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How I USED To Do My Makeup VS. NOW! | NikkieTutorials

Feb 27, 2020
Hi guys, it's me Nikki. Hey. How are you. How many of you have been following me since...this week? Now, for those of you who are new here, you should know that my 11th anniversary is coming up. I've been doing the whole YouTube game for 11 years at the end of June and it inspired me to look back and see what changed. . I want to take a trip down memory lane and look at my techniques, look at the products I loved using, and just see what it was like in 2014. And I'm going to do that in a little challenge called "Then vs.
how i used to do my makeup vs now nikkietutorials
Now."

makeup

challenge And it's literally where you go back in time and show on one side of your face what you

used

to do as far as technique, product, how your face looked in the past versus your current techniques, your current favorite products and what you really like to do with your style nowadays. I'm going back to 2014 to the month of July where I posted a bright rainbow eye

makeup

look and I know that, especially in the eyes department, my techniques have really changed and I want to see what I

used

to do. So get ready for a lot less lip fillers, different teeth and a much more insecure little Nikki and let's go back in time.
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Well, this should be interesting, especially because we're starting with the point guard and I know that especially in the point guard department I've come a long way, like a very- Like a long way. I'm watching the video called "Summer Sunset Smoky Cat Eye Makeup Tutorial". Use all the keywords you can, girl. Today. I'm going to go for my face and body with Mac on C1 and give it a little more coverage here and there... WHAT?! I'm going to apply some Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation Stick in 0 Porcelain. GIRL where is the card? A BRUSH?! Oh, I don't think so, honey.
how i used to do my makeup vs now nikkietutorials
Well. Firstly there are a lot of plot twists at the moment, no primer, secondly one of the sheerest coverage foundations in my entire collection and then applying it with a brush I found the foundation match. First up, Mac's Face and Body Foundation. This is AMAZING if you're doing portfolio work, if you're doing couture makeup because you want skin to look like SKIN, and then when you need more coverage , I said I'm going to use Bobbi Brown Skin. Foundation Stick and I'm on color Zero, okay, so let's not prime and dive right in and I'll just start tapping on this.
how i used to do my makeup vs now nikkietutorials
That's horrible. And as you can see, it doesn't give you any coverage. I can not wait. Wait just a second. There are no changes. It just looks wet on this side. Nothing changed, I want to say clearly that I didn't love myself because I didn't give myself anything to work with here. This is Brilliance. Now, I need to remind myself not to switch to my new habits. I need to apply this as I would in the past. Oh girl. Why a brush? You're not Lisa Eldridge! Okay, time for concealer. We'll be using Mac Pro Longwear on NC 15.
Okay, okay, pro longwe. Oh my God, please tell me you're still here. OH YEAH. Okay, how did I apply that? WITH A BRUSH?! WHY A BRUSH FOR I remember using this combination frequently and thinking I don't know why my makeup doesn't hold up Well, first of all girl, where's your foundation? Secondly, girl, this foundation is not for you, honey. It's not for your skin. So next, I'm setting up my face using this Chanel "Universal Libre" loose powder in 20 Claire and I used it for years and years. Now thanks to the Lords of makeup. We are in the current days of makeup and it's time for full coverage.
First, prime and I need a heavy primer that will keep my face looking pretty all day until I decide I want to take off my makeup. For foundation, the more coverage the better, so I'm going with Juvia's Place." "I Am Magic" Foundation in "Bali." Oh yeah. Oh darling. For concealer I'm using Juvia's Place "I Am Magic" Concealer at number 22 and I'm definitely not afraid to amp it up under my eyes guys. There's nothing better than blending your base products with a sponge. It's just for me, it hides the look of my pores. It makes foundation and skin They become one.
It just creates this perfect illusion that I love so much when it comes to makeup. And then of course I'm prepping using my holy grail Fenty Beauty "Butter" powder that I've known for a long time, I outlined my eyebrows. I would put a line underneath, a line on top. I would fill everything in the middle using a pot of paint. I would put on some clear brow gel and carve the bottom and call it a day. And for me that was like the brow. perfect. IT WAS NOT. You know I give myself a thicker eyebrow nowadays.
