How to Do Drag King Makeup

1. Introduction: I am Earl Grey and I'm going to be teaching you how to do drag king or masculine makeup. I'm going to drag king who's been performing in Southern California since late 2017. I got my start at Landon Cider's Drag King Explosion, which has since been changed to Diverse. Although I am trans masculine, I've been doing masculine illusion since long before my transition. I've been doing looks that ranged from endogenous to male celebrity impersonation, to even some more dramatic looks utilizing prosthetics developed by me. So for starters, the first thing I want to do is cover some concepts to help guide you. As we go through the tutorial. Drag makeup is very different from normal makeup. In all honesty, I've found that people who are familiar with painting or illustration actually have an easier time translating their skills and to drag makeup than people who say just to wedding makeup and that sort of thing. While for some drag artists, particularly in the beginning, it might be about getting to explore different expressions of gender. For the most part, drag is not about just looking pretty or cute or handsome, although that can certainly be a part of it. It's about putting a face on top of your face, seeing the face that you have as a Canvas and creating a character on top of that. Now it can be a character or it can be a celebrity, or maybe even just a different version of view from a different universe. And it's very important to note that there are differences between cream makeup and King makeup. However, drag has always been about getting to play with gender and subvert ideas of it. So it's not uncommon to have a lot of these overlap and people deal with different kinds of androgynous drag. I'm gonna be teaching you the concepts of specifically masculine Drag. 2. Understanding Masculine Faces: Is important to go over some of the main differences between the two polarities. So for feminine dragging queens, a lot of times you're going to see the more feminine aspects of the face highlighted for trying to create illusions with the proportions of their face that make them more feminine features enhance and the more masculine features reduce for masculine makeup is the opposite. You're going to be focusing on a lot of opposite portions of the face in order to bring out the more masculine features and reduce them or feminine features. We're gonna go over some of the main differences between the shapes on feminine and masculine faces because of the popularity of shows like Drag Race, a lot of people are familiar with the shapes attempted to be achieved by people are trying to do feminine drag. Looking at these two faces here, we can see that she has a more rounded jaw line. And he has a more square jaw line here as well as chin. Now, lips are an interesting thing because men can also have very full lips. But depending on how feminine the rest of your features are, some kings may choose to diminish that. Just cannot enhance any of the softer and more feminine features. And to distract from the more masculine illusion that they're trying to create. You can see beneath the lip that he has slightly more pronounced gels than her. See even just highlighting it, they're kind of brings additional attention to it and even masculinize her face a little bit. We can see here she has a softer nose than him. He has a little extra geometry and his nose here. Women and feminine people can absolutely have stronger noses, but again, it usually comes down to the overall look, the overall geometry of the face, how much you want to add and take away just in order to enhance the illusion. The forehead is one of the places where it becomes pretty prominent. Feminine people, since you have more rounded, softer, smaller hair lines, masculine people tend to have more square foreheads, as well as the stronger brow bone, which can create extra shadow here on the forehead. And you can see it's more pronounced here, whereas you can't really see the definition in her brow. And testosterone causes brow bones to develop more fully, which tends to create extra folds in the forehead. Because of the strong brow, we see more definition for him in this dip here, which is why sometimes I'll even contour that edge when I'm doing my makeup. Whereas for her, the contrasts that feminize her face tends to come here in the fuller lashes and in the shading of her upper lid. Now the cheeks are an interesting thing because in real life they really do differ person to person. But what tends to flag as more masculine or more jagged lines. And what tends to be more feminized is the softer, more rounded cheekbone. Even just with this illustration right here, you can start to see that a lot of what separates masculine faces and feminine faces are softness and harshness and harder, straighter lines. Great tip before getting started that I usually give people is take a picture of masculine or male person that you know, or a celebrity. Study their features to study the way that the shadows fall on their face and different types of lighting. And come to understand the types of illusion that you want to achieve and the different kinds of men and masculine features that you particularly find attractive or that you think will translate well into your face. 3. Understanding Your Face: There are important aspects to your face that you're going to want to become familiar with as you're applying your makeup. If you just do exactly as I do and put your makeup on exactly the same parts of your face than I do. You are going to end up with different results because I have a different face and therefore I need to create different shapes in order to create the illusion that I desire. That being said, the first thing that I want to do is go over the shapes that you see on your face. Because as I said, it's going to affect the way that you're going to want to apply different portions of the makeup and follow the steps. So we're gonna go from the forehead down. I want you to take a look at your own forehead in a mirror. As I mentioned previously, queens tried to reduce masculine features. So what you'll see in a lot of Queens is an attempt to diminish the size of the forehead by adding contour around the edges, as well as creating a larger eye with a brow that comes up higher. And since we want to create masculine shapes, we're going to be doing the opposite. Now having been on testosterone, as long as I have now, a lot of my masculine features are more pronounced, so I don't have to work as hard as I used to and creating an illusion. I'm still going to explain the different parts of my face that I emphasize and why there are different kinds of masculine foreheads and they look different depending on the lighting that you're in. A lot of kings would choose to emphasize more toward the center of the forehead. And what you're gonna wanna do for a look like that. You're going to want to emphasize the shadows on this side of the forehead. From the peak or the corner of your eyebrows up to the corners of your hairline, as in certain types of lighting, that is the way that shadows fall on a more masculine forehead. We have sharper edges, sharper lines. Feminine makeup softens, masculine makeup hardens. Now, I tend to do as masculine people have more pronounced and thicker brow bones. I also pay attention here to where the natural lines on my brow are. I'm going to try to emphasize that and by creating shadows around the center here to really emphasize the brow bone. Now not everyone has to do this. So you can take into account different looks and shapes that you like for your face as we go through the process to decide we use specifically wanted to do. As I said, some King's focus on keeping the shade on the outer portions here and don't want to focus on creating as much detail on the forehead. Sometimes it can get a little distracting depending on your level of skill with blending. Now back to the brow bone, a lot of what Queens wants to do when they're gluing down their brows, diminished the brow bone. They want the focus to be on the idea of a very large eyes. So they'll often adopt part of their brow bone into the lid. And a lot of kings still do this. They still glue down their brows and they still kinda wanna raise them in order to create a more cartoonish effect. I try to go for a more masculine look in regard to the brows. So I actually dropped them. I'll keep them at about the same height but drop them a little bit closer because I really want to emphasize the brow bone and make them brows look larger. And since I have large eyes, I don't want to make them look larger. I don't want to feminize my face even further. So taking the size of your eyes and the size of your browser is going to be important. And you're going to want to keep those into consideration for how masculine or feminine you want to look. Your eyes are a very important part of your face that you're going to want to become familiar with because everyone's eyes are so different. So we have the Allman shape that many of us are familiar with. If you're like me and