My name is James. I work at Gaslight with a great group of individuals. We spend most of our days writing Ruby and Rails applications. I've been spending increasingly more and more time in JavaScript. You could read into that whatever you want. So I've been looking for a new language to pick up and I had been looking for a functional language to learn for a while, had been trying to learn Closure for whatever reason and just never really quite stuck. But then I was introduced to Elixir at a local SINSI functional programming group and was pretty immediately drawn in. Initially at first I'll admit was the syntax. I had a very similar journey to what Richard was talking about earlier where the syntax kind of drawn me in and I ended up staying for the semantics. So I've been having a ton of fun programming in Elixir and it's really helped me to think about my programs differently and to break up problems into smaller processes using pipelines and pattern matching to just really model my programs more closely to my data which I've really loved. And the first time I connected to a distributed mesh I felt like a wizard. I mean this is amazing. The fact that I can have my code running on multiple machines and that the syntax still maintains its expressiveness with so much power and I was just absolutely blown away and so of course what I wanted to do immediately is tell all my coworkers like any geek who's passionate and I just wanted everybody to know so immediately I just started talking about nothing but Elixir and I always kept getting something similar to this back. I'd love to check out Elixir but I don't really have a problem that's big enough or that Elixir is well suited for and I thought man that's a bummer. I'm really excited. Why isn't everybody else as excited as I am? And what it turned out they were really trying to say is I don't want to use a cannon to kill a mosquito and that's a valid point I suppose except for I don't really feel like that's all that Elixir offers. See I realized when I was trying to sell Elixir to my friends I would use words that we all use to describe Elixir in Erlang functional, massively concurrent, distributed, fault tolerant, web scale, whatever that means. And that's pretty intimidating and if you were to try to think about you know what could I come up with that needs all of that. It's kind of difficult. There was a talk at Erlang factory about composing a functional community by Katie, I can't remember her last name right now, Miller. It was absolutely great and she made a great point that functional programming kind of has this reputation of being unapproachable that the really smart people are doing it and we use these big words like massively concurrent and monad whatever that is. So I've been trying to think of a different way to sell Elixir the way that I know Elixir and why I like it which is it offers me a different way to think about and solve problems no matter what size they are and it's very similar with Dave's mantra so maybe we're onto something here but really pattern matching, pipes, message passing, immutability, these things make me happy because it allows me to write my code very similar to the way my data is. And sure all of the power is still there. We still have massive concurrency and distributedness so by all means nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. So I wanted to talk about writing command line applications with Elixir and why and part of the reason why is to really show that you don't have to have some massive applications, some large website that needs to scale in order to have fun with Elixir and to enjoy it. Also the other reason why is because I feel like Elixir has some great libraries for doing this. The Stener library is fantastic and really is one of the better ones I've ever worked with. Also command line applications are kind of cool. I mean this is what everybody's desktop looks like when they're doing programming. If you want to have fun download this GIF and put it on your laptop full screen and just sit at a coffee shop for a while and see what reactions you get. You may or may not get kicked out. Anyway, but like I was saying, Elixir has a great standard library. This is actually the Cincinnati Public Library. I'm from Cincinnati and it unfortunately got tore down in the 60s I think. It was absolutely gorgeous but we have a great standard library that supports a lot of great functionality right out of the box and I've been really impressed with that. When I first was learning Elixir I immediately went out and grabbed Dave's book and devoured it and I was really filled with the same kind of excitement I had when I was learning Ruby. It just felt right. When I first learned Ruby my first introduction was Wise Point Guide which if you haven't read it I highly suggest it's a very strange time but you'll walk away feeling like I think I learned a language. But when I read programming Elixir I walked away thinking I can think in this language. I think I know how I would solve problems in this language and then I started doing that. If I had a small scripting problem I would immediately go hmm, how would I solve this in Elixir? What would this look like? I started writing small command line Elixir apps and increasingly found myself using Elixir in anger and that's really how you know you know a language is when you reach for it in anger. One of the first things you come across in Elixir is Mix and Mix is fantastic. I wish I had had Mix when I started doing Ruby or something like it. This was back in 2007 when Ruby gyms had just started catching on. The fact that we get all this functionality from day one, I feel like it's the early days of Ruby and the level of excitement but I feel like it's not the early days of Ruby in that we are standing on the shoulders of Ruby and other great languages. We have tools like Mix that is a dependency manager. We have a good package manager in Hex. We have the ability to write one-off tasks that's very simple and just a ton of functionality. So the dependency management with Hex now is fantastic. I've made use of it and thank you to everybody involved in that. So getting your dependencies, compiling them, updating them, locking and unlocking, I really like the fact that you can unlock a specific or all dependencies so that you can then upgrade. The other feature that's really nice is if you have a mix of Hex dependencies and Git dependencies and there's a shared dependency in between those, you can declare the shared dependency and override it to the version you want, unlike in Bundler where you just end up getting in a loop. So the way you declare your dependencies, I'm not going to go too far into this because it's already been stated. You just add them to your depth private function and you can declare those as a Hex package like the one right there or as a Git dependency and any tag, specific tag you want to include. And the other thing that I've used, especially with small little applications like command line applications where you might have multiple tasks to do something as an umbrella project, and the nice thing is you can collect up your applications and do things with them like run one task across all of them, say to clean up log files or you could also run all of the tests for the applications. And then if you have broken your app up in a modular function, you can declare any application dependency order that you have. So umbrella projects are pretty cool and it's something I hadn't seen in other languages that I really liked. Writing mix tasks, this was pretty cool how easy this was. You just include the mix task behavior and you supply a run function and do what you need to do. So a little bit of IO, some colored output, and then mix just knows about your task so you can say mix the name of my module and it will run your task. So very similar to rake, you can write these very short tasks and maybe you don't need a command line application. You can just do everything you need to do in a mix task, which has been really cool.  So mix escript build is how you build an escript, which is a zipped up version of your application and you can actually bundle along Elixir with that and the only system requirement is Erlang at that point. So what you need to do to do that is declare a main module inside of your project and in the escript key. And so I've declared a private method here. I set the main module to my project command line module and then what you need to do is supply a command line module, which is really pretty easy. All you need to declare is a main function and then do what you need to do, which leads into another really awesome standard library module, which is option parser. I think Elixir is one of the first languages, Python might supply one, but one of the first languages I've used where an option parser is supplied and that's been really awesome. So you can parse args, supply switches. So here we're supplying a help switch and we alias that to h, just in case somebody wants to use it shorter and otherwise then we pattern match on that. So this is another instance of pattern matching being really powerful in our code reading really nice and being very similar to the data. So we declared two process functions that we pattern match on. If it's help, we're going to display a helpful message and exit, otherwise we're just going to display a helpful greeting. And so to package that up, we run escript build that compiles our project, generates a escript and then we can run it on the command line like we would any other binary. And that is really as simple as it gets. So I've really enjoyed that. The other thing that was really nice coming from Ruby is basic IO and Elixir is pretty much exactly what you would expect. In order to put out something to the standard out, you just clear IO.puts and you get your standard out. If you want to get, gets. The interesting thing though is where Erlang comes in is that by default puts is going to the group leader process. You can actually send IO to multiple processes which is helpful if you need to read or write files across processes. There's great testing built in baked into Elixir and coming from a Ruby background also I was a big testing advocate. And testing command line applications, there's a really helpful module called capture IO that allows you to assert on any IO that's done inside the function and then make an assertion outside of it. And that's been pretty helpful for testing my command line apps. The other cool thing is IO ANSI supplies a lot of escape sequence support. So if you need to clear the screen, send the cursor home, change the colors to green or bright and want to make something that looked like that slide earlier, you can do that. So, it's pretty helpful. Files and paths. Again, this is very similar to Ruby with its file library except for there's a caveat. If you want to be able to use any of the IO module on files, you need to pass it the UTF 8 option and then all of IO is available