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Hi Vogue, it's Daisy Edgar-Jones, and I'm gonna take you through my skincare and makeup routine for whenever I need my makeup to last the full day.

I usually begin the day by journaling.

I set it up at the start of every year, so I'm quite proud of this year.

I did my little hello 2026, and I give myself like a theme for the year.

So it's, today it's seek joy in all that you do.

This is quite controversial, but I actually like to begin the day with a chamomile tea.

I know it's meant to make you feel sleepy and it's good for nighttime, but I get so anxious that I find if I'm feeling a little bit nervous or a bit flustered before the day,

a chamomile tea is like the best thing to just reset and feel like peaceful.

I have very sensitive skin and had acne my whole

teenage life and the only thing that didn't irritate my skin was this La Roche-Posay so I love it, I'd highly recommend.

Just a couple pumps.

I hum to myself all the time it's a really good self-regulator so

if you hum to yourself it's your like way of going

like I'm doing good next I use advanced night repair I

absolutely love this product I use it every single day night and day when I'm on flights throughout the day on set.

I find it so moisturizing and I love how it smells.

It kind of allows makeup to sit better and smoother

but it's just so hydrating and it feels like a load of self-care when you put it on.

My mum used to wear this so it like smells really nostalgic to me

and I now feel very much like a woman that I put on Advanced Night Repair.

I actually find using my fingers to massage the same way you would with a gua sha, I feel like you can kind of get in there a little bit more.

These are the Flash Patch by Patchology, and they're so lovely.

They've got a bit of caffeine in just to brighten up your day.

Sometimes I had a little bit of the advanced night repair

under my eyes before I put the patches on just to get extra hydration.

I don't know if this is the right way, but 2016 is back in fashion, so yo-mo.

In 2016, I was finishing my final year at college.

I really remember work by Rihanna being a big theme of that year.

and also that Drake song, One Dance.

Actually, I went to a party that was like everything lost in 2016

and I went dressed as a toe blurone because they changed the shape of a toe blurone.

Next, I always ask for these on set because they're so lovely and often, like I just did a job where I had to get up at 4am every day and I was like,

I need my baubles or whatever these are, my spoons.

these are really cold i had extremely bad acne for most of my teenage years i have endometriosis

so my hormones are kind of all over the place um

but i found over the years like skincare that really works for me

but i also like find like drinking lots of water and

when i eat well especially when i try

and not eat as much dairy that really helps when i had

that terrible acne it was all i could see

when i looked in the mirror but actually when i look back at you know photos and videos, it's funny that so much of the beauty of you, you know, the inside and how much you,

you know, the confidence that you wear can really help.

So I would say to anyone with acne, I know it's all you can see, but it's not what everyone else can see.

Hey, the whole cheek needs to be moisturized.

So if these are traveling, that's not too bad.

Okay.

I think I am officially spooned.

I love La Roche-Posay, it's so simple and so lovely.

Endometriosis, yeah, I found out, I was diagnosed when I was, I think I was 24.

For so long I had such painful periods and really, you know, volatile skin.

I was definitely relieved to find out why I was going through it.

Next, sunscreen.

This is amazing.

I went to Seoul on a press tour and I went into a shop and I bought, I've got about 50 of these.

I live in London, so it's pretty much gray the whole time.

So I never realized I had to wear sun cream, even on gray days.

But from watching these videos and working with people, now I'm very good at putting it on every day.

This is the best and you can use it day, night, overnight.

Do you like the little spoon that it comes with?

I'm gonna try it.

Yeah, I love this.

This is the vanilla one.

Okay, we're going into makeup.

I'm thrilled because I often leave the house

and don't have time to go back and I wanna know that my makeup's gonna last all day.

So this is my makeup that will last day to night through a whole festival.

I mean, you don't even have to wash your face, might even last four days.

Okay, first step, foundation.

This is the Estee Daughter Double Wear.

Okay, I love this foundation so much.

It lasts all day.

It's super easy to blend and use and wear, and you know that it's gonna last.

My favorite festival in the whole world is Glastonbury.

It is so magic there.

I've been three times and it's just, it's my favorite place on earth.

I had to sing in a film recently and I have not done much singing.

