Kaia Gerber’s Guide to Face Sculpting and Minimal, Sun-Kissed Makeup

[Kaia] Hey, I'm Kaia Gerber.

And today I'm gonna walk you

through my everyday skincare routine and makeup look.

First step, Youth to the People, super food cleanser.

I need to tie my hair back

have my little Celine scrunchie that I love.

So I just kind of gently massage this into my face.

I use this morning and night, but if I have makeup

on or I've had a long day or sunscreen or something

I use first like a balm to take off my makeup.

And then I'll kind of go in with this.

I've always had kind of like medium skin.

I feel like everyone goes through stages growing

up that you have sort of hormonal acne

and um that can really affect your confidence.

It definitely affected mine, especially cause I was working.

So like not only did I have to go to school with a zit

but I also had to go and do shows sometimes with bad skin

but I'm really appreciative

of this time kind of the year that I've had off.

Cause I've been able to sort of evolve

with my skincare routine

and figure out a more updated version.

So that's what you're seeing now.

So next up is this toner.

I really like Paula's choice.

I used to be very into exfoliating

and I would scrub my face like crazy.

And I have learned now

that you can exfoliate gently with toners.

So that's what I do now.

And then just kind of rub it mostly on my T-zone area

or the places that I tend to break out.

I have really sensitive skin I always have.

So I find during fashion month or times when

my skin is going through a lot, it breaks out really easily.

So that kind of forced me to have a skincare routine

that I could rely on because a lot of the time

you can't control what's going on your face.

This I swear by is niacinamide.

It is one of my favorite ingredients of all time.

It has saved my skin.

So I just put couple of drops.

In the winter, I get red here and here.

I find niacinamide has really helped with that texture, so.

I'm a big fan.

Now, this, I love it's just an eye repair oil.

So I just kind of roll this on underneath my eyes

And just gently rub it in.

I am not someone who can hide being tired.

You will know upon seeing me

whether I've slept or not immediately, I can't fake it.

So I've really had to learn how to take care

of my under eyes, which I didn't think was

something I would have to do very young.

But I, in fact, do.

My mom has always taken such good care of her skin.

And so I kind of picked up things from her.

So she's always just been very conscious

of what she's putting on her skin.

And

one of the things she taught me is

to handle your decolletage.

And don't forget about your chest, especially

with sunscreen.

I try to bring products sort of down

and then that way you're not wasting them either.

I feel like skincare is one form of meditation for me.

Like I know I have that 20 minutes in the morning

and night that I'm just doing something for myself.

So I find that to be very relaxing.

I've also like I meditate a lot.

I love crystals.

I'm very into crystals, which you will see.

I activate my crystals and I put them out on full moons

and also in the sunshine.

So I do that also with my face rollers that are crystal.

I like to activate those as well.

Now that my face kind of has some oil on it.

I like to go in with one of these guys

and this is also charged.

So, you know me, you know, all of my crystals are charged

even my face ones.

So this is charged and I just sort of use this under my eyes

to de-puff.

I used to think that face rolling was such a joke.

I was like, God's probably looking down at his creation.

He's like, why are people rubbing things on their face?

But

now look at me.

So, I really do notice a difference.

And this also is something I developed having

early mornings.

Like my face takes a long time to wake up.

My face, wakes up three hours after me.

So this is something that kind of helps get

the blood flowing in the morning.

And it's just so fun.

Like

Of course I want a face massage in the morning.

I'd have every face massage device,

if I could.

It's also funny.

Cause like even my dad now,

like I had so many different rollers

and they all started going missing

and I found out that it was my dad who was stealing them.

So this is not exclusive to women.

I think everyone should roll their face.

And then I go in, with a second roller.

Crazy.

It feels so good.

And I also keep these in the fridge.

So when I use them in the morning, they're nice and cold.

It's also just like little practices

like this that are good for your mental health.

And the fact that I'm taking time to like, you know

probably no one will know that I did this except for me.

But those are sometimes the best little practices

that we have.

I found I would get really lonely and hotel rooms.

And I started working at a really young age.

So, having things like routines that I could bring

with me around the world made me feel a lot more

comfortable and safe.

So that's why I developed a skincare routine

because it was something familiar

that I would do every night when I got home.

