Coming up on DTNS, why my book Live Users lost all their data, Mozilla wants to collect your data for science, and Kristoff Zajakdenek is here to talk about tech accessibility for people with more business. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, June 25th, 2021 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Kristoff Zajakdenek is here, producer and host of the podcast, I'm Kind of a Big Deal. Kristoff, thanks for joining us. Hey, thank you so much for having me. This is awesome. I'm honored to be here. We were all just talking about movies we've never seen, but feel like we have on Good Day Internet. If you want that wider conversation, become a member at patreon.com.dtns. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google started testing a new prompt and search, warning that, quote, if this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for results to be added by reliable sources. The company said that the warning will generally only apply to developing trending topics designed to not say if the information is right or wrong, but that the search involves an updating situation that may change with more information. Amazon has a couple of acquisitions to note. AWS announced it acquired the Secure Communication Service WICKR, W-I-C-K-R, WICKR, which claims to be the only collaboration service that meets the security criteria of the NSA. AWS will continue to offer existing WICKR services and offer WICKR services to AWS customers effective immediately. Amazon also announced it intends to acquire the podcast hosting and monetization platform ART-19 with last year's acquisition of Wondery. Amazon now holds a podcast content creation studio, hosting platform, and the ability to sell audio ads. Facebook confirmed its testing, letting some users create Instagram feed posts from their desktop browsers. Previously, posts could be viewed on the web, but only created within the mobile apps. It's not clear how many users have access to the test. I do not, not as of this recording, but those who do can select aspect ratios, apply built-in filters, and do some basic edits. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation into if Amazon and Google are doing enough to crack down on fake reviews. Although the regulator cautioned it hasn't reached a view of whether either company has broken the law or not as a result. This follows a broader initial investigation. The CMA launched in May 2020, assessing several platforms, internal systems and processes for handling fake reviews. Google Contacts received an update to bring it more in line with Google Workspace. The app, the web app now shows a full screen of a contact rather than just a pop up with name and email address, phone number, office location, all displayed in a profile card with a separate management chain showing how the person falls into the org chart and then a list of recent interactions with that contact. All right, let's talk a little bit more about what is a personal nightmare for me and I suspect a lot of us. Rob, tell us about this. So Western Digital's My Book Alive series of network attached storage derives went out of support back in 2015 and has not received firmware since then, but some people still use them and some people reported Wednesday that their drives have been factory reset without their knowledge, wiping all of their data. Log files from one user showed that the reset command was sent remotely. My Book Alive devices have a firewall and can still communicate through the internet via Western Digital's My Book Alive cloud servers. Western Digital advises customers to disconnect My Book Alive and My Book Alive Duo from the internet. The company does not believe its own servers have been compromised, but it does believe that My Book Alive devices were compromised by a threat actor. Western Digital believes an unattached remote code execution vulnerability discovered in 2018 may be at fault. That vulnerability requires the attacker to know the IP address of affected devices. No malicious actor has taken responsibility or contacted users of yet. Bleeping Computer says some users have reported success for covering files using Photorec. Yeah, so that's not something anybody wants to wake up to to find all their network attack storage files gone. I have a few minds about this. They stopped supporting it in 2015. They told people they were stopping supporting it. They did the nice thing and said, we'll let you keep connecting to our cloud servers. We won't cut you off if you want to keep using it, but essentially you're using it at your own risk at that point. Six years after updates is a long time to go before something like this happens. I think this is getting a lot of attention not just because of the horrible nature of it, but because it affected so many people. It seems like it's affected quite a few users. So a malicious actor out there probably did some scan for IP addresses. Maybe they compromised accounts, although Western Digital doesn't think it was through their servers if they did, and then just did vandalism, wiped people's data off. Another reminder that you should always have multiple backups of your data. Don't rely on just one space. Multiple backups of your data and it's you're living dangerously when you go for years. We're talking over half a decade now that these things have not been supported. And I actually believe it or not had a, you know, my book live. I didn't have it very long. I only had the one terabyte version. So I ran out of disk space quite quickly with it and then moved to something to just allow me to have more disk space. But I know me. If the thing is just sitting there working, I'm probably not going to unplug it regardless of whether it's, you know, supported or not. I may not even know that it's not being supported. If it's just one of those things is kind of out of sight out of mind. So I do really feel bad for people who are in this situation because although some folks are able to recover their data, there's going to be quite a few who probably are not. They probably didn't have a backup and that data is just gone. So yeah, I feel bad for folks. And I know a lot of folks are really upset with Western Digital, but what can they do? They told you six years ago that they were going to stop supporting this stuff. And actually it's longer than I think they told you back in 2012 that they were going to stop supporting it.  So it's it's been a while. Yeah, it's definitely a good reminder of something's going out of support. It connects to the internet and six years go by all a perfect storm for something like this to happen. I mean, it's very unfortunate and it is good news that there is at least some recovery for some of these users, depending on, you know, like photo data and stuff like that. But yeah, I mean, I doubt it was the majority of folks saying everything will just be fine forever. They kind of just forgot about it. Yeah, this time goes by. I'm honestly shocked it took this long because more than a few people had these, you know, this was one of the first relatively inexpensive NAS devices that you could get. I mean, I think the one I got was like 400 bucks, which is not insignificant. But for a NAS device back then, those things, you know, like a Drobo costs like a grand. So the fact that this is coming in 40% of that cost, you know, a lot of people pick these up. Yeah. And then the question becomes with a device having a known vulnerability for three years, what's Western Digital's responsibility when they've said they're not going to support it anymore to let people know about that vulnerability, maybe push out a patch anyway. Kristoff, on a scale of one to panic, how does this story make you feel? It makes me panicked in that I need to probably get another hard drive that to put my audio shows on because they're all on one at the moment. And yeah, I need to probably allocate some some dough for something that I can carry around that isn't connected to the Internet or supported by anything else. It's the rule of threes. There's the data on your device. There's the data locally stored with you. And then there's the data stored remotely, usually in a cloud service. That that's the standard if you want to be be extra safe. Just the cloud, the cloud just like freaks me out in general. I was I was storing stuff before clouds were around. And so I don't know that I completely trust that, especially when there isn't a cable going to the cloud. I don't know. I just I feel like I'm safer having it on my orange drives that I can drop down the stairs and they'll still work, you know. Yeah, the idea with the cloud is that it's not your only place and maybe not your place for sensitive data. Sure. It is another place. In case there's a fire or some other disaster or something that you've got something that isn't in the same place as you. Yeah, absolutely. But I mean, also, what is your do you have a schedule for updating all of your backups? I mean, do you do that every month? I've been really, really bad at having a I have a lot of that stuff that just it just doesn't just goes. Yeah, yeah. Well, Microsoft announced Thursday that starting on July 28th, any app maker that uses its own payment system, not Microsoft, brings their own to the Microsoft store won't have to share any revenue with Microsoft. They're like, you bring your own payment system. We're cool with that. We won't take try to take a cut. But that's if you're not a game, doesn't apply to games. Microsoft is reducing the cut it takes from games listed in the Microsoft store from 30% to 12% starting August 1st. But it's still taking a cut if it's a game. And yet, as we mentioned yesterday, Microsoft is using the Amazon app store to