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Valeria Reyes

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Judith McCann

30, September 2021

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People love to look amazing and flawless when it comes to doing their makeup. A great

source to find good information that teaches people how to do their makeup is on YouTube. This

platform is a useful source when looking for bloggers that can teach others an array of tips about

makeup. Something that is helpful for individuals is watching different vlogs that can guide them

on how to do their makeup. Some great YouTubers that do makeup tutorials are James Charles,

Reuben de Maid, and Nikkie de Jager. Even though these YouTubers have the same content,

they each one has its own unique way of doing makeup tutorials. Some of this YouTubers can

talk about what kind of products they are using to do their makeup. In other words, they explain

a specific product they are using in their video. Although these bloggers make tutorial makeup

videos, they each explain in different ways and methods to teach their followers. Each of these

YouTubers have different relationship’s with their followers which is good because they have

good communication with them.

To begin with, James Charles is one of the most fundamental people in social media

when it comes into doing flawless makeup. James Charles has a lot of makeup tutorials on his

YouTube channel that helps anyone that wants to learn more about makeup. Something that

makes James Charles unique from the other YouTubers is that he explains his makeup tutorials

in a more detailed way which makes it easier to understand. In fact, he has a specific YouTube

video for makeup beginners. In this video James Charles explains how to do eyebrows, eye liner,
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eyeshadow, and how to put lashes. This video is very helpful for people that are just starting to

learn how to do their makeup because he explains step by step what you have to do. In this video

James Charles also gave some tips on where people can start doing their makeup. For instance,

he stated that, he likes to do his eyebrows before his eyeshadow because he can get nice some

eyebrows. He also gives advice on how to find the perfect shape of your eyebrows so you can

look better. In other words, he likes to give little tips on how individuals can do their makeup

better which can help them in one way or another. Usually when James Charles does a makeup

tutorial, he likes to describes every little thing he does when he is doing his makeup. Which

makes his tutorials easy to understand and helpful for people. He likes to mention what kind of

brushes he uses to blend in his makeup on his face. This is so important when it comes to doing

your makeup because they are different types of brushes that are used for different things. This

will defiantly help people understand what brush to use to blend an Specific place on their face

which will make their makeup look better. James Charles also gives advice on how to perfectly

blend the eyeshadow which is helpful for people to understand what position they should move

their brush so it will completely blend. James Charles states in the video for beginners that he

recommends to put very little of product on the brush and if you need more then apply more.

One of the reasons why he states this is because sometimes your eyeshadow will look very dark

which is not good. This is actually a great tip for people that are learning how to do their

eyeshadow for the first time. He also explains how people’s face will look if they make their

makeup a certain way, so this will help them think about how they will look. James Charles is a

great YouTuber that is really good at explaining makeup tutorials and has great tips.

On the other hand, Reuben de Maid is a celebrity that also does makeup videos. Reuben

de Maid usually likes to focus more on making Reviews on different type of makeups and talks
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about his opinion about the product he is using. Reuben de Maid likes to try different types of

products to show people which could be the best one. For example, One of the Review videos

that Reuben de Maid made was the Jeffree Star x Morphe Review. In this video Reuben de Maid

bought some brushes because he wanted to share his opinion towards this brushes. Reuben de

Maid described the color of the brushes and how the brushes felt. According to Reuben de Maid

the Jefree Star brushes was very silky and that he really liked how the first brush really did blend

in with the foundation. Reuben states in this review video that with the brush he used to blend in

the foundation there was no brush streaks which was great because it could be really frustrating

to blend them in. To blend in the concealer Reuben decided to use the js3 brush and he stated

that he also liked that brush. He states that the brushes he is using makes his face look natural

which means it is blending good. The third brush Reuben is Reviewing is the Js7 brush which is

used for the eyebrows. According to him this brush has a really thin angle brush. Reuben De

Maid really enjoyed using the Js7 brush because it is making his eyebrows really good. The

fourth brush he is using is the Js5 brush which is used for the eyeshadow to do the crease cut.

According to Reuben he states that these brushes are fluffy and that they do blend good. The Js6

brush can be good to pack in the eyeshadow because of the way its shaped. Overall he really

enjoyed using all the brushes from Jeffree Star and he stated that this brushes didn’t make his

face look “cakey.”