 Hi guys. Hello. Welcome back to my channel Happy Thursday. You guys are watching this on Thursday and it's pretty chill. So we're gonna keep it casual today. I am just going to get ready. I'm just going to like lunch with a friend and like we're just gonna walk around Winter Park. So keep your eyes open and have those opposed notifications on for when that vlog comes out. It's probably gonna come out Saturday. So anyway, I am just getting all my stuff out. I will mention what I use but I feel like I do that every time. So sorry if it's repetitive. So yeah just cleared out the makeup bag and now we are going to get ready. So I have a list on my phone here because I hate not knowing what to talk about because I kind of treat these videos like podcasts. So because I don't have a podcast. So I just kind of treat this channel or these types of videos well pretty much my whole channel as like a podcast. So speaking about podcasts this wasn't on my list of like things I want to talk about but I've been loving like Gretchen Garrity. I hope that's the way you say her name but I really like her. I don't know why. I feel like her energy is just like cool and I mean she's just like full of like positivity which I really appreciate and I really like. I've been listening to her podcast like all the time in the car because as you guys know I'm not like the biggest music person like I am but I'm not. Is that weird? I don't know. I never listened to music like while I work. Sometimes I do like I have to be in the mood you know to like listen to music while doing anything. So definitely not the biggest music person though. So I don't know. I've just not been in the mood to listen to music in the car. So I've been listening to podcasts and I've just been like binge listening to Gretchen's and if I weren't filming this video I'd be listening to her podcast now. I love her podcast. That's basically what I wanted to come on and say. So anyway sometimes I feel like I've missed some spots. Oh I forgot to say what this was. This is just the Tarte Shape Tape concealer. Shape Tape concealer in shade 205 light sand. I don't know. The girl was like oh sometimes I like it to be like brighter than my skin and I'm like okay whatever. So I just like went along with it. Also too guys I love love love get ready with me videos because I listen to those when I get ready. Isn't that like kind of silly? So again if I wasn't like filming this video I would be like listening to a get ready with me because I don't know. It's almost like you're getting ready with someone but like you're not but you still have like something to listen to. So I don't know. It's just one of those things. So I think we're pretty much good on the concealer. Luckily I don't have any like huge huge breakouts. Sometimes I have them on my chin which I missed like covering this one up. Just a little dab here. Yeah I don't have that many blemishes thank goodness because I hate it when I get those. It's so annoying. So next up is foundation and the foundation I use is the NARS like oh natural radiant long wear and I love this foundation. I don't think I'm gonna change because it doesn't smell makeup-y. Does that make sense? Like I don't know. I used MAC for dance for like the longest time and I didn't like the way it smelled and this is very light like not light as in like the color but it's very light on your skin. Like sometimes I don't even feel like or remember I have makeup on because it doesn't have strong scent and it doesn't have it doesn't feel like you're wearing like a ton of makeup and that I'm in the shade pun jab I think M1. I don't know. Yeah it's very light and airy and I really really like that about it because I find makeup to be very uncomfortable and that's why I didn't wear it for the longest time. I was like not about it because like I'm all about comfort really so I never wanted to wear makeup nor did I and I don't think you should ever like if you don't feel like wearing makeup don't wear makeup because that's kind of like how I live my life and opinion like if I don't feel like it like just don't do it it's not like the end of the world um if you wear makeup or don't wear makeup because I didn't wear makeup for the longest time and sometimes I still don't so it's fine it does not matter unless like you feel less confident like you should always do what makes you feel the most confident you know because life's too short so do what makes you happy and what you want to do because in the end it doesn't really matter uh that's kind of what I've learned so all right let's get into the first topic and again I'm holding up my handy dandy phone because I need to go to my notes and look for it so here we go okay guys like I started a blog so um if you want to check it out it'll be the first link of this video and um the reason why I started a blog like that's what I wanted to talk about um in the first section so why I started a blog I wanted a place on the internet that was like mine that like I controlled I could share things so I saw online somewhere and I talk about this in my first blog post but I'll just talk about it here like briefly um I saw somewhere where you know how like uh Instagram went down for a while it was like six hours well during that time I saw somewhere or after that time I should say I saw somewhere where someone said you never know when all of these like social media accounts and stuff can just like vanish or not work or anything so you need a place online that like you own that you control and everything and I was like you know what that's right like I do need some place to um like call my own you know if that makes sense and I was like okay well I'll just make it to like warehouse all of my um oh I do have a little blemish I forgot what I was saying shoot man well anyway um it made me really think I didn't start my blog like right after I saw that it just like you know got the wheels of the idea turning in my head that I needed a place on the internet that was mine and I realized that like my link in my bio was a link tree link but like all my links so I was like why am I sending all of like the people that care to click that link to link tree which is not owned by me like I could make my own you know website and have it be like mine but also have all my links so that's when um I started looking for domains and I had looked for domains in the past like alexjane.com and I just like couldn't find anything so nothing like I did get alexjane.co but nothing was like alexjane.com because I guess someone had already purchased that okay done with foundation I don't know I like to make sure it's like nicely blended I like take a long time on the foundation this is like the part that takes me the longest just because I like to make sure it's like all blended and like looks good the second most time consuming thing is