I put individual hairs in the front as if I had a full hair. Like if I could write a novel about how I do my eyebrows today, I would, so I remember going in with a taupe shadow and just lining. Literally putting two lines. Now I would fill this in using a pot of Mac paint in the color "Taylor grey" and I would just fill it in and brush it on and that's it. OOOOH MY GAWDDDD. My eyebrows have come a long way and I thought I was killing the game and then I would carve them out using my Mac Pro Longwear concealer.
That's sad. I mean, compared to the love I put on my eyebrows nowadays, this is sad. This is even sadder than the final episode of Game of Thrones. This is... this is heartbreaking. So just for impact, I'm now going to do my other eyebrow off camera so you can see the huge difference in a second. Get ready for one eyebrow to shine in three, two, one. Tada, this. It's everything my heart desires when it comes to my eyebrows. And this is not that there is necessarily anything wrong with it. It's just that this is like the complete fantasy and it's like dreaming about having a fantasy.
Okay, time to move on to the eyes, if you've been an OG fan you know that Mac Soft ochre Paint Pot used to be one of the phrases I would say in every video for years and years and years. I literally get comments saying that the day you stop using soft ocher Paint Pot is the day you stop wearing makeup and I've gotten so far away from soft ocher that I don't have it in my collection right now Guys, I'm going to be so real. with you. I'm scared, I don't know if I can still do shadows like before because I created this technique now that I know it works for my eye shape.
I know what kind of shape really works for my eye shape. I know how to improve it and when I watch this video again, I will use my first eyelid shade. The eyelids first and the crease later. This is crazy. So I remember sugar pill shadows were my everything back in the day. I mean, look how much of the pan shows up. I- I always use these when I wanted a shimmer shade because I feel like these were the only shimmer shades on the market that were super pigmented. Easy to work with and just gave you that look and we're starting with the yellow on the lid.
So I put this on the lid and, as I also said in the video, I go towards my crease, but not beyond that. Now, after the years have progressed and I've started to understand my squinting a little more, I know that once I get past my crease and create my own crease, my own false crease, it totally opens my eyes, but it's interesting to see how . As the years go by, you begin to understand your ways a little more. Now, I go to the flame point of the sugar pill and as you may have guessed, it goes towards the middle and also to the fold. and like I said, it only goes to the bottom of My fold and no higher than the next color of sugar pill, this is "dolly pop" and it goes on the outer third.
It meets the orange. Touching this to mix it with the orange and again just up to here because that was my crease and that's what I was going to stick to. With poison plum. I'm going to make My shape by creating an outer V. So I'm making a little line here and from there going towards my crease. And then you also want to start mixing that with the pink. So it's super interesting how before. the shape came about after filling in my lid, whereas now the first thing I do is enter the color of my fold and determine the shape from there.
Do I choose rounded? Should I go for the cat eye? Do I prefer dull, smoky air? Everything today for me in terms of form starts with the first step and here, you know, I slapped the lid and then said, okay, let's see what we're going to do next. And again, this goes to my fold, but honey, I didn't go up much at all. I just placed this purple on top of the pink. But did that tell me to go up a little more? Absolutely not. I'm literally having a hard time mixing the purple and pink perfectly because everything is so dry.
As if the base wasn't sticky. That I'm leaving that purple in place and then using this muted yellow-orange shade to polish the crease out of nowhere. I'm like, what am I doing? So, take this muted yellow and orange shade and buff this into the crease. This is a disaster. and then you want to look down and create this new interior corner. So, I know it looks really strange right now, but it will come together eventually. See, even in 2014, I was already creating new interior corners. Taking the purple, now I'm going to try to stop my future self, my Curtin self, from turning this down too much because I turned it down to the bottom and thought I was being super smoky. with that.
So I'm controlling myself. I feel like I'm already going too low. Yeah, I'm probably going too low. Okay... And now it's time to do the eyeliner work. Then just do a really thick cat wing eyeliner and umm just... go with it. Well. So we are making an extension on the inside corner with the lining forming a thick wing. uhhhhhhh I feel comfortable doing that. Let's do it. For my bottom lashes, I'll use the extended set gigablack lash from my Mac. I still use that AND for the false ones I'll use XO Beauty's Glamerista. That was like THE softest lash I've used since that video, probably okay, so I'll do all that real quick.
