Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today's video is highly requested for the hairstyle challenge that we're doing all year long, which is work or professional hairstyles. And I think the reason why I've taken so long to even make this video is because like, what does that really mean though? Like, I think all hair type styles are work appropriate. Like right now my hair down, this is work appropriate. And I wish somebody would tell me that is not. Even if it was bigger with more volume, it's still appropriate because this is how my hair grew out of my head. And if Becky can wear her hair down with the way her hair grew out of her head, it's obviously allowed. Am I right?  Maybe you need to have your hair out of your face depending on your profession. Sure, we can try some basic styles that will not distract your insecure coworkers. That's fine, we can do that. So I'm just gonna wing it today. I don't know how many I'm gonna create, but let's just get going. So starting off on already like styled hair, I already have product in my hair. I'm gonna keep out a couple little curly dews because it already just like, just adds things to it. When you have a blazer on, everything you do looks professional, am I right? So let's just like do a little half up, half down situation. Nothing too crazy, no serious parts, like so. And we're not even gonna slick it. We're gonna keep it kind of like loose and goosey. Now you could use a scrunchie at this point or you can grab like a pretty little clip. This little moon clip is from CVS, from GSQ by Glam Squad. And there you go, hairstyle number one. Just kept out a couple curls, clipped it. Good back. Super easy, I'm running late to work and I have two minutes. Now let's do something similar, keeping the little curly dews out and we can just do a low ponytail. Should we start slicking things? Do you guys need to see it slick? Let's add a little bit. I'm gonna use my EcoStyle Black Castor and Flaxseed Oil Gel once again. It's just still on my desk, so it's easiest to grab. But let's just slick down a little bit with some gel. This can be as slick or loose as you prefer. Your hair, your rules. Or it's gonna do a low ponytail. You can use a silk receton scrunchie or you could use a regular ponytail. A regular scrunchie doesn't really matter. Like so, low ponytail, two little curlies. Business profesh.  Let's go up. Now it's gonna be kind of like a messy-ish bun but here's the trick to a bun.  Ta-da, hair is up and away. I'm here to check you in for your three o'clock appointment. Easy, right? If you don't want any hair in your face, just put everything away. Up to you. And that's the beauty of curly hair. Like it could be as messy as you want it to be and it still looks cute because your curls are always popping. Let's do another down look. Let's keep it all down. Except for the front. So I'll do a little bit of parting. Let's take this piece right here, this front part. Does not have to be perfect. Okay, we've got our two pieces and put the rest away. And let's make a better middle part. Now I'm gonna get it wet and I'm gonna slick it down.  Like so. Now I'm gonna get more of my gel and slick it down. Ooh, this is a nice and shiny. Gonna see my bangs coming in. Slick it down. The behind the ear. Keep out baby hairs if you want. I don't know, baby hairs are work appropriate. I don't know, whatever you wanna do. Now you tie these two pieces in the back. Let's use like a little small rubber band. Then we take the rest of our hair down. Now you've kind of made like a headband. Out of your own hair. See now that would be cute, but it's like a little bow, but that's probably not work professional. That's probably just Fred and I cute. But anyways, so now that adds like a little bit of texture to your hair being down. Since we've started, let's go for the super slick look. Using a middle part. We're just gonna wet the top of my head. That's where things are gonna be slick. Grabbing some more gel. This gel does work very well for the shine. Anytime we're doing a slick style, you wanna get like a bore bristle brush that looks like this. Or this, I have different ones.  And there's the look, just kidding. All right, now let's slick this back. Oh, that's cute. I think I need baby hairs. Is that not allowed? Now we kept this dry.  Are they gonna use a regular scrunchie for this one? So it's nice and tight. And there you go, super slick and super professional. And you can do different variations of this same look. So you can just do straight back or you could bring it all to the side and wear it to the side. Try to bring the little curlies in the front back. Kinda got my little curlies back. It's usually better if you don't do 50 hairstyles at one time. Let's rewet this. And let's do a little twist. I've kinda done this in a recent video. Just gonna twisting my hair back like so. Then I'm grabbing this little clip, then securing that there. And then do the same thing to the other side. I got these gold clips by Jamie Lauren. I will link them in my description box. Then you can lead the rest of your hair down.  