working with photographers.
Eventually, I wanna say
after the sixth year or so,
I started doing celebrities in New York.
Some pop singers and some actresses.
- How did that happen 'cause I feel like
that's a very intense--
to go from starting at
Sephora and just testing
and playing it out to
news anchors and then also
celebrities , I feel like there's a --
- Yeah.
- Pretty intense job.
- It wasn't an intense job, it was very--
- Gradual.
- Gradual, it was little by
little just step by step.
Working with certain hairstylist
who would recommend me
to a celebrity.
You know, that kind of thing.
But I also had an agent at that time,
so I had an agent since I
was 21 but even with an agent
you still struggled at that time.
- Yeah.
- Because to get noticed
by a celebrity there was
just no way.
Like nowadays you can just
write them on social media
and Twitter or Instagram.
- Which is so cool.
- And that's how they
discover you nowadays too.
But back then there
was just no way at all.
The industry has definitely changed.
- You mentioned how the
industry has changed a lot
when it comes to artists that
immerge onto social media
and there's no denying
that you were one of the
first to really pioneer
makeup on social media.
You have a huge following on Instagram
and your work if major inspiration to me
and many other artist as well.
Would you say that social
media has changed the makeup
community for the better and in what ways
do yo think that it's affected it?
- It's interesting for me
to answer this question
because I'm considered the old school.
Anyone whose 15 years
in the business or more,
they're considered old school right?
- Well yeah, it's a lot of experience.
- And most of the people
that are old school,
they tend to not like
social media and they think
it's ruined it and they think
it's ruined the industry
and they think that
YouTube has ruined it and
influencers have ruined it.
- That's a huge thing.
- Yeah, it's a really
big thing and I fee like
I'm gonna also get it
when this video comes out
because people are
gonna turn their nose up
and think, why would he do
that with an influencer,
but for me, I feel like
Instagram is amazing number one,
I feel like it's changed
the industry for the better.
For me, definitely and
for many others as well.
It's provided so many more opportunities
that we never would've
had as makeup artist.
So many more types of
jobs that we can do and
just the fact that you
could build a following and
you could share your work
and have control over it.
Instagram is like a
personal magazine and so
you could share you work
and build a following,
build a business, a legitimate business.
- A million percent.
- And for me, I've
always been supportive of
influencers and YouTubers.
For one, because I know the amount of work
that goes into what you guys do.
I think a lot of people don't realize it,
and the older generation in particular
even some of the newer generation.
They don't realize the
amount of work that goes
into doing a YouTube
and creating content and
it's really a full time job,
and I think someone
like you in particular,
who I really admire when
it comes to work ethic.
I can see the amount of
work that you put into it.
The fact that you were
able to build a following,
by the way, you probably get the award for
the most insane engagement like.
You literally gross like a
million followers every three
days which is insane but
I don't look at that like,
arg, I look at that like,
holy crap, that's amazing.
It's inspiring you know what I mean?
The work is there to back it
up because you work non stop,
even on your days off, I
feel like you're plotting
and planning, thinking
of your next video and--
- Yeah.
- You know you're entertaining
to watch on social media
and that's really hard,
not everyone can do that.
- Thank you.
- And so, I have respect
for you and all the other
content creators out
there because it really is
a hard job and people don't
realize how much into it.
My only thing about it is that because
the industry has changed right?
So there's all these
kinds of new opportunities
for these young artist that are coming up.
I also look at that as,
just because I had to
struggle for almost 10 years
in the beginning of my
career and now people don't.
I feel like I'm happy for
them because they have
these cool opportunities now,
like if it was my brother
or my cousin or my son
and theses opportunities
came their way at 18 and 19,
I'm not gonna tell them to
sit in a room and say no
to everything.
I'm gonna say, go take the opportunities,
go become successful, go with
it and I feel like that's how
people should think about it as well.
- I've been in the makeup
community for three years now
but obviously CoverGirl
was a major, pivotal moment
and Boys in Beauty I feel
like 'cause it really
brought it to mainstream
media and even over
the past three years I've
seen such a positive change
and so many young boys
trying out makeup and
imagine me being like, oh no.
You can't, like being mad that
they were growing a following.
- Or imagine that you
said no to CoverGirl.
- Right.
I hate when makeup artists are like,
oh influencers are taking our jobs like,
when have you ever seen
me on set doing makeup
for a campaign unless it's my own?
Ever.
- It's two totally different things.