the eyebrows and I'm still not like that good at it but it's fine um next up we have the Laura Mercier translucent powder so it just looks like this this stuff is like so messy at times like I don't know what's going on anyway so the main reason why I hadn't like started a website in like a while like it took me so long is number one because like I didn't see the importance nor did I want to pay um like the money because again you it like cost money to like have a domain and then have the actual site like you know power by square space or power by I use WordPress just because you know I had started out with that um so I didn't want to like spend the money on that because I already own alexblankenship.com for like my portfolio stuff if you want to check it out you can like it's not like a huge secret of a website or anything I just don't promote it because again it's like it's kind of out of date anyway so um I already paid for that I didn't want to like pay for another one but when it boiled down to it I'm like okay fine alexjane.co will do and I'll own something and I'll pay for it it wasn't that expensive either um and like my template for the actual website was not that expensive either because it was like one of the basic basic ones so overall like it wasn't that bad like getting it all like set up and everything okay done with powder I swear that's so messy um next up we have the hula bronzer this I've had for a long long time and I still have product so we don't use it I use the hula bronzer for my eyes as well as um like just normal contouring the face so you'll see that this is a side note but like I don't have anywhere to like do my makeup that's like really good this is the best place so sorry um I could do it in my bathroom but like I don't know I feel like this is like better uh sit down video vibes rather than like standing up in my bathroom with those bright lights so I get my website and like I set it up and everything and it's like all good I wasn't planning on like writing but then there's like topics that like I want to share but it's just like something I would never talk about on YouTube because I don't know it's just like not not that it's not appropriate like it still happens in my life like my feelings about like friends and stuff but I don't know I just that sort of stuff it's just stuff I want to write about you know I want to have a safe space a safe space that sounds so silly um I want to just have a space that like is mine and like I still have like it's for the people that like really care you know like the people that like really want to know my thoughts and feelings um because I get like not everyone wants to like hear about certain things on YouTube um and everything so again it's fine um but it's just like a safe space for me to like write and talk about things that I typically would never ever like talk about on YouTube and would just be like hard topics for me to talk about like in person so um if you guys want to check it out you can check it out um those blog posts I'm saying so that's for the real reason why I started a blog because I wanted to direct people to like something that I own rather than another company and probably like another multi-millionaire so you can visit my website and get all my links there I also wanted to talk about losing subscribers I swear this always happens on YouTube if you've been on YouTube for a while like you know you're gonna have your ups and your downs and I guess like right now I'm gonna down I would say it's okay but like you know it makes any content creator like kind of like come on man and I get like a lot of people just want to see my adoption videos and I get that but I'll probably make a video about why I don't make a lot of adoption videos because I swear like I feel like my channel would do a lot better if I did make those make that video um make more adoption videos but like I don't want to you know so I'll probably make a whole video on that but as a content creator and stuff you're gonna always like go through these patches of like you know sometimes your channel's like on fire and then another times you're like losing and you know it's okay that's part of the game with social media and if I wanted to be like super exploitative I could in a sense but I don't know again this is something that I just like genuinely love and like I'm still that girl that is just you know in her head trying to get to 10,000 subscribers like it's still mind-blowing that I had a video do so well and it's like amazing and it's like really really nice yeah let's just say started off as a very very humble beginning because I never really got like huge huge amounts of views um and I still don't really so I just want to touch on that a little bit because it's just like kind of annoying sometimes and that's okay to feel like that you know like it happens to every content creator influencer whatever you want to youtuber however you want to say it the next thing I wanted to talk about I swear sometimes sorry I'm looking at the viewfinder I always look at the viewfinder but anyway I'm like really really because um it's hard to see like the eyes like making sure they're like kind of even even though my eyes are like totally not even so I wanted to talk about quickly inventing Anna and I really like that story because I find it so intriguing um and the way that she like swindled everyone honestly I think she's quite talented and in my opinion I just think that you know some people need to be knocked out of head like you know if you're a hot shot if you're big shit somewhere like I don't know it's kind of funny that they like actually believed her and stuff so honestly my opinion on her I think she's like really talented and I like her like I'm sorry if you don't agree that's fine I don't again it's just an opinion it doesn't really matter um in the grand scheme of things I do I I like her but the actual series in itself if you watch it the acting is just like not there I don't really like the acting the vivian Kent character I feel like she just doesn't want to have a baby and she's just like moaning half of the time so that really bothered me like I wanted to watch it again but I'm not gonna watch it because I don't like the acting nor like the character like some of the characters all right I think we're pretty good I just need to like blend it a little bit more so that's my opinion on inventing Anna I also watched the um tender swindler and that was really good too I think I took this one out a little too far I'm just like wipe it with my finger yeah so the tender swindler was really good too he was really talented too um these people man they are really good at what they I do feel bad for the um the women and everything but like that's why I'm like so scared to meet someone online I mean I know I could have met like a swindler