LadyGang - LG QUICKIE: Stopping At The CVS with Kristina Ambartsumian

Episode Date: April 18, 2019

Keltie is downstairs as Becca & Jac welcome another one of their make up stylists who talks about her journey through the industry, as well as gives her tips on the best products and worst styles! Follow the podcast on Instagram @theladygang and email Jac, Becca and Keltie at [e-mail]! And check out the TV show page's official page @ladygangtv! Check out new episodes of the LadyGang TV show every Sunday at 11:00 only on E! And thank you to today's sponsors:  Amazon = Go to amazon.com/shop/ladygang to find their favorite products while keeping the podcast FREE!  Higher Education = Use promo code LADYGANG at checkout to get 20% off your first order at HigherEducationSkinCare.com  ThirdLove = Get 15% off your first purchase at ThirdLove.com/LADYGANG  Walt Disney World = Now’s the time to find your “Happy Place” here at Walt Disney World See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey guys, the following podcast is a Lady Gang Network and Podcast One production, which means it's going to be awesome. Podcast One presents the Lady Gang, the Hollywood girl posse with Lady Gang Quickie. Here's Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jack Vanek. Let's make this quick. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Lady Gang Quickie. We are here with special guest, makeup artist extraordinaire, Christina M. Bartzumian. She is makeupbychristinak on Instagram.

It's Becca, Jack, and Christina. Kelty is downstairs doing her interviews for Lady Gang TV, and we have taken over the podcast. A.K.A. her closet. Yeah, we're in her closet again, and she's going to absolutely hate this episode because we have no structure, so hold on for the ride of your lives. Hi, Christina. Hi, guys. Welcome, girlfriend.

thank you you've probably seen christina all over our instagrams yeah i've been working with christina for like almost five years five years yeah yes so she's been doing my makeup for five years and then i kidnapped her for lady gang and made kelty use her and now kelty won't use anyone else either so she's kind of the bomb diggity she's a staple how did you guys meet do you want tell the story um do you want to start it i'll start it so um there was a salon in la that had like hair and color and cut and all that but they had a separate salon for like day of makeup like kind of a blushing like a glam lounge yeah okay so like if you had like a wedding or something you can go there yeah exactly a wedding or an event or whatever um and i went for an event

to get my makeup done a couple times i had a few different girls and then i think it was leah who suggested that i go to christina yes and so i requested christina and um yeah i just it was different than anyone else had ever done my makeup we fell in love we fell madly in love okay so tell us a little bit of your story so my story is that i mean before i started um getting into makeup i was working in the fashion industry i went to fit them i did i was a fashion design major and then i worked for like different companies and i wasn't really feeling it and then when i was about 26 i got a job working for laura mercier and then um like a mall or like a corporate job yeah at the mall like at bloomingdale's counter manager so would you be

doing people's makeup or you're just i would do be i was doing people's makeup but and then i lived in dc at the time so and then when i moved back to la i decided to go to school i went to mud and then i just kind of started from there i started freelancing for nars and bobby brown and then from there i started working at the salon where i met becca at and then from there i went to espn and then um just kind of worked my way up from there yeah so she does makeup like every single day for a different tv show so she does lady gang and um fair game fair game with Christine Leahy um yeah who also goes to Sherry the same hair person so it's like this weird we're all connected we're all gonna morph into the same blonde yes we're all the same person

same makeup same color yeah um okay so you like have always been super artistic yes but like why do you think you're so much better than every other makeup artist Well, I don't like to say it that way. I say it. I mean, it's kind of true. Yeah. Like, what do you think sets you apart? I definitely like to pay attention to how I just finish things, you know.

I'll take my time to, if I see something that I, like, don't like and I feel like I didn't do my best at it, I'll definitely go back and correct it. Like, maybe not like them, but I'll keep looking at the face and see what I can, like, change or make better. and then but I just you know like my main thing is like eyebrows too because I feel like eyebrows really frame the face and skin I'm just major on skin I'll take my time when I apply the foundation because I really want to make sure like it looks like super smooth and no texture and I don't want to see any like spots or makeup gathering for foundation what's your tip on application to make it smooth do you use a beauty blender I do use a beauty blender but sometimes I'll just use a beauty blender just by itself, but then sometimes I'll use like a brush too. I love like the It Cosmetics

