Classically Abby - January 22, 2020


MAKEUP FOR GLASSES 101 ｜｜ Make your eyes stand out!


Episode Stats

Length

15 minutes

Words per Minute

188.66937

Word Count

3,005

Sentence Count

175

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

Wearing glasses can make your eyes look smaller so you have to do a lot to make them look more normal. In this video, I give you some tips and tricks on how to do your makeup while wearing blue light glasses.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be doing a makeup for glasses tutorial.
00:00:08.820 So I know that wearing glasses can really change the way that you do your makeup and I have a very specific prescription where my glasses actually make my eyes look smaller.
00:00:18.240 So I have to do a lot to make my eyes look more normal sized when I'm wearing a pair of glasses.
00:00:24.060 Now these are not actually my seeing glasses, these are my blue light glasses and the reason I'm wearing these and not my normal glasses is because I actually filmed this video twice.
00:00:35.100 I tried to film this video with my normal glasses and I have such bad vision that trying to control the camera and trying to do my makeup while I was all up in this didn't look great on camera.
00:00:45.860 So I figured what I would do is film the whole thing with my contacts in and then put on my blue light glasses at the end.
00:00:52.020 But for me, what's really important when I'm wearing glasses is one, that my eyes have a certain standout quality and two, that my makeup doesn't get all over these.
00:01:03.400 So today I'm giving you some tips and tricks to get a really beautiful look while you're wearing glasses.
00:01:10.160 Let's get started.
00:01:11.400 So I'm going to start off by putting on some primer and lately what I've been doing is using a sponge to do this because I find that it gets this poreless primer really into my pores.
00:01:21.540 And just conceals those big pores on my cheeks and in my T-zone.
00:01:29.140 So I enjoy using a sponge to do this.
00:01:32.980 I'm also going to tap this into my smile lines and into my forehead lines.
00:01:41.360 Now I'm just taking my Physician's Formula Healthy Foundation and I'm just putting a little bit of that all over the face.
00:01:47.920 I've actually been seeing for myself how much of a difference it makes when I don't like over apply my foundation because then it doesn't go into fine lines.
00:01:57.440 And the fact of the matter is most of us just need to balance out our skin tone.
00:02:01.840 We don't need a ton of coverage.
00:02:03.760 So if that's the case, it makes your skin look a little bit more natural not to go overboard with your foundation.
00:02:09.520 So I'm just tapping that out with a damp sponge.
00:02:13.000 Now I am redoing my setup in here and I'm trying a few different things.
00:02:17.740 I don't know if you can hear, but I have a new microphone.
00:02:20.800 Now I'm not sure if I like it yet.
00:02:22.800 So we're trying it out and seeing what we think.
00:02:26.160 Let me know in the comments if you like this better than what I've been using.
00:02:29.820 And I don't know, I always feel like I've mastered something when I'm able to work with technology.
00:02:37.080 I am not the best at figuring this stuff out.
00:02:40.460 So doing some research and trying to find the right things is always a little bit tricky for me.
00:02:45.740 And I feel like it's just hard.
00:02:49.540 So I want to get your guys' input and tell me whether you think that my new mic is better or worse than what I had before.
00:02:57.760 Next up, I'm just going to do a little bit of spot concealing.
00:03:01.700 So I bought this L'Oreal Infallible Full Wear Concealer, which I used to use under my eyes in a couple of videos.
00:03:07.360 And I still love it for under my eyes.
00:03:09.080 But it's so full coverage that I find it is fantastic for concealing blemishes.
00:03:14.400 So I got one that's more similar to the shade of my foundation because normally what I'll do is I'll use a concealer that's a little bit lighter than my foundation for underneath the eyes and to highlight certain parts of the face.
00:03:25.120 Well, you don't want to highlight the parts of your face that have blemishes.
00:03:28.760 So you want to find a concealer that's the same shade as your foundation so it just kind of blends in with the rest of your skin.
00:03:35.040 So I'm just going to go in with this little brush.
00:03:38.140 And I'm just going in on the tip of this here.
