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Liebster Award

2014-11-18T20:28:00.002+00:00

Olá meus doces!

Hoje fui nomeada pela Andreia Pereira do Blog AndreiaPereiraBlog, para o Liebster Award.
Esta nomeação consiste numa espécie de TAG com perguntas feitas por quem nos nomeia, com o objectivo de dar a conhecer um pouco mais da pessoa por detrás do Blog, e também assim de dar a conhecer outros Blogues.

Espero que gostem!

Regras:

responder a todas as perguntas que foram sugeridas.
referir o link do blog que te nomeou
nomear entre 11 blogues com menos de 200 seguidores
não nomear quem te nomeou
escrever 11 factos sobre ti
fazer 11 perguntas a quem nomeares
obrigatório informar os blogues que foram nomeados
colocar o selo do Liebster Award

11 factos sobre mim:

Sou Portuguesa mas vivo actualmente no estrangeiro, mais própriamente na Suíça
Sou completamente aficionada por coisas japonesas
Prefiro ficar em casa do que ir para a rua
Sou muito intolerante a injustiças
Adoro animais, e se pudesse fazia festas a todos os que me cruzam o caminho (sou mesmo capaz de atravessar a estrada só para poder dar festas a um animal que tenha visto)
Já tive 3 furões, mas infelizmente tive que os dar quando me mudei para a Suíça (estão com uma boa amiga)
Adoro fazer os meus vídeos de Youtube. Dão-me uma liberdade enorme de criatividade, e é das melhores coisas para mim.
Adoro desenhar e escrever as minhas próprias histórias, ainda que nunca as mostre a ninguém.
Sou viciada em tecnologia que me permita melhorar o que sei fazer com a mesma: cameras, microfones e bons PCs e programas de edição para os meus vídeos, boas tablets da Wacom...enfim... ;)
Aprendi a fazer unhas e maquilhagem por brincadeira e hobby a fazer a mim mesma. Só mais tarde tirei o curso profissional da área de unhas, e ainda quero tirar o de maquilhagem.
Tenho uma pancada quase irracional de querer conhecer a Angelina Jolie. lol

Perguntas da Andreia Pereira do blogue AndreiaPereiraBlog:

Se pudesses ias morar para o estrangeiro? Se já estás a morar, escolherias outro país ou cidade?

Já moro no estrangeiro. Se pudesse mudava-me para o Japão, ou EUA.

Para onde gostarias de viajar?

Japão lol.

Se pudesses mudar algo no teu estilo de vida o que seria?

Ser menos preguiçosa no que trata a exercícios físicos (manter-me em forma).

Como é para ti ter um Blogue?

Para já ainda é uma coisa da qual me esqueço que tenho com muita frequência. Ainda não sei bem o que fazer do meu blogue. O que devo ou não devo postar... Dá-me vontade de por todos os meus desvaneios mas ao mesmo tempo controlo-me por medo de represálias.

Qual o acto saudável que praticas diáriamente?

Todos os dias penso para mim mesma: Hoje é um novo dia, coisas boas vão chegar.

Quais são as tuas aplicações para telemóvel favoritas?

CamScanner: excelente para digitalizar qualquer coisa em qualquer sitio.

Pixlr Express: excelente editor rápido de imagem para as minhas maquilhagens e unhas para depois por no instagram.

Out of Milk: É uma lista de compras digital. É super útil para mim que me esqueço sempre de alguma coisa.

Viber: Não vivo sem este chat gratuito que ainda me permite telefonar a quem quiser de graça (desde que também tenha essa app).

Facebook: Uso-o diáriamente e várias vezes ao dia.

Japanese radio online: por razões óbvias lol.

Gostavas de fazer alguma coisa radical? Se sim, o quê?

Gostava de fazer um jogo de paint ball (nem sei se conta como actividade radical), parapente, e adorava ser saudável e estar em forma o suficiente para viver um dia como uma Lara Croft (lol).

Qual a característica que contribui para seres uma boa pessoa?

Honestidade e capacidade de ser carinhosa e atenciosa (segundo o meu namorido).

Qual aquela pequena coisa pequena ou momento que parece insignificante mas deixa-te feliz?

Poder assistir a um filme agarrada ao meu namorado no sofá/cama com a gata a ronronar entre os dois.

Quais os objectivos para 2015?

Conseguir fazer o meu canal de Youtube crescer o suficiente para ganhar um salário dele ^3^ E poder estar já a trabalhar a bom vapor por conta própria na minha área.

Conheces o meu blog? Se sim, o que achas dele?

Só o vi hoje de raspão, mas vou começar a estar mais atenta, pois agradou-me a aparência e layout do mesmo, e os temas são de meu interesse :)

Perguntas que vou colocar aos Blogues nomeados:

Tem um canal de Youtube? Se sim, qual?
Você vive do seu blogue/youtube, ou é apenas um hobby/part-time?
Tem planos/resoluções para 2015?
Se hoje ganhasse a lotaria, o que faria com ela? :)
Qual o seu maior vício?
Dá mais valor à aparência ou à personalidade?
O passado das pessoas afecta como você as vê?
Blogguer/Youtuber favorita? E porquê?
Se tivesse liberdade TOTAL de escolher o que fazer da sua vida (sem se preocupar com responsabilidades, dinheiro, dívidas, familia...), o que faria?
O que é para si a felicidade?
Conhece os meus vídeos do Youtube? O que acha deles?

