Product advice: find out your skin undertone (warm/cool/neutral). This will be so helpful in picking out any sort of makeup. Everything, from foundation to blush to eyeshadow to lipstick, will look so much better on your if you pick the right colors for your skin tone and undertone.

Technique advice: if the sheer amount of tutorials is overwhelming, I’d recommend watching any video from any big makeup youtuber titled along the lines of “full face of ELF makeup”, and just copy all the products and techniques they use. ELF is a pretty solid drugstore brand that will allow you to get started on a budget. And you will need to practice practice practice until you get better, then you can start blowing your money on higher end products lol.

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Figure out your skin tone (deep/dark/medium/light/fair) and your undertone (warm/neutral/cool).

For complexion products, order a few shades that you think might match you. Swatch them on your face at home and take a picture, which you can then post on a variety of makeup subs for opinions on which shade matches you best. Once you have your match, send back the products that don’t work.

For eyeshadow/blush/contour etc., google which colors will flatter your skin tone and undertone and order whatever strikes your fancy (this category is a bit more flexible). Same with lip products, but make sure the lip color matches your undertone or they’ll look more noticeably weird.

Pretty much just do a ton of research before buying stuff, buy it and send back whatever doesn’t work.