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Jacob and I moved into our new home in Nebraska, we went on a cruise, and I got a new studio set up! In this episode, I talk about what I ve been up to in the past month and talk about the things that have been going on in my life.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome back to my channel where everything is different.
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As you can see I have a new studio set up. I have some twinkly lights behind me which I had
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in my last space and I also have some new flowers and candles and a perfume and pictures and things
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like that. I'm so excited because I really got to have creative control over my background
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and before I was just shooting in my guest bedroom and trying to make that work. I'm so
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excited to be back because so many things have happened in the past month. Jacob and I moved
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which I talked about in my last video. We also went on a cruise. We toured around the British Isles
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so I figured I would do a little bit of makeup, get ready with me, show you some discount things
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and a few new things and then also talk to you guys and just tell you where I've been,
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what I've been up to. So as you can see I have nothing on my face so we're just gonna start
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So the first thing I'm going to do is go in with an old favorite. I'm gonna go in with
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the Boscia Perfecting White Charcoal Mattifying Treatment Primer. Longest name. I actually got
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this in another discount makeup video and I've been using it ever since. I love it. It really makes my
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makeup last all day and it doesn't allow any of my natural oils to peek through which is super nice.
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My skin is combination so I have oily spots and I have dry patches but this kind of evens it all out
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which is odd because normally a mattifying primer would be bad for dry patches. I don't have that
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issue with this so that's really nice. And the next thing I'm going to go in with is my L'Oreal
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Infallible Foundation 24-hour fresh wear. Jacob and I made the big move to Nebraska which is so crazy to
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think about and it was really nice because my mom and my dad came out and helped us unpack and then
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Jacob's mom also came out and helped us put everything together. It was just really lovely because our
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families really helped us out with the move. Moving cross country really hard. It's really different
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than just moving from one place in a city to another place because you have to make sure everything is
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wrapped really really well since it's going to break in transit. Like there's just it's just so far to
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drive that things are just going to get jostled and if you write fragile on anything it's still going to be
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at the bottom of the pile. Don't you worry. So yeah I was really taking my time and packing
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everything up while Jacob studied for the bar and it was not easy. I am not the best at packing or
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unpacking. I'm really good at like organizing my house but putting things in boxes and trying to
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figure out which the which is the best place for each thing not so much. But we eventually made it
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here and I wrote about it in a blog post and I kind of was saying how crazy things were during the
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move. We had a truck driver who like couldn't make it onto our street and so we had all of our stuff
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and we didn't know if we could get it into our house even and Jacob was really amazing and he like
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worked it out with the company and they drove up and eventually made it onto our street but it was a
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really tricky moment. Thank goodness it all worked out. So we got here and we moved in and I have my
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own studio which I'm so excited about. I have all this space to play with and I'm really happy that
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I can actually like go in my area, go in my space and make my videos and just have complete creative
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control. That makes me really excited. We got here and moved in and within a week of moving in here
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we actually went on vacation to the British Isles. We did a cruise. It was my first cruise ever.