So I did a lot of vocal warmups, which are not to be shown in public, but sometimes to take half an hour doing a makeup tutorial is like the best time to do a vocal warmup.

So it's a bit like, Next is my contour.

I love these contour sticks.

This is something I always get makeup artists I work with to teach me.

So my makeup artist, Jo, who's amazing, she put a little here.

She was like, that's intriguing.

And then obviously on the nose.

I haven't done this myself, but neatly, but.

I love learning about makeup through different characters I play.

When I did Normal People, that was the most, that was so fun because it was spanning over four years of someone's life from like, Marianne, when we meet her at school is like, wears nothing.

And then when she gets to college, she kind of starts to play a little bit more with her makeup.

And I remember them teaching me ways that they were gonna place blush to make me look younger.

So when I was playing young Marianne, the blush was kind of all throughout, you know, when you're young and you're, you know, shy or embarrassed and you sort of flush all over your face,

which actually I quite like doing just in my life.

I kind of love that flushed look.

I then go in after I do that kind of contour with the Mario, I use this Sicily bronze stick to kind of warm up the rest of my face.

So this is a number five phyto blush.

And I tend to just use it like a blusher, just to give an overall kind of warmth to the whole look.

I usually do on my cheeks, I do kind of where the sun would hit, and then I bring it down and across my neck and over the bridge of my nose.

And I love this Double Wear Concealer.

Just like the foundation, it stays in place all day.

So I usually dot here.

Then I use this little brush just to blend it.

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My makeup artist, Jo, has this makeup brand called Bake Up, and this is the best eyeshadow palette ever because it's so little, and you can just put it in your wallet, but they're just the best nudes ever.

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I just use this color on the kind of all over my lid, and I'm going to use this color on the lid.

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and I'm going to use a little bit of this in the crease as well.

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I did a play this time last year.

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It was about two months long

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and it was such an incredible experience but so challenging

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because it was a three-hour play and the first act is pretty much like mostly me talking.

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It was about an hour and a bit of pretty much monologuing

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and it was such an amazing like adrenaline rush but I had to do my makeup for it for each show

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and do my own hair, which was kind of lovely because it felt like, I felt like as I was doing my makeup,

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it was kind of getting in the body and the feel of the character.

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I'm going to use this one here.

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I absolutely loved learning to sing properly.

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I worked with the most amazing vocal coach, Eric Petro.

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He works a lot with Ariana Grande and so many amazing people.

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And it was, I've always loved singing, but, you know, I'd only ever really sing in the shower and wouldn't, you know, make anyone else listen to it.

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I found as I was doing my singing lessons every week, I felt so much more calm throughout the week.

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And I think it's because singing is such a nice way to like to relax.

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If you're just humming and singing for an hour, it's so good for your soul.

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So I loved it.

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So maybe, yeah, I'd love to do a musical.

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I would absolutely love to.

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Musicals were my favorite movies growing up.

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So I grew up watching Chicago and Cabaret and Pajama Game and all of those films.

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So yeah, I would absolutely love to do musical things such a laugh.

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I'm just gonna have a tea break.

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I think the most British thing about me is I flippin' love tea.

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I love a loose leaf.

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I love a bag.

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I got given a tea advent calendar for Christmas a couple of years ago and it was my absolute favorite thing.

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Okay, next is my freckle pen.

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I use this a lot on Sense and Sensibility and I always used to put it on my little beauty spots.

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I really am an Instagram's reels girl so I feel like I get all of my TikToks on Instagram and chronically online.

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My current Instagram algorithm is entirely dash hounds which I'm very happy about

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and so now I'm trying to click on as many dash hounds as possible

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so all I get is dash hound content because I really want Daxon

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or a dash hound so I just think they're so cute with their tiny little legs.

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I love, love, love this mascara that my makeup artist, Jo, uses and it's called Tarantula Ash.

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I love this Merit blush.

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I have a little bit of a blush issue.

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Sometimes I can't see when too much is too much.

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So today we're going to start light.

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I've already gone quite heavy.

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But I just love blush.

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I also like putting it where, like, I'd sort of, if I get slightly burnt, where my tan would hit.

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My absolute all-time beauty icon always is Jane Birkin.

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Always.

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For fringe especially, or bangs as they're called here,

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but I absolutely think she's so iconically effortless all the time.

