Kehlani Shares Her Quarantine Skin-Care and Sunset-Inspired Makeup Routine

[upbeat music]

Hi, this is Kehlani, and I'm

gonna walk you through my everyday skin routine

and my very basic everyday glowy face.

So the first step it's creamy cleanser.

I like this a lot because I have really, really dry skin,

so I kind of need something that's hydrating

and doesn't leave me feeling all tight and gross.

Lil' circles, you know, feel the vibes.

All right.

I use this toner from Belif.

So because I have dry skin,

I have to make sure that I continuously,

in between each step, I just keep layering hydration.

So my third step is just this Aqua Bomb mist from Belif.

Just a quick little spray.

[spritzing]

Dr. Dennis Gross.

This stuff is great, I use this morning, night, all of it.

So gonna...

I'm-a lock all that in with a essence,

and mine is a snail mucin essence.

I know that probably sounds funny.

This is a major key in Korean skin care.

I don't know how to pronounce that brand,

but I just call it the snail stuff.

So, I just take a couple drops, just like this.

See, it's really slimy.

So my favorite is the Paula's Choice

Omega Complex moisturizer, which is a big barrier healer,

'cause I have problems with my skin barrier.

And then I take my bio essence vitamin C rose oil.

So I'm gonna take three little droplets

of that and put it in my moisturizer

because I'm super dry.

I started breaking out here, here, here, and here

and here when I was pregnant

and so I had to use something

that would balance my hormones.

So I actually had to get an entire new set

of a skin routine because I was

just freakin' out everywhere.

And then after I had my baby, I feel

like my skin just got a lot more dry

and I think it's just now bouncing back

and getting back in the swing of things and,

you know, but I'm hydrating a lot more

just internally and doing a lot of hydrating sleeping masks,

so those are also a big secret

and tip. [clicks tongue]

Okay, so my last step is SPF.

Okay, that's it for my skin care.

So I'm gonna walk you through a really basic face

with a little bit of a orange, sunset-y kind of eye

and I'm in no way a makeup artist,

but makeup artists always tell me

that I have really fun eye space.

They tell me this all the time,

so I really had no idea what that meant,

but apparently it means I have enough eye space

to play on, so, I just have fun with it sometimes.

The first thing I would take

is this Honest Beauty Magic Beauty Balm.

So I'm gonna take a little bit

and I'm gonna put it in my dryer areas.

So my forehead gets really dry under makeup,

picks up makeup weird.

My nose.

So my first step that I'm gonna use

is the Pat McGrath foundation.

What I love about the Pat McGrath stuff

is it's so light.

It's just not super thick

and I feel like I need sheer stuff

'cause we have to layer on a lot of stuff as we go.

So I'm gonna take my MAC Prep and Prime spray

and spray it on my beauty blender

'cause I want it to be wet, but I don't want it

to be too wet.

I'm gonna put a little bit

of the foundation on my hand.

I remember the first time I went on tour

and I couldn't afford a makeup artist,

it was my first tour.

I walked into the MAC store and

I grabbed the first person I could see

and she's actually a pretty crackin' Latina influencer

and I just said, Yo, dude, show my a basic face

and whatever you put in front of me, I'm gonna buy.

And whatever she put in front of me that day,

I bought that she used on my face.

But I basically just evolved from

that basic face that she taught me.

I have, this is a little bit thicker,

it's a NARS foundation.

So I'll take this and get some of the spots

that I feel like that other foundation couldn't get.

Right there, that breakout,

my chin.

And maybe my funny little bruise

that I've got goin' on up there

from a microdermabrasion home machine

I was not supposed to be using.

So I got my foundation.

And I dropped my lip liner but it doesn't matter.

So I use NARS, don't know which way,

I think this is correct, to do my contouring

or my highlights first.

This I remember being the funniest thing I had to learn

because, at first, I came out lookin' like a clown

'cause I just didn't get it.

And I think once somebody breaks down

the whole you're highlighting the parts

of your face that, you know,

I guess shadows, with highlight, you know?

You know the whole light thing?

