Bad Makeup Vs Good Makeup! How to Get Perfect Makeup Every Time!

Hey friends, do you ever have those days where you look in the mirror and you're like something is off about my makeup today like it's just not looking good and then those days where you look in the mirror and you're like my makeup looks really good today and you try and like do a little mental snapshot of what you did so that you can do it over and over and over again well today I looked in the mirror and I'm like my makeup's just not working there's so many things that's just not working with my makeup and I thought I would break it down and let you know what I did wrong and why I'm not having a good makeup day and then we're going to wash this off and we're going to redo it because I just have to and we'll talk about the products that I'm using and why I'm using them to have a good makeup day sound fun let's do it okay so let's talk about today's makeup let's zoom in real close and we're going to break down the makeup I'm going to tell you what's not really working and keep in mind I have a big huge light in front of me everything looks better than it really does so you might take a look at this video and think it doesn't look so bad I'm going to insert some b-roll here for my cell phone uh in different lighting situations so you can kind of see what I'm talking about but let's talk about my makeup and what's not working and then I'll tell you what I did and why it just didn't work okay so the first thing I noticed about makeup my makeup today that is just not working is my skin is way too glowy for my liking it looks shiny it looks greasy it's also magnifying texture because of that excess shine and glow it is magnifying do you see how it's kind of putting a highlight on my texture right here I have large pores and it's just shining a spotlight right on them so whenever you are using really glowy dewy foundations really wet dewy looking foundations that is kind of a side effect of that is you can get magnified texture like I have now if you are wondering what foundation did you use I use the NARS long wear natural radiant foundation today I bought this this is the first time I tried it out and I'm just not a fan just because of the shine I also powdered quite a bit to tone the shine down so that's another reason why my makeup is not just looking great today because if you look underneath my eyes do you see all that texture and fine lines because I really powdered and powder trying to cut that shine down yet I still have this really in my opinion kind of greasy looking glow okay so that's number one why my makeup is not working the wrong foundation for my preference and my skin the other thing that's not working for my foundation is my lips are more of a cool tone color not to say that it doesn't look good on me or it looks bad but I really lean towards more warmer shades those are more complementary to my skin tone and this just isn't working in addition to that I have a warmer blush color on my cheeks so we're kind of mixing with this warm blush on the cheeks and a cool tone lip which is kind of clashing and it's just not looking right so if you're wondering what I have on my lips I have this Ulta Beauty lip liner and lipstick duo I actually filmed a video this morning on multi-purpose makeup so all the makeup I'm wearing today is multi-purpose meaning that there's usually two products in one so this has a lipstick and a liner on one side and it's a pretty color it's like a mauve shade but the liner is very very cool tone and it is just not my shades and it's not the shades that I look most flattering in and then in addition to that is the warmer blush which I'll show you the blush that I have on today I have this blush from dibs beauty and you can see right off the bat it's a very warm shade it's very peachy it's very summery so those two together are just clashing and they are not working when you especially when you put them together not only is the lip color just not my color but when you add that warm blush it just kind of clashes even more so that might be why your makeup looks a little off as you're kind of mixing undertones warm and cool and it could be clashing with your natural undertone or just clashing with each other okay and the number three why my makeup doesn't look so good is I have a pretty dark shadow all over my lid now not that it looks bad but for my personal preference and for what flatters my eyes the most I like to have some lightness on the eye with a little bit of darkness just accentuating and creating some definition on the eye so that might be just in the outer corner it might be a little bit in the crease it might be a darker liner but I like that contrast of light and dark and in today's look I pretty much did dark all over the lid again it doesn't look terrible but it's just not complimentary to me and that's kind of one area where the eye makeup went off a little bit number two I just used one product on my eye I'll actually share what I used because I actually love the product I used on my eye but I use this product from Clinique it has a cream shadow stick on one side this is the color that's on my eyes and it actually is really really beautiful you guys so so pretty but I just have that all over and I didn't take a shadow to kind of blend out the crease and diffuse it and if you look really closely in my eye especially this eye right here you can see how there's just kind of a harsh line in the crease it's not fully blended out and a couple of things probably happened there I probably didn't blend this out quickly