I'll finish this eye and then It's time to see how I would make a Smokey rainbow cat eye today. Literally anyone who watches my videos nowadays knows that I am obsessed with P Louise foundation to start my eye. I call it the Optimus Prime part of the eye. look and always Since I started using this, my eyeshadow game has changed. Now, as I mentioned, what I do nowadays is start at my crease and just stamp my color and focus on the shape. After that, I focus on mixing and perfecting everything and making it look amazing. But the first step for me is ALWAYS my crease nowadays, so I'm choosing a pink shade and just stamping it into my crease and putting all that pigment on. there and I'm almost higher than the other eye.
Because over the years I've learned that with my eyes half-closed I just have to lift them to give me that drama. Something I never used to do is look directly in the mirror. So I keep the mirror in front of me and I look directly into it and I just place the color in my crease and on top of it and with this I make sure that every time I look like my normal self, you still see what is happening in my fold. Usually with all my other looks that I've done in the past, my crease is like the same taupe shade and all you'd see was my taupe shade in the crease and all the fun things on it. on the eyelid you would only see if you blinked and now I want to make sure to show what I worked really hard on so I have determined the shape using the color of my crease and now with what is left on that brush I go against the edge and apply soft miniature strokes .
Like gentle miniature circular motions to polish that edge and now I start working on my blend. Also, one of my all-time favorite tricks to make my squinty eyes connect with the contour of my nose and make everything look more sunken and open is to Apply that same blending shade towards the front of the brow. So here, I just brush it and circulate it on the front of my brow and by the way, that has completely changed my eye game, the palette that I've been using for this site. It's "Secret Sinner" by P Louise and I'm actually taking that purple "Addicted" now to put it in the outer corner and I'm starting to stamp it on the outer third of my eyelid, fold it over and take it out.
Okay, and now we cut the top with the basic P Louise in winter pink. And setting that using a nice bright pinkish peach pigment. Then to define that cut crease even more and add more rainbows and use the Fenty Beauty Banana. Banana lining. These liners are life. A little bit of yellow on the inner corner and again over the years I've learned to make that inner corner bigger to make my eyes look bigger for the lower lash line. I'm picking up that purple again and applying it right here on the outer corner and connecting the outer corner to this top here following with the pink And then now it would be time for me to do a black liner Extend that inner corner add a little bit of white to really, you know, create the illusion.
But look at the difference in height, in combination, in gradation. I am in no way saying that this is bad. It's not good either, but it's not horrible, but it's like a glow. Can we take a second to look at the huge difference between the two? I feel like with my current techniques my eye looks bigger, more responsible and like it has power, honey. Meanwhile heother side, again, it's not necessarily bad, but it's like yes. So look at that crazy difference. Now let's move on to the cheeks. Now when it comes to doing my face in 2014, I had no idea what I was doing because my "The Face and Body" foundation was so wet that as soon as I went in with the brush I created holes in my foundation as if it started to move and separate and it was an earlier and disorderly time.
So what would I do in the past? The day is bronze my cheeks Period. I wouldn't tan my forehead. I wouldn't tan my nose. I wouldn't tan anywhere else because as soon as I walked in with a brush, my foundation would be out of the chat. So I'm taking my bronzer with a big brush and I'm just going to brush it on. Back then I wish I knew how I lift my cheeks nowadays because I would just tan like that and see how low it goes. Now I have techniques where I actually lift my face up and stuff.
I wish I knew it back then, so I see after doing this how it recovered some of the little spots. Here, like how he got it back because he deleted the base. Uh, this. It used to be like the bane of my existence back in the day. Now, on top of that, I would add contour and for a long time I would use my NYX blush in taupe for this Bobbi Brown blush in the color "Wheat" number 30, so I would go in and not go high because I didn't know. and just follow the bronzer and set it very low.
