Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s Guide to Bold Eyeshadow and Winged Liner

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Hi, I'm Maitreyi and I'm gonna walk you guys through

my everyday skincare routine,

and then also a super glam makeup look.

Gonna go in with this.

This is just a regular cleanser,

but we're gonna also use a cleansing oil too,

because I'm all about efficiency,

so I like to do two things at once.

So I got one of these little scrubbers

and I feel like this does a better job of scrubbing my face

than my hands do.

Take this one and put a little less 'cause it's oil, so.

When you're on set every day for 14 hours a day

wearing some TV makeup,

which is a little bit heavier than, I think, regular makeup,

you've gotta really make sure you clean your face.

My mom always did a really great job

of taking care of my skin and everything,

and that's definitely paid off.

Probably from the night before,

I have some mascara residue still there, and I do this.

Next up, a hydrating mist.

We got this serum from Epicutis.

A little goes a long way.

When I'm working, I feel like I'm more strict and diligent

with myself and my skin.

When I'm not working, I tend to make excuses

and say, it's okay, just use a face wipe.

Also, from Epicutis.

When I first got my nose ring,

it was obviously really sensitive

and I did not want to touch it.

Now I wear it all the time and I have been since I was 16.

We're gonna do some eye cream.

I really do like doing my skincare.

I think after a long day on set,

I don't enjoy starting to do it, but once I do it,

I'm like, mm, that was a good choice.

Sunscreen time.

I rarely ever use sunscreen too

because I'd never went to the beach 'cause I can't swim.

I was very much so an indoors kid

that played on her Game Cube.

Now it's time to move onto makeup.

Let's take off this headband.

So we got Milk over here with their Hydro Primer.

It's always so hard to color match, as a woman of color.

I'm actually gonna use two different foundations.

This one is from Pur.

This gives me better coverage.

This one is from Armani,

and this one gives me more of the right tint.

I, being the Tamil Canadian person that I am,

I'm not Indian.

A lot of people say that I'm Indian.

My parents were from Sri Lanka.

They were born in Sri Lanka.

Tamil is my culture, but I was born in Canada,

so Canada is my country.

It is hard to get makeup sometimes.

I, though, am very cognizant

of the fact that I have the privilege of makeup artists

who really help me find my match.

Before makeup artists in my life,

it would be me walking into a store

and praying I get a sales rep

that was nice enough to actually care.

Most of my makeup tips and makeup hacks

have all been from my grandma.

My grandma's a baddie.

She taught me how to do eyebrows,

the importance of doing your top eyeliner,

not just your bottom waterline.

It's so important to me though that my skin stays my skin.

I don't want to have white cast over my face

or anything like that.

I wanna make sure that it looks like me.

Very thankful for my mom and my grandma

for the way that they raised me,

because many South Asian people were told,

don't go out into the sun, don't go play outside in the sun,

you're gonna get darker and that's a bad thing.

My parents, my grandparents, they never did that,

and hopefully, moving forward,

other young little South Asian kids and kids of color

have that experience, because colorism is fucking whack.

NARS concealer.

This is the go-to brown girl concealer, I think,

'cause it just gives you great coverage.

I don't do the whole sweep.

I learned that from TikTok.

I mean, 'cause I don't want this part of my face

to be a whole different lighter shade.

I'm happy with a little bit of eye bags action,

so I just go in to brighten up the corners

and bright out the outside.

When it comes to my brows, I just sort of wing it.

I've been going to the same hair stylist back home in Canada

since I was born, my go-to gal, and she also does my brows.

First step, we're gonna comb 'em out.

Though, now that I am in the middle of filming,

I like to make it a point

that I don't prim proper my eyebrows,

because I don't really like

Devi having prim and proper eyebrows.

I try to do very little,

'cause I've seen some past photos of me

when I was in high school.

They were chunky, they were heavy,

so I don't wanna go back there.

Devi too, we do a little bit of eyebrow filling.

We keep it light.

I like to just keep her au natural.

We don't really do a lot of eyeshadow looks,

unless it's date night with Paxton or time for winter dance,

'cause, A, I don't think Devi has the ability

to do makeup, a straight line of liner.

She doesn't have that in her.

She doesn't.

I mean, there's other shows, of course,

that are high school shows, like Euphoria,

that have crazy makeup looks.

But I mean, hey, just realize there's a spectrum

of how much you can do your makeup

or how little you can do your makeup.

Brow gel time.

This is from Kosas.

It's time for eyes.

I love doing eye makeup.

Okay, first up, we're gonna do some concealer again.

All right, really quickly, we're gonna go in

with this KVD eyeshadow primer,

and you can just put this on with your finger

and it's gonna make your lid a little sticky

to hold the eyeshadows.

