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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- This video started out as just a final thoughts update on some makeup I've been testing lately, the Makeup by Mario SurrealSkin foundation, the Rare Beauty highlighters and the new Isamaya Beauty Wild Star collection (mainly the palette), but recent developments led me to dedicating a portion of today's video to Isamaya's offline life and her recent trip to Malawi, paid for by Madonna. I welcome your thoughts.
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IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow: go.magik.ly/ml...
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Rare Beauty Positive Light LIQUID Highlighter: go.magik.ly/ml...
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NARS Summer Unrated palette: go.magik.ly/ml...
Pat McGrath Labs Huetopian Dream Palette: go.magik.ly/ml...
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Time Stamps:
0:00 - intro
0:43 - Makeup by Mario SurrealSkin Foundation Final Thoughts
12:31 - Rare Beauty Highlighter Final Thoughts
14:21 - Isamaya French's Trip to Malawi
22:10 - Isamaya Wild Star Swatch Comparisons & Dupes
36:09 - Outro
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Thought experiment- Would it bother you if a group of Chinese tourists filmed themselves interacting with American kids who live in group homes or homeless kids in the poorer urban areas of Baltimore or Oklahoma City or San Francisco and then they posted it on their Instagram? Maybe with some nice footage of themselves giving away toys at a homeless shelter and dancing to some rap with the kiddies? Maybe some vids from the Oklahoma Red Earth Pow Wow, just to get some native aboriginal culture? Maybe with a voiceover about how nasty the conditions are in America and how much they care about our kids.Juxtaposed with cuts from their shopping trip to L.A. and Rodeo Drive? I would be feeling all the feelings about that, I think. Just a thought.
Pinning!
I just wish we could improve conditions for people without being gross about it. And, you know, not being complicit in the creation of a lot of these problems with our eCoNomiKs n pOlyTiks to begin with. Like, why aren't we more embarrassed for our write-ups in future history books when it's basically structurally equivalent to Jack Ass but with the total lack of morality sundae that is punching down.
Pretty much anyone filming themselves doing “good deeds” and posting pics and video to CZcams or any other social media is exploiting the underserved to boost their ego. It has zero to do with helping others.
no, actually. its better than doing nothing and being a keyboard warrior pretending to be on some righteous charity enforcement. i dont think those kids give a single shit if the gifts came from someone on IG, a makeup artist or some such. nor do i think the food the money has paid for, or what could be donated by spreading awareness, tastes worse because someone posted it. i think people need to get their priorities straight. maybe she used to to self promo, but did her money and donations help or not? which matters more? snatch the food and toys away so that the IG-er can be punished online? its absurd.
I agree with the thought experiment above, but I also think that this conversation is projecting a lot onto the intentions and perceptions of others. Posting about doing something good for less fortunate like that does give off virtue signaling vibes as well as weirdly conveying a privilege gap, but would it also be weird to post nothing about her trip if she is a person who posts? What would she post that would be acceptable? Maybe this was a trip in preparation to raise even more charity for them by exploring what their lives are really like? What do the people there think about the charity or that trip in particular, having a new guest like Isamaya communing with them via Madonna? Trick question, because we can't ever know the sum of the collective thoughts of those people, and to pretend we do know without them telling us, is also a weird way to assume we know best. I'm not defending or condemning, just saying I personally can only go by what content is being put out there without leaping. It sounds like maybe there was some weirdness on the response from Isamaya on social media. I personally would feel weird posting a ton about a trip like that until I had time to process it, and being a doctor I would probably be more involved / working in that capacity if I were indeed on a humanitarian trip, so entirely different experience for me. Also being in a place so foreign, I would probably be more observant rather than focused on creating content, especially filming kids and posting that. Anyway, thanks Kackie as always for the stimulation, cosmetically and intellectually! XOXO
I was homeless for a bit as a kid, and the thought of some famous, rich person having footage of me as a child in that extremely vulnerable place in my life… having it posted publicly like Isamaya did… I just cannot.
Kackie, I think you are kind of amazing. I stumbled upon your videos about 2-3 months ago and I am hooked. I’m a 35 yr. old, queer, black man who has just started wearing makeup on a daily basis. (I started in the summer of ‘22). I spoiled myself and dove headfirst into the high-end beauty space, which has been an amazing journey. Hearing your thoughts on some of the makeup that I have purchased or want to purchase, has been extremely helpful to me. The way you articulate your thoughts speaks to my soul. (I was a Theatre and Dance major in college, so I speak in hyperbole. 😂)
Moral of the story, I think you are the coolest. I wish we could be best friends, but until then I’ll continue to watch your videos religiously. 😂 (God, I hope that wasn’t creepy. I swear, I’m harmless.😅)
thank you so much, Cornelius!!
This whole Mario foundation thing is exactly why I wait 6 months - 1 year to purchase a “hyped” foundation. I can’t risk buying a foundation that won’t work for me. Also, I’ve found that people’s true feelings come out within that time frame. I won’t be buying this Mario foundation just like I passed on the Charlotte Tilbury dewy foundation. ❤M
Agree. This happened with the KVD Good Apple and I'm SO glad I waited.
YES! This is how I usually purchase with foundations & concealers as well.
