 My name is Sonali, welcome to vlogmas day 11 and it is 2 p.m. I think, almost 2 p.m. Today is Friday, so I don't work my part-time job. I take this day to do like content creation for my personal stuff. I don't know if I told you guys to update on my dad's car, but if you didn't see my past vlogs, I got two flat tires in my dad's car while I was borrowing it, so I had to get towed to the Tesla Decatur place and I was staying at my mom's because I thought I was gonna be done because my mom lives closer to Decatur so I thought I was gonna be done within a day. They were literally not answering any of our calls. We left so many messages and then the date got pushed back because you can call and get an automated message telling you when your car's gonna be done, but the date got pushed back, so I was like, okay, I need to go to the Decatur store and just be like, what the heck is going on? Someone please just update me and answer questions. By the time I got there, the service people were gone so they couldn't even give me an update, but they gave me a direct phone number to call. So the next morning I called and the car apparently needed a whole new battery or something and the part isn't even gonna come until two weeks, so the car is gonna be there for two weeks. I literally don't understand how they didn't even tell me or my dad or I just don't understand that and I was the one that had to ask for the loaner car. They didn't even offer it, which was kind of surprising too. So anyways, I picked up the loaner car today because I had to get there by four and I clocked out of work at four. I couldn't do it this week, but I finally got the car, we're all good and now it is time to do my makeup. I wanna film a lot of TikToks today. I always say that and then I just never do because I never know what to film, but I just feel like I'm not posting consistently and that's the number one thing of growing any platform is you have to post consistently. So I'm not even doing the major thing. So we definitely need to get back on track with that. First thing I need to do, obviously do my makeup. I actually already did my hair this morning and I'm waiting for this video to upload. The wifi is being so slow right now, I don't know why, but yeah, so today's just gonna be a content creation day. Fridays are just always content creation days. Later tonight, me and Reiner are actually gonna hang out. I did wanna show you guys this mirror in the light because I promised you guys I would in the last vlog. So this is what it looks like. I actually just cleaned it this morning because there was like all these smudges on it and it has like this wood finish. Let's go over this side, it has more light. And this mirror was only a hundred bucks which honestly for a mirror this big is really good, but of course only when I brought it home did I realize that there was just some random issues with this mirror like, I don't know, that just looks really bad and weird from the side, but I mean it's not like anyone can really tell. And I forgot to do my video settings, so there we go. At least we fixed it at the beginning of this vlog. Before I get into my makeup, I wanted to show you guys my outfit. That's a day outfit, it's anything really that special. Actually, nevermind, let me not downplay this because these are my new favorite pants, leggings kind of thing. This is my Rock-Hall Flare leggings from Split 59 and they are so freaking cute, they're so flattering. I love them to death. They're perfect for lounging and then I have this champion hoodie, I'll link all this down below. And I've been wanting this for forever just because like the nude color and I feel like I'm just really making my wardrobe like all nude. It's funny because I'm doing laundry today for the first time in so long. It's really weird to be doing my own laundry because usually I'll just like do Ryan since he's there in my house, obviously he lives with me. But all of my clothes are either like nude, white or like black and it's just so funny because like I feel like in a year I'm gonna not even have like a color style. This is my outfit. I'm used to procrastinating. Gonna do my makeup now and oh, another update. Let me just procrastinate some more. I did use the tanning drops again and they worked this time because I used like the whole like syringe like it's like a dropper kind of thing and I used like all of that. So the bottle or the instructions, I'm pretty sure it said like start with like one, two drops but that's like not gonna do anything from my skin at least. So I used like that whole thing and it actually made me look really tan in the face and I like it because like especially I was taking a Snapchat in the car earlier and my skin looked like so sun kissed and really, really nice, very even. Honestly in person it does look a little bit patchy but I feel like no one would really notice about me. So an update on the tanning drops. I like them and I think I'm gonna continue to use them but it's so funny because I had three best friends in college and they were all white and they would always get spray tans and they would tell me that their spray tans smelled like syrup and I just never understood what that meant because they didn't really like smell it. I don't know it's so weird but now that I wear a mask I literally can smell my face and it has the same exact smell that they were like trying to explain to me this whole time. The product itself doesn't really smell but I think after it like develops smells I don't know, it's not like the worst