Hi Sisters! James Charles here and welcome back to my youtube channel.
For today's video we're gonna be doing something so crazy that no beauty guru has ever
done before and that none of us really like to talk about and that is face tuning.
You guys know I'm definitely the self-proclaimed queen of face tune.
Let's be real I am very very very good at it, and if you guys see me on Instagram
you would know that a sister loves a good tune.
I just really really love a photo editing and in my opinion as long as you're not editing makeup actually on,
photo editing and retouching is just as much of an art as actual makeup itself.
I've literally become so known for face tuning at this point that not only do I edit my own photos
but so many different Instagram celebrities and youtubers that you guys all know and love.
I will not release any names.
But also send me their photos to edit too,
so half the time that you guys are seeing a really bomb photo on Instagram,
especially if it involves makeup, probably went through me first.
As well, though I also always get a ton of questions from you guys about different editing tips, tricks and techniques
and a few days ago I tweeted on Twitter asking "what if I did a video where I edited you guys's selfies and it got like a
40,000 likes or something absolutely crazy so for today's video I tweeted asking you babes to send me your
Unedited makeup selfies &  something that you want fixed and call me crazy, but I'm gonna facetune your guys' selfies
Just a quick little just disclaimer before we get really into this video if you're someone who does not believe or enjoy photo editing
Please do me a favor and click the little *mouth pop* X button right up here
We do not need you here, and I definitely do not want any annoying comments this video is just for fun
I want to make it very clear that like I said beforehand
I view photo editing as just as much of an art form as actual makeup itself
But I will never actually edit makeup on when you're taking selfies
there's a lot of different variables that can really affect the final photo such as lighting the environment that you're in the angle that the
Photo was taken in and the actual camera you're using so what I'm editing pictures
I only like to make the selfie that already exists a little bit better using photo editing techniques
But I never will actually add makeup on
And I never change my face to where I'm not recognizable anymore for me personally you guys know
I love a good facetune moment and I am very very open and honest about the fact that my photos are all very very
edited
But at the same time you guys see me on YouTube every single week
Unedited and raw and also on snapchat and Instagram stories all day long and a lot of you met me in person, too
So it's not like I'm really trying to hide anything
There is nothing wrong with fixing any
Insecurities and making your highlight really pop in a photo or making your eyeshadow colors a little bit more vibrant as long as you're not
Crossing any lines and as long as you're open and honest about it so without further adieu all that is out of the way
Let's jump into the video
All right guys, let's jump right in. The first response
We have to this tweet is sister Gabriel Zamora another fellow Beauty influencer, and he said, "can you fix my flashback?"
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No unfortunately if this were fixable I wouldn't have had this scandal in the first place
Okay, so seriously now for the first time sister Zoe said "fix my nose, please and thanks"
And she sent in this selfie right here Wow a sister looks beautiful and snacthed. Let's go ahead and snatch this nose up just a little bit more.
Alright, so let's go ahead and open the photo in facetune and we're first gonna start off with a sister reshape
Skinnier than Mariah
So first what I want to do is go ahead and take the smooth tool
And I want to go over all over sister Zoe's skin to kind of create an even base all throughout especially when it comes
To it the nose region. Usually you guys know I like to just half everything in because if it looks too smooth it looks very
Very fake and crusted and busted and they're gonna get clocked real fast for sister tuning and even though I like
To edit my photos the house down boots
I like to look them as real as possible
Next I want to do is grab the tones tool and then grab picker and I want to pick the lightest tan color
Right on the center of her cheek, and I'm gonna go back to tones
and then I'm going to lightly tap on this light tan color all around her cheek area and
Onto the side of Zoe's nose bridge so next I want to do is go back into tones
I've got the picker and then I'm gonna take a dark kind of brown shade and I'm gonna pick it right from Zoe's contour over
Here, and I'm gonna use this color to now sketch in a new nose bridge
If that makes sense so basically you guys know when I like to contour my nose because I definitely have a very very large
Sister schnoz that I like to sister snatch that was a lot whoa
And the closer you draw the two lines together the smaller your nose is going to look
I'm gonna go back into Zoe's nose with this dark brown color
And I'm gonna sketch in two nose contour lines and obviously this is gonna look very very intense, but we're gonna blend them out