Blogues nomeados!!!:

Lisiane Maia do blogue Mais Bonita
Michele Cavadas do blogue Michele Cavadas
Marbel do blogue Maquilhagem e Acessórios da Marbel
Bé Ribeiro do blogue BéRibeiro
Rozita Matias do blogue RozitaMatias Makeup&Nails
Verónica Figueiredo do blogue Beleza Sábia
Allana Campos do blogue Modah Minha
Marcilene Andrade do blogue Marcyiih
Juliane Ferreira do blogue Juli Ferreira
Heloisa Beijinho do blogue Menina em Acção
Nina Rodrigues do blogue Pretty Nina

O que acharam meus doces? Identificam-se em alguma coisa comigo? :)
Obrigada à Andreia por me ter nomeado!

Beijinho a todas!

1º Vídeo de Halloween deste ano!

2014-10-23T12:35:00.001+01:00

Olá meus doces!

Ainda não víram o novo vídeo?

Está aqui!!!

Espero que gostem!
Até à próxima!!!

Publicação FAIL de um vídeo

2014-10-19T07:46:00.001+01:00

Ontem reaprendi que devemos SEMPRE confirmar se está tudo bem com o que publicamos...
Por preguiça de acreditar que tinha corrido tudo como de costume quando alterei imensas coisas no processo de edição, ao ver o vídeo já publicado (não me perguntem o porquê, mas faço sempre isso mal o vídeo é publicado), qual o meu espanto ao ver que faltavam animações e outras coisas no vídeo... Já estava publicado...Online! Sorte a minha, que como os meus inscritos/subscritores não são lá muito activos, a única visualização que o vídeo tinha era minha, então apaguei o vídeo o mais rápido que pude, e re-editei-o... E como uma versão estava mal, óbvio que a outra versão também estava, ou seja a edição levou mais tempo, e o vídeo saiu mais tarde...
Mas antes tarde e bem, do que a horas e mal...(como aconteceu...)
Que me sirva de lição!

Fica aqui o vídeo para vocês verem!

Espero que gostem!

Até à próxima!

Dias assim....

2014-10-17T10:59:00.002+01:00

Dias como o de hoje, em que vejo o que tenho para fazer até ao final do mês, o que precisa de ser feito, mas o meu corpo não me deixa...
Preciso gravar e editar vídeos, arranjar um trabalho novo (porque o presente, mal saia da baixa é garantido que sou despedida) ou conseguir mais clientes rápidamente (não faço ideia como), fazer exercício para exterminar 15kg... E qualquer esforço que faça, seja estar em frente a uma camera alguns 40min a 1h30 a filmar, ou mais de 4h a editar no PC, ou simplesmente fazer uma caminhada de 10-15min, e o idiota do meu braço dói-me como se estivesse a ser cortado...
Não consigo perceber o que se passa, o médico anda a empatar-me desde que comecei a lá ir, manda-me fazer exames em que todos dão resultados inconclusivos ou então onde o técnico do exame é um incompetente que me manda para casa com umas marteladas no braço e sem fazer o exame marcado (aqui tudo é dinheiro...e óbvio que tinha que me calhar os carniceiros que só querem o dinheiro a entrar no bolso mas procurar o problema para me curar é que tá quieto), e o endireita ficou burro quando soube que eu ando assim há já 3 meses... Julgo que com o endireita isto irá ao sítio. É preciso é ter coragem para lá voltar, pois nunca a cura me doeu tanto...
Mas se quero voltar a trabalhar tenho que lá voltar até ficar boa... ele disse-me 10 dias... não fosse pelo pavor das dores ia já hoje (4 dias depois da primeira malha de pancada). Vou aguardar mais uns 4-5 dias e volto então para dar continuidade ao "concerto da máquina".

Hoje mais uma consulta no médico, mais umas centenas de francos para o bolso dele, para ele olhar para mim, apalpar o meu braço, ouvir-me a dizer "au" e ver-me a contorcer, preencher uns papeis, e dizer que isto leva o seu tempo...

Não sei o que sinto neste momento, se raiva desta gente, se angústia de pensar como vai ser a minha vida...
Quem sabe me sai a sorte grande? É hoje que me sai o Euromilhões! O meu canal de YouTube explode e começo a viver disto! Fico com a agenda cheia de clientes ao ponto de ter que recusar novas marcações!
É hoje!

Unhas Outubro Rosa - Mês da Prevenção do Cancro da Mama

2014-10-15T13:01:00.001+01:00

Olá meus doces!!!

O vídeo de hoje é ainda alusivo ao Outubro Rosa, mas desta vez são 5 designs diferentes de unhas.

Espero que gostem!!!

Até à próxima!!!

Pink October - Breast Cancer Awareness Makeup

2014-10-12T15:00:00.000+01:00

Hi sugarcubes!

It's been a while since I've posted anything in English.
Let me apologize for that, since I'm working with a Portuguese/Brazilian network, my priorities over my videos language are to be in portuguese mostly... But for most of my tutorials I shall always upload an english version on the very next day after I uploaded the portuguese version :) I did not abandon you my international followers.

So here's the my Pink October Makeup Inspired Look.

I hope you like it! And see you next time!!!

Maquilhagem Outubro Rosa - Mês da Prevenção do Cancro da Mama

2014-10-11T15:00:00.001+01:00

Olá meus doces!!!

