- [James] Hi sisters
James Charles here and
welcome back to my YouTube channel.
Jumping right into today's
brand new video, I am very
very excited but also
nervous for this video.
This is something that I wanted to film
for a very very long time now
and that is how I used to do my makeup
versus how I do it now.
This trend has already
been going around for a
pretty long time now so this is
definitely not an original idea.
A few years ago people were doing
the how I do my makeup
in high school versus now
challenge which was so much
fun to look back at everybody's
transformations and even I did a video a
few months ago where he reacted to and
recreated my first ever makeup tutorial
and even though I've only been in the
beauty community doing makeup for about
three years now I will definitely say
that my makeup has changed so, so, so much
hopefully for the better,
I mean I literally used
to have Sharpie eyebrows
that took up half my freaking forehead
and a man bun that was a literal rat's
nest on the top of my head.
In the past three years I
will confidently say that
I've definitely upped
my style, makeup tips,
techniques and products that I used so
for today that I thought
it'd be so much fun
to split my face right in half and do
a little beauty battle
with myself basically,
when you literally don't have
anybody left to collab with
and do one half of my face
how I used to do my makeup
with all the old
techniques and products and
the other half of my
face how I do it today,
see the comparison, see
how everything has changed
and hopefully you guys will
pick up some tips and techniques
of what not to do along the way.
So without further ado
let's take a trip down
memory lane and jump right in.
(upbeat music)
I just scrolled down my
Instagram for several minutes.
Literally I have PTSD from
looking at some of these
disgusting photos but I
came across this look that
was posted on May 14, 2016
and it is captioned tangerine.
I feel like for the old half
my face, this is a really good
look to do today that encompasses
kind of all the techniques
that I used to use and now
don't use for obvious reasons.
That has gotta be the harshest contour
I've ever seen in my entire life.
My eyebrows taking up half my forehead.
I will say and pat myself on
the back a little bit too,
through scrolling down through
all these repulsive looks,
the one thing that I was never
horrible at was eyeshadow.
Everything else has been majorly improved
but I was always a pretty decent
at eyeshadow and it was
always been my favorite part
of the makeup routine so definitely
just a super simple glam eyeshadow look.
My winged eyeliner is going straight out.
I don't even think I have a lash on.
My nose is not even close to
contour and my lips are lined
normally and this was before
I had anything done to them
so you get the picture.
I think this is the perfect look
to recreate today and even
though it is pretty simple,
I think there's going to be
some very dramatic changes
from one side to the other
and hopefully I'll be
able to show you guys a lot of really
helpful tips and techniques
so let's jump right in.
So the first step of a makeup routine
is of course always skin prep.
Now on the old side,
I'm just gonna go right
into the Benefit Porefessional
primer, no moisturizer,
nothing beforehand.
I literally used to be
obsessed with this stuff.
I would use the most of it.
This primer for me is
one of the main reasons
that started my conspiracy
theory that primers do
absolutely nothing because this
primer actually hurt my skin
more than it actually helped
which I'll get into when
it comes to the nose in a little bit.
Now on the newer side of my face I'm going
to first grab the Tatcha Water Cream.
This is my all-time favorite moisturizer
and a good moisturizer
is super important for me
before I put on any makeup
to make sure my skin
stays hydrated and healthy
all throughout the day
and is able to breathe underneath
eight ounces of product.
Obviously as you can see
I'm having a very intense
breakout on this side
of my face right now.
I'm not exactly sure why.
I've been traveling a lot
recently and I've been
of course taking extra precaution to
make sure my skin stays healthy
but we're not gonna be taking this into
consideration when it comes to
the final judgment later on.
Thanks.
Although I don't always prime now,
when I do skincare is of
course my number one priority
and that means I usually go
the Tatcha Silk Canvas Primer
which I feel like is also
very very fitting today
because just like the Porefessional,
this one is obviously meant
to it fill in everything
and make it very, very even so hopefully
we're going to flatten out these pimples
that we have going on.
So normally next I would
jump right into foundation,
but on the old makeup side
we actually have a few more steps to do
before that so I'm gonna let the primer
sit on the new side and right now we're
going to go in and a color correct using
the LA Girl Pro concealer
in the shade Literal Orange.
