Strobing Makeup Tutorial Phee's Makeup Tips
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00:00 Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to be doing strobing. Now I haven't got any highlight on at all.
00:07 I'm actually wearing the Nars Sheer Glow Foundation and it's the first time, I'm just looking at my mirror here, it's the first time I've ever worn this and I am really liking it so thumbs up on that.
00:15 Um, yeah, so we're going to be covering strobing. Now strobing is just another way of saying highlight except it's more like applying a crap ton of highlight.
00:26 So it's probably not an everyday look for a lot of people but it, you know, the appearance of really dewy, highlighted skin, you know, helps skin look youthful and that could be some people's cup of tea.
00:39 So I thought I would give it a shot and make yet another video on this topic to go on YouTube because why the hell not? You know, I like a good highlight, good highlight loves me. Let's do this.
00:53 Okay, so first you want to pick your highlight. Now a good tip is to go on your skin type. So if you've got oily skin like me and you don't want your highlight, you want your highlight to look dewy but not oily throughout the day, you want to go for powder.
01:09 If maybe you've got dry skin or you want that more natural finish and more blended finish, then I would go for a cream highlight.
01:17 So my favourite cream highlight, always and forever on this one because I've never found one that sits on my skin as nice, is the Illamasqua Gleam in Aurora. I'll link, I think I've ever posted on that or I will link to my Illamasqua favourites video because I do show it in there.
01:33 And it's just a beautiful champagne colour. It's like my glow but in a cream format. It's beautiful, it's light, it doesn't make your skin feel like gross and so that's a good one.
01:44 I also like for powder highlight, I love MAC Vanilla Pigment. Yeah, this stuff is the bomb. I don't think you will ever go through before one of these. It blends out really nice, it looks scary in the pot but it doesn't leave any white residue on your skin at all.
02:02 One for slightly darker skin tones but also will really look lovely when you are tanned is this one from NARS. This isn't actually a highlighter, I forgot what I was talking about then. This isn't actually a highlighter, this is a blusher but it's from their Autumn Collection and it's limited edition. It's called Tribulation and it's beautiful.
02:21 I've got it on me in the corners now so obviously I won't be using my own highlighter there. It's lovely, it's really finely milled and it's really smooth, it applies really smooth and has got a beautiful sheen to it.
02:32 The one I'm going to be using today, or I'm going to be using today even, not we, but you know, we if you bought this and you're watching this and you're doing this along with me. I hate it when you get a random bit of hair and it just like, just detracts. Why does my hair never do what I want it to do?
02:49 Anyway, I digress. So I am going to be using the original Glow Highlight Powder Press. I messed this one up so I'm keeping it for myself. It's got a bit of pepper in it. But yeah, they come in pan format now because a lot of people commented that they would rather have it in pan format than in a jar and loose.
03:09 The loose one is pretty much exactly the same. This one is much more like Mary Lou or something like that. So I find for doing the strobing type of thing you want quite a dense brush so you can apply the product really dense to the high points and then slightly blend it out.
03:23 So my favourite at the minute is the Illamasqua Highlighter Brush. It's quite dense but also fluffy around the edges so you can blend out your highlight as well with it. I also love for highlight the Real Techniques 301 Bulb Metals Brush. This baby is so nicely weighted. People were going on about how expensive these were but I think it's totally worth it when you see the quality of them and feel the quality of them. It's so nice.
03:47 When you're strobing you just want to hit all the basic highlight points. So your cheekbones, your brow bone. I personally like to do a little bit just above the brow. Centre of your nose, cupid's bow and inner corners. And then go back and do them again and again, possibly again just for good measure just so you've got a nice cracked ton of highlight on there.
04:09 So let's do this. So top of the cheekbones. So I like to focus most of the cheekbone on like here but then also kind of like go onto my blusher and stuff. Then just there. Brow bone. Classic highlight point.
04:35 A little bit just above like here. Down the centre of your nose. Woah it looks scary in the mirror. And then repeat on the other side.
04:49 So I'm back. Done the other side. So this is the finished look. It is very highlighting. I'm just looking at myself in the viewfinder. I really like it. Personally this like really highlighted skin is something that I just love anyway. So this is something that I would go for anyway.
05:09 I'll link everything below for you guys if you want to check anything out. And I will see you next time. Have a great week.