that way. Otherwise you're stuck with using Ben read or Ben write on the file module. The other thing that was really nice is path wild card. So in my case, I'll show you later is I want to do write something that watched a group of files and path wild card was super helpful for that. The other nice capability that Elixir has that comes from Erlang is being able to interop with other processes. And that's done through Erlang's ports. And the way that works is Erlang spawns an internal process that binds to the input output of the external process and then passes it along to whatever process spawned it. And the basic usage of it is pretty simple. To open a port, you just declare port open and then say that you want to spawn a process. There's also a spawn link, if you want to link it. Pass it the command that you want to use or executable. A couple helpful options is binding standard error to standard out and you also want to record the exit status in case the process exits. So in this example, we're going to open up a port and then when we receive a message from the port that looks like data with a key of data and a path, we're going to put out the current working directory. And then when we receive an exit status message, we're going to let the user know that we exited. So that's a really simple use of port. You can also work interactively with ports, which is something I've been playing with. You can do some pretty cool stuff. So I wrote a really quick library for interacting with a game called Rogue. So start up a IEX ripple and bump the font, clear the screen. It probably needs to be a little bigger. Sure. Is that better? A little more? All right. So I wrote a library for interacting with the game Rogue, which is an old console ASCII-based RPG. So we're going to call Rogue start. That's an args and we get a PID and a port back. The PID is the PID for the port that we're going to communicate with. I have a function called Rogue show, which needs args. And we get a message back from the external process Rogue with the current state.  The plus symbols are doors and your objective is to survive and go as low in the dungeon as you can. So like I said, you can interact with not just spawn processes. So we're going to send the Rogue command. And because for some reason Rogue likes our Vim users, we're going to send an H to go left. And then call Rogue show so we get the message back. And we can see that our guy moved left. This is really cool. We are sending messages and receiving messages from an external process. And that's just really cool. So I've been playing with that. My goal is eventually to write an AI process to interact with Rogue and play through. Turns out that's actually pretty difficult to do. So that's real quick ports. Also something you may, some external processes do not exit properly when you tell them to close. And I happen to know that Rogue is one of those. So we're going to kill all Rogues. So Elixir has a great interoperability story with ports. And there is some limitations. One of the things that port has trouble doing is if you want to read all of a file to the end of the file, it has problems doing that. So there's a great library by Alexi true droid on Twitter and GitHub, I believe. And it's called porcelain. And it wraps a Elixir interface around the existing port library and also provides the ability to get past the end of file issue. He actually uses go to do that. So you can use Erlang, Elixir and go all at once. So the other really awesome thing, and this gets back to the early slide of being able to have concurrency and scalability, is that once you write a command line app that actually needs to scale up, there's great abstractions for doing very simple tasks that you want to be asynchronous. And that's with tasks and agents. And tasks are, as someone mentioned earlier, a, I think it was Josh, similar to futures in another language, with the caveat that they're only going to return to the process they called them. So, the here we're declaring a greet function with an argument of name and we're putting out name. And we're going to pass that to a task that we want to call asynchronously. And let's say, we're going to greet ElixirConf and friends. And then here, you're seeing we're putting out good afternoon and then mapping those tasks and calling a wait to get back the output. And so, we'll see in order, good afternoon, hello ElixirConf, hello friends. So tasks are a really nice simple abstraction for just spawning functions off and receiving the output back. The other thing that's really nice that I've used in my apps is agents. So agents are just a really simple abstraction around storing state. And really, under the covers, the thing I like is that they're just a gen server. So, to start an agent, you start and link it, pass it the initial value that you want to have. In this case, it's just an empty hash dict.  So here we're passing a function that will have the agent's current state as an argument. And then we're putting into its current state a tuple of foo and bar. And then we can get that back. So agents run in a separate process. So if you have lots of little processes that just need to read from a global state, agents are really nice for that. So the command line application that I wanted to write is I had a project where we had a lot of coffee script files and a lot of markdown files. And we were using a JavaScript library to compile all of those. But it was single threaded. And so it was pretty slow. So I thought, you know, it would be really interesting to see how I would do that with Elixir. So I wrote a really simple library that will watch for, watch a path. Everybody see that okay? Okay. So we'll pass it a glob that is a path wild card. And then we're going to start an agent to keep track of the status of the files that we want to watch. So the agent is really simple, like I showed earlier. We start up an agent. It has a set the initial state that maps over all the files in the path wild card. And then uses an internal module in mix to get the last modified date of the file. So there's all kinds of hidden gems inside of mix. I recommend diving into the source. You'll find that maybe what you're trying to do makes already does. Same way with xdoc. So we're going to set the initial state of all the files. And then we're going to watch those files. And all that does is check for changes and checks to see if the last modified, if there's any modified files that have changed. And then if there is, it's going to perform a task in this case, we're going to map over all the files and spawn off a task to compile the coffee script files in this case and then concatenate them into one application.js file. So the coffee script compile, and I found out after doing this there's a much simpler way to do this without using ports, but it's just spawning a port to the coffee script command and compiling it and getting the compiled coffee script out as standard out. And then bringing that back in to the application and concatenating it. So I'll show real quick. I have a file or a folder rather with 60 or 70 so coffee script files. And I've packaged this up into a e-script. And then I'm going to run. I'm going to have it watch the test directory for any coffee script files. And then down here I am going to edit one of those. Looks like I need to move that over a little bit so you can see. There we go. And to the right here I have htop running so I can see that all my cores are going to get utilized. So in this case we're going to edit the file save it. Yes. I'm sure. And we'll see all eight processors were used. Our coffee script files were compiled. And pretty short time. So this was just a really quick example of something I was able to do to solve a problem. And that's how I've been using Elixir is to find small problems that I would normally reach for languages like Python or Ruby to solve and at work and solve those problems with Elixir because like I said the language is really expressive. It is really powerful and has a great standard library for doing this kind of stuff. So I encourage you not to be afraid to use Elixir as a vector, you know, command line apps and scripting as a vector to get Elixir into where you work. I've had a lot of success with that and I know a lot of other people I've talked to have as well. And also to just generally experiment and do fun stuff. I really enjoyed Augie I think did a synthesizer or was that Josh? Josh did a synthesizer in Elixir. You should check that out. Super cool. But yeah, have fun, solve problems both big and small, and think differently about your software. And that's all I have. Thank you. Have you found a good documentation for what the allowed options in mix.exx are because the docs are kind of lacking and mostly I've learned about by seeing other people's apps use a certain keyword and then like oh I can do that I didn't know that. So the docs at least the most recent version seem to be better but I know because the version of Elixir has been changing very rapidly lately a lot of those keywords have changed so it wouldn't surprise me maybe if some of them were out of date. But I have tried to dig into the source and see what's available to you. But if you find a key that's not documented please submit a pull request. Okay. And then just two comments on questions. Ruby has OPT-Pars and it's called option parser. I've never ran it. Yeah, confusingly the library is called OPT-Pars all one word lowercase. So most people don't find it because the required library is not the class name.  It's mostly development environment. Okay. Because I'd recommend looking into using the most OS's now have file system change libraries. FS watch is one I'm looking at to replace what I'm doing because I'm really just pulling FS watch I've thought about spawning that off as a process and then just having it pass me a message when a file is changed. There's also at the Erlang level a thing called NIFS which is loading a C library into the Erlang VM. You might want to look into that might not spawn an OS process it might work better. But I think it can screw with the Erlang VM if it crashes. Okay. Another thing I didn't mention is there's another library that is much more mature than this for watching files and performing tasks called Rotor. And that's written in the lookser. I'd recommend checking that out if you want to do that. Rotor. It's by hash nuke on GitHub. Yeah, shortly after I had started working on this I was on IRC and he was like you should check this out. And it's much further along than my implementation and actually implement some of Gulp's API. Do you know if you're able to feed in special keys to that standard N like if I wanted to control plus something or plus something do you know can you do that? So you should be able to with escape sequences. Yes. So if you wanted to interact with save them and send an escape then you can do that. Any more questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you.