you have something like Middle-Eastern heritage, you may end up with what we call the full almond shape. That's what I have. It's almond ish, but with a more open rounded center. And how much liner and where you put the emphasis on things like eyeliner is going to change depending on i shape that you have. Is it upturned? Are they more downturned? Because that's also going to change how you lift using something like a cat, if that's what you wanna do. Eyelids. Eyelids also greatly affect how you're going to apply your makeup. If you have something like a monolithic, you're probably going to end up putting eyeliner even completely over top of the inner lid so that when you blink, the line stays consistent across. If you do end up wanting to do a cat, I still put quite a decent amount of emphasis on my eyes as a king because I still want to look kind of cartoonish and androgynous, but not that much. So I don't really change the size of my eyes, like Queens do onto the nose, or a lot of Queens wanted to do is slender eyes and feminised their noses. I found that adding extra geometry and my paint had a more masculine icing effect. So I tend to do is emphasize as opposed to diminish slope in the middle of my nose. I still do like little, little bump at the end, a little circle, a little dot. I kinda like the sort of clownish effect that it has for adding your emphasizing geometry in the nose can have a masculine icing effect. There is a general rule. A lot of times with makeup that the more lines you add, the more masculine it becomes. However you do want to be careful with that role. I would say maybe the sharper you make your lines are, the harder you make your lines, the more masculine Ising it is. If you add too many lines and you're not going for an older character, you might end up aging or character by accident. So another portion of the makeup or kings tend to stand opposite from Queens, is that queens tend to try to really emphasize their cheekbones and make them look bigger and diminish their jaw lines. Kings, what we wanna do is try to create a solid or sharp cheekbone without rounding it out or putting too much emphasis on it without making them look too big. And oftentimes even cutting into our natural cheek line to diminish it a little bit and to give a little extra space in order to emphasize and elongate the jaw, feminine faces tend to be smaller and rounder. So what we wanna do is make it look more angular and larger for your own face. What you're going to want to take notice of is where does your natural cheekbone line fall and where does your natural jaw line fall? Because you're going to want to pay attention to your own specific proportions. So you know how much shade and highlight the ad, how much you want to emphasize and diminished certain parts. I've had some kings before take what I did on my face and just put it exactly on theirs when they had very large or very round cheeks. And it almost made the jaw contour completely invisible because they just follow the natural lines of their face. So anytime they turned to the front and it was like there is no makeup there. And you want to make sure you're creating an illusion that reads from all sides. If you have a very large cheek, you're definitely going to want to decide where you want to cut into it and how much you want to cut into it in order to create a proper illusion. The front and from the sides. You also need to take in how big your own jaw is. So you know where you want to create the artificial lines. If you need to create the cheek smaller and the jaw larger. Now, do be careful how much you cut into your cheeks. Because I have seen some kings do it where they cut the cheek almost like directly right underneath their eyes, all the way down right next to their lips. That's not something you want to do unless you're trying to intentionally create a character that looks very swollen or dead, starving something along those lines. Otherwise, you're just cutting too much unnecessarily into your face and kinda squeezing the proportions of your T zone a little too much. Now lips, some kings like having full feminine lips, other kings do actually cut into them a bit with foundation or sometimes conceal colors. Just because they want, again, to create more room for a jaw line as opposed to lips. 4. Skin Prep: Next I want to talk about developing a skincare routine because having Canvas that's easier to work with is going to be huge. I know some of us live with skin conditions that can make it difficult or even impossible to ever have a smooth canvas to work with. And that's okay. You shouldn't be able to do what you want and feel confident doing it regardless of that, treating your personal Canvas as best as you can is going to diminish the difficulty that you experienced in working with it. Let's go over skincare routines to make it easier. I'll tell you what I do as well as different options that you have. I 100% do not recommend going for some of these skin care routines that are like ten or 15 products long. If you get that much involved and interfere with your body's natural processes, you can end up damaging its ability to do things like produce oils on its own. I do want to mention that you may be living with skin conditions that require you to take extra steps and that's okay as long as it's recommended by a professional, I would recommend at least two stages, twice a day when you wake up and before you go to bed. This is just to wash off anything that you may have had rub off from your pillow during the night or for any extra oils that may have produced in your sleep or while your skin was going through its natural healing processes, as well as to wash off any pollution or anything you may have experienced during the day before you go to bed at night. So by two steps at least I mean, having a cleansing and a moisturizing process in order to understand what products you're going to want to use. You're going to want them to understand your personal skin type. This is also important for picking foundations, which we'll get into later. But your skin type is typically divided into three categories. You have dry combination, oily, if you want to take hormones are ended up taking hormones, things like this, and taking medications can affect your skin type. I used to have dry skin. I now have more like combination skin. If you struggle with dry skin, you're going to want to find more like cream based type cleansers. You're going to want to avoid products that have ingredients like sodium lauryl sulfate, which can be very drying and are actually agents that cause soaps to do things like sun. And because in particular, I'm going to mention that side is not actually a word I should've said makes it turn to suds. Now it can be very difficult to find products that don't have sodium lauryl sulfate. So it's not the end of the world if you end up getting one or using one that has it, I would just recommend avoiding it whenever possible. If you have oily skin, I would still recommend avoiding products that can be true drying or even some of the hard care acne cleansers, just because battling your skin's oil too much can end up causing it to overproduce in order to compensate for its own dryness. I do want to mention that there is a specialized website that you can visit called literalists, where they'll tell you places to shop in your area that have better ecological practices that will allow you to do things like get refills. And I want to thank Andy patriarchy on TikTok for sending this resource to me. I've been using this a cure, radically rejuvenating cleansing cream. I tend to switch out my cleansers alive just to try different products. That's what I'm using right now and it's been working well for moisturizers. I have been using CFL mixed with a little bit of oil. Another option is actually also cleansing with oils. Now since like attracts like and like break sound like oil can be used to break down the oil that's collected in your skin or hardened up. And what you do is steam your face or put hot water on your face, and then you rub oil over your skin or put a hot washcloth to sit over your face after rubbing the oil onto your face and let it sit for a couple of minutes. Or you can just wash it right off and dab your face off. And then you put a little bit of oil, just, just, just a little bit, just enough on your face in order to moisturize it. You're going to want to use oils for that, like olive oil or grape seed oil, maybe avocado oil. This is going to depend on skin type for some people, coconut oil works really well. I have found that is actually incredibly poor clogging and I would not recommend it for skincare or hair care because of that. But most of all, I would recommend testing different oils on your skin personally and seeing which ones work best for you if that's the route you want to take, I would just recommend avoiding mineral oil is, as it's been said, that they can damage your pore is natural ability to produce some of those oils. I do want to make an honest confession here in state that I mixed Vitamin E Oil