10 Tips For A Natural Makeup Look Every Time...& What You Should

Hi everyone, welcome back. Today I'm going to be sharing 10 makeup tips that I think make your makeup look more natural. If you feel like your makeup looks heavy, you just don't love how it's looking, you don't want to wear a full face of makeup, but you don't want a no makeup makeup look, you want something that looks like you, that's very fresh and natural but just a little bit enhanced, these are 10 tips that I think will help you get there. A lot of these things may ruffle some feathers because a lot of these things that I don't think you should do for a natural look, you see all over the internet, all over social media, you see people doing these things and it's not that they're wrong, it's just to me, these techniques are not going to get you the natural blended seamless makeup look that I think a lot of people are going for. If you're new here, my name is Blair, I do all kinds of beauty content here on my channel, I would love for you to stick around and subscribe, but let's go ahead and get into the 10 tips. Before we get started, this is not meant to upset anyone or anything like that, I am just sharing things that I've learned, mainly in the last five years that I've been doing YouTube, I've tried a lot of makeup, I've tried a lot of techniques on myself, and I do have a very natural makeup style and I think I've gotten pretty good at it, so I feel that I am definitely qualified to share these tips. Let's get started with number one and that is applying a medium full coverage foundation all over your face. If you are going for a more natural, everyday kind of look, I would personally opt for something that is lighter coverage to put all over your face. If you go in with something that's more of a medium to full coverage and then you go in with concealer over the top, you are adding quite a bit of product to your face and not that that's wrong, but if you're going for that seamless, blended look, it looks like you're wearing makeup but not a lot of it, what I would recommend is a coverage-based product all over and then in the areas where you want more coverage, you see something peeking through that you don't like, use a full coverage concealer just in those areas, so overall your base looks very natural but you still get the coverage that you want, only in the areas that you want. This is something I do always on my face, unless I'm filming a specific video or I'm filming content for a specific purpose, I always use a very light base product all over and then a fuller coverage concealer for every day. I just think it looks the most natural and it looks the best throughout the day as well. Number two, now this is something that I see so many people doing and I don't think it looks good. I'm just going to be honest, I think it looks very unnatural and it looks like yeah, she's wearing a lot of makeup and it's applying a concealer that is too light under your eyes. The concealer that's five, six shades lighter than your foundation or your base makeup, it doesn't look good. I'm sorry to say it, it doesn't look good. I know that it's a lot of people say that it's brightening and it gives you that kind of highlighted effect under the eyes. It looks very unnatural and it makes your makeup instantly look heavy. Even if you haven't applied a ton, using a concealer that's too light doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. I'm sorry to say it, but it doesn't look good. Doesn't look natural. Now, if you're going for a full beat glam and you want to wear a really bright concealer under the eyes, then you know, that's your thing. Go for it. But for me, if you're going for more of a natural look and you want to look like yourself, but just a little bit enhanced, I would go one shade, maybe two shades lighter and your concealer, no more than two shades. Anything else, it makes you like you have whiteout under your eyes and I don't think most people are going for that look. Also, if you apply a concealer that is too light and you have any type of discoloration under your eyes, which I would say majority of people do have, if you apply something too light, you've heard me say it in my videos over and over, I'm going to say it again though, that discoloration is going to look even worse if you put something really light over something that's really dark because the darkness is just going to cast through that really light concealer and it's going to give kind of a gray tone under the eyes, which is usually not what we're going for. So in my opinion, don't go any lighter with your concealer than one to two shades in my opinion, I only go about one shade lighter. Sometimes I even match my face makeup to my under eye concealer because I don't like that harsh line that can sometimes happen when you go light and then a good bit darker. It's really hard to seamlessly blend those two tones together when you do that. So I would say stick to shades one, maybe two shades lighter in your concealer. Number three is another concealer tip and this is actually something that I don't hear many people talk about and for me, I have found that this makes a really big difference and it's not applying your concealer up in your lash lines, in your lower lash line. Instead, starting your concealer around this area right here. Why? Because if you apply concealer, especially if you're taking a applicator and you're directly applying it right here, like right in the inner corner of