Wow
I look like Milo Thatch's grandma
My neighbors are having housework, or
yard work done
Right NOW.
So you may just continuously
hear the
gentle rumblings....
of a truck
*truck rumbling*
Later...
Kay.
Hello!!
Okay, hi! So after a week off
I'm back.
This week I just felt like
doing a cozy,
chatty video because I haven't done that
in a while uh, especially not a get ready
with m-
What is "talk"?
I haven't done a 'got-get ready with me'
I haven't done a 'get ready with me' in a
long time, mainly because
life ain't all that interesting right
now and I don't really do much...
I just got back from a camping trip, fall
is coming up
The best time of the year.
Today for a final look, I've had the idea that
I wanted to do like a final
"Ode to Summertime" kind of look
Pretty similar
to what I did last year with my like,
pumpkin spice-thing
Summer version? Natural-type makeup,
but dark brows maybe some freckles and
some like
you know, bronzed cheeks
And then we have some
ferns that grow out front so i'm going
to pick a few of those and then
somehow, attach them to my body
I figured I could
talk a little bit about my camping trip,
my lil' vacationn.
Some plans that maybe might happen
in the next couple months, talk about
Maks-o-Ween...
I guess we can get started.
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Although it's
sort of less of a transition now that
we're just going from me to me in the
same room but here we go
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Welcome back.
So yeah - okay
Glasses off
We just got back from our camping trip....
two days ago?
What is time...
We went from
Tuesday to Sunday
and we went up to Maine
Nick's uncle has
a
cabin that he built up there so once in
a while we will go up there and camp
with his family
So we did that with our
camper, it was really nice
I got zero
service so my phone was shut off
98% of the time which honestly was pretty
nice
and I ended up missing um, the 500,000
mark
I didn't find out until after I came back
And by the way thank you
for 500,000!!
I feel like I need to do
a celebratory jig
Here you go..
That was just for *yoUuUuuu*
So sorry if I seem
a little like
scatterbrained, I feel like the past few
months it's been really hard for me to
kind of gather my thoughts and I've been
forgetting words
it's just been a grand old time-
I'm done with this why am I still going
To be honest big part of why I feel so
anxious lately
has to do with my phone so I think
shutting it off was just like a really
nice
escape and I didn't have to worry about
checking anything,
replying to emails or anything. I could
just zone out,
eat blueberry-themed items
So the first
few days it was
me and nick in our camper and then his
dad,
and his nephew, and then of course his
uncle,
aunt, cousinss up the hill
So our nephew Henry
kept his company a lot of the time and
you know, that was nice.
It's nice to talk to kids sometimes
Adults can be so
boring
Sometimes it's just nice to have
a discussion about Harry Potter spells
I guess we can do brows...
I am due for a shaving of the
tails of my eyebrows so I'm gonna do that.
I feel like whatever I mention
doing this I always get a lot of
judgy comments um -
but i don't care
Good thing that what I choose to do with
my eyebrows literally does not affect
you in any way shape or form
Where's that tea?
Okay so for this one we're gonna go
dark thick brows
So yeah we did some
hiking,
one of the days we went to Acadia
National Park, I donned my best
adventuring Lara Croft outfit. Spent the
day doing that,
which was really nice and also a bit
weird... Of course with the
climate of everything that's going on
right now, everyone was wearing masks
You wear a mask to pass people, and then
you get to your little spot,
take it off, put it back on whenever
you're passing people
It's a weird,
weird time we're living in
I'll be completely honest, I don't mind it too
much
I kind of like the comfort of
wearing a mask
I would rather there not be a pandemic
happening
but I don't know I kind of like hiding
half of my face
One thing you may not know about me is
that i am
deathly afraid of heights, in a weird way
yeah i'm just going to leave one eyebrow
done while i'm talking about this
because
My fear of heights is very specific
where,
I'm okay on like roller coasters and
even-
what's that called
Wow this is what i'm
talking about forgetting words
What's that called? When there's like, a wire
and you
you hold on to the thing
Is my brain...
broken?
