Facts of the Day #15

After this weekend, I feel quite accomplished:
1. My room is clean:

you can see the floor!

2. I reorganized my makeup collection (maybe that means I'll do a makeup collection video soon!  I love watching those videos)  And I set up a little spot for makeup that hasn't been used yet and needs to be reviewed and shown off! !!! Super exciting.  I just get so happy when my room is clean :)

Organization! :)

3. I filmed several videos (5 for youtube, one of which is about this blog (and it's already up.  also, parentheses within parentheses.  OH YEAH!) and one specifically for the blog.)  And I blogged three times at least.  And I have 3 blog posts in queue, 4 if you include this one.  Because, my friends, I am typing this out on Sunday night.  It won't be up 'til Monday, but I blogged it this weekend.  So it COUNTS!

4. I've got several video ideas, which is quite good. (8 good, in fact)

5. And I hung out with friends!

6. Didn't have any homework...that's probably why I accomplished so much.  Sometimes I procrastinate when doing homework.  And instead of actually filming videos (I guess I have this thing in my head telling me I can't accomplish anything, especially not videos, while I am procrastinating) I end up surfing the webs (mostly beauty blogs and videos...hehe), playing Words with Friends on FaceBook, and obsessively checking the stats on my blog and YouTube.  That's probably bad.  Also, that was a long sentence.  (Followed by a short one.)  So yes, even if I don't have much homework, the procrastination that accompanies it really cuts into my productive time ;) (This did not make me feel accomplished.  I just thought I would let you know about my terrible horrible problem.)

7.  Oh, and have you guys ever heard of verbal vomit?  It is the BOMB.COM.  For real.  I seriously cry because I'm laughing so hard every time I go there.  No joke.  Every time.  (This does not make me feel accomplished either, I just thought I would let you know about it.  Because it's so great.)

The trouble with YouTube...

...is that it takes AGES to upload a video.  And if you accidentally make a wrong swipe with your mouse (and end up "going back" to the previous page) the whole thing is ruined.  Yes, that's right, that happened to me.  I'm uploading an unboxing video of the Walgreens box that I showed you all yesterday.  I filmed it on my camera and didn't edit it, so it is as HD as you can get.  (I didn't really realize that until I started uploading and saw the upload time.  Normally when I edit videos in imovie, it takes the HD down a notch so it doesn't take as long to upload my videos.)  So the uploader said it was going to take 500 MINUTES!!!  I gasped.  (not literally.)  So I waited around a bit, and then finally decided just to go to bed.  I set my computer so it wouldn't go to sleep in the middle of uploading and just ruin it all, dimmed the screen and the keyboard and went to sleep.  Twenty minutes later I couldn't sleep, so I decided to check on it.  And of course, it wasn't done yet.  However, there was only 200 minutes left.  But I swiped my fingers to the left to see my widgets (calender, clock, calculator widgets appear magically on a mackbook pro when you swipe your four of your fingers left to right) Unfortunately, swiping left to right with 2 or 3 fingers sends you back to the previous page you were on.  And that's what I did.  So as we speak, there are still 88 minutes until the video is done uploading, because I had to start all over.  Apparently if you download Google Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer, you can recover stalled or cancelled uploads.  And this might be just the thing to convince me to do that.  (Although I would probably just end up using one of those only for uploading videos.  Plus I had a bad experience with Google Chrome once, so I might try out Firefox or Internet Explorer.)

Facts of the Day #14

1.  It's Saturday, and I slept in the latest I have in quite a long time: 11:45.  Goodness gracious!  I thought I was going to go to bed early last night, but that went out the window once I started chatting with one of my friends.
2. I've been filming videos all day.  (well, more like for the past two hours.  Also, that's weird, because I really feel like I've been up for more than two hours...)  I finally finished editing my Katniss Girl on Fire nails, so I'll embed that below.  And I filmed two more tutorials, and I'm quite satisfied with how they turned out :)

3. I'm debating between filming an Effie tutorial now, or just waiting until tomorrow.  Or next weekend....hmmm.  I posted earlier about the look I want to do.  If I can stop being so lazy, you'll see it sometime this week!
4. I'm hoping to get at least one of the new Hunger Games nail polishes from China Glaze.  I've got my eye on Fast Track. (although I also like Luxe&Lush, Agro, and Stone Cold.  Actually, every shade except for hook & line)  If you haven't seen swatches, here's some great posts by alllacqueredup, makeupandbeautyblog, vampy varnish, and temptalia (part one, part two)
5. I definitely need to clean my room.  It's a total mess...I'm not going to show you, but my chair is covered in clothes, my bed is extremely unmade, and my desk is covered in bottles of nail polish, valentines, Disney stuff, and makeup.
6. While I was writing this blog post, this came in:

guess what it's for............. :)

