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Patrick Ta brings understated taste to his ‘no makeup’ makeup routine in this episode of Hush & Brush. Through soft whispers and satisfying slurps, Patrick kicks things off the way he does every day–with an ice cold Red Bull–before diving deep into his journey from high school dropout, to makeup artist to the stars, to now running his own brand.
While walking us through his version of the ‘clean girl’ look, he brings us along for a soft-spoken retelling of how he broke the rules to rise up in the makeup world, and the inspiration behind his most popular products. Stopping for tingly spritzes of his setting spray between steps, Patrick shares which four of his products he uses on every client. Plus, he reveals (in a confidential whisper) the surprising way he found his signature cream-over-powder technique, which is now a key part of his brand.
While walking us through his version of the ‘clean girl’ look, he brings us along for a soft-spoken retelling of how he broke the rules to rise up in the makeup world, and the inspiration behind his most popular products. Stopping for tingly spritzes of his setting spray between steps, Patrick shares which four of his products he uses on every client. Plus, he reveals (in a confidential whisper) the surprising way he found his signature cream-over-powder technique, which is now a key part of his brand.
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00:07I don't know why I smelled it. Hi in style. It's Patrick Ta. I am going to be showing you
00:15guys my everyday no makeup makeup routine. Let's get into it. My skin is so shiny right now.
00:23I kind of hate it. I like my skin to be shiny in only certain places. Right now I look
00:29like a disco ball. First things first. I always start my day off. I shouldn't say this but a little
00:36bit of Red Bull. It's so cold. That's the best sound ever.
00:59Wow. So yummy. I do not like Red Bull when it's warm. Only when it's freezing cold. Otherwise don't get
01:10me one. And only sugar free.
01:16Okay you guys. I'm a little bit embarrassed to show my makeup bag. It's very messy.
01:21Let's see. There I open it. Oh my god. That is not good. This is actually like a sample bag.
01:34Oh my god it's so dirty.
01:35This is actually a sample bag that I'm making for my brand but I don't know if I'm going to
01:41do it anymore.
01:41Okay so I always start off with a little bit of moisturizer. I'm going to do two.
01:48First I'm doing the road glazing milk to add on to the shine. I already did a face mask.
01:56That's why I'm so shiny.
02:08I'm putting it on all over my face. It is so important to moisturize your skin. The older I get
02:16the more I notice when I don't moisturize.
02:18Just before putting on makeup. I look like a disgusting, crackly old man.
02:28I focus a lot of moisturizer like underneath my eyes.
02:33Okay now I'm going to use a little bit of this La Mer soft cream.
02:41I don't know why I smelt it. It was so close to my nose.
02:45I'm going to put a little bit of moisturizer just underneath here. Oh this is a lot.
02:52I swear I'm a professional.
02:55But I like to focus a lot of the moisturizer underneath the eyes first because that is where I'm the
03:02most dryest.
03:03I actually like when the perimeter of my face is like nice and shiny.
03:10I'm just going to spray a little bit of got to be glue onto my little baby ears.
03:16Just so they curl like a little swoop swoop.
03:21A swoop ditty swoop.
03:28That sound is so satisfying.
03:30So I have no mirrors in my house.
03:32I have one mirror in my bedroom.
03:35I built my house nine years ago.
03:38And I just never got around to doing it.
03:40So I sit on the floor.
03:42I can take as long as five to ten minutes.
03:46But right now I'm just going so slow.
03:48If my girlfriends come over, we share the bedroom mirror.
03:52Oops.
03:53So I started my makeup career 14 years ago in Los Angeles.
03:59I'm originally from San Diego.
04:03While I tell my story, I'm going to put on a little bit of concealer.
04:08This is my brand new major skin.
04:11My names of my products are so long so I often forget them myself.
04:15But they're named long because I need to name all of the talking points of why I made it.
04:23So get over it.
04:25So I am actually a high school dropout.
04:28I moved to Arizona.
04:30And I'm first generation Vietnamese American.
04:32I somehow convinced my mom and my dad to open up a nail salon for me.