distribute Android apps in the Microsoft store, which is potentially a way around that. Your Android games are exempt. It seems anyway, could steam or Epic add their stores as well? The Verge actually asked Windows head Panos Panay this question and he said Windows already in many way host these stores. And if we can host it through the Microsoft store, then of course, for sure, it means as others want to come to the store, they're very welcome. As a matter of fact, encouraged. And that's kind of why we're building out some of these policies. Panay envisions a Microsoft store that lists apps no matter what store they're actually in. So it seems like Microsoft is open to all comers. They would like steam and Epic to do what the Amazon Android store is doing as well. Rob, what do you think? When I first saw this and heard this, I actually watched that live event a couple of days ago and my my initial thought was all apps, really? That's that's huge. And then you get to the fine print and it's like, oh, no, not not games because in here's my thought on this. The developers that are big enough that they would actually build their own monetization system into their app. These are not insignificant development efforts. It takes it takes a lot to do that. So the big apps, Microsoft has to court them. You've got to do something to get them there because they're pretty much good to where they are. It's like, no, I'll just keep doing it on the web and make my money the way I used to make it. Oh, it doesn't cost me anything. Sure, I'll come over. Games on the other hand, there are, you know, it seems like developers when they get into developing games is kind of one of the first places that they go, even if it's just gamification of an actual tool or something that you're building. So I see them saying, no, you still need to pay us because those are the ones that, oh, wait a minute, maybe we can actually make some real money on this if we don't have to give 30 percent to someone and Microsoft is, you know, I don't want to say that I expected it, but I'm not shocked by games being exempt from, you don't, we're not going to take your money. Yeah, it's that thing where you've got a really successful thing already and you're like, but do I want to change that one? Like, I'm not making anybody off the rest of the Microsoft store. That's easy to change, but we make a little money off those games. Yeah, but if you know, if you're steaming your Epic and you say, okay, 30 percent versus 12 percent, I mean, that sounds better. If the principle is we shouldn't pay, this is a good point. The implication is steam and Epic wouldn't have to pay anything if they get their store listed. It's only if you list your game with the Microsoft store, but steam and Epic would be able to do an end around that. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, that's a little twist that everybody might not quite realize. Okay, well, then then I think it must come down to well, either, I don't know, the handshake hasn't happened yet, or there's a little bit of, well, let's wait and see how Amazon does with Microsoft. Let's see, you know, what the interest looks like and to see if there's maybe a mad rush from some of the other big companies who think that this is a great distribution platform or it isn't kind of hard to say it. All right, Mozilla launch.  I was just going to say, not free forever. Yes, nothing is free forever if it ever was free. Mozilla, sometimes free, launched a data sharing platform called Rally that lets you opt into sharing your browsing data with scientists that are studying the web. Opt in. Rally is a browser extension that with your permission collects demographic data, technical data, location, and how you interact with the browser. Based on that data, Rally will then suggest studies that you can choose to participate in or choose not to. Up to you. You'll be told what the study's for, what data it's going to collect, and how it will behave. If you agree to participate, you will install a separate add on for each study. When a study ends, it's add on will uninstall. If you leave a study before it ended, your data will be deleted from the study's database. So it's trying to be really upfront about what's going on and when it's going on. Mozilla is also releasing web science. That's a toolkit that lets researchers create standardized browser based studies. Princeton University scientists are the first to take advantage of Rally with a study on how users find and share news on politics and also COVID-19. A group from Stanford University plans to use Rally to study the economics of sustainable news coverage. Rally is available now to US Firefox users. You have to be 19 years old or older. Mozilla plans to bring Rally to other browsers and countries in El Futuro. So Sarah and I signed up for this already. For me it was because I trust Mozilla. I use Firefox. I love the management, the transparency, telling me what they're going to keep, what they're going to not keep, and if it's a study like the Princeton study where I'm like, yeah, I would like to contribute to them figuring out that kind of stuff. And they seem like responsible real researchers. Sure, I will allow that one. If I see something sketch, I like that I can pop right back out and they'll delete my data. So I'm in on this. Sarah, I know you are too. Yeah, absolutely. I am the person who for years has been like, how do I get into Nielsen radians? I want my voice heard. Study me. Study my behavior. But in all seriousness, on this show, we point to studies and reports and years of research and surveys, internet surveys, phone surveys, all sorts of stuff. And we take great care into breaking down all of this data and being like, okay, how far along are we? It's just peer reviewed. All of this research is really important. And again, having the option to say, this is something I'd like to participate in, maybe not this. So it's not some blanket opt into a bunch of stuff that may or may not apply to you. And yes, being able to bounce out at will, I want to help experts better understand the way that we use the internet in a variety, in so many facets of how we use the internet. So yeah, I like this idea. I am a willing participant. I look at this and it's interesting to me that Mozilla is, they're being very responsible. They're telling you exactly what they're going to do, how they're going to do it, where your data is going to go, how you can delete your data relatively easily, all those kind of things.  However, when the, when the, there's a new app that's going to take every bit of data that I, that they possibly can get out of me, because it's giving me something for free. I don't even think about that in and sign up almost immediately.   And this is not that, but it's still, do I want to give you data and I'm not even getting anything for it, just knowing that you're going to use it to, to make something better in the future? It's hard to trust. I don't know if I'm that altruistic. I get that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Chris Duff, would you do this? I, I, I, I signed, I signed, initially I sided with Rob because I will sign up for, for free apps and say like, yeah, I want to use this. So, take what you want. I, I want to trust Mozilla and, you know, companies that appear to be very transparent about where the information is coming from and what it's going to do. I don't know. There's also a part of me that they know everything already. So I don't know. Tom and Sarah really kind of sold it for me like, yeah, let's help. Let's make this better. And, but I don't know. I'm really on the fence as well. I feel a little bit gun shy to pull the, you know, to jump in on these things. You know, I guess, I guess one of the, the selling points for me is a group of scientists from such and such universities. Okay. This is a group of people who really care about this. Well, there's a lot of data that's flying around already. Where do you get that data from? I don't know. Facebook, monthly active users. It's like, it's, I like the idea of being able to say researchers here to hear, here is some data from me directly because I care about what you're doing and I want you to succeed or at least, you know, understand us all a little bit better. Well, I thought about my purpose and, you know, my show and how maybe people with dwarfism, if they were to study individuals and how they interact on the internet and the things that they search for and the stuff that is difficult for them, like maybe this is a way that scientists from Princeton or other universities can study and say, oh yeah. So these individuals, we could really help them out if we, you know, tailor their experience in a certain way. So that was, I was really trying to find the, you know, how it fits with my experience and my situation. And that's kind of what I thought of. Yeah, a good data set has a lot of different types of experiences in it, right? So you can contribute that. Yeah, absolutely, for sure. Hey folks, do you like what we're talking about on the show? You want to hear us talk about something else or add something that you didn't hear us talk about? One way to let us know is in our subreddit, submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddits.com. Well, we're at the end of accessibility week. We've talked a lot about different types of accessibility needs and technologies all week, though I will say a lot of our examples are about vision. There are a lot of other kinds of accessibility issues out there. Kristoff was kind enough to join us today to talk about his day-to-day experience with technology. Kristoff, can you give some examples broadly speaking of the kinds of challenges you and other people with dwarfism face? Yeah, absolutely. So thank you so much for having me on the show. This is really, really cool to be here. And dwarfism, I say this so many times, but it's really a mixed bag. And so I'll tell you a little bit about me. I'm four foot, four inches tall. I'm pretty proportionate and I'm very active and athletic. I went and surfed in Malibu this morning. So I have, you know, I'm out there and I'm living an active lifestyle. Still, when I go to the restroom in, you know, at a gas station or a restaurant or something like that, there are the, there are things that are motorized where they use the sensors. And I can use that, but I usually have to stretch and reach to just access all of those. And being four foot- It's not conveniently placed, right?  