with my moisturizer despite the fact that you don't usually want to use mineral oil, a set that you can have between cleansing and moisturizing is toning. That's just where you get something like maybe witch hazel or specifically a toner. Some people use apple cider vinegar as well. It tends to be a little stinky and just to kind of slough off any extra dead skin as well as kill off any extra bacteria I kinda taken leave toning and my process, I would recommend exfoliating at least once a week. That's going to be with some kind of scrub. Usually it'll have like salt or sugar in it, exfoliating it every day or multiple times a week can be too rough or irritating on the skin, but it is a good extra things to throw in there once in a while, just to really break down and anything that might have built up in your pores in addition to or instead of that, you can also have your pores vacuum. Believe it or not, the best way to get it done is by professionals, since messing with your pore is, is something you're gonna be really careful with. However, I did buy a $20 and poor vacuum from CVS just because it's super easy and convenient and prevents me from picking my skin whenever I do end up with clog pores, I just grab it and said, and not picking your face is gonna be a huge benefit to having a clear head. Absolutely avoid poor strips because they're actually putting an adhesive directly on your skin and ripping it off can actually damage your pores. So try not to use those. But like I said with taking, tried to avoid that, it's very difficult to cover open wounds with makeup. You can't really oftentimes the blood pus and oil that is coming out the wound and prevents makeup from sitting on top. If you do end up opening up a wound before you need to put on your makeup, try to take a couple of minutes to dab it with a paper towel or at least let it dry out so that you can apply make-up on top and try to seal it with some powder. Otherwise, whatever is coming out of the wound is just going to continue to push for makeup off your face regardless of whatever you apply. If you have facial hair, unless you plan on having it be a part of your look. I would recommend shaving as consistently as possible just to avoid ingrown hairs and any additional clogged pores. 5. Getting Supplies: As far as getting supplies, I will list all of the products that I personally will be using for your reference. However, since skin type can come into such a huge factor as far as the products that you want to use. You are going to want to check labels, ingredients, and become familiar with products that you like on your own that are within your particular budget. I tend to use cheaper products. The downside being sometimes quality or even me not being sure what labor practices go in behind them. But I have found products that work for me that when I am on a budget, I can run two silver finding Foundation. I do want to mention shade matching. Now one of the things you want to look for when you're looking at the label is seeing if it mentions what skin type is four. If it's four, dry accommodation or oily. If you have dry skin, you are going to want to avoid powdered foundations and make sure you're focusing on creams and liquids. Powder foundation can sometimes work on its own. For people with more oily phases, don't struggle so much with acne. But for the most part, I would recommend aiming for liquid and cream foundations as they tend to be more versatile and powder foundations typically I only would want to use if I'm trying to seal in a cream or a liquid that I already used. I do want to make note of the fact that powder foundation is actually incredibly useful when it comes to ceiling in your brows. If you are a drag artist who is going to be gluing down your brows on a regular basis, you are going to want Powder Foundation. I'm going to be using liquid in this tutorial when I show you how to glue down your brows, since I didn't have powder at the time. But having powder foundation for Browse, again is actually incredibly useful. I'm going to do a better job as liquid and creams tend to slide off a bit and leave gaps. But as far as shade matching goes, the lighting in some of these stores and pharmacies can make it so difficult. If you don't have a foundation that you go to on the regular, you do not want to leave that store without testing it on your skin. You can do that by either testing it on the back of your hand, your neck, or even the bottom of your jaw just to make sure that the shade matches. Some drag artists like to use more contour or more highlight which affects the overall shade of their face. So they may end up specifically for dragged buying a shade that is darker or lighter than their natural tone. So if this is a more than one time thing for you, you might want to play around with shades, just seeing on how much you like, contour and Highlight and the balance of those with your foundation. If you're gonna be doing makeup on other people, you want to make sure that even if you have to go outside of brands, you have as many shades available as possible from the widest of whites to the blackest blacks. Something to keep in mind if you buy the wrong foundation is perfectly okay to buy a complimentary foundation that you can mix with. Just keep in mind as far as wastefulness goes, just because if I accidentally by something and I don't keep their receipt or I already opened it and there's no return policy and say it's too light. Sometimes I'll buy the adjacent shade that's too dark and then mixing them just to get the right shade. It can also come in handy if you're like me and being a mixed race person whose skin tone varies wildly, just depending on the time of year. It is. If you want something where you can adjust the level depending on the time of year, I want to give you a couple of hacks for reviving old products and product replacements. If you don't have any of the items or maybe you don't have the money to go out and replace stuff. So something that comes in handy for me big time is actually petroleum jelly. Petroleum jelly can come in handy with reviving, drying or old products, depending on the consistency, you can sometimes add it to different eye shadows just to make it thicker and more vibrant. Just be careful because depending on the consistency of the shadow, you might just be making a weird slimy non pigments and paste is great for reviving potted liners, brow fillers, gels, body paints, potted lip colors. If you do not have eyeliner or you do not have liquid liner, you can use mascara and the liner brush. Rub the brush along the bristles of the mascara brush just to pick up any of that extra liquid. And you can pretty much use it like you would. If you don't have contour or highlight, you'd be surprised how many times you can find shades that work for you in eye shadow pallets. You can even use eye shadow colors to seal or replace lip colors. You can use eye shadow for brow filler to replace highlight. You can oftentimes, if you are a pale enough person, use bentonite clown white, or you can subsequently use conceals. If you use a concealed that's about two shades are more lighter than your own. You can actually work pretty well as a highlight if you or someone you know, has bronze or lying around that can replace contour shades in a pinch if you're running out of finishing powder or you don't have any, you can use things like talc free baby powder. Just be careful how much you pour out. And it might be a little bit of a chalky or finish, but it does work in a pinch. 6. Brushes: Now, despite what some makeup artists believe, I think it is 100% valid to use your fingers if you know what you're doing. Now I want to make something very, very clear here. When I say it's okay to use your fingertips, That's only for your own face. If you plan on doing this makeup on someone else or would like to pursue it professionally. You 100% must use brushes and other forms of application on other people's faces. There are people out there who have immune diseases and things make it incredibly precarious for them to be having other people's fingers all up in their space. So just keep that in mind. They might be difficult to use for precision sake when it comes to things like eye shadow. But the natural oils and your fingertips can actually be really good for things like blending. I would just recommend if you go the fingertip route to have some experience already in blending or some comfortability with it. Otherwise, it can end up looking a little bit streaky or with fingerprints left on your face. But let's go over the different kinds of brushes that you can use and that you will see me using throughout this process. First, we have hunger brushes. These brushes are usually going to be bigger and fluffier than the rest or which you're going to want to use for your setting powder just to make sure that you get everything all up in there. Or if you use powdered foundation, this can be good for that. It's about covering the largest amount of surface area as quickly as possible. Next, we have stippling brushes. It's actually