I have to ask Nick what that word
is...
"You hold onto the thing and you can.."
"Zip-lining?"
"You got one eyebrow"
"I know, NICK. I know I got one eyebrow.."
Zip lining.
It's a mess up here.
Zip-lining I'm okay with, I think it's
when it comes down to trusting your own
two feet is when
I get the heebie-jeebies and my legs
will literally start like
wobbling and very jello-
and my instinct
is to kind of just -
I will demonstrate
My instinct is to do this -
Acadia is kind of known for the cliffs..
so that was interesting, but i will say
This is my testament to
dressing in a way that makes you feel
good and happy and confident,
the fact that i was dressed as Lara
It actually helped me with my fear of
heights... which is really freaking weird
but it worked so yeah...
Pro tip!
Although
there was a point where
I was on the edge of this kind of like...
chasm
and it looked down into
a little cove and I was okay, I wasn't
super close to the edge because i'm not
crazy
But across the way Nick and Frodo
were
right against the edge because he's
insane
and so he was kind of like leaning over.
Frodo was right up against the edge and
i just
had a moment like panic
Seeing him do
that
made my legs go wobbly
Anyway.
Do I have any fun anecdotes? Not
really...
I saw a porcupine
I also found it super
cozy
to head back to our camper every night,
it's kind of like your own like
home base
Speaking of trips in our
camper, originally had planned that we
were going to go to Iceland in March,
obviously that didn't happen
In march we
rescheduled it to september
and now i don't think that's going to
happen either
Which is fine I kind of
knew that that was going to happen
So instead of Iceland, we were thinking
that it would be really fun to start
thinking about
a cross-country road trip, because we
have our camper.
We wouldn't need to stay anywhere, we
wouldn't need to stay
in a hotel or airbnb
So in a way it's
kind of like the safest way that we
could be traveling
It's just something that we've always
wanted to do and I feel like
the fact that we can't fly anywhere, this
is kind of the perfect opportunity to do that.
I don't know the first thing about
traveling that far, I feel like it's
something that
we are going to keep saying "yeah let's
do it, yeah let's do it, yeah let's do it"
and then we actually won't end up doing
it because it's a lot of planning
Ii don't know where we would end up, I
would personally like to end up
in Portland and see like the coastline
there because I've always loved those
giant rocks.
And then come back maybe lower
so I could see some desert? I don't know
If any of you have taken a trip
across the united states please let me
know some tips and tricks
But I just think that would be something
really nice to look forward to,
and I feel like if I have any tips for
kind of,
surviving this quarantine, it's that I've
been finding it really helpful to give
yourself something to look forward to..
Even if it's
not as significant as most people would
think, for example our camping trip was
something I was looking forward to
and if we were to do the road trip, that
would be something I would be looking
forward to
Even if it's as simple as we're gonna
get delicious food
on this day of the week, have a movie night
Really little things like that, I
think especially with fall
and halloween coming up.
Some of you may
have been here since
last year, but last year was my first
year doing "13 Days of Maks-o-Ween"
It's a stupid name but it's all I
could come up with at the time
so here we are
And so basically that means in October-
This year I think it works out perfectly
where every monday, wednesday and friday
I do it different
halloween/spooky makeup look or cosplay look
Some of the looks will end up being
videos on here but most of it will just
be over on ye old Instagram
It was a lot
of work and a lot of planning, but I
learned that I kind of work best when
I'm under really really
tight deadlines, so having to finish
almost a full look
three times a week was definitely the
push that i needed
And I was finding myself getting really,
really excited to
share them and to show people because I
was excited about them
I just like showing people what I make
So yeah I'm doing that again this year -
I'm sorry I keep looking at my makeup
thing because I feel like I should be
doing makeup but
I'm nooooot.
