 watch Minari with Jo and Subin. Since I went to the movie theater for Minari, we decided to book the premium tickets so the seats are super comfortable. Of course it's a bit more pricey, it's like $25,000, which is still considered kind of cheap because I think like in America, if you were to book like a VIP movie ticket, it would be way more than that. But yeah, we wanted to watch comfortably. I'm sure Minari doesn't make any more money from us just because we watch it at the VIP theater. It's just a movie theater that probably makes more money but it's gonna do a very simple makeup, nothing to really see. I really wanted to watch Minari with Jo and Subin because we all have immigrant parents and I thought we could relate to it. Have you guys all seen Minari? I've just been watching all of their interview videos even before watching the movie itself. So this is my makeup look. I just did a simple eye shadow and eyeliner look. I'm using Sizzly's number 12. All right, now time to get dressed and head out. I'm just getting some, the weather is so nice today but the dust levels are still really high. I can't enjoy the weather freely. It's been so long. I actually didn't get the sneaker memo. She's sitting on the car. I didn't know I brought in tissues with me. My cousin actually works here so I'm gonna go visit him and also do some shopping. It's been like a month since this place opened up. She's asking me how I edit my Instagram pictures and videos so I thought I would just show you guys today. There's not much to it really. So for my Instagram photos I use VSCO and once you make your preset you can always just copy the edits and paste it so it's very very easy and for the videos I just edited in my iPhone photos. So let's take this as an example. I choose M5 so I actually bought this preset M5 but I don't think you really need it because I only use like 2.2 anyways. Just makes it a little warmer but I'm sure you can do that with the temperature. So I will choose M5 and set it to plus 2.2 and then I'll go into the editing section and I will mess around with the exposure first. It is set to 2.1 and then contrast like minus 0.8 and then I sharpen it a bit 1.9 and then for the tone like 5.1 ish and then shadow 2. Shadow I do about 1.3 and then I add a little bit of grain 0.7 that's it and then you can see the before after before after. With this picture there's not much of a difference. Let's pick something else. Okay for this one I did the same. Sometimes if the picture is too bright I like to lower the exposure even more to like negative 3.6. I've been going with this like more dim and muted aesthetic on my Instagram feed. So for this one I made it a lot darker. I think like a couple of years ago I always liked upping the contrast but then now it's all about downing the contrast for me. So once you have that you click more, copy edits and then you go to your camera roll whatever you have and you can choose and press paste edits and then voila. VSCO itself is a free app but they have limited presets so if you feel like downloading other ones then you can pay for it. I think I bought a few presets but kind of regret it because don't really use it. I only use the same thing all the time. I bought the a-series this is like 2018 Ashley Instagram feed. I think I bought this J series as well and I have no idea why because I really don't like it at all. The only one I like is like this one J5. Let me show you how I do it in the photo album with the edit option. This video I took this morning. Press edit, go to exposure, turn down highlights, turn that down as well. I set it to negative 21. Shadows up like 16 and then contrast minus 30. Brightness sometimes I like to mess around with this. It's not like mandatory. For this one I'll set it to negative five. I don't really touch the other ones. Okay so yeah it's done. You press done and you wait for it to prepare. Thank goodness that iPhone added the editing option for videos in the photo album because there wasn't a way to do that before and also to do that with VSCO you would have to pay for the yearly membership which I didn't want to pay for because it was like kind of expensive but now you can just do it in the photo album so super easy. This is what it looks like now. That is how I edit my Instagram pictures and that's how my feed has been looking lately. I really don't like the box logo on the top right to indicate that it's a carousel. I don't know I just feel like it just ruins the aesthetic a little bit. I wish it was like a little smaller or something. Also I have an app called UNUM where I see what matches my feed before I upload it. I know I don't know why I must go to this extent but it's just nice to make it look cohesive and matchy matchy you know. So that's how I've been editing my photos for those of you guys who are curious. I totally forgot to mention this. There's like a trick or a tip that I do when I take the picture from my iPhone itself. So you open the camera up to take a picture right and when I take the picture I like to click on it and I honestly don't know what this is called. I don't know the technical names or anything but I'm guessing it's like exposure. I like to hold on to the screen and bring the exposure down so when you hold down and scroll down it's gonna get darker and also if you go oh it's gonna get really bright. Okay that looks terrible. I like to make it a little darker and I find that when I just take the picture like this I don't even have to edit it that much. This for example if I just take it regularly it would look like this but if I bring the exposure down it just makes it look a little more vibey and of course this isn't for everyone. Maybe you guys like your pictures really bright and clean but for me this is what I've been liking these days. Alright I'm really done with my tips now. I told you guys everything so no more tips to share. If I change up my aesthetic again I will let you guys know. Yeah. Realized I didn't explain beforehand what I'm doing so I thought I would update you guys with this voiceover. I got a job as an emcee slash host for a fan meeting for seven weeks with different Korean artists for Lazada which is an Asian online shopping platform. The show I'm doing is called Laz Live and it's for the Singapore Ranch and the first guest I had was Ha Ha. Hey that's me emcee Ashley. This is my outfit for today cropped brown jacket and this silky wide leg trousers. I am your emcee for today. I am Ashley. This is Ha Ha Ha. So yeah I'm going to be interviewing different guests every week so if you guys can tune in. I think you can download the Lazada app but apparently it's only available for Android. I filmed some TikTok videos for fun while I had my hair and makeup done and yeah I'm just gonna get ready to sleep now. Oh I also have to do squats before I sleep. I'm doing this 30 day squat challenge where I do 100 squats for 30 days to see what difference it'll make so stay tuned for that. So I have a very exciting package that I want to unbox today. Since I've been doing a lot more cooking and filming a lot more what I eat in the week videos I decided that it was time for me to upgrade my kitchenware so I wanted to get kitchenware that was more like aesthetically pleasing as well as more high quality so I can cook even more. I got my kitchenware from a Korean brand called Bodori. We have a frying pan. This beautiful cream colored frying pan. I also have a bigger pot for stews. And you might be wondering where is the handle? Well the handle is detachable and it's right here. This is so cool. Clasp it on. Oh so cool. Whoa it's so sturdy. Whoa. Look at this. This one does come with a lid. Looks exciting. This is peak adulting guys. Being so satisfied with pretty kitchenware stuff. Watch out for my next what I eat in a week video y'all. I'll be cooking it up. Oh my kidding. I'll probably just be making like kimchi stew and kimchi fried rice and all that easy stuff but anyways all right I just have to show that off. Lazy to film though and I don't have it on camera but next time I will try to film for you guys maybe you know what I eat in a week video. Oh my gosh. I was really craving um spring rolls. I actually got a meal kit for it. Take the rice paper. I'm so hungry. It's like almost two and it's my first meal of the day. I had radio in the morning and instead of eating at the cafeteria downstairs I decided to take a nap. Got some pork with onions. Oh my gosh. Carrots, paprika, cabbage. I really don't like these vegetables so this is the only way I'll actually have them. I know I'm such a picky eater. I always suck at making these. Like some people make it so pretty. Mine is just like let me try it. I'm gonna try with chili sauce first. There we go. Healthy and delicious. I used to go get spring rolls like that you make at the fud place with my mom weekly. Like it was our thing. We both love summer spring rolls so much.