By now, you've encountered a few different values for stock. So let's learn some of the terms in this short video. The stock market value is the price a person can buy or sell one share of stock. Market value varies with corporations net income, financial position, future prospects and general economic conditions. In almost all cases, stockholders are most concerned about the market value of the stock. Preferred stock that requires a company to redeem the stock at a set price is called redeemable preferred stock. The company is obligated to redeem the preferred stock. Therefore, redeemable preferred stock is really not stockholders' equity, instead it's a liability. The price the corporation agrees to pay for the stock, which is set when the stock is issued, is called the redemption value. Liquidation value is the amount a company must pay its preferred stockholders in the event the company liquidates and goes out of business. Finally, the book value per share of common stock is the amount of owner's equity on the company's books for each share of its stock. I've added my opinion to this that this is a totally worthless piece of information because book value could be so far from any real and reasonable value of a business.


The PMMI Assistance Program helped Languth by subsidizing our first trip to Brazil. We were able to acquire the PMMI Pavilion space, a very economical method. It gave us exposure to the market. And without the PMMI Assistance Program, we probably would not have done that show. So it was a great benefit for Languth and a nice offer from PMMI. Three years ago, we used it for an Andeana pack in Colombia. That was the first time that we used the trade assistance. And for that, we got a boot that was fully paid by the PMMI. It was a great show. We got four sales from the show through the PMMI. This year, we stayed there with boundaries and we're going to participate at the Dubai Golf Food Show. So it's going to be a new experience using the same trade assistance of the PMMI.


Happy Wednesday morning. I hope you all can see me. My Periscope is acting up again today. Who would have thought it? Hey Lisa My Periscope on my iPad is being weird and this is how I watch you guys for your comments Let me go back out and go back in again because it's gonna be hard to answer your questions if I can't see what's going on Hello, everybody. Let's see. Let's try this again There we go. I'm sideways on the iPad as per usual, but I know it's correct on my phone So I don't know how you guys are seeing it Hey, Alabama. Wow Little known fact I used to live in Georgia when I was a baby my dad was stationed in the army But I don't really remember it and I haven't been to the Alabama yet. Hey, Mary So this is what we're gonna work on today a bird of paradise this painting was Requested by one of you and we do have a list for watercolor Wednesday suggestions For curriculum or painting or whatever you want to call it up over on my Facebook group There's a document under files for the watercolor Wednesday broadcasts. You can add your Suggestions into the comments and we'll add it to the upcoming episodes I am in working on making some of these episodes with their accompanying PDFs all of it downloadable for like five dollars if You guys are interested On a website for the new year So let me know if you're interested you'd get to download a copy of the video and you'd get the PDF Which you can buy now at my Etsy shop It's two dollars, but for three dollars more you would get to download a copy of the video So that's up to you. I use primarily Daniel Smith watercolors love them very much This sample that I created to do the PDF with Is done on? Hot press watercolor paper, which is very smooth We're gonna use cold press today. I'm actually out of hot press and actually hot press is not my favorite anyway, so You can find the link for the PDF which includes a copy of this painting at my Etsy shop If you search Etsy for Gina B. Arons, I should come up But you can find the links to all my shops at Gina B. Arons go to Contact us. I think it's on the contact us page. I don't know. I've done been doing a lot of updates this morning I've been up for a while. I've got my coffee. I've got my brushes and my paints I need to get them wet, but I think we're ready to go All right. The first thing we're gonna do is grab my trusty well-loved spray bottle And let's just spray the paints down. I should have done this before I started broadcasting, but like I said, I've been Frantically working on a lot of stuff for the new year this morning Try to get stuff done. All right Hey, how are you? Don't know, right? So I'm trying to remember to put my coffee way over here off to the left because I've done that before and that Would be sad Remember while I'm painting if you guys have any questions, I've got the iPad right here and I can answer your questions for you Hello So the first thing we're gonna do is take kind of a larger brush and I've got my Raphael soft Aqua brush here, which was really expensive But it holds a lot of water. They're really expensive and you know just for beginners I wouldn't recommend them because I think they're you know, unless you really have unlimited funds Because they're pricey, but they hold these brushes hold a whole boatload of water. I gotta tell you I Love them. They're just out of my price range. This is a fluid cold press watercolor block I'll show you the cover I got this from Dick Blick, but you can get these blocks of fluid watercolor paper. I believe it hobby lobby I'm not sure about Michaels I prefer cold press because it has a hey good morning. The cold press has a little bit of a texture. Can y'all see that? It's a little bit bumpy on the surface Hot press is very very smooth and see you're seeing my hold on you're seeing my cable hot press is very very smooth And there's something called rough press which is really really really textured Frabriano makes a paper that's Soft press. It's got a little bit of a texture, but not as much as cold press and it's Not as smooth and flat as hot press So the only way to find out what kind of paper you're gonna like is unfortunately try them Wait until some of these different kinds of papers go on sale at you know, Michaels or something You know buy one get one free or something and get a couple different kinds of watercolor paper and just try them I'm gonna prop the finished painting up here So I remember what I did and hopefully don't you know give you guys wrong directions So we've gotten our paper wet here and now we're gonna just lay a couple of colors on the paper and we're gonna Sorry, there's a tweet thing coming up We're gonna just lay a couple colors on the paper. We're gonna let it kind of run where it may Okay, where did I go? And we're gonna I'm having issues with my iPad this morning you guys We're gonna just lay or this is the green gold Daniel Smith green gold one of my favorite green colors We're having connection issues this morning with periscope. I'm not sure what's going on Hello, Lisa And we're gonna just do kind of a background wash of color You don't need to lay down a lot of color. You also don't want it to be very dark I'm gonna put a little bit of phthalo yellow green on here, which I didn't do the first time Yeah, I love this green gold. It reminds me of the golden fluid acrylic and green gold Which I love and this is the phthalo yellow green which I'm gonna put a little bit of I didn't do that the first time But I really like that color. I'm also gonna put my favorite color. I've got to refill it soon cobalt teal How do you not just love that color? You can do your wash of any colors in the sample painting and in the PDF I believe I only use the green gold and Just let the paint flow where it may make sure you use colors that you know Are gonna blend well together that are next to each other on the color wheel not across from each other that way You won't get mud Now before we do anything else we need to dry it So this will be a good time to ask me questions And this is might be a little loud for some of you. Sorry. You might want to turn the sound down Thank you so much. Yeah, it's prettier This is just a really easy way to do like a background on any painting or even a journal page While I'm drawing we'll talk about some stuff So if you're a troll and you're gonna be nasty don't bother because if I don't block you one of my peeps will I was saying at the beginning of the broadcast that I'm going to I think