So i'm gonna bronze up the tops of
my cheek and nose to make it look
a-sun-kissed
I am giving myself more
time this year to
plan things out and work on things,
mostly because last year it was kind of
a split decision
at the very end of september that i was
going to do this
SoI have all
13 of my looks planned out i have
started ordering things.
Another idea that I had for Maks-o-Ween was
at the very end of it,
to have a virtual halloween party
because i know halloween parties are, you
know, mostly
not a thing this year
It would be fun to
give people a reason to dress up because
I feel like
unless you have somewhere to wear your
costume to, a lot of times there's not a
lot of motivation there.
I just want everybody to be spooky and
fun
But I also have no idea how I would
do that,
someone mentioned like a Zoom thing
I've used
zoom once...
I would love to bring in other
people
and kind of have like a massive virtual
chat where people can show off their
costumes
I'm nosy and I love seeing what people
are working on and their costumes and
that kind of stuff, so
selfishly that's why I would like to do
it as well
Is that sun kissed enough?
hello?
Sure.
Add some freckles...
What else-
One thing I think I might do this week,
start looking around for a studio space
there's a place about like 20 to 30
minutes away from me that
before this all happened, I was seriously
looking into but you have to kind of
call to inquire about it and needless to
say
that was enough for me to put it off
long enough
until it wasn't an option anymore
Maybe
I should just suck it up and call
One of the major events that
made me think this
was the Great Acrylic Spill of 2020,
which happened last week
I don't know exactly how I would make
that work yet because obviously I do
like filming in my living room, it's
easier
Generally more cozy than a studio space
would be but
I think for the sewing-heavy, fabric-heavy
really MAKING videos I would really
enjoy a big studio space
to help with organization, not leaving my
living room
a gigantic mess in between
days
I feel like lighting would really
be a lot nicer because
it's so dark in here all the time, but
yeah I still have some research to do-
I'm sorry I have so much spit in my
mouth all the time
*mouth noises*
I just feel like as my channel kind of
grows and evolves, sometimes you have to
evolve with it and I think a studio
space would really really help
I'm mostly going to keep the eyes bare
for this but I do just
i'm just going to add a little bit of
dimension here
Oh no...
You know it's been really
frustrating lately? I feel like now more
than ever and maybe it's because i'm in
my house all the time, I feel like my
eyelashes aren't doing their job..
I'm just gonna throw that out there
because I almost always
have some sort of hair in my eye and I
can never get it..
bu tI can FEEL it
Aren't eyelashes
supposed to protect against that?
Why are you even here???
Speaking of
um, my channel.. We did hit 500,000
Which is nuts
I feel like right now I'm in just
a good headspace with youtube, I think
it's taken a while for me to get here
I'm finally just kind of content with
where we are
from now on anything else is just kind
of extra...
because I think there's a lot
less pressure I'm putting on myself
I
feel like the videos i'm putting out
are reaching kind of a base number of
views that i'm
happy with, I feel like it's a really
kind of tight-knit little community
Would I like the channel to grow more?
Yes, but I'm not
you know - I don't feel so much pressure
from myself anymore
If we ever do reach
a million,
that's great but you know I'm happy with
where we are
and I love you guys and I'm just you
know - just thank you for watching me
I don't know why you do but i'm thankful for it.
I'll put some mascara on I guess
Now I'm
gonna add a little bit of the same blush
that I used which is the cream rouge
from Besame,
I need some more
and I'm gonna put that
on my lips
So Son De Flor, who are amazing and
ever so gracious sent over a couple
dresses
and they also included some of this
chocolate
Rye bread,
rhubarb and honey
So it's like...
BOUJEY chocolate.
And it's a little...
alarming
when you eat it
It's like savory...