Well, I have to say that this Bobbi Brown shadow in "Wheat" is a beautiful contour color. Like I had to bring her back into my life. Okay, guys. I'm very excited about this part. Just look how different it makes my cheeks now. So I use a bronzer and I touch it almost where it would highlight, so where you would highlight your cheekbones, I put my bronzer there and I just stamp it on and make little circles, but I never take it further than the center of my eye, then of course those ten heads must become one forehead, so I finally have a base that allows me to put bronzer here and create the mirage.
Now, for that exact reason, blush was like scary territory for me because I thought I was going to get the redness back in my face because it was literally pushing away my foundation. I would apply a smaller pinch just for the camera. so it would look like I was doing a lot but I really wasn't doing much and I would put it right here on The apple of my cheek a real smile ding-ding-ding-ding-ding I hit that apple and pulled it back now just Mix it with the bronzer that I just applied and turn it into one.
And of course, on my channel a look wouldn't be completed with a little shine and just highlighting with that first. Even in 2014, highlighter was one of my favorite things to do with my makeup routine. One of my favorites used to be Mary Lou-Manizer from The Balm and I always applied it using a morphe fan brush. I don't have it anymore, so I just take a big Fluffier brush, stick my finger in there and create my own little fan brush and I would do that. it just highlights Right Here Boom Lately I've been really into Mac's extra dimension look finish in double gloss and I pick it up with a kind of slanted highlighting brush and go crazy so I put it right here where it shows.
Is product mirroring already happening? I really bring that out and bring it out and then lately for that glass skin look, I bring it up towards the top of my lip here and that gives you that nice glass skin feel and then I also put a little bit in the center of My front. a little on the chin and I always made the tip of the nose so I could do it freely. What I never did on my 2014 side is do this part here. So nowadays I do that all the time. So I'm going to try to put that aside, honey.
Oh, those cheeks just got an upgrade, darling. Just look at the difference, pick it up and like it Hello. It's lip time and one thing, if you've really been an OG follower of mine, you'll know what this is. This is Mac lip erase and this was my staple product my entire life. I've had super pigmented red lips and it's something I've always wanted to get rid of and all I did all day was erase any little bit of color from my lips. We put this on your lips and it completely erases all color. And the movement I'm doing right now would be me every hour for five years of my life.
If you ask my mom, more or less my youth, summarized in a gesture is this. She would always apply this and put a gloss on top. Yes, I wish I was joking, but my lips would look like this with a gloss on top. This naked. It's deadly. I mean, the paler the better. Looking back, honey, that wasn't a good look. No liner. No lipstick. Just the lip wipe and gloss and I felt like I could conquer the world. Nowadays, I have a full lip journey going, so let's outline first. Okay, let's make a nice nude lipstick to mix with the eyeliner and gloss.
And there we have it. The big difference that five years can make in a makeup look. I think that's what makeup is about because even though I feel like this side right now is like my... my big winner, maybe in five years. I look this way and say oh girl. Oh girl, I think that's what's fascinating and fun and exciting about makeup, is that you never stop learning, if you think you've achieved it all, you're not even close and I think that's one of the things that's always been the case. It kept me interested in makeup for 11 years because it always puts me on my toes and I always want to learn more and new things and this is the proof of that.
Now, without further ado, I think I have a very suitable Dutch word of the day for today's video. Of course, in my last video the Dutch word of the day was diversity. As for today's Dutch word of the day. It can only be one word, "the past" "Verleden" "See" (pronounced v-ayr) le (pronounced lay) den (pronounced dun) This side of my face is in the present. But this side is "verleden". If you want to be featured in my next video, all you have to do is leave a comment below including the Dutch word of the day or leave a video response on Instagram with the hashtag Dutch word of the day. .
Good luck, I want to thank you very much for watching this video. I had a great time doing this. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope to see you in the next one. bye

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