Like no matter the day I had no matter the work that I had.

I know that I had this sort of an

and that's kind of what prompted me to start taking care

or better care of my skin.

Now that we are rolled,

woken up

we are going to moisturize.

My favorite moisturizer

same brand as my cleanser, Youth to the People.

So I take just a little bit.

And I do a little doop, doop.

Last step on the face is sunscreen.

Because even if you're not outside, it's just important

to wear sunscreen every day.

You don't want to age faster than you need to.

Another thing I learned from my mom.

Sunscreen here, sunscreen here.

Every single day, even when it's cloudy.

And I grew up in Malibu.

So the sun is pretty much always shining.

You can still get tan, but protect the face.

And it's funny because the one thing I get

from makeup artists the most is that my face is

10 shades lighter than my body.

And they never know what makeup to put on my face because

as you can see

my body's a lot darker than my face that's cause I'm

Wearing my sunscreen.

Now, another product that I love is this lip sleeping mask

and I use it all day.

So I love it.

It makes my lips feel so moisturized.

Before I do makeup,

this is something I picked up

from makeup artists is they're always spraying stuff

on my face.

And I was like, what are you spraying on my face?

And it is this Caudalie face spray.

So eau de beauty.

So I'm gonna give myself a little spritz

with this.

Reminds me of being back in the makeup chair.

So that was skincare.

Now we can move on to makeup.

I'm going to take my hair down and let's get going.

So first step, this YSL beauty touche eclat.

This one's really light, which I like.

I never ever wear heavy foundation.

I rarely even wear foundation.

It's just like a really light tint

that kind of evens out your skin tone.

So I kind of go like this and just put it really

minimally where I need it.

I was more of a tomboy.

So I was never, I didn't start wearing makeup until I was

in high school, probably.

I'm really grateful to my mom because

she let me make some crazy makeup mistakes.

I look back and I'm like, how did you let me

leave the house?

But I'm also very grateful to her for that

because I think that's kind of how my style has developed

is from making those mistakes.

The blue eyeshadow moment I used to have was

I had, like that was like my first piece of makeup

that I owned was this little eye palette

that had a deep blue and a baby blue.

And I would just

go crazy with it.

I don't own it anymore, but I do miss it.

My makeup idol

was Green Day.

I would dress as Billy Jo

every single day to go to school.

And that's sort of how I learned to do eyeliner.

As I would do the black eyeliner that he wears.

That makeup tutorial will come next.

Okay. Now that we have our base on,

I'm going to go in with concealer.

So this again is the touche eclat high cover

from YSL beauty.

I like to use my fingers as my brushes because

it warms the product up in your hand, I feel like.

And it just ends up blending more naturally.

So you can see I'm kind of like slapping my face

but that's just how I prefer to do my makeup instead

of using like a beauty blender or something.

Now that we have concealer, I'm going to go in

and do a lighter concealer on my under eyes.

Again, warm it up, in my fingers.

And just sort of press that on.

The skin under your eyes is genetic to a certain extent.

My mom has eye bags.

So, you know, people would be like, oh sweetie

you look so tired.

And I'll be like, I was just on vacation.

And so I've learned to love them.

I don't like to cover them too much

because I do think they're cool.

And they give you like a Kurt Cobain vibe.

And even if you had like 12 hours of sleep

you still look a little bit cool.

Like who knows what she did last night.

Now I'm going to go in

and brush my eyebrows because I can't focus

on anything until my eyebrows are brushed.

I like having bushy eyebrows.

There was a stage that I went

through that I think every girl went through

of like waxing them and trying to shape them.

Thankfully, that was short-lived for me.

And now I keep them really natural.

I'll go in and tweeze a little bit.

My eyebrows have been through a lot.

There was one season when they were bleached probably

seven times in one month, which is not good for anything.

It's also really hard to get your natural eyebrow color back

after bleaching them.

So there'd be days when I would do shows where

they'd like bleach them for the morning show

dye them back for the middle

like afternoon show and then bleach them again at night.

And I could see my eyebrow hair falling out

and growing back in weird.

And then they'd try to dye them back

and we would be like green or orange.

So I've had every single color eyebrow.

These are now my completely natural grown in brows

because they haven't been bleached in a long time.

