(clock ticking) (soothing piano music) - [Bernadette] So it has
been brought to my attention through a slew of comments
over the last couple of months that the last video I put out on answering the eternal question of how I do my hair is now at this point several years old, which, if you can even find it
on my channel at this point, is now slightly out of date
considering that my hair styling has, as styles tend to do,
evolved over the years, and this style will continue
to evolve probably even more. But therein, I suppose, highlights the great overall thesis. The secret to getting a
style that looks right is a matter of regular repetition. It is training your hands, it is training your hair, it is training your
regular autonomous routine to do the same thing over and over again until it is how you want it to be. This video will only speak
to the turn of the century, Gibson girl-esque style
in both hair and makeup, which I presume is why
you clicked on this video. If not, I suppose you're
in the wrong place. (enchanted piano music) (birds chirping) I am not a makeup professional. I just use what has been
working for me for years and what works with my own coloring. So, I'm also not hugely
keen on naming brands, or colors because of course
everyone's face is different, and I'm not sure how
useful any of this will be outside of my own face. I'm not sure that I can
be the authority to advise on any of that. In terms of the actual process, first, I begin at the natural point of beginning, covering up the blemishes. I personally only use a concealer. I don't use foundation. My
skin doesn't like foundation. I like to steer clear of anything
that incorporates shimmers or highlights in it. Which is very difficult
to come by these days, I know, because shimmering
and highlighting is the trend. I find that highlight, and
shimmer, and iridescence is one of those things that
really will pull you out of that anachronistic feel. (enchanted piano music) You kind of can't really overdo this. Especially if you're trying
to go for a historical look. Especially if you're trying
to go for like an 18th century or 16th century look. (enchanted piano music) I'm just using a powder here
to prime (?) my eyelids. I think that is the terminology that ye olde makeup gurus use. That just helps to allow the pigments that I am heretoforth about
to apply to my eyelids just sit a little bit more
smoothly and not be as blotchy. This here is just a bit
of charcoal eyeshadow, which I am brushing onto
a tiny little brush, and using just to darken
the lash line a little bit. Then, I just do a little
bit of eye shadow. Once again, this is not without shimmer, which once again is really
difficult to find these days. Okay, again, your coloring
makes this relative to you, but personally I have
matched my eyeshadow shade to the veins in my eyelids. Just because I feel like
that coloring will look more natural on my face. Like, my color palette is already here. I might as well just pick
the colors that already exist to blend better. I mean, you know, I'm not
trying to do anything fancy or artistic here. And I used to have this one perfect shade of like bruised plum
that matched perfectly. And then all of a sudden one day they started mixing it with shimmers and you couldn't get it matte anymore. I had to switch to this color, which doesn't match as nicely
but it will do for now. This I will put on the outside
corners of my eyes as well as one little dab on the inside corner. I don't go all the way across the crease. This, I'm not sure if this is actually a historical technique,
but I find that leaving that middle bit creates the illusion that you've got a bit of
a light hitting the front of your eye. Which is something that
you see very prominently in the Charles Dana Gibson sketches. He draws his figures with
a light hitting the eyelids in a very specific way, and I find that this sort
of creates the illusion of that a little bit better. Mascara is not historically accurate to especially the 19th century, but into the beginning
part of 20th century they could darken their eyelashes a bit. This I will use really
only if I'm going on camera and I need to be a bit more seen. I just really put it on the
outer couple of eyelashes just to darken and extend
those a little bit. But I don't put that on my
entire repertoire of eyelashes. Once again, my lipstick
shade will depend on if I'm going on camera and
what I'm shooting that day. If I'm shooting a face-to-camera
video, those I tend to go for much darker, or
brighter red lipsticks. I do when I film those videos
put the camera rather far away which means again that a
lot of detail can be lost. If you know about depth of
field and lens distortion and all that fun stuff. Watch one of those videos
where they demonstrate the focal length difference on a portrait. It's absolutely insane, but it completely
distorts your entire face. Once again, what you are
seeing through the lens of the camera is not necessarily
what exists in real life. Because depending on
where the camera is placed and depending on the level
of zoom that has been applied to the lens, a person's face
can look entirely different. So, that is the finished makeup look. Moving onto the hair. I wear it up pretty much every day. It has evolved slightly over the years, but I do it sort of in