enough so that area dried and it was hard for me to diffuse that edge so I was left with a really sharp kind of unblended edge on the eye so one thing I could do to fix that would be to take an eyeshadow a matte brown shadow and kind of go in the crease a little bit to just buff and diffuse that edge so that's another reason why the makeup looks a little off okay and the last reason that I think the makeup just looks off on me today is my brows are a little stronger than I would like them to be and the reason for that is because I use this product from Estee Lauder this is a brow perfect 3D all-in-one styler and it was pretty dry the brow pencil was very very dry I had to put a lot of pressure to actually get any product to transfer to the skin and because I was putting such hard pressure I just got really strong harsh brows so for brow products you really want to find pencils that are creamy and pigmented that you can have the lightest stroke with and get the product to adhere to the skin and actually show up so that's how you really create wispy hair like soft like strokes whereas this it was just definitely a stronger harsher line because I had to put pressure to get the color to pay off so those are just a few reasons why today's makeup is not working I'm going to go wash all this off and I've got a bunch of products in front of me we're going to do a full face with products that I know complement my skin tone and my features and we're going to create a look that I feel and look my best in and we're going to talk through it I'll be right back okay so we are back we have a fresh squeaky clean face it is so squeaky clean I need to add some moisture to it though and I need to do a stat so I'm going to go in with the Jane we're going to prep the skin with this get a good amount of this apply it all over it smells like oranges smells so good and this moisturizer is nice and rich it's a very rich emollient moisturizer but my skin is just absorbing it and sucking it all in all right that feels better now if I were at home I would do a different skincare routine I'd probably do my essence first a little hyaluronic acid serum but I don't have all those products here so we're just going in with a nice rich moisturizer which is giving my skin just a supple bouncy feel which is what I need okay next I'm going to go in and I'm going to apply the Jane Iredell smooth fair brightening primer I am going to be using the Jane Iredell pure press mineral foundation you guys know this is just a favorite and I just know it's going to look good I know when I wear this product I'm going to have a good foundation day so that's what we are going to do now this primer is a really nice hydrating brightening primer and it's a really good consistency you can see that it's not heavy you know it's got some movement some viscosity it's falling down my hand as I raise it which tells you that it's not really thick this is just going to give me a really beautiful smooth canvas for the foundation just glides onto the skin it's very smoothing so so good oh it smells good too I love that next we're going to go in and apply a concealer and today I'm going to be using the Maybelline age rewind concealer this is a great concealer that I can count on to give me a good concealer day it's lightweight it's hydrating it doesn't accentuate texture you can use it underneath the eyes or on the skin you can use it to touch up with because it is so lightweight okay so I'm going to go and apply this first normally I would apply my foundation before concealer but since I'm working with a powder foundation I'm going to go with my concealer first and this one's very lightweight so I'm not worried about applying too much just apply it in the inner corner I'm going to apply a little bit on my nose because I have some pinkness on my nose today and then we're going to go in and we're going to blend this out and I'm going to use the BK Beauty A506 to blend this out now one tip that I always recommend to have a perfect makeup day is just to avoid using too much product regardless of what product you're using just don't use more than's needed so always try and apply little bitty layers of your product and really blend blend blend take your time to really blend the product out sometimes we can have a beautiful makeup day and then we can have a terrible makeup day and we might have actually applied the exact same products but you know for reasons different variables it could be the weather the climate it could be your skin and how your skin the condition of your skin that day it could be an oilier skin day a drier skin day or it could just be you over applied the product or you didn't properly blend the product you didn't take the time to blend it or you're using the wrong tools tools are so important you guys that is the reason why I started BK Beauty is because I truly believe the tools that you use to blend out your makeup are oftentimes more important than the products that you are using you can have really high quality products but if you're not using the right tools to apply those it's not going to look good you know and on the other side of that you can get exceptional products from the drug store and use high quality tools and it'll look flawless and beautiful and like any other high-end product I mean take for example this concealer you know this is a drugstore concealer it's a good drugstore concealer but blending it out with the right tools is going to give you that really flawless seamless airbrush blend so now that I've blended it out I'm looking and I feel like