THE NATURAL MAKEUP CHALLENGE VOL. 2!

Hey guys, it's me Nikki, it's the saddest wonderful day, today is the end of winter wonder week 2018 and I wanted to come out with a different type of video that you might have expected from me if you were here for winter wonder week winter last year. I know I opened winter one a week 2017 with the

natural

makeup

challenge

. Today's video will be my

natural

makeup

challenge

. Hi, my name is Nikki and I'm addicted to Queen's full coverage gloss at the moment. I know, I know I saw the comments. I saw the opinions. I thought this is natural for me, like you're talking to the most covered Queen out there and I won't live the pure life.

Basically, I was just doing a full coverage routine but using a little bit. less product now, a year later, I want to watch that video again and see what has changed in a year. You know, your girl got a year older, she went through a lot and there have been many times where she just didn't want to wear it. a complete beat, but I also didn't want to look like a train wreck and this one, slowly but surely, a tinted moisturizer entered my life. A pure concealer came into my life. A face fit for the day entered my life today.

I want to do the natural makeup challenge 2.0. Natural makeup I know works for me on days when I don't want to wear as much as usual. Don't forget to keep an eye out for the words at the end of this video for a special giveaway and I promise today's one. It's very special since it's the end of winter once a week and without further ado, if you want to go natural with me honey, keep watching Hey guys, it's me Nicky, hello, so welcome to the most wonderful week. Okay, first thing I do. What I'm going to do is walk sir, all jokes aside, the first thing I'm going to do is be pregnant, well there are two options, well there are many options, but it's about makeup, but these are my two options, right?

TRUE? Now, what I like to do when I'm going for a more natural look is to brighten it up because you want to blind them from making them see that you're not wearing as much makeup. I still maintain that I was so addicted to the beat that I was just in denial, I was like no, no, this is it, this is pure, so I still stand by what I said about giving the skin a lot of shine and lighting to hide the fact that I don't have much use. I still maintain that I just twisted it and twisted it before using makeup products.

I know you know I feel like skincare is just as important as if a good skin regimen is 50% of your job I know I already talked about these products in the first one a week this year, but I just want to I can reiterate that this Nora Bode absolute effects serum and this QMS mask smoother have saved my skin if you want. To hear me talk more about this, please watch that video, but I feel like this combination has turned my skin dry and crunchy. I want to say heaven because that's going too far, but I would say entering the gates of heaven is what I want to do.

It definitely hides under my eyes and I like anything shadowy on my face so I'm going to start with the Charlotte Tilbury touch up oh my gosh oh my gosh listen when I used this back then I hated it don't get me wrong. It's a beautiful product and we're actually using it again today, but back then I was using it against my will. Lately I have fallen in love with this baby. This is a tinted moisturizer from Laura Mercier and I feel like everyone knows it, but this one is a highlighter so it has a shimmer, stick, shine.

I'm in the color of course, I'm the one, this is one and one, nude glow. I am a little bit of this. I could use this, but I feel like I've come a long way, so I take it and apply it with a brush. I know, it's shocking. This is the Real Techniques Instant Pop Cheek Brush. I pick it up and first I place it where I would like to highlight my face and on my forehead and then I pick up a little more on the chin, the nose, the lip, the jaw, so, you know, I put it all over the face and then I start giving it tapping with that brush, it's a little warmer than my skin tone, which I don't use.

It doesn't matter, I'm just using this for the overall glow and almost tanned finish it gives me and I feel like as long as you keep buffing this by touching it to make sure everything stays on your skin it leaves you with a sort of Christmas glow like you just ended up coming back from a vacation you're rested you're a little tanned you're having the time of your life and I love how this makes my skin look and how it makes me feel a little more confident, it gives me that boost of color but it also gives me that bright, healthy glow that I think always works.

Now it's time to take Charlotte Tilbury out for another touch-up. I'm in color. and I take a little bit and just point this out where I feel a little more insecure when I have more redness around my jaw. I'll just point it out a little bit. I'll let it dry now like I said. The trick to making sheer products have fuller coverage is to let them sit and dry. Now you can apply a little under the eyes. I don't care much about my dark circles lately, but I'll just cover them up a little. It's not too much, if you want to make your transparent products a little more intense, a trick is to get a small fan like this and dry the product faster.

This will save you time. Now I'll leave it completely up. For you, if you want to touch up your concealer with a brush or a sponge, I've liked to just use my fingers to pat the product in and because it's such a sheer product, it will just hide as if the irregularities aren't. It will solve all the problems in your life, but it will solve today's battle. Look how it cleared up the skin and made it look much more rested and calm, but it still looks like skin, so it goes under the eyes, just touch that to make sure.

It blends and becomes one with the skin now, like I said I feel like having that healthy glow really tricks everyone into thinking you look radiant, healthy and stunted, so to enhance even more I've been using the Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter Hollywood at number two. I've been talking about this a lot on my Instagram stories and on my Snapchat. You know you like supermodels and they are always that perfect. You know, it's almost like they were born with that perfect skin. They have that beautiful dewy glow. that shine is this. I put it on my cheekbones.

It thus has the smallest feather of coverage. I place it in the center of my forehead, on the top of my nose and a little on my chin. I start by touching the forehead spot with a small brush and just use tapping motions. I never hit it or brush it over because I feel like that's going to mess up the foundation again and give me more redness, while I'm really fighting my redness here the brush I'm using is a t48 go through morphe and look what kind of delicious beauty it gives you and then finally, those of the cheekbones now this is optional again.

