Shadowing Practice: berry spring date night glam | get ready with me - Learn English Speaking with Video

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This is the look that I have been gravitating towards for a night out, date night.
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I am gonna be doing another quick little tutorial today.
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It's just a look that I have been going back to over and over and over again.
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I've just been loving the look of it.
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First things first is always the skincare as usual.
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Road glazing milk.
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I just feel like my makeup never, ever, ever comes out the same.
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And I'm not using this.
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Also, my skin never feels the same when I'm not using this product consistently.
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This has honestly saved my skin this winter.
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I was just in New York for two weeks and it was cold, cold, cold.
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This cream
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Kept my skin so intact
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And I swear It saved me I'm gonna be having a little snack
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while I do this This is an Orgain protein shake I love these things I drank these
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so much when I was pregnant Because they're just yummy and really easy And like a big hit of protein
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Especially on the go I'm gonna start today With the Hourglass Tint This is the hydrating skin tint, the veil.
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And I'm using color 7.
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So I'm going to go in with this
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because I don't want to use a foundation since I'm keeping the skin really, really light.
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It's just light and hydrating.
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It feels really buttery on the skin, which is nice.
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And it blends really beautifully too.
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I also love warming things up on the back of my hand and then applying it with a brush.
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Next, I'm going to go in and do a little bit of contour.
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Something that I've been doing with this that's been fun too is I've been going here, like right from my like eyelid bone out.
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Now I'm gonna use the Hourglass Concealer in fawn i love
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this concealer i've used it many many times talked about it
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many many times i think it has beautiful coverage it's really creamy i think it's really nice and buildable
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so i'm just going back in with the same brush there's
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almost like a little bit of leftover of the skin tint on it
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which helps blend everything really really nicely naturally you can see how everything just kind of melts really beautifully.
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I'm gonna go in with a smaller brush for the under eyes and blend out that contour up here.
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Maybe it's just placebo, but I swear when I put the contour here and pull it out, it really makes a big difference.
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Sometimes when I feel like my concealer under my eyes has maybe already set a little bit
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or I just want to sheer it out the slightest bit, I will take a little bit of the glazing milk like this.
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And it just shears it out like the slightest bit so
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that I can go in and kind of rework it the way that I want to.
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And I don't feel like it messes with the integrity of the concealer.
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I always like to go in and tap things in with my fingers after the fact.
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I'm gonna go in now with the bronzer.
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I'm just using this cream bronzer.
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And I like just warming up around on the cheekbones and just the peripheral of the face a little bit.
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So just bring it down into the neck, behind the ears like this because what we don't want is to be out with a pale neck and a bronzed face.
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Those who know me know I really like to keep things simple.
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I just brush up my eyebrows.
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Next I'm going to start with the blush.
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I'm actually going to be using a new shade that is coming out really soon and I'm really excited about.
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I have been loving this blush.
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It's in the berry family.
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When it's blended out on me it gives this really beautiful like flush of like a fuchsia kind of color.
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So I'm gonna go over top with a powder blush.
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It has like this bit of sheen glow to it it's really nice
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and when i go in with the powder blush i almost like swipe a little bit under my eyes
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so that it like all kind of like the flush all happens here super nice
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and then i'm just gonna go with a little bit of powder this is just a translucent powder.
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I'm going to go under my eyes just really lightly because I still like looking glowy, but I don't like looking greasy.
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It's very subtle, but it does make a difference.
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It helps lock the under eyes in too.
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Before I get into the lips, I'm going to add some freckles, which I love.
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And really, I just go over my natural freckles, but sometimes I add some more.
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It's like a perfect time to blend them out before they get to set.
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I also like to go over my natural beauty marks with it
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because I love my beauty marks and I like enhancing them.
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I'm going to do some mascara and I'm not using a curler
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because what I've been doing is just going right here like on the edges
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because I think it gives this little lifted look that's really pretty.
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so it's really kind of like from the center out this is the hourglass ambient lighting palette usually
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when it comes to powder i actually do go in with this color right here sometimes instead of setting powder
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and i put that under my eyes because it almost has like this hue
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or glow to it that's really really nice so i love that
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I'm also going to take a little bit of highlight and just tap it on my nose.
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Moving on to lips.
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This is Peptide Lip Shape in Twist.
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I really love this color.
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And this is our Lip Contour.
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For me, what I love about these is just like a contour on the rest of your face.
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Same concept, same idea with this, but just for the mouth area, making your lips look more full.
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I really go on the outside and these are creamy and very blendable,
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just like a regular contour stick would be.
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See how it just kind of gives me this really natural pouty kiss of something.
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And then what I also do
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when I want more precision is I will go in with a lip liner
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and what i did with the contours i went over my lip line to give
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that effect of more fullness
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and now i'm going right on my lip line this is a smudger
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but it also has these sharp edges so you can use
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that part to like clean and now i'm gonna take
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that same blush and tap that in just the prettiest pinky berry color
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And the last thing that I've been doing with this specific look,
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going in at the very corner of my eye and just doing the babiest little flick like that.
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Like I'm not even really bringing it in.
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I'm just going from my lashes and pulling it out.
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I just think it makes such a big difference.
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It's just so sexy.
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I love a little wing.
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So I think we are there.
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Show you guys the final look.
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So yeah, this is the look that I have been gravitating towards a lot recently.
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I've been doing this a lot for a night out, date night, and even sometimes in the daytime I just do a more toned down version of this
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and call it a day.
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I really love it.
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I'm showing you in the mirror too.
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well there you have it thank you so much for watching this little tutorial and i will see you next time

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 104 sentences and 1302 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:00. The speaker talks at a natural 163 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
powder noun/ˈpaʊ.dɚ/The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
blend verb/blɛnd/To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
blush noun/ˈblʌʃ/An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
brush noun/bɹʌʃ/An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including…
bronze noun/bɹɑnz/A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
lip noun/lɪp/Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
slight adjective/slaɪt/Minor; small in amount
berry noun/ˈbɛɹi/A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
beautifully adverb/ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/In a beautiful manner.
glow verb/ɡloʊ/To emit heat and light without a flame.
flush verb/ˈflʌʃ/To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
tutorial noun/ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed or convenience.
tone noun/ˈtəʊn/A specific pitch.
finger noun/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other…
naturally adverb/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/In a natural manner.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
go in with verbTo commit to something with; to partner with.
go over verbTo look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
come out verb/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/To be discovered; to be revealed.
brush up verbTo paint, or make clean or bright with a brush.
go back to verbTo stem from; to originate in.
go under verbTo descend into a body of water; to founder.
warm up verb/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/To become warmer.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 49 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: blush /ˈblʌʃ/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, flush /ˈflʌʃ/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
  • Long words — get the stress right: beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, integrity /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/, peripheral /pəˈɹɪf(ə)ɹ(ə)l/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like powder, blend, blush.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going onhave been gravitating · have been going · I've just been loving
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thingskin, which is · Those who know
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a groupthe slightest · the prettiest · the babiest
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowI'm not using · I'm using · I'm keeping

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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