CLASSIC FIRST DATE Hair and Makeup || Essential Tutorial For A Conservative Woman To Look Her Best!
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In this episode, I'll be showing you how to get the perfect, conservative first date hair and makeup look that accentuates your natural beauty and makes you look like yourself. Do you want to look like you, but slightly better? I'm really excited to show you how you can achieve this look and go from looking like this to this!
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where I'm going to be showing you how
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to get the perfect classic and conservative first date hair and makeup look and go from
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Doing your makeup for a first date is actually really important because you want to make
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a good first impression but you also want to show who you really are and so you don't
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want to show a makeup look that's really intense or totally doesn't look like you.
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So I'm really excited to show you how to achieve this look and to get hair that looks just slightly
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better than what yours normally looks like and to do your makeup in a way that makes you
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So the first thing I'm going to do is actually start with my hair.
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So I'm just going to take out this bun, if I can, and we're just going to part our hair
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So I want my hair parted down the middle and I'm going to actually put in dry shampoo.
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Even though my hair is clean, I'm going to put dry shampoo in just right at the roots
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because that will give more longevity to my hair.
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If you put dry shampoo in actually before it gets oily, it'll absorb the oil before it
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And I want to keep this easy because who wants to take two and a half, three hours to get
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I mean, most of the time you don't have that much time.
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And even if you do, do you really want to spend that whole time just getting ready?
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So if we can keep it a little bit faster and still get it done, I think that's the best
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So I'll be using the Kristen S curling iron and I think this is an inch and a quarter and
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It's not too pricey, but it does a really good job and it holds a curl.
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So I'm just going to start off by taking a random piece of hair and I'm going to take
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my curling iron and I want to curl away from my face.
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So I'm going to put this about two inches from the bottom of my hair and then curl up
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and then I'm going to uncurl it and slide it down the barrel.
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And that gives a really natural kind of beachy curl and I really like the way that looks.
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So the reason I'm just doing it kind of randomly is because what you may find out is that you
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You may end up finding that like the hair sort of blends together, which is easier because
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then you don't have to separate it and put it on top.
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And you also don't have to hold it very long on the barrel.
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You probably have to hold it less time than you might think.
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So I might do some away from my face and then some towards my face.
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So I'm going to do this one towards my face and I'm going to clamp it and just wind it
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up, hold it for maybe three seconds and then I'm going to unwind it.
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And the sliding it out of the barrel will smooth the ends so it doesn't get a really intense
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curl on the bottom, but it just looks smoother and less frizzy or whatever it is.
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So the thing for me about doing your hair and makeup for a first date is that you really
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So I'm not trying to do like a really intense curl that's not even similar at all to my natural
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hair texture because I'm not trying to look like someone that I'm not.
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I want to look like myself just slightly more classic.
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And doing your hair and makeup in a way that just accentuates your natural beauty is the
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best thing to do for a first date because you want him to see what you really look like
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So what's your favorite thing about first dates?
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First dates were always kind of fun but also stressful, right?
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I'm with a stranger for a couple of hours and I don't know if we're going to have anything
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I don't want to ruin a friendship depending on the first date.
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Let me know in the comments down below what your favorite first date activity is.
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I always liked going to dinner because I always felt like that's a way for us to actually
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get to know each other and it wouldn't make it so we had to go on a second date to actually
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But I do like the idea of going to dinner and a movie because if things are going well
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then you have a shared experience from the first date which is so awesome.
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The reason we do our hair first and not our makeup first is because I don't want my makeup
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When you're using heat tools your face can get a little bit overheated and so you don't
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want to do all of your makeup and have it look really nice and then you just have to
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So as you can see I'm going through my hair pretty quickly.
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Like this isn't taking very long especially because I'm just taking small sections from
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all around my head and I didn't section it off.
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Now I'm not against sectioning off my hair most of the time.
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If I want to take more time and be really a perfectionist about it then I'll do that.
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But if I'm not trying to be a perfectionist I'm probably not going to do that and I'm
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just going to leave it down and do it sort of messily.
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But I think it looks really nice and it moves pretty quickly.
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I love hearing people's dating stories and sometimes they can be so funny.
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So as you can see this side of my hair is done.
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And so now I'm just going to do this side of my hair.
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If you have a significant other, what was your first date like with them?
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Or was it more just like friends turning into a relationship?
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Because for me and my husband, we kind of never actually had a first date.
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We started talking and then it sort of very quickly turned into just us hanging out, which
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But we did go on one lunch that I sort of pretend is our first date.