pretty rare when I use my stipple brush, but they can be used for foundations primers, cream blush. They can be used for powders and blushes as well if you want something multipurpose, but these are gonna be less of a dusting effect with the powder brushes and more so like this, like pressing or a stamping effect with maybe just a little bit of smudging and blending as far as the type of motions you want to use while applying. So real quick as a sort of honorable mention, I wanted to bring up stipple sponges, which you can use for five o'clock shadow if you have a gray, dark brown, or black grease paint of some sort. Next we have the tapered foundation brush. These are good for cream it in liquid foundations. Cream blushes. They're good for highlight as well. Occasionally, I'll use them for contour if I'm doing the lighter contour shade. So I want to cover a little bit more surface area with these. These are more of a sort of drag and pet effect for applying foundations. You can also use things like the silicone beauty blender, which has recently come into fashion. I've personally never used one of those. I can't tell you how good it is at applying for sanitary reasons. It seems like a good choice as unlike other blenders and sponges, it doesn't absorb and retain bacteria, so it's easier to clean. You also end up being less wasteful As you end up using the majority of the foundation that you apply with it. However, it might require a little more precision since there is a lack of absorption going on. Now what you'll see a lot of people using that I don't use our Beauty blenders. They can actually be incredibly useful since they are very thick compacted sponges that you can use to really press and properly blend things out. They tend to be longer-lasting, cleaner, and easier to maintain since they're not as absorbent as things you'll see at pharmacies. Next we have contour brushes. These are good for strokes and creating lines for contour, bronze or powdered highlights, butter for more precise lines, if you're trying to cover less surface area, sometimes they'll come in angled brushes, which can be good for like cheekbones. Another item often used for highlight would be a fan brush. I'm just mentioning it here. If it's something you want to play with as far as applying powdered highlight. I have never used one in my entire life, so I have no idea whether to give it a yes or no. Just a thought. Then we have blush brushes, which as you might have guessed, are good for blush. A lot of these you're going to want to do more of like a padding with spreading effect. It's almost like a combination of the movements that you would do with a powder brush and a stipple brush is more like a light dusting and padding effects, but you can use them for blushes as well as if you're doing maybe more of like a club kid look in their larger areas where you want to add like patches of color or different details. Next we have eye shadow brushes. These might be what I would consider some of the most important brushes to get is applying shadows with your fingers is a huge pain in the butt. I recommend having at least a couple angled ones, maybe one that covers a smaller surface area and is a little more precise and one that's a little bit fuller and covers a little more area. They're good for creasing general use. Another one that you might see that looks a little funny, that ends up in a lot of brush packs is the smudge brush. It looks like the equivalent of a makeup eraser at the edge of the stick. But those are really just good for smudging out and smoothing lines. They're not exactly dire. Next we have eyeliner brushes. These are gonna be extremely thin, sometimes angled. They're really good for brow gels, liner gels, and then we also have specifically broad brushes. I actually have a very, very small one. I'd recommend using a brush with small, short and bristles. Just because you want to get your lines as refined as possible with the brows. And if you plan on gluing your brows down, it's gonna be pretty important to make sure you either have something like this, a brow brush. A lot of times there'll be a brush on one end and a comb on the other, or if not that then a dry blank mascara ones that you can usually get from the store because you're going to need something to comb your brows out with blank mascara ones can be good to have on hand just for combing out maybe any older chunkier mascara, combing your lashes into any false lashes that you choose to apply. Then there are lip brushes which tend to be smaller and flatter. Those are good for potted lipsticks. Or if you'd just like to have a little more control over what surface area you're covering. They can also come in handy if you do not have a lip liner on hand and you'd like to use one. You can dip one into a darker lip shade and use it to align your lips. Cleansing your brushes, using soap and water to get really get in there once in awhile is good. However, I would also recommend having something on hand that you can use to wash them, post face or post gig just to get yourself in the good habit of having clean brushes, especially if you plan on doing makeup on other people. So it can be handy to have something with you like this, which would be a spray that you just spray directly onto the brushes and then you rub them out, clean them out on something like a towel that you would take with you? I always take a towel with me everywhere I go to every gig, anytime I do make up. This was a hand-me-down that I was given. I would recommend trying to find something not in a plastic container if you can. I know in the makeup world that's really hard to do, but I just wanted to be one of those voices that keeps pushing things in that direction. I liked that things are moving in a direction now of selling things in pouches so you can refill the bottles that you already own. I would love something like that for a makeup brush cleanser, they do sell sometimes like little potted soaps where you can kinda like Screw it open and then rub the brush in there. I would not recommend doing that unless you are very committed to like wiping down the surface of the soap after every use or rinsing it off. Because it just creates another breeding ground for the bacteria that you're going to have on your brushes. So anytime you go to wash your brushes, you might actually just end up sort of stealing more bacteria in there and then letting them all commingle and just becomes a little bacteria party. It is perfectly okay to accept hand-me-down makeup from people. However, try to have these be people that you know and trust and always try to disinfect the surfaces of the makeup using a baby wipe and preferably something like rubbing alcohol over the surface of everything. So now let's get into the actual application part. 7. Order of Application: So for application, there are two most common methods. The first is eyes first, and the second is foundation first, eyes first is good for avoiding fallout, which is what happens when I shadow and mascara collapse off of the lid and land on the cheek, the difficulty of doing things this way is that it has a habit of looking streaky around the brows, particularly with those who might be a little more nervous or less practice with a blending their foundation into work that they've already done. The foundation first method is a great way to have a bright clean base to slap all of your makeup onto. However, if you're not great with blending, this one can cause some creasing around the eyes. I personally use the foundation first method. I've been doing makeup long enough to where fallout is not really much of an issue, becomes muscle memory, kinda figuring out how to apply your mascara eye shadow so that nothing collapses or anything extra doesn't get on there and ends up falling off. If you do end up with fall out during this process, it's okay. Just keep a brush nearby that you can use to dust it off with if it's too thick or too much to just dust off with key baby wipes on hand. If you do choose to do your foundation first, then you will have to redo that part of your foundation. We're gonna be doing the foundation first method. However, if you would like to try doing your eyes first, you can skip to that section. If you plan on gluing your brows down, you will want to start with that as the very first thing before anything. But I'm also going to show you guys a no glue method that I often use when I'm in a pinch all so it's very quick. Plus the way that I like drawing my eyebrows since I don't like having them sit that high up. And because my eyebrows are so thick, it oftentimes it looks better to just not glue them down and to work with I already have there. I'm gonna be showing you guys how to use the glue stick methods, since it is the most common, fairly easy, and very popular. 