Something that I watch when I’m bored is YouTube. Well, makeup tutorials on YouTube to be more specific. Artists like James Charles and Jeffree Star are absolute superstars when it comes to ‘beating the face.’ But watch out for your crowns James and Jeffree! My sister is coming for the throne.

Since makeup was ok’d by my mom around her 14th birthday, my younger sister, Emily, has been infatuated with makeup. Her collection filled almost every drawer and every inch of the countertop in our shared bathroom. TBH, this messiness prompted almost all of the sister fights that went down growing up. Thankfully, we have moved out of the same house, meaning I can now appreciate her passion for makeup. It also doesn’t hurt that I can use her collection as my own personal Sephora. I rarely buy makeup on my own, rather just take the products she doesn’t use.

It’s impressive how she gets up earlier to make sure her makeup is done, ready to serve looks all day. I wish I had the patience for it. I usually show up to class zits out for the boys.  She’s not afraid to go for crazy colors on her eyes or blind us with the brightest highlighter on the market. It’s almost as if she is a celebrity with her own makeup team, ready to pose for her cover shoot each and every day.  

A lot of girls have trouble picking out what makeup to buy or knowing how to apply it in a simple, easy way. Because I get these questions from my friends a lot, I thought it’d be a cool opportunity to share what exactly my sister’s go to makeup routine looks like!

• Step 1: Wash face with Mario Badescu face wash, using a Foreo Luna silicone vibrating brush. She also derma blades her face once a month with a special face razor.
• Step 2: Always moisturize! She uses Ponds moisturizer from the drugstore. She moisturizes her eyes using Kiehl’s eye cream.
• Step 3: She then primes her face, switching between her Tatcha silk canvas primer and her Too Faced hangover primer.
• Step 4: She takes NARS tinted moisturizer, or sometimes Glossier skin tint, and uses her hands to rub it all over her face.
• Step 5: She uses Tarte Shape Tape and puts it on the eyelids, under the eyes, the middle of the forehead, the chin, and straight down the nose.
• Step 6: Then she takes a beauty blender that has been soaked under hot water and blends the concealer out. Running it under hot water helps melt the concealer into the skin.
• Step 7: Then she takes her Laura Mercier translucent powder and puts it under her eyes with a beautyblender. She puts a light layer of the powder over the rest of her face with a fluffy brush.
• Step 8: Once her face is set, she’ll take an orange or a pink eye shadow, usually from the Smashbox bold rainbow pallet, and apply it all over the lid. Sometimes she’ll just use a pink blush as an eye shadow. If she is playing around with a colorful look, she uses James Charles’ Morphe pallet.
• Optional Step: If she does a top liner, she uses Fenty Beauty flyliner in “Cuz I’m Black”
• Step 9: Then, she will take a tapered brush to carve out her cheek bones with the Marc Jacobs Tan-tastic bronzer. She then goes in with a fluffier contour brush, Morphe #M527, and Anastasia rose wood bronzer to bronze the forehead, the contour, and around the jawbone. She then takes her IT cosmetic brush #c6155 with Marc Jacobs Tan-tastic bronzer to contour her nose and up into her eyebrow a little bit.
• Step 10: Then she uses her Glossier cloud paint blush and warms it up with her fingers. She applies it where her blush would go. She sometimes follows up with her Milani luminoso powder blush in the shade 05.
• Step 11: After blush, she will take the Glossier boy brow and brushes it into her eyebrows.
• Step 12: She then takes her Nix eye pencil in ‘electric blue’ and puts it in her water line.
• Step 13: Then she tackles highlighter. She really likes to use the Becca highlighter in ‘moonstone’, the Fenty Beauty highlighter in ‘lightening dust’, or the Anastasia highlighting pallet in ‘sugar glow.’
• Step 14: She puts highlighter at the tops of her cheek bones, using a Morphe m501 brush (which is apparently the most popular highlighting brush of all time). Then, she applies the highlighter under her eyebrow bone, on the center and tip of her nose, in the inner corner of her eyes, and on her cupid’s bow. She uses her It cosmetic brush in c4153 to do so.
• Step 15: Then, she uses benefit’s Badgal Bang mascara first on her eyelashes. Once dry, she uses benefit’s They’re Real mascara over top. She only puts mascara on the top lashes, not bottom.
• Step 16: After mascara, she takes her Fenty Beauty liner and does a small dot under her eye… because that’s her signature look!
• Step 17: Then, she will use the Fenty lip gloss in ‘fussy’ or the Glossier lip gloss on the lips.
• Step 18: To finish everything off, she will either use MAC fix plus spray or Morphe setting spray to seal that b***h in all day!