American VS French Makeup Tutorial

[Music] which one do you like better really you like the bold side yeah rather than this side Korean no it's not it's totally different well it kind of seems like a very soft well everybody else doesn't like his dramatic makeup we're just so extra hey guys welcome back to my channel so today as you can see as you can tell by the title of this video and my face this is the American versus French makeup tutorial I just recently went to Paris for a Paris Fashion Week and I was able to see the style of makeup I also just did a ton of research looking up how they do their makeup and everybody pretty much has the same idea natural glowing skin either a bold lip and natural eye or a wing and a natural lip basically the French like to embrace what they already have but on the american side as you can see we are so extra we do a bold dramatic eyes bold lips contoured sculpted face highlight to the gods and this side is just very natural glowing from within I was born like this and I just woke up flawless to give you guys a quick update as you know I released a sneak peak on my Instagram about my cosmetic line dominique cosmetics it is coming very soon making any type of makeup is a very long process I've been working on it for a year now and I'm still down to the bone analyzing everything making sure everything is perfect before you guys get it you want more updates or sneak peeks I will be releasing a sneak peek very very soon on dominica Beauty which is the Instagram for dominique cosmetics so make sure to follow that instagram i'll have it below in case you guys are wondering what the updates are when the latte palette is coming out even saying that just makes my heart so happy so that's a little update on my cosmetic line back to these half-and-half makeup if I go to another country which I travel pretty often I will be doing this right here so if you want to see how I got this look don't forget to subscribe to my channel and hit that notification Belle's need to be a part of the quad family and without further ado we're gonna get on intermarry you like longevity of makeup on her face I'm gonna take this primer right here from Smashbox and I'm gonna work that into my skin like this because it is a little bit of the thicker formula that gets into those large pores so it's gonna fill them in and make them look like one even surface it's also gonna help my makeup last longer for the French side they usually like to use BB creams or CC creams on their face nothing too heavy what I've read and what I've seen when I was in France a lot of them just really embraced some natural skin and if they have flaws it's very minimal they're really into skin care so the micellar water is really big they're a really good moisturizer and then just something that's going to give your skin and even look and a nice healthy looking glow is what they go for so for coverage on the French side of my face I'm gonna use something with moisturizer something that's going to give my skin a little bit more of an even look and hide a little bit of blemishes but not a full layer of coverage so I'm going to use the origins tinted moisturizer and this is a sheer tint release so it comes out white but as you work it into your skin it works into the natural shade of your skintone little dots around the face like this or if you need a little bit more coverage like I feel like I do I'll just put on a little bit more of the BB cream it's all about looking as natural as possible still want your skin to peek through we want it just to look hydrated healthy and glowing not like American glow not like the I went on blind the haters kind of glow oh this is more like a natural soft glowing from within kind of glow this tinted moisturizer is perfect for that you can still see blemishes but they're not as intense and the skin overall just looks even and just a little bit more healthy so for the American side we're gonna take it on normally do this is my life I love the cake so for that I'm going to take this YSL foundation right here this is a full-coverage foundation please ignore my nail I know I'm gonna use our imagination and pretend for a second and you're gonna start to see that my skin flaws are disappearing with this side you can still see the skin peeking through and we're kind of just embracing our skin what it's going through and on this side we're covering it up so basically we're just extra American girls are just I feel like I need to frame my face before I go any further so I'm gonna go into the brows for the brows and using the brow is it from anastacio and dark brown and I'm just gonna comb through this foundation that I got on my eyebrow and then on this side I'm just literally brushing upwards cuz that's very natural in these parts so on the French side they usually like to just fill in the sparse areas define the natural brow shape a little bit further but they don't touch the top at all comb upwards so they look nice and groomed follow that natural shape of the brow the other thing is not to change how your face naturally flows so if your brow is going up and around you just follow that natural flow of your brow so I'm just going to do the bottom a little bit it's more about enhancing the natural shape and showing that you know your brow is alive and naturally okay I don't know this thing just broke so I don't know how that happened or this side of my face I would be adding and filling in and shaping and carving out so I'm gonna fill in the sparse areas you create little brow hairs here I'm actually gonna use this brush just because this one this fully broken is just a little bit easier to use this one to fill in so I'm just gonna use the benefit to goof proof brow pencil then we're going to carve out the brow so I have my tart sheet tape and I'm gonna put a little bit on the back of my hand first starting off with I light the brow and carpet out and then we're going to do the bottom so now we're here we're just going to put some on the lid so that everything is nice and even we're gonna have a clear even canvas for our eyeshadow then I'm just gonna work my Beauty Blender right on top of that and that is the brow for the American side very dramatic very intense and structured so for this side of the eye right here I'm gonna start on applying a little bit a little bit of eyeshadow I did not see anybody with eyeshadow at all if any eyeshadow is used it's definitely a very soft crease shade so I'm gonna take the morphe 3 502 palette I'm gonna take this shade right here which is the lightest shade in the palette and I'm just gonna work that right through the crease for definition I want to use the Charlotte Tilbury palette I'm changing it up a bit I honestly think those are too warm for the French side so I'm taking smoke I'm gonna add a little bit more into the crease just add a little bit more depth and right in here I'm actually gonna bring the smoke and I'm gonna bring it right on top the lash line just to add a little bit more definition and then on this side right here is very appropriate to lose the morphe palette for this so I'm gonna take these two shades work them in my crease lovely warm shades here in the US so I'm gonna take those and just wash that right into my crease grab a few more crease shades because you like really defined creases so I'm going to take this Brown right here now I'm gonna grab a darker Brown something really dark let's go with this shade right here focus that on the outer part of the crease down into the lid and then right on the inner part of the lid I'm going to take this brush wheeze or to carve out our crit burn brow and we're gonna just carve out right where our crease would start so right