I could use a little more concealer especially in this area so I'm going to go and I'm going to add a little bit more just to kind of layer that and get a little extra coverage it takes a little more time to apply your products this way but it really matters so rather than going in right off the bat with a ton of concealer take your time and just use what's needed you might find that you apply more product than is needed and that will impact the way that your makeup looks the other thing about makeup you guys is even though it might look great after you initially apply it if you have too much product sitting on the skin four six eight hours later it's going to look like you have a lot of makeup on it's going to look heavy our skin starts to produce oil it starts to break down product we start to sweat you know we're in different climates maybe we live in a and our skin gets drier and when you have a lot of the makeup on really dry skin it will accentuate texture and it will look like a mask so be very mindful of how much you're using it makes all the difference I promise okay perfect we are concealed now that concealer works it's a little lighter than I would like but it's okay it's going to work so now I'm going to go in with the Jane Iredell pure press mineral powder foundation and I'm the shade golden in this this has an SPF of 20 in it so it's going to give me additional SPF benefits it's good for your skin it's a mineral SPF it's clean it's all good ingredients for your skin I love it it's one of my favorites now I'm going to go in with the BK Beauty 111 I'm looking around I'm hesitating because I was looking for my 107 I don't see it but that's okay because the 111 is the next best thing it's just a little bit larger and the reason I'm choosing this is because this is going to allow me to pick up a lot of product and apply a lot of product but it's also very soft and fluffy it's dense enough to grab and hold product but it's also fluffy and soft enough to really blend that product out when it comes to brushes the more denser brushes the more it's going to pick up and lay down product but if it's too dense like a solid brick and there's really no movement in the fibers you're not going to get that really beautiful blend so it's going to look too heavy so this one's a good one so I'm going to go in I'm going to load the brush up and I'm going to start in the center of the face and I'm just going to kind of press do you see I'm just pressing the brush in I'm kind of pressing it first to build coverage and then once I feel like I've gotten all the product from the brush to the skin then I'll go in and I'll buff it into the skin I always have good foundation days when I wear this foundation I mean just period it is one that I can rely on now there are a few other foundations that I absolutely love I'm giving JNR to a lot of love right now but I also want to call out a new foundation to drugstore I'm looking for here it is it's the Maybelline Superstay foundation this one's really great if you are looking for a drugstore option that one is really great because it's long-wearing it has a natural they call it a luminous matte finish which basically means it's matte but it doesn't look flat or dry that one's really great too but for ease you just can't beat this one and you can layer this product up to get more coverage if you want it's so good when my daughters start wearing foundation you still have a couple years for that but when they start wearing it this is what I'm probably going to buy them to start out with but honestly because it's easy and it's good for your skin so so good perfect and it smooths out texture so the skin is smooth now it just looks so much better than this one this one just did not look good on me it was too shiny this now looks soft and matte and natural okay let's go ahead and get some brows on I feel like I need some brows so if you'll remember the last product that I used that just wasn't giving me a good brow day was this product from Estee Lauder it was just very very dry which meant that I had to put a lot of pressure on my brows which gave me really strong harsh looking brows and I want to call out that I don't really know that if it was this product or if this was an old product I just bought this product so it shouldn't be old but I was mentioning in that video that you know Estee Lauder isn't a brand that I don't know how quickly the products recycling at my Estee Lauder counter is what I'm trying to say and so I don't know if that product had just been you know it was produced years ago and I'm just getting it but it felt very dry it felt like an old product so I just want to give that disclaimer because again I don't know that it's actually that product or if it's just like an expired product but let's go in and the brow pencil that I have is the makeup forever aqua resist brow definer now I was really looking for my benefit precision brow pencil that's my favorite at the moment that I love I don't have it here with me it's at home so I was looking for what I had at my studio that works really well and this is a good option it's a tiny little precise pencil I have the shade deep blonde and it's a great color for me so picking the right color for your brows and also again a formula that is nice and creamy and I'm just gonna go and fill in my brows and create little hair like strokes with a really soft movement if you notice I'm holding the brow pencil kind of further back that's allowing me to have a softer pressure if I hold it really close you're more likely to put really harsh