A Professional Party Princess's Entire Routine, from Makeup to Birthday Songs | Work It | Allure

hi I'm melody Ricketts I'm a party princess and this is how I work it I'm gonna take you through 24 hours of my wellness and beauty routine every weekend I do about three parties meet around 80 kids take up to probably like 200 photos give or take 200 miles that I've traveled the most rewarding and the most beautiful thing about it is just bringing the magic of these fantasy characters to real life I try to avoid ever being seen with my car keys or a cell phone sometimes the kids will ask you I go to park or what kind of car do you drive and I tell them I came in a carriage and I say that I traveled by sea I want them to think that I just popped right out of a fairy tale good morning it's 7:30 just woke up going to coffee then wash my face and get started for my snow princess makeup today so I used this wonderful jelly cleanser from drunk elephant I got it as a tester from Sephora for my birthday and then my roommate got me a full one because she knew how much I loved it but I cannot normally afford this I was so ignorant about like well I have oily skin I don't need moisturizer it's not true I don't know how to say this it's a day cream rapini so then around 8:30 I start thinking about all the different princesses I have to be throughout the day so I have to lay all the costumes out and put them all in my car and all the different makeup that I need I go and make my coffee nice strong brew oh look good match it usually takes me about an hour and 15 depending on the character because we're usually out in the Sun for princess parties I'm going to start with this wonderful wonderful Sun screen that this is super goop for those of us with oily skin it doesn't really at all it's important to have like vibrant animated looks right and a primer really just helps set it all better I use a primer that has SPF 30 in it making sure it's really blended into the skin and circular gentle motions really help with that as far as my skin goes more glowy as opposed to matte if I keep it glowy and I'm sweating it's like oh she just highlight what I mean since a very young age my always covered like completely masked my freckles I got to a point where I just started loving them the reason I don't use liquid foundation is because it does no matter what tend to cover up my freckles and I don't want to have them covered anymore and then I'm going to take my favorite Hey good product which is L'Oreal Paris too much mineral foundation it kind of acts as a concealer a lighter color around the eyes makes them pop more I've never seen with like this little amount of makeup so this is like a good lesson for me and now I'm going to use my favorite concealer which is by NYX and my ex I don't know is and we're just going to conceal all having highlighter adds a level of whimsy and it kind of gives like a doll light effect now time to get very extra with my highlighter this is my secret I start with a liquid highlighter and then I put powder highlighter on top of it I just put the highlighter all over the high points of my face and the apples of my cheeks just tap it really lightly it will pretty much reflect no matter where you're looking or where the Sun is facing you can see it when I smile it's like boom there they are and I never stop smiling and I'm a for instance so I always try to be so gentle to I blushed especially as a ginger or anyone with fair skin it's easy to blush so I'd rather have like intentional blush that way when I actually do blush it's not like at all God is a red-faced princess you know what I mean I'm back to my elf blush palette I'm gonna take these two bottom ones mix em together oh that's something I do I put it on my nose I don't really know why if you really dive deep into fairy tales and folklore the characters are really young having the rosiness is very much like cute so with my blush and the highlighter actually I just try to round my face out to give it a more gentle youthful look my eyebrows I'm so scared and I'm going to take this precise flat brush from morphe use honest easy a dip brow pomade whatever I'm using my angle brush to keep it precise is I'll just take a paper towel and I'll like squeeze it really hard and pull it out and then it gets like super super precise a lot of the fairy tale characters because they're so young they haven't really come full form into their brows and they're not filling them in the more natural the better I like to keep my eyeshadow looks more neutral tones it can be a little overwhelming and a little jarring to have like for example like hot pink on your eyes but kids can sometimes be like opposed to makeup actually I've had kids be a little weirded out like why do you have all that on your eyes look say stuff like that so for this character I just use neutral purples and pinks as opposed to hot pinks or hot purples whenever I'm taking pictures with the kids or at parties you have to create that cartoony animated smile and that requires you know raised eyebrows very awake eyes and so I'm going to do I shadow that really accentuates my eyes that will help for princess eye looks the center of your eye is more the focus as opposed to out here so then the last thing I do for eye shadow is like a shimmery cream color I really try to go for an effect of making my eyes more deep-set all fairy tale characters kind of have that look I'll put a little bit of pink underneath eyes and then I'll mix the purple in my eyes are a little more on the purple side today no matter what the heck I do my makeup looks different every single time so I put this line of black liner in my top waterline and my bottom waterline it's really gross to watch actually whenever I see videos of people doing this like look like in your eye it's gross and then I put on like the slightest amount of mascara no like it really matters because I'm putting on fake eyelashes but you know I don't use lip liner when I'm snow princess because she has really small lips so I don't need to over draw them I can just use my actually small legs and I always use matte lipsticks because gloss is just gonna smear everywhere either your wicks gonna get caught in it our kids gonna touch your face and it's gonna totally smear or you're gonna be sweating so keep it locked in with a matte lipstick and now I'm going to do my lashes I have used duo eyelash glue for as long as I've worn fake eyelashes I do like a small amount but not only that but I let it dry for like two minutes oh I can't believe him doing this on camera okay I actually got colored contacts by choice I they're not required because I have brown eyes I love myself for it but most characters have blue eyes or green I think these are circle lenses these ones really give the cartoony effect the very last thing I do to complete my look is a tiny