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Refinery29's Creative Director Lydia Pang is not only incredibly talented, but has seamlessly mastered the art of the wearable goth look. She has written about her style many times (see links below) and now she is showing beauty writer Mi-Anne Chan how she puts on her signature face.

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Transcript
00:00Hey, I'm Leanne.
00:01And I'm Nydia.
00:01And this is Beauty in a Snap.
00:03Today, Lydia is going to show me how to rock a wearable goth look.
00:09Now, Lydia is a superstar of Friday 29.
00:11She is known all around the office for her black lipstick and her vampy goth vibes.
00:17And I'm so excited to learn how to do it.
00:19So what is the first step in your makeup routine?
00:22So once I've done my base, then I start with eyebrows.
00:25Okay, power brows.
00:26I love a power brow.
00:27They are the curtains to the window of your face.
00:30That's true.
00:31So beautiful.
00:32So I fill in all of the like hairy bits and then I'll use a liquid eyeliner to like create
00:37a point on the end and to create a boxy shape at the beginning.
00:40So I'm using this Illamasqua eyebrow cake over basically just over my natural brows.
00:46This is tricky because you don't want to go in too far and you have like a Frida Kahlo moment.
00:50So the next step in the routine is liquid eyeliner.
00:53Liquid liner can be really intimidating to a lot of people.
00:56I'm using a pen, an eyeliner pen, liquid eyeliner pen by DHC.
01:01It's Japanese brand.
01:02When you have like a confidence swoop is when it always looks the best.
01:05Yeah.
01:05If you're like shaking and nervous about doing it.
01:06It's a little like shh shh shh shh shh shh.
01:15So the third step is to just put a tiny bit of mascara on. I don't put loads on.
01:19I think that having a little bit of mascara when you're wearing eyeliner kind of lets everything blend together.
01:25Yeah, exactly.
01:26The final step and my kind of finishing touch is my lips. They take the longest and I usually leave
01:31until last
01:31because then I can be like drinking a cup of coffee while I'm doing the rest.
01:34So I start with, again, another liquid eyeliner, but this is more of like a kind of tattoo pen.
01:40I'm learning something new today. I've never used liquid eyeliner to line my lips before,
01:44but in theory it actually makes a lot of sense because it's not going to bleed all over your lips.
01:49Now I'm going to use my favorite lipstick right now, which is this Kat Von D Witches.
01:54Yeah, Witches.
01:55Perfect name for that.
01:57Right? And it goes on like a gloss, which I really like because it's super malleable,
02:01but then it dries like super matte.
02:03Yeah, matte and also like that is not coming off.
02:06I'm going to use a black lipstick from the drugstore that I really like from the Katy Perry Cover Girl
02:10Collection.
02:11The shade is Peri Panther.
02:21Yeah, this one's actually good if you're starting out with this look because like this has got like a timer
02:26on it,
02:26whereas with this you can still like move it around a little.
02:28I feel like the black lipstick makes my teeth look kind of whiter than they usually are.
02:35The thing is there's not that many steps, you know, and if you like mess up like I just did
02:38then,
02:39you can literally just like push it back in.
02:41The dot under the eye, which I've seen you wear before and I really like,
02:45so I want to know how you do it.
02:47You basically just have to like stare at yourself like squarely in the mirror and figure out where it's symmetrical
02:51and just dot once.
02:53Cool, so this is the finished look.
03:02What do you think? How do I look?
03:04I think you look great.
03:05I feel like I'm giving off a little Queen Amidala vibes.
03:08Not that she even like really wore this look, I just feel like it's a little bit.
03:12It is.
03:12This whole look was actually so much quicker than I thought it was going to be.
03:15Yeah, people often come up to me and like how long does this take and actually it's really quick.
03:20It's literally just like eyebrows, eyeliner, and lipstick the same as everyone else.
03:23Yeah, it just happens to be all black.
03:24Yeah.
03:25Which is way cooler.
03:27Well, thank you so much for watching. Bye!
03:29Bye!
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