your eye, first of all, you're going to have too much product there, number one, which automatically makes your makeup look heavier. Number two, most people, I don't care how old you are, I don't care if you're 18 or if you're 85, most people have a lot of tiny little fine lines right here. I mean, you could have the most perfect skin ever and you're still most likely going to have some fine lines there. If you apply concealer directly in that area, it's automatically going to migrate there. Again, making your makeup look heavy throughout the day, it's going to look, it's going to settle there and usually that's not the look that we're going for when we're going for a natural makeup look. So what I always do, and I actually get comments about this in videos sometimes and it makes me laugh because people think I'm doing this and I'm not doing this on purpose and I am actually, I on purpose start my concealer in this area and then I'll slightly blend upwards just a little bit with my brush, but I don't take away all this like slight discoloration that I have right here because it looks natural. That looks natural. That looks normal. Most people have some under eye discoloration right here at the lash line. Now, I also have under eye discoloration down here that I do correct with a color corrector, but I'm talking about discoloration that's just natural. It's just right at the lash line. Most people have it, whether it's hormonal, from no sleep or a skincare product. I do that on purpose. I've even, I've gotten comments on videos saying you should apply your concealer up farther to conceal the redness that you have there. No, I do that on purpose. I like the natural discoloration that I have there. In fact, I typically end up adding some with a little bit of eyeshadow under here. Anytime I put eyeshadow on my eyes, I will take a little bit of whatever I'm using and put it on my lower lash line. So why would I then try to cover that up and then add it back with eyeshadow? Do you know what I mean? Trust me, it looks so much better, so much more natural to start your concealer here. And then if you want a little bit more coverage up a little bit higher, use your brush or your sponge, whatever you're using. Blend it upward slightly, but then you're just getting a little bit of product up there and not too much. It looks so much more natural and it wears so much better throughout the day. Number four is not applying foundation or whatever you're using as your base product near the eyes. So not bringing it under the eyes, not bringing it on the lid because usually you're going to apply other products there and that's adding an unnecessary layer. If you're already going to apply concealer under your eyes, even a color corrector and then a concealer, you don't need foundation under your eyes too. That's going to be way too many layers. It's going to look much heavier than it needs to. Same goes, in my opinion, for the eyelid. I see a lot of people taking foundation and putting it on their eyelids, which if you're not going to apply anything else to your face, then I guess that would work. But if you are planning to apply something else to the eyes, again, I feel like that's adding an unnecessary layer and that's going to lead to heaviness. It's going to lead to all the things that you don't want if you're going for a natural makeup look. So I always say leave the under eye area and the eye area in general free of any foundation or base product. Number five is apply very little makeup around the hairline, around the perimeters of the face and on the nose. And when I say the makeup, I mean the foundation. So leave those areas pretty bare. I'm not saying you can't get any base product or any foundation there, but I would say the nose in particular is an area on the face where makeup tends to cling. It likes to sit and the nose right away will make your makeup look very heavy. If you apply a lot of makeup to your nose, most likely it's going to make your overall base look heavier maybe than it actually is. What I typically do is I either apply just a small amount of whatever I'm using on my face on my nose and sometimes I just take what's left over on my brush and go over my nose with that. Just because I don't, again, I'm going for a natural look. I don't want a lot of layers and areas that tend to cause settling, creasing, all the things. The nose is one of those areas. The hairline, the perimeter of the face, again, I try to not bring a ton of foundation in those areas either. I actually learned this tip from Mario Dedivanovic of Makeup by Mario in his master class at Sephora last year. He made a point in that master class of saying that he, on purpose, does not apply a lot of foundation on the outer perimeters of the face. Why? Because typically almost everyone is going to apply some bronzer in those areas. If you're applying bronzer there, you don't really need foundation there. You don't really need coverage there. Most people need coverage in the center of the face, you know, in the cheeks. That's typically where most people want coverage, not really around the perimeter of the face. So why do you want to add extra layers there when you don't need it, especially if you're going to go in with bronzer anyway? I also apply this to my forehead. I try to keep as little foundation there as possible as well because, again, as we age, you get more lines. You have just areas of the face that are not super smooth. If you apply a lot of makeup