I had a Makeover at Sephora and the makeup artist used this foundation which is why I realize that I really love it but I do understand what you're saying! Love Charlotte Tilbury and Haus Labs Triclone Foundation with Milk Makeup Grip Primer! My top foundations so far, excited for new picks in this year!! 😀 🥰
@@monalisasweetheart7369 I am very interested in the Haus Labs foundation! That one seems more up my alley! 😃 ❤️M
@@maloojisloves6586 I got ya!! That one is Beautiful too! It's what I have been using a lot lately!! I understand, makeup is so personal!! I hope you find the very best one for you with the shade to match cause that's important!! xx ❤
Honestly, hearing you act exasperated about her being British is kind of rich. Americans have had to foot the bill for wars, weapons and military bases all around the world at the expense of a social safety net. That is the definition of imperialism. Complaining about a rich mua isn't the highbrow activism viewers think it is, and it's worrisome that a bunch of well off westerners secretly think they accomplished something by not buying more makeup from "problematic people". Let's be frank, Isamaya's crime is being a rich art school graduate. She self inserts into fantasy and comes off a bit daffy. That applies to many people *ahem*.
Now don't mind me if I go eat trash and get hit by a car.
Comparisons were super helpful. I think having them on the more composed final thoughts end of things is fine since you’re able to make a more thoughtful comparison when you know a product better. Super appreciate you as always.
One foundation to rule them all, one foundation to find them, one foundation to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. 😂😊
Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeccccccccccciiiooouuuuuuuussssssssssss!
My preeeecious 😂
@@valariebrown3768 We wants it! We needs it! The preeeciiiooouuuss Chanel Sublimage Le Teint will be ourses!
As an oily skinned person, I LOVED the rare beauty tinted moisturizer. The only thing that put me off was the Sun screen smell was so strong I could taste it. Especially under a mask (I work in medicine so we are still making everyday). But formula wise I wore BEAUTIFULLY on my skin type and I highly recommend
Not to excuse Isamaya, but I'm going to play devil's advocate a little because Nars actively chose to start selling in physical stores in mainland China instead of just on-line, so they obviously don't care about animal rights. Pat McGrath had stickergate, as you said, and the trademark controversy (basically trying to own the word divine in beauty products). Naturium had Susan Yara violating FTC guidelines and I'm sure most brands have some skeletons in their closets. Obviously, everyone is free to support whoever they want to support and not every cause will be as important depending on the person. And that's OK.
Why is Nars selling in mainland China a symbol of lacking animals rights? There’re tones of orgs, companies, people who care about animal rights in mainland China, just like other countries. I know many Chinese friends and families are vegetarians. I feel like Chinese has been taken so many false rumors that people tend to do maliciously( consciously/unconsciously) It’s a video about ISAMAYA and her Africa trip, I believe there’s no China included in isamaya’s video nor Kackie’s video. But there are comments talking about the country like insanely all the time. I know social media authenticity is always an issue and people get affected by it but I’m so sick of people take discrimination as granted and don’t even make sure if their sources are reasonable before expressing hates wherever they go. I mean go to see the world or really talk to / get to known and be respectful instead of hating with a closed mind. And isn’t this just partly stand for what Kackie’s expressing?
I have seen several videos comparing the new Revlon serum foundation to the Mario foundation. They like the Revlon one more and they say it offers the same results as the Mario when you first apply it but that it's better in every other way. I need to get my hands on the new Revlon especially since it's also cheaper than the Mario. Also, I recently joined and am caught up and impatiently waiting for a new vlog, I love them! 😍
It’s the asides about Isamaya and voluntourism the reason why you’ve become one of my favorite channels. A few months ago, Vice put out a video called The Dark Side of Rich Kids Volunteering Abroad and that was when I first learned about voluntourism. (That video is fascinating btw.) All of this is made more problematic by the possibility of the realities spoken about in that video of what the lives of the orphans are actually like once the visitors have left. 😓 But I want to reiterate that I really do appreciate that you’re a white creator that doesn’t shy away from talking about race or social justice issues in your videos when it’s relevant to the topic, and you always manage to keep hold of the nuance of the situation without sounding sanctimonious.
@@loriloretta7639 It's not. This video, as I see it, is presenting the facts and why it is problematic. It's up to you, the consumer, to then decide who you want to support. It's up to the consumer to do further research and figure out beyond that one social media post or one video if they want to stop buying from a person or a company because of their value set.
Yeah I never said the word cancel, but it's the word everyone with this stance seems to be using... 🤔🤔🤔
Thank you 🥹
@@kackie Nope. You said boycott.
I have to admit that I’m interested in Isamya’s brand. This palette has a lot of dupes, but there are a lot of other unique products in her line.
Not to be too political, but Meghan Markle did one up on Isamya when Meghan went to Africa for a photo shoot/humanitarian visit. Markle apparently brought suitcases of clothes, hair/makeup artist, and her own photographer 😮
I think it’s important to add to the voluntourism conversation that all forms of voluntourism (orphanages, farms, graffiti painting, it really doesn’t matter) are taking away local jobs from locals in that community. It might make you feel really happy to dance with a small African child (puking at the tokenism), but the money you spent on a flight, hotel(s), guide(s), food, etc. could easily employ an actual person who would be an actually consistent connection to the child you danced with once. It is SO selfish and egotistical to think your presence is necessary or helpful to get communities the resources they need.