Other people with dwarfism experience much more mobility struggles. You know, some people will use devices such as scooters, wheelchairs, walkers, canes. I use extension pedals for driving the car. Other individuals who have shorter limbs than I do will use hand controls in order to do that. I don't use a seat underneath me, but I use a back to bring my chest forward. And so the seat is more comfortable in the car. Some people actually sit in, I don't know, kind of like adaptive car seats almost because their bodies are just so small, but you know, we're adults, we're leading these lives where we have to conduct business and get around town and do these things. So there are mobility issues. There's medical, surgical issues and there are a lot of social issues as well as you can imagine. You can't hide that I have short limbs.  And that's for everyone with dwarfism. So there are a lot of different things that I think, you know, so many different experiences with dwarfism. And it's, it all just, a lot of it, has to deal with reaching and and lifting and mobility and getting around. Do you find that it's easier to use or find accessible technology for your home technology than it is outside? It is, but I think that's really expensive.  That's, that's all changes that can cost money.  So, a good buddy of mine is a CFO of an insurance company and you know, he has the money to build his own home but he doesn't want to make it accessible for him because when he goes to resell it or move, what average high person is going to want, you know, the thermostat at two and a half feet. It's really undesirable. Yeah. You have to go and change everything. I've never even thought about the resale aspect of that. You're right. Like you wouldn't even make it better for yourself because of the cost of having to rip it back out when you want to sell it. What about, what about day-to-day technology like phones and laptops, tablets? You know, what works for you there and what doesn't? The, the phone, I, I purchased a new iPhone a couple years ago and I was so disappointed because it was so much bigger than my iPhone SE and my hands are small and so I can't just operate the phone in one hand. I can't reach across the, the phone, I think I have a, an iPhone 10 and just getting around it is, is too big and it's cumbersome for me. So that technology is, is kind of frustrating. Stuff that, that does help is you know, sensors kind of do help on certain things. What about laptops? I really don't have, laptops and computers, you know, I really don't have any sort of issue playing a guitar.  So, you know, I'm not a guitar player, but like, I guess that is kind of an idea if you want to think about, you know, I don't have long slender or like short and slender fingers. My fingers are kind of like patty and wider and shorter. Are there some existing technologies you think are improving things or at least have the potential to get better? The way that I see it is that technology really has to be integrated with lowering. You know, that, that really gets overlooked. Like, the sensors really help. There's been so many times when I've walked into or tried to walk into a gas station or a convenience store and the sensor for the sliding doors, does not see me.  So, I, I think there are so many opportunities where, you know, people with shorter stature can really be considered and we are overlooked. What about social media? Is that a help or a hindrance? It's both. Social media is excellent as a way to expose people to people with dwarfism because there are a lot of individuals who are out there who want to show their bodies and want to show the experience of someone with dwarfism dancing or just existing in public because that really is how you normalize our experience. The thing about social media that is bad for us, in my opinion, is it's so easy to put up a video that diminishes our experience or makes fun of us and it's so easy for people to comment about, sorry, I'm probably going to hell for doing this, but this video is cracking me up, you know, and I see so many comments and I've spent a lot of time writing into YouTube saying, you know, this is offensive showing a little person doing this thing and just diminishing their existence as a human, you know, you're not you're not showing us in a light that is acceptable and just kind of pokes fun, it punches down at us, you know, and so I would love for some sort of filters or some sort of way to weed out those videos that are that go up or at least the, you know, the comments because they really don't help us at all. So it's a double edge, you know, a double as in so many things. They have them absolutely. Yeah. Well, Kristoff, thank you so much for being willing to share a little corner of your experience with us. Really appreciate it, man. Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me on the show before we finish up here. Let's check out the mail bag. We got an email from David in hot and humid Minnesota. Sorry about that, David, although you might like it, wrote in and said, I've been digging into the new Windows 11 information and I noticed that Windows 11 is going to require TPM 1.2 at minimum, prefer TPM 2.0 and really want whatever the newest version of TOM is when it finally comes out. My question for you is, is this ethical? There are millions and millions of computers out there that work just fine, run Windows 10 just fine, but don't have a TPM chip or any way to add it. So after 2025, just four short years from now, the systems will essentially be e-waste in filling up planfills. Would it not be more responsible for Microsoft to build in support for the newest TPM technology but still support computers that don't have it with Windows 11 or at least continue to support Windows 10 until such time that people have naturally moved off of it and upgraded their older computers? So there's been a lot of confusion around this and some of it is Microsoft's fault. Thursday, we said you needed Trusted Platform Module or TPM 2.0 to update to Windows 11 and that is what Microsoft says on its website, but that's only if you're a manufacturer selling a new machine. They want to have new machines have the newest TPM. Regular users only need TPM 1.2 which has been around since 2006. Now granted, not every computer made in 2006 had it but only the oldest CPUs will not have TPM 1.2. Microsoft will update its system checker to reflect this soon. In the meantime, if you're failing the system checker for Windows 11, look and see if you have TPM support turned off. You can turn it on and then pass the check. You don't need to have it on to update to Windows 11. And like I said, Microsoft plans to change that system checker to just look for the module, not look for whether support is on. I did not look to find out how many laptops, computers out there don't have a TPM at all but we have a great article from Tom Warren on theverge.com that is linked in our show notes you should go look at. Tom Warren did an excellent job uncovering why this became so confusing and why Microsoft is doing it. It's about encouraging better security because what a TPM does is stores your private keys in a way that software can't get to which can help combat ransomware and a whole lot of other things. So go read that article if you want to understand more but yeah, hopefully David, that helps you reduce some of your frustration with that because it's a lot more computers that will be able to upgrade to Windows 11 including my own which doesn't have TPM 2.0 it's got TPM 1.2 in it as well. Well if you have any questions like David did or you have an answer or a question or any comment at all you can send all of it to feedback at dailytechnewshow.com thank you in advance also shout out to patrons at our master and grand master levels today they include Dan Voiles Logan Larson and Mike Aikens we also have a brand new boss Dalen Gilbert who's now backing us on Patreon thank you Dalen. 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Okay, lady, what is this? Hey, I'm testing out our new build of Glider, which is an application we're going to use to be able to send data from an iOS or Android device to a circuit Python board that has Bluetooth and energy support. And because circuit Python is interpreted, it means that we could have this code here, this text area could have code in it. And then we write the file here and it gets transferred almost instantly over to the application. So our idea is that you'd be able to write code on your phone, your mobile device, and then transmit it over to circuit Python board to be interpreted immediately so you can code without even needing a computer. You can code with any mobile phone or tablet that has BLE support. So clear that text, let's see it live. Clear it. Okay, let's read the file back. There you go. So now it's reading the data from. So writing and reading, we're gonna have directory management and deleting files next.