smell in the world but just a heads up, you might smell like syrup. I have two cons about that damn sweatshirt. First of all it's really hot cause it's actually like has a bit of a fleece lining in it but second way it leaves like all the fuzzes on which maybe it won't happen over time especially if like if I wash it but that's annoying. I started off with the Laura Mercier Foundation Primer because the Sephora lady was like you gotta use something hydrating underneath especially cause my skin's so dry. I don't think I'll do a full makeup routine. I'm just kind of like in a chatty mood to be honest but if you guys are looking for a full makeup routine I have one on my Instagram TV. Go check that out because it's like everything I pretty much do except for the eyeshadow change but like nothing really major. I literally just do like a normal brown eye so not missing out on much. But I wish I could get better at wings and I ordered stuff on Glossier and it's still on its way and my favorite eyeliner is in that package and I'm like can you hurry up cause I wanna practice my wing liner again and also my set active stuff is still not here and like I get it they're probably like going crazy with the amount of orders they're getting because they are really really good sales but still I just want my stuff, you know? It's honestly so bad to say but especially with Amazon Prime being a thing and like you get your packages in like two days or like the day of when you order the package it's so hard to wait for normal packages. You're just used to them coming so fast so you expect it to come fast. Unfortunately that's not how it is. I'm using the Airbrush Flawless Foundation in the color 12 Cool. This foundation is like seriously so freaking good. It makes my skin look so amazing. In my IGTV I talk more about like all the things I love about this foundation so again go watch that but seriously I cannot say enough good things about this and I haven't used a high end foundation in so long and it just makes me want to like try all other foundations because I'm like ooh this is so good. I wonder if there's something even better out there from Charlotte Tilbury, I don't think I mentioned that. This is the completed look for today. I kind of went a little heavier on the eye makeup because yesterday I did it a little too simple and I looked just funky, I don't know why but I think my eyelids just need a little bit of like a darker shadow so kind of went a little darker today but seriously it doesn't even look that dark. Now it's time to create content and I kind of wanted to give you guys a couple of TikTok hacks throughout the day I don't know how I wanna do this yet but I feel like so many people are not on TikTok for themselves like they just like scroll which is totally fine and like obviously I love TikTok too but TikTok is so beneficial especially if you guys are wanting to start your own brand or like a small business or something like that. This platform like I have not grown this fast on any other platform like throughout my seven years I don't know how long I've been doing this shit but I've been on YouTube, Instagram, what else? Like Pinterest, I don't know I can't really think of anything else. I'm sorry, there's like birds downstairs but I have never really grown this fast and I'm not 16,000 followers on TikTok and I literally just started my account like in the middle of quarantine so that was like March so it wasn't even a year to get that many and I literally don't even have 16K on Instagram so what I'm trying to say is that it's very easy for you to get followers on TikTok and then those TikTok followers are most likely going to want to follow you on Instagram and other platforms especially if you have it in your bio so first of all, always link everything that you want people to see in your bio I have my YouTube and Instagram link you can do that and you can also have a link in your bio sometimes I'll actually post my like to know it link there so like to know it is kind of like this app where all of your favorite bloggers and Instagram influencers post their outfits and like they link to everything that they're wearing like the exact things that they're wearing I have gotten so many followers just by having that link in my bio because for example, like if a TikTok goes viral people are just more likely to go to your profile and follow this is the other thing I think I talked about it in another vlog but on Instagram, I personally don't go to my explore page but on TikTok, I feel like I'm on my for you page more than I am my home feed so it's so much easier to be found by new users so I think it's so important to get on TikTok like today and start like making TikTok and let me tell you, TikTok is not easy I mean, I guess it depends on like what TikToks you're gonna do but whenever I do my fashion ones they take forever to film and like honestly, every other TikTok I have made it just takes so long and I'm also not saying that every TikTok you make is gonna go viral so you really have to like stay consistent which is what I struggle with because sometimes it's discouraging if you're posting so many TikToks and none of them are like getting on the for you page like the other ones did and you're asking yourself, what did I do to make those TikToks go viral and it's just so many like little things so you can use trending hashtags you can use trending sounds and what I found is the biggest thing that helps me go viral is sticking to my niche so for example, my first viral video well, my first viral