Is it wrong to ask for help?

Hello, beautiful :)

Today I wanted to ask you a question. As a blogger, there are certain things that are shunned upon, blogger bashing, false reviews, being full of yourself, not being apart of the community and other things like that. So my question to you is.

Is it wrong to ask for help?

This is something that I have been thinking about for a while and was very afraid to do anything about it.
My plan is for my Blog and Youtube channel to grow and I want to run it full time, This is something that has been a dream of mine for a long time now. Truth being told I had to actually talk my husband into me taking on this venture. He isn't big on social media and me being out there in the internet world. So This has actually been a year in the making before I posted anything. I had to make sure my household was going to support me and to be honest, he supports me even though he doesn't like it.

So getting back to my point is that, this has been very hard for me to get going and I have been scrimping and scraping all that I can to get it going and it has been great, to me anyway. He still doesn't see it. But he is on board. Now, my problem is I have kids and filming during the day is impossible, thats why most of my videos are filmed with music over them. There is a lot of footage of me stopping my eye makeup to deal with the kids and a lot of me yelling down the hall. This has become very discouraging for me and there have been times where I have just turned off the webcam and walked away with a half of my face done. either something had to be done or the sun went down and I lost my window to film in decent light.

I really want to be able to film at night without a problem, when the kids are asleep and the day is done.
I want to be able to turn on the lights and film without the worry of my coloring being off and whole video wasted because everything is washed out. Right now I film with a webcam and its ok for reviews and tags, but tutorials or GRWM videos are almost impossible to do.

I went to the site gofundme.com and I set up an account. This website allows you to place your need,want,wish, etc. You set a amount you need and generous people make donations to your cause. Which is really a great idea, but I chickened out and didn't put the link anywhere for fear that people will not like the idea of my asking for help.

A blogger friend of mine set one up and when I saw it I wanted to cry, she had the guts to do something I didn't. I went to her account and tried to give what I had in my paypal, but I had less than the $5 minimum.
So I couldn't donate to her. Which made me feel even worse.

So my question to you is, Is it wrong to ask for help?

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Things that ticked me off this past week

Okay, So we have made it through another week and here we are with another ticked off thursday.
You may be saying to yourself, hmm she gets ticked off a lot. I do, sometimes things just tick me off and I want to tell you about them :)

Things that ticked me off this past week.

I have noticed that my blog growth has slowed down since I have become more active, which makes no sense. When I did post as often, people followed more.

I also have a problem when I film my videos, it really takes alot out of me and I cant film with ease, but who does film with ease?

My editing software keeps crashing as I am doing more intricate stuff with my editing, so I had to switch to a better program, but its the free version and I cant afford the full version yet.

I signed up with gofundme.com to get some help in getting a better camera for videos and a lighting setup, but I chickend out and didn't post it, so it sitting on the website awaiting me to post it.

Now that I have though of these things I am ticked off again!
What has ticked you off this week?


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How to get your blog seen on mobile devices.

Did you know that not all mobile devices can view your blog properly? Images over lap, words go off screen and worst your images can block your entire post! So today we will be talking about,

How to get your blog seen on mobile devices.

If you have ever been into the Template section of blogger you will notice a section that looks like this.

The section on the right titled mobile shows you what your blog will look like on a mobile device.

Now this is fine for blog post and pictures, but Google Adsense doesn't like this very much.

The reason is that the ads get distorted in mobile view and don't look very pleasant and then Adsense tells you, you're site isn't optimized for all browsers. Why is this important to you?

Ad Impressions.

Every time your ad gets seen even if its not clicked you get paid, not  a lot, but still paid.

So the advertisers want these ads seen in a good light, not in a oh, my goodness, why wont this get out of my way? Kinda light.

How to Optimize your Blog for all browsers.

Go into your template section of blogger.

Click the Gear Icon under the Mobile Section.

On the pop up menu select the "NO" Option.

Click save.

Okay, so what we have just done is changed our blog view to its natural state, ads, links, widgets, etc..

You can test this from your tablet or smart phone.

(Note) I personally adjusted the width of my blog to 1200 for the main section and gave 400 for the side bar.

Special thanks to Jamie, my Daughter for the lovely Graphic for this post!

As always if this has confused you in anyway, Contact me :)

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Just let it go...

The other day was one of those days where I felt like I was pulling teeth. I took a shower, Exfoliated, moisturized, plucked my brows, dried and styled my hair and was ready to put my face on.

I sat cross legged in front of my mirror with all my toys in front of me, palettes, Primers and brushes.
So I did what any makeup junkie would do I dove right in. If you know anything about me its that I never plan any of my looks, they just happen and what ever colors draw my attention those are the ones I work with.

I got to the point of choosing a crease color, I choose a nice taupe matte shade perfect for a crease/transition shade. No good, it wouldn't blend, so naturally I got nervous, thinking something went wrong with my palette an it dried up. Nope, it spread fine on my hand and felt velvety soft on my finger.

I couldn't figure it out, so I wiped away all traces of what I started and began again this time with a different crease color from a different palette. No good, same result. It felt like I was rubbing fine sand on my linds.

I couldn't figure it out and by  the third try I said, Laurie, Just let it go...

Sometimes our faces or timing isn't right for a full face of makeup and on those days you should pamper your face with a good exfoliator or a nice mask and that is just what I did.