So now that we turned poor Zoe into an anteater here
I'm gonna grab the eraser tool, and I'm gonna lightly tap over those two lines to soften everything out and
Make it not look absolutely crazy
And then once again smooth tool to kind of blend everything out so now that we have the contours and the brightness built
in we definitely need to add some highlights to really provide a
Contrast and finish off this sister nose snatch. What I want to do is grab the tones tool
Once again as you can see this is a very very similar theme all throughout
and I'm gonna go to palette right over here
And what I want to grab for Zoe's skin tone is a shade right in between yellow and orange
very, like, gold-y shade and then right up at the top
I want to drag this color picker to like an off-white type of color
Then I'm gonna go right in and tap right on the tip of the nose
And then kind of right down the bridge focusing it mostly right in between the eyebrows
All right guys are we ready for the iconic before and after? *gasp* here we go. Before and
After ooh
Literally so good. It looks like she can barely even breathe
You guys know that it's always my goal when it comes to editing my nose contour
and as well nose contour is one of those things that is very much affected by lighting sometimes it can look really really bomb in
The right lighting and sometimes if you're in very shadowed lighting it can look literally at the worst, so
I just fixed up Zoe's nose nice and good, made it sister snatched
And I think she will definitely love this and for all of you guys out there if you're like me and you're on a budget
Saving for a sister house that is how you get a rhinoplasty with facetune
Let's move on to the next sister selfie, Zoe obviously wanted work with her nose done
Hello? Literally same, girl. So I'm going to move on to somebody else who wants a different feature fixed
Ooh, okay, this tweet is from sister Emily
And she says, "I wore my makeup for an hour when this photo was taken the foundation was a little bit splotchy
But the vibrancy in the eye shadow isn't as much as I want it. Also do anything to make it look less rough."
Literally me with every selfie ever and she attached this photo of herself. Oh, my god. Hello girl
You look so beautiful your eyeshadow looks amazing it looks like this is actually a recreation of my coachella look so definitely down to help
A sister out with this let's pull this into facetune and see what we can do so in this photo Emily said that her foundation
Was a little bit splotchy but in my opinion. I think it looks really really beautiful and very natural-looking
I definitely want to focus in on the eyes for this because she said that she wishes the eye shadow was a little bit brighter
and more pigmented
So I'm just gonna zoom right in and when it comes to working with the eyes the first thing that I always like to do
Is do it the details tool.
I'll just tap a little triangle right down here
And then I'm gonna go in and lightly tap over both of the eyes this really brings up the saturation
It makes the black of the eyeliners definitely darker makes the eyes pop a little bit and just makes the eyes in general more
eye-catching if that makes sense
whenever I'm editing an eye shadow especially colorful look on facetune,
I always like to do it in the same exact order that I would apply it in. So for this
I'm
Assuming because I did this as well that she started off with the colors in the crease so what I want to do is
Grab the tones tool right down here, and I'm gonna start off with the right
Eye, or I guess her left eye hello, and I'm gonna grab a yellow tone first
And I'm gonna grab it right over here
And I'm just gonna start off by lightly tapping right in that region then I'm gonna go right in with orange
tapping it right next door
Same thing with the red
Right next door as well, and then already it's looking so much brighter
But let's be real, it definitely looks a little bit fake right now
So I'm assuming she was going for a half cut crease so what I'm gonna
Do is grab the eraser tool and zoom
way in and I'm gonna lightly scrub over that crease region to make sure that it still looks nice and
Cut and then I'm gonna zoom out and lightly tap over that entire eye to keep the shadow that we've blended in
but only make it like
50% there, if that makes sense so it's just a little bit of a boost but not to the point where it's like fake and looks
Like a literal rainbow on the eye
So before I go into the eraser tool just like I did on the other eye
there's one a really important thing that I want to note that I catch myelf personally doing all the time and is a
Major major major major facetune no no that is gonna
Give away the fact that it's edited real quick so whenever you're taking a selfie like sister Emily or like me, if you turned
Your head to the side, and you take a selfie of course we get that good jawline we got that good highlight
But whatever eye is facing away from the camera is
Never going to be as bright as the other eye because there isn't light hitting it
So you can help it out a little bit
But definitely be careful and use it at your own risk
So as you can see
Before and after before and after definitely helped out the pigmentation a little bit without going insane like we've done the other