I have been looking forward to this video. I literally just started watching, and I can't wait to see this look play out and the comparison swatches. I wasn't really interested in the palette until I saw you use it. I still don't have money to spend on it as interesting as it is, but i would definitely be interested in "duping the vibes". Thank you for this detailed review, much appreciated.
Oh WOW - I honestly never knew anything about Isamaya, but just kind of fawned over her palettes from time to time, but you taught me the concept of voluntourism, as I had never heard it before but always wondered about those trips. Thanks for shedding light on this Kackie!
I super appreciate your critical thoughts about voluntourism! I always feel like it makes charitable support conditional on marginalized people's willingness to be photo props. I also think about how all that money spent touring around to "help" could have been better spent paying locals to do the work in their own communities with cultural competence.
I think it’s important to note that Isamaya’s brother’s wife’s family are from Malawi. She didn’t just pop up there out of nowhere. There is a connection. If they have no issue with it, why do you?
That’s too much reality for this Karen like rant here, and the sheep soaking it up. Sounds like a vendetta more than any compassion, I won’t look at this channel again. I will however look forward to any output from the highly intriguing Isamaya!
Did u talk to the kids, did they tell u they don't mind?
@@empressah888 y'all call anyone a karen now a days
Speaking of “know better do better”… please stop discussing another woman’s plastic surgery in such a vicious and condescending tone. Or discussing it all. Women get to “age” any way they want to. Can we please stop talking about other women’s appearances in a negative way? Including famous ones? They are, after all, just people, and cruelty isn’t ok just because the target is a famous woman.
Please donate the same percentage of your income that Madonna does to charitable causes instead of apologizing.
I hear you on the voluntourism but yikes on the body shaming.
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This whole thing is why I never posted pics of kids or locals from a trip I did in South Africa back in 2018. I went on safaris, I did volunteer work in the day and partied at night. I was grateful for all these experiences and the people I met, but I knew it’d b difficult to post most of those experiences online without coming across as voluntourism.
very interesting. it's such a complex issue. i appreciate you sharing this.
It’s a bit sad. Word of mouth is such an important part of promoting businesses and charities alike. I imagine a lot of people who have these amazing experience are afraid to talk about them, so the money and resources that get invested back aren’t what they could be. I’d probably keep the experience to myself as well. No one wants to risk being publicly shamed.
@@dinasourprincessparty The whole experience is giving Jon Ronson’s “So You Think You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” … except I know exactly what went down with Justice Sacco. On this Isamaya stuff, I saw a couple of posts and/or stories when they were first posted but have NOTHING on the rest of the drama! It’s not like I was just gonna throw out my Industrial palette over a possible cancellation, but I definitely want to know where the reality lies.
@@dinasourprincessparty I openly talk about the organization that I went on the trip with (City Year). I do wish I wrote down the smaller restaurants we went to so that I could post about them. Bc that is giving promotion (and therefor potential money) where it can benefit communities that need it
I hear you Re the benefits of word of mouth for volunteering… but when it comes to volunteering in other countries as an American I think my energies can usually be better used trying to address the systemic problems of how our government has perpetuated colonialism and what policies and global aid are helpful versus ones that do more harm than good like the world bank. If I want to go on safaris and party in another country I’m just not convinced that a few days of volunteering do more than make me feel better about myself. I hope to not come across as undermining your good intentions and good work you did! We are all told that volunteering is a good way to help people and it’s certainly better than doing nothing. I just have big picture concerns about how volunteering ends up impacting or not impacting the problems we all want to change.
Came for updated thoughts left with dreams … of huetopian dreams. Wow those special shades. I’ve been looking for a brighter palette with some sort of special purple/lavender shade and already know I love PM formulas. Thanks as always for your critical thoughts & the great work you do!
I love second impressions!! I don’t love first impression videos, they’re good content but not great when I’m thinking about buying the product. I love when creators come back and give their informed opinions after testing because I know so many creators have a wealth of knowledge and take it seriously
Sometimes when a makeup artist drops a product that is driven by the desire to have that type of thing in their kit, it can be a huge boon to the world at large because it fills a niche that has been empty. Most of the time though, I think, it kind of disappointing for the rest of us who mainly do makeup on their own skin and don't need to have such a huge variety of foundation. I'm kind of shocked that it isn't long lasting because if you have to do makeup for an event it HAS to be bullet proof otherwise you won't get future work.
Dry skin girl here and I guess mature skin because I’m closer to 40 then not lol but as much as I wanted to love this, it just wore terribly on me. Like worse then any other foundation I’ve ever tried. I did return it and my recommendations would def be almost any Chanel foundation. They have BEAUTIFUL complexion products that perform flawlessly. Also the chantecaille future skin foundation. The haus labs foundation and the rare beauty foundation. Those are my on rotation ones this year. Good luck everyone! MBM foundation is a pass for me. His other face products though…perfection!
Ooooh those (with the exception of haus labs) are like a greatest hits list for me too!!
I second the chantecalle future skin it's amazing the Haus labs some days it was good some days bad it wasn't consistent on me at all. Now I love to mix Nars light reflecting with chantecalle future skin
@@amandawright9790 I haven’t tried the light reflecting foundation yet but when I run out of haus labs I’ll try that next.