if you guys are interested Be offering up a download of these live broadcasts For like five dollars. Yeah, no troll zone. No kidding for like five dollars with the PDF from Etsy So instead of just getting the PDF if you want to buy a copy of the video you could do that, too Painting is so much fun and relaxing and therapeutic meditative so yes, you should go back to painting This is yeah, this is just a background To give the background some color and some interest There's lots of different ways to do this But this is the easiest way to do it and like I said you could use this for a journal page background and then do some doodling or inking on top of it or collage Just be aware that this is watercolor paint. So if you choose to Do something with wet media on top of it that it's probably gonna move a little bit I'm lifting it up so I can see where the shiny wet spots are now. It's dry So what I tend to do is I tend to lift it up and look at it this way and look for the shiny wet spots so now it's dry and These are Daniel Smith watercolors, which is my preferred brand. I really love the vibrancy of colors and this is just a small fraction of the colors they have they have I think 238 colors and This is just the you know, I think this is 52 colors out of the 238 But look at some of the vibrancy of the colors that look at this opera pink The phthalo yellow green the green gold they have some colors made from semi-precious stones that nobody else has like moon glow Is one of them bloodstone. I believe is another one sleeping beauty turquoise These are great paints. Hey, I started out with crayola. Use what you have what's in your budget what you can afford I still use this particular paintbrush. It's one of my favorites It's a royal watercolor brush very cheap and inexpensive And I got it I think at walmart and it came in a pack of four or five for like I think it was three bucks or something Pelican are good That was my next step up from crayola pelican Uh and talons, they're both very good. I still have them in my I have a large round watercolor palette I use especially when I have friends over and we're watercoloring It's on a big lazy susan And I uncaked my pelican and talons watercolors and I put them in the round palette. I still use them Hello, and how are you? How are you? Okay, so now we're going to go and we're going to start painting our flowers in And I um downloaded a copy of a picture inspiration photo Uh from I'll answer that question in a minute uh from pinterest um I created a um File for watercolor inspiration on pinterest so you can go to my pinterest board and look for this photo Just search for my name everywhere. You've searched genie b erin's.  I got it at michael's years ago They're very easy to find go to the scrapbooking department So I'm going to go with I'm going to go with sap green you can use any of your greens use what you have I don't remember what I said in the pdf so Don't ask me because I don't know All right, and I'm going to put in just the basic shape Of my flowers And no two times you do a painting like this. Is it going to come out the same? I'm using my royal brush This is around number 16 And I'm just I'm not really touching it very much to the paper. It's barely touching the paper We're just getting the outline of our stems in with kind of a medium color paint You could use the um green gold again With less water and more paint now I'm going to put that's the that's one of them We'll see it's put the other one in On monday, we did bird of paradise and acrylic They turned out okay. It's not the best painting I've ever done. I wasn't really feeling it. I should have listened to that You know how you have some of those days where you know, you're just You have an art journaling prompt or something that you need to work on and you're just not feeling it And then there's one more the thing I liked about this particular inspiration photo was there was an odd number of flowers And odd number is always more interesting than an even number And I always think of bird of paradise is if you look at this there like upside upside down hockey sticks So paint a green upside down hockey stick And don't go too far with the dryer Yeah, this is sap green you could do this with green gold And I think I did with the sample and that's probably what I said in the pdf But this is sap green which is a little darker It's still a yellowy green, but it's a little darker And I tend to favor yellowy green colors anyway Okay, so now we've got our green hockey sticks Now that I've said that I'm going to have trouble thinking of these as anything other than green hockey sticks Okay, so now we're going to go in with some yellow And I'm going to at least to start I'm going to start with a very yellowy Lemony yellow that hands a yellow to sort of map out our flower petals But then I'm going to pretty quickly switch to new gamboge because I want a little bit of that hands a yellow To suggest lightness and brightness But the in reality the petals are more orange So we're going to be using like hands a yellow new gamboge Probably permanent red a little bit of pyrrole orange To do our petals and we'll be adding in a little bit of prussian blue In the inspiration photo, there was some blue in there So I'm going to put in um, I'm going to start with this one up here And you probably can barely see that I should zoom in for you guys There you go Just paint some yellow lines where your petals are or where you want them to be Bird of paradise flowers always remind me of like a chicken's head with all the little You know, what do you call the stuff on top of the chicken's head?  Yeah, see, um Yeah, they're very oh, it's okay. Jerry Um, you comb that's it the chicken's comb on top of his head And yeah, they're very tropical flowers So just map in sort of where the lighter You know petals are on the flowers from whatever inspiration photo you choose Thanks And start with your lightest colors and work your way darker because remember with watercolor Oh, yeah, see I would love to have chickens because I'd love the fresh eggs, but my husband, um Yeah, he said no He's a city boy. He's from new york, so I'm I'm a city girl too. So in reality, I'd probably only think it was cool for like the first five seconds All right, so now we've got our Puddles mapped out in a light lemony yellow. We're going to work our way darker Now we're going to go in with some new gambos And we're going to um Start to make a more orange. I know messy, right? See I'd have problems with the messy thing We have a dog. He's messy enough Okay, so I'm going right over Where I've already made the lines with the yellow and I'm laying in some new gambos the paint is pretty wet So it's going to blend with the yellow that's on there So you don't have to do too much because it's going to blend and pool where it wants And just work with that and let it let it go where it wants to Yeah, I'm not too far from a lot of farms in Gilroy and I I have fresh produce and things delivered So if I really want fresh eggs, I can get them delivered I'm gonna just with the tip of my brush. I'm going to pull out the tops of these puddles and make them a little bit more Pointy There we go. I'm going to take some of our new gambos And I'm going to put a little bit of it on our stems This yellowy orange color is a really good color to use when you want to suggest Um sunlight and brightness. Thanks Jerry knows because she I was on the facebook with her Um from my arts and parts here on on feta periscope I'm a little bit discombobulated because I was rushing trying to get some Art business stuff done for the new year I got it done. Whoo, but holy cow. I had like five minutes to spare to get on here So now we're going to go in with some red. You could use any of your reds Um Actually, I take that back. I'm going to go in with pyrrole orange first But you could use any of your reds in this I'm going to probably use the reddest the best true red I have which is permanent red But you want a true red red. This is pyrrole orange.  