Okay, traders, that is 1pm GMT and welcome to this week's live market and trade analysis session with me, Patrick Mullally, before we get going and jump into today's charts. As always, we want to adhere to the risk disclaimer. Most pertinent to today's presentation is the fact that the views, the opinions expressed by me are solely mine. They're not indicative or representative of those held by Tick Mill UK or Tick Mill Europe limited. So, for those of you who are here for the first time, a brief introduction to myself after I graduated from university, I joined a city PLC consulting firm and left with some friends to go on and successfully co-found and exit a consulting startup that was focused on C-suite executive search for technology businesses. So I essentially had a front row seat to the dot-com bubble, witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the market, sometimes quite literally overnight. I decided to explore my curiosity for markets with some capital to play with and some time in my hands. I started day trading the S&P 500 or probably more appropriately at that stage, day gambling. And after some early beginners luck, I racked up some pretty solid gains. However, as is often the case, my beginners luck ran out and as the market phase began to change, I started averaging down into losing positions and eventually giving back all my gains and ultimately experiencing a significant six-figure hit to my capital. I say this was a gut wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. So I really had to stand back and figure out if it was feasible for me to make a living from the markets. So I decided to get serious about trading and I sought out a mentor with an excellent trading track record. Working with my mentor for a period of 18 months to two years was a time during which I not just my technical game in terms of researching, developing, extensively back and forward testing strategies that crucially suited my personality and all of which were underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. But most importantly during the period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental game and probably most importantly of all, I made the watershed shift from being a highly goal orientated individual really focused purely on financial gains to becoming process orientated. So what does that mean? Well, it means I had stopped focusing on what I could make from the markets and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy oftentimes in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. However, once you become process orientated and you have a professional trading mindset and you accept and understand the true nature of trading simply being a numbers game in which you're playing the probabilities, you lose that emotional investment, that hellish emotional rollercoaster of living and dying by the outcomes of individual trades. So I'm no longer concerned with the outcome of individual trades or even a small string of trades. My focus is on the next 100 trades because I know if I focus on excellence in execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of time. My multi strategy approach has delivered profitable annual returns since 2008. Since 2013, I've also been managing investor capital through a managed account service, again, delivering annual cost of returns. I'm currently responsible for managing a multimillion dollar portfolio. Since 2010, I've mentored hundreds of private traders of all experience levels and complete novices to former CME floor traders in developing the technical and mental skills to read consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and Metro, I'm also resident market expert exclusively providing market and trade analysis to technical clients. I provide an in-depth daily market outlook, breaking down the fundamental and technical drivers for the training day ahead. I also provide technical daily trade setup videos for about two or three markets on a daily basis where I'm actively tracking opportunities. And I share those through the TickMills TradingView account. I'll post a link for that at the end of today's presentation. I also run TickMills Emily strategy group where I host a daily trade plan, giving my pre-market thoughts for the New York cash trading session for the S&P 500. I give my bias for the day ahead in specific action areas where I'm looking to engage the market. These pre-market plans have offered nearly 7,000 points of profit since we launched the group in April of 2021. Second TickMills strategy group I run is for traders who really want to take their trading to the next level. The TickMills Futures Trading Telegram Group is a real-time environment on a daily basis. I share in-depth insights, analysis and trades. I also provide live commentary during the opening hour of the New York cash session where traders can essentially see in real-time how I dissect the markets and identify asymmetric trading opportunities. These sessions act as a platform helping traders to develop a professional consistent approach to navigating the markets and those mental mind games that must be mastered to make it as a profitable market operator. Again, I'll post links for the TickMills for the trading groups, both the Facebook Telegram groups and that Trading View Account link at the end of the session. Okay, let's jump into today's charts. Before we get going, as always, I would ask if you have any questions, just drop them into the chat box. I won't be answering them in real time. I'll come back to them at the end of the session. Also, if you have an instrument you'd like me to take a look at that I don't cover in my presentation, you can also post that into the chat box and I will come back to that again at the end of the session and give you a view on the charts. What I would ask you to do for your benefit really is if you post the time frame as well, just so we can get a better read on what you're looking at and where I see potential opportunities. So coming to the charts, we're starting with the S&P 500 using the e-mini futures contract. I've been trading this from both the short and the long side this week in the TickMills Telegram group yesterday. We got in at 39.64 on the long side, still holding long positions and then we start trailing up some stops as we head into the cash session. Ultimately what I'm looking for today is the potential for a pullback versus 40.60. That's going to be my line in the sand as we head into the cash session. Now I anticipate we could see a pullback into the 40.12 to 40.15 area is a key level of interest for me as we head into the cash trading session today and I'll be like I say updating the group with the pre-market plan on that shortly after today's presentation. But I think at this stage we are heading for a move that should see us test into the 40.100 area is my ultimate expectation given the current market structure. We have this internal trend line support coming in now at 39.80. So today it would really take a break of that 39.80 to suggest that we are just trapped in a range here between 40.50 and 39.00 low. And if we did take out that 38.80 and we retested yesterday's lows I would anticipate there that we would potentially break down and trade lower back into 39.50, 39.40 which is my next area of interest. I have these marked up alerts just for personal ease but 40.60 is the first area of resistance. If we get through there 40.75 is the next area I'm looking at but like I said I'm looking for price to grind out and eventually get into this 40.100 area and then we'll see where we are. Looking at the NASDAQ obviously the NASDAQ has had a decent run. The reason for the weakness that we saw yesterday in the markets was the move that we saw post the Microsoft earnings. What's important with these tech earnings at the moment is really the issue with forward guidance. I think I mentioned this last week that the earnings as usual are likely to come broadly in line with expectations. Obviously EPS and revenue expectations are being lowered because of the current environment we're in but ultimately I'm expecting the earnings to come in broadly in line but what's going to be key to the market response and we saw this on our post the Microsoft earnings is that we're looking for some upbeat guidance. Anything that focuses on the downside with respect to guidance is going to weigh on markets in the near term. So we had that really sharp pullback in terms of the post Microsoft learnings came into support zone 11,600 and by a step back in and if you're trading this intraday it's important you want to have up. I told my guys to pay attention to Microsoft intraday yesterday because any intraday turnaround or strength that was started to come into Microsoft would feed into the rest of the market because it was essentially those Microsoft earnings that dragged the market down. So we saw a turnaround in Microsoft. We saw bids coming into the market into that 3970 3960 on the S&P 500. I alerted the group to the fact that there was a huge amount of contracts being traded in and around that area and that suggested to me that had the potential for a near term base which turned out to be the case. So with respect to the NASDAQ I've been looking for a move. Obviously we have Tesla earnings last night. I'm long Tesla. I've had a really good run in that at the start of this year. Tesla is trading up about 7% in the pre-markets. That's leading to a bit of strength here. But we've got a bunch of data coming out in about 20 minutes US GDP and so we want to pay attention to that because that's going to obviously inform us to where the Fed are likely to be. We've got a Fed meeting next week. So I'm looking for any move up into the weekly R2 and this trend line resistance, weekly projected range resistance just above the 12,000 level. I think we could see a pullback there. Certainly if we don't see new highs here in momentum, we'll get that momentum divergence. I think I could set us up for a bit of a corrective move and I'd ultimately be looking for any pullbacks now into 11,800 and this internal trend line support. As long as we find support there and buy a step back in, then we've got an equality target and the range resistance really at this stage. 