pressure and get stronger harsher brows so hold it further back and it'll kind of force you to have more wispy movement and now we just have a softer brow do you see how it's just softer I'm also going to take my spoolie and just kind of run through it after I've applied it that's also going to soften the look of the brows I'm going to apply a little bit of brow gel I have the Glossier Boy Brow this one's a nice one also love the Benefit Gimme Brow that's also a favorite I'm grabbing this and I'm just applying a little bit of brow gel to give a little more fluff to the brows give a more natural look so that also softens and just gives a softer look to the brow okay let's go ahead and go into bronzer and blush now I grabbed a powder bronzer I'm using the L'Oreal Infallible bronzer this is a shade light medium so there's two things here this is a good shade it's light medium and it's a very soft powder formula so it just glides on really smooth and consistent now in my last makeup it wasn't the bronzer or the blush that was giving me a bad makeup day I actually like the products I used in that video it was the Dibs dual ended bronzer and blush so this is a perfectly fine product and I really felt like it didn't contribute to my bad makeup it was the other products that I used in the way that I applied them but this one actually is good I just want to say that so that there's no confusion but I decided to go with the powder now I think I'm just a little traumatized by all of that shine on my face I'm kidding I'm being dramatic so I'm kind of balancing that with some more powder I'm going to go in with the N15 brush and I'm going to load the brush up I like the N15 for bronzer because it's soft and it has it picks up the perfect amount of product not too much but enough you know what I mean so really great in my opinion for blush or bronzer I also use it for powder foundation but if I want full coverage I just build it up a little bit more look at that so beautiful and I'm really shearing the bronzer out working it into the hairline really shearing it out so we are starting to warm up in Austin you guys like was it last week it was sometime within the last 10 days we had this arctic freeze it was 20 degrees for like four or five days which is really unusual for Texas and I mean I'm kidding I can you that was within the last like nine or ten days it's like in the 80s now and I have a feeling that our cold weather is behind us I think it's just going to go up from here so my skin is starting to change and that means my makeup is going to change I still love cream products cream bronzer cream blush but I'm definitely going to be leaning more into my powder products as we get in warmer weather I'll do a balance of both all right and then for blush I did get my cream blush in the shade balmy from Jane Iredell one of my favorites I love love this I'm going to use the 112 brush to apply this this is a really warm peachy pink which is my shades that complement my skin tone most and I'm just going to bounce this on the apple of the cheek and blend back and up and with blush I always recommend applying enough to where you feel like it adds color to the face but know that you might go back once the eye makeup is on to add more I usually do when I have a smokier or more dramatic eye makeup on I find the need to add a little more blush okay next I am going to set underneath my eyes with a little bit of powder to set that concealer in place I don't really feel the need to set powder all over the face I don't have a lot of shine and I did use a powder foundation so I usually don't set it with additional loose powder when I'm working with the Jane Iredell but I do want to set underneath my eyes and my concealer just to kind of lock that concealer in and prevent it from creasing or settling in fine lines okay so let's talk about eyes so in the eyes in the last look you'll remember that I did had a dark color all over the lid I really love the color and the product that I use so I don't want to knock the product for not being the right shade for me I just think that it was a little too dark for all over my eye it didn't look bad but it's just not the most flattering for my eye and I also didn't use a shade in the crease to kind of blend out the blend was just not that great so it just contributed to kind of a little bit of a harsher messier looking eye so what I'm going to do is I'm going to prep my eyelid and I'm going to go in with a Bobbi Brown Longwear Cream Shadow Stick this is the shade Shell which is basically just a matte pale pale pale porcelain color it reminds me a lot of like the Mac Paint Pot in Soft Ochre and I'm going to apply this all over both lids this is just going to work as an eye primer I'm just going to use my finger to blend this out and I am going to blend it out right after applying it so I just have a nice sheer layer of it and I'm able to blend it all out I think that was what happened the first time with that cream shadow stick is I I didn't blend it out quick enough and then I was left with that harsh line in the crease I actually didn't even notice that until after I filmed the video I was looking in the mirror and I saw it actually when I was watching the footage back to send to my editor I said oh my gosh my eyelid wasn't blended out and it looked a little harsh so it's important when you're working with the Longwear Cream Shadow Sticks to blend them out quickly because once they do dry they do set and stay in place which is nice you want that but if you haven't really properly blended it out then you are you