"MAKEUP MAKES ME LOOK WORSE?" Everyday Makeup for Beginners (step by step, mistakes to avoid)

Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel My name is Jessica and today's video is going to be an in-depth beginner's guide to everyday makeup I know I'm really late to this, but I recently started watching "True Beauty" and there's this scene where the protagonist tries makeup for the first time and she shows up to school looking like this It reminded me a lot of when I first started wearing makeup and even though I would follow tutorials, I didn't have the basics down so my brows were too dark, I didn't know which blush tone suited me,

the application was just not right So today I wanted to do a comprehensive "Everything You Need to Know" video so you can find a flattering everyday makeup look for your face But first, if you're new to makeup, a really helpful app to have is Flip Flip is a new beauty app that I'm partnering with today and they're like the ultimate one-stop beauty shop You can scroll through Flip to find honest TikTok-style reviews, discover or stock up on products, or get makeup inspo and tips from Flip's supportive community I personally love using flip when I'm considering

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skin like me I like to use serum to moisturize my skin right before makeup application Serums usually leave a tacky base for your makeup and they're quick-absorbing so you don't have to wait I actually use this as a replacement for primer Primers are meant to prep your skin for makeup and some have specific functions, like skin blurring or pore filling If you use primer, you have to check whether it's silicone or water-based and make sure the foundation you use matches that You can check this by checking the ingredient list and if you see words ending

in these listed in the first few ingredients, then the primer is silicone-based Otherwise, it's water-based If you use a water-based primer with a silicone-based foundation or vice versa, this product separation and pilling will happen For lip prep, I'm using the I Dew Care Glow Easy Nourishing Vitamin C Lip Oil This lip oil has raspberry seed oil in it, which is rich in antioxidants and softens the lips It darkens to a really pretty berry pink, which can become a brighter pink if you layer it I have really dry lips and I've found that this works as

a really good lip mask while I do the rest of my makeup So I'm going to let this sit like a lip mask while we do our base Pump foundation onto the back of your hand and swipe it onto your face like this before blending This ensures you get even coverage over your entire face Remember to check whether the foundation is water-based or silicone based if you use a primer and it's also just really good to check before you buy a foundation because water-based foundations are better for dry skin and silicone-based foundations are better for

oily skin I wouldn't recommend using a brush to blend in your foundation for beginners because it's really easy to make the mistake of not blending fully and leaving behind brushstrokes A beauty sponge will perfectly blend everything in Concealers are thicker, more full-coverage versions of foundation They're meant to target certain areas of your face that the foundation didn't cover completely, like dark circles and blemishes You should use a concealer that's very close in color to your foundation You could also use a concealer that's lighter than your foundation to brighten some areas of your face, but don't

use those for blemishes since they'll create a spotlight effect around the blemish Because concealer is thicker, you want to use very little If you use too much, it'll emphasize texture and cause creasing Powder has a blurring effect and prevents the liquid base from transferring so nothing smudges under your hands when you touch your face Once you set your face with powder, the liquid products won't move, so make sure to blend out any creasing beforehand Dip a brush into the powder and sweep it back and forth against the holes in the packaging to ensure there are

no clumps See how the evenly coated brush softly blurs the foundation? Versus the clumpy powder, which leaves behind patches? Pat it in and swipe it under the eyes This is the best way to get smooth under-eyes if you deal with a lot of creasing And then set any areas that get oily or would come into contact with something else so you don't leave a stamp of foundation on anything Next for contour, you want to make sure that you're using a shade that looks cool-toned on you A lot of beginners will mistakenly use a bronzer as

a contour shade Unless you have really, really warm undertones, you're going to want to use something more cool-toned so it looks more like a realistic shadow 'cause shadows in real life, they don't usually look like brownish red So in the past, I would make the mistake of doing a 3 shape here, which is just the standard that everybody knew Like, that's what was taught by all the makeup artists, but you want your contour to enhance your natural features Don't follow what other people are doing to contour their face Everybody's face shape is different and what

looks good on other people might not look good on you This step is going to look different for everybody, but for beginners, I don't think you can go wrong with just a simple jawline contour Blush can be used to add color back into your face and it also contours your face, depending on placement So in the beginning, you saw me apply it here, right? And this is where people used to tell you to apply it, but you can see if you apply it here, it can really drag your face down It's not very flattering, in

my opinion What I do now is I apply it right on top of my cheekbones When I first started with makeup, I didn't think blush was an essential, but now it's a part of my routine that I cannot skip It makes a huge difference–you can see after we added the shadows here, you look like a little bit dead, right? There's like, not really much color going on in your face because of the cool tones so adding some color back into here, it helps create a sort of a transition into the cool tones; the shadows And

then you can apply a little bit of blush to the tip of your nose The type of brush you use to contour your nose is actually very important The brush should be dense, small, and have a flat side like this I'm going to start from my brow bone and then you can start blending it down a little bit and then I'm going to move on to the tip of the nose Next, I'm taking my sponge and blending it in And then I'm going to take the Charlotte Tilbury finishing powder This has a little bit of

pigment to it, so I like to use it to clean up the sides of my nose contour Finally, the most important step of nose contour is actually the highlighting part Use a small precision brush to apply highlighter to the very tip of your nose If you apply highlighter all over the tip of your nose, it's going to make it look shiny, but it won't contour it So what you need is you need to apply it using a very small brush You can lightly diffuse it; just make sure that the very center of it is the

