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5 Of The Best Everyday Makeup Tutorials For Black Women

You can learn just about anything on YouTube nowadays, including how to apply makeup. Regardless of your skin tone, you can find inspiration in the videos of a YouTuber with similar skin. If you would like to change or upgrade your makeup routine, check out these tutorials from some of the most popular beauty vloggers.

To help you recreate these looks, we’ve listed after the videos some of the tools and products used in the tutorials.

1. Nyma Tang’s Simple Nude Look

This routine is, in our opinion, the easiest to follow. The look is simple, you can wear it every day, and it doesn’t involve complicated techniques like contouring. Nyma picked colors that perfectly match her beautiful dark skin tone and highlight her eyes and lips without looking overdone.

2. Patricia Bright’s Sun-Kissed Look

If you have oily skin that is prone to hyperpigmentation, you should check out Patricia’s tutorial. Also, follow her example and add a good sunscreen to your beauty routine. Patricia uses Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protection to protect her skin. The bright lip gloss gives a nice pop of color to the overall look.

3. Jackie Aina’s Day To Night Look

Jackie gives a lot of tips in her tutorial and explains why she picked certain products. This look is also one that you could wear every day. The best part is that it can easily be adapted for a night out in a few simple steps.

4. Kaiser Coby’s Soft Glow Look

When you see the amount of products Kaiser uses on her face, you will be surprised that the result looks so natural. Finish off the look with your favorite eye makeup and favorite lip color.

5. Yvonne Victoria’s Daytime Glamour

Yvonne’s look is the most glamorous on our list. If you don’t have much time to get ready in the mornings before school or work, this may not be the ideal routine for every day. Otherwise, this is a perfect look for a little daytime glam.

How To Recreate These Looks

The makeup tutorials can roughly be divided into the following 6 steps:

  1. Clean and moisturize your face.
  2. Apply a primer or a sunscreen.
  3. Apply foundation and concealer.
  4. Set the foundation and concealer with powder.
  5. Highlight and contour.
  6. Apply eye makeup and color your lips.

Optionally, after you finish applying your makeup, you can spray on a setting spray like e.l.f Cosmetics setting spray to help your makeup stay longer.

Beauty Products List

Primers
1. Benefit Cosmetics POREfessional Pro Balm Face Primer Pore Minimizer
2. FENTY BEAUTY BY RIHANNA Pro Filt’r Instant Retouch Primer
3. e.l.f. Hydrating Serum
4. e.l.f. Prep & Hydrate Balm Moisturizing Primer

Foundations
1. Lancôme Teint Miracle
2. MAC Matchmaster SPF 15 Foundation (color #8.5)
3. Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation SPF 15 (color: warm walnut #7.5)
4. Stila stay all day foundation (deep)
5. Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation (#460)
6. L’Oreal Paris Makeup True Match Super-Blendable Liquid Foundation, (color: espresso C10)
7. SEPHORA COLLECTION 10 HR Wear Perfection Foundation (color: 65 deep dark ebony)

Concealers
1. Kevyn Aucoin Sensual Skin Enhancer (color 12)
2. Mac Studio Fix 24 Hour Liquid Concealer (color: NW40)
3. L.A. Girl Pro Conceal HD Concealer. Choose one of the following colors according to your skin tone: orange corrector, fawn, or dark cocoa.
4. NARS Concealer (color amande)
5. Black Opal Flawless Concealer (color mahogany)

Highlighters
1. Sleek MakeUP Barekissed Illuminator Highlighter Fluid (color: Pompeii)
2. Sleek Makeup Highlighting Palette – Cleopatras Kiss
3. Fenty Beauty Match Stix Shimmer Skinstick (in sinamon). This product can be used as highlight or bronzer.
4. e.l.f. Bronzed Glow Baked Highlighter & Bronzer

Brushes and Sponges
1. BS-MALL 14-piece brush set
2. VANDER LIFE 24-piece makeup brush set with a travel makeup bag
3. Sigma Beauty Professional F80 Flat Kabuki Highlighter Makeup Brush
4. BEAKEY 5 Pcs Makeup Sponge Set Blender Beauty Foundation Blending Sponge
5. Mac #168 large angled contour brush
6. Wet n Wild fan brush

Eyes and Brows
1. Rimmel Eyebrow pencil (color: dark brown)
2. Nars Duo Eyeshadow, Surabaya
3. NARS Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner
4. L’Oréal Paris Infallible Lacquer Eyeliner (color: blackest black)
5. Sigma Gel Eye Liner – Wicked
6. Anastasia Beverly Hills – DIPBROW Pomade (color: chocolate)
7. Christian Dior Diorshow Iconic Overcurl Mascara for Women (color: 090 black)
8. Maybelline Volum’ Express The Falsies Waterproof Mascara (color: very black)
9. Urban Decay Naked2 basic eyeshadow palette
10. MORPHE Brushes eyeshadow palette

Contour
1. Sleek Makeup Face Contour Kit (color: dark) (ASIN: B008B7QY0E)
2. Sleek MakeUp Face Form (374 Medium) (ASIN: B00B2IR8FY)

Blush
1. Bobbi Brown Blush (color # 11 nectar)
2. MAC Powder Blush (film noir)
3. E.l.f. Blush Palette (color: dark)

Powders and Bronzers
1. MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation (color: NW45)
2. Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder (color: deep)
3. Loose face powder by Sacha Cosmetics
4. Sacha Buttercup setting powder
5. MAC Pro Longwear pressed powder (color: dark deep)
6. Ben Nye loose powder (color: beige suede)
7. RCMA No Color Powder

Lips
1. MAC Lip Pencil Burgundy
2. MAC Lip Pencil Lip Liner (color: chestnut)
3. Sleek MakeUP Eau La La Liner (in cocoa or raisin)
4. Colourpop Lippie Pencil – Bff Pencil 3
5. Tanya Burr Lip Gloss, Exotic Island
6. NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Soft Matte Lip Cream (color: Abu Dhabi)
7. NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Butter Gloss, (color: creme brulee)
8. Maybelline Color Sensational Matte Lipstick, (color: nude embrace)
9. Sigma Lip Vex (in tint or tranquille)
10. L’oreal Paris Colour Riche Lip Gloss (color: rich rose)
11. Wet n Wild Color Icon Lipliner Pencil (color: chestnut, #711)

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