04:37I honestly don't remember how I convinced them.
04:40I'm so old now.
04:41So like I was 18 years old thinking that I knew everything.
04:46I still think I know everything.
04:48These are all of my brushes.
04:50I've been wearing a little bit more makeup than I have been in the past.
04:54So I always ask my friends when I go out, can you tell that I'm wearing makeup?
05:00Some people say yes.
05:01And I'm like, oh.
05:02With this concealer, I always like to put it into the inner corners of my eyes.
05:09And I brush it out with this fluffy side.
05:12But back to my story with how I started doing makeup.
05:16I had a tanning and nail salon at the age of 18 to 22.
05:22I cannot believe that my parents did that for me.
05:25If I had a kid that dropped out of high school and they asked me to spend like $150,000
05:34to open up a salon for them, would I say yes?
05:37I do not think so.
05:40Oh my god, that looks so much better than good.
05:44I did nails for about four years.
05:47I came to the store one day and there were bolts on the doors, which was not good.
05:55I wasn't paying my rent.
05:57We had a lot of hardships, honestly.
06:00Running a business at the age of 18.
06:03I don't know what I was thinking, but I have learned so much.
06:07Honestly, actually, what I do want to say is that if my parents didn't give me that salon when I
06:14was younger, I don't think I would be where I am today.
06:18I was able to experience such lows and such highs at such a young age.
06:23I had to file bankruptcy on the salon because I think we were in debt like $200,000 back then.
06:31And to me, like at 21, I was like, oh hell no, I'm never going to be able to pay
06:36this back.
06:36So I'm saying all these crazy things, but within those four years of that salon, there were actually really amazing
06:44moments as well.
06:45I was able to get like a little house in Arizona and I had roommates at the time.
06:50They paid my mortgage for me.
06:52Houses in Arizona are so cheap.
06:55I think it was like a three bedroom for $80,000.
06:58One of my roommates was a makeup artist.
07:01She is the reason why I got a job at MAC Cosmetics.
07:05I worked at MAC for like seven months and by that time, I was over in Arizona.
07:12I wanted to move to Los Angeles.
07:14I'm going to stop talking and finish this little piece.
07:18I need to wet my sponge.
07:29That probably sounded disgusting.
07:31Take your little blender and push your concealer in.
07:36I think this is honestly the best concealer for no makeup makeup days.
07:42If you don't want to wear any foundation, just put a little bit of concealer into the inner corners of
07:48your eyes on the center of your forehead.
07:50This is my Major Skin Soft Blur Brightening Concealer.
07:56So I made this with the intent to really brighten the center of your face.
08:01It's a light to medium coverage.
08:04I'm going to put some on my smile lines.
08:07A little bit onto my forehead.
08:11And a little bit more in the inner corners of my eyes.
08:15It was my birthday yesterday, so I went out.
08:18I had a birthday dinner at the 22.
08:22Birthdays always give me so much anxiety because I'm afraid no one's going to show up.
08:27But people actually showed up.
08:29I was so happy.
08:30I planned my birthday super last minute because I didn't know I was going to be in New York.
08:34But my birthday always falls on Fashion Week.
08:38I had a cake made, a burgundy gorgeous cake made.
08:46And at the end of the dinner, I was so excited for them to bring it.
08:50I got myself a cake.
08:51No one got it for me.
08:53I got it for myself.
08:55At the end of the dinner, I was so excited for them to bring it out.
09:00Because I kind of spent a lot of money on it.
09:03Tell me why the server brought out a slice of my burgundy cake.
09:08With one candle on it for people to sing happy birthday to me.
09:12It was a gorgeous cake this big.
09:15Obviously, we all want that, like, photo.
09:19They cut it in the back.
09:20They're like, what the?
09:23But that doesn't matter.
09:26I had my friends around me.
09:29They yelled at them for me.
09:31Here, we should move on to the next step.
09:33How does my concealer look?
09:34It's like a semi-self-setting.
09:36I still look like a disco ball, but it's okay.
09:39We'll mattify that.
09:41I'm going to spray some setting spray.
