10 viral beauty TikTok techniques that no makeup artist actually uses

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In my late teenagers, the YouTube beauty neighborhood was all the fashion. And I used to be obsessed. Thanks to the steering of YouTubers like NikkieTutorials, Shani Grimmond and Manny Mua, I diligently finessed my dipbrows, Kylie lips and baking method after college, hoping to impress my buddies on the subsequent home occasion.
Now, virtually 10 years on and within the mud of beauty YouTube’s notorious ‘dramageddon’, TikTookay is now facilitating a brand new era’s foray into makeup. Often the algorithm will get it proper however generally, the beauty tendencies that go TikTok-viral appear to take action merely due to their watchability, somewhat than providing any instructional worth.

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Of course, I’m no skilled. Maybe trade makeup artists actually are rubbing lube into their face as primer. To discover out for sure, I turned to Rob Povey, knowledgeable artist with 15 years of makeup beneath his belt. When it involves studying find out how to apply makeup from TikTookay, he warns to take the whole lot with a grain of salt.
“If one thing looks as if it’s a little bit of shit, it in all probability is,” he says. “But should you actually wish to learn to do makeup, e book an appointment to see knowledgeable makeup artist and they need to be capable to empower and educate you.”
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“No makeup artist would apply makeup like this. I’m all for utilizing your arms, they’re actually stunning to heat up product and soften it into the pores and skin. Using your arms to use makeup actually sheers it out loads, as a result of your fingers are absorbing half of the product. But on this case, it’s simply a lot product.
“I wish to state, [it’s] your personal private alternative – put on as a lot or as little makeup as you want. She simply doesn’t want that a lot product in any respect to make her look flawless.
“She can also be beneath a very sturdy ring mild, which blows out texture. If you noticed that makeup in less-than-perfect lighting, it will [appear] so ageing and expose each imperfection and blemish. The extra basis you put on, the extra apparent texture is in your pores and skin. And to not point out, the consumerism facet of losing a lot product.”
The Cullen-jaw impact

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“I’ve by no means seen somebody seek advice from a jaw spotlight within the trade. I might by no means use shimmer on the jawline as a result of that isn’t going to be flattering, and can make you look sweaty.
“But by way of placing mild on the areas of your face you wish to deliver ahead, that’s simply old-fashioned theatre makeup method. It’s 101 of contouring that makeup artists have used for the higher a part of a century to intensify all of the areas we wish to, with lights and shadows.
“Placing a bit of sunshine in that space with a powder, or a tiny little bit of lighter concealer subsequent to the contour in your jaw, will create a very nice distinction between the 2 and add a little bit of depth.”
Real-life filters 

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“Contouring is basically nearly adjusting the proportions of your face. You can, beneath actually particular lighting that is designed to emphasize the size of your face, actually play with the place the shadows fall.
“In idea, putting your contour larger than the place your pure cheek hollows sit goes to “deliver up” your cheekbone beneath very directional mild. In broad daylight, it’s going to look unnatural. You’re going to have a contour sitting on the best a part of your face and make it look fairly ruddy. If it’s only for a photograph or a efficiency, you may undoubtedly cheat that.
“When it involves blush, I actually love blush up on the temples and on the excessive factors of the face, which is a little bit of an ’80s method. But once more, that method will solely look flattering in very particular lighting.”
Slip and prime 

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“Lube won’t ever work as a primer per se, as a result of there are no elements in lube that are going to behave as both a barrier between your makeup and your pores and skin, or offer you longevity – which is what most primers are historically designed to do.
“Lube will certainly offer you a dewy look to the face, so I don’t suppose there’s something egregious in lube that it is best to by no means put in your face. I imply, it’s designed for essentially the most delicate components of our pores and skin. But it’s simply not going to prime you in any means, form or kind.”
Colour mapping 