This is a Princeton select round number four Don't forget about your stems and add some of this orange to suggest sunlight on the stems of the flowers And as you're painting the stems be conscious of which one is in back of the other ones, you know, they're overlapping So you want to as you're shading them you want to make them look like You know one is behind the other one So I don't want to put like this orange all the way through because this big one is in front of it If you get too much water, just have a rag or paper towel handy and do some lifting All right, let's do this other one Yeah, we have people coming in and out this morning. Periscope is acting funny It was for me too this morning when I first got on so No worries. I'll be here and if you guys miss anything the recording will be on youtube for free Um within 24 hours. I'll get it on there as soon as I can Yeah, you know, it's they always they always get it. Um It always is, you know what they it's really good and then they do an update And they mess it up again. Holy cow So just work your way darker with darker gradually darker and darker colors You can always make it darker, but with watercolor you really can't easily make it lighter That's like their biggest the biggest thing to remember about watercolor And I know it's not me because I'm no longer update uploading video files to my class site I was doing that for the literally the last three days. Today is the third day My poor computer hasn't been off in three days All right, now we're going to go in with the permanent red And the permanent red is a really nice true. Here's a scrap. It's a really nice true True red True red It's a little bit on the blue side, but I prefer that for red So now we're going to go in and we're going to add some red in Our paint again is still wet. So this is going to bleed a bit. We're okay with that We're going to let it bleed if we want to put some suggestive marks in Somewhere and we don't want it to bleed then you would want to let this dry first I'm barely touching the brush to the paper in some cases And in other cases, I'm just really pushing down and letting it go down into the water Yeah, I hate editing video. I've spent like the last four days video editing Loading to the class site over at Udemy Finally like five minutes before broadcast I got it all done And now it's up for review Oh, yeah, yeah, hopefully there won't be too many fixes We'll see All right, so I'm going to do the same thing to this flower that I did to the other one. I'm going to put some like red lines I'm going to let some of the red paint bleed The one thing I noticed about painting these bird of paradise flowers is that they're not hard And You learn a lot about blending and color placement by by painting them So I definitely would probably recommend it to any of you who want to practice with watercolors I'm going to put some red on the stem because in the inspiration photo that I found there was some red on the stem Now, of course, you could probably do these in a more realistic manner I'm more of a suggestive painter and an impressionist type painter in both acrylic and watercolor. So keep that in mind Yet you could do this with water soluble pencils You could let this watercolor paint dry And then you could accent what you paint over this with watercolor pencils Um, you could add some lines with a black pen like a staedler pigment liner one of these I need to sip a coffee. Hang on Okay, so now we're going to add blue to this We've got orange Red yellow green if I put blue in here, we're going to get mud. So we don't want mud. So we're going to dry it again Yeah, you totally could do this with the Derwent intense blocks or pencils I prefer the Derwent intense pencils over the blocks. In fact, I sold my blocks There's nothing wrong with the blocks. They're just a pain in the neck to use my opinion If somebody made a palette that fit the blocks or you could just take the palette out and then use the blocks I'd be happy. I would it would not have sold them Hey, how are you? Okay, so now that's mostly dry And again, you want to dry this because if you have all your primary colors on here Except for blue and then you add blue or purple You're going to just get brown and you probably don't want tons of brown in your flowers If you want it to be bright and light and tropical So now we're going to work with our blues and some purples No mud. No, no mud. Well, sometimes you want to make mud Sometimes you want to do mud on purpose But you want to learn how to make mud and how to avoid making it so that when you do make it It's on purpose and not by accident All right, so now let's see now. I think I want to go with the blue I like prussian blue prussian blue is a very blue green blue That didn't make sense it at turquoisey blue No matter my my watercolor sets. I always like this. This is prussian blue It's kind of more on the turquoisey side than the cooler like cobalt blue or ultramarine blue And it's one of my favorite colors So now we're going to come in and I'm using again still using the round number four Now in the inspiration photo and we're going to add some some Blue petals. I don't know what that post was about. I have no idea if that was legit Then somebody needs to email me after If it was a troll go away You'll have to email me afterwards and I'll have to look at it after the broadcast because I don't even know I don't even know. I'm gonna have to sit and look at it and I don't have time right now while I'm on the air So we're just adding some of these blue highlights to our flowers where they were in the inspiration photo I'm pushing down on some marks and just doing a fine line on others. I want it to be an even nature nature's not straight and even Yeah, I I usually get one person a broadcast that wants to see my boobs or something and You know trolls so they're usually on here somewhere and we block them as they pop up Or ignore them if you ignore them they go away for the most part So I'm going to add in some of these blue petals in the inspiration photo again. There were blue Petals in the flowers.  I want to leave some of these marks But see how that prussian blue mixed a little bit with some there was some wet green there and red And it made a little bit of a dark almost a brown color But I'm okay with that because it just gave that flower a little bit of a shadow that I was going to add it in in a minute Anyway, so again before we go too far in the paint dries I'm going to come in with a little bit of water in a few places And it's going to thin out the paint and it's going to Pull it and give us some suggestion of Petal shapes that aren't there shadows that aren't really there there That's good. I like that Let's do it again down here. We have to do this one still And I'm going to turn this just because I think it's easier for me to get in here Remember if you guys have questions ask them okay So then I'm going to come in down here to my stems And let's work on the stems a bit I'm going to come in with Before we go darker. Let's um Let's add in some of our favorite green gold And it's pretty thick right now. It's not I haven't added a lot of water to the paint I though I do need to add a little bit more than that But it's mostly pigment and not a lot of water So it's pretty thick and opaque Which is good because it's allowing me to lay it on top of that slightly darker color Of the sap green and have it show up still And now I'm going to come in with a little bit of water and blend out a little bit of it There we go Now I'm going to come in with Pains gray You could use neutral tint for this. Both of them are very translucent The paints gray is more of a blue and the neutral tint is more of a black They're both very much more translucent than the black. Here's all three of them next to each other These two are more interesting than just using plain black And any of you have watched me before know my preference is the paints gray and I'm going to use this to create shadow You could use more of the Prussian blue too. That would work And I'm going to just put a little bit of it right here in this stem in the back Pains gray is one of the colors I need to add more of to my palette today A little well is almost empty I must use it a lot It in the cobalt teal There's my house phone. Can you hear that in the background? Only people who call our house phone are salespeople and my mother-in-law We lost a few followers. I'm guessing that they either didn't want to see watercolor painting or they're having problems with the connection All right, so I'm going to blot this a little bit because it's a little bit too much not only too much pigment But too much water. There we go. That's better I'm going to add a little bit up here to the bottom of this flower To the underneath part. I still think these bird of paradise flowers look like tropical hockey hockey sticks But that's just me I'm