bit of mascara on my bottom lashes okay I just finished my relaxed it's really early version of my makeup next I have to prep my hair in my wig cap get into my tights and character shoes and get my costume on when you have longer hair and you have to put your wig cap on you have to take your hair and pin curl it like this with bobby pins all over your head I can't just like just stuff it up and it works I've done villains it's just fun to be like playful evil and you can be like sarcastic too and they think it's funny because it's part of the character when you're a princess like it is so demanding on your patience like when a kids being mean it's really hard to just keep that smile on your face I've learned to not take the job so seriously that I sacrifice like my emotions if a child is being difficult it's still in character but I'll be like that was not very nice or princess like of you you really shouldn't talk to people that way and they're never like upset they never start crying or anything but I am learning to find the balance between taking and being like I'm dead inside as opposed to like supposed to be like you need to be nice and I'm just gonna say it every time I put this wig on I feel like I should be I don't know what they're called but like George George watching like the judge the judge wigs the best way to pin a wig to your head is not with bobby pins you need to use hair pins because they disappear once you weave them through and the wig is not hard to pin because there's so much hair that it pretty much covers a lot of baby hairs you just need two pins here to secure and then it's pretty much good I am like two to three sizes bigger than every person I work with I just breathed and felt my corset come on saved so you know I'll get them and they're completely tightened and I have to totally undo it just to get it on my body and then I have to turn around in like a full-length mirror and when it's in the car it's like next to impossible so now it's about 11 o'clock and I'm heading out the door the hardest part is probably the driving because we are in our costumes the horn is brushing against the top of my car I've reached out of my move and some of them have petticoat and three skirts and it's a see around you as you can see it covers up be like hark knob and then I just kind of stuff it and make sure my sleeves aren't stuck so I can use the steering wheel is we get going best people will honk at you try to get you to stop oh my god is that ah so I pull up to my party usually about 30 minutes before it begins I just arrived took me about an hour to get here it was raining but it stopped the party is a few houses that way and now it's time to gather my many supplies for the day we will have snowballs sometimes we'll play with those I get a speaker to play my music on and face paints of course because I do a whole lot of face painting sometimes it's arm and face painting at that point I do any last touch-ups to my face and you last pins in my hair I'm exhausted but frankly I don't remember last time my makeup turned out this good Here I am and I'm about to go into my party go on my little walk to the house and make sure my phone and everything is away so I get to a party to do meet-and-greet I tell the whole story I sing every song then I do princess and hero lessons teach them a dance play a game face paint coloring pages birthday cake Passau pictures and then go my sister and I actually do princess parties together sister princesses okay so party one is over and I am booking it to my car well I just got back from my party something that's fun about working certain events it will give you a little thing of food to go and I'm gonna eat that red velvet cupcake I don't go in and get coffee anymore I'll drive through but like I'm going to get some Starbucks when I first started this job I was so excited about being on public and like everyone's gonna see me like no one I have to get gas sometimes and in this ball gown if I'm on a time crunch people don't consider the fact that you're like working they get pictures and it's really hard to say no to a kid Queen oh wow hashtag also vs. the world is my child this was when frozen had just come out and all kids cared about was Elsa I would go I would show up to a party and the kids would say where's Elsa that'd be the first thing out of their mouth where's Elsa we want Elsa and it just got so overwhelming and so annoying so I made this video for my Instagram and just put the hash tag on it Elsa vs. the world because that's what it feels like in the princess community it's like else says up here to the kids and the rest of the princesses are just like nothing so else I heard of a video I did about you really upset you and well you want to know what I do when people upset me I lift up okay crazy hair melody here just finished my party and I'm gonna get into my green fairy costume after I eat I will drive to any secluded area I can find and slip and slide into my next costume my wings are in the back of my car I'm going to try to put them on by myself the more off not I have to ask the mom or whoever is in charge to shove the wings into my back sorry the AC is very loud but y'all it's 88 degrees summers doing princess parties are very demanding because it is so hot you're in these tight corsets and these long sleeves or gloves these heavy wigs you're moving you're dancing you're singing so at the end of the party the last thing we do is we all gather around the cake I leave the happy birthday song happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday to you let me have any final pictures and then I'll make you know my farewell I guess it's usually along the lines like goodbye everyone thank you so much for your time have a beautiful day and then I leave all right off I go to my show so I also AM involved in plays and musicals already so I just made it to the dressing room of the show that I'm in and here is the wig that I now put on so yeah I don't really have time to keep talking cuz I got to get ready but that was my day two parties and now a show bye-bye the first thing I do after a long day of princes parties when I get home is order a pizza coconut oil really helps me get the matte lipstick off and just got a nice foamy lather of my cleanser and I do it twice I have a night owl so like even when I am exhausted I need like at least two hours to like write emails I write my own music editing pictures from the day or whatever end up getting into bed around probably midnight Oh at last it is time for sleep after a very long but fruitful day in the life of a princess and now sweet dreams and goodnight thank you for watching have a magical rest of your day [Music]

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Id: 2UgBqTIlDGA

Length: 15min 47sec (947 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 25 2019