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“This is simply unnecessarily complicating the makeup routine. There is no objective to making use of all these designs to the face, aside from it seems cute in a video and is enjoyable to look at. There’s completely no different motive why you’d apply that a lot product, it’s simply so heavy-handed and, once more, will solely actually look good beneath very arduous lighting.
“But the place she locations the blush, it’s actually recent and enjoyable, it makes the pores and skin look a bit younger and ‘imperfect’. Where she places all of the contour and bronzy tones, once more, you’ve simply obtained to suppose. When it involves bronzer, that is the place the solar would naturally hit your face, and contour is the place shadows would seem should you had been to face beneath a downlight.
“Then spotlight is for the areas you wish to be most distinguished in your face, [like] the cheekbones, the bridge of the nostril, the cupid’s bow, even the jawline. There’s nothing improper with the place she locations the merchandise, I simply suppose the entire design is superfluous.”
An OTT lip contour 

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“There are sure makeup artists on the market who completely do that. Well-renowned makeup artist, Scott Barnes, is synonymous with ‘the J.Lo look’ and he completely does this kind of method.
“Again, it’s fundamental contouring idea. If you add shadow across the edges of the mouth, you’re going to create that good distinction and make the lip seem extra full. But you may do a a lot easier model of this by merely simply overlining your lip and softening out the sides, so there’s not only a crisp line. Although, it’s good to have a sensible understanding that no quantity of lip contouring is ever going to provide the impression of lip filler.
“You can definitely obtain the phantasm of a extra rounded pout with both overdrawn lip liner or the contour method, however I might in all probability simply go loads lighter-handed.”
Powder up first

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“I’ve by no means completed this as a result of I’m of the speculation that powder goes to doubtlessly create balling of any cream or liquid merchandise that go after it.
“But should you apply it in a very light-handed means, and should you’re solely utilizing a brilliant superb, translucent powder (it could possibly’t be a tinted powder or one that offers you additional protection), I believe it will be superb. It’s just a bit additional safety blanket in case you are very oily-prone, or if in case you have fairly enlarged pores.
Personally, I might somewhat reduce the shine after I’ve completed the makeup, and choose the place I have to blur than have a whole layer of matte-ness. I not often need the whole lot to be flat and matte, I desire a little bit of spotlight and glow to the pores and skin.”
‘Your Perfect Lip Shade’ 

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“As a blanket rule, selecting your eyebrow color to be your lip line color might be not nice – particularly should you’re a blonde as a result of blonds want a very ashy, taupe-y color on the forehead, and that’s not going to look nice on the lip.
“But matching your blush to your lip color is nice. It’s what we as makeup artists would name a monochromatic look – the place the eyes, cheeks and lips are sometimes in the identical color household. It’s simply actually, universally flattering.
“We have all been given the proper lip color for our face. If you wish to simply emphasise it and amp it up slightly, use a lip stain, or lip liner and a balm in a barely deeper pigment.”
Fake freckles with root spray

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“I’ve seen [professional makeup artists] utilizing root spray to attain freckles. In some circumstances, individuals get a pleasant impact out of it. For the typical particular person, that is an excessive amount of danger.
“If you’ve got simply completed a full face of makeup, you’re tempting destiny by spraying one thing that is designed to present opaque protection. You would want to have such precision and luck for it to present you that ‘spatter’ impact of the fake freckles.
“I believe with fake freckles, you’re finest to stay to the classics, like eye pencils and lip liners. My favorite now could be these forehead markers, [they] have this translucency to them that liners don’t as a result of they’re meant for the forehead. When you stipple them on the pores and skin, they soften in and let the actual pores and skin nonetheless present by means of.
“I might additionally say have at the very least two-to-three colors, and the hot button is to not be too excellent. Start with the small, delicate dots and work as much as bigger dots. The much less excellent [the application, the more natural it looks.”
White concealer 

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“As a blanket statement, white concealer is absolutely not going to be flattering on everyone, especially if you’re a person of colour.
“It’s such a hard contrast – which, again, if that’s your personal aesthetic, go crazy – but as a working makeup artist, I would say, you can go one shade lighter and it will give this brightening effect but pure white is going to look so unnatural. Unless you want an obviously white under-eye [area] as an aesthetic alternative, I personally wouldn’t do it.”
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