Welp, one thing’s for sure. He (Mario) nailed the packaging.😂 Very pretty! Have you ever tried the Shiseido synchro skin self refreshing foundation, Kackie? I’m usually a cream foundation gal but that liquid foundation is the only exception I make. Not fussy at all and looks great even after a long busy work day tending bar. Sweat and all. Absolutely love it and highly recommend as well.
Thank you for your insight on this whole Isamaya thing and the whole voluntourism industry. Which I learned long ago sometimes does more harm than good. I think a lot of brands are guilty of the virtue signaling and it can be quite off putting. Great video. Thanks.
I really enjoy you’re content Kackie. I hope you’re having a great week
thank you so much
It would be really interesting if you could do a pot foundation showdown and compare the Chanel with Suqqu and Cle de Peau
oooh love that idea!
YES❣️But, with a ‘Sample’ Size of CdP😅
I love the Chantecaille Future Skin gel foundation. It is very sheer but can be built up a bit.
Perhaps it’s just the elementary teacher in me, but I just never post pictures of kids on social media unless they are my own children or I am very close friends/family with the children’s parents/guardians and I know them to be ok with it. Anytime I see someone post a random pic that features kids they don’t know it seems to always be exploitation in the interest of the adult- even if it’s as simple as artistic expression. It’s never the artistic expression of the child at the center of the post or to advocate directly for their needs. It’s to make the adult in the picture or behind the camera appear a certain way. This whole situation of course also touches upon racial and social issues that are equally important to observe and I really appreciate you taking the time to address it and for the commenters with even more proximity here that have contributed to the conversation. I didn’t know about her posts and I like having this information before I decide where to spend my money next.
i have another thought... Living in Ukraine in the middle of the war... Voluntourism makes a huge for attracting an attention to my country and everything that is now happening there. It's okey to come here, show the horrors of war, like ruined buildings, living under bomb attacks etc., but it's also important to show that we are trying to live a normal life despite of all this shit. To show that people in Ukraine are dancing and singing during the alarm (missile strike) on underground, for example, to show that we could stay positive despite everything. We don't mind.
This comment deserves to be pinned.
Good summary of “voluntourism”. Thanks for putting this out Kackie .
Her posts also gave me the ick, so I’m not prepared to *defend* by any means, but I wondered if she was there as part of her actual personal/business charity work. Just based on having watched videos in which Isamaya discussed the causes to which she wanted to steer profits from her collections, supposedly with each collection bringing a new cause, and the first one being to help Europe-bound migrants crossing the Mediterranean. And it sorta seemed like she’d walked the walk on that to some extent, maybe had some personal experience and background with those refugees? But I have no idea what the reality of that is.
I would LOVE to know the full story.
@@kackie There’s a video on her CZcams channel about the group Worldwide Tribe and why she chose it for the first partnership. My inner journalist/busybody has been trying to find more information on any other collabs but is coming up short - in fact, I can’t even seem to find receipts on any of the current controversy (the deleted comments, the critiques, the dialogue). Maybe it’s all lost to people’s expired Insta stories? Like, where is all this circulating?
@@loriloretta7639 lol that this comment got me trying desperately to figure out if Isamaya Beauty was a subsidiary of J&J
@@loriloretta7639 yeah was just confused cause I thought you were throwing out bread crumbs
I really love how you talk about shades and colors and all the rest. I'm not even much of an eye shadow person but you make me want to buy so many because your enthusiasm is truly infectious!
So glad I re-found this video. I’ve been listing after Isamaya’s latest palette and then considered the first. Happy to have you talk me down.
I just watched Shelby Wilson’ s review on the Mario foundation and she agreed with me that half a lump with a sponge is the best way. A full pump with a brush was way too much.
half a lump. got it. sorry i'm kidding. the typo made me giggle :D
Yes to comparisons in second impressions videos. I say this with all the respect and love I have for your channel but it was a little bit jarring to hear your love for Isamaya palettes and talk about how unique her formulas were in your other videos to all of the sudden in this video talk about how dupable the formulas are. I hope you know in saying this, it's not meant to be a dig at you or your authenticity because I think you're great. But I've been wanting the Isamaya palettes because of the unique formulas and I think it would just help give all of us context with swatch comparisons in the same video as the second impressions. It helps keep the buying urge more grounded and realistic from the get go.
I mean I think she is saying the shades are dupable in light of the controversy around issamaya at the moment. No eyeshadow is so unique that you can’t get something somewhat similar somewhere else. It is just eyeshadow at the end of the day.
I compared it to some really kickass formulas that I respect a lot, and to paraphrase ME in the second impressions video, "this obviously isn't undupable, I just thought of two different palettes it reminds me of off the top of my head." Something to that effect.
Thank you 🥲
So I don’t know about madonnas orphanage, but in general with voluntourism, a lot of those orphanages do not have orphans. Often families give up their kids, sometimes for compensation sometimes not, to these places who then use them to make white people feel good.
Imagine if the tourists took the time and money they spent visiting the orphanage and actually gave it to the communities that are giving up their children because they can’t afford them?
Omg that's so gross beyond belief
I love the second impressions oh so much!!!!! It’s how I want to buy my things. Responsible purchases that way 😂
I was so excited about The Mario Foundation Because at first application I thought omg this reminds me of my holy grail and sadly discontinued YSL TOUCHÉ ECLAT LE TEINT foundation! BUT it’s not. 😖 so close though. I wish it looked the same beautiful way after two hours. Bummer. 🙏🏻 please bring that ysl foundation back!!!!
