Shadowing Practice: get ready with me (and my cats!) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I got inspired to get back on YouTube.
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I was watching some of my old YouTube videos
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and I really wanted to do a drunk get ready with me with Chloe and we're going to get around to it, but yeah, I just, I wanted to do more YouTube.
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So I wanted to start with my updated makeup routine and show you guys all my kitties.
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This is my youngest kitty, Daisy.
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Don't we look alike?
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Okay, I'm going to wash my hands and start with my skincare.
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My morning skincare routine has kind of been the same for a while.
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I started breaking out really bad when I turned like 27.
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I do feel like I got my skin under control
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and my routine has kind of been the same for a few years.
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I start in the morning with a gentle cleanser.
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I have a few different ones.
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Today I'm using the Sophie Pavit facial cleanser.
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Okay, I'm not above my sink, so I had to step away.
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Finish cleansing my face.
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I'm using this little serum this morning, hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, zinc, and copper, keeping it simple.
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This is officially the last year of my 20s, so just focusing on simple, effective skincare.
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I'm using this oil-free moisturizer.
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This doesn't break me out and I break out really easily from moisturizers.
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It's very light and it looks nice under makeup.
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My makeup tip of 2026 that I've been obsessed with are primers.
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This is the Kylie Cosmetics Supple Glaze Primer.
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I like to use a lot.
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I'm gonna blend this all in.
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Ariel just got here to make me some I brought Kylie
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in her lab tissue She was doing a little YouTube video Wait guys, I'm so Wait Kylie, Kylie, I'm so excited I'm shooting a video for Kylie Kylie,
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you can't That's why the cold one's like Why'd you give me a straw?
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Can you appreciate how good this looks?
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But why did you give me a straw?
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Can you tell the people that I'm a master This looks pretty perfect I brought Kylie a latte.
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Ariel just came to bring me a latte.
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Abuelitas coffee.
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Salted vanilla, maple, deliciousness, whatever this is.
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Perfect.
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It's perfect.
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Really, really good.
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You're perfect.
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Keep doing your makeup.
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I can't wait to see how you finish.
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Love you.
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Love you.
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I'm starting with my skin tint, of course.
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I'm doing shade 5N.
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I'm going to do a little bit for the daytime.
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and then this is a sample, but I'm gonna mix it with my sunscreen.
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The formulas complement each other so well.
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Also turning 29, I do not miss a day of sunscreen.
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I always go down my neck to blend.
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I get a lot of spray tans, so I use a little bit of a darker shade.
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And once I started dealing with bad acne and stuff, I stopped spraying my face because I felt like it was clogging my pores.
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Oh, look who came to say hi.
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This is Princess is Ophelia.
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So she doesn't have any ears.
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She loves me a lot.
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She sleeps with me the most.
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She doesn't really love the other cats, but she loves me a lot.
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I do some bronzer now and I'm using the Makeup by Mario Skin Enhancer.
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I have been working on my bronzer for a long time.
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It's right here.
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I just had my birthday and we had the idea to do a princess kitty poker party.
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Getting cats really made me feel like a princess, like King Kylie who.
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Definitely in my princess era.
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Not a queen.
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Never a queen.
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She went from a king to a princess.
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It was just the best birthday ever.
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I've been trying to be off my phone a lot for my birthday month
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so I read two books on my trip which was really nice
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because I feel like I never have the time to do that
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one of the books I read was Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover I've read a lot of her books
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and I I really liked it it was the first book
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that made me hysterical cry at the end which was I was not used to because it's never happened to me before.
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I'm using my concealer now.
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This is my Power Plush Longwear Concealer and I like to now be a little bit more precise.
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I go under here now to try to lift and then I'll kind of cut my bronzer over here.
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I feel like the true sculpting in my routine comes from my concealer where I place it.
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I also try to keep my forehead really thin
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and not try to put too much makeup on my forehead because I feel like it's always a big tell for me.
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Like when I see even other people or me when my forehead is too cakey.
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I'm using my angled concealer brush.
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Wet my beauty blender.
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Blend it out.
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My favorite part blush.
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This is my Kylie Cosmetics Glow Balm.
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Love this color.
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You can put them under your powder, over.
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and then I'm gonna blend it out under my concealer look
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who's here this is the sweetest girl ever this is Delilah slash Serafina.
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I honestly haven't decided fully on her name, but do you think she's a Delilah or a Serafina?
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Comment down below.
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A little bit more of my concealer.
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I start getting the courage and I'm like, okay, I see you.
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I might need a little more here, go like this.
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This is my precision palette in cool nude.
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It's like such a pretty everyday shade.
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There's cat hair everywhere.
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That always gives me like a good idea of what we're working with.
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I have such a pretty powder foundation and I'm going to use it to kind of set the perimeter of my face.
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Okay, now I'm going in with my classic matte palette.
