Yaeji, whose full name is Kathy Yaeji Lee, is a New York- and Seoul-based producer who makes fantastic, slow-burning house music for wearing all black and drinking Grey Goose from the bottle. Yaejiās self-titled EP, released earlier this year, is excellent and now sheās got a new song out, āLast Breath,ā with a video that doubles as a make-up tutorial.
As Lee applies a sheet mask, contours her face, and applies peachy-pink shadow, among other products, the glitchy songās subtitles reveal a more existentialist take on your typical vloggerās product application. āPlace a little bit of your ego on your fingers and slowly apply it to your kneesā they read. And later: āThis product is called Depression and it stays on for 24 hours.ā
Excited to have a new soundtrack to our makeup routine, but also just impressed with Leeās product application (what is that brow pencil with the comb on the end???) Jezebel reached out to Yaeji to see if sheād pass us her list of products (which, for the record, arenāt sponsorships.)
Here they are in order of appearance:
- EcoYourSkin Face Blanket Mask
- Sisley Phyto Teint Eclat
- Iope Compact
- Revlon Insta Blush
- Maybelline Define a Brow
- Loreal Telescopic Explosion Mascara
- Maybelline The Blushed Nudes
- Fresh Sugar (Rose)
āI wanted to create a makeup tutorial because Iāve never followed one in my life, but have always been surrounded by the obsession of it in various cultures,ā Lee writes to Jezebel over email. She says that in her tutorial she wanted to use different makeup styles she picked up from different countries; for example, the way she does her brows is Korean but contouring is American. āThe lyrics were paired with the tutorial to convey how these differing makeup methods are all the same in the endātheyāre a way for us to cover up what we want to hide.ā
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