I don't really know how to explain it.

Once I got that a little more,

it made a little bit of sense.

So next, I'm going to take my Fenty Beauty Stick,

love you Rihanna.

I don't do my nose because I just don't

understand how that works.

It's very crazy to me.

Shout out anyone who can contour their nose

because that's a big deal.

Oh my goodness, my makeup routine

since having a baby.

I have a one year old, so first of all,

you gotta imagine, she walks now.

So she walks into the bathroom

and she's already ripping everything off everything,

got my mascara with the top on in her mouth,

try to open it, tryin' to draw on stuff with it.

I've caught her in the room, at my vanity,

about to put her whole hand in a palette

or about to flip over the press powder.

There's levels, it's definitely hard,

and sometimes you have to decide,

Do I only have time to cover my couple blemishes

and throw on some mascara

or do I have time for a full face?

And most days it's mascara and lip gloss

and some concealer, so.

I'm showing you guys the Kehlani the Artist version

of the makeup, not the mom version,

or else we'd be here for five minutes, so. [laughs]

I'm going to set with the Laura Mercier setting powder.

Ooh, okay, well I've got some foundation on there.

So, while that's setting, I'm gonna focus on my eyebrows,

which, to me, has always been the struggle.

First of all, we're in quarantine,

so my eyebrows haven't been done in centuries.

So, I'm showing you the struggle eyebrow.

So, first, I'm gonna take my 24-hour brow setter

from Benefit.

I stopped wearing lash extensions well

before the quarantine.

I just wasn't into looking very like a stray cat.

[laughs] That's what we call it in the house

is we look like little stray kittens.

But I just wasn't into the freak out craziness it looks

when you only have four eyelashes on your eye.

So I'm just gonna do my real lashes,

which I've been taking really good care of

and using castor oil for.

And just curl them.

[clicks tongue] [hums Jeopardy theme]

What I feel like works for me is layering mascaras.

I don't know if that sounds funny,

but, to me, they do different things.

So the first one is the Lancome Doll Lashes mascara.

I don't use these in any particular order,

I just, you know, I just go.

So I try to focus on getting the outer lashes longer

so it can have a cat eye effect.

I think that the face people make

when they're doing their mascara is the funniest.

Does anybody else feel like their lashes

on one side is shorter than the other one?

Go Big Or Go Home from Kat Von D.

I just keep layerin' it up.

This, I feel like, always makes them really

the pigment makes it really dark and thick.

So I'm gonna

wipe this off before it gets too powdery on my face.

I'm gonna do some bottom lash.

Okay, got a little bit here,

but you can see it look like I have eyeliner on now.

I think I need to do, just give myself a little more color

in the face, so I use this YSL blush

liquid blush thing and I just,

I just do this a little bit.

I don't even know if that's the right way

to go about it, but that's just how I do it,

so who knows?

And I take one of these.

Now I feel like I have lot, so.

I just need to go back with my beauty blender.

All right, now I think I can do my brows.

I think we might, we might be at that point.

So I'm back to my Benefit brow pencil.

You mess up your eyebrow, you mess up your whole face kinda.

So there's so many times I do my makeup

and I save my eyebrows for last

'cause I was terrified.

And the next thing I know,

I'm wiping my eyebrows off a million times.

So I'm just tryin' to make sure

that it isn't too heavy in the front

'cause no one likes a Sharpie brow.

We'll see.

You don't know until they're done.

Now just gotta clean these things up.

I know they probably look a little harsh right now,

but wait 'til it all comes together.

I am cleaning up my eyebrows to fake the funk.

So nobody know that I haven't seen my eyebrow lady

since the beginning of the century.

Okay, I feel like that made the world a difference.

I don't know if you can tell,

but I feel like I can tell.

So, shout out Supa Cent.

Black woman owned, black woman created makeup brand.

So this is part of hers called The Crayon Case.

And right now we're gonna be using these two colors

to kind of create this sunset thing that I'm recreating.

So I also am using a lot of her brushes.

Not this one, this is a MAC brush.

