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Olivia Ponton's 10 Minute Routine for A Quick Nighttime Look

Olivia Ponton shares her entire 10 minute beauty routine — including her best tips for using highlighter to opening up your eyes. She explains her hesitation to incorporate beauty blenders into her makeup routine. Olivia also tells us her top hacks for using highlighter to give your eyes a more open look.

Released on 12/07/2021

Transcript

Hey, allure.

What is up?

It is Olivia Ponton and today we are doing my quick,

easy night-time look for my 10-minute video routine.

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So my first product that I'm going to be using

is my NARS Radiant Primer.

So take a little bit and just kind of rub that all over.

Next, what we are going to be taking is my concealers.

And I have a few concealers, I have three of them,

but we are only going to be using the NARS Concealer

and the Anastasia Beverly Hills Concealer.

The NARS one, I'm going to be using

to kind of cover up any blemishes

that I have on my face at the moment.

So I just put the Anastasia under my eyes

and then the NARS for my pimples.

I'm just going to put some more on right here.

So we take the beauty blender for under my eyes,

and then I even bring it up above my eyes

because your girl has veiny eyes, which is a weird thing

but we just make sure they're all concealed.

So then we just take my fingers

and I literally will rub my NARS Concealer,

like pat it almost even.

When I asked a makeup artist, this,

she was like, Yeah, one thing

that they don't tell you is that like you need

to be applying their concealer with your fingers.

I went home and tried it the next day

and was like, oh, this just sits way better on my face.

So I'm going to be using two different foundations.

The first foundation that we're using is a La Mer,

the soft fluid long-wear foundation.

And it also has SPF in it,

which I feel like is a hidden tip

to always wear SPF in your foundation if you can find it.

Then I also use the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation,

and I kind of mix them together.

In the beginning, I did not believe in beauty blenders,

I literally was like, I'm not going to get on the trend.

I don't think that they really work.

I would always use my fingers

or I would use like I had a huge brush set

and was like, I'm just gonna use my brushes

and then I started getting my makeup done professionally,

and I just noticed every single makeup artist

using a beauty blender on me.

I'm like, so am I missing something?

Are these actually that good?

And I just got recommended a bunch of times

by numerous makeup artists to use beauty blenders,

so I was like, you know what,

if the professionals are using them,

I feel as though that I should you know give it a shot.

For my next product we have

the Patrick TA face sculpting contour palette.

And I take a lot of this.

This I would say is probably my biggest tip.

You use a lot of contour because especially this product

it's really good for sculpting your face.

So if you don't have super high cheekbones like myself,

you definitely can like finesse your way with this product.

And you always place your bronzer higher

than what your actual cheekbone is.

So I take it back and I literally will put it

all up right here and I apply a lot a lot a lot of on

because I feel like you can blend it out

later in the process but it's better

to put more bronzer on in the beginning than at the end.

And then I also bring it up to my forehead

because in eighth grade I got called a five-head

for an entire year.

So I've been [laughs] really oddly insecure

about the size of my forehead ever since.

And I literally just will put it right on like that.

And then I will bring a tiny bit down just right here.

And I feel like that's also a makeup tip

that a lot of people forget is to bring down

your makeup because your face can be slayed,

but then your neck is over there

like what happened to me?

Now what you do after you can see where the lines are.

You literally just blend, blend, blend, blend, blend.

My next step is going to be blush

and I'm using this Melt Sandy Cheeks Cream Blush light.

I don't take a lot of this because it's super prominent,

but I will just put a few little dots right here.

And I feel like with this color,

it kinda almost looks like you're a little sunburn

or you just came back from a day at the beach which,

you know, me love being at the beach. God bless that.

So now we kind of go in reverse order again.

So we are going to take the same bronzer that we were just

using from Patrick Ta.

And now we are going to use the powder based one and also

going in with my tip.

You got to like really bring it up higher towards your

cheekbones to make it that like really, really extreme look.

My next product is the hour glass blush in the color

diffused heat for me personally,

I don't like when it's like pink bronzer, normal face.

