12 Things I learned in 8 months of Blogging.

Okay, so I have been here for a while on the interwebs in the blogosphere and I think I learned some stuff, not much but enough to cover the law and call myself a blogger. Some people say I have accomplished a lot in my short time, however I feel different, like I haven't accomplished enough.

Maybe thats just me, I tend to dive into things and what to absorb every aspect of it in the shortest amount of time. I have many different passions within my life, but blogging is on a whole other level. I wanted to blog since, well a long time around 7 or 8 years ago, but life had other plans for me. So here I am all blogged out with three blogs to manage, one of which is a blog I write on when I am angry with my husband, but as you can see isn't very often. So on to this post.

12 Things I learned in 8 Months of Blogging.

1. No one in your personal life will understand why you blog.

Your family and friends will all ask " why do you blog?" and my favorite "have you made any money yet?!"

Don't do it for no one else but yourself.

2. There are people out there.

Once you find your niche you will come to find out there are a bagillion other people doing the same exact thing you're doing, so sticking out like a sore thumb helps.

3. The Beatles were right.

When they sang  "I get by with a lil help from my friends." You will make friends you never thought you would have while blogging.

4. Privacy? Whats that?

In order to make it as a blogger even a lil one like me, you have to allow people in. They don't want to be preached to by a robot. They want a real person, a person that wakes up at 12 pm and tweets Goodmorning!

5. Shy guy no fly.

You have to get involved, even if it only in online events, trending topics, talk to the weirdos of tweeter, they know people!

6. Regret or forget.

If you have an idea, write it, record it, tweet it, pin it. Just do something with it, if not someone else will.

7. Rat race.

Everyone is trying to do what you are doing, so why not help a fellow while you're on your way up.

If you learned how to do something share it.

8. Ch, Ch, Changes!

I love that song! Don't think you have to stick with one type of look on your blog, You like to change your clothes everyday right? well your blog likes to be spruced up a bit too.

9. Friendly inspirations.

In a slump? Good that means your doing something right! When you're in a slump, go blog hopping, YouTubing and you will be inspired when you least expect it, especially from blogging friends.

10. Pictures speak a thousand words.

Use your own damn pictures!

11. Watermark everything.

This is on account of number 10.

12. Take advantage of the word free.

Anything thats free and available online master it, image editors, button generators etc.

There is more but I am tired now and this laptop is burning my thighs, so I am going to make some sleep now. If you would like me to continue let me know. Good night.

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And Now, Something Completely Magical

Hello, My Beauties!

It's Friday and am so glad easter is upon us! I can finally have a drink of soda, pop, cola or whatever you call it in your parts of the world. I gave it up for a few months, but I have to admit I am watering at the mouth just thinking about it. 

Leigh Ann over at Blushing Beauty asked the question as part of the worlds largest beauty collab!

If You Could Have Only One Makeup/Beauty Item What Would It Be?? 

After some thought, which I am not going to lie, I got a little nervous! I mean how can you make me choose between my babies! I love every product in my collection drugstore, high end in my eyes they are all equal.

So narrowing it down I chose The L'oreal Magic Skin Beautifier, I am in the color medium. 

And Now, Something Completely Magical

This thing is truly magical, it goes on white with little purplish specks that you can feel and it is pretty watery.

Once you start applying to to your face it changes color and blends with your skin tone.

Once blended in it immediately erases flaws and enhances your skins appearance with I am not going to say a blurring effect, but more of a softening effect. 

I personally use this as a face primer before foundation and it gives me the perfect results!  

Thanks Leigh Ann for the great question, Now its my turn to shoot out a question to the beauty world!

Question: What is your favorite makeup brush and how do you use it?

In Response to Leigh Ann at BlushingBeauty

If you would like to be apart of the Worlds Largest Beauty Collab All you have to do is:

1. Create a post answering my question.

2. Leave a Link in your post to the questioner ( Example in response to: Blogname.com)

3. Ask a question at the bottom of your post. 

4. Copy this  Highlighted text and paste it at the bottom of your post for others to join in.

5. Come back to this post and type replied in the comments with a link to your post.

I created a button so you can feature your post :)

Thanks for visiting! I hope you join us! xoxo

Urban Decays Shining Star

Hello, My Beauties!

First of all I want to say, I can't believe that I got a response so quickly from the Lovely Michelle Andrea over at Discoairglow.com. How cool of a blog name is that haha! Anyhoo She Asked:

Question:What are/is your favorite versatile 

neutral eyeshadow pallette(s) and why?

After reading this question and saying it a loud, only one thing came to mind. 

The Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette.I mean look at it, it screams sexy, don't you think?

You can create a bagillion looks with it and never have the same look twice, you can use these shadows at liners and lip colors. Now I know everyone is on their Naked 3 Rampage, But I personally feel you can go a lot further with this palette and still be in the neutral zone.

In the words of Austin powers fasha "I love Gold!". haha :)

So, I am asking the Question to anyone who wants to join in on the "World's Largest Beauty Collab!"

Question: What's the deepest Red lip color you own and why?