A maquilhagem de hoje é alusiva ao mês da Prevenção do Cancro da Mama - Outubro Rosa.

Não é de todo uma maquilhagem (no seu todo) para usar no dia-a-dia. Mas separando cada elemento dá para aplicar para o dia-a-dia, se assim o entenderem. :)

Espero que tenham gostado!

Até à próxima!

Hoje foi dia de.... Today was a day of...

2014-10-10T17:14:00.000+01:00

...Pasmaceira total... Bem. Não completamente... De manhã gravei dois vídeos, e ainda editei um pouco do vídeo de 4ª feira que vem.
O dia está estranho, um pouco tipo...assombrado quase.
Passei o dia em frente ao PC, entre edição de vídeo, organização de ficheiros electrónicos, e cuscar as redes sociais.
Ainda tenho a loiça do almoço por lavar e arrumar, e a casa por aspirar. Hoje foi um dia de procrastinar de uma maneira produtiva... (Trabalhei um pouco, mas sentada em frente ao PC ou em frente da camera.)
Amanhã volto com coisas mais interessantes ;)

Até à próxima!

***

Not doing a damn thing... Well. Not completely... This morning I filmed two videos, and I got to edit a bit of the upcoming Thursday's video.
Today the weather's weird, almost like...spooky.
I spent most of my day in front of the PC, between video editing, organizing my e-files, and lurking on the social networks.
I still got the lunch dishes to do, and I still haven't vaccumed the house. Today was a day of procrastination in a productive way... (I worked a little, but either in front of my PC or my camera.)
I'll be back tomorrow with more interesting things.

See you next time!

Antes de Morrer

2014-10-09T16:00:00.000+01:00

Olá meus doces!!!

É pah!!! 2 posts num só dia! Pois, aqui a "Je" esqueceu-se ontem de colocar o primeiro post de hoje visível para vocês, então hoje levam com dois posts. Rsrsrsrs

O vídeo de hoje foi uma TAG que a Thamiris Brambillo me lançou: O que eu gostaria de fazer Antes de Morrer!

Vejam o vídeo para saberem o meu desejo ;)

Não se esqueçam de visitar o canal da Thamiris! É de morrer de riso!

Antes de Morrer - Thamiris Brambilla

Espero que tenham gostado!

Até à próxima!

Como definir preços dos vossos serviços de Unhas e Maquilhagem

2014-10-09T08:22:00.003+01:00

Olá meus doces!!!

Ontem fiz um video para as meninas e meninos que estão a começar a trabalhar na área de maquilhagem e unhas, e têm dúvidas sobre como definir os preços a cobrar pelos serviços que vão prestar.

É uma situação em que já me encontrei, e por isso respondo às coisas mais básicas e importantes a ter em conta no momento de fazer a tabela de preços.

Se tiverem mais dúvidas não hesitem em colocá-las ou aqui ou no vídeo, e eu irei responder mal possa, ou se as perguntas forem muitas, junto-as para um vídeo.

Espero que tenham gostado e que tenha sido útil!!!

Desafios, Room Tour e Unhas de Outono!!

2014-10-02T17:44:00.000+01:00

Olá meus Amores!!!

Hoje o dia foi repleto! Tenho um video room tour e colecção de maquilhagem e unhas para vocês no meu canal!!! Frequíssimo!!!

E hoje saiu também um vídeo que fiz para o canal da comunidade da qual faço parte que é a comunidade Kandesa, que convido a visitarem e subscreverem! E portanto, fiz um vídeo de unhas de outono/inverno :) Muito giras e fofas, mas dentro de um estilo...vá, clássico. ;)

E para finalizar o dia cumpri um desafio que foi lançado pela Verónica Figueiredo, que foi recriar um look da @indefinitemua. E eu, apesar de o desafio não ser directamente para mim, aceitei-o na hora, e este foi o resultado!

Foi uma loucura fazê-lo! Super divertido! Adorei mesmo! Caso queiram vê-lo em tutorial digam-me ;)
Estou a planear fazer umas unhas para condizer com esta maquilhagem, o que acham?

E é tudo meus doces!
Fiquem bem!!!

Novidades - News

2014-09-24T12:07:00.000+01:00

Olá a todas(os)!!!

Primeiro de tudo, peço desculpa pela minha ausência neste blog...
A minha vida tem sido um turbilhão desde que comecei a trabalhar no SPA que referi no post anterior.
Infelizmente as coisas pareciam boas demais para ser verdade.... E foi preciso eu adoecer e ficar no hospital, e sair de lá com outro problema para ver isso. Óbvio que nenhum patrão gosta de ter os seus empregados de baixa por tempo indefinido, né? Mas não vai tentar arranjar caos (e no meu caso, há caos)... Eu ainda antes de ficar doente já tinha visto e passado por coisas que me fizeram perceber que eu não pertencia ali (e as minha colegas faziam questão de me fazer sentir isso). Mas então no que se referia a principios morais de trabalho...isso é que me dava a volta... porque ali não existe isso... Elas olham para as clientes como se fossem bilhetes de lotaria premiados... E eu odeio isso! Não falam com as clientes, nem tentam sequer criar um laço com elas.. E pior é que há situações referentes a higiene ali que me faz questionar como raio é que aquele sitio está aberto!

