Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers

Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers on youtube. Top Beauty bloggers have the Best Lighting and Video Equipment for filming youtube videos. This is all the lighting and video equipment I use disclosed in this post. Check out my mini studio!

I’m sharing everything I use in this post, “Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers.” I would like to mention that I purchased all of the lighting equipment, camera, camera lens, MacBook Pro, microphone, studio backdrop items myself and nothing was given to me from any companies! I researched and asked other successful beauty bloggers what they were using for their videos, these items were the most common answers of the blogger who had the nicest quality and that’s what I use to film and light my beauty videos. With all the items listed below, you can have the perfect lighting and video quality for your own beauty blog or youtube channel. I have been getting a lot of questions what I use for lighting and video equipment on my videos as comments, now I have this nice article to share with my subscribers!

 

Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers, let’s start with Beautiful Lighting!

I’ve been asked “what type of lighting do beauty gurus use?”

The lighting equipment that made my videos look professional and illuminated my skin to look flawless is this Stellar Photo/Video 18″ CFL Compact Fluorescent Ring Light This is the single most important lighting equipment for my beauty blogs. By far, this is the best quality lighting out there for beauty bloggers besides having the luck of having perfect natural lighting available. This lighting equipment makes everyone look radiant without casting any harsh shadows onto your face, a “soft focus” look. I went with the artificial lighting equipment, so I could blog in the comfort of  my office. The unique benefit of this ring light is it’s perfect for up close up tight shots of makeup, especially eyemakeup because you place the camera in the middle of the ring and you have perfect soft lighting all pointing towards your face. You can always spot beauty bloggers that use this light by looking into their eyes, the light makes their eyes sparkle and look illuminated as well. This piece of lighting equipment by Stellar is also known as the “Diva Light.”

The next set of lighting equipment I use is called a “Hair light” and a “soft box set” it’s the Photo Video Studio 2400 Watt Softbox Kit by LimoStudio. These are for the sides of your face and hair. I use them with my  Ring light as mentioned above. When all of these lights are used together, you get gorgeous soft white lighting all around you! The two soft boxes , one for each side of your face, ensure the perfect crystal clear lighting. I also want to mention this was easy to set up. I use this for many photo shoots too!

 

Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers, Camera

I’ve been asked “what type of cameras do beauty gurus use?”

I use my Canon Rebel T5i DSLR Camera. This is a great quality camera for photography and making youtube beauty videos. You get a nice crisp image and there’s a small flip screen so you can watch yourself while you’re filming! Pretty helpful when you’re filming a beauty video and you need to make sure you’re looking proper in the video!

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Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers, Camera Lens

I’ve been asked “what type of lens do beauty gurus use?”

The camera lens I use and prefer is the canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens. This keeps you in focus and gives the background a beautiful soft blur.

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Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers – Product Photography – Makeup

I get some pretty amazing up close macro shots of lipstick, eyeshadow palettes, makeup brushes – you name it. The lens I use to achieve these high quality images you ask, Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

Here’s the Canon EF-S f2.8 Macro USM lens I used: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens

Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers, Sound

I’ve been asked “what type of microphones do beauty gurus use?”

The Blue Microphones Snowball iCE Condenser Microphone, Cardioid is the best equipment to capture sound. This microphone can also use this for narrating your beauty makeup videos!

Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers, Backdrop

Notice my lavender/purple backdrop? This is my favorite color and I love having it for my backdrop for my youtube videos and photography. It’s a paper backdrop called Orchid Seamless Paper. I purchased from Backdrop Express.

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Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers, Video Production

I’ve been asked “Are beauty bloggers MAC or PC?” MAC wins the majority vote!

I prefer doing my video editing on my Apple MacBook Pro 15.4 inch with Retina Display. It’s not too big or too small. I comfortably sit on my couch and edit my videos. My MacBook Pro is very stable and a joy to edit my videos on! I also use iMovie 9.0.4. to edit them with!

Thanks for reading Best Lighting and Video Equipment for Beauty Bloggers.

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Cell Phone Ring Light

If you’re making lots of quick videos on snapchat, youtube, and instagram, this cell phone ring light is a quick fix. This one is the most popular. It makes your skin look smooth and flawless too.

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XO

Jen