So I obviously am a man and
I do have a 5 o'clock shadow
that is really, really inconvenient.
I am getting laser hair
removal all over my face to
get rid of it because I absolutely hate it
but now I just use a full coverage
foundation and a lot of concealer to
cover it up to kind of eliminate using
87 different products on my face but
back then it was not the case,
so I'm gonna put this basically
everywhere that hair grows.
I was apparently convinced that
I was doing drag every time
I put my makeup on.
I'm just gonna blend that
in using my Beauty Blender.
This next step I cannot
believe I ever actually did,
but if you scroll back to one of my first
YouTube videos, it isn't
most definitely there.
When I first started to makeup
I had a major, major issue
where every time I would do my foundation
they would always
completely slip off my nose
and leave little holes and
cracks and look disgusting
whenever I tried to nose contour.
I was so convinced it
was the oils in my nose
that I was literally just sweating
all day long
but I later found out once I was educated
that it was actually
the Porefessional primer
not really working together
with a foundation that I always
used and that is why.
That is also why I stopped
using it this combination
but at one point I did
finally find a trick to
fix that and I taught you guys in my
videos if anybody remembers from
literally day one and that was using a
Mac Paint Pot and literally putting a
huge layer of that on my nose before I
actually put any foundation on and the
logic was that if the
foundation slipped off
when I tried to contour,
there would be another extremely
thick layer underneath.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I really could not tell
you why try new primer
or try new foundation
never crossed my mind
like a normal human being
but this trick did do the
trick for a pretty long time.
I'm gonna keep my Paint Pot out because
we're gonna be using it
later on on the new side
when it comes to eyeshadow
but it is now time to
move in to foundation.
For foundation on the old side
I'm gonna grab the Make
Up For Ever Ultra HD stick
in the shade Y325.
Now if you've been along since day one
you would know that this was literally
my ride-or-die Holy Grail.
I still to this day I really
like this foundation and
the formula to it a lot if you guys saw
my finding my perfect
foundation shade video
from a few weeks ago
this was literally one
of my top contenders and
so many of the comments
said you guys really, really
liked this color on me
but when I moved to LA it
was just a little bit too dry
for my skin and I've obviously
moved on to Born This Way,
which is what I'm gonna put
on the other side of my face.
I'm gonna start by blending this in using
my Morphe M439 brush.
Use code James for 10% off.
That has never changed.
I can already tell that this color
is way, way, way too yellow for me.
I would always just blend
the foundation right
over the color corrector
as well and then always
be really upset and confused when I would
get hate comments telling
me that I looked orange.
Should've listened.
Now on the newer side of my face,
I'm gonna be using the Too
Faced Born This Way foundation
and for today's look
I'm gonna mix together
the shade of pearl and natural beige.
The Born This Way
foundation is a little bit
more medium coverage but can be buildable
and I like this formula a lot better
because it's more hydrating
and keeps my skin looking healthy
throughout the day as opposed to cakey
and I'm just blending this and using the
brand new Jeffrey Star X Morphe
contour and highlight sponge.
(beep)
Of course my camera stopped
recording for a few seconds.
Sorry you guys I am back.
Would it really be a James Charles
video without a technical difficulty?
No.
Next I was obviously going to be concealer
getting right back into things.
I went in on the old side
with the LA Girl Pro concealer
in the shade of porcelain,
literally the lightest shade
that they have.
I actually have nothing bad
to say about this concealer.
The formula is really, really
bomb and it's only $6 as well.
I just wanted to move on and
try out different formulas.
So on the new side, I use the Too Faced
Born This Way concealer
in the shade vanilla.
I'm just gonna blend this
in using a Beauty Blender.
I want to move on to the
next side pretty quickly
because no matter on what
foundation and concealer
and primer I'm using on my
face if I don't work fast
I get very, very creasy
and crusty pretty quickly.
So I'm gonna grab the Coty
Airspun powder on the old side.
Obviously you guys know
this powder has been with me
since day one.
I love this one.
This treated me very, very
well when I was living back
in New York but this
is also the powder that
created Flashback Mary
and definitely made me
look very very cakey
because I was using way too much of it
but that's the whole point of learning
and improving as an artist.