À parte disso e de outras coisas que nem vale a pena mencionar (pelo menos enquanto não resolver isto tudo), devido ao problema que me causaram no hospital, estou em casa, com um braço (o dito problema) que não aguenta esforços nenhuns sem que me cause dores. E lá vou fazendo um ou outro video sempre que consigo. Óbvio que apesar do tempo que tenho, nem sempre o meu corpo está no seu melhor para me permitir gravar e editar os meus videos. E por isso vos peço desculpas :(

Por hoje o post fica por aqui, já que só vos queria deixar um pouco mais a par do que se anda a passar.
E em principio a partir de hoje, vou começar a usar o blog como era suposto inicialmente: para colocar fotos e listas dos produtos usados em cada video. Até lá espero que tenham paciência comigo <3

Fiquem bem!

Hey everyone!!!

First of all, I'm so sorry for my absence in here...
My life has been a true hurricane ever since I started working at the SPA I told you about on the previous post.
Unfortunately, things seemed too good to be true... And I needed to fall ill and get hospitalized, and then leaving there with another problem to see that. Obviously, there's not boss in the world that likes to have his/her employers on medical leave for an undetermined time, right? But the boss will not try to cause chaos (and in my case, there's chaos). Even before I got sick I had already seen and felt that I didn't belong there (and my co-workers made sure I felt that way). But when it came to moral and work principles...now that turned my insides...because that does not exist there. They look at clients as if they're winning lottery tickets... And I hate that. They don't talk to the client, nor create some kind of bond... nothing! And there are stuff, regarding hygiene in there makes me wonder how is it possible that that place got to open in the first place.

Asides from that and other this that are not worth referring (at least not while I haven't solved everything), due to the problem that the hospital caused upon me, I'm at home, with an arm (the said problem) that cannot support any kind of effort (strenght, movements, holding objects) without causing me pain. I keep on doing a video every once in a while, if my arm allows me to. But obviously, even though I've got plenty of time, my body (arm specifically) is not always on it's best to allow me to film and edit my videos. And for that I'm am very sorry everyone.

And the post will end here today, since I only wanted to keep you up to date on what's going on.
Hopefully in the future I will be using this blog for it's inicial purpose, wich was to post fotos and lists of the products I use on my videos. Until then, please be patient with me. <3

Take care everyone!

(ღ˘⌣˘ღ) Got a job at a SPA & About my YouTube Videos

2014-03-02T22:18:00.003+00:00

First of all... YAY for me for getting a job at a SPA!!! Weeeeeeee!!!!! *runs around jumping and laughing of happiness*

So yeah! I got a job literally out of nowhere! Started a few days ago, and I'm super happy about it! It's what I wanted to do, it's my area, and I'm doing what I love. It's a great place, really well situated in the center of the city, with awesome people working there, and the owner is the sweetest and kindes person you'll find! Very understanding and someone with LOADS of good Karma for sure!!! She helps everyone that wants to work for her! It's really great! And I can't thank her enough for the opportunity she gave me!!!
I'm really soooooooooooooooo excited!!! I'm finally feeling that my life is starting to come along and getting better each day!
I can finally lay my projects on the table and start lining up what to do next! WEEEEEEEE!

Anyhow! Regarding my YouTube videos! Before I got the job (or even known that I would get a job at all) I decided that I would have my videos up every wednesdays and fridays. So hopefully with a full time job I'll still be able to keep up with the schedule I made, with new videos every wednesdays and fridays. So cheer on me!

And that's all for today folks! And here is my latest video for you to watch if you haven't already! Don't forget to thumbs up and to subscribe to my channel! ;)

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ A few changes on my videos

2014-02-26T11:00:00.000+00:00

HI SUGARCUBES!!!!!

Yay! Lol, ok, calm down.
So today will be another rambling post, as usual, since it's mostly what I use this blog for... And I wanted to ask you guys what you tought of the lighting of my last video on youtube (the argyle nails). Dows it look better? Brighter? I used new lamps (cool daylight or so they said) for that video, and I've also used them for the next upcoming video, that will be a makeup one. I also recently got a new microphone (my sweet boyfriend gave it to me), and I've just used it for the upcoming makeup tutorial, so I hope it sounds better than the last one (I'll be waiting for your response on that everyone!).

Also, I've finally got the hang of After Effects, so now I work well enough with it to play a little more with editing my intros and such. Do you have any suggestions? (♥ω♥ ) ~♪

So anyways!
I'll leave you here my latest tutorial! And I'll wait for your suggestions and opinions on the lighting and editing of the video (constructive criticism please!!!)

Enjoy!!!

See ya next time!!

New makeup tutorial

2014-02-02T21:23:00.002+00:00

Hey guys!!!

Here's my latest makeup tutorial, made specifically for Valentine's Day.

