- Hi, sisters.
James Charles here.
And welcome back to my YouTube channel.
Oh my gosh, you guys, I am so
excited for today's new video.
Oh my god.
I have not posted an episode of this
in almost an entire year.
And I don't even know why
because this is literally
one of my all-time
favorite videos to film.
Judging by the title, you
already know what is going on.
But today we are mixing my
love of makeup and music
and we are doing an episode
of singing my makeup routine.
In case you have not
seen my other episodes
of singing my makeup routine,
basically, it is a series that I do here
on this YouTube channel
where I go through and do
my everyday makeup routine,
but along the way of each
different makeup step,
my team has selected a few
of the most popular songs
right now that they know I love
and they're going to challenge me,
and I'm going to have to improv my way
through the songs and rewrite them
to the steps of a makeup routine
while doing my actual makeup.
I know it sounds so crazy
to improv about makeup
and it is really, really hard to,
but, of course, that
is the challenge of it
and it makes it so much fun.
And every once in a while I will say
we do get quite an iconic bop.
So, without further ado,
if you would like to see me sing my way
through a makeup routine,
keep on watching.
Quick disclaimer, I am not
claiming to own any of the songs
that are about to be used in this video.
Full rights go to the
respective writers, producers,
and singers of these
songs and proper credits,
as well as links will be listed
in the description box down below.
That being said doing these
parodies is fully protected,
under the parody law and
this is completely legal.
Labels, if you're watching this
and are about to copyright
claim to get your coin,
please don't and contact
my team instead, thank you.
♪ Oh ♪
Alright you guys, I am so
excited for this video,
let's just jump right in
because yesterday I actually
got laser hair removal
on my face and as you can see,
my skin is really, really
not happy about it.
So, I really want to cover it up,
so, let's just jump right in.
I'm going to first start
off by priming my face
using the touch-up silk canvas primer.
- [Gaba] That is actually perfect
because your first song is almost up.
- Already?
For primer number one?
- [Gaba] Yeah.
- Well, this song is number one
so, I thought it would be fitting.
- For the--
7 Rings.
- [Gaba] 7 Rings.
- By Ariana.
- By Ariana Grande.
("7 Rings" by Ariana Grande)
♪ Starting my makeup,
I've gotta prime my face ♪
♪ Choose carefully so it
helps perfect your base ♪
♪ Select pore filling or moisturizing ♪
♪ Rub it all in and apply while I sing ♪
♪ My skin is glowing ♪
♪ And boy, it's showing ♪
♪ My-- ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ This rap is flowing ♪
♪ My skin actually looks awful ♪
Ariana sweetie, I'm sorry, I see it,
I like it. I want it.
♪ I prime it. I prime it. I prime it. ♪
♪ I want it. I prime it. ♪
♪ This rap is awful. ♪
I don't even know where to go from there.
(laughs)
I don't know how to rap.
I'm not a rapper.
You know that song is
number one for a reason.
I feel like we should leave it there
and let Ariana take care of it, probably.
- [Gaba] I think she's
got it under control.
- I think she's a-okay.
Doing just fine.
- [Gaba] Doing just fine.
She saw it and she wanted
it and she definitely got it
and I don't need to try to take it.
("7 Rings" by Ariana Grande)
So, now that my face is
all primed and ready to go,
I'm gonna go with my Too
Faced Born This Way foundation
and today I'm in the shade vanilla.
Maybe, I guess we're gonna find out.
- I mean, not usually, why?
- [Gaba] So, that's like
something you can't go without?
- Yeah.
I would say so.
- [Gaba] Kind of like this video
that you could not make without me?
(Gaba laughing)
- Yeah.
Yes, Gaba, that is correct.
- Why, where are you going with this?
- [Gaba] Do you get it?
Because the next song is
- [Both] Without me.
- [Gaba] By Halsey.
- Okay, clever little segue there.
No need to be shady but, great.
("Without Me" by Halsey)
Cover up my skin and facial hair.
Don't forget your ears, put it up there.
What if this shade isn't a match?
My followers will clock me, count on that.
Blend up my foundation.
Hopefully no oxidation.
Oh my god, who put you up there.
(mumbles) putting on my foundation.
Hopefully no oxidation.
Cover up the texture, gotta be smooth.
A blending sponge is what you should use.
Put on my foundation.
Hopefully no oxidation.
Oh my God, that was good, okay.
(laughing)
- [Gaba] You lost it for a second,
but points back for--
- I did.
- Saving it.
- [Gaba] One, saving it
and, two, rhyming foundation
with oxidation.
- Kinda good.
- [Gaba] Kinda good, kinda fresh.
You love a sister's lying test.
(laughing)
That's what's going on too,
'cause this shade is not matching.
Getting ready for the clock.
("Without Me" by Halsey)
My skin is looking literally so better.
Now, I'm so scared.
This camera is way too HD for this.
Okay, I'm gonna go put on some concealer.
I'm just gonna use the Too
Faced Born This Way concealer.
And the color's snow
because my spray tan's
literally already gone
from a week ago.
I'm seriously so sad.
