Jessica Alba’s Guide to a Daytime Smoky Eye

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Hi, Vogue.

This is Jessica Alba.

I m gonna put on bunny ears.

Well, I m gonna show you how I do skin prep,

you know, before I m doing my makeup.

And usually after a workout, I like to put this mask on.

It s a shea butter antioxidant mask

and it smells delicious.

I actually like to use this mask on the daily.

I ll just wake up, put this mask on,

and then I go downstairs and have my coffee

and hang out with my kids,

and I usually terrify my two-year old.

You basically wait for like 10 minutes.

I like to take it off with a sponge

cause it s kind of a pain taking it off with anything else.

So I ll usually use the Deep Hydration Face Cream,

and do a squirt of that.

A Korean friend of mine told me to beat my face,

so I don t really like doing this,

but she said her mom looked really young

and she beats her face.

So this is like, a water-based cream.

So I go very liberally with this one.

I like to use this little device.

It basically just like, gets the blood flowing.

So that s that.

And then if you really wanna double-whammy it,

do this bad boy.

And this one you can even feel like,

warm up on your face and sometimes my face gets like,

a little bit red.

[Jessica babbling]

And then just wiping in the rest.

So, I usually put on an eye mask.

I like these because they re like a bio-cellulose.

Yeah.

Yeah, and all of the skincare products that I use are clean.

And why I m so passionate about it

is because I have such reactive skin.

And I ve had such reactive skin literally since I was born.

I just really seek out products

that are, for the most part, fragrance-free

and then looking for products that don t have parabens,

don t have petroleum-based ingredients,

things like that, because I m actually allergic

to a lot of petroleum-based ingredients.

I m doing this lip scrub.

I find that when I m tired and I have a lower immune system,

my skin rashes come out more

when I m not sleeping.

And I ve been shooting a TV show

and I have not been sleeping very well.

Champagne problems, right?

So I just scrub, scrub-a-dub.

So I think you should just put a balm on after,

like immediately after.

That is my skin prep.

I think it s important, whether you have kids or not,

as a woman in the world, trying to do the things,

get your hustle on, wearing all the hats.

I think it s important that we take time

to take care of ourselves,

and if you can do that on the daily,

even if it s for like, 10 minutes, it s important,

and don t let anyone take that away from you.

Hi, everyone.

I just wear these nice fluffy bunny ears

because it doesn t crease my hair.

I am going to do a diffused smokey eye.

I feel like this looks good on everybody.

It s a great day-to-night thing,

cause you can just take your sort of like,

makeup-no-makeup look and if you add that eye,

you can transform your look to night,

and still have a nude lip so you can smooch.

I like to use two primers.

So this is the Glow primer

and I learned this from a makeup artist named Daniel Martin.

Basically I put the Matte primer

everywhere where I wanna be matte underneath,

and I put the Glow primer everywhere I want to glow.

So I want to be matte here, here,

sides of my nose, eyelid.

And you might be wondering

why I still have my eye mask on.

What s nice about having an eye mask on

while you re doing your makeup

is it can catch the fallout from your eyeshadow

when you re doing a smokey eye.

And then I put the Glow primer

everywhere where I wanna glow.

And some people just skip primers, but, cool.

I m just gonna brush my eyebrows up.

I ve done microblading with my eyebrows.

Brows are a big thing and they frame your face.

I always kind of brush them before I start.

This is the nice neutral palette,

and what I like is it has

this really good bone color, or ivory.

And I first apply it with my finger,

and then get like, a fluffy brush.

I used to be really intimidated with doing my own eyeshadow

and then I learned that all you had to do

was have like, a really good fluffy brush

and you can buff out all your mistakes.

I m gonna go in with this like, pretty unassuming,

it s just like a brown.

So I m gonna put that all over the lid.

So the more, kind of, just buffed out

and diffused, the better.

So you don t have to worry about being so, so perfect.

There are these really pretty eye tints.

Like a blush-y.

So I m gonna do that just along the line in here.

And then there s this other one called 23.

So this one I m doing right above the other one.