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If you guys want ideas for first date outfits, I was also thinking about doing a video about
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that because I think it sort of falls in the same category of looking like yourself but
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better and wanting to just dress really nicely but not overwhelmingly fancy or anything, just
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kind of looking pretty and feminine and accentuating your best features and all of that.
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So let me know in the comments if that's something you guys want to see.
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So another way you can do your hair for first dates is if you have more naturally straight
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hair but it just has some waves in it, you can use a hair straightener and just straighten
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Or if you have really curly hair but sometimes there are some like weird pieces that don't
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actually follow the wave pattern or the curl pattern rather, you can just find a small
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curling iron and curl a few of those pieces that don't actually match your curl pattern.
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You can just take your natural texture, if you have like beautiful wavy natural texture,
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just make it look moisturized, put like a shine spray in it and then make sure it doesn't
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I wish I had naturally like a normal wave pattern because I have really wavy hair on the bottom
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And it's just like, well I can't just leave it like this, it looks crazy.
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But what you can see I'm sort of doing is I'll sort of just like curl randomly and it's
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more towards the front of my face and then I'll pull the rest of my hair back and then
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just start sectioning off pieces and bringing it forward so that it is in a way sectioning
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just much less intense of a process and it's a little bit easier.
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Do you meet them through apps or friends or school or how do you meet people?
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Because I went on a ton of first dates when I was in New York and most of them I actually
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It has been through a mutual friend but I was dating a lot through apps and that was
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how I was meeting people so it was very interesting.
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And actually my favorite app at the time was Coffee Meets Bagel because I felt like people
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actually had to write more of a bio than something like J-Swipe or Tinder.
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It's just Jews on there and you swipe and you decide if you're going to go out with
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I did meet people through that too but I liked Coffee Meets Bagel better because you actually
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had to write more of a description most of the time.
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And I'll be honest, if you had a nice picture but you didn't have anything written in your
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description I didn't accept that and I didn't go on a date with you because I wanted to know
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And just to finish this off I'm going to curl my bangs.
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And this one I kind of like slide off so it lays with the rest of the curl.
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And I like it when they kind of like floof down, if that's a word, floof.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to wait for these curls to cool down and set because
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if you brush them out then they're not going to hold the curl as well.
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So I'm just going to wait for these curls to cool down and in the meantime what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to spray them just so that hopefully they hold better.
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And I'm going to put in some texturizing spray.
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So this is the OGX Dry Texture Finishing Spray and I love this stuff.
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It smells really weird so just maybe ignore that but it does such a good job of texturizing
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And I actually do put it near the roots and near the front of my hair.
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And I'm not going to run my fingers through it yet and separate until it's cooled down.
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So now it's time to do the makeup and I love this part as you know.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to say before each step whether it's necessary
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And you can decide whether you want to skip it or not.
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So I'm going to be showing you all of the steps and then you can decide whether or not
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The first thing I'm going to do is put on primer.
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But this is again an unnecessary step unless you want to really have longevity to your makeup.
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I'm going to be using my L'Oreal Infallible Matte Lock which I've been really loving.
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It's been creating this really smooth base and helping keep my oil at bay.
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I think that this primer really kind of deals with it all.
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And I'm going to tuck my hair behind my ears here.
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Now if you're looking for a pore filling primer then you might like this one.
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And I'm going to be using two foundations mixed together.
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And this is the Dream Urban Cover by Maybelline.
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Now I want to use a less full coverage foundation.
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Because I want my skin to look nice but not like skin.
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Since we're looking to go a little bit more natural.
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And I'm going to take a damp sponge and tap that in.
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And we're really just looking to even the skin tone.
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My point is just to even out any discoloration.
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So this just kind of brings a nice evenness to my skin.
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The point of foundation isn't to just cover up your natural features.
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The point of foundation is, like I said, to even out your skin tone.
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So now that I'm all evened out, I'm going to go in with concealer.
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And then concealer for any zits or acne or scars.
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So if you don't have zits or acne or scars, skip that part of the concealer.
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But if you want to cover up any dark eye circles, then I would keep that in this whole
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So I'm going to start off with the eye circles.
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But I find that when I use this, I don't actually have to use an additional concealer on top.
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And it just kind of makes my eye circles go away.
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You can see there's definitely a difference when you look and compare.
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So before that creases, I'm actually going to take this little tiny sponge and I'm going
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to tap that out just to make sure there's no creases.
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And then I'm going to go into my number seven powder.
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And I'm going to tap the same sponge in and tap under the eye just to set that.