So I'm just gonna grab a
powder puff and dip right in,
pack this into place.
I can't believe that I
used to literally do this.
On the other side of my face,
I'm gonna grab the Laura Mercier
translucent setting powder
and I'm going to use my beauty sponge to
melt this into the skin.
Just for you know
slightly lighter coverage look,
I really really like using my same damp
beauty sponge to push in
the powder to the skin.
I'm not really sure
when I made this change
but I am so glad that I did because
I feel like this just does
so much better of a job
to still set everything in
place so it doesn't slip
around during the day but it just looks
so much more natural when you're up close
you don't get that same kind of
gross cakey and dry texture that you can
sometimes get using a powder puff.
I just feel like it really
holds up a whole lot better.
Then I'm gonna grab a tiny
little bit of extra powder
on a fluffy brush and
just go over everything to
make sure everything is
nice and set in place
and that I didn't miss any areas.
Now that both halves of
my face are set in place,
the next step of my routine
is of course going to be
to contour and chisel everything out,
add some dimension, but
before I do that on the new
side I want to go ahead and give myself
a quick spritz of the Morphe Prep and Set
setting spray just to kind
of melt everything together
and this is not something
that I used to do before so
I'm going to keep my palette
up here to separate it.
(wind chimes)
I don't know if you can
fully see it on camera
but looking in the mirror
this side of my skin is
definitely just looking a
little bit more radiant,
you can kind of see the
skin popping through,
which I really, really
like whereas this side is
still really beautiful, it's super just
full coverage and very, very matte so
really just depends on the
type of look you're going for.
Now for contouring the one
palette that I used to use every
single day was the Kat Von
D shade and light palette
and not gonna lie, it had a
really, really bomb formula
and I loved it for a long
time but unfortunately
I no longer have it in my collection and I
refuse to go buy it and support her so
I'm just gonna use the
Anastasia contour kit
and just go a little bit
more heavy-handed than usual.
Gonna grab my Morphe M405
brush and dip right there
into the middle shade and
just go right in there.
I used to be obsessed with
going in at the absolute
most with contour and I'm
really not even sure why.
My cheekbones and jawline are already
pretty defined to begin with.
I really just wanted that like chiseled
jaw line moment which really
didn't even look that good.
It honestly just looked ridiculous but
we're just gonna recreate it today
for the sake of the video.
I'm gonna use even more to
contour out my forehead.
I mean this honestly has
not really changed that much
because I'm definitely still
insecure about the sides of it
but I am a lot better
at making it look softer
and blended while still
bringing it down a little bit.
Now you're probably thinking
all right James that looks
crazy, let's move on to
the other side and trust me
I'm thinking the same thing
but 2016 James was not
because one thing that I
loved to do was after my
contour was already laid down I would take
a smaller fluffy brush and dip into an
even darker contour shade
and just get you know
a little bit on there
and just go right into
the absolute hollow of my cheek bone
and just put down a little bit more.
Okay now that was maybe a little bit much.
It never really looked that bad.
Now going into that same exact M405 brush.
Well not the same exact one but same type,
you get the point and
dipping into the same color,
I'm gonna go in and contour
the other side but just go
a little bit lighter.
Holding this brush right
between my side burn and ear
and just lightly blending this downwards
in circular motions,
keeping it very, very light
and soft pulling just a little bit
onto at the top of my forehead
and still underneath the jawline as well
and then just gonna grab an M527 brush
and dip into this shade next door
which is a little bit more
bronzy, caramel type of color
and I'm gonna use this to
go lightly over top of that
contour color just to
kind of blend together
the natural skin tone and the contour
without making it look too harsh.
I'm gonna quickly apply a little bit of
the MAC blush in the shade Peaches
on my Morphe E4 brush.
You guys know this blush
is my all-time favorite
but I'm only gonna put
this on the new side
because I literally hated blush
when I first started doing
makeup and never wore it.
I really did not know what I was missing
because this looks so pretty
and youthful but oh well,
you live and you learn I guess.
And now we get to move
on to one of the most
important parts of my makeup routine
which is my nose contour.