09:46So this is powder melt, even though I don't have any powder on yet.
09:50But I love it in between steps.
09:51This is my major sculpted cream contour powder bronzer duo.
09:57It's one of the first products that I ever made.
10:01Half cream, half bronzer.
10:03I am the craziest when it comes to the development of my products.
10:09It takes anywhere from two to three years, which, honestly, like, you come up with these ideas, like, so far
10:17in advance.
10:18And by the time they come to life, you're like, I've already thought about that so long ago.
10:25But here we are.
10:26Honestly, like, this is, like, a staple in my kit.
10:30You're going to see I only use, like, three to four products on my entire face.
10:35That's why when I ask people if it looks like I'm wearing makeup, I get offended.
10:40We're going to put a little bit of sculpting into the hollows of the cheekbones.
10:46I have a very, very round face.
10:48We want to, like, sculpt it, you know.
10:50I'm using my dual-ended contour brush.
10:54It makes contouring so easy.
10:56There are probably four products for my brand that I use on every single client.
11:03I have a bunch of other brands that I love as well.
11:06But there's four main things that I always use.
11:09And it's my contour, my foundation, my blush, and my lip balm.
11:18So I only put my sculpting product into the hollows of my cheekbones.
11:26So going back to my makeup journey and how I came to be,
11:33I worked at MAC for about seven months.
11:37And I decided I wanted to move to Los Angeles.
11:40I was 22, freshly out of the closet.
11:45And it's time to go to Los Angeles to live my goddamn life.
11:52When I told my mom and my dad after my salon closed that I want to be a makeup artist,
12:00they were like,
12:02Oy vey.
12:04What?
12:05Where did we go wrong?
12:07When I told them I wanted to move to Los Angeles,
12:11they were saying,
12:12You are on your own.
12:14I was already doing weddings.
12:17I was like,
12:18I was doing quinceañeras,
12:20bridal makeup,
12:22event makeup.
12:23I was 22,
12:24charging around 75 to like $100 per client.
12:30And like,
12:30I thought I was killing it.
12:32I was doing like five to seven people a day,
12:36bringing in five to $700 a day.
12:40For me back then,
12:41I was like,
12:43Oh my God.
12:44My mom obviously does now,
12:46charging like $13 for a manicure.
12:49I'm like,
12:50Mom,
12:50I'm killing it more than you.
12:51The one thing that,
12:52I feel like the biggest advice that my mom gave me,
12:55that I did not listen to,
12:57was that you should charge less,
12:59so you can have more people in your chair.
13:03I was like,
13:03Oh,
13:03I don't know.
13:05I want to have quality over quantity.
13:08Obviously like Asian parents,
13:10you're like,
13:10ring them out.
13:12Ring.
13:15My mom always said,
13:17if you charge less,
13:19more people will come.
13:21Obviously I didn't listen.
13:22I'm going to contour my nose.
13:26This is like one of my favorite parts.
13:28And I have this brush.
13:30You guys have to get this brush.
13:32If it's the one thing you do,
13:34if you contour your nose,
13:36if you don't,
13:37then get something else.
13:40What makes this brush so special is that it just,
13:44look at me.
13:45I'm like little dabby dab.
13:47And then you just like slide it down your nose.
13:49And like,
13:50Oh my God,
13:50it's so skinny.
13:54And then you just take the other side and you just do a little one,
13:59two blend.
14:01And it's like,
14:02whoa.
14:06So after two years of living in Los Angeles,
14:09I met Gigi Hadid at a little party,
14:14at a little house party.
14:15And I think she had like 200,000 followers back then.
14:20And that's,
14:20this was like 12 years ago.
14:24And she asked me to do her makeup for,
14:27I think it was like the American Music Awards.
14:31And I was so excited.
14:32I did her hair in her makeup back then.
14:34Now that I've had my brand now for six years,
14:37I always ask people,
14:38did you know me as a makeup artist before my brand?
14:42Or you know of me because of my brand?
14:45Most people say they know me of my brand now.
14:47And I'm like,
14:47Oh my God,
14:48I had the best career.