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Because I have a million little creases and they're always going to get creasy so I can't
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That's the only place I'm going to powder because I'm going to be using creams for the
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I want this to look as natural as possible so creams are really the way to do that.
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Now I'm going to go into my Boing Concealer from Benefit and I'm just going to take this
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brush here and I'm going to go over any spots I want a little bit more coverage because
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Of course, that's not something I consider full coverage, oh you're covering up your
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I mean acne isn't super, it's not like it's part of your face.
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It's something that comes and goes so you don't have to feel ashamed for covering up your
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And I had to get really good at that when I had more problematic skin.
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And if you want, you can put a little bit around your nose because I get a lot of redness
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around your nose and that's pretty natural for women.
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So I'm just going to dip into the LA Girl Brow Pomade and I'm just going to fill this
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I don't want to do something really intense for my eyebrows because I want my eyebrows
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And just to hold the brow hairs in place, I'm going to be using the CoverGirl Easy
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Breezy Brow just to keep those hairs where I want them.
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If you have really full brows and you don't feel like you need pomade or anything to hold
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If you feel like you need to fill them in more, go ahead and do that.
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I would say this is a necessary step just so that when you put on foundation it doesn't
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totally block out what your natural kind of flushed face looks like and make you look
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So I'm going to put that on a little stippling brush.
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And I'm just going to tap that on the back of my hand and then tap it on my cheeks.
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And you can see I'm pretty much stippling and swirling.
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The nice thing about this blush, this cream blush, is that it's pretty forgiving.
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So if you are putting on, you're not going to put on too much.
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And if you do, you can always go in with your damp sponge and pat that out.
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Next up is contouring or bronzing depending on what kind of shade you're using.
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I think this is necessary because I think that your kind of natural curves and angles
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of your face can get tamped down when you put on foundation.
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So bringing a little bit of that back into your face makes it look more angular and gives
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So I'm going to be taking the Wet n Wild Dual Ended Contour Stick and I'm going to dip
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I'm actually going to just tap the top of this here.
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And then I'm going to dab it off on the back of my hand a little bit.
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Just right in the cheekbone area, underneath the cheekbone.
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And for me, I'm going to do it down the sides of my nose.
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Now that we've done all of our cream products, we can go ahead and set it down.
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Depending on the products that you're using, you may not need to set it down with powder.
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And also depending on your skin type, if you have dry skin, you probably don't need to
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But because I have combo, I'm going to set it and make sure it lasts.
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I want it to be long lasting because hey, if the first date goes well, it might end up
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So it's always nice to make sure that your makeup is going to last throughout the date.
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So I would say it's necessary, but depending on your skin type, it doesn't necessarily have
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And just put it right on the tops of my cheekbones and down my nose.
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And I'm doing this just to add a little bit more kind of healthiness to the skin.
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And this is a very natural highlight, so it doesn't look like you're wearing highlight.
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It looks like your skin is kind of glowing from within.
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So it's not necessary, but it's kind of like a nice addition.
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And then this is again another nice addition, not necessary, putting on a setting spray.
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And I actually do this before I do my eye makeup because my eye makeup can sometimes get ruined
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So just doing this on kind of like the skin level will just melt everything together and
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I'm going to put on this Lorac Pro Rosé shade.
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And I'm just going to use my finger to apply this.
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And it makes it look like you're wearing more than one eye shadow.
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You don't have to go crazy with eye shadow on a first date.
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You just want it to look like you put in a little bit of effort.
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Just like one shade that has a lot of dimension in it.
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And you can choose whatever shade kind of fits your skin tone.
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So for me this is really pretty, but if you want to go with something that's like a little
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bit more taupey or something that's a little bit more silver, you totally can.
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Just use something that's subtle and not like really out there, but just is close-ish to
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your skin tone with like a hint of sparkle or shine or whatever it is.
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So I am going to curl my lashes and put on some mascara.
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I'm going to be using the Maybelline Falsies mascara.
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And then I'm going to put a little bit of mascara on my bottom lashes.
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And to finish off this look, I'm just going to put on a long-lasting lipstick that's super
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So this is the Liquid Catsuit Wet n' Wild lipstick in Give Me Mocha.
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I actually talked about this in my Ask Me Anything video and oh my gosh, I love this lipstick.
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And as you can see, it's pretty natural, it's just myself, but a little bit better.
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And that is like the ideal thing for a classic conservative lady to wear on a first date.
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And so it should be you, but just slightly more classic and elevated and elegant.
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So I absolutely love this look and I can't wait to see if you guys try it.
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Let me know what your go-to makeup looks are, what your go-to first date makeup look is.
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