person like that you know just like on the street but still sketches me out and I feel like I you would get better reading on the person if like you did meet them in person first and then the last thing I wanted to talk about which I'm gonna save until blush because I'm gonna do my eyebrows real quick because I just need to do my eyebrows and I can't do that talking because it's just too hard like I already have a hard time as it is but before I do that I will just share what I use I use the goofproof brow pencil by benefit again I've had this for forever and um yeah I really is goofproof because like I have no idea what I'm doing so I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this real quick okay I think that is going to be as good as they're gonna get actually I feel like they turned out a lot better considering I'm not in a rush also side note don't you hate it like why is it coming into style to have your eyebrows like brushed all the way up like this I mean it doesn't look I guess it looks pretty good but like seriously why is that a thing now I don't know I don't know how I feel about it but I'm definitely not I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon when more people do it but like I don't really like that at all um so I will not be doing that just yet I do feel like the brows though turned out a lot better than when they when I normally do them because like I'm not in a huge rush nor um do I feel like I need to get them done like super fast everything so I think they turned out okay also too I always find that this one turns out much better than this one I know they're like kind of different shapes so it's kind of hard to match but another reason why that could be is because like I'm right-handed and it's just like easier to do I guess I could do this in a way okay now I'm just like messing around but yeah I don't know I think they turned out pretty good so just gonna brush them out and there we go okay next up I am going to do my um blush blush um half the time I don't know this is the Nars blush in the shade orgasm um I don't know I just like it it's kind of like glittery pink so just gonna put this on the last and final topic I kind of wanted to talk on is reading like guys you don't understand how much I've always hated reading because like I've always been a slow reader I never knew the main point of the story like it is just so hard man I get never good at reading like I hated reading because I wasn't good at it and never understood what the heck they were trying to say so um but I have read two books this year and it's really nice because I've read them on my own merit there was only one other book that I or two in my lifetime that I've ever read on like my own merit of like wanting to read but I've noticed that like when you actually want to read the book or whatever you're doing or whatever the topic is you read faster and you actually like understand what it's saying which is so nice so the first book I read was full out by Monica Aldama and she was like on the Netflix series chair and I really liked that book I finished it so fast and then the next book that I recently finished was my friend Anna and it was about the Anna Delvie case the one then the Netflix show was about inventing Anna and it was um from her friend Rachel's point of view and her own experiences so I highly recommend those two books I loved the my friend Anna one it was written very maturely it had good high level vocabulary words and I loved the way it was written it was very very descriptive it was almost like I was there like with them like you could totally envision it I think they're really good and I can't believe I read them because you're looking at someone who does not like reading like I said so I definitely think you should read one or the other um probably the level of reading of the Monica cheer one is a lot more less intense or less hot it's not as high a level reading as the my friend Anna one so just so you know putting it out there I can't believe that that I read books like that's crazy okay so I also forgot to add and I just first started doing this recently but I've been putting some blush like on my eyes like in the middle here so what I'll do is like just take the brush and like put it here a little bit it's not very noticeable um like you you won't be able to really tell it's there but I've just been doing it just to you know give it a little spice this is kind of just like everyday makeup because I use my eyeshadow palette like when I want to do a more dramatic look even though all my looks look the same so but when I want to have like darker eye makeup I just use my um palette that I've had for forever and it's probably expired but like I'm not about to spend like $50 on a palette because I have all the shades I need like already so um it's not the end of the world using an older palette but yeah that's kind of like just like what I've been doing um for my eyes for like my everyday because again I don't really use an eyeshadow palette for like everyday stuff next up is lips and I hate lips if I'm being completely honest um I hate having anything anything on my lips because it's annoying and I always lick my lips and I don't know but uh when I don't have to wear lips I don't wear a lips but since this is a get ready with me I'm gonna do my lips um if I was going out uh just to lunch with my friend like today I probably wouldn't do lips because like we're gonna be eating anyway so there's like no reason but um I'm gonna do it my lip products I'm going to be using and these are like pretty much my only lip products um I do have like red lipstick and then I do I think I have like one other nude from MAC um because again I used to always like that was the only thing I ever used as MAC for dance so um I didn't really like branch out or try anything I do use for like my everyday makeup I use the charlotte tilbury products in pillow talk so this is the lip pencil lip liner and then I have the I recently got the lipstick because the like the lip pencil was just hard to like fill my entire lips so I'm gonna put this on and then that'll be pretty much it for the video um I'll obviously put down my hair so then you know we can have a full after look gotta put the lips on now okay I think I did a good job lining lips shoot this camera battery is gonna die I'm gonna put the lipstick on and then I'll come back okay so I have to go pretty soon like in two minutes so I just want to show you guys my outfit real quick and then I will show you guys my makeup here is my makeup and this is the finished products you guys know this is just like the classic alex look so I hope you guys enjoyed this get ready with me make sure to comment down below any of your thoughts feelings on what I talked about give this video a thumbs up and I'll see you guys in my next video bye