This baby here took me a lot longer to edit for quite an amount of reasons... One of the main reasons being that I wanted to create an intro similar to a Youtube Guru (Wengie), that does the most adorable beauty videos, and she inspired me to do intros like that, and also an animated logo for myself. So thanks to that I got in a whole bunch of a work.
Then the problems with filming an editing started... the first time I recorded it, the files got corrupted while editing... Second time, I decided I should go for a green screen background, but the lighting and the camera didn't work so well, and the green turned yellow-ish, and so did my skin, so when I edited it the program could not differenciate the green background from my skin, and so parts of my skin would turn into the masked background... Meh, it's shucks I know.
Then the third time I recorded the same tutorial I tried a better green screen, new placing and better lighting... Still, no good came out of it...and all the yellowing happened again. I was about to give up seriously..
I finally got the strenght back up on the next day to film it again. I gave up on the green screen, and simply focused on making good use of a blank white wall, natural lighting that I had that day (here it's very rare to have a sunny day like that) and good artificial lighting that I had around the house (still needs some tweaks but I'll get there soon hopefully - looks wishfully at the previous blog post). And I got it filmed. It wasn't perfect due to the fact that the camera doesn't have the best auto-focus in the world, so most of the close-up footage is blurry... But it was manageable/acceptable to work with.
Then I got the HELL-of-a-pain-in-the-ass-work of editing the video, creating the effects, intro and logo on After Effects while working on Premiere at the same time... Phew, that was a huge headache for me... I never did something like that on AE... Hell! All I ever did on AE was a simple text with falling flowers with pre-done effects... So this was not only hard work, but hours of research of good AE tutorials, and a bunch of failures... BUT I did it!!! I did it ALL by myself! I didn't use a template, nor a loop background resource! Damn I'm proud of myself or what?!?!? Lol. I think you can even notice in my voice over (if you compare to the other videos I did) that my voice is more... bubbly? lol.

Anyhow!!! Enjoy the video! And don't forget to thumbs up, share and subscribe to my channel (if you haven't yet).

XoXo

SOOOoooooooooooooooooooo....!

2014-01-30T07:47:00.002+00:00

HEY guys!!!

So this time I'm comming here just to ramble about two things that I REALLY want to have right now...
First I'll explain the reason, then I'll say what I want! ლ(⌒▽⌒ლ)

So I've been trying to invest more time and learning new skills for my videos on YouTube lately, meaning I realized I don't have a good background and lighting nor a good camera...
The background is too distracting because there are too many things there (yeah I could clean it up if I had a bigger house to do so... unfortuantely I don't), and the lighting is too yellowing and weak... Not to mention the camera, that not matter what I do is always changing my skin color. And it's automatic white balance option is even worse than any other option it has... {{p´Д｀q}}

So, what I'm saying is, I found a nice kit of studio lighting here ->

Excellent Studio Lighting Kit (my personal choice between the two)

Studio Lighting Kit

And my camera of option here -->

Canon 600D

And I'm here wishing really hard that someone kind enough will help me achieve these two babies ∪･ω･∪
I'm not asking for people to buy me stuff...but I'd be really glad if I could get some help here, so I'll be linking here my paypal donation link, so people interested in helping me can contribute with as much as they what for these two objects that I need so badly for my videos improvement...
Thank you all in advance for your kindness (I'll also reply to each donor's e-mail personally to thank you).

My last days

2014-01-27T21:49:00.000+00:00

So besides uploading my last tutorial, I've been searching for tutorials myself... And not makeup tutorials. After Effects and Premiere tutorials... Very speciffic ones to help me improve my videos and my intros (that I must admit, are pretty lame).
It's very tyring, and somehow upsetting/frustrating. I'm one of those kind of persons that wants to know how to do things in the exact instant I started learning... It's not that I wanna be a pro immediatly, but I want to see immediate results from just one try... Meaning, no failure. I'm one of those people that is quite affraid of failure. I mean, no one likes failure, but not everyone fears it I guess... right?

Anyways, I've been literally wasting my time searching for good After Effects video tutorials, that's been my life these past days...
I've filmed two tutorials, and I haven't started editing them because of that...

So bare with me, pretty please, because it may take a while.

XoXo!

Here!!! A new Nail Art Tutorial (★‿‿★ *)

2014-01-21T11:18:00.002+00:00

It's been.... over 3 months I think?, since I last uploaded an actual tutorial... So sorry you all!!!

I'm still without my HD camera charger, and the other one I have, although it manages, it's not as great........ °(ಗдಗ。)°.
Meaning, recording with it will be mostly for reviews and vlogs (if you watch my latest review, you'll understand why).

It's not that it's bad quality or something... It's just that it ain't that great for close ups, and I can't see what I'm filming because I don't have a monitor facing me, like the other has... °(ಗдಗ。)°. I want my chargerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Anyhow!!! Enjoy!!!

Blah-blah-blah

2014-01-12T10:20:00.001+00:00

Hey everyone!

Today I will just be splurring out some random stuff, because I'm bored, unemployed, and have been spending way too much time alone at home, because I'm in a country where I don't know anyone, I barely speak the main language (French), and I'm just depressed because getting a job here isn't as easy as I thought at first...

