Emma Chamberlain on Her Acne Journey, TikTok Makeup, and the One Product That Gives Her Super-Soft Skin

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Hi I'm Emma Chamberlain and I'm gonna be taking

you through my every day skin care,

my every day makeup and my every day hair.

I just changed the color of it

so this is a big deal and you know,

it deserves a little bit of light.

And my dream is coming true right now

'cause I've always wanted to do one of these.

So, let's do it!

Okay so step one.

I'm going to take the nearest headband I have and put it on.

Hydrating face mask.

I do this probably three times a week, four times a week,

I'm honestly kind of somebody who just follows

my instinct if I feel like my skin is dry,

I'll do a hydrating skin mask,

if I feel like my skin is gross,

I'll do some sort of detoxifying skin max,

I'm just intuitive with the whole thing.

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I've had on and off acne my whole life,

well since like puberty.

But my skin got really bad in high school

and then it got bad again as like an older teen

and so I decided I'd go on acutane which is a very intense

acne medication I did that for seven months last year,

and my acne went away.

But I still have to maintain my skin.

It actually made me fall in love

with skin care in a whole new way.

Anyway, I will leave this on for 10 minutes.

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This is a very crucial part of my morning routine.

I have a really love hate relationship with my acne journey

and there was good and bad moments.

But y'all saw all of it.

You can go back and see any of it.

It's been 10 minutes.

I'm washing this off.

Now I look like a newborn,

oh my God my eyebrows are, my eyebrows are very neglected

guys please don't give me a hard time.

I really don't do anything to them.

But moving on.

First, we have this serum that has some sort of snail.

I mean according to this it's supposed to,

oh my God, this is gonna prevent wrinkles.

That is something I'm starting to worry about.

Anyway, I drop a little bit into my hand

I've always liked putting it in my hands

more than putting it directly on my face,

I feel like it always just falls off.

You know, you always see people on like TikTok

and stuff going like this and I'm like,

mine just goes straight onto my shirt

when I try to do that, I don't understand!

Then I use a teatree relief.

Whenever I had a pimple in middle school

and I lived with my dad,

he would tell me to put teatree oil on it

and that's what he did when he had acne.

Thank you dad for the acne tip!

But it's actually, it was kind of nice growing up

with parents that also had acne because they kind of

felt my pain, it runs in the family

so I felt like I had this support system of parents

that were like, we get it.

Next I'm using the nine synomid serum.

It's so funny because with skin care,

I'm very interested in it,

especially recently and especially since I got off acutane

because I was like wait a minute,

I don't wanna go through acne again so I need to

really work on maintaining my skin

and keeping it as healthy and happy as I possibly can.

The crazy thing about skin care that I realized

is it is so different for everybody!

I've tried hundreds of products.

I'm constantly switching it up,

I'm constantly trying new things.

This is literally my favorite product,

this makes me look like a baby's butt on my face

it's a hemp oil, it's unreal.

When I wake up, I look like a vampire,

I don't know what it is,

I feel like while I'm sleeping, I just lose all of my life

in my face and I can't explain it.

This product truly brings the life back to my skin.

I also try to avoid dairy.

Not only for my extremely disgustingly sensitive stomach,

but also because I think that dairy does make me break out.

Although, sometimes it doesn't and then I'm like

okay so I can put unhealthy amounts of Parmesan cheese

on everything that I'm eating throughout the day.

Last step of my skin care routine, sunscreen.

I just recently started wearing it daily.

Wear sunscreen, please.

Like don't be like me and start when you're 19

and already have had too many sunburns to count on two hands

you know what I mean?

It's just not good.

I feel like I'm probably wrinkling from it.

You know?

Whatever, it adds personality.

Lip balm, this is huge.

I'm like kind of addicted to lip balm

and I have been for many years,

like I always have a lip balm on me

and if I don't, I'm begging for someone to let me

borrow theirs which actually is not allowed anymore

and never will be again.

It's crazy that I ever did that!

Now in retrospect, that really is some food for thought.

It's makeup time.

I am a huge fan of a light makeup.

This is a tinted face oil,

life changing, like it basically acts as like a super light

foundation-ish type of thing.

So I put a little bit on my hands,

I rub it and I just literally like lightly rub it in.

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But it's like so nice and light.

I started wearing makeup, probably eighth grade

slash freshman year of high school

because I became a cheerleader competitively

and we had to do crazy hair and makeup.

And I just ended up getting kind of decent at it,

then when it came to day to day wear,

I never was huge into it up until recently.

Let's really make sure we're looking okay here.