Eye
I think I'm happy with that so next in this makeup tutorial if I'm remembering correctly I cut the crease using concealer and then glitter and
assuming Emily did the same exact thing so I want to make that glitter on her lid a little bit brighter if you
Zoom in as
You can see it right here on the lid you can see that she has some specks of light
Which tells me she did put a glitter there, but the lighting she was in didn't exactly pick it up
So let's bring it back a little bit
I'm first gonna grab the tones tool once again go into palette and a light yellowy
Kind of orange shade and go all the way over to the left and an off-white and then I'm gonna sketch that in
right in between
the lashes
A really important technique when you're facetuning is always to tap things in, as opposed to scrubbing it on especially when it comes to eyeshadow
Stuff because if you're wearing lashes the last thing that you want to do is cover up those lashes with whatever fake glow you're putting
On because it's gonna look really really fake and really really bad
I think I'm definitely happy with that and it made the lid much nicer and brighter
Definitely the glitter looks like it's actually there now and while we're still on that kind of a light yellowey
White shade, just like I did on sister Zoe with the nose snatching
I want to add a little bit of that shader right here into the inner corner to make her inner corner highlight a little bit
Brighter and then same thing right up here on the brow bone
to really intensify that highlight and add a little bit more contrast and attention to the eye once again eraser tool
just lightly tapping over that and
That looks so snatched
Similar to real eyeshadow, the last step of editing is what's going to be the blacks or the dark shades
And you always do this to make sure nothing gets really really muddy. Gonna grab tones one last time and grab a black and zoom all
The way in and I'm just gonna start lightly packing this right into the crease to kind of add a little bit more dimension
onto the outer corner
And then as well right underneath that eye region
Because as you can see there's a little bit of lightness in her crease that she probably did not want there and then tapping in
And clearly that looks a little bit crazy and ridiculous
So once again grabbing the eraser tool and just lightly tapping over everything to keep a little bit of that dimension
By just erasing it, so it still looks a little bit natural and last
but finally not at least when it comes to editing the eyes at this step is totally optional
I personally love to do this in all my photos
It's really what gives me that doll like look that a lot of you guys love. It's going to be to brighten the actual
Eye, so in this photo Emily has beautiful bright blue eyes, but clearly she's wearing a pretty big lashes and black eyeliner
So they did get a little bit lost inside what I want to do is grab the tones tool once again
And I'm gonna dip into a kind of like an aqua shade then zoom into the pupils
And I'm just gonna kind of place that color right in the bottom and a little bit of a rounded
U-shape there it is girl, so good. Hello. She's literally staring into my soul. Love that.
then of course eraser tool, tap over it so it's not too intense and too scary alright
I think we're ready for before-and-after numero
dos let's go ahead and take a look at what we were able to do to Emily's rainbow eyeshadow look we have the before and the
after. literally so cute as you can see we do not actually edit any makeup on just edited
What was already there to make it a little bit more intense more vibrant more eye-catching
And I think this looks so beautiful and so stunning and this is actually like the same exact
I think that I used to edit my Coachella rainbow makeup look photo
so how do you guys recreate the look try this out and try any of these techniques with your eye shadow looks I guarantee it'll
Make your makeup look so much more beautiful and so much more pop in it for your sister selfies alright guys
So let's see who our next victim is that we already did a nose Kandra and also the eye region
So I think I next what I focus on skin you're kidding hello, Britney J
Said give me a stat shows and a blinding highly. Also. This was a recreation of one of your looks
You guys are all so pretty and talented what?
The huh oh here's this going to be okay Leah said, can you fix my skin, please sister make it look snaps, let's see
Hello it literally already is - okay
I'm not gonna help her
but this does bring up a really good point that I actually want to mention when it comes to editing skin and once again and
This is saying that I catch myself doing a lot
What are the biggest no-nose of face to ever is over editing the skin?
There's this smooth tool
And there's a super smooth tool moving can only go so far obviously it always like to start out with the smooth tool
Just lightly tap over everything to kind of even out the base
I personally love the look of a little bit of skin texture
Even if there's a few imperfections in there because I think it makes the photos look a lot more raw and a lot more real
And if you're editing a lot more believable, okay, let's see who we can actually help out here. Hello, okay?