- It's two totally different things and
I don't understand why
there's so much hatred
between people literally
within in the same industry
that are just performing different tasks.
I mind my own business,
I'm in my own studio
making content for a younger demographic
and working makeup artists
are on set every single day
working just as hard,
doing celebrity makeup
and doing shoots and campaigns.
- And sometimes our worlds collide.
So celebrity makeup
artists, when they do Oscars
or Grammy's, they work
with the same brands
that you guys do because
they're getting sponsored
by brands for the red carpet looks.
So sometimes the worlds
collide and I just feel
like there needs to not be a divide
between the older
generation and the younger.
I just feel like people
need to support it more
and not bash.
- Everyone can learn from each other.
I feel live I've learned so much from you
and other industry professionals that I've
looked up too and been following for a
very, very long time
and it's people like you
and people like Anastasia are people that
have really been a great mentor to me
to give me advice and be like,
hey I've been here for 19 plus years.
Don't do that or you should this
or you should talk to this person.
I really value that because I love makeup
and marketing, there's
always things that I can
learn and improve on and the same thing
goes for the older generation.
Just like you said, social media
been a huge immersion
in the makeup community
and I think it's really
changed it for the better
but obviously a lot of
the older generation
is out of touch with that and I think that
there's a lot to be learned from them,
even for the working makeup artists,
how they can build their brand further and
still book those jobs and not have it be
taken by influencers.
- You got two options, either
you get with it and you
go with the change and
you pay attention to
your social media and you work on it
and you try to become a part of it.
- 'Cause it's not going anywhere.
- It's not going anywhere,
no one has control
over that and so you either do that
or you just kind of get left behind.
Some of the older makeup
artists have resorted to
publicly bashing and shaming
or bullying certain--
even within the celebrity
makeup artist community.
Some celebrity makeup artists do it to
other celebrity makeup
artist if they have a lot
of followers or if they
work with a certain client.
- That's insane.
- For someone who has 20
plus years experience,
let's say a makeup artist,
to have your legacy be that you are known
for bashing people and for bullying people
on social media, that's just
horrible and I feel bad--
- It's embarrassing.
- It's embarrassing yeah,
and so I just feel like we
need to respect each other's
fields and each other's jobs.
You know they call it the beauty community
but I feel it needs to
be more of a community.
- Agreed.
Couldn't have said it any better myself.
- So I'm doing,
I call it a snatch.
- I'm so excited for this.
- I can't believe you've never done this.
- No.
- Okay, so I'm basically
taping his eyes back
and then maybe tie it at
the back with a string,
and what that does, it enables,
it pushes the eyes back.
This is a very, very old Hollywood trick,
it's been done for so
long in Hollywood movies
and films and red carpet stuff.
I do this pretty,
I mean not often but I do it quite a bit
especially on photo
shoots and you can do it
on red carpet too if the hair is down
'cause it covers it.
- Yeah.
- A lot of celebrities do it.
We just don't know because--
- A lot of drag queens do it too.
- Oh the drag queens of course.
I mean for sure.
So that dries and then
I basically pull that.
- Oh my God, you can barely even see it.
- Yeah, so you have to do it really clean,
sometimes you can see it a lot
and you can actually cover it with makeup.
We're gonna see this in
the video but you know,
we're doing a fantasy, it's like more for
the photo or video, you know what I mean?
So like that and then we pull it,
and it just snatches
the face and the brows.
- Oh my God.
You are kidding me.
- You could wear these everyday right.
- I think I need these
everyday of my life.
Can we out one of my double chin?
I'll be ordering a lifetime
supply on Amazon immediately.
- When you do this on clients
they just transform into
another--
they really feel it, you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- It's literally like
getting a facelift without
any of the surgery at all.
They just send me their facelift and they
just feel so snatched and beautiful.
- I love my facelift at age 19.
- Yeah, right.
- Oh my God.
- So now, the reason why I did this on him
because I was envisioning
like a black line,
like an Arianna Grande line.
I just felt like the brows
needed to be more lifted
up in the corners and the eyelids so.
So I'm using your palette
for the first time.
What to use.
So I have one of these, he sent it to me,
but I didn't use it, didn't touch it yet
because I think I think
I swatched one color,
but I'm saving it.
So there's certain products
that I save for the future
because I think in like
20, 30 years it will
be super iconic and I wanna make sure
I have them untouched.
- That is so cool.