00:03:40.760 And I'm going to kind of cover up the little spots that I have.
00:03:44.880 And then I'm just going to go ahead and blend out the edges with my finger, this brush, and maybe a sponge.
00:03:56.620 Now what you can always do is go back in with just a little bit more foundation over the top of that.
00:04:01.640 This is what I do at least.
00:04:02.900 And I'll just take a damp sponge again and just tap that over the top to blend it in even smoother.
00:04:10.260 Tapping, not pulling, because if you pull, you'll move the concealer you just laid down.
00:04:15.860 But if you tap, you're just kind of blending it in.
00:04:19.860 Next up, I'm going to go in with this concealer.
00:04:22.420 Now I put this in my 2019 favorites.
00:04:24.200 It's still a favorite.
00:04:25.120 This is the Instant Age Rewind.
00:04:26.700 And I'm just going to put this underneath my eyes and in the inner corners as well as a little bit on my chin and a little bit on my forehead just to bring some light to the center of the face.
00:04:37.700 Now, this is something that is super difficult when you're wearing glasses, at least for me.
00:04:43.420 When I wear glasses, the first thing that's going to get messed up is this little point right here, right, where your glasses are resting.
00:04:51.160 Of course, the first thing that where all the makeup is going to come off is where your glasses are.
00:04:56.700 So when you are putting on concealer, you just want to make sure you tap this in really, really well so that you're not putting yourself in a position where you're going to have these marks around your nose.
00:05:09.300 Of course, you're probably going to have marks anyways.
00:05:12.060 It's going to happen.
00:05:13.140 But you want to give yourself the absolute best chance for that not to happen over the course of the day.
00:05:18.180 So the first thing is that you actually tap out that first original level of concealer.
00:05:24.660 Now, this is what I would say is probably the most important step.
00:05:28.620 You're going to want to take a loose powder or a pressed powder, but I find loose powder is better for this specific thing.
00:05:34.480 And you're going to want to tap that in right in that inner corner just to set that down really, really well.
00:05:42.380 I'm also going underneath my eyes, but the most attention should be paid to right in this inner corner here because the powder will prevent your glasses from sticking and pulling the makeup off.
00:05:56.000 Instead, it'll just glide off as it should.
00:05:59.180 So we're just going to set that down really, really well and make sure that it is just totally budge-proof.
00:06:08.740 Now, I'm just going to go ahead and set my whole face with the No. 7 Lift and Luminate Powder.
00:06:14.280 And I am still obsessed with this powder.
00:06:16.580 Oh, my gosh.
00:06:17.260 I bought this, and I thought, we'll get this.
00:06:19.640 We'll see if it works.
00:06:20.600 You know I have combination skin, so it might work well for my dry days.
00:06:24.100 But then the days where I'm more oily, it might, like, not really do anything.
00:06:27.880 No, it does everything, and my skin looks awesome.
00:06:30.960 And I'm obsessed with the way in photographs that my face looks when I use this powder.
00:06:35.500 So let's move on to the eyes.
00:06:37.660 Now, when you're wearing glasses, the biggest thing for me is that I want to make sure my eyes look as big as possible.
00:06:44.220 Why?
00:06:45.360 Let me explain.
00:06:46.740 Different kinds of glasses do different kinds of things for your eyes.
00:06:49.340 So my glasses make my eyes look smaller.
00:06:51.520 Some women's glasses make their eyes look bigger, which is awesome.
00:06:55.060 For me, it doesn't work that way.
00:06:56.320 So I have to try and make my eyes look as big as possible without the help of glasses, which are doing the work to make them look smaller.
00:07:04.220 So the first thing I want to do is I want to bring attention to my eyebrows.
00:07:07.780 I want to bring attention to this part of my face and really just accentuate what is naturally beautiful there.
00:07:13.900 So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to fill in my eyebrows.
00:07:16.540 And I recently bought, let's see if I can find it, this CoverGirl Easy Breezy Brow.
00:07:22.100 And I bought it in the darkest shade.
00:07:24.120 And I've been using clear for a long time, but I figured I would try something that's closer to my natural brown black shade.