It's really doing a number on my taste buds
but i'm gonna keep eating it because...
it's chocolate
Ine thing I forgot to mention, I guess we
can talk about while i start taking my
hair down,
so one thing I have started to do
inspired by my favorite boys: Arthur
Morgan from Red Dead
and Nathan Drake from Uncharted 4
Start
keeping a travel journal
I ended up buying this beautiful
hand-bound book from Etsy and then I
bought
this thing, which is my new favorite
thing in the whole world
A traveling watercolor kit, these slide out
colors,
and then this is the brush
and it's just this tube, but you put
water in it and so when you squeeze it
it saturates the tip of the brush
So one
of the days
we went down into this little cove water
area
and we just kind of sat there, and I
painted and it was really
really peaceful and nice
And it made me
feel like Bob Ross
My little drawing, which is impossible to
see
I want to start doing that for every
trip we go on
Photos are all well and good but I think
every time I would look at these, I would
remember
the experience of painting it and I feel
like that's more tangible,
I guess? Than the feeling of 'Oh I
remember when I took that photo'
So that's my plan especially, if we go on
the cross-country trip I think that
would be really nice
So yeah that's what I've been up to
I felt like I had so much to talk about
until i started filming and then it all
just -
Gone.
Okay that's not coming out... hello?
How are you guys
fairing?
Oh good, they're having a lunch
break
in my yard...
How you doing boys, you want
some chocolate?
Yeah how are you? Do we need a hug?
I'll give you a hug
Oh yes, here it comes
Okay - oh yeah
Things are wild and I've been
better,
I'll be honest it's been a little tough
Obviously I'm so grateful that I can
still do this and I still have a job
Job-wise a lot of things haven't changed
but
it has been a little tough to film um,
because obviously all I want to do is
just curl up in a ball
and wait until this whole thing is over
But  I cannot do that,
so even on days where I don't feel like
filming, just to kind of put on
a smiling face and pretend that
everything is okay..
It's getting a little easier, I feel a
little bit better today because fall is
coming up and because I have all these
projects
that I'm super excited for
It's really gonna suck when I finish
brushing my hair and I'm ready to go get
the ferns in my front yard and i have to
walk by
all these uh, tough-looking men on their
lunch break
Don't mind me, just gathering my ferns
I look like a sheep dog
I  know this
video is actually sponsored by
Function of Beauty but like come on ...
Look how shiny!
Wow.
Oo-  sorry
I just roundhouse kicked your butt,
I sorry.
I think this just about does it for the
makeup look, I'll check in in a little
bit..
Let's see if we can do this
I've got a
headband that i think
I can make work
Theoretically we can just stuff these
babies in here...
Oh boy.
I don't know what I'm doing, just keep
adding it..
put a fern on it
Good enoughhhhh
Let's take this photo shall we?
Ta-ddAaAaA
This is this.
It's a little bit more
messy and
definitely more hobbity than i was going
for
but whatever
I just mostly felt like
playing around you know
sticking some plants on my head and
taking photos of it
I've just been having a lot of fun with
making content, sometimes I put a little
bit too much pressure on myself to
always be putting out crazy, intense new
creative ideas
for content and I tend to forget that
sometimes,
it's just nice to sit down and not every
video has to be
groundbreaking
I think if I were to
continue on that trajectory,
I would burn myself out really quick and
I think that's
maybe why I'm feeling a little burnt out
I wanted to do a
relaxed, kind of no pressure video and
catch you guys up with what I've been up
to, which isn't much
It is almost september and that means
halloween time can begin.
Starting next
week,
I'm going to try to start pumping out
some autumn content and I'm really
excited
So here is my final goodbye to the
summer season
I love you guys whether you're new or
old to this channel, if you're new here
and you feel like sticking around,
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And we have fun here..
and I will see you in my next video, byeee
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This week..
so yeah what do we do
so i have a video
accompanying-  a really...
accompanying...
accompanying.
pastry?
Good, my camera is overheating
How long do you think their lunch break
is?
Eat your sandwiches a little faster
boys please..
it's a little more- *bleh*
Construction guys
looking at me stop it
Just a girl in her sunroom, okay? Talking
about shampoo and conditioner.
*Men talking*
I can literally hear your whole
conversation, just tone it down.. just... a LITTLE BIT.
Trying to film a commercial!
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