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It was so much fun and you know I think a lot of people do cruises with family. They will get
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everyone together and go and I can see how that would be so much fun. It makes me want to do that
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now but at the same time Jacob and I just went alone and we had no internet. We had no phone connection
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and we just got to spend time together totally not distracted and that was really amazing and I highly
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recommend doing it more often than we do, right? Like take time and just get off the internet. Get off
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social media. I love social media. I have fun with it. I'm really happy to be able to communicate with you
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guys and talk to you and it's really fun but also it can be really distracting because you're with someone in
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person and you kind of want to see what people are up to online and that's a very complicated
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mixed up kind of feeling. The next thing I'm going to do is some color correcting under my eyes and then
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I'm going to go in with concealer. Normally I would do color correcting before foundation but I forgot
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so I'm going to do it now. I'm using the Revlon Photo Ready color correcting pen and then I'm going to be
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using the Maybelline New York Fit Me Concealer. So one of the things I did while we were traveling
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is and this is something my sister recommended to me a long time ago and I have been doing it ever since
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and I'm so happy that I do it which is that I keep a journal when we travel and I write down everything
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that we did because I know I'm going to forget and I also know I'm not going to take pictures of every single
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thing that we do so I like to write it down and then look back a few years later and be like oh yeah I forgot
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that that kind of small random thing happened but that was really funny but it was just so much fun. We went on
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Celebrity Cruise Lines and we had an indoor cabin. We didn't even have a window which I thought was
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going to drive me crazy because I really I like thrive off of natural light. My husband says I'm
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solar powered and so I was like a little bit worried about it but the cabins are huge. They're so big I
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didn't feel kind of claustrophobic at all. The only thing was that on the flight over oh here's the
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story friends but before I tell it I'm just going to set my under eye and my face so I'm using the
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Bare Minerals mineral veil for under my eyes which is a loose powder and then I'm going to use the
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Neutrogena shine control powder all over my face. So Jacob and I were at the airport in Houston for our
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layover and we decided to get something to eat. Okay normal decision seems like that should be fine
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right? Not so much. We got on the plane and we're watching Jumanji which is hilarious really enjoyed
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it but all of a sudden I was feeling really nauseous and I do tend to get nauseated when we fly or when
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we travel anyways but I'll usually take Dramamine and I got C bands for our trip by the way highly
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recommend super helpful. As we were watching Jumanji I was getting more and more nauseous and I ended up
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having food poisoning and then that for some reason turned into a cold so we got onto the cruise and
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within a day or two I had a really bad cold and then it resolved in about three days which I was very
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very happy about. It didn't last the whole trip but you know it's not great to have a cold while you're on
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vacation. Okay so we have our base set and now I'm going to do my brows. So I'm just going to be using the
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LA Girl Brow Pomade in soft black. Yes I have black eyebrows and I'm going to use just an angled brush.
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I apologize if you can hear the lawn stuff happening outside but I'm just going to keep talking.
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Now I'm going to do my contour bronzer and my blush and I'm using these two little travel size
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Physicians Formula Butter Blush and Bronzer and I got these in a really cute little like travel size
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bag that they were doing a promotion for at CVS and it came with a perfume which as we all know
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Butter Bronzer has the best scent. I have brought these with me while I was traveling and it was so
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useful because they're so small but they're also great quality. And then I'm going to be using my
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Milani Baked Bronzer and I'm going to be using my Anastasia Glow Kit. Throwback for my highlight.
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So we started off the cruise. We actually flew to Amsterdam and originally we were going to walk
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around Amsterdam for a bit but I had the fever cold food poisoning situation so we decided to just get
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on the cruise as early as possible. We went from there to England. We went to Dover and we saw the
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White Cliffs of Dover which are stunning. And we also saw a castle there. What is it called?
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Dover Castle which was really cool. And if you've ever seen the movie Beckett which we did a review of
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go check that out. I'll link it down below. The castle that Henry II built is actually the castle in
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Dover. I didn't have the best time in Dover overall just because I still had a cold and it was really
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rainy and cold to be expected I guess because I've heard that about England. But it was also not like
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most exciting city or town. It was a coastal city and it was really fun but it was not as exciting as
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other places. Suggestions. Cruise suggestions. Let's put those out there. Shore excursions. Shore excursions are
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really really expensive. We did one and it was really fun and I'm glad we did it but it was also
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really really overpriced. I don't think that I would have necessarily paid that much generally but
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they make you feel like oh if you do this then you'll for sure get back on the ship and if you
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don't do it with us then you probably won't and I don't think that's true. So we did one tour that we
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actually just got at the port. So we did that in Inverness and it was that was like one of my
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favorite days. We did a tour of Loch Ness, Cawdor Castle which is the one from Macbeth. We stopped in
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Buley and it was just a gorgeous incredible tour. I actually bought that jacket that I've been posting
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pictures of for my new blog post on what to wear while you're traveling on a British Isles cruise.
