Do you copy makeup looks you've seen in photos?
I can’t remember the last time I did it! I’m sure I’ve done it a few times but for the most part, I just look at the colors in front of me and something comes together, LOL!
— Christine
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Yes!
All the time. It’s one of the many reasons I love to see your makeup looks here, especially the more neutral and smokey ones that are more in keeping with my personal tastes and stage of life. But all of them are always so inspiring, Christine, even if they aren’t looks I’d replicate for myself.
Yes, but they are reposts of Douyin makeup rather than western looks. I love the blush placements they are using. I put it under my eyes/outer corner of the eye. I find it works better for my face than the traditional apples of the cheeks.
Yes, but not very well. Most of the looks I like don’t work on my very hooded, mature eyes.
You just described me! Hooded and mature. I find the hood makes it a lot harder. I blame gravity! 🙂
Not very often. Most of them don’t work with my hooded eyes and low-placed brows.
Only very rarely, and it has to be something that will work with my eye shape. I actually DID copy that stunning look you did years ago using Chanel Empriente du Desert quad, though! Because that looked so nice on me and brought out the green in my eyes, I have done it quite a few times since. Mostly, I will ONLY do looks that I’ve seen other hooded eyes folks do, and sometimes will tweak looks that I’ve loved that a few non-hooded eyed, non-almond shaped YT’ers have done. Although 95% of my eye looks are all my own, yes, I do a few here and there that I’ve loved on others!
When I’m doing a video for my social media channels, I may t ake inspiration from someone else’s photo/video & try to recreate it, but, more often than not, I wing it. 😁
I’ve tried new shadow placement based on photos but not specific colors.
I wouldn’t say “copy” as much as “use for inspiration.” I often bookmark looks I like and then make them my own and even plan outfits with them. It’s actually similar to my process with recipes and cooking, now that I think about it. These are my only two creative outlets, but I love them!
It doesn’t really work to do that anymore, unfortunately. I can find inspiration, but I can’t copy as my eyes are stupidly hooded and get worse every year.
I’ve been trying to go off of yours for years! I have quite hooded, papery lids though so I can’t get a lot of your wonderful looks to work on me. I do try to use a lot of your color schemes, though, and just make them work on my own eyes.
My mature eyes are hooded and a bit wrinkled, so any eye looks from others just wouldn’t work on me. However what I do do is look at the shades used in your eye looks Christine and try and incorporate them into something that would suit me.
I copy your looks constantly. Thank you for sharing your beautiful talents!! 🥰💖