The Natural Makeup Challenge Vol. 2! | Simple Makeup Inspiration

it's the saddest wonderful day today is the finale of 2018 s a winter wonder week and I wanted to go out with a different type of video that you might have expected from me if you were here for last year's winter Wonder week you know that I opened winter one a week 2017 with the natural makeup challenge today's video is gonna be my natural makeup challenge my name is Nikki and I am a full-coverage glow Queen addict at the time I I know I know I saw the comments I saw the opinions I was like this is natural to me like you are talking to the most full coverage Queen out there and I will not live the sheer life I won't basically I was just doing like a full coverage routine but using a little bit less product now one year later I want to revisit that video 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 a lot of occasions where I just didn't want to wear a full beat but I also didn't want to look like a train wreck and this one's slowly but surely tinted moisturizer entered my life sheer concealer entered my life a daytime appropriate face entered my life today I want to do the natural makeup challenge 2.0 the the natural makeup that I know works for me on days where I don't want to wear a lot as always don't forget to stay tuned to words at the end of this video for a special giveaway and I will promise you that today's one is a very special one since it's the finale of winter one a week and without any further ado if you want to get natural with me baby then keep on watching it's me Nicky so welcome to the most wonderful week alright the first thing I'm gonna do is to walk on mister all jokes aside the first thing i'ma do is prime and I'm gonna be pregnant well there's two options well there's a lot of options but it comes to makeup but these are my two options right now what I like to do when going for a more natural look is really glowing it up because you want to blind them to sort of like not make them see that you're not wearing all that much makeup I still stand by that I was so addicted to the beat that I was just I was like in denial I was like no no this is this is sheer alright so I still stand by what I said about giving the skin a lot of glow and illumination to sort of hide the fact that we're not wearing a lot I still stand by that I just kind of twist and turned it before I actually go in with makeup products I do know you know that I feel like skincare is so so so important like a good skin regimen will be 50% of your work I know I already addressed these products in the first one – one a week of this year but I just want to reiterate that this serum absolute effects by Nora bode and this QMS relaxer for a mask have saved my skin if you want to hear me talk more about this please go watch that video but I feel like this combo has made my dry crusty skin into I want to say heaven because that's pushing it too far but I would say entering the gates of heaven what I want to do is conceal definitely my under eyes and like any like shadowy stuff on my face so I'm gonna be starting off with the Charlotte Tilbury retouching oh my god oh my god 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've fallen in love with this baby right here this is a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer and I feel like everyone knows those but this one is illuminating so this has a shine slash glow to it I am in the color of course I'm fareth one this is one and one bare radiance I you a tiny bit of this I could use this but I feel like I've come a great far long way so I take that and I apply it with a brush I know shocking this is the Real Techniques instant pop cheek brush I pick it up and I first place it on where I would kind of highlight my face and on my forehead then picking up a little bit more chin nose lip jaw so I'm kind of just you know putting it all over the face and then I start tapping it in using that brush it is a little bit warmer than my skin tone which I don't mind I'm just using this for the overall glow and the the almost tan like finish it gives me and I feel like as long as you keep like buffing this in tapping this in making sure that everything is sitting well on the skin that leaves you with a sort of holiday glow like you just came back from a holiday you're rested you're a little bit tan you're having the time of your life and I just love how this makes my skin look and how it makes me feel I feel a little bit more confident it gives me that boost of color but it also gives me that healthy shiny glow that I feel always works now is the time to bust out that Charlotte Tilbury retouch her again I'm in the color one and I take a little bit and I just point this where I feel a little bit more insecure when I have more redness surrounding my jaw I'll just kind of stipple it on a little bit I'll let it dry now like I said a trick to make more sheer products more full coverage is to let them sit and dry now you can do a little bit on your under eyes I don't mind my dark circles all that much lately but I'm just gonna cover it up a little bit nothing too much if you're all about making your sheer products a little bit more intense a trick is to get a little fan like this and dry in the product faster this is just gonna save you time now I'll leave it totally up to you if you want to work this retouch her concealer in with a brush or a sponge I've been liking just using my fingers patting the product in and because it's such a sheer product it's just gonna hide sort of like the the unevenness it's not gonna solve all your life problems but it is gonna solve today's battle see how it cleared out the skin and made it look a lot more rested and calm but it still looks like skin so he goes for the under eyes just tapping that in making 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 that you are looking radiant healthy and stunting so to further enhance that I've been wearing the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood flawless filter in number two I've been raving about this so much on my Instagram stories and my snapchat you know how you have like the supermodels and talways have like that perfect you know it's almost like twere born with that perfect skin thave like that beautiful wet radiance that glow it's this I pop this on my cheekbones it has like that the tiniest feather of coverage I put it on the center of my forehead the top of the nose and a little bit on the chin I start by tapping in the forehead dot using a little brush and just using tapping motions I never bust in or swipe with my brush because I feel like that's going to disrupt the base again and give me more redness whereas I'm really fighting against my redness h