14:49Why didn't you follow me back then?
14:50For the girlies who don't know,
14:52I was able to have a platform to start my brand because my clients were the Hadid sisters,
15:00the Kardashians,
15:01the Jenners,
15:02Hailey,
15:03Rihanna,
15:04JLo,
15:05Ariana Grande,
15:06Tulipa,
15:07Katy Perry,
15:09just to name a few.
15:10So let's do a little rewind how I went from quinceañeras to celebrities to now brand founder.
15:19When I first moved to Los Angeles,
15:23the feeling that I had of like the embarrassment of just not succeeding
15:28and such like being a big disappointment to my mom and my dad,
15:33I came to Los Angeles with one goal and one goal only.
15:37To kill it.
15:39I remember using social media as my platform of how people would find me to do makeup.
15:46Like now it's so common,
15:48but back then,
15:49like 12 years ago,
15:51my God,
15:52I'm aging myself.
15:53There was articles written about me saying I was selfie made.
15:58Because I would always take selfies with my clients.
16:01And back then,
16:01like it wasn't the norm to take pictures of your clients in those type of settings.
16:07It was kind of like the no,
16:09no.
16:10But I did it anyways.
16:12Whenever I would have like a celebrity start following me,
16:16I would always like,
16:17Oh my God,
16:18Mom,
16:19guess what?
16:20Like blah blah blah just started following me.
16:23And like,
16:23I knew that like back then if someone would start following me,
16:27I had the potential opportunity to get to do their makeup.
16:32I need to magnify my face before I move on because I can look like this the whole time.
16:40So this next product I'm not going to show.
16:43It's not coming out anytime soon and it's way too soon.
16:47But I'm using it anyways.
16:50Expect it in seven to eight months.
16:53Okay.
16:54I'm going to do a little bakey bake,
16:56just like a baby one.
16:57I always say like,
16:59I'm going to do a supermodel bake,
17:01not like a drag queen bake.
17:07Oh my God,
17:07that's so,
17:08okay,
17:08that's a little too much.
17:09Okay.
17:10Like that's like a supermodel bake.
17:13This is like a,
17:25doesn't that look so much better?
17:27Does it make my cheeks look so round?
17:30I think I'm actually going to do it like a full beat down on this side because why not?
17:42I always do this like right on my smile lines,
17:46right on my chin,
17:47and right on my forehead.
17:50I like to leave like the perimeter of my face nice and shiny
17:53to look like,
17:54oh my God,
17:55he's not wearing any makeup.
18:01My ex-boyfriend used to,
18:03used to do this,
18:04and I was like,
18:05you look crazy.
18:08Look at me now.
18:12I'm going to bake like the center of my nose as well.
18:17Where was I with my,
18:18with my story?
18:19I don't remember.
18:20My first follower that I was so excited about was Shay Mitchell.
18:26This was when Pretty Little Liars,
18:28this was 2000,
18:29during like 2015,
18:312016 era.
18:33no,
18:34maybe 2014.
18:35But when I got a DM from her,
18:38I called my mom,
18:40and I was like,
18:41you have no idea my life is going to change.
18:44And it did.
18:46I had got a call sheet
18:48to come to her house
18:50to do her makeup like super early in the morning.
18:53There was no contact
18:56number to reach when I got there,
18:58so I was outside of our house
19:00just like waiting.
19:01And like,
19:03obviously like,
19:03it was like one of my first celebrities,
19:05so I didn't want to like,
19:07ring the doorbell 10 times.
19:09I just rang it once.
19:11You know,
19:12you have to be,
19:12you're going to be crazy.
19:15I waited outside for like 45 minutes.
19:18I also,
19:19I don't know what I was thinking,
19:21but
19:23I then got a phone call from our publicist,
19:26just like asking me,
19:29where are you?
19:30You're late.
19:32I was like,
19:33oh my God,
19:34I've been outside.
19:35She didn't answer her door.
19:37Trust me,
19:38I was early.