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This is everything to me.
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I have been through lots of these.
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So I'm going to set with this lighter color.
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I really love my formula and I love all of these shades.
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These are the same shades that my first bronze palette for Kylie Cosmetics in like 10 years ago.
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A lot of these shades are from that palette exactly.
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messy vibes.
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It's going kind of like in my crease.
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I just love like a smoky brown sexy look.
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I have started like plucking kind of the very tail of my brow off, which kind of makes it go more round.
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And then I extend from like here, give it more of like a lifted brow look.
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I definitely have like spray tan hands today, but we're just gonna ignore.
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I definitely go for the same look a lot now
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because I think I just know what works for my face and what makes me feel the best.
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I'm gonna set with a little bit of translucent powder kind of under my bronzer like this around my mouth.
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And I'm using my translucent brightening powder.
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I'm obsessed with these.
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Actually, I'm going to mix it with my soft pink shade.
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So I'm going to mix these two for a little brightness.
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I love how bright that makes my under eye look.
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And I like mixing in soft pink.
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I also have like a little bit of darkness under my eye right now.
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So I'm just trying to cancel that out.
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And then I like also applying my eyeshadow before I set my under eye
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because I think just going up and kind of blending it all together with the eyeshadow.
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I'm gonna set my brows.
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I'm loving this.
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Got to be Summer Sorbet.
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Best shade of all time.
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I'm obsessed with this summer, fall, winter, whenever.
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Like it's not too pink.
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It's not too peachy.
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I'm going to wipe this off.
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Now we're going to curl the lashes.
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I'm going to mix the brown and black from my shadow palette. And not too perfect.
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I'm just adding a little darkness like a little shadow behind the lash
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I love using shadow for my liner
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because it's not like too perfect it's not too much pressure you can blend it out
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if it doesn't look right my kylash mascara addicted so it's also kind of dirty gorgeous
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hot in here really into bottom mascara kendall kind of like put me off of it for a few years
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because i was like oh i love how i look with no bottom mascara
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and she was like i never wear bottom mascara
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and i was like what have i been doing all these years now I'm obsessed again.
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I just think it's really sexy.
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I love how like it gives you those doll eyes.
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I'm like, hello.
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I'll just change my life.
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I'm going to let the hair down and do more lip liner.
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Should we see if I can still do my lip liner with my eyes closed?
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I haven't done this in a while.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Hell yeah!
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It looks good!
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What?
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That looks better than with my eyes open!
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This is chill brown.
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Such a sexy, perfect brown.
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If I do say so myself.
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We're gonna put some pink taffy coconut water lip stain.
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This is the best invention.
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stays all day and that's it but first we need more blush like I feel
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so crazy right now
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that I'm not blushed enough it's like a dab for good luck for the day maybe
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that was a little crazy that's okay I can always blend it out okay
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there she is that is my everyday routine okay mr benjamin blue was sleeping
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but i had to wake him up to say goodbye i am
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so happy to be back on youtube i'm having the best time and me and my cats love you
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “get ready with me”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Kylie, shade, perfect. This video has 168 sentences and 1640 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:57. The speaker talks at a steady 137 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 75% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| shade noun | /ʃeɪd/ | Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. |
| blend verb | /blɛnd/ | To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. |
| concealer noun | Something that, or someone who, conceals. | |
| palette noun | /ˈpælɪt/ | A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours. |
| 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. |
| mascara noun | /ˌmæsˈkæɹə/ | A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes. |
| obsess verb | /əbˈsɛs/ | To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. |
| 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. |
| skincare noun | /ˈskɪn.kɛɹ/ | The care and treatment of the skin, especially of the face. |
| brow noun | /bɹaʊ/ | The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located. |
| blush noun | /ˈblʌʃ/ | An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc. |
| liner noun | /ˈlaɪnɚ/ | A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner. |
| forehead noun | /ˈfɔɹ.hɛd/ | The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline. |
| kitty noun | /ˈkɪti/ | A young cat; a kitten. |
| spray noun | /spɹeɪ/ | A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| break out verb | To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. |
| get around to verb | To eventually begin or return to some task. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| go in with verb | To commit to something with; to partner with. |
| go under verb | To descend into a body of water; to founder. |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Don't we look alike?
- I'm using this oil-free moisturizer.
- I'm gonna blend this all in.
- Can you appreciate how good this looks?
- I can't wait to see how you finish.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been working · I've been trying · have i been doing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've been obsessed · I've read · haven't decided |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | trip which was · end which was |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | my youngest · the best · the sweetest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 67 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shade /ʃeɪd/, blush /ˈblʌʃ/, lash /læʃ/, precision /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: hyaluronic /haɪləˈɹɒnɪk/, hysterical /hɪˈstɛɹɪkəl/, perimeter /pɪˈɹɪm.ɪ.tə/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like shade, blend, concealer.
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.