12,316 monthly projected range resistance above at 12,330s. If we get that move, that's broadly going to coalesce with the idea that we test those 4100s with the S&P 500. Dow Jones triangle set up here. I'm looking for us to test 34,119. So any pullbacks into either the pivot here, 33,600, or if we get a deeper pullback into daily projected range support and this internal trend line support, 33,490. What's with bullish reversal patterns there? And we're looking for a test of 34,199, 34,200 is the objective for the Dow Jones. Moving to the DAX. So the DAX is grinding out. We are looking for this high volume on the weekly timeframe, 15,500 and we're setting up to put in a test of that. So with the DAX at the moment, what I would be looking for is any break through now. This triangle resistance. So let's say 15,240. I'd be engaged on the long side there using a stop below this trend line support targeting that 15,500. I'd be booking some profits there. We've got some momentum divergence developing. And I think from there, we'll see another corrective phase unwind in terms of the DAX. Ultimately, I'd like to see me back into this trend line support here. 14,700s. Well, we'll have to see where it is if we get this test into the 15,000. But that's what I'd be looking for is a pullback into that trend line support, these prior highs. And then we look to see if we can build another leg to the upside for the DAX. Nikkei showing some decent strength. Exceeded our equality objectives. Now I'm looking from last week. So if you'll remember from last week, I suggested that we had, we've exceeded 161 extension of that swing. So 27,200. So that alerts you to the idea that the move we're seeing at the moment has impulsive qualities. And so the next objective was going to be the internal equality move here, which we've tested 27,530, pretty much to the tick here. And we're seeing a bit of consolidation. So I want to be long on any break through that level. So through 27,550, let's say, we're going to target then 27,700 as pullbacks remain supported back into those prior highs. I'm actually looking for 27,920 as the next upside objective, which comes coincides with our weekly high volume notes. So 27,900 on any breakthrough, 27,550 is the trade there. The Nifty have been the standout performer last week. We were looking for trend channel resistance to hold the pullback into our 17,660s. Potentially that move is setting up now. So I'm going to be watching for that. And as we get into that area, which is the 61.8% retracement of our prior impulsive advance, I'll watch for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side, looking for a break of the corrective trend channel, the high volume note back through 18,130. And then I think we can re-challenge prior cycle highs en route to new cycle highs is the setup there. Now, if buyers don't step in this region, then we'll be looking at a much deeper pullback. We'll see here on the daily timeframe, the equality objective versus the swing structure there has us testing 17,220, which also coincides with monthly projected range of sport and the 78.6% retracement of the prior advance. That's the next area I've been looking at if buyers don't step in at the 17,640s. TLT, the bond market, the bond proxy I use, still haven't been able to take out the 109.50 resistance. At any point that we do get a close through there, on the daily timeframe, I will be on the long side looking for the equality objective versus our swing low here, 99.20s, we are looking for a 116.83 test on the upside there with TLT. Whilst we hold resistance here at the 108.70s, there's still the chance that we get a pullback now into test the trend channel support just below the 100 level. But again, that's another area where I'd be watching the bullish reversal patterns from Gage on the long side, same upside objective, 116.80s. Nothing to do on the short side unless we get a daily close back through our pivot there, our potential B wave low at 99.20s. Let's move into foreign exchange space, dollar index. Still in the wedge looking for 170 level to get tested, which is the projected ending diagonal pattern to the downside below there. We have weekly projected range support, 150. So I'm watching any test here and as long as we maintain the momentum divergence, i.e. new low in price, no new low in the momentum study, I'm watching for bullish reversal patterns to play this on the long side on the daily timeframe. I look for 103.40s trend channel resistance. The potential is now without any meaningful data surprise. We have PCE out tomorrow, which is a favorite of the FOMC in terms of gauging inflation within the committee. Unless we get any major surprises, so 1% plus or minus outside of what's expected, I'm thinking we're probably going to grind this out and not do much until that FOMC meeting next week, which is likely to be the next major catalyst for these markets. But any move into this area we'll be watching for bullish reversal patterns and I will be looking to play a correction into that trend channel resistance, 1.340s. Euro dollar, similar setup really, obviously the inverse to the dollar index. I'm looking for any move into 1.0950s as long as we maintain momentum divergence and then look to play a correction. Often what happens when you get these markets that are slightly extended, heading into a major catalyst, the day before or 48 hours before the news event you see a correction developed. So I'd be looking for any grind into 1.0950s. I'd be watching for bearish reversal patterns as long as we maintain momentum divergence. Trade on the short side, just looking for a correction, initially then targeting the high volume area here at the 10820s. And then certainly post the FOMC bullish reversal patterns, I think we trade 1.10. We also have the ECB next week as well. Ultimately on the daily timeframe and if anything above 1.0650s at the moment, I see a support and I'm thinking we trade higher in terms of Euro dollar and I think ultimately on the daily timeframe with the dollar index. Whilst this trend channel is respected I see us looking at for a move down to the 98 level ultimately as the downside objective for this dollar index move. So I'm just looking to play counter trend corrections and then I'm looking to realign with the trend. Sterling choppy action this week and Sterling political machinations continue with the conservative party. So and the data has been mixed at best. So we're seeing a bit of back and forth here but ultimately I think we get a test of the 1.024.60s weekly daily projected range resistance 1.27 extension there as well. From there I watch the bearish reversal patterns and I think we get a pullback in Sterling and what I'd be looking for with Sterling here on the daily timeframe. Let's just update this move. I've been looking for any pullbacks into 1.2150s that's the level 1.2150s any pullbacks into their bullish reversal patterns and we want to be looking to build the long exposure to ultimately target the 128 weekly trend channel resistance. Dollar yen looking like it might make a test here of its trend channel resistance. Any move into this 1.3130, 1.3050 area I'm going to be watching for bearish reversal patterns engage on the short side. I'm looking in the interim for a 1.25 test on the downside. It's going to take a close back through 1.32 84 to suggest we have a more meaningful low in place and we target range resistance up to 1.3460s. Dollar CAD obviously we have great decision yesterday. Not doing much of anything at the moment. We still have that 1.2970 equality objective here on the daily timeframe. So what I'd be looking for is any close. Well, this is actually what I would look for. What you want to see is a breakdown through that will test the trend channel support and the weekly projected range supports. Then any move back into this area from below. So we look for this price support to actors resistance. We've been chipping away at it. Any move there that gets a bearish reaction. I'd engage on the short side looking for us to break down and we've got that target to the downside. 1.2970s Aussie dollar. Looking for 71.50 looking for bearish momentum divergence new high in price, no new high in the momentum study. I think we can see a pullback there. Three wave corrects move. I'm looking for a move into this internal trend channel sport just above 1.70 from there again. If we get that move into the FMC then we look to engage on the long side bullish reversal patterns. And next upside objective 72.50s. Like you know, those who are here regularly, I am actually looking for 73.40s, which is the bigger quality test to play out. So we're looking for an entry into that move. We also have the weekly projected range resistance coming at that level as well. 73.40s is the zone that we're looking to target on any pullbacks here. Move on quickly here so that I can fill in some questions. Gold, I've been long gold. I covered position this morning and I'm looking then for a pullback to play for a re-entry into gold. I see further upside but like I say, we've had a decent clip here to the upside out of the back end of last year into the early part of this year. I think we should see some position squaring ahead of the FMC and then if the FMC can deliver that 25 basis point hike next week as markets are pricing, I think there'll be an opportunity to re-engage gold on the long side. I'm ultimately looking for quite a significant move higher in gold this year. Crude oil is another one I've been trading from the long side. I cashed in that position as well this week. I'm now looking at the opportunity to re-engage here. So if we can get a close back through 81.50s, I'm going to put another long on here using a stock just below 79.40s. Next target on the upside for me is that 83.50, a quality objective. If we can get through there, then we can start to think about 85.70s as the next target on the upside. So I'm watching for this four-hour close through this corrective trend channel resistance to play on the long side terms of crude to about 300 pips out of that move when we retested here. I got in at 74 and 77. I'd like to say cashed out this morning. Let's wrap things up here with Bitcoin. So what I'm looking for in Bitcoin is any move back into 22,200. We want to engage on the long side and we are targeting a move up into test this weekly resistance 25,380 yearly pivot 26,600. And then I think we could see a pullback there in Bitcoin to build a longer term base for an extension to the upside. But the immediate opportunity is watching any pullback into 22,200s. Watch for bullish reversal patterns there to engage on the long side and see a lift up in towards that 25,000. I will just leave you with the Euro yen. There's a nice set up I spotted here this morning in the Euro yen using the pitchfork entry method. So I'm looking for any pullback into the 140 level. Watch for bullish reversal patterns here. Engage on the long side. We've got an equality objective which sits at 14340. So I'd be risking 100 pips let's say there to play for 300 on the upside would be the game plan there. Okay, so that concludes this week's whistle stop tour of the market. So what I'll do now is open up for any questions. Can you please give us a free trade idea? I just did give you one. I've given you plenty throughout the entire presentation. If you're paying attention, you'll see where the trade opportunities are. Any other questions? You can also tell us. Let me post this link for you. Well, for everybody. But if you want to follow along with my trade ideas on a daily basis, here is a link to follow. Trade ideas. I post pretty much on a daily basis there with entry levels, targets, etc. And for those who are interested in receiving the daily trade plan for the S&P 500, I will post the Facebook link. All you do is request access and you'll get joined the group and you can follow along with my daily trade plan. And if you are interested in learning more about the telegram group when I give real-time trades, etc. You can PM me through there for details. Are there any other questions? Thanks, Phillip. Okay, guys, if there aren't any other questions, I'm going to wrap this session up here. Sure, I'll tell you what I'll do, guys. For those that are interested in learning more about what I do, I will provide to you here with my email address and you can message me directly. I'll come back to you as soon as I can. Okay, thanks very much for your time this week. As always, traders, plan the trade, trade the plan, and most importantly, manage your risk. Until next week, thanks very much.