going to have trouble thinking of them as anything but hockey sticks now And basically that's it. You just keep going until you're happy with your Flowers And then I'll show you what I did at the end I took a flat brush Let's see That's too big. We'll use this one. I like this one. This is a half inch flat. This is a Princeton Neptune brush and For this part I went in with cascade green, which is a dark like a Christmas tree green This one That was probably too much of it, but you'll see around the um in the sample I added some dark to the background around the flowers Just to make it a little more interesting. You don't have to do this part. It was fine without it But these are little samples and experiments. So what's the harm in You know just trying it see what happens and then add a whole bunch of water and Just let it blend into the other colors that are on the background Remember with watercolor you not only have to work. Yeah, it's a learning experience. You not only have to work lighter to darker But you have to remember that you can only do so much lifting or Blotting I you know, you're not supposed to call it blotting but blotting Um Because these colors artists artist colors, especially they'll stain the paper So like I could try to come in here And I can get some of this up up, but you'll never get all of it up Because it stains the paper The other thing you can do that I didn't do on the sample. So here's here the two side by side And you can see the background on this one's much more blended than this one. This one Is didn't have as much water on it The other thing you can do that's a lot of fun is take um And they dry lighter. That's exactly right. You can take a larger round brush And take a color for you um This is really best done with one of your warmer colors that Really would warm up the painting like your yellows your oranges Um, I'm going to use new gambos Which is our yellowy orange color I'm going to use a little bit of it with a lot of water on a large round brush and do this And just splattered on your painting. Yes, and you can purchase originals and digital downloads And I have a big stack of stuff to scan today And put in is a digital download including this And I have it's on my list today of things to do And I just Add some splatters and interest to your painting You can also do this with a toothbrush a toothbrush is great. I actually have a toothbrush in my Um watercolor brush bucket And then just let it dry you could do it with blue too. You could do a combination just go wild and crazy with it You know a good blue to do this with would be the cobalt teal Because you know who doesn't love a little teal on anything I mean look you know and just have some fun with it These colors are going to dry lighter some of them might blend with the other paint on there That's wet, but it's going to make something that's interesting I'm a big fan and follower of gene hains Um, if you don't know who she is.  She's got I think three books She's a watercolor teacher out of the united kingdom and she's fabulous Yes, I love my toothbrush is my go-to art tool painting tool Is an old toothbrush.  You can buy the pdf for this today's episode in my etsy shop. I did do a pdf That um, I created uh from making this sample The video when it loads to youtube will include the video footage of me working on this sample Um, and as I said earlier in the broadcast, I do think I'm going to start offering for five dollars A digital download of the videos with the pdf Um for the new year. So if you're interested in something like that, let me know And next week, I think we're working on galaxies next week, but let me look hang on Look at the file. Let's see. Oh no free form and expressive faces. I didn't okay I have no idea what I'm going to do with that free form next because we already did a faces one I thought was pretty detailed, but I guess we will do more with that. I'll do something very abstract and suggestive If you want to suggest an upcoming episode, let me know, um, you know, we can add it to the list not a problem You can use lots of different kinds of watercolors for this. I used daniel smith like I said earlier, but You know, I also own may marry blue pelican talons van go You any of them will work And when do you know what this is done when this is done? I don't know when it goes to its forever home. I I'm you know, I I just tend to keep working on things until you know, they're probably overworked And you can see how this is the red was wet right here Or it got re wet when I put the water on there and it's blending with the other colors I splattered on there, but I kind of like that Any other questions? I'm still working on my coffee And again, this is the one that we that I did the other day for the sample for the pdf So I guess this afternoon or tomorrow I'm creating some expressive faces because For next week samples I don't know any if anybody has any ideas where to go with that prompt. Let me know If you have something in particular you'd like to see about with regard to faces that I didn't cover already Thank you. Lisa. I appreciate that for me art is not about um Any distinctions between um, is it fine art? Is it good? Is it bad? It's really about you expressing yourself in your piece and as long as you're happy with it That's all that matters if you want to get better from a fine art standpoint Great, I can help you and there's lots of other teachers out there like gene hands that can help you But the most important thing is to have fun and express yourself in your art And these kind of blendy Watercolor techniques, especially the one with the background. These are really great for journal pages And I could see this whole painting on a journal page and then going over the top of it with a little bit of stenciling of punchinella Maybe in the corner doing some line work. Thanks Ann I'm doing some line work with a black pen Anything like that though that you're going to do let this dry completely first Before you do it and just be aware of when you put like acrylic paint over this the watercolor may reactivate and move That's a good idea. Mary. I was pretty sure galaxy was next, but yeah faces evidently One of my admins or somebody must have been changing the schedule, but that's cool Um, and you could also go over this with pencil either regular Color pencil or watercolor pencil over the top of this and then activate it You know and just keep building on the layers and you can use watercolor as your base layer to a really interesting um Journal page. I'm reading while I'm talking Everybody loves faces. There's something about us art journalists and faces that's you know When we art journal the primary primary thing we create is faces So I'm happy to help you all with that and there's lots of really great ways to do interesting faces in watercolor We did a few of them last time and there's you know a million different ways to do a face in watercolor And we'll do that again next week And maybe we'll bring in the watercolor pencils with the watercolor paint. So we'll create some interesting faces And we'll work on expression. My faces tend to always look pensive or introspective or sad I'm not sure why that is. I don't try to do that. That's just how they come out I have no idea A lot of them are eyes wide open and we can do one with eyes closed I can also show you some little tricks about doing a more masculine looking face Although all my masculine faces look like young men girly men. I don't know why that is Yeah, so faces faces everybody loves faces now gene hains has a couple of really great Um lessons in her books for doing faces That are just phenomenal and I can't say enough about her Um, she's a wonderful teacher someday. I would love to take a class with her in person All right, and when you get that up make sure you go into um My facebook group and post a link for all of us to the face video that you're posting and this is uh, oops Here's my watercolor palette This is the color key. I always put a close-up of this in the pdf Everybody always wants to know what colors I have and it's covered in plastic so that if I while I'm painting I have a tendency to get it wet and sloppy to see all those splatter splatter marks on there that protects it And I was working on a gene hains assignment And she was using specific colors And I was working to see if I had colors in my palette that were close That I could work with and I did so this is the one one of the ones she