8. Gluing the Brows: So before we proceed with this section, I do want to mention that as a king, it is not always necessary to glue down your eyebrows and to prove so later in the tutorial, I will show you another method of doing your browser that does not require gluing them down. So if you don't have the right materials or you just don't feel like it. You can go ahead and skip this section and follow along later on for the non-gray version of doing your brows. I do want to mention that before going into the browse or any of the makeup, you want to make sure your face is primed. You can do that using a primer or having just moisturize your face? I make a habit of moisturizing my face every morning so my face was already ready to go. I'm gonna be showing you guys how to use the glue stick method. But I'm going to tell you right now, it will not perfectly glued down my eyebrows. If you're like me and you have like Middle-Eastern heritage and super, super thick. Why re eyebrow hairs if you want and actually flat, perfectly flat surface to work with, you're probably going to have to use prose aid. I want to completely smooth surface. I have to use prosaic. If you do end up buying pros aid or wanting gay, you can follow pretty much the same steps that I'm going to show you with the glue stick method. Just however, instead of rolling the glue stick around on the brow, instead what you're going to want to do is take a stick and apply the pros aid to the stake and smear it onto the brow and pack it in as tightly as you can. First thing we wanna do is get our hair about a rephrase. We can do that by putting her wig cap on and securing that. Or I'm just going to use a little headband. Lovely. For browse. What we're gonna wanna do is get alcohol, rubbing alcohol, whether it's a bottle or wipes, you're going to want to pour it onto a paper towel or a cotton swab. What this is going to do is going to make sure that we get up all of the moisture in Greece up off of the surface of the brow which will primate to make sure the glue that we're going to use is really going to stick. You're going to want to rub the alcohol along the brow and then against the brow just to make sure that you get up underneath it and get everything off. Give it some time to dry. Once that's dried up and you have a smooth, clean surface to work off of. You're going to want to take your glue stick. I use Elmer's disappearing purple. We're going to end up doing a couple of layers of this, about three. So for the first one, the first layer, you're going to want to make sure you get all up in there going against the grain of the brow and along it. Just to make sure that you glue on every side of the brow, just to guarantee that it'll stick to itself. So for some reason the camera cut out while I was doing the brushing section. So I'm going to go ahead and describe how you have to brush out your brows after the first layer of glue is put in, before it dries, I'm gonna go ahead and walk you through those steps without glue and my eyebrows. So typically what I will do with the brow brush in order to set them right. We start with the comb side. You're going to want to comb the hair, so make sure that they're sitting directly, straight up so that they're flat. Now this doesn't mean forcing the hair to be straight up over brushing it that way works for some people. And then we switch over to the brush side, brush it up in whichever direction it lays naturally flat just to make sure that we get is flooded the surface as possible. Now you can speed up the process by using a blow dryer or a fan, but I don't have one of those today. So you're going to want to let it dry for a couple of minutes and make sure that the first code is completely dry. And said, before putting on a second for the second year, you're going to want to make sure that you are following the grain that you have already sent it in. You don't need to roll it around or get in-between the hairs anymore now that it's laying flat. Be careful to make sure that you get any loose hairs hanging out around the edges of the inside or the outside? Just like we did for the first coat, we're gonna make sure that we give it some time to dry before applying the final coat. If you apply the glue to quickly before it dries, you're going to end up rubbing off some of the layers that you've already applied and ruining somebody's work. Alright, last layer. So we wanna make sure we cover everything real good just to make sure that any of the gaps between the hairs recovered while pressing just hard enough to make sure you're getting get the coverage that you need to fill in those gaps without completely undoing your work. Okay, so that's the last layer that we're going to apply before we let it dry and then apply powder on top in order to seal it, I'm using the naturally neutral Cody air spun loose face powder. I just grabbed it randomly one day when I was in desperate need of a powder and it seems to work well. So again, I'm not someone who's particularly brands specific. I just say go for the environmentally friendly option whenever possible. For me, I just send a gifted a lot of things using what I have around me. Some people use a beauty blender in order to pack in the powder. That's very effective because you're going to want to use now you can really press with, I don't have a beauty blender. I don't use one. It's pretty rare when I use sponges in general. So instead, I'm going to be using this little eye shadow brush. And I'm just going to be pressing it flags down firmly to make sure that I'm getting the powder and all the creases in smoothing out the surface as much as possible. 9. Foundation: As I mentioned earlier, for best coverage for your brows, you're going to want to use powder foundation. However, as someone who doesn't often glued on there browse, I'm not going to have that for tutorial, so you're just gonna see me using liquid foundation to get the best coverage I can. But it's not going to cover the browser as well as a pattern Foundation would. Before getting into the foundation, I would like to mention that some people consider conceal or unnecessary step. For me it's completely optional. This is going to depend on how much scarring or things on your face that you want to cover up there is you can get a concealed and first go over any of the spots on your face and make sure they're properly covered before getting into the foundation. Or what I do is I'll usually do spot treatment with my foundation over each dark spot that might be on my face and make sure that those are completely covered before I go into the rest of my face with Foundation, I forgot to mention here before you go any further in the process, before you do anything else here, browse. If you have any extra glue, like hanging off in little chunks are a little clumps that you need to smooth out. Just take your alcohol, get some onto acute it, and use it to clean up the edges of your glue. This can also be used with the prosaic method as well. And you want to make sure that you do this before putting on any powder or makeup or anything. If you just try to grab a little glue gloves and pull them, a lot of times you'll end up ripping off some of the glue and strips. So just be careful of that and instead, try to use alcohol with a Q-tip or a cotton ball, but they cover more surface area and you're going to have a harder time targeting glue. So that's why I recommend using a Q-tip. The foundation I'm going to be applying all over my face is this Revlon the shape? A little bit lighter than my skin tone right now. But that's okay because we're gonna be using healthy doses of contour. 10. Brows: I'm going to take my team a little broad brush. I'm gonna take some petroleum jelly, the brow gel I hadn't tried up a little bit. It was this makeup obsession London that now has like liquid latex stains on it. And husband do the rare. Queens usually want to paint their brows on higher to create the illusion of larger eyes and a smaller forehead. Kings, we're gonna be doing the opposite. You're going for is something more masculine. Then we're gonna be dropping the brow to give the illusion of a stronger bone and a larger, more masculine brow. We're going to use this gel to create the brow shape. But I'm gonna be using what I have left of this Maybelline New York lines to create lines on my brows. So we're just gonna do it on the edges of where we created the shape of the brow. And see I started and try to do everything as much as you can in like one clean even stroke keeps it from being broken apart as you recommend liquid because it'll stay longer. Some big brow today is not uncommon for the size of your brush today. So again, my eyebrows, I would say aren't perfectly covered. But if you have brass is tricky as mine, you should really be using prose aid, something heavy duty. If you want to tell them that. 11. Brow Variations: Now I want to show you guys another type of brow. Typically when I go for with my eyebrows is more anime or comic books type of effects. So I focus more on the outer edges of the brow. However, for this look, we're going to be diving into using strokes. Okay, so as you can see, on this side of my face, we have a thicker row. On this side of my face, we have the illusion of a higher, more arched brow. Both of them are still going for a more masculine illusion. However, this brow, more so utilizing glued down technique, this prom or so being something you could do regardless of whether or not you glued it down. So now we're going to play more so with the idea of strokes. That if creating individual hairs as opposed to an overall shape, utilizing the liner. 