- So, yeah.
Yours is one of them
so you'll have to send
me another one so I can actually use it.
- I have a bunch today, I can give you.
- Alright so, we'll probably work in
these ranges here, it's more natural.
- Like I said people been
seeing me doing rainbow,
rainbow, rainbow but nobody has really
seen me do glam with it
yet so this is perfect.
Well speaking if learning
new tips and tricks,
your masterclass, so fun, so fresh.
I went to one.
- Yes you did.
- And I flew all the
way to New York for it.
- You got mobbed.
- Yes I did.
I was so excited to see
Mario because we had
met several times and I,
always been good friends
but I never actually got
to seeing you work before,
so I was super, super
excited and I walked in
with my little notepad
and my little pen to take
notes on everything but it was such a cool
experience getting to watch you work and
seeing you glam Kim and all the different
tips and techniques
you've been using forever.
It was so fun, I feel
like I learned so much.
- I think people don't
realize, it's a lot more
than just technique and stuff too because
I feel like the majority of
the people that are there
are aspiring makeup
artist or they're makeup
artist with different levels,
some of them are YouTuber's
but some of them are, they
rather deal with brides and
they out there hustling
and doing clients everyday
and stuff like that.
So they learn more so
than just techniques,
they really learn how to approach
different face shapes and
how to think about
approaching a face and how
to do certain, different looks
and how to build and how to--
you know it's a very, very
intense field and people
don't realize that, they
think in the beginning
that it's just a technique thing but it's
literally five hours on one face, so you
can imagine the amount
of info that's happening.
- That's a lot.
- It's a lot.
- Spoiler alert.
- For me it's the most important part
and the part of my job that I'm hands down
most passionate about.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause I wanted to be
a teacher my entire life.
- Yeah.
- So I've sort of found
way to become a teacher
and a makeup artist at the same time.
- How long have you been
doing the classes for?
- I started the masterclass
almost 10 years ago in L.A.
So there was a YouTube video 10 years ago
that Kim and I put on YouTube,
and you know obviously Kim,
around that time she was
really starting to heavily
become a beauty icon,
girls around the world were
really looking up to her and
they loved her glam looks,
and so after that video came out
I started getting messages
from people around the world
basically just asking me
questions and asking me
how can I do this or how
can I advance in this?
What are the steps I need
to do to become successful
and so, I was sitting at home
one day and I was like wow,
all of these people, like
unless they start assisting
someone, because this is before
YouTube was really a thing.
Unless they start assisting someone
and unless they live in
Paris, London, New York or LA.
They'll never have a chance.
- Yeah.
- And so that's when I
decided to do this class.
I was like, let me teach
them the tricks of the trade
in this class and to let them at least be
a little more advanced.
- Right.
- And so my first class
had 16 students in it.
- So cool.
- Yeah, it was really small.
- And now they're thousands.
- Yeah, and that's how
the masterclass started.
It's the one thing I'm
extremely proud of in my career.
- So I'm gonna just now
set, using the Laura Mercier
translucent powder, I'm
just gonna set the concealer
and just very lightly, I'm
not gonna do it too much.
Alright, so I'm taking
the shade Ring light
which is a beautiful--
oh, damn that's good.
Taking the shade Ring
light and I'm just gonna
put that on the inner corner here.
- James Charles Morphe pallet.
- With the James Charles Morphe pallet.
I really like this
palette, I might even use
this pallet at certain points of trade.
- Yeah, it's really bright
so I really like it for
brow bone, inner corner highlight.
- Yeah, and it builds nicely too.
And now I'm gonna take a flatter brush,
I'm gonna use Ring light again
but I'm actually gonna mix it with,
what is this one called?
- That one is So good.
- I'm gonna mix Ring
light and So good together
and I'm just gonna put it on the highest
point of this brow here.
Lift her up a little more.
- What are your favorite type of looks
to do on people?
What's your favorite
look you've ever done?
- I don't know, I mean
there's been thousands
so it's hard to say but
you know with you too
it's like your work changes over the years
and so sometimes you look at your old work
and you're like hmmm, you know.
It always changes, my
favorite looks always changes.
- What's your favorite right now?
That you've done recently?
If that's easier.
- There's one that I did on Kim for her
Glam Bible campaign which I really liked
with the lightning rod
going up to the brows.
- Yeah, that was so pretty.
- I like that one.
I'm gonna go in now and use a deeper shade
to go over that concealer
what is this called?