I m just putting it along the lid,

but I do the lighter one closer to the lash line

and then the darker one above it.

So pretty.

[clicks tongue] This is when you re trying to be extra,

this palette is for you.

Basically all the colors are really beautiful,

but a little goes a long way.

Gold color, I m gonna mix it

with this like, brown-ish color.

And I m gonna do just the corner here

and then go underneath,

and create kind of like that wing, see?

And then I end it sort of halfway through.

And I m gonna do the same on the other side.

It s always really stressful

to try and get both sides the same.

I ll start with the wing and just underneath.

I learned how to do my makeup from,

seriously, watching my mom,

cause my mom couldn t wait to put on a full face.

I mean, even just to go to the grocery store.

I m gonna use the Dior here.

I m gonna go with this bronzy color.

This guy, very shimmery.

Shimmery, shimmery, shimmery.

And I m gonna blend out on my lid over here.

And so now I m gonna take off.

Now this, don t judge me,

just watch and learn.

I m gonna do the contour.

So I like to use a darker foundation for contour,

and this is a cream foundation

but it s also can be used as a concealer, foundation.

And I just go in where I would normally do a contour.

And so the lighter color in the cream foundation

I m gonna put under my eyes.

And it doesn t really need to be blended out at all.

For some reason, my face stays longer when I do this.

Then I go in with the CCC,

it s like a SPF, like a tinted moisturizer.

It s like, makeup with skincare benefits.

And then I go in

and go to town.

And you just go right over everywhere.

So when I was working as an actress full-time,

I had piles and piles of makeup

on my face all day long.

I was on lots of prescription medicine, actually, for acne.

And it s also because there really wasn t a makeup brand

that was clean that I could use on my skin.

And then when I became a mom and I stopped acting full-time,

and they say that your daughters

take your beauty away from you, well, they did.

So I cried a lot

and I became best friends with my esthetician,

cause I basically saw her every other day.

I like these little concealer pens.

I m gonna just put that underneath my eyes.

And then get my powder.

I like this translucent powder,

and I get like, a fluffy brush.

Get off all the excess and I just like to powder

where I don t want that shine,

instead of doing the whole face.

So you still have that glow skin, ya know what I mean?

Bronzer.

That s me taking all the extra bits.

And just go around where I contoured before.

I always bring it down into the neck,

cause there s nothing worse

than when it just stops right there, you know?

Get a fluffy brush, see how that s like a little weird,

and that one s good?

Buff it for the gods.

There we go.

Okay, so now I m gonna press in this concealer.

So, eyebrows.

Even though I ve gotten my eyebrows microbladed,

I still have little bits and bobs that need to be filled in.

I usually start from the outside,

and I like this one cause it has the brush on one side

and the pencil on the other.

There we go.

Okay, so, there s this Marc Jacobs pencil.

So I m gonna go into my lash line with that.

So I ve already done the other shimmer

and I m just gonna dot it,

but the key is to just get it

as close to the lash line as possible.

And on the bottom I only take it halfway.

Okay.

Curling your lashes is everything.

I like to use this Tweezerman one.

It just really works well.

And I always use a primer.

So what s cool about this one

is you have the primer on one side, mascara on the other,

and it works so well with people

with super-sensitive eyes, like me.

I always blink through the wand.

Why not use some eyedrops?

I like to use these LUMIFY ones.

I m gonna go in on the bottom lashes.

Blink through the wand.

I remember watching my mom.

I d always be like, What is she doing?

She d be like.

Look at that pretty, fluffy brush.

Creme Blush.

And just put a little bit where you would naturally flush.

So you go like this.

Just right there on the apples of your cheeks.

So, long-wear lip.

I m gonna do the lighter one on the outside,

and you can even go a little bit outside your lip line

if you wanna give the illusion of a fuller lip.

I like to smudge it like that.

Go in with a little bit darker nude

and just put it in the middle.

And maybe I ll put a little bit of powder

under my eyes.

Don t like to do a ton of powder but just a little.

The Magic Balm just here.

So you still have the matte lip on the outside,

but on the inside you just have like, a little hint.

And there we go.

All done.

Bye.