brush. It's a foundation brush and it has a concealer brush on the end. That's one of my favorite brushes, but it's like a nice like buffing brush also, but just kind of depends. You know, I think it depends on the person too or what foundation I'm using. So, but sometimes, like I said, I'll use the brush or I'll use the beauty blender or I might just use a beauty blender by itself. But there's always a brush somehow comes in, especially like around the nose area or around the eyebrows, like where you want to kind of get into those little corners and make sure everything is like even. So don't put it on with your hands like I do. Never. I do it too. Do you ever use a beauty blender? Yeah. If I'm really taking my time, but if I'm in a rush, I'll put it on like

moisturizer. It's so bad. I literally, I take it in my hands and I like rub it. So it kind of gets thin and then I kind of just smear it on my face. You know, it's so funny when I worked for NARS and I was a freelance makeup artist there. So they didn't have any foundation brushes. And the way that they teach you how to apply makeup, they want you to use your hands. Really? And I was always so against it.

Ew. Well, just your fingers are dirty. Yeah, well, your fingers get dirty, especially when you work like freelancing. I mean, you're seeing a lot of people a day and you're constantly having to touch people's faces. So I was never okay with it. So I would always like go and like take a foundation brush

from like another counter and do it without them watching. And I would have to use, like, the little makeup sponges, like, at the makeup counters that I hated. But that's all I had. So that's all I had to work with. So if you're going to go into a, like, CVS, Walgreens, like, pharmacy, what is that? Drugstore? Drugstore. Drugstore.

What items are you willing to buy, like, makeup-wise? If you're on a budget, what are your favorite things? Well, and also, there has to be a couple items that, like, when we did our podcast with Afton last week, they're like three of our favorite things were from drugstores like sometimes the drugstore brands are better than the regular brands so this is really funny this was about a week ago and i was doing my morning workout at orange dairy before i was going to go to my fair game and i literally like came to me while i was doing my treadmill run that i forgot all my face brushes at home so i was like oh my god it was like early in the morning so and i had to go to fair game

right after so i went to cvs i was waiting for them to open the door at 8 a.m and i bought four foundation brushes that saved the day and they were for all from elf cosmetics so that's a good brand though yeah they definitely have really good um brushes i don't like their makeup i've tried their eyeshadows before and they break really easy and they're not um they don't have a lot of like pigment but i think if you were to go with the foundation l'oreal definitely has good foundations. Um, Maybelline has like a good concealer. I mean, there's just different stuff, but like, you know, you can always buy lipsticks. There's that one brand Milani. They have a good, um, bronzer brand. Yeah. So, but if I was just, if I needed like three things and I

had to get it at the, um, drugstore drugstore, it would probably definitely be a L'Oreal foundation. and then i'd probably do the maybelline concealer and then i would need some uh lips so i guess i could do oh well most drugstores now have uh nyx oh my god they're i like they actually have a lot of good stuff lipstick is is the best yeah that's what i found today did you yeah they're like four bucks voluminous mascara oh yeah of course that's what we use every day is that the pink one the gray i have switched up my mascara you have yes oh i've been using the uh benefit cosmetics i forgot the name but better than sex no it's not the better than sex it's a black bottle and has like these little studs you remember you thought it was like a valentino mascara but i've just

been noticing sometimes with the l'oreal like i felt like it was coming down into the concealer and stuff especially if you have long lashes and um i don't think the benefit cosmetics one does that but it's a really good mascara yeah what do you think about eyelash extensions on girls are you pro or against against why um i just think that they will not think but they do damage your lashes and i have really good lashes like becca has really good lashes and i just don't believe like you should i mean because ruining your lashes is just bad because what are you going to do how are you going to grow them back you know and i mean if you put extensions in your hair you're to have to keep doing it right and when you take them out like your hair's not going to feel the

same it's going to be the same with your lashes but at least with hair like hair grows way faster than you know lashes do and there's so much more hair on your head than there's actual lashes on your eye right and i mean for me it's such a big deal like i could just put some mascara on and leave the house and i feel like my eyes can look really good and i just would never i i always tell people like don't put lash extensions it's not worth it no i've heard they're uncomfortable too You can't wash your eyes. All I want to do is rub my eyes. The Lady Gang.

Question. What is your best slash worst celebrity makeup experience? Name names. You don't have to name names. I'm just kidding. Or you can. Who was like the rudest or... Well, you do a lot of brides.