brightest And then sometimes, I also like using it on the bridge of my nose The three main types of eyeliners are brush tip, felt tip, and pencil Brush tip is best used for sharp, precise lines, but it isn't as pigmented as felt tip Felt tip is great for high pigment and thick lines, and pencil is the best for smooth lines I would recommend beginners use brown pencil liner over black eyeliner The reason being, this is a lot easier to clean up if you make mistakes than black eyeliner Here's a comparison between cleaning up black and

brown eyeliner If you make a mistake with black eyeliner, it'll smudge and smear, which will mess up your foundation Brown pencil is just a lot easier to use and is very suitable for everyday makeup since it's just a little bit softer So if you're not familiar with eyeliner, just create a very thin line here For an everyday look, I also like to blend out my eyeliner with a brown eyeshadow Then take a very small brush Doing this makes the liner look cleaner while covering up any mistakes Do you see how easy it was to do

winged liner? It's very intimidating when you think about it with black eyeliner or with just one product, but already with just the pencil and eyeshadow combined, you can see it creates a really nice shape So at this point, you can use a liquid liner to make it sharper if you'd like And then, this next step is very important and as a beginner, you think it doesn't really make a difference, but it actually makes a huge difference And that's lining your lash line You can see how, between my liner and my pupil, there's a little gap

We need to fill that in So for the lash line, I use a felt tip liquid liner I recommend using a felt tip liner here because felt tip doesn't have tiny little hairs or brushes that can poke, or maybe like, irritate your eyes going back and forth And then take your pencil liner and line the waterline And then some people might not like winged liner for every day, or you might not like it for your eye shape In that case, you could just do the regular diffused liner and then not create the sharp line We're

going to do the under-eye makeup now I'm just adding some shadows to the lower lash line and then using a brown eyeshadow, I'm going to emphasize the outer corner And then let's do the little under-eye fat look Under-eye makeup is popular in East Asia and uses contour and highlighter to imitate the look of smiling eyes It's usually referred to as aegyo sal and emphasizes the area around your eyes, which gives a subtle eye-enlarging look But a really common mistake people make when drawing their aegyo sal is they use the bottom of their eye socket as

a guideline This looks really unnatural because it's not where the shadows naturally fall when you smile If I squint slightly, this is the entire under-eye fat area We can see where the area sticks out the most That's the area where the under-eye fat is the chunkiest, so when the light hits it, everything above it should be highlighted and everything underneath it should be a shadow This is what the aegyo sal looks like if we follow that guideline But now, let's go back to the outline The most common mistake is people use the bottom of the

entire section of eye fat as a guide, highlight and shadow in the bottom, [and] it'll look like this Of course, this is all based on personal preference, but I find this less flattering and I think it imitates eye bags rather than smiling eyes I'll show you what they look like back-to-back so you can compare Next let's curl our lashes Curling your lashes opens up your eyes since it makes your lashes point up When you curl your lashes, it's not like you just clamp it and then you're done Clamp once, release, and then sort of lifting

it, curl the next section Again, release and then curl the top section This creates a natural C curl shape and then this step is optional, but I like to curl my lower lashes as well How you do this is you take the lash curler, hook it underneath your eye, and then move it up And once it gets to the bottom of your lashes and you can see that it'll lodge in between them, that's when you clamp down A mistake I used to make is I used mascaras that wouldn't work for me and I just thought,

like, "Oh, it's just supposed to coat my lashes", so my lashes would always look heavy; they would never hold a curl So now what I do is, I only use Asian mascaras which are made to hold a curl for really straight stubborn lashes These are my two favorite Asian mascaras Both are made to hold a curl, but the CLIO Kill Lash Long Curling is lighter, while the Etude House Lash Perm Curl Fix is thicker and more volumizing Pinching the lashes together helps separate them and remove clumps My favorite lower lash mascara is the L'Oreal Telescopic

Carbon Black Mascara This mascara's heavy and really good at separating your lashes We actually want the lower lash mascara to be heavy so it can weigh down the lashes and make them look longer Now for eyebrows, I've actually struggled a lot with my eyebrows in the past I had a dipbrow phase, and then even when I started using brow pencils, I made the mistake of doing a line here, a line here, and then just trying to spoolie it through If you do that, your brows are going to look very unnatural So what I do now

is I use a very fine-tipped brow pencil, and then just create hair-like strokes at the front And then use the spoolie end to diffuse them slightly I leave the middle of my brows alone It's all about knowing where you actually need the pencil So here, I feel like my brows look pretty thick, so I'll just go to the tail end and then create the shape Using the spoolie just diffuses everything, so it doesn't look like there are any harsh lines so you can see now, it just looks like a very natural brow shape Finally, let's

move on to lips I'm just going to over line my cupids bow In the past, I made the mistake of overlining all of my lips Personally for me, I think it looks almost clownish when I do that A lot of people have said that overlining makes them look like they have a mustache, and that's the issue, is you're overlining your entire top lip You need to be selective with where you're overlining and then I bring it back to my natural lip edge, swipe it up at the end There are many types of lipstick formulas, and

each have their own benefits, so everyone has their own personal preference I prefer soft matte liquid lipsticks since they blur your lips, but the con is they don't last very long Not all nude lipsticks are going to look good on you There are some that are too warm-toned, some that are too cool-toned, and what you see that looks really good on somebody else might look very different on you so you want to choose something that matches your skin tone and undertones I'll show you a few lip swatches of different nude lipsticks on my skin tone

So this is my perfect nude It just looks like a good everyday lip color Make sure to blend out the edges of your lips slightly This helps with the soft blurred lip look and it helps mask any application mistakes or uneven lining And that's it for this beginner everyday makeup look Thank you so much for watching; I hope this video was helpful If you want me to go more in-depth on any of the steps mentioned, like brows or blush, then let me know, and I will see you in my next video! Bye!