I like to do this because I like to have a little bit of a longer lasting finish, this is a highlighter by a twisty place called the volume three tribe and I just take like take the one lighter one that you like, you barely see it, hiding it on top from where I applied that bright, flawless Charlotte Tilbury filter and that's just going to block it out. for me so I don't have to worry about it fading throughout the day, if that seems like too bright a face there are face powders to help you, this one is from Mac but you can use any powder you like I like this one because It has a little bit of coverage and I take this Anastacio a.22 brush.

I packed the flat side and I'm just going to tame the forehead a little bit and notice how I like to work. around the shine, not directly on top of it because I want to keep that shine, but I want to tame it. One spot I always put powder on is right next to my nose and under my eye, this just makes it look more visible. Look how this looks a little like an oil slick, but here it looks tamed. I also put it here under the mouth size and can we see the difference between this face and mine from last year? it was a full coverage beat and this year, you know, of course, there's product on my face.

I mean, we use highlighters and powders, but overall, this looks like healthy, beautiful, stunning skin without the cake. Okay, not to be totally honest and Honestly, this face stage is where I usually stop, all I'll do is spray a spoolie with some strong hold hairspray and push my eyebrow hairs up because I feel like that it just makes it look a little more, you know. together, so grab a strong hold hairspray and a spoolie and just brush those hairs into place now, last year I would have used a tinted brow gel, but I feel like it because my mom dyes my brows from time to time, like every month. every two months to darken them, as if we dyed my eyebrow hairs.

I feel like that gives me enough definition. I feel like this is going to sound weird coming from me, but I feel like as soon as I use a pencil or a brow gel or like a brow pencil, it feels like I'm doing my brows when I try it. I prefer to have my eyebrow fully carved, my eyebrow full coverage, I feel like it doesn't look good so I prefer to just brush my hair and go out. that or do all the magic now for the eyelashes and eyes, it's pretty much the same feeling for me when I use this natural skin, see, I don't do anything to the eyes, I just curl my eyelashes a lot because I feel like that makes me makes you look more awake now because this is a video and I want to give you a couple of options for curling your lashes to make sure they're lifted and curled and then using a waterproof mascara if you have straight, unruly lashes like I do waterproof mascara. water that is your hero because it will keep your curls now.

Personally, I don't put mascara on my bottom lashes when wearing a look like this because I feel like it's too much, but if you love it, go ahead and do it. Now, optionally, it would be to add some individual fakes. These are a product of urban deterioration and come in two strands of three, so the job is done faster. I know I just want to keep this as realistic as possible. This is how I do it. My face as a real natural makeup challenge, this is how I would wear it and to be honest, I don't bother putting on falsies when doing a look like this.

We're saving the falsies for glamour. What are you doing now? Using it on your lips is totally up to you. You can opt for a lip balm. You can opt for a lip gloss. one is the skin fetish highlighter bomb duo and the nude color and look how much is left there is nothing left I literally press my lips into this highlighter to get some out so that's what I do now I literally press my lips in the tube. Scoop out some lip product. It takes away a little bit of the redness, makes them a little bit more nude but also gives them a beautiful glow and then the other side is a bomb and lo and behold, there's nothing left and I take the bomb just a little bit.

My finger writes it on the top and that's a lip balm, bright and healthy, that's what I do, that's how I wake up and when I don't want to wear makeup, this is what I do, I use tinted moisturizer, a a little concealer, a little powder, I lift my eyebrows, I lift my eyelashes, I put a little gloss on my lips and that's it, and this could be a lot; There are a lot of people out there, but coming from the most comprehensive coverage junkie, it's us. I've come a long way and that, guys, is what I think is a much more realistic version of the natural makeup challenge we found ourselves in in 2017.

I was in denial and thought it was the right thing to do, whereas I feel like this actually its alot. more natural and wearable definitely let me know in the comments below which side you prefer, the 2017 side or the 2018 side today definitely in the comments below let me know some of your favorite more natural products because now that I found out about this life brand new one I've been a lot more interested in more wearable products I should probably do a video where a full coverage addict tries out brighter products for the winner of today's winter wonderland my final giveaway of a week of winter wonderland and that doesn't mean there won't be a giveaway in the next video, but for Winter Wonder Week, the final giveaway is that you can win every product used in this look, plus you will receive a $500 makeup gift card and not one, not two, not three. but five glowing babies will win this prize, so you will get this complete look and you will get $500 to buy some makeup, so definitely enter this giveaway of course by subscribing to my channel, like this video and leave a comment below about anything it Michael Oh babies, thank you so much for watching Winter Wonder Week 2018, this is taking place on Christmas Eve and I just want to wish you a very Merry Christmas.

I hope you spend your days with your loved ones. 2018 has been a very difficult year and this will be the first Christmas without our little brother. Please promise me that you will spend this Christmas or this Monday, if you don't know how to celebrate Christmas, please promise me that you will spend it with your loved ones, with your friends, with your family. the people you care about and tell them to talk about it, let's be a little nicer to each other, you know, and it never hurts.tell someone you love them. Thank you very much for always believing in me and supporting me.

This is not the last video from December 2018. I will be back. I love you so much and I hope to see you next time. Good bye guys.