Toni Braxton’s Guide to Faux Lashes and Full-Face Makeup

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Hi guys, I'm Toni Braxton, welcome to my skincare,

beauty regimen routine.

I'm a simple basic girl, you know, I like to be able

to go to Walgreens and CVS basic to wash my face

and I found this great product that I love.

Of course, it's Aveeno, it really works,

it's great for me, so it's for step one.

Hair got a little teeny bit wet.

Should say the fabulous wig got a little bit wet.

I decided to wear Samantha today, so Sam's with me,

I'm not alone, you are not alone.

Everyone always asks, What do I use,

what's my moisturizer?

It is Dr. Lancer, my favorite, favorite product,

put it on my face and my neck and it just soothes

all those lines, you know?

Can't see it, then my makeup goes on much smoother.

Spider bit me, I left the balcony door open,

so [groans] there we are.

Click, click.

This thing right here, okay, it is,

I'm gonna be honest, it is a vibrator,

it is, it is a vibrator.

But I call it a face tingler, it just tingles

the muscles in my face to get them activated and working.

I haven't used it on anything else other than my face,

okay, just FYI.

This has got the little ball here, which is perfect,

sometimes I put it in the freezer, this is really cold,

I just kinda rub it and it just activates

all those muscles, get 'em together,

we are working today, we are gonna be cute today.

Under my eyes are really important to me.

Tells your age a little bit.

There we go, I love eyebrows, it's my favorite thing.

I feel if my eyebrows are done, I can go out,

put on some big sunglasses and some red, bold lipstick

and no one would know I'm not made up.

Gotta have the eyebrows done.

Just gonna darken these up a little bit.

The '90s, I had a really thin eyebrow moment,

I mean I was going for the Josephine Baker look,

'cause my hair was short and stuff, so I had

the really thin ones, and that happened by accident too

because I tweezed them and plucked them way too much,

and was forced to have that look,

which kinda worked for the '90s, but 2020,

gotta have something a little bit heavier.

I love doing my own makeup, it kinda relaxes me,

so before, I always had makeup artists when I'm doing shows

and things like that, but they kinda just have

everything placed for me, let me play,

and then they clean it up.

I kinda learned how to do my own makeup when I did

Broadway, Beauty and the Beast and doing Belle,

and I kinda learned how to do it myself,

because you know, it's like one makeup artist

to three people, so you kinda have to get acclimated.

I do my eyes first always, because I always spill.

So I'm just going, and it's easier to clean it up,

I just put some Dr. Lancer some more on there

on a Q-tip and clean it up and it's perfect.

I'm gonna do a little bit of a liner.

I got this from Audrey [mumbles],

and I got it because it's red, if you ever have

all your makeup everywhere, and you can't find it,

so I can always find the eyeliner.

Okay, if I wasn't doing this, it would be much cleaner,

but because you guys are watching,

I have an audience now, it,

my hand is all over the place.

Okay.

I never used to wear lashes.

When I first came out in the business,

like in the '90s, telling my age,

part, does that make me like 20-something,

parts of me are 20, so we're good.

I never used to wear lashes, I thought they were

completely uncomfortable, so you guys see some looks

where I have no lashes, like full face, no lash,

and you're like of course,

your face looks completely incomplete,

but then I learned about Brigitte Bardot,

and her lashes were everything,

and my makeup artist friend Cooper taught me about that.

And I simply just take

a brush, the end of a brush,

put it on there, and just kind of put it on.

I do front of the lash, center of the lash,

and behind the lash,

and then I just take my little fan,

one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine, 10, voila!

And I'm going in, I kinda go down and put 'em on.

Okay, here we go.

Lashes can be tough, geez.

Do I have lash strength?

Do I have lash knees, 'cause you kinda gotta,

it's like yoga, you gotta bend down

to get the right angle, sheesh.

There we are.

They look kinda natural, huh?

It only took me 20 minutes, let's work on the other one.

Okay, foundation time.

Everyone, you have to have your pink balls,

these are my favorite things, I just moisten them

a little bit, kinda pre-dab my face just a little bit.

Then I do my makeup a little different, okay,

it works for me.

First thing I do, this is crazy,

I put this on, I do my contour first.

A little on my nose, a little bit right there.

It's Bobbi Brown, now this is another thing I do, guys,

I take Bobbi Brown and I cover,

I know.

Where is she going, going, who is this lady?

Ah, here it is, ya-da-da-da!

I'll put this right underneath.

I know this is the backwards way to put on your makeup,

but it works for me.

I'll put all my colors on,

then I cheat, guys, I go all the way across

on my concealer.

And I notice it's really heavy now,

but in a second, it's gonna look natural.

It's gonna look natural.

I go all the way across to try to make

that bridge go away, I'm gonna, this little bug bite

that's on my face, we're gonna cover that,

that's really not cute.

This is my little laugh line.

This is a little darker, it's between this color

and that color, I'm gonna add that right there.

Okay, I'm gonna add this right here in between it,

it's a little darker,

and a little bit right there.

I know it seems heavy, but it's not gonna be.

It's important to match your neck.

I hate, my auntie used to wear makeup

and you used to see the ring.

She's with Fashion Fair, which I still love Fashion Fair.

Fashion Fair is still hot.

Just remember the neck, for everything,

for moisturizers, to foundations,

just remember the neck, you can never go wrong.

And I'm thinning it out as I'm doing it.

I have a variety of different textures

of foundations that I love.

Today I'm using something a little more shiny,

I wanna be shiny on purpose.

Sometimes on stage, if I'm performing,

I want it to be a little more matte,

because I don't want it to rub off on my skin

or anything like that or you're sweating.

But for daily use, I like a little bit of gloss,

I think it looks a little more natural.

All right, I think it's coming together.

You already know by this that it's, of course it's matte,

even though it's old.

So I put this on, it's orange,

I know it seels like a lot, it's not.

And I mix it,

with this.

There we go.

Holla back, y'all, whoop-whoop!

There we are.

Whoop whoop.

Now I'm gonna powder me up,

it's gonna seem like a lot of powder,

and this is my favorite little blender,

because my fingers can just slide in and go in

the back of it, gotta get in the nooks and crannies.

So I'm just gonna do it lightly, one, three,

one, two, three.

I count in threes, one, two, three.

And that's it, one, two, three.

And I'm just gonna let it bake just a smidgeon.

This is gonna bake.

Not too long, 'cause I promise you,

you'll be like dry.

All right, now I'm gonna powder it off,

here we go.

Is that too much?

Okay, it's a little shiny right there.

My favorite lip, a Dose of Color.

My makeup artist, Eva Diva, got me on this one.

L'Oreal, because I'm worth it.

I'm an artist from the '90s, I mean, you know me,

I'm still here today of course,

but the '90s was everything, it was fresh,

it was about music, it was about big-budget videos,

it was about being an artist and being as grand

and as big as you can, could be,

like three million dollars on a video,

like things like that, budgets and clothes

and videos like making movies every time you did a video,

and it was just great going to record stores

and actually looking through and skimming the CDs,

and it was the best time.

It was just the best time to be an artist,

to me in the '90s, so I get why the younger generation

are fascinated with it.

I'm still fascinated with it, it was just the best decade

to be an entertainer of all times,

everything about it was glamorous.

Let's see what Sam has for me, Sam.

I name all my wigs.

So that's the look, and I would suggest long hair,

I love a nice hoop, I think it kinda

modernizes everything up, to the face,

and I like to poke 'em out just a little bit

so you see one, and I'm all ready

for my close up, Mr. DeMille.