Nothing too crazy, nothing to distract your coworkers. Just a little gold. Or you can take these pieces. Oh my poor day one hair, so beautiful. This is great to do when you're on your end of the week hair. So you can just keep doing styles. Twisting it, pulling it back. I'm just gonna use this for now. And then taking this side, twisting it. If you can French braid, go for it. You overachiever you. Then you make like a little twisted crown. Maybe instead of this clip, if you don't want anything showing, you can just get a bobby pin and connect the two. This is another little accessory from CVS. Then the GSQ by Glam Squad collection. Stick it, just clip it like so. Bobby pin, pretty pin, whatever floats your boat. And for my last trick, I'm just going to put it all up in a clip. This is my favorite clip from Pattern Beauty. A lot of my clips were from the 99 cent store. And then I realized that there is a difference from clips that are more than a dollar. So I'm kind of twisting it, pulling it down. Grabbing my clip and clipping it in place. So you can have it like this. I think I might like it better without the twist. I would probably just undo that. So it's like more slick, but that gives you more of like a slick part up top if you don't want the messy bun look just on its own. But that way your hair is just up and away. So there are a couple of quick and easy professional work appropriate hairstyles for you guys to try. Please tag me on Instagram at MsBeyondGrené in your story so I can see which ones you rocked to work. Leave a comment, let me know which one is your favorite. And I'm gonna think of some more to give you guys some more options. If you enjoyed this video and want more work appropriate hairstyles, let me know what you guys want. Do you want more buns? Do you want more ponytails? Do you want more slick stuff? Do you want more wigs? Let me know in what direction you want me to go in for our next hairstyle challenge. If you enjoyed this video, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week. You also can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok at MsBeyondGrené. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching BeyondGrené today.


I'm gonna pre-legit check this one. Gatorades. I have the OG hang tag, it just broke. I believe you. I've got a pair of these. Smells like your feet. How many times have you worn these? Not many. I believe you. I'm looking at the Gatorade logo underneath in the right spot. Bit of creasage, that's okay. The print looks consistent. Doesn't look dodgy AF at the tag. Smells like plastic, so that's legit. And then inside you've got the green sole. But to get it officially legit checked, we're gonna go to the Bossman. I've seen this paint on the hang tag. It's usually silver. How much do you buy it for? 99 on Facebook. That's very sad.  They're very rare. People normally release them for like at least 300, unless you got lucky enough to steal, you know? Checking under the sole of the big test. Are they consistent? So many things to think about. Now the barcode test. Are you nervous? No. For me, it's not past. I had these as a solid past. You can see some of the parts here, they're very inconsistent as well. At least you paid only 99.


The one thing about the first visit, which is always funny, but towards the end of the visit he went, he looked at us, he put his hand on me and he wasольd gwaith swgodio. He said, you don't mind that I'm masynnwyl tidious. And I was saying, I'm wearing a suit, because both me visits to the twins. Which is out of respect. They shoulda done me hair, I did have hair, short hair. He must have taken a fancy to us I said, well yeah I'd have no mind what you get up and do on, but that's not for ac e'n cael ei wneud i fynd o'r wgledd, er o'i ddiddio bwysig iawn i chi wnaeth ymwneud yma. A cael ei wneud i chi fyddion i chi'n gweithio i'r young Steve Ray that I was going oh well that would be nice. That would be nice. Anyway, a cwpl o ddes i wedi'i ddweud ar y visiwch. Through me mam a dad's letter box drops a huge envelope of thuds on to the ground. Steve got a something here. It's messy writing on the front. I went oh it's obviously from Ronald Regg you know and I opened it up and it's Hispanic cruisers. Ron had said, have a look at this and pick where you want to go when I get out. I mean fast forward a few years, God bless him in 95 when he passed away and obviously I attended his funeral. My wreath was a big cruise ship.