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And I loved how she did her makeup.

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It was very, the very thick mascara felt like a kind of theme she always wore.

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I was inspired a lot by Cara Delevingne, thinking of like 2016, I just, her eyebrows and her look and that time I was always trying to recreate the Cara look.

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I use this Glossier Boy Brow just to make sure they don't budge.

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This was the thing that I was like

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so surprised to be the the major theme with every makeup artist I use was lip liner.

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So usually I go in a little just in the middle here

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and I go a little lower than my natural line

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and then I do I kind of do in between here

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finally to finish I'm going to use a Estee Lauder gloss

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stick I love these my favorite is the melted melon

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so I'm going to do that today

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and it's got such a nice little click they're super hydrating

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and really sheer and color is really pretty

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and it really lasts as well

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and then sometimes I kind of bring it onto my cheeks as well just to add

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that blend those colors in there you go

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that is my kind of everyday makeup look I'm going to

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use a fragrance at the minute I'm wearing a lot of Erin

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and this is amber musk vanilla I love this it's very like sweet

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and earthy this is the challenge clipping of the fringe before

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you do makeup is a key aspect to achieving a good fringe I have to wash my fringe

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so I'm just going to do that.

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Give it a little dry.

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I like this tiny little brush.

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It's really portable and it's really easy to use.

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You have to blow dry it really extremely to one way

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so you sort of look like you have a comb over

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and then blow it extremely to the other way and that means it doesn't, I don't know, it just does something.

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Maybe I'll leave it!

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Oh no. 2016's back but the side fringe, I don't know. Is it?

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Maybe.

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and then finally I often back comb just a little bit

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at the crown of my hair to give it a bit

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of height I would encourage everyone to try a bang at one point I honestly think it's the bangs

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that gave me my career because I didn't get a job

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and it made me so sad that I cut my fringe like a breakup haircut

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and then I auditioned for Marianne and all the people

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and I got that and I genuinely think it's because of my fringe.

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I usually just use a little bit of this amazing texture spray by Sam McKnight.

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And there you go that's my skincare makeup and hair routine that's going to last you all day and into the night.

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Thanks, lots of love.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Daisy Edgar-Jones's Long-Lasting Makeup Routine”. This video has 190 sentences and 2448 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:33. The speaker talks fast, about 181 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
fringe noun	/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/	A decorative border.
blush noun	/ˈblʌʃ/	An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
hound noun	/haʊnd/	A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
acne noun	/ˈækni/	A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands…
dash noun	/ˈdæʃ/	Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
contour noun	/ˈkɒntɔː/	An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
skincare noun	/ˈskɪn.kɛɹ/	The care and treatment of the skin, especially of the face.
spoon noun	/spuːn/	An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
blend verb	/blɛnd/	To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
cheek noun	/t͡ʃiːk/	The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
vocal adjective	/ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/	Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
camomile noun	/ˈkæ.məˌmaɪl/	Matricaria chamomilla, German chamomile or Hungarian chamomile, with fragrant flowers used for tea, and as an herbal remedy.
endometriosis noun	/ˌɛndoʊˌmiːtɹiˈoʊsɪs/	A generally painful condition characterised by the presence of endometrial-like tissue in places other than the lining of the uterus; an instance of such…
hydrate noun	/haɪˈdɹeɪt/	A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
mascara noun	/ˌmæsˈkæɹə/	A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
grow up verb		To mature and become an adult.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
warm up verb	/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/	To become warmer.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Do you like the little spoon that it comes with?
I haven't done this myself, but neatly, but.
I'm going to use this one here.
I'm just gonna have a tea break.
I've already gone quite heavy.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've been · have not done · haven't done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be moisturized · was diagnosed · was definitely relieved
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	warmups, which are · hair, which was

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 59 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: earthy /ˈɝθi/, thrill /θɹɪl/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: blush /ˈblʌʃ/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, flush /ˈflʌʃ/, blusher /ˈblʌʃɚ/, hydration /haɪˈdɹeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: endometriosis /ˌɛndoʊˌmiːtɹiˈoʊsɪs/, adrenaline /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/, regulator /ˈɹɛɡ.ju.leɪ.tɚ/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/

How to practise with this video

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

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?