- That is 10% off.
- You know I'm really impressed
that you can remember it,
that means you were
really intensely involved
because I have bad memory, I wouldn't
be able to memorize all these names.
- The palette, when I got
approached by Morphe to
do the palette I already had it fully
designed on Photoshop with
all the shade names included.
- You sent me that
Photoshop thing I remember
before it launched.
It was like a picture of a--
- I did.
I remember texting you like,
what would you add to this?
I was trying to get a lot of people that
I respected the opinions of like input
on the palette before it launched.
The goal then obviously was
to make it for working artists
and for all makeup lovers.
- I remember being at your
house when you lived in downtown
and I remember--
- Trigger.
- And I remember you were
working on it back then.
- Yeah.
- I was testing out some
of the shadows with you,
but they were actually
really amazing back then too.
So I'm just gonna probably
do, the direction it's going
right now is like great, blown out, smoky.
I love cut creases and everything too,
I really appreciate them
and stuff but I just don't.
For me, I personally, my aesthetic.
Most aesthetic is more of a blown out,
like a really blown
out an blended out look
because for me it's more
sexy and I love sexy makeup.
And so, probably just
gonna wind up doing that.
- I wanna ask you the question
because after releasing this
palette, I've been asked
literally 10, a million times.
Speaking of creating a palette.
Would you be interested in
doing a Mario Dedivanovic
makeup line?
- Yeah, I mean that's been my goal for
17, 18 years.
I think it's gonna happen in the future.
I don't have any solid
dates or anything like that
but it's something that I've
been very slowly working on
for the past three or four years myself.
- Yeah.
It's a lot of work.
- A lot of work, a lot of
money and obviously I get a lot
of offers from investment
firms and huge companies
and investors and
corporations and retailers
to do lines with them.
- Right.
- But I really wanna do it
myself without any investment.
- Yeah.
- So I can be in full control of it and--
- Which I think is dope 'cause
I would do the same thing.
- Yeah, so I'm not sure
when it's gonna happen.
I'm really not in a rush,
it's gonna start off small
and then slowly kind of grow it from there
but I don't care about rushing it or
just coming up the market because
Instagram's hot right now.
- I love that.
- Yeah, I'm just gonna do
it when it's right and when
it's ready.
- Yeah.
I really, really love that
and that, I mean obviously
you know I already respect
you but that just makes
me respect you so much more.
- Just putting some cream product here,
some cream pigment.
And I'm gonna just blend it.
I really love, what is this color called?
- Tune.
- Tune?
- Next to face.
- This is my, I think
this is my favorite color
in the entire palette.
- Really?
- I just love a matte color
that has that yellowish
undertone.
- Ah huh.
A lot of medium and dark
skin people have been
using it for banana powder.
- Yeah.
- Which I think is so cool.
- This would be a great
color for a deeper skin tone
to put underneath their
eyes and make it like--
- Yup.
- Alright, so.
- This looks so pretty, oh my God.
- So this is one layer of liner,
people always get shocked
at the classes 'cause I
typically use four to five
layers of eyeliner for one look
so this is just the first one.
I'm not gonna do that many on you.
So I'm gonna just go ahead
now and start your skin.
- I'm so excited for this.
- I'll do more liner and
lashes in the look later.
- Okay.
- Why are you excited about skin?
- Because I used to have
really bad skin growing up
and for me I love doing eyes.
I know that I can slay an
eye you know what I mean?
So skin for me is always a fun challenge
because I always want my skin to look
as perfect as possible.
And it's been such a learning
process for me throughout my
makeup routine 'cause I used
to cake on all my products but
I think I've gotten a lot
better at still using a lot but
making it look a lot prettier and a lot--
- Right.
- Better, both in real
life and on camera too.
So I always love seeing how
different artists do skin
'cause I feel like that's the
one area that I can always
really, really learn more about.
- Yeah, so that being
said, should we do the
James dark orangey
foundation or should we do--
Coming from like the inner
art, I'm literally an artist
now from my spray tan, look at my hands.
- Well I've always had a
lot of trouble matching
my foundation because my
body is pretty yellow tone
but my neck and chest are literally like--
- Yeah.
I actually go darker with
the foundation a little.
- At this point, who cares?
I've given up.
At this point, who cares?
I've given up.
Alright sisters so that
is officially every single
foundation that I now own,
swatched don both my face
and my neck and chest.