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I bought that in Inverness and it is like such a cool jacket. I love it so much and I wore it the
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rest of the trip. It's also kind of lightweight which is really nice because that means I can put
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a light jacket underneath it and it'll transition for the different seasons which I like too. I also
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got that really cool like stag pin from Cawdor Castle so that was really cool too. While we were
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on the ship we also went to a bunch of the quiz shows. They were really funny. So one funny story
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there was one day that the ship was rocking back and forth horribly like tilting side to side
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and I was super nauseous nauseated as you may have guessed but I didn't want to miss the events
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because they're really fun. So Jacob and I went to a show that was like the newlywed game but I was
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super nauseous and I really wanted to do it with him. I thought it would be really funny because we
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are basically newlyweds who are about a year and a half into our marriage. But as they started the
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show it turned into what I would describe as very sexualized and the two of us were very grateful
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that I had been too nauseated to participate because for the rest of the cruise you saw these
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three couples that were chosen and you were like I know too much about your life. I don't really want
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to know this but that's all I can think about every time I see you. So it was probably for the best.
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We also did a bunch of whiskey tastings and tours. Jacob and I are big whiskey fans and I mean
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the best place in the world to do that? Scotland and Ireland. So we really took advantage of that and
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it was really a lot of fun. So we did a whiskey tasting in Edinburgh. We did a whiskey tasting in
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Dublin. We did another whiskey tasting in Dublin and we did a whiskey tasting in Middleton. We actually
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went to the Jameson Distillery which houses a bunch of different Irish whiskey companies. It's a really
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interesting history. Basically due to a lot of different historical events including Prohibition
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Ireland's whiskey industry ended up being almost completely eradicated. There were like three
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distilleries left by the end of like 1945-1950. I think that's right. And so all of the
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distilleries that were remaining decided to combine their powers and move to Middleton and then they
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would all produce together in the same location. And that's kind of still what's going on. So now
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we're done with basically everything besides the eyes and the lips. And those are my two discount
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products. So I have the Laura Mercier Editorial Eye Palette Intense Clays. I got this from TJ Maxx and
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it was originally $32 and I got it for $16.99. Now I used this when I sang that concert a few months
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ago in Virginia and this was wonderful. I didn't know what to expect because it's really intense
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deep colors and I really wanted to use something that was going to be kind of dramatic but the colors
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blend out so well surprisingly because they're dark. So I zoomed you guys in so that we can start working
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on the eyes. So we're going to do a really intense eye look today because I promised that like a few months
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ago and never did it. But we're first going to start off by just using another palette just to lay down
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another color that'll just make it a little bit easier to blend out these really dark colors. And I'm using
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the L'Oreal Paradise Enchanted Palette. I'm going to go in with a fluffy brush and just
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go in with a nude skin color all over the lid. And then I'm going to take the same brush
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and go in with a light brown. So I'm going to use this color here. And maybe mix these two.
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Have you guys ever been to the British Isles to England or Ireland or Scotland? Have you guys ever
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been on a cruise? I really am interested to know what other people have done in the cities I've been to
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because they're just really inmate. Like there's so much to do you can't possibly do all of it. So I'm
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always curious what did you choose to do in those areas if you were there? What did you do this summer?
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Did you go on a vacation? Did you just do a stay vacation? That's what that's called. I cannot tell you
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how upset I am that it's almost the end of summer. What is this? I did not agree to this. And everyone
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keeps telling me it's almost fall. Get excited. I walked into my grocery store and there was an
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entire aisle of Halloween stuff. It is August, sir. So the next thing that we're going to do is go in
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with this really intense blue here. I'm going to take a small fluffy brush and I'm just going to
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tap this in, tap off the excess, and then really just pat that outer V and then bring it above the
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crease and in the crease so that you can still see it when my eye is open. When your eye is open like
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this, you're not going to see any of that blue. So you want to go above the crease a little bit,
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especially if you have hooded eyes and it will look much better when your eye is open.
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But you can see like there's, this is such a bright color and it is super easy to blend out,
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which is really cool. It doesn't look patchy. So which ones of you are excited that fall is coming?
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Are you like ready for summer to be over? Cool weather, pumpkin spice lattes, Uggs? Is that you?
