Sunday, October 25, 2015
Dateline Debut
Well this really has nothing to do with brains, beauty, or bods but it is pretty cool. This week I made my Dateline Debut. Now you may have to get out your magnifying glass to see me but believe me I am there! For those of you who do not know I am in New York City this semester doing an internship with the murder mystery show Dateline. It has been such a great experience and this is the first time I have been on a big shoot with the show. Host Lester Holt was even there. Of course there were tons of on-lookers and some could not help but gawk at the camera. So they asked another intern and I to sit on a bench behind the host and play tourists. I am there on the right looking at something.
But it was one of the coolest experiences of my career so far. You can not see very well but the shoot was in the middle of Times Square. We started setting up at 2 in the afternoon, getting the lightning and and angles just right. Then around 7 that night Lester Holt walked on the set and he and the producer started working together to get everything just right.
For weeks we have been working on a story about Johnny Hincapie, exploring the possibility that he may NOT have been one of the several responsible for the attack and murder of an Ohio family on the 7th Avenue platform. The story is great and really worth watching. It is not on the Dateline website yet but here it is. I really suggest you watch it and leave me some comments on what you thought about it. I will put up the link to the official Dateline story as soon as it comes up. And when you watch it just know I am there in the right hand corner and got to experience a big production with an amazing company!
For weeks we have been working on a story about Johnny Hincapie, exploring the possibility that he may NOT have been one of the several responsible for the attack and murder of an Ohio family on the 7th Avenue platform. The story is great and really worth watching. It is not on the Dateline website yet but here it is. I really suggest you watch it and leave me some comments on what you thought about it. I will put up the link to the official Dateline story as soon as it comes up. And when you watch it just know I am there in the right hand corner and got to experience a big production with an amazing company!
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Friday, October 9, 2015
The Infamous Winged Liner Solved
It's taken awhile but I'm finally making good on my promise to you in my post about the "Infamous Winged Liner". I gave you some tips and tricks (even though I'm still struggling with it myself) and promised you a picture of my own winged liner attempt. So here it is:
As you can see this time I chose to go with a nice, thin liner. But honestly I've seen lots of techniques in many Youtube videos for this but they always end up saying sometimes you just get lucky. And that's exactly what happened to me this time. I got eye liner lucky and I'm not mad about it! As always (because I'm not as good yet) I line the lid of my eyes with just a regular black eyeliner pencil then just use my liquid eye liner pen to wing out the edge. Like I said before, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Next time maybe I'll try this really thick look. It's almost Cleopatra-like. This seems to definitely be the look you get when you use gel liner.
But I have been trying many different brands and types of eyeliner on my quest to find my perfect one. The one I seem to like the most right now for a thin liner is L'oreal's Infallible Blackbuster liquid eye liner pen. I love that it has almost a sharpie thick end and is pretty hard to take off (so Lord forbid, you won't cry it off). This liquid liner goes on really smoothly and if I ever make a mistake a wet q-tip will do. Or you can even just go back and adjust it since this liner just goes on so smooth and precise.
Now I've used Mac's liner before and you can see that the tip of this one is just way more skinny. For someone not as experienced as me, that just makes it really hard to control. That just basically means you have to really know what you're doing or get it right the first time because it is hard to adjust and correct with this thin brush. Also this liner dried up on me quickly. I had it closed for about a month and when I went to go back to use it it was already dried up. So maybe if liner is your specialty this will be perfect for you. But I have not given up on the gel liner and brush. I am still practicing. Hopefully when I get good enough I can take another picture once I've mastered it and post it on here for you guys. Hopefully by then I'll have some tips and tricks of my own to share for mastering that gel liner. Until then just know I understand the eye liner struggle. Because this couldn't be more true...
As you can see this time I chose to go with a nice, thin liner. But honestly I've seen lots of techniques in many Youtube videos for this but they always end up saying sometimes you just get lucky. And that's exactly what happened to me this time. I got eye liner lucky and I'm not mad about it! As always (because I'm not as good yet) I line the lid of my eyes with just a regular black eyeliner pencil then just use my liquid eye liner pen to wing out the edge. Like I said before, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Next time maybe I'll try this really thick look. It's almost Cleopatra-like. This seems to definitely be the look you get when you use gel liner.
But I have been trying many different brands and types of eyeliner on my quest to find my perfect one. The one I seem to like the most right now for a thin liner is L'oreal's Infallible Blackbuster liquid eye liner pen. I love that it has almost a sharpie thick end and is pretty hard to take off (so Lord forbid, you won't cry it off). This liquid liner goes on really smoothly and if I ever make a mistake a wet q-tip will do. Or you can even just go back and adjust it since this liner just goes on so smooth and precise.
Now I've used Mac's liner before and you can see that the tip of this one is just way more skinny. For someone not as experienced as me, that just makes it really hard to control. That just basically means you have to really know what you're doing or get it right the first time because it is hard to adjust and correct with this thin brush. Also this liner dried up on me quickly. I had it closed for about a month and when I went to go back to use it it was already dried up. So maybe if liner is your specialty this will be perfect for you. But I have not given up on the gel liner and brush. I am still practicing. Hopefully when I get good enough I can take another picture once I've mastered it and post it on here for you guys. Hopefully by then I'll have some tips and tricks of my own to share for mastering that gel liner. Until then just know I understand the eye liner struggle. Because this couldn't be more true...
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Faux Bangs
Thought about spicing up your hair look but don´t want to make the permanent commitment of cutting your hair?? My thoughts exactly. So I dove in and started doing some hair research. Now I´ve never used extensions but I am really thinking that faux bangs are the way to go to add a subtle difference in your hairstyle from day to day. I´ve seen some examples of it and it seems with the right color you can´t even tell it´s not your real hair. It seems easy enough to add with hair down or even a romantic curly ponytail could do the trick.
If you´re not sure how to apply them here are some instruction from a professional:
Now as far as a good brand to use, I watched the video below and they seem to look the most real. The brand is Bellami and the clip in bangs cost $54.99. Bellami has 13 color matches, so pick one out and sport your new look for Fall!
If you´re not sure how to apply them here are some instruction from a professional:
Now as far as a good brand to use, I watched the video below and they seem to look the most real. The brand is Bellami and the clip in bangs cost $54.99. Bellami has 13 color matches, so pick one out and sport your new look for Fall!
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