Shadowing Practice: Glowy Finish Foundation for Dry Skin - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If you have dry skin, I'm going to show you how to get this hydrated, dewy glow.
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Keep watching.
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I'm going to first start with the Beauty Elixir by Caudalie.
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It's just very calming and hydrating for the skin.
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It's like a minty bath, I feel like.
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I'm going to spray myself.
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So I like to go in with that because it basically gives a nice hydrated face to prep with.
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And it's also therapeutic.
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The smell of it smells really nice.
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That's why I sprayed myself.
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Skin prep is so important for someone who has dry skin because if you have any type of fine lines, if you hydrate it, it's going to eliminate that.
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You want it to look very fresh, emollient.
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I'm going to go in with the Rode Glazing Milk.
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This is going to add extra hydration.
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I need that.
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You need it.
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I do need that.
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And I like to go in with my hands and warm it up a little bit.
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I don't think you've done my makeup in so long.
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I know, it's been a minute.
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But I've never used this on you, so.
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I like to go into the neck, too.
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Just to make sure we don't skip that.
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Needs to have the same texture as the face. And decollete, too.
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If you're wearing something that's lower, you want to make sure you hydrate everything.
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This always gives such a good glow.
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It feels really great.
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Yeah, I always use this.
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So as you can see, her skin looks glazed, very hydrated.
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Glowy.
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Glowy.
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She's a glowing goddess.
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Wow, that was easy.
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How does it feel?
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Feels good.
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Feels like a donut.
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And that's what we want.
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Next, I'm going in with Charlotte's Cryo Serum.
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And this is a thin serum, which is great for the under eye.
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I don't like to go in with anything too thick because then it manipulates the concealer.
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So the thinner the better, but still hydrating enough.
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Do you feel like that's why people have like creases?
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Yes, it'll cause creasing.
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Oh, less the better.
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And this is cold, so it helps with de-puffing.
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Yeah, it's cool.
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I don't think I've ever used that.
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No?
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You don't let me do this.
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I'm just kidding.
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And then I like to just go on with my fingertip and just like mesh it into the skin.
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Do you usually like to wait a little bit of time before you put on the foundation for skin prep
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or you just go right in?
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No, I'll go right in.
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Oh, okay.
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As far as concealer, I wait.
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Oh, okay.
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Because sometimes people are like, wait 15 minutes.
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No, I don't have time for that.
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Okay.
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Don't have time for that.
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Okay.
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How does it feel?
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It feels great.
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For that extra dew, I'm going in with the Tatcha, the dewy skin cream.
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This is one of my all-time favorites, especially for a glowy skin.
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anyone with dry skin, I highly recommend this.
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I'm going to go in with my fingers.
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A little bit of this goes a long way, so just know you don't need a lot.
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Typically, someone that has dry skin would use something that's rich,
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hydrating, dewy, which this is our dewy moisturizer,
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and I think that the thinner the moisturizer, stay away from it.
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I feel like when I use thin moisturizer, my skin eats it and it's gone.
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Yeah.
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So you want something that's going to seep in, but yet kind of sit on the skin for that extra emollients.
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I would say when you're applying a moisturizer, stay away from the gel-based moisturizers because those are going to be for someone that's oily.
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Anything that's creamy or rich, I highly suggest for someone with dry skin.
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Again, do not forget the neck.
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Decollete.
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I always forget to put skin prep on my neck.
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you need to remember, especially after today.
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Look how dewy that is, it's so beautiful.
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We should just leave it as in.
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We're done.
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If you skip this part, especially for someone with dry skin, it's not going to give the same payoff.
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You're not gonna look as brilliant, as radiant, as glowy, as dewy, so you definitely need the moisturizer that's rich in hydration.
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So I usually avoid primer unless someone is super oily and I wanna manipulate the skin, but somebody with dry skin,
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I stay away from primer because I want the foundation to really give its true payoff by just moisturizing, using a little essence, an eye cream,
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it keeps it pretty much the way it's supposed to look.