This is a selfie from a sister anarchy. I love her. I follow her on Twitter. Hey girl
What's up, and she sent me this beautiful host makeup selfie with this beautiful penguin on it
Hey, girl, loved that and she actually gave us a no comment
So I want to take this healthy bird and focus on the skin because there's a few things that I want to change to make
This photo just a little bit better all right
So we have this photo up and ready to go and the first step is always going to be the smooth tool
She literally has almost perfect skin
But she does have a few blemishes right here on the cheek that we can definitely get rid of super easily
I'm gonna grab the patch tool like duct go right over the pimple area and then bring it to an area right next door in
The contour just to get rid of it and click the checkmark and bam gone wow so easy is so beautiful
Can I go right over this same exact thing click the little check mark wow blemishes
Never heard of them for me personally when I'm editing photos if I have a really bad pimple
That's always the absolute first thing to go
I'm very very insecure about my acne, and I know a lot of you guys out
There are as well, but if you're able to rock your acne and feel beautiful and confident with it
Go you at major props unfortunately for myself cannot say the same
But if any you guys want to know how to edit it out patch tool
That's how so now we go back into our normal regular routine a cell going the sister a smooth tool
just to kind of blend everything together and just give you a nice and even base as you can see here if I click the
Before and after it still keeps a lot of that skin texture and a lot of the dimensions of her face
but it does blend out some of those harsher areas and contours making everything look really really beautiful and more smooth so much of the
Eye shadow I now when I grab the details tool
And I want to just detail over any features such as the eyes the eyebrows and the lips because of course we did it without
The skin and I don't want to lose any of that and dimension and I was time for the tone school
And this is literally like my all-time
Secret to getting a perfect skin and freeze to it can't believe I'm about to give you guys this full-on secret
But to her welcome. I love doing charity work. I'm gonna grab the tone tool, and I just want to even out
Anarchies skin tone and then a recontour it so it looks literally
So incredibly statue all about to be so shot gonna grab the picker tool
And I'm gonna grab this kind of light ish yellow shade or right here underneath her
Eye, and I'm gonna use that and tones, and I'm going to kind of brush that over this entire region
Do not change the color, I'm gonna grab that same exact shade of yellow
And I'm gonna pop that right in the center of her forehead
Right over her upper lip region as well if you're like me and you're a man you probably have a 5 o'clock shot off that
If you're like anarchy
And you have beautiful big lips usually your lip tends to flip up which gives a natural shadow in this region so sometimes
It's really good to put a highlighter there to kind of counteract that so it doesn't look like a really weird and gross 5 o'clock
Shadow that most of us probably
Do not want I'm also gonna pop a little bit of this yellow right here right kind of on the jaw line
region or right in between like this
Contour area, and then similar to every other process so far
I'm gonna grab the eraser tool
And I'm gonna lightly tap over that entire region to keep the color that I just added but make it a little bit less intense
So it's not like the most and like literally bright yellow
Okay, so we just highlighted and our key space by adding a lot of yellow all around
but she is a woman of color and the last thing that I want to do is lighten her skin tone or give her a
Flashy moment that is so not the move for today
So now I want to counter act those highlights by a contouring a little bit
I'm gonna grab the tones tool once again
And we're gonna grab a shade  kind of on the outer perimeter of her face right up in here by her hair
And I want to use that brown shade with the tones tool to kind of add in and intensify a little bit of those contours
To really bring a lot more dimension back
So I'm gonna place that right in the hollows of her cheekbones
kind of right along her nose bridge similar to sister Zoe from before hand and
also right up in that hairline region to make that forehead look nice and
Snatched when you're editing - before you go ahead and save or erase anything
It's really important to check the little blue button down here and select your before and afters to see where your color actually is as
You can see right here
I accidentally put a little bit of brown it and anarchy's hair, and I definitely did not want that there
So we're gonna have the eraser tool and just go right over at that region because if that looks like crusted busted
And I actually have some brown up here as well this contour looks absolutely beautiful once again like I said
I'm gonna take the eraser tool though
And kind of soften it a little bit because let's be real it's looking a little bit harsh
And I don't want her to look crusted just a little bit more chiseled
Alright guys, I think we are ready for our before and after sister anarchy ready here. We go we have the before and
BAM the after oh my god, literally, so it's not as you can see it by using the tones to it and the details
Too and the smooth tool you're able to really even out that skin tone and make it look so much more smooth while still keeping
all of the different highlights and contours and looking beautiful and defined these are the techniques that I use in all of my photos to
Get beautiful skin, so hopefully you guys were able to follow that and it was a little bit complicated
But I think anarchy is going to absolutely love this alright sister, so those are three photos of you guys all completely edited
We started off with this is your nose contour eye shadow and then also skin off through
And I feel like that had all of the different points that really go into my face tuning routine
But this video would only be fair if now I have to face soon
Myself and tell you guys what am I before afters? I done this a few times before, but let's be real
I definitely face tune a lot
So I thought it'd be fun to kind of look through some of the photos that I've been taking recently and show you guys what?