don't want that okay so next we're going to go in with shadow and I'm going to be working with it's just a shade of matte warm neutral shades warm shades are just my go-to it just looks more complementary on my skin tone again I'm wearing the warm blush it just pairs really well together I do wear shimmer but today I'm going to be working with just these mattes what I like about the Jane Arendelle shadows is even though they're matte they have this really light light sheen to it which reflects light and kind of softens the look a little bit I'm going to use the 206 from BK Beauty it's just a big kind of fluffy flat brush you can pick up a lot of shadow with the side of it but you can also use the fluffy tip to sheer or blend out and I'm first going to take this lightest shade right here with the tip of the brush and we're going to sweep this underneath the brow to give a little bit of lift a little bit of light do you see what that did pop that right under the brow and really blend it out because I want it to be bright but I don't want it to be too stark okay next we're going to go and we're going to take this shade right here this like soft kind of pale peachy shade and we're going to take the same brush and we're going to pack this on the eyelid starting in the inner corner kind of working our way over we're going to go all the way to the outer corner so we're basically going to sweep the shadow all over the entire lid from the inner corner to the outer corner I'm going to take my bronzer and I'm going to sweep this in my crease this is a little hack you can always do with your powder bronzer is use this as your transition shade I will work and play with this palette by itself but I do want a shade that's lighter than any of these to first lay down on the crease and your bronzer is always a good default because it's you know always neutral it's always like a warm shade and it's should be a couple of shades darker than your skin tone but not too dark right and that's what you ideally want to use to start in the crease I'm just going to sweep this back and forth just to give a little bit of shadowing in the crease and then from there we're going to go in with these other shades from the Jane Iredell palette to build and I'm using a big fluffy crease brush to really sheer it out if you use a small dense brush you're not going to get as sheer of a blend and again I want it to be really light and sheer next I'm going to go into the Jane Iredell palette and I'm going to mix these two together this really warm neutral shade and this more cooler taupe shade mix the two together I'm just using the tip of this brush I'm going to tap off any excess and we're just going to plop that on the outer corner just kind of go back and forth with our brush we're not sweeping it all the way over we're really kind of keeping it in the outer corner but we are just trying to blend out the edges so that even though it's concentrated there it's still a soft edge now I'm just going to take a look in the mirror at the two sides I'm just going to go out and even them out and then last I'm going to do is I'm going to take another crease brush something a little bit smaller I'm going to take the 211 you can see it's a skinnier smaller crease brush let me show you how it compares to the A503 that we just used so you can see it's much smaller it's much tighter so I'm going to take this one I'm going to go in just with this shade right here this is we mix the two together but now I'm just going in with this shade and I'm going to plop this in the outer corner kind of on top just to tone down a little bit of that warmth I still want it to be warm but I just want to tone it down a little bit and then I'm going to stop there with shadow I don't want it to be too dark I don't want it to be too heavy I've accomplished my goal which is creating more lid space and making the eyes more open and I did that by keeping lightness here and slightly darker shades out here that's how I've created the shape on my eye to open them up and make them just wider and more open okay I'm going to sweep away any fall out I don't see any but you can never be too careful I'm going to go in and line my eyes and I'm going to be using a bronzy eyeliner so it has a little bit of a shimmer and it's not like a dark dark brown it's definitely not black so it's going to give a little bit of a softer definition to the lashes and this is a very affordable one this is from NYX it's a retractable eyeliner and this is the shade bronze it's one of my favorites it's a good one it's very creamy and soft and I'm really going to concentrate this and just keep it in the outer corner of the eye so I apply it and I don't have to worry about getting it perfect because before it has time to set I'm going to go in and I'm going to smudge this now I'm using the 210 brush I'm just going to smudge this into the lashes before it completely dries down so I do one eye at a time here and this is easy you can't mess this up you really just have to take the brush and just kind of push it into the product so nice I'm already going to the other side and what's great about this trick is you don't have to be perfect you know you can get a little messy line up there to start and then you just go in and you smooth it all out with this brush another great brush for this is the n12 I love that one that's usually my go-to brush for this I don't have it sitting in front of me that's the only reason I didn't use it but that is my favorite it's actually a little easier to I shouldn't say easier this is easy too but it's