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For my face, I'm gonna apply the Illamasqua Hydra Veil,

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absolutely love this primer for my face.

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And for my eyes, I'm applying…

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this is the Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer.

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And the eye shadow primer, I'm even gonna apply this

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underneath my eyes,

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so it is literally around my entire eyes.

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The primer will allow the makeup to just be applied

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a lot more flawlessly without it getting into the creases,

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or without even the pigmentation fading on us,

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especially if you're gonna have it on for a few hours.

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I'm going to start with eye makeup first.

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And I'm gonna do the order of this a little bit differently,

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compared to what you might've normally seen.

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So I'm gonna start with my waterline makeup first.

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I'm gonna be applying this eyeliner.

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This is a beautiful maroon reddish color by Sephora,

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the shade, itself, is called 04 Red Berry.

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I'm applying this both to my top and bottom waterline.

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For eyeshadows, we are gonna keep this incredibly simple,

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and we're just gonna be using two shades.

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So the first shade that we have, this is called Karma,

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and the second shade that we're gonna use

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is called Frazzled.

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Starting with the Karma eyeshadow shade first,

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I'm going to be applying

this all over the lid.

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Now I'm using a slightly more fluffier eye shadow brush

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'cause I do want this to be applied all over my lid

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and I don't want the pigmentation to be too heavy.

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Make sure to take a time to properly blend this out.

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Next, I'm gonna be applying the shade Frazzled.

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And for this one, I'm using an eyeshadow brush

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that's slightly more flatter compared to the one

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that we just used for applying the shade, Karma.

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I'm concentrating this a little bit more

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on the inner corner of my eye,

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and the reason that I'm using the eyeshadow brush,

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especially for a shimmery shade like this,

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is because I did not want the shimmers to be too heavy.

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If I used my fingers,

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the pigmentation would have been a lot darker,

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you would have seen a lot more shimmers.

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But I'm trying to make this as subtle as possible,

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especially because I wanna use a red lipstick for my lips,

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and I want to keep the eye shadow look

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as subtle as possible.

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So for my under eyes,

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I'm gonna be using my powder foundation technique.

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Now, this is something

I normally tend to use.

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I'm not a big fan of concealer, no matter what I've done,

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it always seems to settle into my creases.

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So I do like my powder foundation technique a lot more.

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If you wanna see more information about this,

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check out my other video where I've gone in detail

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about how exactly is it that I cover up my under eyes

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without using concealer.

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Now, since I normally tend to use the same technique

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over and over again, I'm not gonna go into too much detail

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about it in this video.

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For my lashes, I am using the Demi Wisp by Ardell.

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I love these lashes because I feel like they give you

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that subtle pop of having something a little bit extra,

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but without it looking a little too crazy,

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where you can clearly tell that you have fake lashes on.

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With these, I have to admit,

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there are times people have actually come up to me

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and complimented that I've really nice lashes,

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and didn't even realize that I was wearing false lashes.

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I don't know how much to believe that, but Hey,

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I will take that as a massive compliment

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that these look as natural as possible.

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Now that the eyes are completely done,

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let's go ahead and move on to the rest of our face.

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Now, I'm not gonna be applying a full face of foundation

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'cause I'm just not a fan of foundation, in general.

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So instead, what I'm gonna use is,

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I'm gonna be using my powder foundation,

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and I'm just gently applying it in areas

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where I feel like I need a little bit of coverage.

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I don't mind if some of my hyperpigmentation,

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my age spots, are coming through.

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My main goal really is just to, sort of, blur it out.

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So this way it has more of a natural look,

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without it looking like it's really cakey.

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And honestly, my second reason being

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is that I am in my forties, I do have more aging skin.

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The more makeup I put on, the more obvious it is,

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and I do like a very natural look for my face,

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especially for my skin.

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I want skin to look like real skin.

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For my blush, I'm using the Rare Beauty Liquid Blush.

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This is in the color Bliss,

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and I'm just gonna apply this with my fingers,

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keep this as simple as possible.

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Really, my main goal with this is just

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to give it a little bit of pop of color on my cheeks.

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I'm not trying to get this to look absolutely perfect

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or anything like that.

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I just want to give this that look of,

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when you're out in the sun

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and your cheeks get a little bit flushed.

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And just a tad bit on my nose,

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and then just taking it across to both my cheeks.

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So as you can see, this really is very subtle.

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And to be honest with you, this will fade over time.

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So once it's been, I would say, easily two to three hours,

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this pigmentation is gonna go down quite a bit.

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So either carry more

of this blush with you,

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or go a little bit darker with your shade,

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so this way it stays on

there for a few hours.

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So we are on to our last step of applying our lipstick.

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I am really excited to use this one

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'cause honestly I don't do red that often.

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And I love the different combinations that they have

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in here of how they put this whole thing together.

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So let's go ahead and apply this.

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I'm gonna start with a little lip liner first,

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and then move on to the next two steps.

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For the lip liner,

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I'm literally just keeping this exact shape on my lips.

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I'm not trying to overline or anything,

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just keeping this as simple and easy as possible.

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By the way, if you want to overline them,

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please go ahead and do that.

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You do you, Boo, do what makes you happy.

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So for me, mainly 'cause

red lips are so hard to do,

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I just wanna keep it with the exact shape of my lips,

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so this way I don't mess it up.

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Now that the lip liner is done,

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I'm gonna move on with the liquid matte lipstick.

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(gentle music)

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So the last step that we have here is the lip strobe,

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and I'm gonna be applying this

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right in the middle of the lips

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to give it that beautiful shine.

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So here is our final makeup look.

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And I wanna wish you a beautiful Valentine's Day.

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(bright music)

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