So I kind of mix in a little bit of blush

throughout my face, or I'll put a little bit

on like the bridge of my nose.

And then I'll also bring up a little bit to my forehead to

kind of just as if I just came back from the beach.

But, you know, unfortunately I didn't,

I woke up this morning,

so I'm going to be using these Charlotte Tilbury Pillow talk

highlighter.

And this went pretty viral on Tik Tok.

And I think it's because of the applicator and how prominent

it is.

And basically you literally just put like a few little dots

where your highlight goes.

And then since it is more of a cream based product,

I like to use my hands to rub it in my next product is also

a highlighter.

And it's the Rare Beauty one.

This one is a little bit more prominent.

And I also applied with my hands, this one,

a little goes a long way.

So I literally will put one little dot and then one little

dot.

And then I put a little bit on my nose.

People come from me with my nose highlight,

but I think it looks really, really good on photos.

And just like your day to day,

kind of brightens your face up a little bit of inner corners

of my eyes.

I like to really pull it across my eyelid because I feel

like it almost like opens up your eyes a little bit more

with the highlight because the shimmer part.

And then for the nose, I like to bring it across

the tip of my nose.

But then I also like to go on the flat part of my nose to

kind of like bring it a little bit more shimmer to the part

of it.

Next up is my eyebrows.

So I take the Patrick Ta soap brow and the Porefessional

super setter.

And I literally just do one little squirt of that,

this super setter being sprayed on the soap brow,

just kind of gets the soap wet.

So therefore it kind of has like more leeway with how you

kind of wanted your eyebrows and then an eyebrow spoolie.

And this is, I feel like something,

a lot of people ask me about is how I do my eyebrows because

I normally get them laminated.

But in New York I don't have anyone that laminates them.

So this stuff is my holy grail.

With this product I definitely like to do the

laminated effect on it.

I bring it up and like super arch it,

therefore it kind of leaves that like snatched look.

Guys, look at the difference between my eyebrows right now.

Like this is the laminated look and this is the not

laminated look like I don't know about you,

but it's pretty fire to me and I use it every

single day religiously. So God bless.

And you just really make sure you snatch that baby up.

My next product is the Benefit brow micro filling pen.

This is also a holy grail product because it literally gives

you like fake eyebrows.

For me I just use it to kind of like blend in

and fill in all the spots that you know are missing.

So I just take this product in the shade light brown

and draw on some fake eyebrows.

Now look at my eyebrows.

Like, I don't know if you can go back in the video

and then look again, but just completely different.

In my opinion, it like opens up my eyes like prepares

you to do your eye makeup 10 out of 10.

My next step is my hardest and scariest part.

It is eyeliner. And if you know me,

this is going to take awhile.

So I'm taking the Tom Ford eye defining pen.

What I do is I first off and I will sketch my eyeliner on my

eye.

And what I use is this Two Faced kitty likes to scratch eye

shadow palette, and I take the soft brown and the black,

I mix them together and I will kind of like sketch out my

liner if that makes any sense.

And then I go in with the actual eyeliner and trace it.

So for one of the final steps I just take an eyelash curler.

And my two good mascara is which is the Giorgio Armani one,

as well as the Revlon so fierce mascara's

and I apply these bad boys on.

Then I wipe the remaining mascara off with a simple brush.

Last step of my beauty routine is my lips.

I start off with the Charlotte Tilbury lipstick in the color

Pillow talk, and will literally put this all over my lips.

Then we are taking a YSL pretty coral color,

and I'm going to put it just right on the outsides.

And then I will blend this out with my fingers into more of

the middle of my lip.

Then last but not least is the Fenty Beauty gloss.

And I will just apply this right on top of everything.

I'm a huge gloss girl, I carry around.

I would say four different glosses in my purse at all times.

I'm also a huge lip plumping girl,

and this is their lip plumping gloss.

So may I add big fan of this product.

Lastly, lastly, lastly, my setting spray.

This is the Madison Beer Morphe collab.

Now you just air it out to make sure it dries all nicely.

And that is my face routine.

Thank you so much allure,

for following my 10 minute beauty routine, bye.

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