there, it is going to look heavy. It's going to settle. It's going to crease. It's going to do all the things that you don't want. So for me, I try to keep the forehead very, very sheer in terms of coverage. And again, most people, I would say, don't need a ton of coverage in this area. So for me, I always focus my coverage right here because this is where I need it. But other than that, the areas where makeup tends to settle, like the nose, the forehead, the under eyes, I try to apply as little foundation or product there as possible. Number six, I am very passionate about because I see this all the time and I want to say so bad, I bet that doesn't look great in person. I bet it doesn't. And it's something that you see all the time. In fact, I bet if you're on any type of social media, any type of makeup content, you've seen this today. And that is applying a cream product like this on your face, like this, swiping it on after you've already applied foundation, concealer, sometimes bronzers, after you've already applied your base product. I know there are so many stick products now that honestly, they advertise for you to do this, to draw it all over and then blend it out. Okay. Number one, in my opinion, you're always going to apply too much product that way. You're going to get more than you need. You're not going to have a lot of control. It's going to be a lot harder to blend out. It just doesn't look seamless on the skin, in my opinion. It looks so much better if you apply a cream to the back of your hand or even a palette of some kind, or even a brush and then dab it off on your hand and then go on your face and apply. Swiping it on, it looks cool. And you know, for aesthetic reasons, people do it on short form content all the time. You see it all the time. People just swiping it on. Don't do it. It doesn't look good. It also picks up your makeup underneath. Every time I've applied a cream product that way, you can see foundation sitting here. You can see it because when you swiped it, you swiped your product. I see it all the time. People doing it over and over and over. And if you are going, if you don't care how your makeup turns out, then absolutely go ahead. But if you're wanting your makeup to look very blended, seamless, effortless, it looks so much better to apply from the back of your hand. I'm sorry to say, but applying it directly on the face, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good unless you're under painting. That's a different story. If you're under painting, you don't have anything else on your face, you're going to go over it with your base product. That I can understand. And obviously that's the whole premise of under painting is to sculpt the face. But I'm talking about if you have already applied your base product and then you're swiping creams all over, in my opinion, it doesn't look good after you blended it out. Every time I apply creams that way to my face, by that time I finished my makeup, I'm not happy with how it looks always. So I would say apply from the back of your hand, then go on your face and it will look so much better. Number seven is applying any product to the back of your hand or your palm before you apply it on your face. I'm talking about blush, bronzer, setting powder, eye shadow, anything that you're putting on your face, going on your hand first and then applying to the face or the eyes. This way, and I promise you, your makeup will always look better this way. It will blend better because you won't get that initial deposit of a lot of product. If you swipe into a blush, a bronzer, a setting powder, and you just go directly on your face, wherever you touch your face first is going to get a lot of impact. It's going to get a lot of product right away and it's hard to take it away once you apply it. If you go on the back of your hand or your palm first, you're kind of getting off that base layer, kind of blending into the brush first and then applying and it looks so much better. You really don't have to blend much because a lot of the blending will be done by doing that on your hand. So I would always recommend, even eye shadow, I always take my brush after I get my eye shadow. I'll tap it off, but I would say even further than tapping it, I would go on your hand and kind of go like this and then apply. You're going to get a much softer effect and if you want more, you can obviously go in and add more. You can build up the pigment that you're wanting, but if you just go straight in, don't touch, don't tap off, don't do anything, most likely you're going to get more product than you need, more than you want, and again, it's not going to give you that very blended natural effect. Number eight will not surprise you if you watch my content. I talk about this a lot, but that is applying brown mascara instead of black. Now obviously this is going to depend on your skin tone. For me, brown looks much better on my skin. It just, or against my skin, it just looks more, more natural. It doesn't look as harsh. Sometimes black on more fair, light, light medium skin tones can look just a little bit much for every day. Now if you're going for a full glam look and you want a lot of impact, you've got a lot of eyeshadow, a lot of makeup, then you might want black, but just for every day, for more natural makeup looks, I think brown looks a lot more flattering on a lot of people. Now if you are a darker skin tone, black may look great on you or I would even recommend trying black