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Now I'm gonna go in with MPH Lace Skin.
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This foundation I just tried recently and I'm obsessed with, especially since I have dry skin.
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I highly recommend it.
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It has hyaluronic acid and it acts like a serum, but it gives a medium coverage.
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You could get it pretty full coverage actually, but it's like thinner.
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It's not going to be a heavy application.
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I'm going to apply on my hand just so I can work from here, warm it up.
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I'm going in with the lighter shade first.
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And basically, I like to go in and add the coverage just by dabbing where I want to move it later.
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But right now, we're just going to go in and dab the lighter color towards the center of the face.
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I feel like people have their winter and summer shades.
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This is like a good way to use both, I feel like.
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Yeah, definitely.
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I've always seen you use two foundations.
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I like having both because, like you said, you can use, you know, different times of the year.
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Yeah.
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But also, if you just go in with complexion and you don't use bronzer, but you're still warming up the skin with the deeper shade, your skin will look pretty.
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And it'll look natural.
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So you see how I've just been dabbing it.
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And look at that coverage.
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I mean, you can see where there's lacking foundation.
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There's like no color here.
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What are you trying to say?
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Sorry.
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You can see where I skipped this part of her nose and this part, but you can see the difference between product and no product.
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But it feels light, right?
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Yeah.
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It's a serum foundation, so it's not thick.
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So I am using a dense brush.
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It's actually the Sephora 99 brush.
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I love this for anything cream, emollient.
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It does taper at the top, so when you want to get into the nose area or the little finer areas, you can.
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The denser the brush, the more product that you can apply to the skin.
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When you dab, you really can control how much product you're putting in, if that makes sense.
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You're applying onto the skin.
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Now I'm going to go in with the 40.
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And this is flat, also very dense.
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This I'm going to move product around.
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So it's going to pick up a little bit of the product as well, which is what I want.
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Because I did put a lot on, on purpose.
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so i'm just stippling and moving it so
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that the product kind of fades into her skin
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but we're not losing the coverage if
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that makes sense that's cool i didn't really use like a clean brush well my brushes are dirty
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but you have to wash yours since you're doing it on other people mine are always clean in my kit
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but personally not always so i'm just adding a little bit more with
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the 99 brush just along her cheek area down into the neck
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if you want to find the right shade you basically want to bring product into the neck
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and to make sure if you don't see it you got the right shade
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so you match with the neck you match with the neck for for your palette right not for your contour
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or anything yeah you know so yeah imagine no okay turn this way so let's go in
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and just move the product this literally feels like I have nothing I love it
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and it's so like your skin feels like skin yeah I love it it's like very glowy
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and this is like working well with the skin prep working fantastic also too
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when you're applying foundation you don't want to go up into the eye
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because you want this area to be bare when you go in with concealer
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you just want to make sure that it's just the concealer
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and not the product before because you that's where you manipulate it
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and you don't want to in this case no creasy no creasy we don't want any creasing on you
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so stippling and i go back and forth
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if i want to add more coverage i'll go in
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because there's already product on the initial brush that i used
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so i'll go in and stipple where i need to to add product.
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This foundation is great because it doesn't move.
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It stays in the brush and you can transfer it back onto, that makes sense, back onto the skin.
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Like you don't lose it.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, it's not running away.
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So now I'm going to go in with the darker shade
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and we're just going to go around the hairline
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and into the cheek and then a little bit down here just to give of that bronzy, but still natural and subtle.
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Gonna go in with the same brush.
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It's okay that it's dirty, because we're not gonna use a lot of the product.
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I'm telling you, I'm just barely swiping a little bit.
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And dabbing really does control how much product that you're applying and where you're applying.
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Do you feel like when you use the same foundations, like since you're putting this as bronzer, it's like seamless because it's the same thing?
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Definitely more seamless, same texture.
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It's really not bronzing.
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It's just more giving a little oomph so you don't look...
