Filming for Two?

About a month ago I had the privilege of filming with my friend Christina. She is the only person I know in real life that is as makeup/skincare/nails/younameit obsessed as me. We can literally talk for hours about crazy makeup YouTube stuff so when she told me she wanted to start a YouTube channel I immediately jumped at the chance to film a few videos with her.

We ended up filming our November (yes, November - this post is a little belated) Favourites together and, although we were probably the last people in the YouTubesphere to do it, we attempted the blindfolded makeup challenge. It was actually hard! I had watched so many and thought I would be pretty good at it but once that blindfold goes on you basically lose any skills you once had as a human being. I think Christina tried really hard and she ended up doing a not so bad job on me but I definitely gave up early on and if you watch the video you'll know what a disaster it was.

Finally, I spent like four hours compiling footage for a bloopers video. I love watching bloopers videos and I've made a few in the past - although I think I may have privated them now - but this one was a doozy. I had about 2 hours of footage to sift through and the process took me about 4 hours start to finish... for a video less than 4 minutes. So please, please watch it to make all my effort worth it!!

I hope you all have as much fun watching these videos as I did filming them with Christina and make sure to pop by her channel and show her some love.

Get Ready for a Night Out with Me

Here is the latest of the "get ready with me" videos I seem to be doing a lot lately. This is a look I like to wear for a night out, maybe to a party or some other sort of special occasion. I rarely wear any colour of my lips so it's a nice change to do a bit more a bright lip on nights out. This look features MAC's Girl About Town lipstick which is probably one of my all time favourite lip colours and possibly my favourite bold lip. I find it's so flattering and easy to wear and the formula is also amazing. I tend to pair it with a more simple eye but add a little bit of glitter to add some fun. I hope you guys enjoy this tutorial!

(Excuse the slightly yellowy colour. This was an Instagram and I must have used earlybird or something. This picture does show the vibrancy of the lipstick better than in the video, though!)

My Top 10 Lipsticks

I recently posted a video about my top 10 favourite lipsticks lip products. I'm really not a lips girl at all. I prefer to focus on my eyes or cheeks but when I do go for a lip product these are my favourites!

(left to right)

MAC Lipstick Girl About Town

MAC Lipstick Rebel

MAC Lipstick Hue

MAC Lipstick Patisserie

Guerlain Rouge Automatique Champs-Élysées

Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupté Sensual Silk

Yves Saint Laurent Glossy Stain Rouge Vintage

Fresh Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment Passion

Fresh Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment Berry

Korres Lip Butter Pomegranate

Get Ready for School With Me

I am not a morning person. It's gotten to the point where I'll hit the snooze button until I'm late for school/work and I have to rush to get ready. That's where this super easy makeup routine comes in. When I go to school I'm not too concerned with wearing a lot of makeup. My main focus is to get my skin looking even and healthy and adding a bit of definition with brows and a little curl of the lashes. I think this look is great for girls just starting to get into makeup or if you're just extremely lazy like me and don't like to spend a lot of time in the morning.

October 2012 Favourites

Hey guys! Here is a video I made about my favourite products from this past month. I hope you enjoy!

Get Ready for Work With Me

I posted this video the other day about how I do my makeup for work. I do work in the makeup industry so my look tends to change every day and it can vary from a barely there look to a full on smokey eye and bold lip. To be honest, my go to look for work is usually just one colour on the lid blended to a smokey eye because I'm extremely lazy and always running late. I thought that was too similar to what I wear for my going out look so I decided to stick with a very wearable and office appropriate look so that anyone that does work in a more professional environment could take advantage of the tutorial. I like to do this look in the video when I have a little bit more time (and 20 minutes to spare on gel liner). I'm planning on making 2 more videos like this. One for my school routine and one for my going out look. I hope this is useful to some of you!

Some New Videos & A Kitty!!

Hi guys! I hope you're all having a great weekend! I'm writing this quite late so I'm going to keep it short and sweet. I recently posted two new videos, one of my current skin care routine, and one of my favourite products for pale skin. These are probably two of my favourite videos I've ever made because the two topics are so important to me.

My Skin Care Routine

I'm obsessed with skin care and this routine has gotten my skin in the best condition it's been in since I was about 14. I don't know exactly which product has been working it's magic or if it's a combination of them all but I'll be sticking with this until I find something I like better.

My Favourite Products for Pale Skin

The second video is near and dear to me because being a very fair skinned girl isn't easy in the makeup world. I know how hard it can be to find products that match a very light skin tone and it's taken me years to find good quality products that work for me. I wanted to make this video to help other pale girls out there and maybe let some of them know that it's okay to be pale!

I also wanted to show you guys the cutest little kitten I found outside my house last night. I was feeding my cat and I saw this little guy staring in through the window. We played for a bit and it was so cute and cuddly haha. It's funny because it actually looks just like my cat but mine is much bigger. I want to keep it but I think it must have an owner nearby. It was far too affectionate and well behaved to be a homeless kitty. I'm hoping it will come by again tonight and maybe we can make this a daily visit kind of thing.

I'm Back!

Hi blog friends! It's been quite a while since I was last on here but recently I've been craving the YouTube/blogging lifestyle again. I'm not going to promise to make this a regular thing because we all know how that goes. Instead, I'm going to film and blog when I feel like it and when I have time and I hope you'll all be patient with my lack of consistency. ;)

You might have noticed that my blog has had a little makeover. I like it so much better than before! It still isn't as good as a lot of the blogs I read and admire but I'm hopeless with html so I'm happy with what I've produced using the blogger templates and limited formatting options. I've also changed the URL to www.beautymarkedblog.blogspot.com just for consistency (this shouldn't affect any of my current followers unless you're trying to type in the URL directly).

I'm working on my first "official" post of the year right now (this one doesn't really count) but in the meantime here's a video I posted about a week ago about some of the products I've accumulated in the past few months.

Enjoy! I'll talk to you all soon!