So doing concealer before foundation?
- Yes sir, yes mam.
- How long would you say your normal paint
on somebody is?
- It's always different
because it depends on
the situation you're in,
who you're working with.
Some clients want it
done fast like 30 minutes
and some clients give
you two or three hours.
- Oh, love that.
- So it really depends on the client,
also depends on the
circumstance that you're under.
People don't realize when
you're a celebrity makeup
artist, the type of conditions
you're working under
usually everyday.
- They're pretty intense.
- Intense, yeah.
I never will have someone ever like this
that's just quiet, no phone, calm.
It's always they're on their phone,
their head is down.
Their publicist is in the room,
they're doing an interview,
they have their kids there.
They're getting their
toes and their hands done.
They're getting their hair blown or having
a wig put in or extensions.
So it's really intense
moving, a lot of moving,
you never get to have
someone sitting still.
That's just the reality of it and so
that's just how the work
is typically, everyday.
So just keep that in mind everyone,
when you're judging.
- Literally.
- And then they go on the red carpet,
of course everyone judges and--
- Right.
- Its fine, I actually like
working under pressure.
Sometimes I get three hours and sometimes
I get 15 minutes, it just depends.
- What is your ideal situation?
Would it be calm, where you
just get to sit and play?
- Yeah.
I'm a very calm person so
I like when I can focus
and not be too rushed.
But again,, that being
said, when I'm rushed
I usually do really good work.
I remember one time when
Kim and I had 10 minutes.
- Oh, absolutely not.
- Flight landed late in New
York which was many years ago,
we were at MTV, she was
going on live television
and we had 10 minutes to
do full hair and makeup.
And made it work, lashes and everything.
You know, another time I remember--
- Oh my God.
- I've had some crazy experiences,
another time I remember I did,
this was back in New York also.
The celebrity arrived
late to the hotel room
and we had to go to an event in Manhattan
and we were in Jersey,
her hotel was in Jersey
and so we--
- That's mistake number one,
whoever booked her hotel there.
- I'm not sure why she was in Jersey,
I think she had another
job in Jersey or something.
- Okay, okay.
- So we had to run into the car,
this is years ago before
I had an assistant
so I had to pack everything myself.
We had to run to the car and
she put her head on my lap
in the car in the back seat in the dark,
it was dark outside.
We put the little light on in the car
and I did her entire face with her laying
on the backseat on top of my lap.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah, and actually the
pictures came out really nice.
- That is the most fulfilling moment
when that stuff happens.
You've been doing makeup for 19 years now.
- Yup.
- Long time.
You've seen the trends come and go,
what would you say are
your staple makeup trends
that you just live for?
- I actually don't love makeup trends,
I'm not a huge follower
of trends because for me,
it's only because the type of makeup that
I have to do everyday.
Like I'm not allowed to just do trends,
I have to just do what they want sort of,
what looks best on them.
With that being said
like recently for example
there's been a huge
trend of glitter right?
- Ah huh.
- Glitter and bold colors and so I've been
doing all that because when people
see something on social media everyday.
Celebrities, it's almost like
they become accustomed to it
and so it becomes okay
a little bit and so I--
- Which is super dope.
- Yeah, I'm even finding
that the client's like,
oh yeah, let's do glitter,
let's do a pink eye,
you know things like that.
So that being said, even
though I don't love trends
because I typically can't follow them.
I really appreciate them.
It's like one of those questions
that editors always ask,
oh, what trends do you hate?
It's like I don't hate any of them.
They're all fun to me, it's
like makeup is all fun.
- Well that leads me into
a great question that
I was getting ready to ask
so perfect sister set right.
Obviously you have been the
pioneer of so many different
makeup trends like
highlight and contouring
but have their been any
techniques or tricks
that you've learned from other influencers
or artists that you have influenced
and now you use all the time?
- Well let me first clear this up because
this is controversial.
I didn't create or invent
highlight and contouring,
specifically contouring
because they call it
the Contour King, blah, blah, blah.
Contouring has been around,
I mean Mona Lisa has contour
in her painting, it's
been around for ages.
Drag queens always did the contouring.
Myself with Kim really
popularized it in the digital--
- In the mainstream world.
- In the mainstream world.
You know, when I was an
assistant for several years,
I learned so many tricks of the trade from
literally the best makeup
artists in the world.
I knew so many of those
things at a young age because
I was seeing them everyday on set.