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Look one to my pale.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so I'm gonna go into the nose
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You do not need a lot
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and I go into the neck a little bit with the deeper shade just so everything is seamless You're very light-handed.
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Thank you.
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I forgot about that.
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I haven't done my makeup in so long.
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I've been told that Okay, so I'm gonna go in with a buffing brush Basically just gonna push in the product
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and this will pretty much kind of is blending a little bit
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but also just pushing the product in it just kind of
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buffs it out basically it's a great brush for buffing i dab
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because i don't want to move the product anywhere i just
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want to push it into the skin keep the full payoff by dabbing
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if you swipe you're moving it at the same time
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that makes sense it looks streaky when you It could be streaky depending on the brush.
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Okay, so that is the foundation.
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So now I'm going in with the Tower 28 concealer.
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This is super hydrating.
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A little bit of this goes a long way.
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Like, I don't need a lot at all.
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And I'm just gonna add a little bit in the inner part, a little bit on the outer part.
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And we're gonna marry these together.
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So now I'm gonna go in with a angle tapered brush.
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I love this brush from Sephora because it really gets into the inner part of the eye and the outer part, but without being too thick, because it's tapered.
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This is brush 71, the best.
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I feel like I see you using that all the time.
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All the time, yes.
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I think I gave you some, right?
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Yes, you did give me some.
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So we're just dabbing.
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Again, you see how much, that's a lot of product.
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So I'll buff it out after, but a little bit of this concealer goes a long way.
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I'm just going to dab, dab, dab.
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I don't go all the way up because once I blend, that will thin out towards the lash area.
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I don't want to crease under eye to happen.
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Using the eye serum from Charlotte really did prep the skin for hydration.
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Like I said, it's not going to crease.
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It's not going to manipulate the concealer.
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The concealer is going to give you its true payoff basically.
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Does it feel light?
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Yeah.
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I feel like I just have like nothing, just skin prep on.
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I love that.
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Yeah, moisturizer. But hydrated.
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Yeah.
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So we have a lot of concealer under her eyes, so I'm gonna go in and basically buff it out, blend it in.
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I'm using the 57 Sephora brush.
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So this is, it's a little dense, but it's still fluffy enough to where I'm not,
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I'm just, you know, able to blend it out, and not add product.
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There's nothing on this brush, I'm just moving product.
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And see how I'm kind of swiping?
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I want to, I want to move the product, yeah.
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Because you want it to look seamless and blended into her skin with the foundation.
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Okay, so we're just moving, dabbing.
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And I like to do the center here as well, just so it brightens the area as well.
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So any of the product, I'm just pushing it in next to her nose.
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Okay, so I'm gonna take the remnants of what's on the initial concealer brush,
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And I'm going to tap in between her brow and just like this part of the brow, not all the way, just in the center.
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So there's still product on here, but not a lot.
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And we're just going to press it into the skin.
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Does it like brighten there?
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Yeah, so it's brightening.
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And then whatever's left, again, I'm just, there's product, there's a lot of product on here.
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still left around the nose.
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And then I'm gonna do one last thing.
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I'm gonna just add a little bit to my hand because I don't want a lot.
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And we're gonna take some of that.
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This is giving brightness dimension so everything else is still warm she's got product
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but this is actually brightening the center of her face
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so kind of like a reverse contour kind of exactly that you're smart well maybe i learned from you
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you know a thing or two maybe so now i'm gonna set her skin with the veil
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translucent loose powder from hourglass this is so great
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because it's a very fine powder so
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when you're applying powder it doesn't look like powder it's just setting where you want
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so i just added a little bit of the powder onto
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this brush it's flat i'm going to go into the center of her face just to set everything um
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but don't be afraid if you have dry skin to use a powder this is like i I said, it's a super fine powder, so it's not going to dry you out.
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It's going to set very satiny on the skin.
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This is just to set the concealer and a little bit of the foundation in the center,
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because you don't want to be too shiny as far as you want the glow, the dew, but not crazy shiny, if that makes sense.