They have definitely messed with my eyebrows quite a bit.

And fortunately these bad boys are still on my face.

So I love blush.

I love the nineties trend and I guess it's kind

of like backend sort of E-girl, TikTok trend

of doing blush on your nose to make you look a

little sunburn because we're not getting sunburned

because we don't want wrinkles.

So we're going to fake it.

So

I use what I would normally use on my lips.

I just sort of take a little bit and put it on my cheeks.

I also like using a cream blush.

I just think it blends a lot better.

It looks a lot more natural and you can layer it.

So I put blush on the apples of my cheeks.

I like to bring it up kind of where you put

highlighter.

So I bring that up

and then I bring it

onto my nose and sort of

around the bridge where your sunburn would be.

Yeah. And then we might do a little bit

on the tip of the nose.

See, it looks like I've been in the sun and I haven't.

And I will also take a tiny bit

of this and put it just on my eyelid.

Now I'm going to go in with a little bit of powder.

I don't want to take the shine down too much.

I'm kind of just in the T zone

Little on the chin and a little on the forehead.

I'm someone who's like very scared to try new looks.

I keep it like very natural as you can see, but you know

being a model, in the past, like I've gotten to

have these really sort of extravagant makeup looks.

I remember a Prada show where like we have like

totally bleached eyebrows.

And there was a Valentino show where we also

had bleached eyebrows and these Swarovski crystals

all over our eyes and it took like four hours

to do the makeup, but it just looks so amazing.

And you really see art come to live on your face.

Like you get to be a human canvas for these artists.

And it's been one of the greatest privileges.

Now we're going to do a little bit of eyeshadow.

So this is sort of

like a beige-y

with a little bit of sparkle.

But again

I'm not someone who wants to have too much going on.

So this is like a very natural sort of

When I was in high school, I would like,

[imitates popping sound]

and I think I liked that.

Like, it was a fun time to experiment with makeup.

And now because my job involves experimenting with makeup

I kind of tend to

tone it down when it comes to me doing it myself.

Now we're going to curl the eyelashes.

I have very long eyelashes.

I have really long eyelashes.

It's really been great because I've never had to

sort of wear fake eyelashes or I know people get extensions.

So I just like to curl them.

So I really try to make sure that my outer lashes get

into those curl up because otherwise I have some

that grow down.

And I've actually had makeup artists asked me

to cut my eyelashes before

and I have done it.

The things we do for fashion.

Really quickly,

a quick appearance.

This is my assistant makeup artist.

She's sleeping on the job.

Puppy kisses are really a good product for your skin, so.

[kisses dog]

Oh my God, there's another, wait!

Say, hi!

I get distracted in the middle of doing my makeup

and my skincare. As you can see.

Now that the eyelashes are curled

I'm going to go with some mascara

just at my root.

And at the outer corner.

I'm going to do a tiny bit of eyeliner in my outer corner.

Just to kind of open my eyes a bit more.

I'm going to go in

and just add a teeny tiny, bit kind of following

Sort of following where that last lash has gone.

Now, I kind of want to blend this

out a little bit and I'll kind of bring the excess down.

Under my eye.

I'm going to use a little bit of highlighter.

See I naturally leave the shine.

Cause I feel like that way you don't need as much.

Again, I just like to use

a tiny, tiny bit on my hand like this

I'm going to use

just a few dots where we put that blush before

a little on the bridge of the nose,

a little bit on the Cupid's bow

and our corners

and brow bone.

So I just follow anywhere that the light hits

and just kind of accentuate

so that the light bounces off of those.

So I'm going to use the same blush color

and just kind of

dab it onto my lips.

I like it to look more like a stain rather than

an intentional lipstick.

This is where I've come to with my natural makeup.

We're going to do hair.

I finally have hair

after two years of having very short hair.

It's grown out and that's very exciting for me

but I also have had to learn how to take care of it.

Leave-in conditioner.

I love this brand Sachajuan.

I'm just going to spray some of this leave-in

into my ends which tend to go a little bit dry.

This is how air-dries.

So it kind of just like, can even give it one of those.

And

there you go.

We're going to do a little spritz of Daisy.

Shake it off.

This is the final look.

Thank you so much for watching.