If you would like to be apart of the Worlds Largest Beauty Collab All you have to do is:

1. Create a post answering my question.

2. Leave a Link in your post to the questioner ( Example in response to: Blogname.com)

3. Ask a question at the bottom of your post. 

4. Copy this  Highlighted text and paste it at the bottom of your post for others to join in.

5. Come back to this post and type replied in the comments with a link to your post.

I created a button so you can feature your post on your blog :)

Lets keep the Conversation going!

Andrea You are too sweet, Thanks for the kind words. I hope this picks up and doesn't confuse people!!

In Response to Michelle at Discoairglow.com

The World's Largest Beauty Collab!

Hello, my beauties!

I was sitting here going through twitter and other social medias and I noticed that everyone is either recommending either a recent post or their blog in general. And I got to thinking, how is it that we can all be able to help other bloggers get the views, comments and follows they want or lets face it need.

Then I thought, what do we have in common? Makeup and beauty. 

Okay, Now how do we communicate? Through our blogs.

 LIGHT BULB!

The World's Largest Beauty Collab!

Now, this isnt a tag, because lets face it, I think we are tagged out and we pretty much see that same answers everywhere!

This is going to be an actual Conversation on a subject we all love! Makeup and Beauty!

If you would like to be apart of the Worlds Largest Beauty Collab All you have to do is:

1. Create a post answering my question.

2. Leave a Link in your post to the questioner ( Example in response to: Blogname.com)

3. Ask a question at the bottom of your post. 

4. Copy this  Highlighted text and paste it at the bottom of your post for others to join in.

5. Come back to this post and type replied in the comments with a link to your post.

This way I have to come to your blog to respond with a post and this will go on and on and it creates a chain reaction. No tagging, anyone can respond to anyone, from anywhere in the world! 

Just make sure to leave a question at the end of your post concerning the post.

Ask your followers to be apart of it too! Just copy and paste the highlighted text above at the bottom of your post, Lets do this!

Here is a button to feature your post on your blog!

So how about it? Are you in?  Great lets begin!

Question:  What brand of makeup do you have the most of and why?

Can't wait to visit your blog and read your awesome answers!

Also if there is anything you think we should add to this let me know!

How I Prep my Skin for Makeup

Hello, Beautiful!

I am so happy that this bad weather is finally behind us and I can wear my tube tops again! I am a big tube top fan, I pick them up whenever I see them. With the summer fast approaching and watching the Coachella events on T.V and social media I have to admit, I got the fever! 

The looks that some celebrities wore to this event inspired me to create a Bohemian endless summer look. But before any product touched my face I knew I had to prepare my face to get that true endless summer look. 

How I prep My Skin For Makeup

I have combination skin and I mean combination, I have oily or shiny moments in the T zone, then absolute desert dryness on the sides, especially under my eyes, it is something I am struggling with. My eyes get severely dry and it shows up with fine lines and wrinkles.

Something similar to this! haha.

Looking at me naturally you can see them, but when I apply makeup or concealer for my dark circles anything and everything finds their way into the cracks of my eyes, so I have learned a few tricks to help.

I learned that it is not the concealers job to fight my fine lines and wrinkles, its mine!
I have to hydrate that area. No matter what I plan on applying in that area it going to enhance those lines they are to deep to cover. So hydration is key here.

I apply 2 oils and 1 eye cream and so far its helping, no not a miracle, but its better than nothing.

As far as the rest of my face I do apply my serums, anything I can to keep my skin hydrated especially before makeup, thats when the truth comes out! Your makeup will move on oily areas and completely flake away on dry areas.

I put together this video showing you how I prep my face for makeup.

Here are some pictures of the Bohemian Endless Summer Look I created after I prepped my face. I will have a tutorial on the hair and makeup for this look up soon. 

Click here to see if it's ready  My YouTube Channel.

I cannot wait for summer! So excited. Thanks for stopping by Xoxo

QOTD:

Are Bohemians Hippies?

Beauty News Network - SkinCare

Hello, my lovelies!

Another episode of Beauty News Network went up and I am super excited about this one. This episode talks about skin care, with summer right around the corner how can we not talk about skin care!

I featured three amazing women in this video, Kallie from But, first Coffee, Laure Lee from her youtube channel and Veronica Gorgeous, I think I miss spelled her name twice in the video, so sorry, it was late and I was blinded by old age hehe :)

This video contains information about Acne, Blemishes, Exfoliation, Moisturizers and a segment on DIY recipes that can even harm are worsen your skin as well as DIY recipes that help and heal your precious skin. This is a video I put a lot of research into and hope you enjoy it!

Beauty News Network - SkinCare

I hope you like this weeks episode which includes a QOTD that I would love your feedback on!

How to get rid of background noise in your videos

If you make or watch YouTube videos, then you know how annoying it can be when background noises interfere with the quality of your video. I am going to show you how to remove the noise from your videos using a free software called Audacity,
which can be downloaded on their website http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. 

How to get rid of background noise in your videos

Here is a video showing how to remove noise from your videos in just a few clicks.

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