So today my day has started as normal as usual... get up at 10a.m. (yeah I'm not exactly an early morning person), fed my cat, got my breakfast, and have been in front of my PC cleaning my Facebook and YouTube... What I mean with cleaning is that I'm just simply and plainly removing people I don't know at all (from my FB), remove the "like" (FB) from pages that I don't even know WHY I liked it in the first place...and unsubscribe channels that do not interest me anymore...
I know for some this may sound a lot of work, and to other it can be disrespectful to the people that I'm unsubscribing,"unfriend" on facebook, and dislike the pages. But seriously... Why should I have my feed stuck up with stuff I don't want to see? I've been getting my feed (both in FB and YT) with more than 80% of stuff that do not interest me at all... And the stuff that interest me sometimes doesn't come up in the feed because of the rest that is in there (I seriously do not understand what FB and YT have done to make this happen, but a lot of pages in FB and Gurus in YT say that most of their subscribers (around 90-95%) receive the notification of their uploads... Which is a huge bum... I mean... We subscribe and like because we like that channel, so why did FB and YT decide that only 5% of the subscribers will get the news while the rest get to stay in the dark, waiting for the new uploads???? It's a huge mess these two (FB and YT) have cause here... I find myself being one of the 90-95% of people that do not get every new upload when it's uploaded in some channels and pages... I fnd myself in the obligation of GOING to the channel/page just to see if there's something new...
And another thing about Youtube, and this I don't know if it's happening to everyone or not, is that when I go to someone's channel (no matter who it is, because it's the majority of the +100 channels that I'm following) only SOME of their uploads will be there... For example, the other day I was searching for a speciffic video of a Guru, that I KNEW she would still have it, because it was the BEST video she produced so far, and I could no find it on her channel!!! But if I made the search for it on the YouTube search bar, it would appear, and YES under her channel name... but if I searched in HER channel (in the actual search bar) it would not appear... i mean... WTH is going on?!?!?!?! This pisses me off so much!!!!

Another thing that has been pissing me off is that I've tried to open an AdSense account to this blog or for my YouTube account, and it has been disaproved because they say the link is not working, and in the e-mail where they say that, they say to solve the problem before I resubmit the application... So I sign in to repeat the steps... and when I TRY to change the link...SURPRISE!!!! You cannot change the link, because there's NO WAY TO FREAKIN' DO IT!!!! And the best part is yet to come!!!! There's no contact info to contact the staff for help! only the troubleshoot that is a good for nothing, because they do not mention the problem I'm having ANYWHERE! And in the forum, where people try to help each other out (since the Google staff could not give a crap about their users' problems) the only answer I got was that I needed to create another google account and then apply with that new google account... The problem IS that when I did that, and tried to do the application (first for YT then for Blogger) I got the notification (not allowing to proceed with it) that if I wanted an AdSense account for YT/Blogger that I should apply for it directly from their servers (YT/Blogger). And I thought...ok, since this is a new Google Account, I'll need to try and change my e-mail on YT and Blogger to make this work....... and GUESS WHAT?!?!? There's no way i can do that!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (rage laugh) I cannot change the URL in the first application I did, and I cannot ask for an AdSense account to another Google account and try to connect it to this blog or to my channel because I have to make the appplication directly from the servers... and both my YT channel and this Blog are connected to my Google Account that wasn't approved due to some error in th URL, that I'm not allowed to change for some reason that I'm not aware of... (if some of you guys know how to go around this problem, PLEASE do tell me how, because I'm freaking out with this...).

So yeah... that sums it up....
I'll go back to what I was doing....
XoXo!!!

Latest works

2013-07-25T14:42:00.001+01:00

So I've been lacking with some photos here of my works. So here are some of my latest works.

I need to REALLY finish the loads of video tutorials I have saved that just need the voice over... -_-

And there are many more on my Glitzy Nails Facebook Page, check it out, Like and Share my page :D

Plastic Surgery controversy

2013-07-03T16:52:00.002+01:00

This subject affects mostly famous and popular people, and in here I will refer to three girls, two of them are Youtube Makeup gurus (one I think didn't submit to cirgury, but people say she does... which, seriously...why do they care???) and one of the most famous blogger. I'm talking about Xiaxue (Wendy, she submited to some plastic surgeries to alter her nose and her eyes if I'm not mistaken), JLovesMac1 (Jarmaine, she did breast augmentation) and Michelle Phan (now, here I think this ain't true... and even if it is, she looks gorgeous. People say she did something to her chin... I personally think she just got thinner and her makeup skills help a lot... although it does look longer).

The point I'm trying to make here is... I really couldn't care less... I mean... It's THEIR body, their life and money. They show themselves to us, they inspire us to be pretty and to be ourselves. Being ourselves doesn't always and just mean to never change something about you. It means that if you FEEL that you can improve something about you (may it be your nose, eyes, breasts, butt, legs, weight, hair color, etc..) and if you can do it, DO IT! I'm a supporter of change when it's about feeling good with ourselves. If you change because people say you should change, then I do not approve. I've done that my whole life... I've molded myself to the patterns that people made out of me... People around me want me to be fully natural and just accept what life gives me... Well, to me, life is about accepting what we get indeed, but also make something out of that that will please us. I recently started changing my nails to a style that most people think it's ugly or witch like, and I don't care. There are people who hate it and are mean and unpleasant about it, and there are the curious people that I actually find funny, and the people like me that LOVE these nails, but for some reason don't do them themselves... Then I started tattooing my body to my liking. I made a design of two wings I wanted to tattoo on my shoulder blades when I was 16, but I never got either the money or the guts to do them... And this past January I found the money and the guts, and a really good friend of mine to do them. She nailed them just like I wanted them! Then I started my second and third tatoo this month. The third tattoo that was a really small one is already finished, and the other is still in process. I'm doing this because I want it, and because I love how I feel with these changes. I feel like myself now... And THEN I dyed my deep dark brown hair into a baby pink color. I feel like a doll! I feel like myself...
And let me tell you... If I had the money like Michelle, Jarmaine and Wendy to make some plastic surgery on my, I would do it! I would change my nose (make it smaller and with a nice cute curved bridge instead of the crooked one that I have), I would change probably my maxillar bones to be more slender and feminine, and would shorten my chin a bit. And I would definetly alter my body slightly.
All this rambling for what? Simply for the fact that I don't get WHY people get so upset if Youtube Gurus, Bloggers, famous people get plastic surgery... We use makeup to enhance natural beauty and also to hide things we dislike about ourselves...
Altering how we look like comes from WAY back before us... Remember the Victorian dresses? They reshapped women's figure completely, they would shave their heads to wear silly white wigs! They would pamper their faces white! Even men did that!!! I mean... It's natural human behaviour to want to look nice, to look to certain standards...
Some people want to look like models... Other people want to look like dolls... Let them BE! It's WHO they are!!!!
Why get so upset about that? Why rage about it and attack or mock or even bully because of that! Everyone's different. We're individuals. We're FREE! Free to do what we want with ourselves. If it does not affect your life, why bother getting angry about it??? Seriously...
I just don't get it... -_-