Yeah. I don't think... I mean, I guess the coolest experience was when I did Justin Bieber. oh yeah what did you do on his face he was gonna be on tv yeah it was just like a little bit of like concealer um yeah like concealer tinted moisturizer and a little bit of bronzer it was like nothing big it was just because he was going to be on tv and so it was like a quick like five minute thing was he nice to you he was very nice where'd you do it at his house no at the montage oh because he like lived there right in orange county i think no beverly hills beverly hills

everyone sees him walking around the montage in like a bathrobe all the time yeah he probably just stays there when he wants to do you remember he lived in calabasas and he got kicked out of calabasas because of all his like parties or whatever back in the day yep and i think since then he's never owned a house in la or like he always lives at the montage something like that i don't know so he just pays a thousand dollars a night to just like stay at a hotel yeah i would that's the life right heck yeah so do you know what your worst experience is with somebody um i haven't had any bad experiences honestly with makeup i mean i've definitely had brides have always been good i've never even had any bride problems but i've had like

annoying bridesmaids that's for sure oh i feel like the bridesmaids get really crazy or annoying mother-in-laws or mom i can see like a mother-in-law or a mom yeah for sure what's your best advice for brides my best advice for makeup to prep yeah like if a bride is getting married in x amount of months well you know i'm getting married yes so what are the better questions what are you doing for your face i mean i'm not doing anything um like special i am using proactive right now are you just because i feel like it really clears up my skin even though i don't really have any issues but yeah i just feel like it just makes it like look a little better um as far as like i mean preparing for it obviously i suggest botox if you're getting

any wrinkles or lines not if you're young but if you're starting to see any sort of like wrinkle appearance on your face and you're gonna be a bride take care of it moisturize your skin because i see a lot of dry dry skin you do moisturize your lips i wear a chapstick all day long i have it with me when i go to the gym i have it by my bed i have it in my purse i have it when i drive like i'm applying chapstick all day yeah because there's nothing worse than like seeing like chap lips you know you want to see smooth skin moisturized skin and moisturized lips yeah but again yeah botox so just i mean just the basics for me you know as long as you take care of your skin like i don't think you have to do anything extra what about like for glam on the

day well you know what my favorite look is bronzy pretty no dark eyes no overpowering lashes i love doing the individuals because i just feel like it looks so much prettier and more natural like you don't want to look like you're extra extra done up because you have to realize that or remember you're going to see people during the day and you don't want the sun shining on your face and you look like you're just caked with makeup on that's the thing i find a lot with with brides is that they're doing so much glam and they're putting on so much makeup that it looks great in photos and it looks great at night but like you're standing a lot of the time in broad daylight natural sunlight saying your vows across from your husband you have a strip lash and you have

like a strip lash and like a crazy contour on makeup that's the thing that i think of every time i see a bride like he's probably terrified looking at you well especially yeah girls that don't usually wear that much makeup yes and then also i guess you got to think that like maybe not lean in too far to trends and stuff because you're going to be looking at these yeah hopefully the rest of your life or what's your least favorite makeup trend right now how do you feel about like the weird um eyeliner that they're doing at the crease of the eyelid with a liner like a cut crease but like with like different like neon colors and yeah i mean do you mean like a line on the or just like you're like they're basically doing like a cut crease so

it's like into the crease of it's almost like a design yeah like and it's like in these neon colors i mean look i think the whole purpose of makeup is to make us look better so if you want to look like artistic or you're going to be in some like photo shoot or runway go for it you better put a put on a whole costume with it then you know right but i feel like if you just want to look pretty then why would i want to do that i just don't think that makeup's pretty it's not my style you know like like i said it'd look really cool in like a photo shoot or editorial or runway or something like that or if you're just like going to like edc or something you just want to pop some neon colors on and look a little like unicornish or something i don't know

yeah do you do a nose contour because we had a huge discussion about this before because what was the nose well because i saw this picture i forget who it was but it was something that kind of looked like me but she had like the nose contour i was like why are we nose contouring me she's like that what this girl has in this photo looks terrifying in person oh yeah like you can do a little bit but like you could tell it was well so there's obviously different ways of contouring right so you can do with cream and powder and then you can do cream and powder on top of each other or you can just do powder so for highlight i use like the concealer and i just use like a lighter color and i don't do a lot like i'll do it in like small little areas and i just