00:07:30.900 And I actually really like it.
00:07:32.500 The only thing for me is that because I still have these little bald spots in my brow, I have to fill it in anyways.
00:07:38.000 But this still gives a really beautiful hold and look to the brow.
00:07:42.620 So I usually fill it in with a little bit of pomade first and then use this over the top.
00:07:47.300 So for anyone who hasn't seen my videos, the way that I fill in my eyebrows is I don't do anything too crazy or fancy.
00:07:55.040 As you can see, I have pretty thick eyebrows to begin with.
00:07:57.600 But the first thing I want to do is I want to fix this right here because I have this little bald spot where my brow dips in.
00:08:05.020 So I like to just straighten that out.
00:08:08.040 And I'm just doing little hair-like strokes.
00:08:10.180 And then I go through and any spots that need just a little bit of help, I go ahead and fill those in too.
00:08:17.420 And I elongate the end of my brow because I have rather short brows.
00:08:22.700 So I like to just go in and add a little bit of length right at the end.
00:08:26.820 And as well, one of my favorite little techniques is to take the flat side of the brush at the front of the brow and kind of push up.
00:08:32.980 And that will just give you a little bit of extra volume and color.
00:08:37.560 So you can see there's a little bit of a slight difference between these two brows.
00:08:41.340 But it's not a huge difference.
00:08:43.000 I don't want it to look totally unnatural.
00:08:44.800 So I'm usually just going for a more natural, filled-in look.
00:08:49.760 Now I'm going to go in with this CoverGirl Brow Gel.
00:08:52.500 And I'm just going to put this all in place.
00:08:55.660 Keep it held all day.
00:08:57.680 I have the funniest story for you guys.
00:09:00.240 So when I was in Arizona for a wedding, I didn't bring my brow brush.
00:09:08.020 I just forgot it.
00:09:09.060 And I was like, oh my God, what am I going to do?
00:09:11.400 Well, I had to get creative.
00:09:13.420 So if you can guess what I did, I took the edge of my straight edge tweezers and I dipped
00:09:23.380 it into my brow pomade and I used the straight edge to draw on the little brow hairs, which
00:09:31.500 actually worked crazily enough.
00:09:33.820 Now you can probably see I went a little heavy-handed with the brow gel in this eyebrow.
00:09:37.700 So I'm just going to take a clean spoolie and I'm just going to brush that out a little
00:09:43.160 bit just to get some of that off of my hairs and I'll just even it out on the other side.
00:09:50.680 Next up, we're going to dip into the Jaclyn Hill palette.
00:09:53.760 And I'm just going to be doing a neutral eye, not doing something super colorful or crazy.
00:09:58.680 I kind of want to show you what you can do every day when you're wearing glasses, but
00:10:02.640 it's something that's going to accentuate the shape of your eye.
00:10:05.340 So I'm first going in with this shade right here and I'm going to bring that into my crease
00:10:12.880 and just buff it out.
00:10:16.700 Now I'm going to go in with this smaller fluffy brush and I'm going to dip into this color right
00:10:22.280 here.
00:10:22.740 It's just the one right directly below it and it is just slightly darker.
00:10:26.540 And we're just going to do the exact same thing.
00:10:28.420 Bring it out on that outer corner and windshield wiper motions, bring it into the inner corner
00:10:33.980 of the eye.
00:10:35.340 Now I'm just going to take this darkest shade here and I'm going in with this little brush.
00:10:42.500 You can see I've already started and I'm just creating a daytime smoky eye by focusing
00:10:47.540 attention on the outer edge of the eye, which is going to make your eyes look very like pulled
00:10:52.960 out and wide and very doe-eyed, which is pretty and I think will make your eyes look even bigger
00:10:59.880 when you're struggling against glasses.
00:11:05.340 Now I'm just going to go back with this fluffy brush and I'm going to blend this out so there's
00:11:10.400 no harsh lines or edges.
00:11:12.120 On the tip of this finger, I'm just going to dip into this second shade here.
00:11:16.220 It's a very bright shade and I'm just going to tap this on the inner corner and blend it
00:11:23.500 out towards the outer edge.
00:11:25.220 And this is just going to exaggerate even more that doe-eyed effect.
00:11:30.180 And now we're just going to take this dark shade that we used on the outer corner of the