Now if you've been
following me since day one,
I'm sorry first and foremost because my
nose used to look so bad
in all my Instagram photos
because I did not know how to
contour and even when I was
learning how to contour it was still
a really really rough process.
At first I could not figure out
how to do the illusion,
so it just looked bad.
Then I'd learned how to do it.
Then I learned how to
Photoshop and FaceTune
so it looked so fake to the
point where I couldn't even
breathe and now several
years later I am finally at
a place where I'm confident with my nose
and how it photographs in photos.
I stopped erasing the
entire thing in editing apps
but I definitely still
do contour quite a bit
so I'm gonna grab my contouring
brush and dip into the same
exact contouring palette
firstly on the old side,
I'm just gonna grab
that same contour color
and a lot of it too and I'm just gonna go
right in on the actual edge of my nose.
Oh my god this is triggering.
I'm blending that shape right upwards.
Oh wow, this hurts.
This hurts a lot.
Now if you really like the
way that your nose looks
in makeup naturally of course
this step doesn't really matter
but for me personally I
prefer my nose to look
a lot more narrow so I'm gonna grab the
same exact contour color once again but
instead of putting it on the absolute
edge of my nose and going around the bulb
which just makes it look
really, really wide,
I'm gonna kind of focus this
color on the top of the nose
bridge and pretend that
the bulb tip isn't there,
just go right over it, kind
of straightening it out,
which gives the illusion of
a more pinched and straight nose.
Just gonna do it another
quick spritz of setting spray
before I move on to baking
which is the next step.
- [Man] You're kidding.
- [Woman] That's kind of-
- [James] Wow.
(laughs)
- [James] Are you kidding me?
Let's try that again, a little
bit of urban decay this time.
Then just going in with some
more Coty Airspun powder
and a powder puff to bake.
I used to put the setting
powder here and just go
straight down and then I'm bringing it
all the way up to the back of my head,
I have no idea why and
then right on the center of
the forehead and then just using the
Laura Mercier on the other side,
I'm gonna bring this powder all the way up
to the side of my nose to snatch it and
create that illusion and
then just keeping it focused
right underneath my eyeball in
this little triangular area.
I am very excited to tell you guys that
for the brow portion of today's video I
am actually partnering with
Anastasia Beverly Hills,
that's right, to show you guys
their brand new dip brow gel
and how I like to use it
and also how I wouldn't
necessarily recommend using it.
If you've been around
since day one you probably
remember the James Charles
block brick Sharpie eyebrows.
Now at the time I loved them,
a few people on Instagram loved them
but for the most part they were disgusting
and everybody made fun
of them all the time
including the Queen herself,
Anastasia Beverly Hills who tried to get
me to tweeze them all off and I literally
looked at her face and
said absolutely not.
Can you say ego?
They had no arch to them whatsoever.
In fact, they almost looked like
I was frowning half the time.
They literally took up half
of my forehead in thickness
and they also had no dimension either.
They were all just one
color up straight like dark
brown almost black all the way through.
Three years later after
a whole lot of bullying,
hate comments, tweezing and practice,
I am finally at a place
where I really really
love my brows so let's
compare the old to the new.
Starting off I'm gonna
grab my Anastasia dip brow
in the shade dark brown and my Anastasia
number 7B brush and I'm just
going to dip in to the palette
right here and I'm going
to grab quite a lot.
I usually like to take the spoolie first
and go upwards just to kind
of get the shape of the brow
but I'm actually going to use the spoolie
and brush them this way to
actually kind of have a flatten
them out since I've definitely tweezed
an arch into eyebrows
over the past few years
and I'm just gonna go right in
starting at the front of my brow
which I never recommend doing any more
and just drawing a line.
This really used to
happen every single day
and then at the very last
second straight down.
(screams)
Oh no.
I'm grabbing a little bit more
on the same little angled brush.
I'm just going to sketch
in the tail of my eyebrow,
going out the top,
straight down and then
using whatever is left
which is apparently a lot.
Just gonna brush that right in.
Can't believe I'm doing this right now.
Ah oh my god.
That used to be on my face every day and I
never thought there was
anything wrong with it.
As if that was enough I'm next under
grab the brand new Anastasia dip brow gel
and I'm gonna layer
that right over the top.