See how nice and light it is though on your skin?

It makes you look glowey and like, it's an amazing product.

Concealer, I'm always trying out new concealers

because these under eye bags are not

going away any time soon, they are in fact genetic.

It's funny because I'm starting to see people on TikTok

draw on under eye bags or under eye dark circles

with like dark eye shadow and I'm like wait a minute,

under eye bags are trendy now?

Under eye circles are trendy now?

Count me in!

I like to put this in with my fingers.

I never, I used to use a sponge but I find that it looks

more dewy and natural if I use my finger.

I also like to put the excess product that are on my fingers

on my eyelids, it just creates like a nice light base

for the things that go there next.

I use powder early in my routine because I just feel like

it just prevents from any creasing

in my face of whatevers goin' on here.

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Let's not comment on my brush usage

because I literally just choose whatever brush I feel

like would work best for what I'm doing.

I think setting under eyes, forehead and chin

is the most important that I've found,

and under my nose actually too.

So now we have a nice base,

I'm having a good makeup day.

Sometimes I have funny bad makeup days

and I do my whole face with makeup and I'm like

this just looks wrong.

But today's a good day,

so glad that you're here with me.

We're bronzing now.

You know, just a little light dusting

never hurt anybody.

Highlighter!

The thing that I've learned is less is more

and that's because you watch a tutorial and you realize

you don't need to put the whole bottle of foundation

on your hand to make your skin look good, you know?

If anything it'll look worse.

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Eyeshadow!

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Okay.

Sometimes I'll add in like a little bit of a color like this

into my crease but I make sure that I don't overdo it

because it's very easy to overdo it.

My eyes can get over powered very easily

so I don't want, I always try to avoid that at all costs.

I am not a big eyeliner person,

so I like to take this kind of medium brown

and maybe mix it with a little bit of this brown.

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This side is just a nightmare to me trying to get my hand,

can you not?

You wanna say hi to my cat?

What's up?

Okay, you're gonna go back outside,

that was fun though, right?

If you keep scratching on the door though, you're grounded.

Back to work!

Being a cat mom is not easy.

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Take a little bit of this and rub it between my fingers.

Just kind of lightly tap it on to the corner,

I feel like that really lightens my eyes up.

Take a brow gel.

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Keep 'em nice and fluffy and natural looking.

Then I take a little bit of tinted brow gel.

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The next few steps of this routine is just out of order

but that's the way I like to do it so bare with me.

I like to wipe all the excess product off my lip

and then I take this plumping lip cream

and I put this on and I let it sit

while I do the remainedr of my look

so that my lips can kind of fluffen up.

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I think that I could use some blush.

This is the only blush I literally own.

I hate the way you have to smile when you put on blush.

Can you guys look away for a second while I do this?

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Oh my God this eyelash curler is so gross.

But I've had it for so long.

It's just the only one that I've found that I like.

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All right, then we have my mascara.

It literally is the coolest shape, look at it!

How fun is that?

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I love the like twigy look

with like the crazy lower lash line.

I really wanna play into that this year.

2021 is the twigy lower lash line year.

Lip liner.

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I've always neglected my lips

but I feel like they actually pull

together a full makeup look!

And I've recently learned the importance, so here we are.

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Oh my God, I'm done!

What do you think?

Now I need to do hair.

I did just go brunette.

I was blonde for like eight months

and I loved every minute of it,

but hair got extremely damaged and so just a few days ago,

I cut all of it off and died it brown.

Dry shampoo, duh.

This ones really good.

This one has been amazing.

Especially with brown hair it's hard to use dry shampoo

because it really just shows up.

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Dry shampoos also great because it adds volume.

Like why not, you know?

Okay, I'm also somebody that's always loved to

have my hair up in a ponytail or up in some way.

And now that my hair is literally this short,

I can't do that!

So I have to adapt.

The dry shampoo honestly like weirdly styles it enough

to where I'm like satisfied with it

but I do like to add a little bit of hair spray.

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I will just do anything for volume.

See, now it looks good.

Because I have to see my own face on the internet

every single day, it's made me a little bit more obsessive

about how I look, but at the same time it's just about

practicing resilience and realizing that you know,

hopefully people aren't following me because they care

about my hair color hopefully they're following me

because they wanna hang out with me.

When I start to get too in my head, the phones off

and I'm playing drums, I'm hanging out with my one friend,

talk to my parents on the phone,

that fixes every thing I think.

This is the final look, I feel good about it.

Thank you for hanging out with me,

I had a lot of fun today and see ya around, bye, yay!