12. No-Glue Brows: Now, as promised, I'm going to show you guys the simpler no glue method of doing your eyebrows. So skipping Glue process entirely. We're gonna take our broad-brush and our gel again. Or if you had the pencil, whatever you end up using for your browser preferring. I'm going to be moving the natural shape of the brow, exaggerating it and bringing it down farther. In, bringing the natural brow line down farther in order to make them look heavier. More masculine. Then we're just going to go in with the liquid layer. You definitely don't have to use black for the details. Depending on how dark your here is. It might even look good just to have the color that's like two shades darker so than whatever browser you're using. I have black, so I'm going to use black. I'm going to do little individual hairs at the front to be careful when policing these. Just because unlike when you glue them down, you have to work with and around your brow hairs. You have it easier, simpler, browse for yeah. 13. First Contour: So for the contour, I'm gonna be using this changeable fantasy palette, which also has liquid latex on it. Welcome to my life. For the contour, you want to use at least two colors. You can use them to three if you want a really good blend. We're going to start by making these straight lines around our mouth. You want to be careful of getting too close. Unless you're specifically trying to do like a really Solon looking starved or dead character. You don't want to have it aligns to close up to the mouth. So I have pretty prominent cheekbones. So what I will usually do is cut into them a little bit. So as you can see, they actually end like about down here, cutting up into it partway. So put more emphasis on the jaw is make it look longer. Less emphasis on the cheek. They usually shaded in gray and my cleft chin. And then as well as on my gels, masculine faces usually have more pronounced gels. Also get up here, down towards the lip. Little bit of shading on the other side, always, always, always blend out. If you do not blend your contour and add highlight, your face will just look like you got beaten up or like you rolled around in the mind. Please learn how to blend. That's kinda a role you want to keep. You always want to things to read as clearly as possible, as intentionally as possible. And believe me, people will think you're doing something completely different than what you're trying to do. For the forehead. I usually starts at the corner of my brow and just kinda blend out downward. We don't want to keep the forehead too distracting because when your lip sinking, you want people looking here, not here. We're definitely going to blend out a lot of what we do up here. Sometimes I use Foundation brushes for contour, especially if I'm doing more than one color, they can be a little more unwieldy and less precise. But they do cast wider strokes, which you might want for, whichever is gonna be the lighter color that you start the shadow with. My blood down with my fingertips a little more. Starting underneath the eyebrow and then dip down from the center of the nose here, like I said, you don't have to do that or you can play with different shapes. Then we round out the nose down. Then for more masculine Drag makeup. All the times, I will also add a little bit of contour to the inner corner of the eye. Just emphasize that sometimes the light a little red to probably do that. Especially when I'm like adding the blush. Now if you don't have a naturally occurring Adam's apple or you're going to have a lot of skin exposed. You're probably also going to wants to contour your neck. So I'll show you how to do that as well. If you're wearing something a little more low cut, contouring and highlighting your collarbone might also be a good idea. Getting, get the side of the nostril a little bit too here for shading. The Nasrallah bit. The collarbone to 14. Highlight: Okay, so before we go into our second contour color, we're going to use our highlight, Alice to do the highlight in-between contour shades. Just because I find for me it blends better than I do. What works for you? I'll be using Ben I and sealing it off with a little bit of white powder. And probably using a little bit of this too, is this Milk Makeup. Holographic stick to very light coverage is more of a shimmer, so it's probably something you'd want to put on top of a highlights or concealing your clown white something. Using a contour brush for this. A lot of times I'll get around the lips to highlight to some people do it's to change the shape or the size of their lips. I will usually cut into mind just a little bit. Then we want to get whatever highlight you use onto the brow bone as well. I usually get some up there too, but not as strong as just above the brow. And don't worry, we're going to blend out the nose more if you're looking at that and you're like, why why? We'll get there. Okay. Got it. Come on the whole journey with me. Let's blend them. We want to lengthen the jaw as much as possible. Just make sure you blend out whatever highlight you use them the jaw. Otherwise it could just have like a giant white rectangle. I also put highlight just a tiny bit, the tiniest bit. You don't want like a huge blob of shine in the middle of your forehead, which is tiniest bit of highlight toward the middle. Bit of highlight on the gels. And throughout the entire process of doing your makeup. It's perfectly normal to go back and touch things up. You can just fixed lines. Don't ever feel pressured to do things in a perfect border. If you did everything perfectly, you would never get anything done. And we got to get the Adam's apple. And we'll get some on the collarbone to just a little bit. You don't need to go crazy here. I'm not gonna do it right now since somewhere you're fairly close. Top. Sometimes it's also fun to throw glitter on it when you're done and you're going to put glitter on the abs two, we'll, we'll get there on another tutorial on Tei maybe. So here's a little hack if you want to ever do like really vibrant eye shadow, you can also use clown white as a base before you put any color on top. One, I'll put a little bit on the cheeks. Why not? Final color? I'm going to go with a smaller brush. 15. Second Contour: For the darker part of the shadow, the animal is part of the line is going to be the darkest part of the shadow would be. That is really where you want to place the darker color. Then blending up this cheekbone part, the very top of the gel. And we get the deepest part of the clef sides of the nostrils. A lot of times for the nose, f of the upper part. I really only get like around the bottom part of the center there. Don't usually feel like I need too much dark contour on the nose. This around some of the more defined part's not going to do too much dark on the forehead because again, we don't actually want too much emphasis there. Beforehand. Probably needs to be blended out more, but I'm just going to see for now how much of that fades with the powder. 16. Powder (Version 1): Now we have options here for baking. What you can do and what I oftentimes do, do is seal everything on my face with a powder when I'm done and then just go in and sharpen up any lines that I feel may have faded too much with contour or eyeliner. Some people don't do that because they don't want the powder getting on their liner or mascara. So instead, they would bake right now in the process. So what you're gonna do if you choose to bake right now is take a powder brush, dip it into lots and lots of powder. Get that heavily on the spots where you used highlight, highlight and foundations specifically, make sure to really get any areas of your face that you tend to sweat or produce any oil on. But if you plan on baking, it's important to get areas that may increase over time such as underneath your eyelids. Let that sit for about maybe 15 minutes. So I said 15 minutes here. But depending on your own face and the products that you use, it may end up being more like five to ten minutes. I would experiment with different time periods and figure out which works best for you. And then brush it all away. I usually save the pattering and baking for the very end personally, because I like to make sure that at least some of the eyeliner, since they use so much for my brows and other details, is sealed, creating too many layers of cream and powder. And cream and powder on your face can create sort of like a like a mud Sludge effect. It can end up having the opposite effect where your makeup is actually crumbling off easier than it would have been had you not sealed it. 17. Eyeshadow: First things first, I want to go over some color theory just so that you have some idea of how to pick colors as well as mixed colors. If you're going to mix colors, I would