Teng, awwepe, they go by the name of the syndicate, please introduce yourselves. Granvel, ama IG, weather Facebook, ama IG. Onajo, we need spellings for this name. At Il Granvel. Yeah, Il Granvel. I'm pronouncing it properly, isn't it? Yeah, you're pronouncing it properly. Il Granvel. Yeah. Safi. Langkusik. Langkusik. Yeah. Bra. Bra. So, atakabli to, to those names, let's talk about the syndicate, not that name itself. Why the syndicate? Konini o jinam lichagwa? The syndicate came about when I was in the Sailor's Gang, Bullock's Gang, so we decided to go out of the box and then we decided to choose something that could represent the whole gang, not using the name of the syndicate, so we should be syndicate. It encompasses everybody who is in the movement. All together we're working as a syndicate together towards the same gang. So, there's more than just the two of you? Yeah, there's more than just the two of us. So, who else is involved? But together the two of you is a group in itself, in its own? No, it's not a group in its own because of the coronavirus and social distancing and stuff, we have to come on it over to the whole group. Okay, now I get you. As a group we are four in total. As a group? The syndicate now? Yeah, the syndicate. Nice. So, Revos and Yandusi. Oh, kwa api lockdown? They are watching us live. They are tuned in. Kali sana, lakini, niendom liansisha? We back when? Initially, we had started independently, so we were two, I and Revos. I was working with Tusi. And they were working as independent rappers, so we decided to come together as brothers because we had known each other for a very long time. And you share the same vision? We share the same vision. And your brand is hip-hop? Yeah, our brand is hip-hop. Let's talk about, since it's only the two of you representing the whole crew, let's talk about your vision of hip-hop, what it should be. Sayze tunana, gingetun maliko. Are we conforming? We are hip-hop, that's our brand of hip-hop. Are we conforming just to get that cash quick? You know, for the cash quick thing, I can say it's much of it. The gingetun side, they go in, take in the tree. It's really niche to get it. Is it real hip-hop though? Yeah, it's real hip-hop. Real hip-hop. Listening to people like Tupak, B.I.G. And the new legends like Papa Jones. No, no, I'm referring to now gingetun. I would say gingetun is not typically real hip-hop, there's a difference, but through the delivery and the type of beats, if you compare it to the hip-hop culture, there's a difference. It's not like the culture of hip-hop, hip-hop stands separate from the gingetun culture. Yeah, for gingetun, I think it's more transfer, because the beats you hit, boom, boom, boom, bang, bang, bang. Hip-hop, there's that melody, there's that tune. And the content delivery. What you deliver, what you present to the people, it's different with what they present to the people, what they speak to the people about. So who are you listening to when you're coming out? For me, mostly it's Wayne. Lil Wayne is one of my best friends. Then I heard your vibe, you swag and your Wayne, yeah? Kitambu, ilia kitambu. That's the real hip-hop there. Like father like son, when he was coming out in badman, that was like two or five, two or six, so I could drop like father like son, standing like my daddy. Yeah, that was the big hit back then. What about you? Who was inspiring you? What about you? For me, I'd say I've been listening to someone who's a lyricist. That's Eminem, you know. But then I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. I'm never afraid. so Eminem is my mind. What is my mind? Music sasa ya the syndicate Mumekam pamoja What's the genre? Because we explore different genres Kuna bongo, mefanya Kuna gengitu, mefanya Lafkuna ele hip-hop, hip-hop sasa Hip-hop So the syndicate I'm purchasing an EP Ya man album ya the syndicate What am I expecting? Expect hip-hop Hip-hop Ya The theme is hip-hop Okay, what's the content That drives that EP Ya man that mixing Ni content, gengitu orton as I expect The content it's I can say it's In encompass Everything that is available in the field From we can say The normal staff The normal daily ordinary staff The extraordinary staff Kama madem The lifestyle Everything is involved there It's mentioned in the It's included there in the songs Ya Mananakama in Kenya We can compete in terms of hip-hop Ya Calligraph John's side By the way make sure you go And vote for Calligraph John's B.E.T. Awards Ya Ni kategori gani best international act Ya best international act African flow Ya exactly Make sure you go And vote for Calligraph John's It's representing us properly Ya it's representing us But now in terms of Like the mainstream music Mainstream used to be You remember we back when There was the bounce Ya Akin akin a Karerupt Okay karerupt Issa Issa Ya ya ya ya Those bounce And now there's Ganga kakuja Ganga kakuja Nani niji wa kali Lafonda say ganga to nimi Lafonda say ganga to nimi Lafonda say ganga to nimi Lafonda say ganga to nimi So with this ganga to Can we really compete? Ya know We just believe Kus Calligraph is doing all of it Ya know he's doing That really hip-hop Ganga to na nengia Gatuki dogo kikidogo And I think that's What I'm a particular nomination So but Like in our local Brand of music ganga to Do you think it really Compete with everyone else In Africa It depends with the Belief they have in themselves It's the belief that You can compete with yourself You know where you can get If they believe they can Compete with the others Then I believe they can Compete with the others If they can present it In the right manner The same way I would say Right now when we're here We believe we can Make it we can Compete with the others Give it the right effort The right vision And the right direction We can compete with them If we put in the right Amount of charge Ya For me at zi Like In Kenya today Kali kakuja Hip-hop Ya Kali graf Is the best of the best But for us We're going to take the throne After him I like that This is what we were just talking about The confidence ya Ya I like that Safika Bisa And we're waiting for that We were discussing that Is it an EP Ammaa mixed opinion Come up next It's an EP It's an EP When should we expect it Like by the end of the year By the end of the year Ya The genre is hip-hop The genre is hip-hop Whether it's a bongo Whether it's a gang-gaton Ya ni beat too Ya ni beat Strictly hip-hop Strictly hip-hop Ya Kali sana Tuna Tu ko about to play One of your songs So that people get to sample it Like in before that What's your part? Ah Instagram At The syndicate The underscore syndicate Ya Neshke yo li kwa Ishuku wa part What's the spelling for that one? T-H-W-E-S-Y-N-D-I-T-E Syndicate C-A-C-A-T-C-A-T-E Safika Bisa What about your personal handles? Personal handles Like I said in Granville Amma IG Whether Facebook Amma IG Ya Kali sana sana ko ko come through Ya ni shoutouts na jualazi Ugo tiawa mabo ya me baki jaron Ya ya ya Shoutouts to Especially Mr. Robert Mokaya He's the reason why we're here Thank him for that Then shoutouts to Revos at home Katis Paul And young Tusi of course Our main man Kali To be here next time Ya I'd like to send my shoutouts to young Tusi Richard Mokaya Winnie Wright over there Deja Pasi My family And all the fans out there Let's keep this thing going man Kali Kibisa Before to end the to play Goma ya the syndicate Umeske Malimunezaapata On all social media platforms And YouTube The syndicate Kindly support us on YouTube Subscribe Like ya Subscribe watch Ya Ya we were talking about AjiraDigital.Gio.K Kama o G Make sure you go to that website Kuna Training Ming Is in Nendele Apo You can get a lot of Job opportunities Apo Onesapata Web mobile And software development Onesapata IT And networking Design and creative Sales and marketing Writing and translation Admin Support and customer service Among others You get the gist of it It's like Basic training In Onesapata Online So Go to AjiraDigital.Gio Gio.K Lafu Kama o Liko Mepitei Training Kuna Kazi Kazi Shapa Tikana Kama o Lifanya Training See ya to end up Okimangoto Semi Nini Apo Azo kuna training Kwa gara fake CV by the way Wengisa Sini Umona Jijua We don't really need to Emphasize that enough Like any Kama o Lifanya The Training At AjiraDigital.Gio.K Make sure you go on Contact Zilfa Through email at ict.gio.k That's Z-O-W-I-T-I Zawiti At ict.gio.k Until then This is The Syndicate