This is the palette we're gonna use.

There's just some really nice shades in there.

I personally like the orange-y brown tones.

First, orange soda.

Oh, I got some fallout, but it's fine, 'cause you know what?

You just beauty blender, concealer up that shit.

The last shade we're gonna use is Cyprus umber.

I think my first interaction with makeup

goes back to me being in grade 10 in high school

and doing the school musical,

because I was in the cast and they were like,

you gotta do makeup, and it was Footloose

and it was 80s themed, of course.

I made the choice to do a red lip for my character.

I looked like a clown, but I felt good.

Another reason why I went with the red lip

was because the guy that I liked,

I knew he liked red lipstick.

So as you can see, I brought it up a little bit,

just to try to make it sharp

I also brought a little bit of it into the waterline.

And then now we can go in with concealer,

'cause you just don't wanna,

I don't want clumpy lumps of eyeshadow.

Next up, eyeliner.

We're gonna just go with a pencil.

Urban Decay, just the darkest shade.

Now, I use this for the waterline on the top and the bottom.

Key for on the top, it makes your eyes just.

So now, we're gonna go into the inner part

and avoid the middle.

I feel like if you do the full way, it's a little much,

and it closes off your eyes,

when you want your eyes to be big and wide, right?

It's time for the wing, the winged liner.

So I use Nyx Epic Ink Liner.

You wanna follow the curve of this,

the bottom of your waterline, so that it also goes up.

One little last step.

So what you're gonna do, you're gonna take this right here.

You see that gap?

We're gonna fill her in.

We're gonna fill it right in.

This is so key, so freaking key.

We're gonna go with the shade Glistening.

Always do your inner corner.

It is a game changer.

First up with the lashes, KVD lash primer.

I discovered this by accident.

I thought it was mascara, it was not.

It curls your lash

and does half of the work a eyelash curler does.

Mascara time.

This is YSL's mascara.

This is some falsies from Huda Beauty.

I think they just have the nicest, most dramatic ones

for costumes, or actually cosplays,

'cause sometimes I do that

and people don't know that about me.

I do like to cosplay sometimes with my friends.

We all like using these for our characters.

Lash glue.

Pro tip, never put lash glue on with the lashes facing you.

You don't want that happening,

'cause now you're gonna get glue all over the lash.

My go-to music while I do my makeup

are a bunch of anime opening soundtracks

and closing soundtracks.

Bam!

Who doesn't love lashes?

Charlotte Tilbury blush.

I like that it has a little highlighter in the middle,

and then the color outside.

We're taking this blush brush.

This is very influenced by TikTok, social media

and just seeing people do tutorials

of what works for their face and how they achieve that.

But when it comes to red carpet looks and whatnot,

I really like a lot of different aesthetics.

I like to sometimes do something really classy,

but sometimes I wanna do something more edgy or whatever.

But my one thing is,

is that it will always be consistently smart.

I don't dress like I didn't think about it.

It's something that I care about,

something that I'm happy about,

and it makes me feel smart, regardless of the aesthetic.

Next blush, Tata Harper.

I like to just make sure we're still staying dewy.

This, I keep very concentrated.

I'm not gonna drag it down as much.

Contour time.

We're gonna go with Milk.

I wanna shout out the Never Have I Ever DP

and our good ole department of lighting,

because it is so important

that you light people of color correct.

I know this, of course, is a big priority of Mindy's,

because your makeup can look great,

but then the lighting just totally changes it.

You don't feel good.

You feel like a clown.

But back to Mindy for a quick second,

I could talk about her for days,

because truly, she means so much to me.

I don't know, really, if could have asked

for a better first boss, because she truly has my back

and I always feel super safe with her.

One thing I couldn't prepare myself for was just trolls

and Internet hate, or just comments, even if it wasn't hate

but just an overwhelming amount of opinions.

And I remember feeling very overwhelmed, very anxious,

and I hit up Mindy.

Literally within 10 minutes, I got a response, being like,

hey, full detailed advice about how this is our job

but focusing on the good parts and all that.

We're gonna take this brush,

we're gonna hold it like this though now.

Highlight time.

We go back in with this palette.

I use the eyeshadow palette for highlight too.

I'm feeling pretty confident right now,

I'd just like to say that.

I'm feeling pretty goddamn sexy right now.

Okay, lips time.

A little lip mask.

We're gonna go in with a little bit of gloss.

It's tinted, from Fenty Beauty.

Yeah, it barely does a difference.

I just don't do much to my lips.

Last but not least, setting spray.

I am done.

Skincare, makeup, even my hair looks great,

and I'm ready to go.

All right, bye.