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Having dry skin, though, is so frustrating sometimes,
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and there are certain powders that are just not good for my face or anyone with dry skin.
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Yeah, it makes you feel like it's drier.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I even feel like when I put powder in my smile lines, sometimes it like makes it accentuates them.
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Yes, it can.
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But that's not because I'm not doing the skin prep.
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And also not applying a lot of product in your smile lines makes a big difference.
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So I'm adding a little bit to this puff.
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It's a triangular puff.
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And then I'm going to pat my palm with it just to remove excess product.
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And this is where you're really going to have the product set.
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I'm just doing it in the center because that's typically where the oils tend to lift.
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Even if you're dry, you're still going to have a little bit of oils come through.
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So smile lines, this is great.
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And then the other thing I like to do is go right above the brow, just to eliminate that shine.
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So it's not like if you have dry skin, your face isn't going to get oily throughout the day, right?
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No. Your, I mean, your skin will get oily throughout the day, is that what you're saying?
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Yeah, like even if your skin is dry.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Oils will still come through.
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You naturally will have oils, you know.
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Yeah.
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Unless you're me and you're 48 years old, then you're...
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Sorry, I'm just buffing this.
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What about like when people bake?
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You know how they like pile on?
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Is that not good for dry skin?
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I feel like...
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You can bake, but again, prep, it goes back to the prep.
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If you're prepping, you're hydrating your skin, you can still bake, but you know what your under eyes look like.
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You know how much or how, you know, not to put on.
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So I think as long as you're doing a powder that's finer, it'll work.
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But sometimes the drier the powder, the more accentuating the fine lines are going to look, especially if you don't prep well.
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I'm just going to set a little bit along the jawline with some powder.
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I'm still using the Hourglass Veil Translucent Loose.
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Again, I'm tapping it on my hand just to remove some of the product, but there's really not a lot of product here.
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I'm just going in and setting all over now just to give it a long wear effect.
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I feel like your skin looks so dewy and so pretty still.
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The last step that I want to do is a spray by Charlotte.
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It's the Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray. That smells so good.
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I have my fan.
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Wow.
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This is what you do to all your clients?
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I do this to myself, my clients, to you now.
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And it's okay to spray a lot of this because it really does give that radiance, that glow, that hydration.
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It sets the powder really nice.
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It still will be a little bit more satin, but it does set it so that it looks more like skin.
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That makes sense?
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Do you feel like with dry skin, you can't use those setting mists that are supposed to lock in your makeup because they're more drying?
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Or do you think you can?
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No, you definitely can.
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So what I do is I'll go in with the Charlotte
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and then I'll use the one size to set it for all day.
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That's what I did today so my skin would stay on for camera.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 305 sentences and 3165 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:02. The speaker talks at a natural 175 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 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. |
| shade noun | /ʃeɪd/ | Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. |
| thin adjective | /ˈθɪn/ | Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. |
| buff noun | /bʌf/ | Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. |
| spray noun | /spɹeɪ/ | A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. |
| blend verb | /blɛnd/ | To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. |
| glow verb | /ɡloʊ/ | To emit heat and light without a flame. |
| serum noun | /ˈsɪɹəm/ | Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies… |
| dense adjective | /ˈdɛns/ | Having relatively high density. |
| manipulate verb | /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/ | To move, arrange or operate something using the hands |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
| skip verb | /skɪp/ | To move by hopping on alternate feet. |
| 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. |
| bake verb | /beɪk/ | To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go in with verb | To commit to something with; to partner with. | |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. | |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| run away verb | To flee by running. | |
| warm up verb | /ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/ | To become warmer. |
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 | you've done · I've always seen · haven't done |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | someone who has · serum, which is · well, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 146 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, thick /θɪk/, bath /bɑːθ/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: brush /bɹʌʃ/, shade /ʃeɪd/, shine /ʃaɪn/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, mesh /mɛʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: manipulate /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/, eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/
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 brush, powder, shade.
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