video was something like weird it was me making kebabs and I think it was like I think it went viral for the wrong reasons but the second viral video was about my hair and I think I forget oh, I was using the Revol on One Step and I feel like every Revol on One Step video goes viral first of all but that one went super viral so I started making like a couple of those videos I did the other Revol on Hair Dryer Brush and then I did a lot about my hair and I feel like those were the ones that did so good but it sucks though because I don't wanna be like in this box of just making hair TikToks that's not really like what I wanna make TikToks about so that's kind of like my issue right now because people follow me from those viral TikToks for hair content that's where I'm struggling right now and that's what makes me kind of discouraged because the ones that aren't about my hair just don't do well and so I'm just thinking like okay, should I just make content all about my hair and just make it do well which like yeah, that's easy to say and do not do, easy to say but it's just like not something I wanna do so I'm trying to like find another niche that I can get into I definitely wanna get into more fashion videos but no, there's no buds there's just, I'm just trying to make up all the excuses I can think about because those do actually really well on my TikTok too so okay, this is just like a whole ramble but seriously, just get on TikTok right now end of story make an account and like actually post not just like scroll when I am scrolling I will save TikToks that I wanna create or I'll just text them to myself and that helps me on content creation days to just like see those TikToks which ones I wanna recreate and you know, get going but that's the other thing about TikTok is that it's really hard to batch content because these trending sounds and trending hashtags well, you can always add the trending hashtags later so that doesn't really matter but especially like sounds it's hard to like know what songs are gonna like be in the low numbers and then like post them throughout the week cause then it could have already hit a million which like still you probably just post it I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right but basically if you use a sound or a hashtag you can see how many videos are already under that hashtag and basically you wanna use those sounds and hashtags when they're not super viral like out one billion videos or you don't want it to be like 5,000 videos cause you don't know if like it's taking off or not so I would say stick around like 50K to like, you know, like right under a million videos and you'll see it like at the top I'll try to like put a screenshot right here of what I'm talking about but this is really helpful just to find like kind of like those trending hashtags and sounds so that is my hack for right now I'll let you know if I come across any more while I'm creating these TikToks but I gotta get to work I feel like it got so dark so fast it is currently 5.04 and I just got dressed because I'm gonna go to dinner got my cute little express coat on and then I have this silk shirt and it's like an oversized silk shirt and then I'm wearing it with my shiratex tights and docks because I'm trying to like style my docks a little bit more because they were an expensive shoe and I wanna get like my use out of them but I'm just having such like trouble styling them just because I feel like my style isn't really that edgy and docks are like really edgy for me but I'm gonna head over to Ryan's house I think we're gonna have dinner with his brother Mike and Mike's girlfriend Chandler I, funny story about the TikTok shit I literally made like one TikTok and this is what I'm saying it's just hard I think my biggest thing with TikTok is that I just like do it over and over again because I'm just like, oh, that could be better like this color needs to be like this or like my face wasn't good in the first one and I just do it over and over and over and that's what takes me so much time honestly, it may just be my issue but I'm gonna head out the door because I feel like if I leave any later than now I'm just gonna be so rushed so gonna talk to you guys later It is 7 p.m. unfortunately we missed happy hour because it was literally like 50 something minutes away cause we live in the suburbs of Atlanta and this place is like in Atlanta, Atlanta but it was a nice drive just seeing like the city and stuff I can get a damn hotel to work though Ryan's literally convincing me that we're moving back here and I'm trying to convince myself that it's gonna be okay and then I'll like it but I don't know I just love Austin so much and it's gonna be really sad and I don't know when this is happening but I feel like it's inevitable so I don't really have a discussion but I'm just gonna decide it Not yet enough Ryan's playing with this tester car was it autopilot that you were on? For the driving man, I'm gonna turn the steering on I don't know how much sound do you do with it? Oh yeah, you'll have to spend it home but the autopilot is so jerky and like it literally will make you like nauseous cause it's just obviously like if it sees a car it like stops, which is cool it's super cool and like a really, really smart idea Okay, but then I was thinking, Ryan like it would be really nice to like have to for long road trips but then you would have to charge it every 200 miles or some shit, right? Yeah, we're on 60 miles, I'm doing that Yeah, I know Right here, the texting is in there