Learn English Vocabulary: Beauty and Makeup

Hello. Do you do this every day in the mirror? This is called "mascara". Today, I'm going

to teach you about beauty -- beautiful vocabulary. The first one that I said is "mascara". We

use this on our eyelashes. Now, it's very funny because when we do this, we always have

to open our mouth. Guess what? We can do it without opening our mouth, too. But maybe

we are afraid that we'll poke ourselves in the eye. I'm not too sure, ladies. So if you're

interested in make-up or cosmetics, this lesson's for you. Let's begin.

Here, I have a list of verbs we use, and here are some nouns. So let's begin with the verbs.

"Put on" or "apply". These two verbs are the same. We use these when we talk about make-up.

So you can "put on" mascara. So you're going to take your mascara, and you're going to

"put it on" or "apply" it. Now, if you look at my beautiful face here, the mascara will

go on your eyelashes. You have to be very, very careful. You have to say "eyelashes",

not "eyelash". "Eyelash" is one. You, I guarantee, do not put mascara on one eyelash. It would

almost be impossible. You'd have to very carefully -- it's not going to happen. So on our eyelashes,

we put on or apply -- they're the same -- mascara. It makes our eyelashes longer and bigger,

so you can wink more at people. Wink, wink.

The next thing that maybe you wear if you're a lady -- maybe if you're a man you wear this,

too. I don't know. -- is eye shadow. Now, there are many, many, many different colors

of eye shadow. This one happens to have blue, green -- some other colors. We also get with

the eye shadow a little brush, so you can brush on the eye shadow. You can use your

finger. Doesn't matter, really. I'm very sure that professional make-up artists would have

very special brushes that would cost a lot of money. I am not a professional make-up

artist, so I'm not too sure about the different kinds of brushes that one would apply mascara

-- or eye shadow with. But I do know that it adds color to your eyelids. So underneath

your eyelashes are -- the skin here, which is your eyelids. You can paint them whatever

color you'd like. Okay? It's up to you. Purple. You want purple?

So we put on or apply mascara, eye shadow, and eyeliner. Now, eyeliner looks like a pencil,

but it isn't. This is not eyeliner. I just don't have any eyeliner. But it would look

like a pencil. And all you're going to do is take it, and you're going to actually line

the outside of your eyes. Don't put it in your eye. It's going to hurt again.

So with the mascara for your eyelashes, the eye shadow that will go on your eyelids or

the skin above your eyes, and the eyeliner will go around the top and bottom of your

eyes. It just makes your eyes look bigger. Do my eyes look bigger? That might work, too.

Moving on from the eyes, we're going to move down under the eyes. Now, ladies, let's say

one night you are out partying, talking, or drinking coffee a little bit too late. You

wake up the next morning. You look in the mirror, and it looks like you are very, very

tired. Your eyes -- maybe at the bottom here -- are puffy. We have an idiom or an expression

for that. Very strange, but we call it "bags under your eyes". "Bags?" Now, it's not a

shopping bag. You're not shopping at night. You're not doing Internet shopping. "Bags"

just means it's really full under your eyes. So maybe when you wake up in the morning,

you kind of have something that looks like this. You think, "How am I going to get to

work with bags under my eyes?" Well, we have the magic of the make-up industry of something

called "concealer". Now, a "concealer" basically will erase the bags under your eyes, and it

will make your skin tone an even color. So if you have freckles -- I have freckles. "Freckles"

are little dots on your face -- and you don't like them, you can use concealer to cover

or hide -- conceal -- your freckles. Or if you have a zit. What's a zit? A "zit" is when

you get a red point or a dot on your face. We call this -- the slang word for it is "zit".

But in a more medical term -- and you can have many zits, don't worry -- is "acne".

So acne is a skin condition. A lot of teenagers -- so people that are aged 12 to maybe 18

-- it's really common to have acne or zits. So the concealer will hide the zits on your

face -- hopefully. Okay?

Now, we're going into a very, kind of crazy, little strange, I think, subject. Let's do

it. We're talking about eyebrows. Funny story. One time, a student said, "Teacher, Teacher.