Now listen I'm actually really
excited to tell you guys
about this product today because
it's really, really dope.
This is a super, super
pigmented, full coverage,
waterproof new brow gel
but it can also be used
like dip brow to actually sketch in hairs
and actually add hairs in place.
I've personally been
loving using this on myself
before I even draw anything in
and also on my friends that
don't have as many brows hairs
because it does such a good job of kind of
sketching it in and still making it look
like a natural look but like I said this
is very, very pigmented so if you were
going for this block eyebrow
which I would not recommend,
you could really just go right in
and push that product right in there
for the original James
Charles Sharpie eyebrow look.
Gonna grab a little bit more
of the LA girl Pro concealer
and I'm just gonna
squeeze that onto at the
back of my hand
and then just grabbing
a Morphe M410 brush.
Just gonna clean that up a little bit.
Now moving on to the now side of my face,
thank God, I'm gonna
grab the Anastasia brow
in the shade medium
brown to start this off.
Using the spoolie, I'm just
going to a brush all the hairs
upwards and then going right
in, I'm going to lightly
start in the middle of my brow drawing
just tiny little hairlike
strokes at the bottom
just to create a little bit of dimension.
Then just following the
natural shape of my actual
brow bone and going above that going to
bring that line upwards creating an arch
which is flattering for human faces
and then when I get to the tail,
I'm just going to pull
that line straight out
as opposed to straight down.
Going back in with the
spoolie each time as well
to make sure that nothing
ever gets too intense or dark.
Then I'm just going to fill in the tail.
I'm gonna clean this brow up in a second
but I'm pretty happy
with the shape so far.
I'm next going to go
back into the brand new
once again Anastasia dip brow gel
but this time I'm gonna
use the color soft brown
which is lighter than
my natural brow colors.
Like I said this product
is very full coverage,
so for someone like me
who likes a defined brow
but doesn't want to look like this,
I like to use a lighter shade and go in
super, super lightly and use this brow gel
to still lock everything in place
while adding a little bit of extra color
but not a whole lot.
What's super cool about
the dip brow gel as well
is that it does of course
set down and lock your
hairs in place but the drying time is a
little bit slower so I'm actually going
to take another clean brow brush.
This is the number 12
and just go right in and
use the excess dip brow
gel that is in the hairs,
use this to lightly
blend the product forward
into the front of the brow
and then using that same brush
just making tiny little upwards flicks to
mimic the appearance of real hairs
in areas that are a
little bit more sparse.
Now the new dip brow gel is smudge proof
so it is definitely not going anywhere
but I do want to go ahead and
clean it up just a little bit
so I'm going to grab the
Born This Way concealer
one more time and then just
a rounded concealer brush
and I'm just gonna go right in and
really make sure it is super clean.
All right sisters and those
are both eyebrows all complete.
Go ahead take your screenshots.
I've handled the bullying
once, I can do it again.
Let's just be thankful
that there's been quite an
improvement over the last three years.
Here of course we have the original
James Charles sharpie brick eyebrows
and on the side we have the new and
improved sister snatch brow both created
using the brand new
Anastasia dip brow gel.
It'll keep your brows
waterproof, smudge proof
and looking absolutely
fantastic all day long.
If you guys want to check this
out, it is launching online
at AnastasiaBeverlyHills.com
and in stores on March 7th
and it is only retailing for $18
and I totally would recommend.
That took plenty long enough and I never
want to experience that again
so I'm gonna move right
on to the next step
of my routine which is of course going to
be the eyeshadow.
Now for eyeshadow primer, once
again for the third time in
this video I'm gonna go to
the LA Girl Pro concealer
in the shade of porcelain and
I'm just gonna go right in
and paint this on the lid.
This is what I used to do in
every single one of my makeup
looks and then I'm just
going to blend this in
and I'm gonna set that base
in place using some more
Coty Airspun powder on
a dense packing brush
and then for the other side I'm gonna grab
my Mac Paint Pot once again
for a slightly different use
this time and I'm just going
to lay down a generous layer of
this right over top of my
eyelid and I am not going
to set this one with any
translucent setting powder.