Welcome back to my channel guys. It's your girl Coco styles and on this channel We talk about beauty fashion and lifestyle and in today's video I'm going to show you guys how I do my everyday makeup now. I Am no makeup guru And you guys know that I have not been wearing makeup for a very long time Let's say the last year and a half maybe the most I Don't want to say all makeup foundation. I've never worn concealer Foundation so I was a person that just did just this part of my face And that's because I was just too afraid of my skin breaking out I've never had any skin issues and I didn't want to you know start having him at an older age, so That's why so I don't have a lot of stuff here But I am going to show you guys what I use every day and I don't well I don't want to say every day because I'm not outside every day, but when I go outside so I My face is already cleansed with my daily face you cleansing routine I will link that somewhere over here for you guys to go check that out very affordable Nutrigena items that I've been using for a little over a year now. I really like it And my eyebrows are not done because Kind of honestly guys like I want to get my eyebrows done And I was a little freaked out because it was just too close for comfort for me, but I Don't know maybe maybe I go another month or so, but I do use NARS products for a majority of everything on my face Hmm Yeah, well concealer and foundation the other stuff is from Mac and Laura Mercier and Then just some regular brushes now like I said, I am no one's guru. So I don't have Many brushes It just worked for me to me. This is realistic I've watched some videos and they're like, oh, this is everything It's still a lot for me. Maybe I just don't have the patience for it But I'll show you guys what I do some of the brushes that I do have are from Ecol tools, I don't even know who that is. I do have a matte brush and this is 150 Mac 150 brush I have another brush by L flawless face brush and Is this Mac too? I have a full blush brush So I have some brushes here I have some from Mac, but not a lot guys because I'm just like I said, I've never really been into foundation and stuff my mom didn't use it so That's probably why I am the way I am I just always did my eyes and to be honest I've been doing my eyebrows since the sixth grade But let me just get started. I don't want this to be too long And I don't want you guys to get bored because like I said, I don't have a lot of makeup, but so the first thing I'm gonna put on is the Bobby Brown Vitamin enriched base. I love this guys. It's a little pricey, but And it smells really good. So I just use a tad bit of this. I'm gonna be looking into my mirror So bear with me Once I figure out how to film this guy, it's over It's over I don't use a lot of colors on my on my face as far as like, you know my My eye makeup, okay, I don't use a lot of colors because I Don't know.  So that's what they told me at Alta and Nordstroms, so if you do use a luminous one, I think it's something you might want to Try finding another alternative because I believe they are gonna discontinue it. So I have two different foundations here. I have the sheer glow and I have the This is the radiant long wear. I don't know this one is cool, but I kind of feel like it What's the word? I feel like it makes me I like it so it's so much coverage. I don't know. I don't really like super full coverage. So I'm gonna just tap this on my face This is not how I normally do it I usually let me see because it was acting up the other day coming out of this squirt thing. Oh There it go. See they wanted me to do it with you So I'm just gonna use a real text me real techniques brush To get this on my face and to be honest, I think I'm still afraid to put foundation on And I think the fear is because I never had skin issues so I'm you know I don't know. Maybe you guys tell me if this is too little or It's enough and I just put just a little Just a little coverage Now I've been using this one since However, how long I've been putting on makeup for year. I don't want to say a year and a half But it's probably not even here in half guys. I'll be honest with you But I Will tell you this I Haven't had any skin issues with it so for me that's a plus the skincare routine that I do That line the hydro boost line Everything works well with me with the exception of the face scrub and it's very Sensitive to your skin, but immediately the next day. I kind of have like a little break out And it looked more like a heat rash type of situation. So I knew to just discontinue that but everything else is fine so I'm just using a Regular eye pencil Who is this Revlon color stay? It comes with a spoolie and this color is What is this dark brown Dark brown Yeah, I usually get this. I don't know like I said, this is very very affordable It's very very affordable And I just kind of lightly go across And as you guys can see my eyebrows are not done so I'm gonna make them look Like they were done The hair is growing all over the place And most girls I see do they let eyebrows off camera and I get it because it's so Nerve-racking you're breathing all hard and stuff. You don't want to mess up Because you know, it's not like They're not twins So one is gonna look off from the other always And I think I put too much and I just get it on And then I just spoolie it out and to be honest with you guys this I think this is about How much is this three dollars? No, I'm lying. It's probably 10 bucks. I 899 Yeah, I like it. It's not too Harsh and once you brush through it, I'm sure they don't look the same, but I'm gonna fix that so I Usually do that this one looks a little messy and I'm just gonna chat about my I'm just gonna All right, so I'm just gonna Do I'm gonna fix this because it's not this one doesn't look like this one But like we said it is not a twin set So then I'm gonna take my concealer and My little brush and I don't even see it. Where's my concealer brush? Where's my hiding over here? All right, so I'm just gonna get my concealer brush for my eyebrows and the concealer I use very affordable is the pro girl Ellie pro girl and what color is this? this is Beautiful bronze, so it's pretty dark I think it goes really well with my skin and I just kind of take it and I'll go under here Kind of bring it down As much as I can And this would be like a little primer For my eye makeup, let's get to the other side and this is pretty much my skin color Um I'm not all for the halo effect or whatever they call in it these days. I don't like that. I'm very very plain When it comes to the makeup the makeup Maybe I'll fast forward through this because I could sit here and talk to you guys all day Well, I'm doing this. I was actually just listening to some music um Now listen guys i'm 40 so sometimes Like the new music I just can't get with And I am listening to old rap You know I don't know. I just i'm not relate more to The older The older rap music Like red man and methaman um Who else Tupac Sometimes I still listen to Old queen latifa I really do So these are not twinsies. I can never really tell My left eyebrows coming out better than the right That whatever Who cares all right So that is what I use for my eyes. Um, I let that sit for a second In the process of me letting that sit I'll take my Nars concealer This is the creamy creamy concealer listen This is the color calf cafe. So cafe dark one is pretty close to my skin. Um, and Let me tell y'all This right here I love it I love this concealer Okay And sometimes I'll come down here I think I got a slight little mustache So I come And I come over here I don't really Let's try this out. I don't usually come all the way down here I see girls do it, but as you don't Again, I'm new to this so you guys can point me into the direction of someone. That's really great Not super advanced But someone who's Still beginner friendly and like I said to me This is normal like this is normal. This is Uh, something that you can do every day. Um, I don't know about contouring stuff I do have some bronzer that I usually put on and I might not even be putting it on right, but I like how it looks on me So let that sit for a second I grab my trusty Blender beauty blender and I spritz it with some of this And um, that's from mac I'll just spritz it Dampen it up a little bit And Get around here Make sure that's blended in I don't have to be careful because I have on contacts and what'll happen is It'll start moving and then I can't see So can anybody tell me why? Hold on guys Contact was all over can anybody tell me why when we do makeup We're like What the face is now I used to see my mom do it a lot Well, she didn't wear foundation, but when she would like do like her eyes She would do she would wear eyeliner and she would wear mascara Oh, and then at one point she tried to start doing her eyebrows, but that was a catastrophe It was fine though because she had beautiful skin beautiful teeth and um She really didn't need any makeup. Honestly. Oh, she wore lipstick She wore lipstick now. I won't tell you this growing up. She used to come to my school to come pick me up My mom was like overly sexy back in the day And she used to come that's probably why I like pumps so much because she wore a lot of pumps like A lot a lot of pumps and she came to my school once And she had these pants on they were like stretch jeans And they had a pair of lips on them and they said kiss Oh, can I tell you embarrassed was I and then she used to wear a hair like this I don't even want to call it a mullet, but it was like this headband situation and she had these curls at the top She always smelled good. She always had on as jewelry nails were always done um, but those pants mom I know you're in heaven laughing at me, but Those pants like it took me down. Okay, so now I'm gonna add on some more, uh Sorry Nars This is the What is this one? Oh a monday, which I thought was extremely too light for me guys But it gives me like a little bit of brightness under my eye Not too much and that just To be honest, I'm telling you. I don't even think I put this one right And I come across my nose. I don't know what this does But I like it. I don't go up here Um, I could go up here just for today I'm telling you. I don't put a lot on just to smidge it I don't think you need a lot. I think if you have really great skin Um, no hyperpigmentation and stuff I personally would say through the bare minimum Through the bare minimum, you know, I went to school with some girls and they um I've seen them years after like during high school and they looked really old Because they were wearing like full face makeup in sixth grade My mother wasn't having it so I let this dry down a little bit um I brought the concealer down on my eye But I also do have um This what is this tart primer? I don't know. Sorry. Can you guys see that? I don't know if you guys can see