You do not have eyebrows." I said, "I sure do have eyebrows." So I pulled one out, and

I gave it to him. It's very difficult to see my eyebrows because they're blonde. But most

people have very dark or black eyebrows. And sometimes, if you have very dark and black

eyebrows, we need to make them look better. So first of all, "eyebrows" are the hairs

above your eyes. They're going to look like this.

Some people have hair in the middle above their nose that kind of makes it look like

one eyebrow. We have a slang word for this. It's called a "unibrow". Hee hee hee! So "uni"

means one, so "unibrow". So to help you reduce your unibrow factor, we have some magic -- some

make-up beauty magic tips. I have here a box of eyebrow wax. Oh, yes. So eyebrow wax is

basically a very sticky substance. It's actually a wax like we would use for a candle. And

you heat this, so you put it in the microwave or -- I don't know. Maybe get a lighter. And

you actually put the wax, hot, onto your eyebrows. Then, you take a piece of cloth, and you stick

it onto your eye. You've to wait a couple seconds, and then you rip it off. [Screams]

It hurts. It really, really hurts. But it does a really good job.

So what you can do is you can wax your eyebrows. Now, "wax" is a verb, and it's also a noun.

So you can say, "I wax my eyebrows." Another thing that you can do is -- uh-oh. These things

-- these are called "tweezers". Tweezers. Tweezers. "Tweezers" -- we're going to use

the verb "pluck". Please be very careful with your P. "Pluck", okay? So "pluck" means you

actually take the hair, and you rip it out. And then you take it, and you rip it out again.

It hurts as well. Eyebrows are a very sensitive part of your face, and it really hurts, I

think, anything you try and do to them. But the process of using tweezers and plucking

your eyebrows or waxing your eyebrows -- the purpose of this is to actually get rid of

your unibrow.

Sometimes, people go a little too far. I hate to say it, but I have seen some people who

have their eyebrows completely removed, and they get a tattoo. And the tattoo is a line.

Personally, I think it looks unnatural. And everyone looks angry all the time if you just

have one line across your face. It's your choice. If you'd like to get a tattoo on your

eyebrows, go for it. It's probably painful.

Speaking of pain, the last verb that I get to teach you about your eyebrows is something

called "thread", okay? "Thread" is a verb. We usually use it in the -ing form. I think

it originated in the Middle East because one time, when I was in the Indian neighborhood

of Toronto, they had a sign that said, "Eyebrow threading, $5." "Five dollars? I like $5.

Maybe I should get my eyebrows threaded. I don't know what that is." My best friend -- thank

you -- said go, go, go do it, Ronnie. You'll love it. It looks great. It looks awesome."

I was like, "Okay." Five dollars, I lay down in a chair; a lady took two pieces of thread.

So "thread" is like thick string. And I don't know how she did it. But she took these two

little pieces of string, and she ripped off my eyebrows, and she ripped off the other

part of my eyebrow. It was very, very, very painful. Apparently, it's one of the best

techniques to get rid of the unibrow and to shape your eyebrows. I think it will stick

to the good old plucking.

How about you? What do you do to keep your face beautiful?

Men: Do you have a nose? I think you do. Women, we have a nose as well. However, men have

a curious, curious thing called "hair", "nose hair". And what happens as men get older,

is their nose hair begins to grow out of their nose. So maybe you're looking at your father

or your grandfather or your boyfriend or your husband. You're like, [screams] "Ah! You have

a nose hair coming out of your nose." Ladies, grab your tweezers. Pluck those nose hairs.

I promise it does not hurt. Yeah. Okay, gentlemen. It does not hurt. It just -- it doesn't hurt.

You're men. You don't even feel pain. So grab the tweezers. Pluck out your nose hair.

Make sure that your eyebrows are nice and neat. Apply or put on some mascara, eye shadow,

or eyeliner to your eyes, and hide those unsightly bags with some concealer. Are you beautiful?

I think you're beautiful without make-up. But this is a lesson for you. Goodbye.