highly recommend making sure that you're using creams. Some powders might still be able to mix just depending on the consistency. So I would test your powder is out if you plan on mixing them. So we have our primary colors first here in the center, which you can mix in order to create all other colors. You have yellow, red, and blue. This specific color wheel that I'm showing you goes a little bit more by the yellow magenta cyan rule, which is another version of the primary colors to go off of that color diagram is a really good visual tool if you want to see a lot of different shades next to each other. However, when we're talking about the red, blue, yellow primary color scheme, you're going to want to look at these shades here since yellow cyan magenta don't mix the same way. So in order to get the secondary colors, green, purple, orange, you're going to want to mix these. And then tertiary colors are the colors that you can get by mixing a primary color with a secondary color. So those would be like orange, red, yellow, green, orange-yellow. You can adjust any of these colors by adding white or black or gray just in order to change the shading hue or taints of color, you can create a monochromatic look like what I'm going to be doing in this tutorial by just using reds and black as well as some white just to bring out the colors a little more and make them a little brighter. Complimentary colors are colors that sit on the opposite side of the color wheel from each other. These provide really great contrast. The only thing is you're going to want to keep in mind certain color associations people have sometimes, like for example, pairing green and red tends to remind people of Christmas. If you chose to go with an analogous color scheme, you would be picking about two to four colors that are next to each other on the color scheme. So you'd be keeping within the same color family. If you were to go with a triadic color scheme, you would be picking three colors that are evenly spaced from each other on the color wheel. So here are a few examples. A good rule to keep is to look at the outfit that you want to pair it with. And to choose colors that match the outfits. Or that might be within the same color family. Or that might be complimentary for contrast if you want something that's a little bit stronger. So we also have our neutral tones, which are going to be graze brown's, blacks, whites, creams. Sometimes neutral tones might have a little bit of earth tones in them. Select maybe a drop of red, a drop of green. But they're usually very muted, not highly saturated colors. They pair well or add nice compliments to whichever colors you choose to be the stronger focus of the overall look. It is entirely possible to use completely neutral tones. In your eye shadow look. Some kings prefer to use neutral tones to avoid feminized and look too much. Or in order to keep the look appearing more natural. A lot of pallets are already designed to have colors that work well together. But if you're like me and you want to play around with different colors and different palettes. Or sometimes you find that you appreciate certain colors in pallets more than the others. And you want to mix them around, or you want to design a palette of your own. These are some good rules to keep in mind. Always try to keep the overall look and minds when you're picking your colors as far as what you'd like to achieve. It's absolutely okay to pick a bunch of fun colors and do a very bright rainbow look. Just make sure that the overall look, even if you're going for something, maybe a little cilia are more clownish looking, goes together. If you're going to pick a lot of bright fun colors, you do want to make sure that they at least match the outfit. If you have a very colorful outfit in very colorful eye shadow, but they're not in the same color family or they don't match each other. It can be a bit distracting in the audience not going to lie. They might be thinking that you have no idea what you're doing. I think I want to play with having a brighter base. So I'm going to be using the clown white first before I add color on top. I'll also show you a couple of different ways of doing the eyeliner. Now queens often want to make their lives a bigger, or do the whole cut crease. Some kings do that as well. I don't largely because my eyes are so big and I'm not trying to while I still enjoy color and some androgyny, I'm not trying to have my eyes be the focus of my face because that tends to be incredibly feminized. And if I get to androgynous, people are gonna think I'm just a queen with really large eyebrows. I'm going to blend it up more on the bottom. You don't want it to be quite as strong down there. Copy on the other side. I'm feeling red. I'm going to use this brighter red from the changeable fantasy palette. Going on top of where I went with the Klan, white, with an angled eye shadow brush, do darker red on the outside and some of the crease. And with the smallest shadow brush than I have, I'm going to go in with some whites from this little LA colors palette that I have. And get the inner corner bits, brighten it up. Brightening up your inner corner of your eyes is good if you're like me and your eyes are a little more close set. Despite that, I still like doing eyeliner all the way into the inner corner of my eye. Still can and I'm going to brighten it up. A little bit of white right under the brow to five to clean up that line. Then. So be it. 18. Eyeliner: Here's the thing with the eyeliner. I'm going to use the Revlon color stay. There are two different ways I usually like to do it. I almost always like to wing it a little bit on the outside. If I don't do a wing that oftentimes I will take a very dark brown or black and shade with a very slim liner or shadow brush the outer corners. But we're gonna use some lighter today. Good eyeliner lines are often going to come from muscle memory and practice. For a lot of people who are new to the craft, they may want to end up using paper or tape on either sides of your eyes, evenly spaced just to get the perfect line. You're going to want to use clean, even strokes, but you can always go in and do touch ups if you want. But again, good liner is mostly going to come from practice and muscle memory. My favorite way to do it is to do a closed line or all the way around and I'll show you how to do that. But before I do that, I want to show you the other method that I like to do on occasion that I picked up from land insider. What helps we'll be having a white liner stick of some kind, like a pencil. I don't currently have one on me, so I'm going to use Ben Nye and a thinner liner brush where you can do a little bit of white there. And on the inner lower lid about halfway. Then what you would do from here is shade the inside, the rest of the inside with black pencil liner. You want to use pencil for the inside of the lid, the waterline, because it's easier to get in there and it'll stay better than liquid liner. You do not want to use liquid layer for your waterline and it's going to come right off. And then once you do that, you're going to draw the liner on either side, arched underneath and sitting directly on top. And that creates an open eye effects. But just so you get the idea of how to do that, okay, now we've gotten that out of the way. Let me show you how to do the closed liner. Which again, I like to use a pencil for the waterline, just makes my life so much easier. Honestly. I don't like to use pencil liner for the outer lid because you can't get as defined lines. It's usually not as deep of a black and usually rubs off easier. There are a lot of reasons like for example, if you have a mono lid, like I was talking about it at the beginning of the tutorial. You are for sure not going to want to use pencil liner. Least not on the outside, it'll aid, but for the waterline key, very useful. I also get something underneath and the top there, those lashes just to fill any potential gaps. Here's what you wanna do for the closed liner. So what I do is I follow the natural sort of curved shape that I have going on of the lower lid. And I'm going to follow underneath my waterline like that down to where the top lid kinda naturally closes down and meets. And again, your eye shape is going to come into play. I have full almonds, so we're gonna be doing thinner toward the center. The groups were the outer edges. Although I still for drag, in terms of drag, I still do pretty light eyes because I'm not trying to go for a super feminine face, which is part of her. Another reason why I don't do lashes. But that does not mean that I'm not going to show you how to do lashes in case you decide that you would like to. So I'm not going to do too much of a dramatic way. I just kinda want to emphasize the outside of the eyes. Can't like an animate character. So I'm just gonna kinda go up to the corner, follow the natural line of valid, then go up into the outside and just as with the bottom, we're going to stay thin. Red the center. And then the inside is going to stay pretty thin to try to meet in the corner there. The other items match. 