I think you actually did a pretty outstanding job at putting words and meaning behind the cringe/problematic/yikes feeling. My feeling is that if you travel to "third world countries" or actually any empoverished area (might be a few miles from your home, you know), and you have a mindset of trying to help in some capacity, that's fine, help is needed. What people don't need, is for you to then proclaim to the world how much it sucks to be them and how "eye opening" or whatever the experience was - for YOU. The thing is, actual, true, palpable help is not about you.
I am in no way defending Isamaya or Madonna but what is actually cringe is how sanctimonious you come across in this video.
100% agree. This video is super disappointing to me. I understand and sympathize with the issues here, but I also recognize that there are a lot of nuanced views to consider. Kackie comes off as an alternate variety of “white savior” in this video and I am not here for it.
I have painfully dry, sensitive, mature, reactive, very pale skin. I tried the RMS re-evolve, but it made my skin even drier and made me break out. The only foundation I can regularly use is RCMA's original cream foundation, but I have taken to thinning it out using their mixing liquid. It is mostly natural as long as it is applied thinly, and does not bother my finicky skin. I don't think it gets enough love, but it is my ride or die.
Madonnna and her orphanage are currently being investigated.
NOOOOOOOO
I’m 38 with “maturing skin” and have a combo skin type, the MBM foundation works great for me 🤷🏻♀️ the last step of my skin prep is the Summer Fridays Shade Drops sunscreen, so I never use a primer. Idk if that will help anyone out there. I powder with Dior Powder-No Powder in the areas I need to and apply the rest of my products (a mix of cream & powder ones) and finish with Charlotte Tilbury spray. As for other foundations I use that are holy grail status to me (I’m also a true olive skin tone. Light medium/Medium/Medium-Tan ranges throughout the year): Armani Neo Nude, Armani Luminous Silk, Hourglass Vanish Foundation Stick, Dior Backstage, Summer Fridays Skin Tint, and Chanel Water Tint(s). I keep my skincare the same aside from moisturizer. I change that up depending on the weather. Lightweight when it’s hotter, thicker or more hydrating when it’s colder. I don’t have a preference on finish or consistency b/c each one serves a purpose at certain times.
As for isamaya…YIKES. I never had any desire to buy from her/the brand and now I most certainly never will.
HO i wanted to buy the Summer Fridays drops skin tint. I still wonder if it will be ok for my skin. Is it enough hydratation ? I'm not fluent, sorry.
For the shifty gold/orange I highly recommend Ablaze from pretties for your face! It’s a great shadow and looks like that one to a T. Not to mention how affordable their shadows are!
Omg ITS MY TIME TO SHINE!! I have a better alternative to the Mario foundation!!! The loreal true match nude!!!! Please back me up!!
It absolutely wears longer, looks better, plays better with other products, easily manipulated, glass bottle-the dropper is complete Shite buuuut it also looks glittery or shimmery in the bottle but cannot detect on the skin.
OMG and it doesn't have octinoxate SPF like the true match LUMI (my beloved). BUYING!!!!
@@kackie And you can buy a pump to fit on Amazon, because the dropper is not great!
Which True Match foundation is this @MAubrey69? Is it the hyaluronic?
So so sorry guys Loreal True Match Nude yes with hyaluronic tinted serum the one in a glass bottle that is like 20$
Kackie, I just discovered the luminous silk foundation from Armani. It's literally magical for me.
I have it! I've tried it and I remember liking it. I need to go back to it.
This was my holy grail recommendation as well. I’ve bought others, but I keep coming back to this. I feel like it’s probably what the Mario foundation was trying to be.
The Issamaya palette looks like the Tarte round palettes. Maybe with a couple punchier colors. But by no means special. Especially for $105
Kaki, I get what you are saying and really love the term voluntourism. I think there is another way to look at it. These people by our standards are impoverished, but their culture is rich and filled with beauty in ways we cannot always grasp. Visits by outsiders are also a necessary part of their economy. In short, if these visits stopped they would suffer a serious loss of both income and life sustaining items that they need. So both sides of the equation are receiving something good out of the exchange even though their is some “ick” involved in it from a purely tourist point of view. I really appreciated your comments, it is something that deserves discuss
mmm yes, but i think they're different. there's tourism, and then there's visiting an orphanage funded by madonna where they're painting pictures of madonna as their guardian angel essentially, and doing exactly what isamaya is doing - which is making a spectacle of how hard their lives are. i don't feel like this glorifies the richness of their culture at all.
Yikes.
Objectifying individuals and showcasing them as a result of their poverty- devoid of the consent and rights of these individuals - and justifying it due what western ideas of “economics” dictate is a pretty gross justification. It’s reminiscent to individuals justifying slave labor because “hey they didn’t have any jobs in the area beforehand!”
Foundation was a bust for me. I mix it with other more drying foundations like the Lisa Eldridge and it’s fine; but on its own? It’s a no go- broke up after a few hours.