Have you ever had a day where you just couldn't get a look going and had to let it go?

Here is a video of me and my Girl masking it up, enjoy :)

We are currently asking everyone for questions, so that we ca answer during filming so enter them down below:)

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Urban Decay SmashBox MC2 Palette Matte Comparison

Hello, beautiful!

Today was a lazy Sunday, I didn't sleep until 7am and I was just in a blah mood, so into the shower I went.
The shower felt great and got me in a good mood, thinking about what to film and which product I wanted to blog about today.

I dried and flat ironed my hair, then it was makeup time and let me tell you, no matter how I tired I couldn't get a look going. I used the Naked Basics Palette and the Smashbox Master Class Palette, now if you can't get a look out of those two palettes combined, then something is wrong! So I literally tried three times, meaning taking it off and trying again! So I finally gave up and said not tonight.

Heart broken I began to pack my toys away and was trying to figure out why my shadows wouldn't blend or stay put on my eyes, I noticed that the Naked Basics Palette and the SmashBox MC2 Palette have the same colors and I wanted to compare the two palettes against each other.

As you can see they are very much alike besides the second color from the left.

With a touch test they both feel nice, but Naked Basics feels velvety but dryer.

They are all matte shades and as you can see The Naked basics is way more pigmented.

The MC2 Palette Blends a lot easier.

The MC2 Palette has 28 shadows, 6 blush bronzers and 2 highlighters, as well as four gel liners.

Naked basics has 6 shadows total, one of which is a shimmer used for a brow highlight.

I love both of these Palettes, but for some reason NB is very hard for me to work with in regards to blending. I find myself reaching for the SBMC2 Palette more.

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Your Blog and the Google Adsense Privacy Policy

Okay, so I have been place adsense ads on my blog since the beginning of my blogging. And I have to admit those are some ugly freaking ads, but they help keep you in the game.

Recently I noticed that they weren't there anymore, just a blank space where the ad should be.
I was confused and worried, but I didn't get an email saying I was an evil doer or anything like that so I let it go and said it will fix itself, well it didn't.

I searched Google for two days and send them an email and they sent me to Google Groups which is like the mother of all message boards and anything that has ever gone wrong with Google is there, if your toilet won't flush while you're using chrome there is a  forum about it.

Ever wonder why you always see things on the sidebar of a blog or YouTube that either interest you or have something to do with a recent search you did? Well this is what Google adsense uses in form of a cookie and they aren't the only ones that do it, any form of advertising online is done with a cookie involved. Now we all have the option to disable this feature at anytime, but to cover the law Google and you need this Privacy Policy stated somewhere on your site or blog.

Anyhoo, come to find out Google and all their wonderment has a Privacy Issue that needs to be addressed anywhere their ads show, Blogs, websites, etc..

Google Says:
"You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your user’s browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management."

Update: 23 March 2009 
We have now updated the Google Adsense Privacy Policy Generator to include a mention about the DoubleClick DART cookie, which is now required by Google to be included in your privacy policy.

You can read more about the DoubleClick DART Cookie on the following link ... https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100557&sourceid=aso

So the only way to fix this is to do two things depending on how you have your blog setup.

The two steps depend on whether you have your own domain name or blogspot.com

If your domain ends in Blogspot.com

Create a Privacy Policy Page.

If your domain is personal .com

Create a Privacy Policy Page. And let Adsense know the new domain, apply again it takes a few days for the ads to be back up.

There is a site that generates a Privacy Policy for you and its pretty easy, I used it myself.
You can see my Privacy Policy here http://www.themakeupsquid.com/p/privacy-policy.html

You can either copy or paste mine and change what is needed, I added shareasale because they didn't give me the option to add it to mine, so if you are showing banners for someone else you have to list all of your advertising sources.

You can visit the site with this link http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/

If your are having problems with your ads showing on your blog, there has been some confusion on the interwebs about this. If you recently switched to a personal domain name other than blogspot.com you will have to let adsense know that is was switched over.

I hope this helped in some way, If you have any problems or just need help let me know in the comments below or any social medias.


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Gifts from SikGlam!

Hi, Beautiful!

I tweeted about a week ago about needing a new camera for blogging and filming, as you know I have been using my phone for blog pics and a webcam for YouTube. Today I got a package from the beautiful SikGlam from http://sikglam.blogspot.com/ . It included a camera the Nikon CoolPix 885! Now, I know it's a older model, but something is better than nothing! Now for the Surprise!! Not only was my new camera inside a H&M bag, but there was also a Victorias Secret silver clutch filled to the brim with goodies! Full size, deluxe samples and regular samples! I can't believe it! There is so much in here that, I am going to share the larger items with you for right now :)

Items Courtesy of SikGlam

TIGI BLUSH IN LOVELY

TRIPLE C-WEED PRESSED POWDER IN QUIET & STILL

L'OREAL PARIS COLOUR RICHE IN

MATTE OF FACT & MATTE FOR ME

TRISH MCEVOY BEAUTY BOOSTER SPF 15 LIP GLOSS IN PRETTY PINK

CHANEL LIPGLOSS IN 166 AMOUR

I am so Excited to try these out, I received a lot more skin care items that I will post up soon!

Thank you SikGlam for the lovely Gift and I can't wait to meet you one day soon :)

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