brown if you're like a medium skin tone and maybe you feel like black is still a little bit harsh but brown is not enough for you, I would try a black brown. Just not the blackest black mascara unless you have a very deep skin tone, then black, black is black, will look great on you. But using a mascara that closely matches the tone of your skin, I think if you're going for natural, looks a lot, a lot better. The other thing about mascara is if you're going for a natural look, I would say no mascara on the lower lashes. Why? Because typically if you look at your natural lower lashes, typically if you look at them, they're usually more fine than the lashes, your upper lashes. They're usually very, very tiny little fine hairs. For me, applying mascara on them automatically makes the makeup look less natural because your natural lashes look almost barely there for most people. If you look closely, yeah, you can see you have lower lashes but you wouldn't enhance them if you're going for natural in my opinion. So I would say no mascara on the lower lashes. I quit doing it probably four or five years ago and I've never, never gone back since. Even when I do a full face of makeup, I don't apply mascara on the bottom lashes. I just think it automatically makes it look like you have a lot of makeup on. So for me, no mascara on the lower lashes and a brown mascara or black-brown depending on your skin tone. Number nine is something that I did for a very long time and I finally quit doing it and I do think it's made a big difference in the overall look of my makeup and that is to not feel obligated to use all the product that you pump out on your hand. So say you're applying foundation and you apply a whole pump on the back of your hand, not feeling obligated to use all that product that you put on the back of your hand. You may not need it all. You may not need it all. Every product has different pumps, different dispensers, so you're going to get a different amount of product per pump but just only using what you need. Now some people may say, oh I don't want to waste it. Well the point of makeup for me is to make me look my best, to make me feel my best and I don't want to apply too much because that's not accomplishing that goal. That's making me not feel great is when I feel like I have too much on my face and that's the whole point of wearing makeup to begin with. So I would say don't feel like if you pump two pumps of foundation on the back of your hand that you need to use all two pumps. You can obviously be mindful when you're pumping. You can kind of look at the amount of product that you're getting and don't be wasteful. Don't continue to pump if you don't feel like you need all of that product. Just apply as much as you need and it may not be very much. It may be less than you think you need. I think a lot of makeup that people feel looks heavy on them and they don't love how it looks is simply because they've applied too much. I think a lot of issues with makeup come from applying too much product. Too much product and if you apply too much it's always going to look heavy. It's not going to look natural no matter your skin type, your age. You don't want to apply too much. And number 10. Apply whatever you apply on your cheeks to your eyes and your lips. For example, today I used a cream blush. I also used it as a lipstick on my lips. If you use a cream bronzer, applying a little bit of that cream bronzer to the crease. If you use a powder bronzer, applying a little bit of that to your crease. It just gives your makeup more of a cohesive look. It makes everything look connected. In my mind, makeup looks natural when everything kind of looks like it goes together. We don't have any outliers. Everything looks very intentional and like it's meant to be there. Everything's working together. And to me, if you apply everything you apply to the cheeks, to the eyes, and to the lips, it makes a really big difference and gives you a much more natural look. Alright, those are my 10 tips to give you natural, effortless, very there but not really kind of makeup. I hope you enjoyed this. I hope it was helpful. And of course, this is just meant to be fun and maybe helpful for someone out there. If you have never tried any of these tips before, try them out. See what you think. And of course, if you like the way that you're doing your makeup, if you do some of these things and you like it, keep doing it. Don't let me or anyone else that you see on social media tell you to stop doing something that you love. Keep doing it. This is just a lot of things that I have found that give me the result that I'm looking for, which is a very natural, I'm wearing makeup but not a lot of it kind of look. I will have all the products that I used if you're curious about anything listed and linked in the description box and in YouTube shopping as well. And if you're new, I would love for you to stick around, subscribe, and if you're not already, make sure to follow me over on Instagram at simply.flair and TikTok simply.flair1. If you like this video, let me know. Give it a thumbs up. I always forget to say that, but if you like a video, please give it a thumbs up. It really does help out creators when you thumbs up their video, so definitely give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment if you do any of these things or if you're going to try them, let me know. And thank you for being here. I will see again very soon. Remember, simply be you. Bye.