I’m so glad I only got a sample of this and it looked so bad when I looked in the mirror later 😂 I still stand by the new Revlon Foundation! ❤️
I appreciate you *asking* people with oily skin to chime in on this. I feel like most people I follow are on Team Dry & automatically assume if it's not for their skin, then it's definitely for oily skin. NOT accurate. I have been bamboozled many times by those types of recs, only to be plagued by super cakey or too dewy (to the point of being greasy) foundations for me. I, too, would like a natural finish & prefer light-med coverage. My only issue is making it stay on my face longer than 2 hours, which is usually resolved/mitigated by appropriate skin prep. I find I can make most foundations work for me, as long as I prep for my skin type. That said, I do love the Fenty Eaze Drop on me, as well as WA Vital Skin, Tower28 Sunny Days & NARS Light Reflecting. These are all in my current rotation. Had considered the MBM one, but after your & several other reviews with similar opinions, I'm going to opt out.
Please add Ellis Faas skin veil to the foundation to try list. It’s my OG (current rotation is the chantecaille future skin, Chanel les beige healthy glow, westman vital stick, blunder cover) would love to know how it compares to the Chanel sublimage and your other recommendations.
How different is the effect of the Mario Foundation from mixing a foundation with a similar texture and Hollywood Halo Glow Lust (or w/e illuminating primer you love)?
Hollywood halo glow lust might be my favorite AI generated-style umbrella term ever. And the answer is...I don't see glow from it? Some people have said they do, though. So not that different probably b
I LOVE the eye makeup this video! It fits you and your outfit so well!
I have no interest in this palette, I thought it was pretty trashy, but I still want the industrial palette, which is is kinda yikes with bondage and piercing stuff…but I feel like I want it because I’m feeling grungy green/olive eyeshadows right now…it’s just too expensive…
I hope isamaya french was acting out of a place of sincere ignorance and learns something from this. Wasn’t planning to buy anything from her brand.
I think you were trying to verbalize the concept of the “white savior” complex that we see a lot in Hollywood movies (The Green Book, The Blind Side, etc.) and in these voluntourism videos.
This format is awesome!!!!!
Thanks Liz!
Dear Kackie, first, thank you for this excellent and helpful video. You reliably provide such valuable content - you’re a rare light in our current cultural landscape 🎉 Second, I want to provide a wee bit of critical feedback regarding a very brief, offhand comment you made about Madonna.
You were indicating your (perfectly reasonable, to my mind) frustration with her, and you mentioned her cosmetic surgery, and her ‘resemblance’ to a much younger woman. To me, your tone came across as contemptuous, which I’m afraid I find worrisome. I think being contemptuous about an older woman’s cosmetic procedures provides fuel for an assortment of ugly, misogynist tropes. Additionally, especially in the context of a beauty channel, I worry that some of your older women viewers might feel an unpleasant twinge as they see you, a very beautiful, young woman, imply that (some) efforts to appear younger are laughable/ contemptible. (I say this as a 52 year old woman, just to be clear about my own particular vantage point.)
I am certain that this is not at all the direction you intended your comment to go. In my own life, however, I have only been able to stop unintentionally contributing to views that I don’t endorse when someone has pointed out that I may have done so. I have benefited from that type of input on multiple occasions. In that light, I decided to make this comment. You make clear, in this video, and others that I have watched, that you do not believe any part of the worrying ideas I mentioned above. You also consistently and clearly demonstrate your commitment to treating your viewers with kindness and respect, in every video of yours that I have ever watched. All of which makes my criticism very small potatoes, indeed 🥔!
I hope my wee concern makes sense. More importantly, however, I hope I have made clear how much I appreciate you and your work. Thank you so much!
I'm somehow not surprised by Isamaya putting out content like that. She definitely gives "I'm a well off cis white female who has never suffered & drips in privilege" (I'm saying this while fully aware of the fact that I too have been privileged in many ways). To me it just feels like she's ignorant & young & just needed something like this to change her lens on life. I don't think it makes her a horrible person & I hope people have been holding her accountable without full on bullying her or "cancelling" her. Cancel culture does not work, or doesn't work by making someone more educated or aware or enlightened. Idk apparently I had way too much to say. I honestly don't even really care about Isamaya. I think her launches have been noteworthy for numerous reasons, but I'm definitely not spending that kind of coin, esp for her
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Yeah totally. I can't cancel anyone even if I wanted to. But you're right, there's a difference. And talking about it is important. We all deserve the opportunity to grow.
Do we know if Mario has commented on the struggles of using his new product ?
that's a great question! I haven't looked into it. I shall!
I was thinking of which palette this Isamaya one reminded me of. And then it strucked me that is basicly the same as Tarte Remix Naturals palette, just without mattes.
I literally just discovered her like 2 days ago and have been so excited ab her industrial palette 😭😭 do you have any recs for other “goth” leaning makeup brands for lack of a better term? Any that have good quality and aren’t kitschy/cheapy? Those kinds of color stories and packaging excite me so much
ahh i was excited about it too 😭. i would say adept cosmetics, róen beauty, rituel de fille, and kaleidos have a similar grungy duochrome vibe going on. and i've seen lots of other indie brands (clionadh, devinah, shine by sd, etc) that sell shadows like those as singles.
the adept cosmetics palettes seem the most similar to the industrial palette, although they don't have that sleek packaging
The Tarte Foundcealer (hate the name,) is gorgeous, the line runs a bit on the yellow side, but thins out beautifully.
