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

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

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

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....!

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

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 (★‿‿★ *)

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

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!!!