It's gonna go on right here.
- Already?
- [Gaba] Yeah.
- I guess, okay.
- [Gaba] We're doing Young Blood by
- [Both] Five Seconds of Summer.
- I love this song.
I've been singing it non-stop, but--
♪ Conceal ♪
Okay.
("Young Blood" by Five Seconds of Summer)
Conceal, dark circles, dark circles
How do your eyes cover up those bags
from staying up all night?
Full coverage, full coverage
You're able to hide ooh
Ooh, conceal, dark circles, dark circles
How do your eyes cover up those bags
from staying up last night?
Conceal, full coverage
You're able to hide, whoo, ooh
Wait, is there anymore of that song?
No.
(laughing)
- You picked the song.
Are you kidding?
- [Gaba] It's popular.
- You're setting me up for failure.
Are you kidding?
- [Gaba] It's popular.
I think that was good though.
- [Gaba] You clearly knew it.
It sounded good.
- That song is the bomb.
- [Gaba] I'm still waiting for a best of
singing your makeup routine album.
- You know there have to be like,
you know like best, like good clips
for there to actually be that, yeah.
- [Gaba] I don't know, I think that
there have been some bops.
("Young Blood" by Five Seconds of Summer)
- How did I some how
end up looking lighter
than my neck.
Okay, so, we were all ready to go.
My face is nice and blended out.
My skin is actually
looking a lot better now,
thank god, for a little
full coverage moment.
But now we need to set this in place
with some powder, because
I don't want to look cake-y
and I'm already getting there.
So, we're going to fix it a little bit.
- Already?
You've given me a song for every step
in my makeup routine so far.
I guess that is the point.
- [Gaba] I thought that was the point.
- Okay, yeah.
What's the song?
- [Gaba] Girls like You, Adam Levine.
- Oh
- [Gaba] That should
be, that's an easy one.
♪ Girls like you ♪
- Yeah, I feel like this will be easy.
- [Gaba] Yes, you can do that.
- Okay.
("Girls Like You") by Maroon 5
♪ Bake my face, gotta set in place ♪
♪ In powder born this way, Laura, ♪
♪ Mercy, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Gotta set my face in powder, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Oh, wait.
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Gotta set my face in powder, yeah ♪
Oh, yeah, there is no more to that song.
- [Gaba] Easy, kinda sweet.
- That's really easy.
Okay, this is kinda going good so far.
- [Gaba] No, this is going great.
- Is this going to be
our best episode yet?
- [Gaba] I mean so far.
- Tea.
("Girls Like You") by Maroon 5
- So, my face is baking in place.
We're going to move on to the next step,
which is, of course,
going to be the eyebrows.
I'm gonna grab my Anastasia,
Beverly Hills brow.
Raising the shade medium brown
and I'm going to get
ready to fill them in--
(Gaba laughing)
- [Gaba] There's no one
else to do this step.
- Can I help you?
- [Gaba] You have another song to do.
- For brows?
- [Gaba] Yes, wait, so when
you Facetimed me today,
this song was playing in the background,
and I thought it would be
perfect to put it in this video.
It's Psycho by Ava Max.
- Oh, literally one of
my favorites right now.
- [Gaba] Love them!
♪ Oh, she's sweet but a
psycho, a little bit psycho ♪
- It's so good.
Wait, okay, so for eyebrows.
- [Gaba] For eyebrows.
- Okay.
("Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max)
♪ Let's move on to my eyebrows ♪
♪ Let's do them now ♪
Okay, woah, stop.
First of all, that voice
crack was disgusting.
Second of all, I can do
better lyrics than that.
Let me think.
Okay, I have an idea.
I have an idea.
("Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max)
♪ Let's move on to my eyebrows ♪
♪ We'll lead them out ♪
♪ Use upward strokes and find
your shape with no doubt ♪
♪ Let's fill in my eyebrow
with medium brown ♪
♪ Draw upward strokes so I
don't look like a clown ♪
♪ Trust me. ♪
♪ I've had those days, ♪
♪ but I've changed my ways ♪
♪ and people say finally they look okay ♪
♪ Let's fill in my eyebrows
with medium brown and ♪
(mumbles)
Oh, I lost that at the end.
(clapping)
I feel like it could've
had a better ending.
It was sweet, but a little bit psycho.
That's literally not even funny.
That joke is canceled
right there and then.
("Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max)
My eyebrows look literally horrendous.
("Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max)
I think this is the most uneven
my eyebrows have ever been.
I feel like that is as
good as I'm honestly
really gonna get them.
- [Gaba] Okay, I have
another song for you.
- Yes.
- [Gaba] For eyelashes.
- Okay.
- [Gaba] To High Hopes.
- I don't even know if
I can sing that song.
That song is so high.
- [Gaba] I'll bring it down.
It will be find and it will sound good.
- Shall I have high hopes?
- [Gaba] I have high hopes.
- For my cover.
I don't.
(laughing)
("High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco)
I have to find the key.
Okay.