19:39So I started doing her makeup,
19:40and she became like,
19:42my number one client,
19:43and like,
19:43all jokes aside,
19:44I really owe like,
19:45a lot of my success to
19:48Miss Shay Mitchell.
19:49I forgot to put on my foundation
19:51before setting it,
19:53because I didn't want to look oily
19:54so normally,
19:56I would put this before,
19:58then I would set.
20:00But we didn't today.
20:08I think it dries your throat
20:10to,
20:10to whisper so long.
20:13I have to drink some,
20:15something.
20:17Oh,
20:18I'm going to put a little bit of this
20:19styling gel
20:21into like,
20:22my little swoopies.
20:23People always say like,
20:25why don't you like,
20:26cut this?
20:26But like,
20:27my hair is like,
20:28so like,
20:29slicked back.
20:31You gotta have something like,
20:32you know.
20:36So,
20:37the name of this styling gel is,
20:39um,
20:40Day Cactus Fruit
20:42Styling Cream.
20:50I really wanted to use
20:52these road patches
20:53before too.
20:54I should have put those on.
20:55So,
20:55I'm going to put on
20:56a little bit of blush.
20:58This is like,
20:59my holy grail.
21:01And I want to give
21:03a little story on like,
21:04how this came to be.
21:06A lot of my products,
21:07you're going to see
21:08a cream
21:08and a powder.
21:10It's not revolutionary
21:11now,
21:12but back then,
21:13I swear,
21:13it was revolutionary.
21:15I developed this
21:16like,
21:17seven years ago,
21:18and when I used
21:19to work at MAC,
21:20I was like a
21:22hundred-step
21:23makeup artist.
21:25Full beat down.
21:27Like,
21:28powder down.
21:30Boots down.
21:31Like,
21:31what I thought
21:32was natural back then
21:34was like,
21:35a full beat down,
21:36but just using brown.
21:38When I moved
21:38to Los Angeles,
21:39I knew I wanted
21:40to work on
21:41more actresses
21:42and more supermodels
21:44and can't put
21:45too much makeup
21:45on them.
21:46So,
21:46I knew that
21:47a lot of like,
21:49the chic agency
21:51artists
21:51used a lot of
21:52liquids
21:53and a lot of
21:54creams.
21:55So,
21:55I went to go
21:56buy them
21:57for my kit.
21:58I never used
21:59them.
22:00I gravitated
22:01towards powder
22:02because that's
22:03what I was
22:03comfortable with.
22:04But now,
22:05I am known
22:06for my cream
22:07over powder
22:07technique
22:08because what
22:09I used to do
22:10is just take
22:13a little bit
22:13of cream
22:14because I didn't
22:14want to
22:15and just put it
22:17on at the very
22:18end to make
22:19it seem like
22:19I'm a natural
22:21makeup artist.
22:22But then,
22:23I realized
22:24that it looks
22:25so good
22:26and it makes
22:27the skin glow
22:28and it makes
22:29your blush last
22:30all day long
22:31and it just
22:32melts everything
22:33into place.
22:34That's how
22:35my blush deals.
22:36this is the
22:37number one
22:38blush
22:39at Sephora.
22:41I'm proud
22:42to say that.
22:43Okay,
22:43so I'm using
22:44a little bit
22:44of She's Seductive.
22:46This is my
22:47favorite shade
22:47for myself.
22:50I'm just
22:51going to put it
22:52onto the
22:53apples of my
22:54cheeks.
22:57I have
22:58worked on
22:58everyone that
22:59I've wanted
22:59to work on
23:00but my dream
23:01client is
23:02Rihanna.
23:03I've worked
23:04with her
23:04a few times
23:07but
23:08my dream
23:09is to be
23:09able to
23:10work on her
23:11consistently.
23:12She's such
23:13a badass
23:14bitch.
23:18Okay,
23:18so I'm going
23:18to put a
23:19little bit of
23:19cream on top
23:20of the powder
23:21and show you
23:21what that does.
23:22You see how
23:23like my skin
23:24is like so
23:25dry?
23:27So what you
23:27want to do
23:28is take the
23:28cream on top
23:29of the powder.