blend it out with the concealer but for the nose when i contour becca or kelty i always just use like a light bronzer color like i use hula and there's a new lighter shade of hula that i like to use and i just like it because it looks more natural and you still see like a contour but it doesn't look scary in person it doesn't look like wow this girl has like a lot of makeup coming down her nose because i have seen like heavy contours in person and i don't believe they look good like you can pull that off nighttime if it's darker but during the day like it's not cute so it's not my style i like that trick that you use which with the lighter concealer versus a highlighter so i feel like i see a lot of girls using a highlight in places that would look better if

it was just a light concealer yeah because they're like glowing they look like a light bulb like the whole face is like lit up so christina does this thing where she goes down my nose and under the eyes under the eyes and like up to my middle of my forehead and a little bit in the chin and then like right over the cupid's bow yeah like where you would naturally want to put highlight but like not a lot like a little just a shade lighter where you wouldn't even notice it so just sort of like and that's that's like um recently Chrissy Teigen posted a picture from an airport bathroom and she was like mid highlight or uh concealer and she had stripes of like really really really light concealer under her eyes and like kind of through her cheekbone and like that's how you get

that weird Kardashian like dimension right but that's like I think what girls are using highlight for which they shouldn't be i mean you know it's just yeah it's just whatever you want to look like i guess and you could do that like i said if you want to do a heavier highlight again during the day it's not going to look that good if you want to do it at nighttime like go for it that's true you better set it really well too with powder set that translucent powder ish that's too confusing for me that's true i can't do it i can't even put foundation on my face at all no stop using your hands also i'll buy you a brush yeah get her a brush elf cosmetics has a really good um like buffing brush for foundation done cheap but by the way they totally raised their prices too

i mean they did they used to be like that brush used to be like three five dollars and then when i bought those four brushes that day i spent like 30 31 dollars at cvs and i was like what they just know that i'm buying their shit yeah i recently left my makeup in la and i was going back and forth from palm springs to la and i had to go out to dinner after work one night in palm springs and i literally had no makeup other than makeup that they put on me for the movie and i'd been in it for like 10 hours and so i was like i have to wash my face i have to reapply but i have no makeup i went to cvs and i had like a shopping spree of makeup and i feel like i got some really good stuff what'd you get yeah yeah i never know what to get i did obviously

the l'oreal mascara yeah the cover girl like stick for concealer under the eye is really good the milani bronzer yeah it's like a bronzer highlight blush trio uh-huh was really good and then i did just like a really simple uh like bronzy eyeshadow palette from i think it was l'oreal but like it was pretty decent you know you could have just used a bronzer or highlighter i I mean, blushing for your eyes, too. That's true. I do that a lot. Yeah, Christina uses a bronzer a lot on my eyelid, which I like that trick because it's kind of like...

You can use highlighters on your eyes. You can use them underneath the eye, and then you can use a bronzer in the crease of the eye, too. I mean, you can use it anywhere, but they're just pigmented powder products, so it's going to work. Honestly, probably the same thing as eyeshadow. And it's not as dramatic as an eyeshadow. It's kind of like an in-between. a little tip that i like if you just want to do like an easy like you know what you were just saying you went to cvs and you had to buy a few things if you just buy even like the foundation

or whatever or like if if you didn't get foundation what you can do is get like a liquid or uh like a cream um blush which would look great if you want to do something really quick because you can literally use your hands to blend it into your cheeks and if like you know like you said like you didn't have much time and you didn't have anything with you so that's a good thing to buy so like a cream product product yeah like a blush because then you can use it on your lips too multi-faceted products all right so uh one last thing if you were stranded on a desert island deserted deserted deserted island dipshit if you're deserted you're on a desert island eating dessert um if you could have one product one makeup product only what would it be

uh my anastasia or my brow is yeah from anastasia oh i used to use that or the benefit one yeah i like them like both equally the same actually but anastasia taupe for me is like my favorite i mean it's a good one that was my one yeah the brow is do you have your eyebrows microbladed or no she just smells good she's got that good armenian hair i know um all right what one product would you splurge on what's worth all the money foundation um yeah definitely foundation you have favorite which brand i've been using the armani right now which i was kind of always like for i used to use it way back in the day and then i stopped liking it because i thought it was like just moving around a lot on the face but then i just recently started using

it again and i've been loving it and i started using their concealer too which i love also great worth it and i also love the charlotte tobery concealer too she has but i've been like really enjoying this armani concealer right now great all right well this was our makeup session with makeup by christina k on instagram you've seen her eight million times mentioned on our stories yeah christina with a k um so follow her she always posts beautiful makeup pictures And we weren't here for a long time But we were here for a good time That escalated quickly

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