Things like contour and
highlight obviously,
like cut creases, like
all that stuff I learned
or like how to do the tapes
and how to remove eyebrows.
All these kinds of things I learned.
I learn more so, I think
from regular women.
I'm really interested in
seeing how regular women
do their makeup.
And I think there's something
extremely charming and cute.
I love seeing regular women's
make up 'cause in my mind,
let's say I see someone in
a restaurant or something.
I never judge but I'll see
something, and I'll look at it
and kind of create something in my mind.
From what they did at home
and as far as influencers
and stuff like that.
I get inspired by it
because they do really
cool, different things.
We are packing you with
powder for the next high date.
- Hello being packed with powder.
What is your favorite step
of the makeup routine?
- Okay, I know what my
least favorites are.
- What?
- So my least favorites are lashes.
- Same.
100%/
- I hate doing lashes.
- Absolutely despise it.
- Especially false lashes
'casue my hands are big
so it's just annoying
for me to get in there.
I don't love doing lips either.
- Same.
Hate, absolutely hate doing
lips, especially on other
people too, it's so hard.
- Yeah, especially dark colors.
- Yup.
- My favorite would be, probably,
it depends on the face.
Like if someone has amazing
eyes, it would be eyes.
Or if someone has incredible skin,
I would love doing their skin.
Do use blush or no?
- Not a lot but I do use it yeah.
I always use a peachy blush.
- This is the way the
way they color shaded--
- Yeah, gonna dip into Face.
- What is it?
- Face.
- Face, F-A-C-E.
- So before you start putting on the lips,
so I can shut up.
I wanna know, 'cause
the people who watch me
is very split, I definitely
have a lot of people
that don't wear makeup
but I also have a lot of
really amazing and talented
aspiring makeup artists.
So, as someone who's been
in this place for so long
and has been a role
model to so many of us.
What would be your biggest piece of advice
to aspiring makeup artists?
- Well, if you want to be something,
if you want to grow in your career and you
wanna be successful.
One of the most important
things is to sacrifice,
you're gonna have to sacrifice.
You're not gonna be able to
go on vacations constantly,
go out to the clubs and the
bars everyday and every weekend,
you have to put in the work
in order to see the results.
And so that's number one.
I sacrificed a tremendous
amount of my life.
And then my mom grew
up in another country,
she wasn't allowed to go to school.
So she's a very simple kind of woman,
what she did teach me always
that I followed always
is just to be a good person
and I always tell my students
that no matter what you do and
the decisions that you make
and the way you lead your life daily.
Just remember to really be a good person,
when you're making decisions, do it from a
good place in your heart
and she always said,
if you be a good person Mario,
everything good will come to you
sometimes it may take
years, sometimes days.
But it will come.
Alright so, I think we're done.
- Oh my God, really?
- And this is literally the
first time I've ever done
glam makeup on a man in 20 years.
- A sister.
- A sister.
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- Mario, oh my God I look so beautiful.
Are you literally kidding me?
I look like a doll.
- You do look like a doll.
A sister doll.
- This is the best.
Kim, I think I'm gonna
need to take him from you,
sorry sis.
Not a chance.
- Oh my God like I feel
literally so beautiful.
How do you feel, like are
you happy with the look?
- I am yeah, I have to say.
You know before I said I was nervous
'cause I don't do boys makeup but I
really think it came out nice.
- I feel so beautiful.
Thank you so much for glamming me today.
This look is like, I feel
like I'm red carpet ready
which is not very often for me.
I feel very, very powerful in this look
and I feel like--
- Confident.
- Confident and I feel snatched as well
like these face tapes.
- Can I take my tapes back though?
- No.
- Come on, I need them for--
- No, I think I need them now forever.
- It's fine.
- Don't be rude.
- Alright.
- Well thank you so much for even coming
on my channel today, you are literally
one of my biggest role models and even
such a good friend to me
over the past few years
and it means the world to me that I was
your first boy and YouTube collab.
- Yay.
- Literally so cool.
You guys, if you do not
already follow Mario,
please go check him out
@Makeupbymario.
Mario Dedivanovic.
Makeup legend, also I'll
be at the masterclass
on February 9th, here in LA.
So will sister Kim, it's gonna be amazing.
And like I said, last time I went
I feel like I learned so much.
He's such an amazing role model and
teacher for aspiring makeup
artists everywhere and
I really hope you guys enjoyed
this fun little video today.
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- Can you imagine?
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