00:11:33.980 eye, this dark chocolate shade, on a little shader brush and we're just going to blend
00:11:37.840 that on the bottom lash line, the lower lash line.
00:11:41.280 Again, this is just going to make your eyes look bigger and that's what we're doing here.
00:11:46.340 We're trying to get our eyes to look as big as possible when we're wearing glasses.
00:11:51.420 And that's what this will do for you.
00:11:54.000 And the next thing that you can do to help this even more is take this lightest shade
00:11:58.780 that we started with and just blend that out.
00:12:01.340 And you can do this messily because you're just trying to make it look as seamless as
00:12:06.600 possible.
00:12:08.760 Now here is what's really going to make the biggest difference.
00:12:12.140 We're going to go in with this black shade on an angled brush and we're going to do like
00:12:16.080 a smoked out wing.
00:12:18.160 This is going to be something easy that you can do pretty quickly and all you really have
00:12:21.960 to do is take the angle of this brush and pull it out from the outer edge of your eye
00:12:28.320 to the outer corner of your eyebrow.
00:12:31.660 So I'm just going to do that and you can see I just drew a line.
00:12:38.880 And now I'm just going to take that shadow, tap off the excess and connect it to my lash
00:12:45.480 line.
00:12:46.480 So we're just doing little dashes across the upper lash line.
00:12:54.040 You can re-dip if you have to into your black shadow and we just connect it.
00:13:05.480 And the nice thing about working with shadow is that if it looks a little messy, that's
00:13:08.620 perfectly fine.
00:13:10.040 It's not supposed to look as crisp as if you're using an actual eyeliner.
00:13:16.320 Now I'm just going to take some of this shade here, it's very bright, and I'm just going to
00:13:19.700 pop that in the inner corners of my eye.
00:13:23.380 And you can see basically what we've done is we've played with shadow and with highlight.
00:13:27.280 So the shadow is on the outer edge of the eye and the highlight is on the inner edge
00:13:30.560 of the eye and that's just creating this really blown out beautiful effect and it makes your
00:13:35.240 eyes look really big and wide and I love that.
00:13:38.940 Now I'm just going to pop on some mascara on my top and bottom lashes.
00:13:52.820 So now let's move into the rest of the face.
00:13:54.420 I'm going to go in with this Milani Baked Bronzer in number four and I'm just going to
00:14:00.520 contour a little bit around my cheekbones and around my forehead.
00:14:06.580 But I am so pale right now, as you might imagine, it is freezing in Nebraska.
00:14:11.460 I am going to bring some around my face just generally, just so that I have a little bit
00:14:16.960 more color on my face and I'll bring some down the neck as well.
00:14:23.400 Now I'm just going in with a little fan brush and I'm just contouring.
00:14:26.640 This is really a bronzer, not a contour, but hey, I think I need a little warmth on my face
00:14:31.840 so I'm not going to worry too much about it.
00:14:35.020 I'm going to follow that up with a little bit of my Butter Blush from Physicians Formula.
00:14:39.900 And I'm just going to add a little bit because I left most of my natural pinkness just available
00:14:45.400 on my skin.
00:14:46.400 I didn't put on so much foundation that it covered that up.
00:14:49.640 And now I'm going to go in with the Essence Pure Nude Highlighter.
00:14:52.400 This has been like a YouTube sensation for a really long time.
00:14:57.280 I mean, it's really inexpensive, which is awesome, but everyone was comparing it to the Hourglass
00:15:02.360 highlight for a while and saying this would be like really beautiful for brides.
00:15:06.620 And I do think this is really pretty.
00:15:08.660 I'm surprised at how much I like it because I have so many highlighters that you would think
00:15:12.960 that this wouldn't stand out.
00:15:14.160 But I think it does in a really nice, subtle way.
00:15:18.040 So, yeah.
00:15:19.040 I'm a fan.
00:15:20.040 Now I'm just going to put on my favorite lipstick at the moment, which is 900 Glossy Fawn, the
00:15:25.860 color Riche from L'Oreal.
00:15:28.380 And we're just going to apply that.
00:15:31.580 And now I'm just going to put these on.
00:15:34.960 And we're done.
00:15:35.960 Thank you guys so much for watching.
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00:15:42.640 And I'll see you guys in my next video.
00:15:54.640 Bye.