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Or are you like me where I'm like, it's going to get cold and cloudy? Surprisingly, when we were in
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the British Isles, it was, you know, overcast. I would say 85% of the time we were there just because
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I think that's kind of the weather in that region of the world. And I was not super upset by it. It felt
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appropriate for where we were, which I think is why I wasn't sad that it wasn't sunny. I mean,
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when we originally talked about doing a cruise, I was disappointed because I really wanted to go to
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the Mediterranean and see Greece and just like have it be really warm and sunny and take advantage of
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summer. But I am really happy that we did this trip because we got to hit all of these major spots
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in England, Scotland, and Ireland that I don't think we could ever do not on a cruise. It's just
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set. It would be really expensive to do all of that and stop in all of those cities. And so now I have
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all of those cities and I've seen them and it was really amazing. Now I'm going to go in with one of
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these two shades. So this is kind of weird because one of them is brown, one of them is black, but in
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the pan, they look exactly the same. So I'm just going to dip into one, not sure which, and I'll tip
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into this one. And I'm going to, again, just deepen up that outer V, but I'm going to keep, I'm not going
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to drag this one in as far. I'm going to keep it more focused just on the outer part of the eye.
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I will say one funny thing about traveling in the British Isles is that you're in a foreign country,
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but everything is still in English. And that kind of, I don't know why, it just like struck me because
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I kept expecting to look up and see stuff in other languages and you're not seeing signs in other
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languages. You're seeing signs in English because that's what they speak that are Gaelic. And they
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always have the Gaelic, not always, but generally they have Gaelic right next to the English.
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I am so interested to learn Gaelic. Ooh, look at that. I just put a little bit of black here and
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it made a spot. So I need to blend that out. Um, Gaelic is fascinating. I, the history of Gaelic is
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fascinating. And also I just don't know anything about how the pronunciations work. And as someone
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who loves languages, I sing and understand about six languages. I would really be interested in
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understanding how their letters correspond with sounds. I think that's really cool. So the next
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thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a little angled brush and I'm going to dip into this silver
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shade. And I'm just going to put this underneath my lower lash line. I'm going to blend it out. But
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first I'm going to lay this down. Y'all, I am sweating. It is hot in this room. So now I'm
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going to take this brush, which is like a flat shader brush. It's kind of short and stubby.
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Uh, this is EcoTools. So you can actually get this at the drugstore. And I am going to take the,
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I'm going to take from the L'Oreal Paradise Enchanted palette. And I'm going to take that brown that we used
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in the crease. And I'm just going to blend that out a little bit. Just soften the line.
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Alrighty. So now for my lid, I'm going to take this pinky taupe shimmer shade, and I'm going to put
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that more in the inner corner. And then I'm going to take this pinky brown shimmer shade and like blend
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that in the middle of the eye out towards the outer corner. I'm just going to use my finger for this.
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As I've mentioned many times on my channel, I really don't think that shimmers are going to apply
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as well with a brush. Now I'm going to blend out the edge where the two colors meet.
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And that's it for the eyeshadow look. So I think this is a really cool kind of smoky. So now I'm
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going to do some eyeliner, curl my lashes, put on some mascara, and I'm using the WORX Wow Effect
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All-in-One Mascara. This is Collab Beauty. And this is from Sally's. You can get it from Sally's.
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And I am doing this because Tati Westbrook recommends this on her channel, and I have been dying to try it.
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I also just ran out of my Lash Paradise, and it's starting to dry out now, which I love that mascara.
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Literally amazing. You can get that. It's L'Oreal Lash Paradise. You can get that at any drugstore.
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But mine's drying out, so I figured I would try something new.
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Okay, so we're going to try this Collab Beauty Mascara.
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Ooh, I like the shape, and it's soft touch, which is nice.
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Oh, okay. So this is what the brush looks like. It's got this one very curved edge.
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I'm going to try all the different edges and see what it does. Whoa.
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Okay, I used the curved edge first, and I am happy with that decision.
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And now I'm going to use the other sides just to keep adding definition.
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Like, deposits a lot of product, but I like that, and it's not clumpy, which is kind of cool.
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I will say, it looks like not so voluminous, but I can see combing through this would make a difference.
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I mean, there's definitely a difference, right?
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And now I'm going to use the NARS Velvet Lip Glide from TJ Maxx.
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We're going to put this on, but let's all be clear.
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So I'm just putting it on to show you how it looks, and then I'm going to change lip colors.
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I think this is a really pretty color, and I think it's a really unique shade, and it's
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going to be nice for fall because that's what's coming up now.
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Now I'm going to take it off because this looks crazy.
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Thank you guys so much for watching today's video, this little get ready with me, let's
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catch up, try new discount makeup, and just new makeup in general.
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