Lack of work...don't you just hate it?

2013-07-01T17:04:00.000+01:00

I mean, if you have a contract with someone and you get to receive your payment with or without work to do, it may be fine... boring but fine... Now when you work by self employment like I do (I'm a Nail Tech/Stylist and Makeup Artist) it's a whole different story...
Especially when throughout your years of work, most people you've co-worked with made your life a living hell, made you lose clients, money... I mean... It's not easy like this... Through these past 3 years and a half that I've been working as a self employed Nail Tech and Makeup Artist in salons getting paid by commission, I've crossed some salons where I just could nt fit in... For some reason, even though my work was good, no client would complain (on the contrary, they would compliment my work), the owners would want a higher percentage from my work, while I gave my time, fuel and my equipment and products. I gave them a 30% of my total income each day, without them doing NOTHING. Meaning, that while I worked and they didn't, they still would get 30% of what I got... and they wanted 50%!!! Like, HELL NO! You want that, you PAY the products, you get the equipment for me to work with... If you don't accept that, then it's 30% and I'm doing you a favour!
Then when I finally found a nice place, it shut down due to lack of clients...
THEN I went out of city, by my own cost, to a company that promised good income, a contract and commissions over the contract, and after almost a month (where I spent all my money on transports and food, and luckily I had a friend that let me stay at her house), they just gave me the commissions, and no other help, nor the contract they said they would give me... and let me tell you... I received two day commissions... Meaning, I spent more than the double than the income I got... And when I confronted them, they argued I was a horrible professional and got me off of the boat... This taught me to never EVER trust anyone...
Recently I found a salon at my hometown that accepted my requirements of work, but even though it's well situated, it seems that the finance crisis is really bad around here, because I have close to no clients.. So Im here, at the salon I've been for the past week and a couple days, doing this blog post, because, REALLY, I have nothing else better to do here...
Also I made a promotion sale of my work, doing the 1st aplication with extentions for the price of the maintenance (meaning that instead of making the nails for the minimum of 35€ I'm doing them for 15€... less than half of the price. I know I'm losing a hell load of money for a lot of work, but I'm hoping this will call the clients eyes). And still... no clients... -_-' This is sad, frustrating...and boring as hell... (I've been say "hell" a lot on this post... damn I'm frustrated...)

The other thing that is also getting me frustrated is that a friend of mine that hasn't seen me in almost a year, told me I'm too fat... -_- Now I'm frustrated... Like, yes, I know I'm 10kg heavier than I should... And yes, I know I need to workout and eat healthy... I started with the healthy eating already... I just need to feel the strengh in me to start the workouts... And I should walk more, and leave the car on it's place... I know, I know... I'm actually VERY lazy, and I shouldn't be... I WILL workout, just dunno when, but hopefully it will be soon enough ^^; hopefully... ^^;
Right now, due to my tattoo on my tighs I can't force my leg too much (besides the pain of stretching the skin, it can damage the tattoo and the skin), but in a week, I think, I'll be ready to do normal exercise with no pain, and without damaging either the skin nor the tattoo.

God damnit... I really got to put myself together and workout like a beast if I want to look like a beauty. I was never skinny to begin with, although I always envied my skinny perfect friends... And GOD how I hated when they would go like: "I'm so fat..." or "I'm so ugly..." in front of me. Seriously!!! You want/need people to tell you you're pretty and skinny when you already know that or do you have such bad vision it distorts you???? You KNOW you're skinny, and you KNOW you're pretty... Why do you say you're not???? >.<'
Anyways...
I hope I don't be like that once I lose (at least) these 10kg...

Wish me luck guys!!! :D

Sooooooo freaking long

2013-06-30T02:41:00.000+01:00

Yes, yes... I know...
But it's not like I've been having any feedback here...
I keep my facebook pages active with makeup and nails. But my Youtube's channel has been a little put on the side. I have a few videos to edit, but I've been so damn lazy...
And recently I've re-discovered Xiaxue's blog, and I actually find her interesting and quite amuzing. I like how she's so frontal and honest about stuff. She's not even affraid that people will be mean to her. On that I got to admit I look up to her. And she's so cute!! (yes, I know she's done plastic surgery... I don't care. She's cute anyways. And if I had the money I would too...). She's somehow someone I wouldn't mind being lol. Seriously. I'd LOVE to have a life like hers... And to always have something to blog about (now that would be awesome to me)

