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I don’t want to start all my posts with confessions, but there is one I really need to get off my chest. Well, a considerable portion of my makeup knowledge comes from the gurus on YouTube. I have learned so much from so many of them, and I don’t even know the number of videos I watch every day.
But, let’s be honest. Sometimes, those gurus will throw in something absolutely outrageous in your face. Tricks and hacks are so wild, even you begin to question your sanity if not theirs. At times, tricks are too scary to try. Let’s take shaving your face for an example!
However, I am not your regular makeup-gal. No, sir! Whenever I see those gurus defying the laws of logic and rationality, whenever I see them impart wisdom no one would dare take the Katniss Everdeen in me rises up to the challenge and screams at the top of my lungs. Yes, I am the sort of a person who will take risks, so you don’t have to. And so I did. This month I decided to go for Youtube makeup hacks and tricks that were completely against my beauty principles. And the results were actually surprising, to say the least.
So, let’s begin with the trick number one.
1. The Life Saving Foundation Trick:
Ever since I have entered the world of makeup, actually even long before that, I knew one simple rule – powder goes over the foundation. That is the rule I have obeyed and obliged to, without any question, until I saw one of my ultimate YouTube gurus, Wayne Goss, doing it the other way round and it changed my life for good. He calls it ‘the life changing foundation trick’ but I prefer life-saving, for all the good reasons.
The Trick – So, according to Goss, applying the powder before the foundation makes it smoother to apply and it lasts even longer. If you ask me, I would’ve literally laughed at it, never ever giving it a try, if it wasn’t for Wayne Goss. I have a combination skin that can get severely dry and there was no way I could’ve thought of layering up powder before the liquid
The Result – O – M – G!
I have never been this impressed by any makeup trick I have ever tried, but as we already know that Goss knows his stuff. I don’t understand the science behind it. But for some reason, this ‘reverse Foundation’ trick made the liquid settle better and stay put throughout a dry, humid day. I am never going back to the ancient way of applying the foundation first.
2. The Cottonball Falsie Trick:
There is a Buzzfeed video where many women try the trick. I don’t really trust when people at Buzzfeed go for makeup related experiments because I never understand why they choose total makeup-noobs for such videos. The results are always disastrous. To be honest, this trick was kind of risky and stupid too, but since it came from Huda, I had to try it no matter what.
The Trick – According to Huda in this video, all you need is a mascara that doesn’t do much to lengthen the lashes. Apply a coat. Take a spoolie and roughly dab it on a loose cotton ball so that its fiber gets attached to the bristles. Now apply that to the lashes avoiding the fibers from going into your eyes. Now that the fibers build up on the lashes, apply another coat. Viola! Long heavy lashes that just look like falsies.
The Results – First of all, I don’t understand why a woman who has a whole empire built on falsies would tell you a trick to not buy falsies! I should’ve asked that question before I assaulted my eyes with fibers that drained my eyeballs out.
No, I am no noob when it comes to makeup application, and that is why I feel even worse for the Buzzfeed people. While the result was not bad, my lashes looked longer and thicker, but this is not a trick I would recommend even to an enemy.
3. The Spoon Cut-crease Trick:
Instagram is like that fictional dimension where makeup and fashion lovers can live their fantasies. It’s an inspiration churning magic so well and so mesmerizing that I can’t even see that I am not making any sense. But you feel me, right? I have hardly ever tried Insta-trends but all those 13-second cut-crease with a spoon videos were getting to me. Besides, I still haven’t perfected my cut crease game, so this was me, kind of trying to find the easy way out.
By the way, everyone is doing it on Insta and Youtube – the gurus and the noobs! Here’s a great one I saw.
The Trick – Put the head of the spoon on the eye and trace the crease along the curve. Use all the other colors and blend, blend and blend! You know the drill.
The Results –
The crease was shockingly smooth and not bad for a first try. I think I might use this trick more often than I expected, at least until my Real Techniques special edition brushes arrive. Of course, I know it needs more work, but this is a perfect draft to build on.
So, this was the story of trials and errors this month. The good thing is, most YouTube tricks do not require high-level makeup expertise and even if you don’t consider yourself too good at makeup, you can give them a try. Not the falsies one though. Not even if you hate yourself to death.
Do let me know if you have ever tried a YouTube trick and how it worked for you? Also, if there is one you are too scared to give a try, yours truly would love to ‘volunteer’.