Volunteer work done right can be so impactful, it's really gross if used just as a way to boost your image. I don't want judge too harshly based on just a short clip but I wish she highlighted more the actual WORK she was doing there, not just ✨exotic visuals✨
Glad you said don’t want to judge on this clip… as this is not the whole info in any way!She has family and friends there, and this was all a part of her life along with others trying to do good and live a good life. They don’t care what this little channel is trying to get people all riled up about.
Thank you for delving into Izamaya and Madonna's white gaze on Africa. You were spot on!
Kackie i’m so over whelmed i’m 63 with smooth skin a few wrinkles what foundation would you recommend for me i’ve been using Cle de Peau but that’s tooooo expensive for everyday! i’ll keep using it for special occasions but need an everyday. Dawn
I need to try the cle de peau to know. What's it like?
Loved this format of video.nothing tedious about it.😊
Hiii. Where can I get that sweater??
I'm about to learn some unsavory things about Isamaya, huh?
the sweater is from stine goya - i got it on mega sale over the summer. i wonder if you can still find it?
@@kackie thank you! I didn't find this exact sweater but I've fallen in love with alllll the other ones.
Yay new video! Good start to Wednesday ✨
I had been eyeing isamaya as I wanted to get the black gloss (and trixies Halloween one sold out too fast!) but I saw this incident shared on dietprada and her initial responses were not good. She basically commented back really crummy things stating the commenters needed to get over it and she clearly didn’t actually care about what she had done. She took it down because she got a lot of negative comments. In fact, I could not be remembering correctly but I don’t even remember the Madonna nonprofit mentioned at first (in the post you shared). But I could be mis-remembering?
The tone of her response was very much the whole “cancel culture” vibes and it does not feel good so I’ve decided she’s not getting money from me!
Omg!!! See I didn't see the post on diet Prada so I didn't know they covered it. I guess they took it down when she did?
I agree. Shiny = good 😍😍😍 ✨✨✨
Me too! Best argument of the year honestly! Love because SHINY
As someone who was sent on church “missionary” trips to Honduras when I was a teen to “build schools for the less fortunate” I look at stuff like this and cringe so hard. I loved my trip and definitely worked hard digging ditches, learned how to stack rocks and cement into a wall from an amazing 70 year old Honduran man, but the absolute absurdity of it all strikes me as an adult. We raised money for that trip and instead of spending half of it on flights and accommodation for 40 white kids it would have been so much more beneficial to have hired more locals who actually had experience in construction with that money. Ultimately these trips were more about teaching us privileged American kids that we need to appreciate our lives in the US more than actually helping those communities. It’s totally more about giving the kids the “poor 3rd world experience” than actually helping people there.
Anyways, thank you for calling it out. I find it as icky as you do.
Dry skin here. The *only* way I could get the Mario foundation to work was to use a hydrating primer (non-gripping) and then top it with one pump of the Merit Great Skin serum, and then applied less than one pump of the foundation with a beauty blender.
To be honest, it sounds like everyone that's talking sh*t about Isamaya French volunteering/travelling, they haven't travelled outside of their country themselves. It is incredible when you go and live (even for a little while) with local people in their own country. And, yes, you go outside of your comfort zone! You get to experience a bunch of new things that you just can't wait to share with the world (even if you're not an influencer). What do you want her to do? Change her skincolour? Citizenship? What if she's white British person? If she's white and not helping or talking about something, that would've been the issue. It sounds like people are really just looking for someone new to cancel.
Awesome thank you so much for showing us great alternatives for the eyeshadow palette. Could you possibly consider doing the same thing for the industrial pallet? That pallet really really caught my eye and I’m not even into eyeshadows. I know it takes time and you’re probably really busy but just curious if I can make that request. Thank you so much for your dedication!!!
£80 for a tinted lip balm, she’s definitely living in another reality
The makeup by Mario foundation has worked well for me.
I'm so glad!!
Same!
The ABH Amrezy palette looks like a good palette alternative too!
Ooh!!
well that’s a brand that actually is doing bad, being a supporter of Putin!
10:52 I’m really confused about this entire take
Love the unit of measurement “absolute metric butt-ton” 😂🥰
I think the Mario foundation is meant to buffed in or feathered onto the skin. It’s much like a tinted foundation. It needs nothing glowy at all with it. I would say that I do agree that it is finicky. It needs some type of primer for sure. It is also really annoying me that the brand is claiming that it is long wearing. It is NOT long wear at all. It is not able to be built up in any way whatsoever without getting cakey. It reminds me of the flower beauty foundation, the glowy one, but lighter in coverage and texture. I do like it, but it’s not my favorite and I would never tell someone to go buy it.
It feels like dancing for your meal. Like a court jester. Those kids are doing all these performances for the rich white people and then they get donations. It feels exhausting.
is voluntourism the same thing as white saviorism? you're using them interchangably but I wasn't aware that they were unless you know, you use the voluntouring as a way to spotlight your white-saviorness. Like you could volunteer to work on a farm or a conservation project as a way to afford visiting another country, which doesn't seem savior-y to me, more of a work exchange, but if you did your volunteering with an orphanage AND took tons of pics of yourself doing it and making the kinds of sappy posts that Is did, that seems like white-saviorism. Idk probably didn't word this well but I was a bit confused as to why they were being automatically conflated.
Yeah in this case it's like two Venn diagram circles and this lives in the intersection.
@@kackie ah okay that makes sense. Thanks :)
Love the comparisons!