in here and these bring in a concealer down I don't want to bring it all the way and just right on the inner third and then right on top I'm going to add this rose gold it's gonna be a vibrant intense shimmery lid now I'm gonna just deepen up the crease with this black I'm gonna add eyeliner to this side of the eye because we like our wings so I'm gonna do a dramatic wing to add to the drama on this side of the eye it kind of feels nice knowing that I don't have to line up this wing to match this one so I feel like I can just do whatever and go crazy with it one thing I notice is that they like to use an eyelash curler every single time they do their lashes because this is basically all that they do on their eye unless it's a wing so I'm gonna curl my lashes before I put on mascara on this side and to really get the maximum curl out of your lash I like to pump the mascara and then start to move it but I usually put on some mascara right away just to prep for lashes the lashes I'm putting on are from Lily lashes and actually this is my travel wash so I have a few in here and I think these are Miami I'm not mistaking Miami's are a popular lash to wear in the u.s. but they're just such a beautiful lash I would wear them no matter where I'm from so while that dries I'm gonna go to the French side of my face and I'm gonna start to put on a mascara this mascara is a really good one saman 'yes this one from Maybelline it's the colossal Big Shot the makeup Shayla one and baddest black is my all-time favorite one I use it all the time so I'm just gonna use that and we wiggle up my brush from the base up into the top okay I'm gonna let that dry and then curl them again so that's pretty much it for the eyelids now I'm gonna work on the concealer because I want to get down to the lower lash line heart-shaped tape is a must it's very full coverage it is thick and it covers everything to the Instagram kind of makeup here while we're here we're just gonna highlight this little area right on there and the chin the Cupid's bow I'm gonna let that sit for a second and then on the French side I'm going to use the NARS radiant creamy concealer and I'm just gonna do a little bit right in here to brighten it up so this is the difference between the two so I'm gonna come over here on this side and start to work that in you like our faces to look highlighted in every aspect contoured and just very dramatic I learned from the French that they don't like to use brushes really this doesn't go for everybody but from what I've seen the majority don't like to use brushes and they'll use their hands or their fingertips somebody's mine use this fingers since it's nail free and this is only for people who have dark under-eye circles if you don't have dark under-eye circles concealing is not even necessary we're gonna mix this shade right here with this one and we're gonna put that right on the lower lash line and then I'm gonna add a black eyeliner right on the waterline some mascara on and my lower lashes and then for the inner corner we like bright highlights and this looks like a bright shade right here I can add that to the inner corner of my eye so I'm gonna go into with smoke for the French side I'm just gonna add a little bit of color right on the lower lash line right on the outer part of the lower lash line I'm just blending the edges out add mascara to the lower lashes my lashes are pretty dry so I'm gonna go back over them with a lash curler and then just clamp them down this tie looks a lot more wide awake and fresh this one is just ready to party or the American side we are gonna contour because contouring is contouring is everything for that I've been using the offensive Beauty contour stick in mocha the cheekbone with like high cheekbones temple this side of the nose everything has to be sculpted defined we slimmed down the nose right there and bam we're done with our contouring on this side of the face they don't really contour but they do bronze I'm gonna use this bronzer from NARS and I'm gonna use this on my cheeks just to add some color into the cheeks I just look like two different people to me right now what about you they go for more of that golden bronze I've seen almost every French makeup artist use a cream blush I'm gonna use this cream blush from Stila this is the shade petunia I'm going to add a very tiny amount of that to the cheeks nothing heavy at all literally the smallest amount because you don't like pink cheeks as they don't want to look super young and they want to look like mature women so a really young baby doll kind of look is not something that they go for so I just took a little bit of that just to add like a natural glow and flush to the cheeks for this side of the face we are not done yet setting everything in place with the powder version of what I just did to contour and highlight some needs the kat von d palette for that and I'm just going to go really fast through that and then personally I like to use more of warm-toned bronze so I'm using the bronze goddess from estée lauder on this side to bronze up the face it has a little bit more of a warm tone to it and then for blush I'm gonna use this powder blush from Kylie who loved us and Kylie because they like more of a natural dewy looking highlight I'm gonna use peach frost from Too Faced it's a it's called a melting powder highlight so it's a very natural-looking highlight so I'm going to take this shade right here and just work that on my cheeks it's gonna be very soft and then on this side we love our highlight we want to blind people with our highlight these two actually I'm gonna use the one from Mac this is the oh darling extra dimension skin finish on my cheek we want to blind our haters and the tip of the nose right above the brow Cupid's bow chin and then I'm gonna take because we are so extra here I'm gonna take the artist Couture diamond glow powder and cocoa gang it's something you want to wear when you're just feeling yourself when you wear this so the difference between the highlights is very extreme and then for this side of the face I'm going to use the Kylie liquid lip because you love Kylie's lips but first I'm going to line up the lips this is the makeup forever number 14 lip liners in case you guys are wondering and then I'm gonna put on it is Kylie velvet liquid lipstick in boysenberry and that is the completed look for the American side and for the last but definitely not least French side of the face so French usually go for the natural lip and the very small flick of the wing or they go for the bold lip and the very natural looking eye so since we went the natural looking eye I'm gonna go for a bold lip and for that I'm going to use the L'Oreal infallible and this is in the shade Matador I'm going to take this and they love reds I noticed that a lot of them like red that is a really pretty and this red will not go anywhere because trust me it is hard to take off [Music] thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed this video if you did go ahead and give me a big thumbs up thumbs up is a hug too nice let's see how many hugs we can get today also if you miss those videos over to the side I will have them there so you can watch it just click them and before I let you go I want to let you know that you are beautiful and I want you to do me a favor if you can just tell the next person that you see a compliment that would make me so happy if that person so happy and it would just make this world a better place there's a lot of crazy things going on in the world and if we can just give somebody a compliment make them feel good that would be amazing I love you guys so much you are beautiful and I will see you next video bye dolly