tighter so it kind of keeps the line a little thinner if you want a little thinner perfect okay and the last thing you can do if you really want to soften that liner is go back in with a shadow and I'm going to go in with we're going to go in with the shade right here and we're just going to run it on top of that liner this is the last thing that's just going to soften the liner soft eye makeup is really what suits me best not to say that I can't have eye makeup on or can't have a lot of eye makeup but I just want to feel and look really soft soft edges no harsh lines no harsh shades perfect okay then I'm going to take the 210 and we're going to go in we're going to mix these two together and this is what's going to define my lower lash line so I'm not going to use a pencil I'm just going to use a little bit of shadow and we're just going to softly run it on the lower lash line really subtle okay we're going to go in and curl the lashes it's a subtle little step but it really makes a difference when you do this versus when you don't and then we're going to go into mascara and I'm using the Bobbi Brown smoky eye mascara it's my favorite it's my go-to when I know I want a good lash day this tube might be the last use I get out of it I do feel like this mascara lasts a long time though I like this mascara because it gives length and volume and a really beautiful wispy look to the lashes and I really like to wiggle the wand at the base of the lashes to get the base the most full and dramatic and then pull up that lash it's just so pretty this is the last use I can get from this tube though I can definitely tell it's time to toss it definitely dried out but even even in the poor state that it's in the mascara looks so good look at that all right so now we're moving on to lips and if you remember from the last look the lips were just too cool toned they were this more mauvey shade it didn't work with the blush it just wasn't complimentary to me personally but then it also wasn't complimentary with the rest of the makeup so I'm going to go in with this liner from city beauty this is the shade blush these are brand new they just launched them and I love these they're very creamy they glide onto the lips really nice they're long wearing they're comfortable they don't feel dry and I love this color they also have a shade called willow which is more of a like spicy nutmeg shade it's interesting because this is kind of similar to the Ulta Beauty but warmer Ulta Beauty liner was like this shade but a cool tone version of this you know cool tone works on some skin tones I think for me warmer is more complimentary okay for lipstick I default to a warm peachy pink shade it just adds a lot of youthfulness to the face it just is what I love I also like lipsticks to have a little bit of shine or I like to wear gloss with my lipsticks because again it just plumps up the lips makes them look more full which also in turn just looks healthy and youthful this shade is called nude pop it's from Clinique I love this I love Clinique's lipsticks they're so good and I love this shade this is a brand new tube but I've had this before I love this color this is my lip right here nude pink warm without being too warm or too coral I'm going to go in and add a gloss I'm going to use the city lips gloss in the shade San Diego this is a really pretty pink with a gold shimmer but the shimmer is super refined so it doesn't look like glitter on the lips it just makes the lips look even more glossy and shiny and full so good okay now we're going to take a look at the final look and I'm likely going to go back in and add a little bit of blush just a tiny bit I love blush blush just lights up my face last thing I'm going to do is just cut down a little bit of the shine on the forehead you know what I'm going to take the BKBD 110 which is actually a concealer brush but it's dense so it's going to really pick up and set I'm going to load up with powder I'm just going to cut this shine down now we are having a good makeup day my friends now I feel okay last thing I'm going to do this is the last thing I'm going to do I'm going to take my blending brush this is what I use to blend out my shadow to start with and I'm not I didn't add product to this I'm just taking whatever's left over which is not much and I'm just running it in the crease one last time just to really soften everything oh perfect okay last step and then I promise we're done I'm going to take the Jean Iredell hydroponist spray this is really good to use with the foundation it smells amazing just a couple of sprays what this does is it just accelerates that process of you know when you put a powder on or you wear a powder foundation and it actually looks better like 45 minutes or an hour later once your skin produces natural oils and it kind of like becomes one with your skin this just creates that process and accelerates it so oh now we are talking now I'm having a I love it love love love this is a good makeup day this is the formula for a good makeup day for me so I hope that you guys found this video helpful I just thought it was I wasn't even planning to film this video today I just saw it as an opportunity when I did my makeup earlier and I was like this isn't working I thought you know what this happens to other women I know it so why don't we address it and talk about why this happens and what are some things that can contribute to a bad makeup day so hope you found this helpful or at least entertaining pop all your questions and comments down below and I will see you guys in my next video bye