19. Blush: Let's do a little bit Bush for blush. I'm going to be using the changeable fantasy palette, again, using very lightly, this sort of shimmery red on the end here. I'm just putting a little bit on the cheek bones. I'm gonna be using my finger for now for that just because I'm using a color that's so small on this palette, I can't exactly targeted with a blush brush without picking up some of the other colors. Then I also like to use, and I'll use an eye shadow brush for this. Select to use a little bit of blush just around the tip. Just sounds people like to use it across their nose and stuff to not really going to do that. But I will put a little bit right underneath the inner corner business, vivid. 20. Lips: We've got a couple of options for what we can do here. Now what I've been enjoying doing lately is a darker color on top, lighter color on bottom. Well, you can also do go in with a lip liner. It's gonna be a color that is a couple shades darker. Then whatever you're going to use on the inside, and then you can go in with a lighter color on the inside. You're going for something a little more masculine and realistic. Kinda blend the darker part with the lighter part in a little bit of lip brush, you can use that too. You can also seal lipsticks using Shadow palettes, because when we use a little bit of a lighter shimmer color that matches the lighter tint that I'm using. Go over top of it, just dabbing it, the powder in my routinely wipe it on the towel just to make sure stuff's not too sticky. 21. Facial Hair and Details: I have facial hair, so I don't really do facial hair much anymore. But I will still show you how to do it. This is another area where reference photos will come in handy. You can look at pictures of different types of facial hair and five o'clock shadow that men have. Seeing how it deepens and darkens within certain creases, enlightens up in different areas. Just make note of it and play around with it on different areas of your face and see what you like best. You can use gray powder or cream as a base for a five o'clock shadow instead, or use it underneath whatever black or brown paint you use to speckle on the five o'clock shadow. I'm not doing it here because again, I've started growing facial hair of my own. But that is a practice that some kings use and that I used to use. Now one thing you can do to create quick facial hair would be a stipple sponge in like a black cream. Dabbing that on your face to create a five o'clock shadow effect. I'm just going to be doing it real quick with Fragile and liquid liner. Just to kinda show how quickly and easily you can do it. All I'm doing is just adding dots, just real light. And at the bottom of the gels in and around the cleft chin. Go up here. Along the jaw. Right behind. So right behind where we contour. Want to get that real? Well, then we're going to add some more dots. Liquid liner and just go boop, boop, boop, boop. Sometimes you might not want it as defined, so you might just start with using the brow gel. Drag makeup tends to be very strong because you perform in a lot of clubs which can have extremely bright or extremely dark lights. The torment of my soul. And there you go. Another method to creating facial hair is there are companies facial hair for kings such as lead them wigs. Some kings such as land insider, I've also used card stock for stashes, go tease beards. You can also paint them on and strokes using similar methods to how we did with the browse, a width and browse and facial hair. You can also add, highlight and define with white or a lighter shade as well. I'm just going in with a darker one since that's what I've been doing nowadays. And then something else that I do personally, just because I like the kind of cartoonish effect that it has on my face. Adding a little bit of nostril. When you want to make sure that the bottom line goes far back enough that when you turn your head to the side, it doesn't look like you just have like blacks now sitting on the tip of your nose. If you have more of a hook to those like mine. That's what it's gonna look like when you turn it this side, if you don't, make sure it goes a little bit farther back. 22. Setting Powder (Version 2): And now we're all growing and powder. If you want to get a little heavier in the parts where you have like highlight and Cloud white. I'm more so dab it on top of areas like where I have eyeliner just to make sure I don't fade it too much. But if you're using the baking method, you want to use a lot more patterns than you'd think I'm going in first with lighter dabs just to kinda cover everything, seal everything in. And I'm gonna go real heavy with the powder in certain spots. Certain spots where I know I tend to Maybe sweat a little more. Rural heavy and then we're just going to let it sit for like 15 minutes before our brush all the excess off. Okay. And then pressure on that extra. 23. Glitter: So my camera cow at this point in the process. But I did want to show you guys how to apply glitter or some ideas of where to put them. A lot of the really good glitters will come in a sort of gel or thicker liquid that you can apply without using any adhesives. I would check to make sure that the glitter is skin safe and biodegradable. There are plenty of good makeup glitters available. I'll put some favorable options in the description. As always, I do recommend checking what you have locally before ordering anything that would require shipping. That being said, the only thing I had on hand at the time was old craft glitter. Now this can be pretty dangerous to put anywhere near your eyes is you can end up doing things like scratching your cornea. So I highly, highly, highly would not recommend this. If you are using some type of glitter that doesn't already come in some type of gel or a liquid. You can apply it using glue, like an Elmer's glue stick or spirit gum. Spirit gum is a tree sap and can be very irritating to sensitive skin. So I would recommend trying it on a small section of your skin before applying it all over your face. The glue is generally easier on the skin and you can blend it out easier. The spirit gum you're going to want to dab until it gets tacky. It has a better grip. However, it doesn't have as much of a blend. So you do want to make sure that as you're dabbing the glitter on your making sure that it's spaced appropriately. If you just kinda dumped the glitter on the spirit gum, you might just end up looking like you have a thick strip of glitter on your face and it can look a little weird and uneven. 24. Mascara and Lashes: You can put mascara on at this point in the process too. While I'm doing the mascara right now, I do want to mention that you want to hold off on doing it. If you plan on doing lashes, if you plan on adding lashes to your look, wait until after you've done everything on your face, till the very end of the process, after you've powdered your face in order to apply the lashes and then the mascara. I'm going to explain more about the lashes after I do the mascara here real quick. Alright, mascara. We're going to do that. This is just a wet and wild Omega where mascara that I've had for quite awhile now. Lashes aren't something I typically like to do. There are different kinds of lashes that you can get in a lot of queens like to stack them because they weren't as dramatic of an effects as possible. I don't I find that emphasizing my eyes. That much makes my face too feminine for what I'm going for. Some king still want that extra layer of fabulous city. There are different kinds of lashes there, those you can apply by glue and then there are those that you can apply it by things like magnetic liners. I would tend to prefer the ones that have magnetic liners because you literally just take the eyeliner sort of like this fault lash pro magnetic liner. And what you do is you just put a line on top of where you put your eyeliner and you take lash itself and you literally just drop it on top. Like that. It'll snap right in place. I'm not going to mess with it too much right now, but it's pretty stinking easy. If you don't have very steady hands, I would recommend applying your lashes with tweezers if you can. With lash glue. Typically, you want to apply the glue to directly to the lash line that you see in there, that little strip. You want to read the instructions on the glue because some of them you want to wait until it's tacky so you'll kinda touch it to tests and see others. You can just apply it directly on. Sometimes queens will do things like use the smaller lashes on the bottom, place it carefully and a few sections, then have full stacks on top. Then for the most part, I don't really like that much going on with my eyes. Some lashes when they come, they're gonna be too long for your eye, just depending on how big your eyes are. So you might end up having to trim one of the ends. Just make sure that whichever 25. Conclusion: You can add some contacts, just make sure you wash your hands first. But there you are. How to do drag king makeup.