Channel: Christen Dominique

Views: 8,229,841

Rating: 4.9371138 out of 5

Keywords: french makeup, american makeup, makeup tutorial, makeup, tutorial, transformation, beauty, full glam makeup, french, french vs american makeup, how to, christen dominique, christen, dominique, korean makeup, foundation, full coverage, french beauty, natural makeup, make up, glam, full coverage foundation, american, youtube makeup, french skincare, full face makeup

Id: Z9svINZiBdU

Length: 16min 39sec (999 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 04 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/iPood_]

I've seen a lot of videos like this before (typically Asian or Korean vs American makeup) and they always do a "full glam" look for the American side and then the other half of the face is like a cute everyday look. The comments are always full of men commenting on how the American side is way too much, they prefer Asian makeup/women/whatever and then women saying they would never wear that much makeup because they're natural and not insecure. These vids always just strike me as inaccurate at best, and a poorly disguised attempt to put down American or western women at worst. I very rarely see women wearing the amount of makeup she has on her American side during the daytime, and even at night, and when I do, I find it looks harsh and kind of jarring in real life.

[u/tazend314]

Lol. Basically she did an IG style look and a more natural/everyday woman dressed up type of look or even celebrity makeup. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It's also what you would see on the red carpet or in movies

[u/kingofthejungle3030]

The idea behind this video is identical to a better video posted by MrJovitageorge. I feel like hers is more wearable and toned down.

[u/opalescentessence]

Why is the American side always IG makeup and never is more representative of the kind of makeup that most people would do on an everyday basis? Not that there's anything wrong with dramatic makeup (I personally live for it) but it makes the contrast seem so much more stark than it actually is

[u/whenitrains34]

i like the american eye make but i definitely prefer the french brows, instagram brows just looks nasty on me

[u/lunaanna0305]

This is the first video of hers I've ever watched but it popped up in my recommendations and I was interested in it. I enjoyed how she did the French side, but I honestly think that the American side was pretty badly done. The highlighter just looked awful. I also found it annoying how she kept referencing "haters."

Do you think that her idea of French makeup was accurate?

[u/[deleted]]

I really liked the French side, sometimes I forget how pretty a quicker and more simple look can be.

[u/nivora]

i opened the video and closed it immediately because lol a typical french look would never feature overdrawn lips like that

[u/[deleted]]

uh ok except that only youtubers do the "american" side. how many girls do you see who wear makeup like that on an everyday basis anyways?