23:30It's going to
23:31just melt
23:32everything
23:32into place
23:34and I just
23:35put it onto
23:36the high points
23:37of the cheekbones
23:39and it adds
23:40like this
23:41like tiny
23:41bit of sheen
23:42and that's
23:44what I love.
23:49So when I
23:50worked at
23:50MAC,
23:51my manager
23:52called me
23:53a diva
23:53artist because
23:54we were
23:55given 30
23:56minutes
23:57to glam
23:59clients
24:00who paid
24:00$50
24:02and our
24:02job was
24:03to sell
24:04three products
24:06within that
24:07glam session,
24:08I took an
24:10hour and
24:1030 minutes.
24:11I wanted it
24:12to look good
24:14but I got a
24:15lot of
24:15basketball wives
24:16from it.
24:21A lot of
24:22baseball wives
24:23too.
24:25Private
24:26clients.
24:26clients.
24:36Wow,
24:36my lips
24:37are so dry.
24:40I'm using
24:40my lip
24:41balm.
24:42I'm so
24:42excited about
24:43this lip
24:44balm.
24:44I've been
24:44wanting to
24:45launch a lip
24:46balm for
24:46like the
24:47last four
24:47years.
24:49We launched
24:49this like
24:50five,
24:51four,
24:52four or five
24:53months ago.
24:54So good.
24:56The full
24:57name of
24:58this is
24:59my major
24:59moisture
25:01smoothing
25:02lip balm.
25:03I keep
25:04this on
25:04me all
25:05times.
25:05I have
25:05like
25:07all of
25:08these in
25:08my little
25:09bag.
25:09Let me
25:10set my
25:11face so
25:11I don't
25:11look so
25:13dry.
25:14Like
25:15the Sahara
25:15dessert.
25:19Does it
25:19look like
25:20I'm wearing
25:20makeup?
25:21I know
25:21it does
25:21but
25:27I feel
25:28like this
25:28is like
25:29the perfect
25:29like
25:29New York
25:30girl
25:30makeup.
25:31A little
25:31bit of
25:32concealer,
25:32a little
25:33bit of
25:33contour,
25:34a little
25:34bit of
25:34lip balm
25:35and powder
25:36in just
25:37like the
25:37right places.
25:38I always
25:39want to
25:39powder like
25:40right around
25:41my smile
25:41lines.
25:43Those smile
25:44lines will
25:45get you
25:45in the
25:45photos.
25:47Not
25:47cute.
25:47is this
25:49my version
25:49of a
25:50clean girl
25:50makeup
25:51routine?
25:52You guys
25:52tell me.
25:53I think
25:54it's
25:55pretty
25:55clean
25:56girl.
25:57I think
25:59maybe
26:00not
26:00the
26:01baking.
26:05I got
26:06this
26:06Summer
26:07Friday's
26:08lip
26:09stain
26:09just to
26:11put on
26:11my
26:11cupid
26:12smell.
26:20honestly
26:21you can't
26:21see it
26:22but
26:22that's
26:22the
26:23point.
26:23My
26:24goal
26:24for
26:25myself
26:26is to
26:27really
26:27just look
26:28like an
26:29enhanced
26:29version
26:30of
26:30myself.
26:31I used
26:31to not
26:32wear
26:32any
26:32makeup
26:33but
26:35recently
26:36over the
26:37last
26:38probably
26:39two
26:39years
26:40I hate
26:41to say
26:41it but
26:41I wear
26:42this
26:42almost
26:43every
26:43day.
26:44Oops.
26:46One
26:46makeup
26:48advice
26:49that I
26:49would
26:49give
26:50to
26:50my
26:51followers
26:52is
26:54don't
26:55be
26:55afraid
26:55to
26:55try
26:56you
26:57can
26:57always
26:57change
26:57it.
26:58I
26:58hope
26:58you
26:59enjoyed
27:01watching
27:01my
27:02makeup
27:02routine
27:04and
27:05I
27:05hope
27:06that
27:06you
27:06learned
27:06something
27:07about
27:07me
27:09by
27:10now.
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