♪ Popping on a brand new my heavy lash ♪
♪ Use code JAMES to save some cash ♪
♪ Trim it to shorten it
or it'll look like trash ♪
♪ Glue on my eye, eye, eye, eyelash ♪
♪ Eyelash, eyelash ♪
- [Gaba] Sing.
- Is that it?
- [Gaba] Yeah.
- You're picking such short songs today.
- [Gaba] Is that not the whole chorus?
I don't know.
- Well it is.
Yeah, I guess.
We can use that as a little interlude.
- [Gaba] Okay.
- In between the other parts.
("High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco)
I'm really having so much
fun filming this episode.
I feel like because I
know the songs so well
and it's also been like eight years
since we've done the last one.
Like, this is so fun.
I am like already ready for the next one.
- [Gaba] Speaking of the next one.
Thank You, Next.
- Oh, okay, for a little highlighter.
- [Gaba] Okay, wait, actually,
I want you to save highlight
for the grand finale.
So,
- Okay.
- [Gaba] do your lips first
and do Thank You, Next
with lips and then do highlight after.
- Okay.
(laughing)
Okay.
- [Gaba] I'm the boss now.
- I see that, okay.
No, this could be good
'cause there's like lots
of different types of--
I see where you're going with this.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
("Thank You, Next" by Ariana Grande)
♪ Thought I put on a gloss ♪
♪ But I wanted a matte ♪
♪ Could have went to the drug store ♪
♪ But I settled on Mac ♪
♪ Then I called my girl Kylie ♪
♪ Said I needed a lipstick ♪
♪ Drove my Tesla to Jeffrey's ♪
♪ 'Cause his formula's the shit ♪
♪ This gloss is shiny
and this lip is great ♪
♪ Lips can't look tiny
overline them today ♪
♪ And for that I say, ♪
♪ Swatch it, next ♪
♪ Swatch it, next ♪
♪ Swatch it, next ♪
♪ Gotta pick the lip that looks the best ♪
♪ Swatch it, next ♪
♪ Swatch it, next ♪
♪ Swatch it, next ♪
♪ Gotta pick the lip that looks the best ♪
- [Gaba] Alright.
- That was two very mediocre
Ariana covers in a row.
I thought I was really looking forward
to redeeming myself and
it like kind of happened.
- [Gaba] I think you did.
- Well, Gaba thank you,
but I think we should
probably move on to the next.
("Thank You, Next" by Ariana Grande)
- [Gaba] Okay, the grand finale.
I have a very special song
that I know you love picked out.
- For highlight.
- [Gaba] For highlight.
- Okay
- [Gaba] We're gonna do Shallow.
From A Star Is Born.
- Oh, yes.
Literally my neighbors home right now.
- [Gaba] Amazing.
- You're gonna do that big low section
because I'm gonna make you.
- Why?
- [Gaba] Because it's gonna sound great
and I want to hear it.
- Oh God, okay.
So, starting at the bridge then?
- [Gaba] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And then into the final chorus.
- [Gaba] Yes, all about high life.
- Oh, Ally Maine, sweetie,
I'm already so sorry.
Are you kidding me?
Gaga just won an Oscar for this song.
I can't do this.
Okay, good Lord.
("Shallow") by Lady Gaga
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ I'm gonna highlight,
my face will be bright ♪
♪ Gonna glow all night long ♪
♪ Grab some city spray
so it goes on easy ♪
♪ Blend with a final one ♪
♪ Gonna glow ♪
♪ Gonna glow, glow, glow ♪
♪ Gonna glow ♪
♪ Gonna glow all night long ♪
Oh my god, that was good.
That was pretty good.
Okay.
Okay, not Oscar worthy.
- [Gaba] Not quite.
(laughing)
- But also not bad.
Kind of a good grand finale
- [Gaba] I love that for you.
We love a fresh grand finale
- We really, really do.
Alright you guys, my
makeup is all complete
and I believe that is my makeup routine
all completed, fully
in sister song format.
I had so much fun filming
this video today, you guys.
Oh my god. I miss doing
these so, so, so much.
I had to take a little bit of a break
because the charts were
the same for so long.
But so many new songs
have come out recently
that I have been singing
literally non-stop.
Most of which happen to be included
in today's brand new video.
So, I really really hope you guys enjoyed
my little makeup parody versions.
I had so much fun doing this
and if you liked it,
please don't forget to
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It really means so much
and helps me out a lot
and also, leave me a comment down below.
Let me know what song was your favorite.
Also, I'd like to say a
very special thank you
to one of my best friends
in the entire world.
Gaba, for playing the piano
throughout this entire video.
- Hello.
You are a trooper.
Gaba's literally one of
the most talented people
in the entire world.
And also, I don't know if I'm
even supposed to say this.
But--
- You can say it.
- I can?
- Yes.
- Okay, Gaba's literally on
this season of American Idol.
Spoiler alert.
And she is literally so talented,
as you guys can clearly
tell, please check it out.
It airs on March 3rd on ABC
and make sure you look out
for Gaba on American Idol.
Vote for her.
Do your thang.
We have to get her to win.
She's literally the most talented ever.
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♪ Goodbye ♪