Alright you guys so to create
this warm tone smoky eye
that I had on in the original
photo, I'm of course gonna
grab the James Charles
X Morphe iconic palette
and I'm going to basically
use all of the shades
in the middle row but this
video is already getting
very, very long so I'm gonna do the eye
portion off-camera.
Like I said earlier the only
one thing that I didn't have
that much trouble with was eyeshadow.
Of course I've improved my techniques and
gotten better at blending but regardless
I've done so many different videos on
eyeshadow techniques so
I'm gonna cut quickly,
still use the techniques
that I would have used
then versus now and I'll
come back and show you guys
the finished look and
move on to the next step.
All right sisters we're back and I just
completed the eye shadow on
both eyes off-camera quickly.
As you can see the looks are
a little bit different because
I wanted to recreate the
look exactly on this eye.
It is just a little warm tone
half cut crease moment and it looked
like it was a matte shade on the lid and
on this side, I did kind of like a
modernized version if
I was to do a warm tone
half-cut crease, this is
kind of what I think of,
just kind of orange and brownie tones
pulled out into a nice little wing
and then a metallic
glitter right on the lid,
kind of messily placed just
so it reflects in the light
and looks so incredibly stunning
but regardless I think both
eyes with different styles
and techniques still look
really, really beautiful.
That being said, the next step
of both of these eye looks
is a winged liner.
Although drawing a winged liner has never
really changed for me, I
definitely did learn a lot
about where I like to place my wing.
Probably the worst part
of having a thick eyebrows
aside from the hate
comments was the lack of
eye shadow space that it actually gave me
to work with and at the time I obviously
didn't know this but when your eyebrows
taking up half of your eye region and
then are just straight downwards,
it really cuts off a lot of this outside
area that I would now like to use for
blending really big eye shadow looks.
So when it came to drawing winged
eyeliner when I first started,
I really did not have
a lot of room to do it,
so the one mistake that
I made all the time
was drawing my wings
straight out just like that.
Now don't get me wrong drawing your wing
straight out can be a really,
really helpful technique.
In fact, for my sisters
that have hooded eyes,
it is the absolute best way
to draw on a wing eyeliner
and make sure that it is actually seen
but for me as someone who
doesn't have hooded eyes,
drawing your wing straight
out could actually
tend to drive the eye
downwards and especially
with a brow that doesn't have any arch
it's really not helping.
Over on this side, I'm
going to pull the wing liner
much more upwards in the same shape that
I drew my eye shadow in.
Just like the eye shadow
it is two completely
different techniques and styles.
I do honestly think that they
both look really, really good.
This wing turned out better
than I honestly anticipated
but I definitely still
prefer a wing that is
much more pulled up.
I just think it really makes the eye
look so much more snatch and gives it life
whereas this eye just
kind of looks a little bit
more dead and basic in my opinion.
Moving right along, I'm
gonna give both sides of
my lashes a nice curl and then going to
apply a heavy coat of the
Benefit Roller Lash mascara
on the old side and then on the newer side
I'm gonna add a light coat of
the Mac Extended Play mascara.
Now as for lashes, I'm
zooming in on this photo
and it looks like I don't have any on.
I'm not exactly sure
but I do naturally have
pretty long and thick
eyelashes to begin with
so I honestly might not
have been wearing them
considering when I first
started doing makeup
I literally could not put on lashes
without gluing my eyes shut so
I guess I'm gonna be skipping
that on this side of my face today
but on this side I'm gonna
pop on the Lilly Lashes
Miami So Extra.
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Alright guys those are
both eyes all complete
looking beautiful, looking
fabulous on both sides, kind of.
We're going to go ahead
and dust off the bake
because this powder has
been sitting on my face
for literally like too
long now so let's do that.
It is now time to get our
glow on and what is so crazy
is that we're actually going to be using
the same product on both sides of my
face and that is the
Anastasia Beverly Hills
So Hollywood Illuminator.
This is literally the
first highlighter that
I ever bought and I have
stuck with it since day one.
I love this color.
It works so well on my skin tone.
I still reach for it every
single time I do my makeup.
Clearly as you can see
she's seen better days,
but she's still working good as new.
A lot of you guys know
when it comes to applying a
highlighter or metallic
shadow using a tiny little bit
of setting spray can
really make a color pop.