Wonderful video, Kackie!! Hope you and yours are having a good week. ☺️
It’s very cold and rainy here and the colors of your sweater are making me long for spring. 💐
What a video. Thank you, Kackie!
Re the whole foundation question: I don't know if it's comparable, but I have become very attached to the Beauty Blender Bounce Always On Radiant Skin Tint. I have never seen any makeup person on YT talk about this one but it's actually kind of great?? I wear it over Dr Jart cicapair as a primer and it's lovely!
(Re: Isamaya: 😬😬😬😬😬)
YES!!! I wear that all the time, it is an absolute staple in my makeup!! I rarely, if ever, see anyone mention it, much less sing it's praises...
@@lizabethfeig1705 right???
@@kayafraser3067 totally...
Thank you for this! Also- where is your sweater from?!
I think some "dewy" foundations have a tendency to sink into fine lines and pores, or dewy primers under liquid foundations. I think now that I'm 32, I just want a well moisturized face and then a bb cream, a bouncy concealer (like matte but stretchy?) And just a few areas patted down with compact powder to blur. Dewy stuff unless it's like a really hydrating cream, has a tendency to separate overall my dry patches, and "collect" in the skin flakes which looks awful.
Girl, my firmware is so behind that I'm on Windows '97.
I really need to try those kaja shadows
Yeah ya do!!
@@kackie it’s top of my list now.
Honestly I feel like the Sugar Drizzle Hypernova palette might loosely dupe the vibes of the Isamaya palette in a slightly shifted, more colorful way - Are any of the shades actual color dupes, or are the textures the same, no, but it's a purple, pink, gold, brown color story with 3 colorful mattes instead of neutrals, and a dark matte.
GREAT VIDEO, QUEEN. I loved the fact that you duped a product from a problematic brand. That could be a cool video idea in the future! Like, duping products that you already have from problematic brands/brands from which you can understand people not wanting to buy. Ex: Anastasia. Again, loved the video!
Just to explain the Anastasia thing: brand owner has a history of supporting American conservative politicians in her personal life as well s being MAYBE supportive of Russia in the Ukraine conflict. Smokey Glow has a great video on it.
Thank you!
Yeah it's SO HARD when you get into donors and shit, though. Because you can honestly rule out almost every brand and my job becomes a minefield. As a totally arbitrary line (a desperate one really) I've limited my real criticisms to the things brand owners make public on their own platforms? It's so dumb but for real like, everyone's hands are dirty at the end of the day.
@@kackie ugh, that makes sense. I didn’t think about that! Sorry.😢
@@carrot-lime oh my because liberal politics are any better. LOOK AT OUR COUNTRY NOW.
Yes I like this circle back around format
I wanted to say in general i really love the commentary videos you’ve been doing!
How does the Kosas foundation and concealer compare to this?
With regard to the Isamaya situation, can I ask why you mentioned that she's British? Is it the recent revelation of the royal brothers "fighting over Africa"?
At its height of colonialism the British empire was the largest empire in the entire history of the world so I'm sure she was just making that connection to Isamaya's culture/heritage.
The Wild Star cowgirl branding is not the issue, I know, but I hate this type of packaging, it has a very real impact on how rural America & the painful history of the West (US western states, colonized much later than the east & midwest; it's a whole sideline of us history) is perceived. It certainly makes it hard to convince Americans of the issues faced by rural people. And, while these ppl are behaving very badly right now, in general, the mental health crisis here is very real. And that's just one of many issues that are literally life or death. But marketing won't let go of this romantic notion, and it not only messes with urbanites' perception, it creates an unhealthy passion for the past. I am.not saying it's directly racist branding, but it encourages a culture built on racism & convinces people that the past was some gorgeous wonderful thing (it most definitely was not, post-invasion) worth preserving. The truth is history, but marketing like this perpetuates all the lies that have led to where we are today. Also, it is tacky ass, and very appealing to modern almost-cowgirls (vs actual working cowgirls, a different thing) who love early 00s style (they spent $150 on their blingy butt jeans & will be wearing them for a long time to come... the trend will live on here til all the beading finally falls off...)
Hahahahaha this is a hot take but I'm here for it
You sound just like my spouse who grew up raising horses in Colorado ;). Nothing will set them off more than a Denver-ite in a clean cowboy hat and new boots.
I like Isamaya as an artist . She is very creative . As for her “volantourism “
or whatever, she can do whatever she likes , people do that kind of stuff all the time , she just happened to be slightly famous because of her brand . She might eventually learn about the criticism and why it’s a sensitive issue but she is a open minded and cool person she will transform . It’s easy to Judge people because of the “ woke” culture
Big Business and multinational corporations has been “ exploiting “ other countries resources for years , deleting their wealth . THAT is the bigger picture
So out of touch, thank you for making this. This and ABH being a Putin supporter are big blows to the makeup community in the last few months 💀
Wait WHAT?! ABH is supporting Putin!? Wtf man! 😮 not buying from that brand.
See and I'm out here like ABH provides all the prize makeup for drag race. I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just like 😩😩😩
@@kackie Providing prize makeup for drag race < supporting a muderer who started a war and is trying to wipe out an entire group of people for no good reason. You would support H*tler if he, idk, provided art supplies for children in need? It seems to me that you're hypcritically calling out some brands who've "alegedly" done somthing wrong and ignoring brands you like better who "allegedly" also have done something wrong.