How do you make
yourself look beautiful? Do you wear makeup? Do you pluck your eyebrows? This
English lesson is all about beauty, and the vocabulary we use to talk about
makeup. I think you are beautiful just the way you are! However, around the
world many people put a lot of effort into looking beautiful.
Today, I'm going to teach you about
beauty vocabulary.
The first one 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
VERBS
|
NOUNS
|
Put
on
Apply
|
Mascara
Eye
liner
Eye
shadow
|
"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 cause I guarantee, do not put
mascara on one eyelash. It would almost be impossible. 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 is eye shadow. Now,
there are many, many, many different colors of eye shadow. We also get with the
eye shadow a little brush, so you can brush on the eye shadow. You can use your
finger. It doesn't matter, really. It adds color to your eyelids. So underneath
your eyelashes are your eyelids. You can paint them whatever
color you'd like. It's up to you.
So we put on or
apply mascara, eye shadow, and
eyeliner.
Now, eyeliner looks like a pencil, but it isn't. 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.
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 are puffy. There is 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.
That is all for this lesson. We will learn more about makeup vovabulary on next lessons.
Thank you.
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