Now when I used to apply highlighter
a very very long time ago I would do
what you're not supposed to do which is
basically drench the brush first,
this is a Morphe M501,
and then dip into the pan.
Well this does apply a very
very blinding and metallic glow,
this can negatively affect
the formula in the pan
because you're basically adding a
setting spray and water to the mixture
where it was not intended to be.
Also when you apply highlighter wet,
it can look really really
beautiful but it can
also look super streaky.
This might not look that
bad on camera but in person
this looks absolutely ridiculous.
I know everybody loves
a good glow and trust me
so do I but it just is not flattering.
I also used to shoot my Instagram photos
in a basement using only a ring light
so I used to have a major problem actually
getting my highlight to
reflect for some reason
and I think that's
probably why I went so ham
on the setting spray
and highlighter before
but regardless let's go in
and highlight the other side
and make it look nice and
pretty the way I do it now.
This time around I'm gonna
grab my setting spray
but instead of spraying my brush first
I'm gonna actually give my
face a good up little spritz.
Once again to kind of melt all the
powders together but also
to give us some wetness
for the highlighter to stick to
and I'm going to be using
the M504 brush this time
which is a little bit
smaller than the M501
I'm gonna dip into the once
again So Hollywood illuminator
getting quite a lot on there
and I'm just gonna apply this
right on the top of the cheekbone
keeping it most intense right here
and then just using any excess
that's left on the brush
to blend it out.
Much prettier in my opinion.
And then I'm just gonna
grab a little bit of Face
from my palette and add that right on top.
Oh that just looks so pretty
and the little of sparkle glitter.
Grabbing a little bit more
Face on that same brush,
I'm just gonna tap it off
so there's not a whole lot
of product on there and
I'm gonna pop a little bit
right above my brow bone for
subtle little highlight here
and then also a little bit on
the top of the chin as well.
My nose highlight has never changed,
just grabbing the M431 and a
little bit more face on the end
of that brush, I'm just
gonna draw a straight line
right down the center and
then a tiny little dot
at the tip for my little
explanation point.
Alright you guys, with our
highlighter being on and glowing
to the Gods we can go ahead and move on
to our last step which
is going to be the lips.
So for both sides of the lips today,
I'm going to using the
Ofra liquid lipstick
in the shade Venice.
This is another one of
those products that I've
been using a since day one and literally
have not find a better version of.
I really, really like the
formula of the Ofra liquid lips.
Now since this photo was
taken a few years ago,
a full disclosure I have had my lips done.
That was a personal choice by me.
It has been well over a year
since I actually did them
though so they are definitely
going way, way down
but they are still nowhere near as small
as they were in this picture so
I'm just gonna go ahead
and apply this lipstick
to the old make up side and
I'm not going to over line
literally in the slightest
bit and then on the newer
side I'm gonna go just slightly outside
of my lip line for a more voluminous look
and we are finally
finishing off of both sides
with a little bit of sister setting spray
to lock it all in place.
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All right sisters, then I think that is my
how I did my makeup then
versus now look all complete.
Oh my gosh you guys it was so much fun
taking a trip down memory
lane and reminiscing
all the old products, tips
and techniques that I used
to use a few years ago.
It's only been three short
years but I am so proud of
the progress that I've
made from this to this.
I do think both sides still
look beautiful in their own way
but I can also happily
admit that three years ago,
I came to the beauty industry
with a whole lot of passion
but also a whole lot of ego as well.
I truly thought I was the best, the best
that I could not get any
better but boy was I wrong.
Practice really really does make perfect
and I am so grateful for every
single one you guys out there
who saw potential stuck
by me and also left
constructive criticism
and that goes for all
my artist friends out there as well.
Thank you guys for always
teaching me new tips and
techniques that I get to
integrate into my routine
and just overall thank
you for inspiring me and
being really cool friends.
I had so much fun doing
this video today and seeing
how my style has changed and what's even
so crazy is that I'm
probably gonna look back
at this video in five years and be like
ew this looks absolutely disgusting but
regardless I hope that all of you
sisters will still be here in the long run
and we can look back and laugh together
and I cannot wait to see where
the makeup industry takes us both.
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Here's to another amazing three
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