It takes to go from a regular photo to Instagram ready
Let's go through a camera roll and find a good and fresh sister Instagram a selfie
So that's you can see of 8201 photos
I definitely need to go through and clean those up soon a lot of them are a selfie, okay
I have these always from a Shake Shack a few days ago. I took them while I was eating fries
I've been in fresh photo shoot. Let's see
Of course you get to pick up the one that I want first and there's
A lot of them. Oh my god the lighting and Shake Shack is literally the worst. Hello wait that's not hate Shake Shack
I love you, please sponsor me, okay
I just go through all these and the bad lighting and the bad outfit choice not exactly my favorite not even gonna lie
but I think that I finally decided on this photo to
Possibly be grammed don't even know might be doing this editing all for nothing
But I'm gonna pull this one right in to face suit, and I'm gonna show you guys the full-on process
I'll get a speed through this because it's nothing gonna be a lengthy process, but you guys get to watch enjoy
Literally 20 minutes later that was ugly a long visioning process
But this photo had a lot of saving to do let's be real
And I probably will even go back into this later on and I think I'm ready to show you guys this iconic
sister James Charles Instagram ready before and after ready we have of course the before that you guys all saw and
one two three BAM
the after
Hello
There was definitely a lot that I wanted to do if we look at the before and afters as if idli on the base
Yeah, sister needed a little bit of work
There was this really weird and very very dark line going down the entire side of my face
I have no idea what that was I'm assuming. It was a shadow from either like a windowpane or something lord knows
That's not usually there at least I hope not
I did do a little bit of reshaping and you guys know I'm very very insecure about the size of my forehead so
Brought her down just a little bit and then for the most part
I just evened out my skin tone using the same techniques that we used on sister anarchy slim down the nose
But just a little bit using the same techniques
We used on sister Zoe and then detailed the eyes like we did on sister Emily that was super simple then I finished it off
Using a not so simple filter
It does add a really really cool effect, and I think that that is it the finished photo
And I really like how this turned out I was a little bit spooked at first not gonna lie
But I think this might be Instagram ready maybe
Erase sisters that is only half for this videos today and not even gonna lie
I just had so much fun for the past few hours editing all these pictures base hitting is on my all-time favorite pastimes
So hopefully you guys all watch us to learn some helpful and do it tips and tricks that you can use next time you're editing
Your Instagram pictures, I want to say a major
Thank you - Zooey Emily and anarchy for all sending in their unedited photos today
It sounds kind of cheesy to say
But honestly post an unedited photo online these days is very
Very very brave you guys know like I was talking about earlier
Literally everybody edits their photos at this point and it's something that I really really love to do hopefully learn some helpful tips and techniques
And you guys get to see that. I never really like to edit on makeup, but really change myself much
I just like to edit and enhance what's already there to take your photo
So I'm pretty good and really really beautiful to like literally the best ever have everybody shaking and having wigs
Snatched left and right also side note that I've been thinking about this entire video like I just think beforehand
It is obviously okay to edit to fix any insecurities that you may have or just to make your photos look really Bob
But it is so important that you guys love yourselves
Love your bodies and love the person that you are and of course if you want to change that it's a very very personal decision
But you should definitely not rely on face tune to be someone that you were absolutely not as I was looking through all the pictures
That you guys sent in today
I was
Continuously stuff like every few seconds of how beautiful you all are of how talented
You are and I just want to say if cheesy moment that I do
Love you, and you guys are all so incredibly beautiful, and this video was 100% strictly all for fun
Please do not go crazy with these tips and techniques
I just want to show you guys a little bit more about what I do, but it is important to love yourself
I love myself with or without face to reshape the tones to all the details tool to smooth tool and everything in between
And I really hope you guys do as well all that being said if you guys enjoyed today's a brand new video
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