Facts Of the Day #12

1. Not much has happened today, so I'm struggling to come up with facts.
2. Today on the way back from chapel (my school has chapel once a week) I saw a collage of pictures from Camp Langano in the lobby of the church.  Camp Langano is where I went this summer in Ethiopia, so I recognized a lot of the people on the collage.  I miss them!
3. Outfit of the day news:  I had a brilliant idea on the ride home today!  I like doing outfit of the day videos, but I can't really put one up every single day on YouTube because I have to upload other videos.  I really only like to put up one video a day, at least on YouTube, to spread them out.  So, here's my idea.  (and I will implement it whether you like it or not!) I will film outfit of the day videos fairly often (or at least as often as I wear an outfit I love/am not wearing an outfit I've already shown) and only show them on the blog.  Which means they'll be privated, so you can't get to them through my YouTube channel.  You'll only see them on my blog posts.  I think I'll keep them on my Facts Of the Day posts, instead of having them as separate posts.
4. Without further ado, here is my outfit of the day:

5. My mom tried to make brown sugar shortbread cookies.  They were kind of a fail, but they still taste good!

yay for the awk face :)

6. The end

Facts of the Day #11

1. I'm uploading my Effie Trinket nail tutorial as we speak.  (Unless you are reading this blog post in 2017.   In that case, it was uploaded ages ago...)
2. I'm also editing my Katniss nail tutorial!  I'm very pleased with the way my nails turned out for this look.  I think you'll like it, because I've gotten several compliments on it.  I don't want to ruin the surprise with a picture right now.  Buuut I'll put up a preview picture the day before I upload the tutorial.  (Which should be sometime later in the week)
3. I found this great new app in the App Store!  It's a free yoga app (although I'm considering buying the full app) and I really like it so far.

The free version is called Yoga and the full version is called All-in Yoga.  The full version is $5.99.  (It says that's only a promotional price for 3 days, but it's been that way for over a week.  So have no fear, you  can try out the free version for a while without rushing to buy the full version.  As far as I can tell, you get more workouts with the full version, as well as breathing exercises.  In both apps, you can create your own exercises, but those exercises don't tell you when to change poses.  Anyhoo, I think it's quite a nice way to do yoga!
4. The giveaway is a reality now!  I ordered some stuff last night (so I now have nearly everything I will be giving away) and I just can't wait.  I really love getting to talk with some people here on the blog and on YouTube, so this is a great way to thank you all.  Try to guess what the theme is.  (It's not very exciting, it's actually kind of boring.  But it lets you know that there are some really great products in it!)

P.S. I think I use way too many exclamation marks! <------ (exhibit A)  I  think that if you copied down everything I said in a day, there would be plenty of exclamation marks.  I get excited soooo easily :)  Is it too much on the blog, or is it fine?  Let me know and I can try to tone it down! <------------------ (exhibit B)

Ta-ta for now!

Well, today I'm off to Disney World!  Don't worry though, I've got a couple of Hunger Games tutorials in queue that will be up during the week.  I'm quite excited about them!  I might possibly be able to do a couple of short blog posts as updates during the week, but we'll see :)
I shall leave you with a (low quality) preview of a nail tutorial I will do soon...and you can guess what it's for :)

Short Break. sort of.

Hey peoples!
So I won't be posting much for the next week.  My school's play is this week and I'll be at practice every day.  (That's why I haven't posted the past few days either.)  But no worries, I'll get right back to work once it's over and I'll try to show off the makeup I did for the play.  Thanks for sticking with me!

Facts of the Day #1

1.  I slept in :)
2.  I worked on several videos for youtube
3.  I ate tooooo much chocolate
4. Here's some (well...two) looks I'll do videos on soon:

5. I need to do some art.  Like really need to.  Here's one of my most recent pieces:

The end!

New Years Resolution!

Hello again...long time no see.  It's been nearly a year since I last posted (although I have done some youtube videos since then.)  But the New Year is coming up, so my resolution is to actually post on this blog!  I'll be doing mini reviews of products I buy (as I have been doing)  as well as swatching older product.  I'll do favorites posts and posts to go along with my youtube videos.  And hopefully I'll do some blog posts that are just about my life.  I'm hoping to do at least one post a week, so here's hoping.  (Or resolving...does that work too?)
-Thismakeupgirl