was Using cadmium orange. I have pyro orange. It's not exactly the same But it's close and I found if I added a little bit of yellow to it. It got pretty close And then indigo. I have pains gray And mixed with prussian blue. I get I can get something that's pretty close So I just stuck this into the back here and I made notes on it Daniel smith has a 238 color sample chart you can get for I think 20 bucks or something on their website Daniel smith.com Where you can get a little sample dot of all of their colors I cut mine up into little cards to fit in this little book But you get an actual dot of the paint On a card and it comes in an eight and a half by 11 sheet. I know right But you can get a sample of all of their colors And that's a really affordable price to get a sample of 238 colors And then what you can do is if you can't afford daniel smith paints and you have colors on hand You can look at say I said I was using pyrrole orange You can do a swatch of this pyrrole orange and compare it to what you do have to see what color you have is close And this is a good little travel kit that you could just take with you Um these sheets these are enough to do a couple of you know small paintings or atcs or something These little dots go a long way um Golden coir has their coir watercolors. They also come in um, they have some sample cards not all of their colors I love the koi. I have my koi in my travel set And they also give you a little dot of paint and a little piece of watercolor card paper. These Samples are free. I got these at my local fine art supply store hey So, um You know sample cards are a great way to get started and they're either either free or very cheap And I love the koi set the koi set of watercolors. I think I had the 24 I got it a hobby lobby. I still have it. It's in my travel art kit I've pulled it apart and put it in one of these metal pans, but I still have it. I think that's it this morning That was quick These didn't take very long, but they're a fun project bird of paradise The green gold if you only buy two Daniel Smith colors I'd recommend the green gold And the cobalt teal if you can add one more color Moonglow, I love the moonglow. This is that that's the grayish purple I started my Daniel Smith collection by buying I think two tubes at a time Um at my um fine art supply store.  Let me know I'm gonna be on google hangout with Cindy and Jerry Bellini and um Michelle Mitchell about the facebook group and stuff tomorrow But i'm usually but i'm usually available for hangouts or skypes or something with you know my art my art peeps All right, I think that's it right now 10 a.m We're gonna just chat and hang out.  Let me know Not tomorrow, but we can do it a different a different, you know time All right, that's it right now.  Don't let it get to you Thanks And I will post this to youtube um within 24 hours and um, let me know what you all think about having a free down I'm not a free but uh Inexpensive download of these videotapes with accompanying pdf if y'all would be interested in that or not I don't want to go to the pop bother of loading a bunch of the video To the class site if you're all not interested. So let me know you can send me a private email Or facebook message All right, I'll see you all later next week. We will be back here watercolor wednesday 10 a.m We'll be Excuse me. We'll be working on some more faces And if you want to make suggestions, just let me know All right. Oh good. I'm glad you think so lisa All right, I'll talk to y'all later. Bye


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I'm acting like, oh, I've been all around Europe now. I am doing a new series on my channel. I just love jamming to music while I get ready. It just gives me in the mood. It just gives me the vibes. I'm just so hyped because my lighting. You can see my skin so clear. I'm just so excited. I made a playlist. This is Kyra's Best of Queen B or Grow Up, Beyonce. And also, y'all, Glow Religious came out what is wrong today and I was listening to it after my workout. Okay, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, I crack myself up sometimes. I'm not even a twerker, but that song was making me a little shake shake. Yeah, like I was saying, I'm going to start getting ready more on my own at home, vibing out. Let me catch my breath. It's the matcha and the movement combined. I just want to make different types of playlists for different types of moods I'm in or, you know, just create playlists depending on what I'm getting ready for. Cyclebuyer really has inspired me because they have so many lip playlists. Like today, I think they have, I think I have a Cardi B versus Nicki Minaj playlist and I'm going to miss y'all because there's no spots left. You know, I just, I have to get ready more anyways because doing my own hair this year, as far as like, not the install, but as far as like my maintenance, this is a quick weave install. I don't know what Dallas glue used, but baby, I've been swimming in the shower. This is my second time washing it myself in bags. I have no loose tracks. No loose tracks. So we're going to be trying a new makeup. I looked at this picture on Twitter actually of Tasha. I'm going to insert it right here. And the next day she dropped the video and, oh my God, when I tell you, falales finish. Okay. And it's mad. And I'm a mad girl. I have oily skin. I'm going to basically be using the same product she used in her video and I'll have the video linked down below. I'm going to start with our hair. And the blow dryer I've been using is by Foxy Bay. I ended up getting this out of a ipsy box and I like it. I feel like it makes my hair super silky. It dries so fast. When I do my hair, when I do my actual, my real hair, I'll do it on cool because these can be damaging to your hair. And on the extension girl, I'm using it on high heat. Just taking out all of the old hair off of this before we get started. And then I'm going to be going in with some products. And the cool thing about me doing my hair all the time is that I get to see what works best for me. And also when I was in Nordstroms actually, this girl, she was like, yeah, I use the Dyson and, you know, my hair has grown so much by doing it myself. And I was like, maybe that's what I need to be doing. Doing treatments at home because normally if I just go to the hair salon, I'll just go to the hair salon and not get the proper treatment that my hair actually needs. So I've really been on top of it. I've been doing my hair max rosemary drops and all that extra stuff. 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I've been making it a priority to do under eye care just because I'm getting older. This helps so much. This is black owned. It's affordable and they're pink. So we're going to get started. These first two songs, this is from the Lion King album, The Gift. It just brings back so many memories as I reflect during COVID. I did get COVID actually. I was trying so many things to get rid of it because I was right before I got surgery because this is when the gyms were on lockdown. You couldn't go to the gym. I just remember playing these two songs running around the track over and over. So the next songs are going to be obviously the ones up to date that I really enjoy. So let's go. I'm not even a dancer, but every time that comes on at a function, baby, you just gotta even though I be like, the beat is just like, uh, y'all know the vibes, okay? I'm a deep girl. I'm a grown woman, but I can still get crumped. Okay, girlies. Now we're about to take it big. Beyoncé back in the day, I didn't get it then, but I get it now. Every song that Beyoncé makes, I'm that girl. I'm that girl. I'm Dominant and I can still be feminine at the same time. Ugh, she's just that girl. She's so pure. I just love Beyoncé. The energy, the feeling her music gives me, especially when I'm in a gym, it's like a tingle. It's a tingle inside and it's just, it gives you chills. It's just like, we taking a big early 2000s. So drum roll, please. It's crazy how Beyoncé made a song that made it.  This hair is so thick. Don't ever let nobody think that you need them, cause you don't.  Period. She said what she said. Tell me that I remind them of Beyoncé so you can all- Ahhhhhhh! Enjoy your own time, your me time, self-love is the best love, you know, and I always get chills every time I listen to that song, cause it's just so good. It makes me happy.  