Feminizing Makeup Hacks – Transgender Tutorial

guys it's me nikki today's video is very near and dear to my heart and will pack a lot of emotion on my side ever since i came out back in january and got bombarded with your love and acceptance and just i got welcomed into the rainbow family like no other i can already feel the tears coming a lot of people out there were like oh my god can you please do a facial feminization makeup tutorial now what that means if you're a trans person and you want to look more feminine what are like the perfect techniques to kneel down that look and for the longest time it it just i'm going to say i wasn't ready for it i wasn't ready to openly speak about my past like that and over the last few months i've really started to love myself in such a different way and you guys have noticed you guys leave it down in the comments in so many videos how you see my self-acceptance growing how you see myself love coming back for today's video i feel like i'm finally ready to sit down and tell you techniques and ways to make your face look more feminine now this comes with a huge huge disclaimer i think it is disgusting that we live in a world where only if you look cis where you look like a biological woman you get to pass as a trans person that is unacceptable and i'm still fighting for that every single day but this video isn't for society this video isn't to please others this is a video for anybody out there to find new techniques to alter your look because at the end of the day that's what makeup is for in my opinion makeup is here to make us feel powerful strong confident it isn't a layer of paint to hide ourselves or to pass for society no it is for us so before i start off with this tutorial i want to say that you are beautiful look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you are beautiful and yes it is fun to play with makeup and yes it is fun to alter certain features of your face but at the end of the day makeup washes off and you have to love yourself before you put anything on also please don't think that if you're a biological woman a biological man who's not even interested in makeup this video is for everybody who just wants to learn new techniques and have fun with makeup so if you're excited let's go ahead grab the brushes grab the makeup and let's get painted before we get started with all this makeup fun i do want you to know that later on in this video i'll be teaming up with cavity vegan beauty to complete my brows as well as some tricks for the eyes so know that that is coming kvd vegan beauty is a new brand that relaunched earlier this year i've always been obsessed with their brow pencils as well as their liner but we'll get to that later on when it comes to feminizing the face and really altering your look i think it's very important to look at yourself in the mirror and look at portions of your face that you want to enhance and portions that you want to kind of alter a bit more now of course yes there are techniques to make your face look more feminized but at the end of the day every face is different and you may have other needs than other people out there i feel like the main goal when you want to feminize the face is to create roundness is to sort of flatten out all the harsh edges and soften the features but again that is totally a personal experience because when you look at me i need structure i'm a balloon the first step always is primer not to prime is a crime the next step is color correcting we've pretty much all seen like the orange beards the orange under eyes on instagram and pretty much everywhere i've done it myself as well color correction is used to cancel out shadows on the face if you have a natural five o'clock shadow if you use an orange color corrector that will kind of neutralize the bluish shadowish tones on the face you should always do this before you do foundation or concealer so everything is neutralized i'm taking the dragon beauty one and you only need trust me when i say the tiniest tiniest bit you pretty much only want to neutralize those bluey shadowy tones i'm gonna do a little bit on the corner of my mouth here over here here just a little bit you see and under my eyes and then using a brush i'm softly gonna stipple that in diffuse it see it's already too much but that'll do under eye tap tap tap in now the number one trick to make sure that this stays in place and you're actually correcting and not smearing everything around once you go in with your concealer is take the tiniest bit of face powder on a puff really work it into the puff and lightly set the places you color corrected because what this will do is set the color correction in place so that when you go over it with your foundation and concealer it doesn't drag out and lose its purpose for foundation i suggest going for a long wear more mattifying foundation because if you deal with a lot of texture on the skin using a dewy foundation is only going to highlight the texture whereas if you use a matte it's going to blur it out a bit i'm using the juvia's place i am magic foundation i'm just going to start bouncing this onto the skin and you'll see that as soon as the foundation hits the skin it takes away that orange and you are completely neutralized see nice and even this to me is so satisfying just cancelling out the orange but left with not a shadow in sight if you're new to makeup the number one thing you want to do with a beauty sponge and your foundation is tap the product in as soon as you like smear it on you're actually destroying all the pigment in that lovely product so if you tap it on you're going to keep all the pigment keep the coverage and make it look flawless now when it comes to concealer it is very very important to again assess your face look at it and see what your face needs i personally think that if you keep everything a bit more towards the center of the face it's gonna appear more feminine if you are rounder like i am you can get away with creating more like angles but if you already are very structured and defined i would go softer and keep it more towards the center of the face so for under eye concealer you can really build some up on the inner portion here and then if you want to create more of that angle and that lift you can apply some right here to the outer portion of the eye underneath the mouth towards the sides top of the lip center of the chin and a bit on the center of the forehead to already start our highlighting process okay so now let's bounce this in when bouncing in your concealer you want to just tap at the product you don't want to necessarily move it around too much because you strategically placed your concealer in the areas that you want to lighten up so now if i would drag it all across the face the method behind lighting things up and making things look more highlighted will be destroyed once i tap in this concealer it is key it is very important to straight away set the under eye using loose