that Yeah So what I do is I just take a little bit of it and put it on my lid Just put a little bit on here And this is probably wrong too, but hey It works for me Do what works for you Use the makeup that's best for your skin I'm I don't really try a bunch of stuff And that's because I'm not a makeup youtuber I focus more on fashion For tall women because I'm tall Healthy eating because I am a vegan and I believe what you put in your body Does affect your life And your mind your brain and all that good stuff And just some just Good old chit chat so All right, so let's just let that sit for a second and I'm just gonna I'm gonna dab it with my finger And just kind of get it in so What I'm gonna do now is I've been using this palette for like the longest And I don't know if you guys can see But this is the ring Ring the alarm um more Morphe palette And I literally use the same colors all of the All the time. What's my brush? Is this it? Yeah It's a little messy looking so I'm gonna take alert in siren That's alert And this is siren and then I'll probably take secret in I wouldn't say it's kind of like my crease area, but I don't know if it's quite my crease and I just kind of dab it in I dab it in and Yeah, I don't know. I like I like makeup But not enough to do a whole bunch of videos on it Even skincare I think women who do skincare videos are amazing because They have to try this stuff out and let you guys know What works and what doesn't work?  Let me drink some water since I put this really cool bottle from Amazon I'll link it below because I really like it. It's very slim Now as far as this time on here Just seems like a short period to drink water, but I do notice that I drink four of these a day so I'll link it below I think it's like with taxes and everything's like 32 bucks But let me continue with my eyes so Now I'm just going to take I already put the mixture of alert and siren on I don't know. Is that too much guys? This is what I do every day And then sometimes I take like secret And I just go Over it just a little bit and that whole cut crease thing that you ladies do I'm not I'm not there yet I'm so not there.  This is what I do I see people put tape. I don't know. I just this is listen This is what coco does um And after that I left the concealer on which I need to like Blend it out now. So I'm just gonna spray this it's been sitting for a while. So I don't know how I'm just gonna spray it I'm gonna Dab that in even if I watch some of the makeup videos It still seems so overwhelming For me To the point where I'm like, oh, I know I do this wrong So I watch them sometimes but Not all the time um Because it'll make me feel like jeez. I need a lot. I gotta learn a lot And I'm dark skin. So I really don't I don't want to be out here looking like You know lighter than what I am I love my skin color The lord has made me this way I see people contour their nose. I just highlight the center um And that's because I got a chubby nose And it is what it is Okay Um, so now I'm gonna take that I'll take the top Laura Mercier Sorry Laura Mercier And this which one is this Medium deep they came out with honey. I didn't try honey. Um, I thought maybe I was too Too light too dark for honey, sorry And I just dab a little bit In the top really quick And I have this little powder puff and I just kind of dab it in almost like Trying to get it to like melt into my skin Okay, I go over my nose And even this I'll probably do this crap wrong I don't care as long as I'm not out here. I can look presentable In the street. I don't want to look like I'm super made up And that's proud. I don't even know if that's enough. Okay So I put that on right after that I grabbed my bronzer which is um more fee Leader Leader, I don't know if it's gonna um Yeah This is really dark. So I did try the one from nars And the one from nars just wasn't wasn't working for me It didn't show up at all So I took that back And the good thing about Nordstrom she could take anything back So I'm just gonna put it on here You know who I got this my sister told me about this but I was watching Oh, man, I can't even think of her name Oh, what is her name on the tip of my tongue? um Andrea Renee, yes And you know, I like her videos So I told my little sister about her so she's like our friend in our head and she mentioned this one And I was like, oh, I actually like that so I don't know if you guys can see that or is it looking really crazy because here It doesn't look so crazy But sometimes I'm just bringing it around If that's even the right way guys I listen Maybe I should go to a makeup class.  Hmm, I usually take some Mac this is Mac darkest deep mineral mineral um Powder And I usually put a little bit of this on Because I don't really want to take away The color on my face Um, I just put like a little bit just a little bit When you can laugh at yourself, right? All right So after that I continue back with my eyes and where's my stuff? Where's my stuff? Oh This liquid liner This is elf And this is probably three dollars And I just take a little bit of it And I put it over here now. Let me look in this mirror before I mess up and I just Bring it across This you gotta like do it really quiet too Breathing all hard and stuff and I just do when I Get the other eye Like I said this to me Is very affordable There's so much drugstore. Um Perfume not perfume side makeup That you can get For the low low You breathe in all hard guys So let that sit Then because I have some lashes here and I'm just going to put on simple lashes I usually use These I don't know if you guys can see these I love these but I don't feel like putting these on today So a good everyday one The low low price of What are these? These are the Why won't this go back in Sorry guys. These are But one's from target Is it gonna? Yeah, these are from target. I just get these and I wear these When I just want to be regular schmagaladegala okay but The way I'm filling today I could put these seven seven eight seven. I don't know. No, I'm just gonna put these on And I have What's my twos? I don't have a lot of stuff, but if something is missing And the tweezer that I use is tweezer man So put these on I'm gonna put these on off camera But before I do that, I'm just gonna put on some line up and this is Pat McGrath You guys see that pat McGrath Which I'm not too fond of this one. I don't know but I'll just put it just to give me a little Color so when I put the lashes on Yeah, and that's it. What is your guy? What are you guys favorite makeup? brand Do you wear makeup or not? Let me know what you guys think I mean, let me know what you guys use. Sorry And I will use These here Get these on my face And we're good All right guys, I got my lashes on.  It looks like a zoo You probably would never film another video. So I leave that like that still have the powder on guys. Um I'm just gonna take What is this Laura Mercier? I've been using this for quite some time now Can you guys see that name? I don't know if you guys can see that Yeah, and I usually put it at my lower lash and I'll put on a little bit and this is Very old that I've been using for a long time smolder By mac and I just put a tiny tiny bit on when I say a little bit.  I have this blush by Nars also And let me show you guys this I have a mac one too that I haven't used in a while It's savage. Let me show you guys the color. Let me actually Open it up. Can you guys see that? So I'll just put a little bit of that on That's my quick Well, actually I'd like one more step Since that's all on I take my studio fix And I and then I try to fan it For that then I will take my Mac chestnut you guys everybody knows chestnut chestnut Around the lips as my liner and make sure I get it My lips are very pink in the center I get that from my dad. I think I need to sharpen this a little bit. So And then This is enough. I don't know how the ladies do it all the time with the makeup And then my two favorite lipsticks for mac One is photo and one is myth photo is a natural brown color Love it and I usually just I like it. I have a nars liquid one and It's too dark because it almost looks Mm-hmm. I think it's just too dark for the lips for for me. I think it'll look really nice on someone who have like a caramel skin color Um, or maybe I'm just not that fancy when it comes to makeup And then myth is this myth is very very light, but I only put it in the center like a just a little bit And it just gives me a little bit of light in the center And that's it guys So I am going to come back dress up probably This off of my head Probably my hair up in a neat bun and show you guys the finished looks And let me know what you guys think so Give me a second. Let me just finish getting dressed Or at least doing my hair. Um, so you guys can see how this Looks and let me know what you guys think. I'll be right back guys All right guys, so I am completely done with my look. I'm gonna actually take some photos today Um And I'll let you guys know how it comes out. Let me know what you guys think This is my everyday makeup. Um, honestly, this is something that I think anybody can do I honestly feel that Because I'm so new at makeup I can probably teach somebody this small routine Um, like I said, they are beginning friendly other videos out there that are probably Easier than this But for a person in her 40s. Well 40 Um, I think this is something that I can kind of do with every day With my everyday life working and stuff and just kind of doing You know adult things so Let me know what you guys think if you stay to the end of this video, please comment. Coco. 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