So I've recently took the decision I should lose around 10kg... Yes it's quite a bit to lose just like that. I've found Blogilate's Youtube channel, and she's AMAZING! I got to say that I tried starting with her June calendar, but I almost DIED! I mean, I felt so weak and almost fainted at the third day...which was sad, and actually made me cry, because I realized how badly out of shape I am... My muscles can stand most of the pain the exercises give, but my lungs and heart somehow can't. It's obviously because I don't eat healthy, and yes... I should. Unfortunatly, healthy ain't always cheap (surprisingly, unhealthy is SO cheap it hurts...).
I'm trying to eat less carbs, and more proteine, more vegetables, a drink more water. I stopped drinking milk (I actually feel better without it... I should have stopped a long time ago). But I haven't yet composed myself from feeling sad about myself and get up and start the workout again. Cassie (blogilates) made a Beginner calendar for people like me. I already downloaded it, and I should just start it... But it seems I'm lazy enough to find a new excuse everyday to postpone the workout... Either "It's way too hot today" or "I just ate" or "I don't have time" or "it's too late"... Like, SERIOUSLY!!! I want to get thin and sexy and all...but apparently I don't want it enough? -_-
What do you guys (that workout, and had extra weight like me) did/do to keep yourselves motivated and to go against natural laziness??? What tactics (lol) did you use on yourself to not give excuses to yourself to not workout? What do you suggest? (and yes, getting up and move my fat ass is a start I know).

And right now it's like 2a.m. in here, it's 20ºC and even with a fan turned on I can't sleep coz it WAY too hot... geeez....

Oh!!! And tomorrow I'm going for my second session of my leg tattoo. I'm doing a bridal leg lace (or whatever it's called). It's SOOOOOO CUTE!!!
I'll post photos of it soon, and also the video of it being done. I think I'm kind of getting addicted to tatoos? I'm going for my third tatoo already, and I did my first in January... and believe me... it was the ongest 6h30 of my life of a tatoo (2 wings - one white other black. Yes, there's a meaning to it. But not going to explain now... maybe later.).

Also I've recently, and FINALLY found a hair stylist that agreed to dye my hair in a pastel color of my own choice. None here in my hometown accepted to do it, because I have long hair... Like... seriosuly???
And since she didn't have purple nor pink, I got violet (an in between both colors) on my old four colored hair. Yes, four colors... why? Because one year ago I dyied it myself in black, with a drugstore dye... worst thing EVER! Then later on December 2012 I managed to dye it in a cinnamon color to try to make it a whole color...not done well.... Then my hair stylist of that time bleached the ends of my hair (I think it's called the Callifornian Hair, or at least in here it's what t's called), and THEN I found my actual hairstylist that accepted the challenge of bleaching it all and turn it pink. Let me tell ya...it was HELL!!! That damned one year old black dye didn't want to leave!!!! I have all my hair (roots and where I first bleached and applied the cinnamon color) going from ash to platinnum blond (or white if you prefer), and the area where the black was still stuck on is of a light gold... The violet color looks like a mix of cotton candy pastel pink strands with some deep lavender on the roots and golden pink on where the black was. It actually looks nicer than what I thouht it would look like. But it'll look better next time! I'm going to order some Manic Panic dyes, and bleachers so I can keep my hair color and roots myself. Also I need to restock so good keratin products for my hair, good conditioners and shampoos...so yeah... ^^ It's going to be a little expensive, but totally worth it!
I feel like I came out of a fairy tale or something like that! I finally feel like I am ME with this look. It makes me youthful and cute, and with a brighter aura somehow. Which was what I as aiming for. And if you ask me, yes, Xiaxue was my main inspiration for this. Not the only inspiration, but probably the strongest. Thank you girl!

Aaaaaand I think I'll stop writting for this post...
In a few days I'll post more stuff and updates on my hair, tatoo, nails, makeup, and maybe, JUST MAYBE, an OOTD. ^^

xoxo!!!
See you next time!!!

It's been a month and a half since I last published (〃￣ω￣〃ゞ

2013-04-14T18:08:00.002+01:00

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I know I promised myself I would keep this blog updated more often, but I actually didn't...
I went on a two week vacation for the first time in 3 years of work, and went out of my country also for the first time. I went to visit my boyfriend at Switzerland.
It's BEAUTIFUL!!!

Everything there was so magical and beautiful... I was just astonished (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

And most recently I've been working with Hollywood Nails at a cosmetic exposition, the biggest in Portugal. I was AWESOME! I just loved it. I got to meet and work with great professionals, and I also met a lot of nice people there.

The Hollywood Nails team

And the nails I've done to the exposition.

Everyone loved them and took pictures, it was so crazy!!!

Now I'm back home, and I'm resting a little, because tomorrow I'll hve to travel again, to take some courses on lashes extensions, and some other courses on nails, so I can start working at the Hollywood Nails academy as a Nail Instructor!!! I'm so excited!!! I've always wanted this!!!

I already took the nails off, because I completely ruined the nail art over the expo while working on other people's nail demos.

So here's my new set of nails now... I just LOVE them.

Well... That is all for now folks!
I won't be posting any ne tutorials for now, because I'm without a camera...so I can't record them...

But I'll try to not forget to keep this blog updated with nails and some makeup looks!!!

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New makeup tutorial!

2013-02-28T19:36:00.002+00:00

New tutorial: Makeup for Glasses!!!

Been struggling that you use glasses and you want to wear some fun, quick and easy makeup even through you use glasses???
Here's one tutorial for you!!!

I may do some more later.
Hope you like it enough to subscribe and thumbs up this video.