Forget “Get Ready With Me” Videos — Kat Dennings Is Taking Us on a “Give Up With Me” Makeup Journey

When Dennings switches to using a brow pencil, it clearly sparks something — namely, concern about the mysteries of brow lamination. “What’s brow lamination? Like, I loosely know what it is, but are you — is it that you are perming your brows? If so, isn’t perming any hair very bad for it in the long run?” she wonders. “Has anyone done a study about the long-term effects of brow lamination? I’m not going to be the one to do that.” (Luckily, Kat, we have a ton of info on brow lamination right here.) 

As she completes her brows (and brow thoughts), Dennings drops perhaps her most perfectly timed line of the video: “I’m trying to value myself more by not just doing unpaid things, you know? Because you’re worth it. Whoops.”

Dennings shares that usually forgoes eye shadow and just does liquid liner, but between the beautiful neutral Makeup by Mario palette she found and the young’uns doing fancy makeup on Instagram, she just felt like going for it. “My explore page is just filled with cool teens doing unbelievable makeup. And now that I’m an old hag, it does feel a little bit intimidating, but also fuck that. You know what I mean?” I totally know what she means. “So I’m extending this darker one out towards the end of my brows in an effort to do like a [indescribable dramatic sound],” she says as she blends a rich brown shade in her crease.

After sneezing, applying liquid liner, and yelling “Papillon!” at her butterfly clip as she struggles to remove it, Dennings moves onto blush and lip color: “This is a beautiful discontinued color, of course. Why?” she laments. “Now we’ll just do some lips and just like get on with our fucking lives inside forever. I mean, I think you guys know that my preference is a stain. I like to mix usually quite a bit cause nothing’s ever quite right.”

And really, “nothing’s ever quite right” pretty much sums up the vibe of Dennings’s video. “That’s it. That’s the look. I’m very happy with it,” she summarizes. “Um, I’m not going anywhere, obviously, because everything is bad, but makeup is still fun. We can still express ourselves. Through face… pigments?” Indeed! And hopefully more #guwm videos like this.

Watch the whole droll thing now:

Kat Dennings is a beauty content treasure trove, by the way:

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