Next couple songs we're gonna get into are from Gabydae album, which is probably my favorite album of all time.  I mean, how's the music? The next song is a song you break out when you first break up. Hair is done, so now we're gonna get into the makeup. I didn't think it was gonna take that long, but my hair takes a little minute, because if you know, you know, when you have wet braids, it smells like mildew. And that's not what we're gonna do, okay? You gotta make sure it's dry. I don't know if I'm gonna put lashes on or not. Um, but yeah, so let me go grab the makeup, take these off. Eyes are sitting. Like I said, we have new makeup. And it's crazy, I've been wanting to try this foundation, the NARS, but I have it actually. Um, what color did I get it in? This is the Soft Matte Complete Foundation. And I got this in the color Macau. And it was too deep. Wait, let me make sure. Okay, whoo! I'm like, let me make sure I didn't get the same one. I ended up getting a color in Barcelona. Obviously the most important thing when you're doing makeup is the prep, the skin prep. So I'm gonna put on my sunscreen, because I didn't apply any today. I'm seeing a sunscreen by Supergoop. It has SPF 40. SPF, it can already be oily on its own if it's an oil-based sunscreen. So, but I like this. It really mattifies my face. It takes away the shine, but not too much. And I just bought the bigger version because I have the smaller one. If you gon' dance with me tonight! That's my girl. Okay. I'm gonna be going in with the Nice Cinema Glow Recipe Dew Drops. I really like these. They make you really glowy.  Since this is a matte foundation, I feel like it's okay to use together. When Tasha did her video, she used all matte products. And she also used the Soft Matte Primer. So I got this as well. Okay, yeah. It did take away shine out of my tees on. And I'm not a professional makeup artist, but yeah, it took away some shine. But I already put my unseen sunscreen on as well though, too. But obviously this is a primer, so it's gonna help the makeup stick better to the skin. This is in the color Barcelona. Oh yeah, this matches with my neck. Normally I use the Matte Foundation by Born This Way and I own it. I use it on my days where I'm about to go out and slay. I need to go. I need to go on a vacation. I'm available. I have no color. I'm gonna put a little bit of this Macau because I don't want to look too bright. That's what it's given. Okay, yeah. I actually like Macau and Barcelona mixed together. I'm pretty happy and it looks good. I like it. So now I'm gonna go in with the Born This Way concealer. I couldn't find the concealer that I wanted for my bright under eye. The one that I was finding was a little too close to my skin tone. I didn't want to get it. It would have been waste. This is just really neat practicing my base makeup for when I go out. This is good practice. Charlotte Tilbury sent me their matte liquid blushes. So I'm gonna use that too. I need to do my eyebrows really quick so I'm gonna let the concealer dry a little bit. I blended out the concealer. I like how it looks. It looks good. Nice and matte. And I did just spread my face with the Rare Beauty and also the Morphe. I'm gonna go in with the Laguna Bronzing Cream. This is what it looks like. It reminds me of the Chanel Bronzing Cream. I'm scared. I don't know why I'm nervous. Trying new makeup is always scary. Is she cute? Yeah, she's there and not doing too much. Which I like. Because sometimes I can make that mistake of getting bronzer that is too dark. And it's looking crazy. I have to blend, blend, blend. I like this color. Nice. I have the chiseled jawline. She's cute. I'm happy I got this. Normally I use the Charlotte Tilbury contour wand. But this, this. I'm gonna go in with this one size pressed powder and I use the color medium. I like to go in with the pressed powder first and then I'll go in and bake. That is just key. I feel like I haven't done my makeup forever. I didn't even wear makeup for New Year's. I'm gonna go in with the one size translucent powder. This is gonna be my first time using their translucent powder because she used it in her video. And I thought it was really nice. So I'm actually gonna contour my nose first. Sometimes my nose contour isn't consistent but she's forgiving. Go in with one of these matte beauty blush wands. It's between pink, pop, pillow talk. This is the probably, I'm assuming is gonna give me that Dior, the Dior backstage. So this is what they look like. So these are the swatches. So I have pillow talk on my hand and also the pink pop.  It's like a soft pink. Okay, this is nice. I don't know about this powder. Like, ew. Yeah, it's a shadow but I don't like how this is applying on me. So I'm gonna let this do its thing. I'm gonna set and then I'm gonna actually apply my lashes because I've been doing my own lashes. So I'm gonna apply individuals. I'm not really that good at it yet. So it takes me a little minute. So that's why I'm gonna do this off the camera. And we're gonna come back and then finish the face. We got a new lip to try out as well. And then also the powder. Actually, we can do that now. This is how to go in with my bronzer. It's the same, the Charlotte Tilbury to bring myself back to life. Before I use this NARS Perfecting Powder. I got the color, what color did I get this in? Sunshore. So this is like a medium deep color. So this is what it looks like. Ooh, I'm scared. I thought I'm really looking at them. This is kind of ugly. We're gonna have to normalize Returning Makeup because I'm scared. This is the powder that I normally use. She compared hers to her Fenty's. So I'm gonna compare mine to my Micro Smooth, the Sephora. So they're kind of the same. These are not the same. So yes, I am going to be exchanging this. She was pressing her powder into her face. So I'm gonna go in and press mine in. Because normally I'm like... But she's like, no, it disturbs the piece. She's cute. But I'm really looking mad. My face looks so good. My face looks so good. Like this is gonna be my new makeup routine. Ooh, I'm excited. Like I said, I haven't done my makeup in 2023 at all, I don't think. No, this was so fun. So I'm gonna do... I'm gonna bake my contour too. Right with the Greta Beauty and then the Morphe. Let me do my eyes real quick and I'm gonna come back. I finished my face and I think I like the makeup. But the color match on the NARS... Oh, I thought I put it back in here. And I think I want to get a different bronzing cream. Because I didn't like how the Shotherpick Tilbury set that. But it looks fine now, but I don't know y'all. I feel like I got a mask on or something. I'm definitely getting a different color in this. This is the Sunshore. I'm gonna go and get the color High Tide. I did get a new lip gloss that I wanted to try on camera. This is the juvious place and the color barely there. It's just a pretty pink nude. I feel like this will look good on any skin tone. I got this from the Ulta in Target. So we'll see. This is getting... Oh, she's beautiful. This is so freaking dry. You know what? Let me remove this dead skin. Because it's bothering me. See how like y'all can like... It looks like I have a mask on. I don't know how to explain it. But it's giving a real natural. Well, yeah, I'm definitely going to get another cut. I like the finish. It's just the color. And I'm definitely going to note when I'm doing the powder to press and not... You know what I'm saying? So this was a good, nice practice. Yeah, this is pretty. I hope I don't look crazy because I did individually. Okay, and then lastly for scents of the night, we're going to do Black OPM by YSL. I'm feeling like a classy girl. I really like this look, honestly. Just make it look. I just feel really clean and put together. And this is just a classic. That smells amazing. I kind of want to mix it with something, but I don't know what. In me, I'm very extra when it comes to my perfumes. And then I'm just going to add the Gizu hair perfume. She's ready. My nose is so snatched. Like I'm so happy I use that product. But yeah, like I said, I will be exchanging my NARS press powder. I do like the combination of these two. That wraps up this video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Do not forget to like, comment, and subscribe. And let me know if you like this type of video. We can definitely do more because I definitely have so many things right up my sleeve. So let me know down in the comments. And I love y'all so much and I'll see y'all next video.