So I'm gonna take the orange 'cause it's darker.

I'm gonna try not to get it all over the rest of my face.

To me it already looks pretty cool,

but we're gonna get a slightly smaller brush,

this from her brand, and I'm gonna go

into the yellow

and go into my inner eye in the middle

to kinda do this sunset-y type of thing.

I know most people might probably use a eyebrow primer

so it can show up more, but I didn't intend

for it to be that bright.

I want it to be a little more subtle than that,

so that's why I didn't use a primer.

I really think that who kills the makeup game the most

is watching trans women who have had

to not even just learn makeup as modes for expression

but learn makeup to kind of transform and assist

in the entire identity affirmation for themselves.

They just do it the best, everything from drag

to transformations to just feminization

or just being incredible makeup artists in general,

they just always kill it the best.

I recently got this Juicy Couture whatever this says,

Bling Queen highlighter.

I'm only gonna use a little bit,

but I like that it's liquid because, to me,

it just hits the sun in a different way.

But I'm only gonna use a little bit right here

because I'm also gonna use a powder highlight.

Laura Mercier,

gold ass whatever this color, Addiction,

but I called it the gold ass powder just now.

But it definitely has a name. [snorts]

One of these.

And just... [blows]

And then I'm gonna take a teeny tiny brush.

What I'm about to show you is the secret to my life.

If I could marry this compact, I probably would.

So I'm just gonna take this brush,

just take a little bit.

You see the difference already?

I don't know if you can tell,

but I feel like I can see the difference.

So just little minor areas like your laugh lines

or right around the chin.

Okay, so I'm pretty sure that all I have left to do

is to spray my face,

so I'm just gonna set it and I feel like

this spray just makes it look

like you've had makeup on all day

versus just applied it.

'Cause no one wants the instant, you know, cake situation.

And then we'll take my Urban Decay All Nighter

setting spray.

So before I do my lips, I would like

to just double check that I have cleaned my nose ring off.

No one likes a super makeup-covered nose ring.

I'll never forget one of my first times meeting Cardi.

Well, our first time linkin' up

after we had did our song,

we was at a music festival,

we was at the American Music Awards.

Wherever I performed, I performed with Eminem

and I sit down and she goes,

You better clean your nose ring, girl.

[laughs] And ever since then, I'm on my makeup artist's head

about cleaning my nose ring off.

Now, besides that, I also need

to clean my tattoos off.

Because I'm not tryin' to cover them up,

I'm very, very proud of my tattoos.

I got this tattoo in Germany.

To me, my tattoo kinda reminds me,

you know, when you throw a paper airplane

and it doesn't just go straight down,

it kinda floats and goes down.

It reminds me to, you know,

on the way down, just float it out.

Don't just allow yourself to just shoot straight down,

just, it's cool to just do this on the way down.

I have other face tats.

These dots

that I got done matching with a friend of mine.

Sometimes it leaves a funny hole

in my makeup but okay it's fine, I'll live.

Everybody knows I love lip gloss.

I don't go nowhere without lip gloss ever

in a trillion, zillion years.

So first, I'm gonna take lip liner.

I use various shades of MAC liner

depending on how dark I wanna go this.

I already did a eye, so I don't wanna

go too intense to control that out, but...

I might overline the top lip a little bit,

but I try not to.

It's usually by total accident because I

can never get a straight line,

just how I don't know if you guys noticed

that I definitely got concealer in my eyebrow,

but I'm just not good with the straight lines.

And I'll go in a little bit in the corners.

And around it.

It kinda creates this 90s, ombre

type of situation.

And then I just have any type of clear gloss.

I really like this rose hip oil clear gloss.

It's super hydrating, so,

and I get, just like the rest of my face,

my lips get really dry, so...

You can use dollar store lip gloss,

you can use beauty supply lip gloss, who cares?

All right.

That is my face for the day.

Let's see, hope you like it.

Hope you try it.

Shout out to anybody who's ever taught me

a tip or a trick as to how to do it better.

But, yeah, I appreciate it and I hope you enjoy.