different configurations depending on the day. This is the one that I do most commonly for presentational videos. Sometimes I'll plait
it before I put it up. Sometimes I will just
pile it on top of my head. Sometimes I will do the front puffy bits, and sometimes I won't. Sometimes I'll either
just put it up in a tight sort of ballerina bun, or
I'll just leave it loose, plait it, and then sort of
coil that up and stick a pin through it in the back of my head. So it depends on the day. It depends how much effort
I feel like putting in. This hairstyle I will say,
because I have done it so often, I've got the system down. It really only takes me about
five minutes to do this. But once again, disclaimer, this all depends on your hair
type, structure, texture, et cetera, your scalp oil composition, all that fun stuff will play a role in how your hair behaves. Additionally, the shape of
your face will also play a huge role in perhaps
determining how you like the sculpty bits to be. So personally, lately, I
have been slightly offsetting the part slightly to the side. The side with the most
amount of distance, length, I'll just sort of pick that up,
pile that on top of my head, and then I'll sort of cross
it over to the other side, and swirl it back the
other way just to create this little "S" shaped wave. This works a lot better
if your hair is not clean. I only wash my hair once a week. Sometimes every 10 days. Dry shampoo is your best friend for this. The other side of the
hair I will also pull up in a similar fashion and
just sort of pin right on top nearabouts to where the other pins are. When pinning these bits, the closer you pin it to
the front of the head, the higher and the
sturdier the poof will be. If you pin it too far back,
your poof will be a bit flatter. Which may be what you're going for, or it may not be what you're going for. So, adjust the positioning
of your pins accordingly to however, again, works best for you. You can also vary the
height and the placement of these poofs. Different face shapes
will be flattered better with either a higher
hairdo, or a wider hairdo, or different piles and configurations, asymmetrical, symmetrical. What have you. Next, I'm taking one of
these side bottom pieces gathering that up neatly,
and then just pinning that right again on top of the head. I'm trying to keep my pins
roughly in the same place. These will all be hidden when
you pile the rest of the hair on top of the head. So, if you don't have a
whole lot of extra hair, if your hair isn't so long, or if you're not using a hairpiece, then you may want to try and keep the pins as close as possible. Or possibly if you can pin
further back onto the head so that you don't have to bring the bun as far up in order to hide those pins. And then with the remaining
hair that can either be plaited or it can just simply
be twisted, and piled up on top of the head. I have recently just cut my hair. So, the ends are kind of
all bluntly one thickness. If your hair is a bit thin at the ends, if it's sort of broken off
and a bit damaged at the ends, that's actually good for this hairstyle because you will actually
have some variation in the width and the
thickness of the plait. So you will actually get
this really nice effect where the middle of it, the
center bits will be nice and Chonky. Whereas as the coil sort
of goes further and further around your head, it
gets smaller and finer, and creates a bit of textural ombre. And it looks like you've
got a finer plait sitting around the thicker one. It's really nice, but I don't
exactly have that effect happening right now until my hair gets a little bit longer. This is, as aforementioned, just coiled around to
sit on top of the pins so that all of those are hidden. And then is just once
again, pinned into place. The positioning of your
bun may have to move a bit further back if
your hair isn't so long. If your hair is very short
and you can really only manage the front poofy bits, you
can actually use a hair piece and just do that front top bun
thing with just a faux plait. Hairpieces are entirely
historically accurate. These hairstyles in the
late Victorian period as well as all throughout history especially the super
elaborate high fashion ones were almost always
supplemented with false hair. So, no shame in that, you do you. (soft piano music) (birds chirping) (soft piano music) (birds chirping) So there we have the finished look. There is really only one important aspect that defines the Gibson girl. That one simple trick does not matter how well you have done your hair, or how closely to history
you have done your makeup. It is simply a matter of lifting your chin so that you can better stare
down upon your enemies. I'm literally not even joking. That is exactly how he's
drawn all of these portraits. Anyway, I hope this
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I'm sure you've gotten this question, but how long have you been growing out your hair? After watching you and Morgan Donner, I'm inspired to grow my hair past my waist. Thank you for sharing!
I’ve been doing my makeup like this since the video came out and practicing the hair, and this is a surprisingly flattering look that goes super well with modern fits too! The eye shadow shape is one of the best beauty things I’ve learned this year.
This just made me realize I'm slightly gay for Bernadette Banner.