Some more research with potential to really improve lives in our Northern neighbour is our next contestant. I'd like to introduce Kristina Griffin. Kristina is from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the title of her three minute thesis tonight is Rational Risk-Taking Why Farm Potatoes on an Active Volcano. Think about the risks you take each and every day that improve or make your life easier. When you drive your car, ride to work or reheat that leftover takeaway that's been sitting in the fridge a little too long. The farmers in this image are also taking risks. This photograph was taken in the years between eruptions in the highlands of central Java. While it looks green and lush here, that white cloud to the right is actually steam rising above a volcanic crater. This crater periodically expels poisonous concentrations of carbon dioxide gas. During the worst event, 150 people suffocated. The farmers here are skirting the crater's rim while carrying 80 kilograms of potatoes over a single shoulder. While risk-taking is a normal part of daily life, many disaster textbooks still tell us that people are taking dangerous activities because they are uneducated or they have no other choice. This leads to policies that restrict activities near or forcibly move people away from volcanoes. In the process, destroying the livelihoods that these farmers depend on to survive. What if there are good reasons to farm the land around an active crater? My thesis collects the stories of farmers such as these. I seek to understand why are they there and how does the threat of the volcano look from their perspective? In the months I spent collecting data here in the Dieng Plateau, I came to understand the many good reasons people have to live and work here. In the past, this volcano provided farmers with vast expanses of land and an escape from colonial forced labour. And then the potato came. With Dieng's fertile volcanic soils and its cool wet climate, it began producing the best potatoes in Indonesia's marketplaces. Living standards were radically transformed, cars were purchased, bamboo homes were replaced with permanent concrete dwellings and more children began attending school. My findings have important lessons for disaster management. Firstly, that policies should be flexible and support access to livelihoods wherever possible. And secondly, that something as simple as a spud can encourage people to make educated and rational decisions to take risks near a volcano. Just as we decide to reheat that leftover takeaway, disaster management must weigh the risk of an eruption against the rewards of farming on a volcano.


What's up everyone? Today I want to talk about pulse audio. Do you need pulse audio on Linux? Is it actually required? Is it a terrible thing that's destroying Linux? I want to give my opinions on this. Let's find out So first if you're a noob if you don't know anything about what pulse audio is if you've just heard the name What is it? Okay? It is an audio system that is used on Linux. Now Linux by default has something called alsa ALSA I think it's like something Linux sound whatever doesn't matter what it stands for but it's built into it's Built on top of the Linux kernel. Okay, it's the basic audio system pulse audio is something that you can put on top of alsa and The reason being also is very hard to use. Okay, and I'm gonna talk about that in this video by itself Also is is very restricted. Okay, so pulse audio is this system on top of alsa And it's a little controversial for several reasons first off people say pulse audio is total bloat It generates a lot of problems that people run into a bunch of issues with it and you know most importantly, right? It's written by Leonard pottering who everyone likes to hate. He's the guy who wrote system D now as it happens I you know on this channel. We are big proponents of minimalism Okay, and pulse audio and system D are both not minimalist systems. However, I have actually defended system D in the past You know, I don't I don't use it, but I think it's you know, I don't think it's that bad I don't I don't think it's like destroying the world a lot of people talk about it Like it's the end of the world or something like that And you know, there are bad things about it, but I think they're just overblown Okay, that you can watch my original video on that if you want And pulse audio I actually have a different opinion on this now first off I do think that the complaints that people make about pulse audio like the complaints about system D are like drastically overstated but more importantly The important thing is this like the people who are complaining about pulse audio have evidently not tried to live without it Okay, that that's what like pulse audio functions. It has errors But the alternative is a non-functioning audio system now also theoretically can do everything that pulse audio can do But here's the issue with also first off lit what let me tell you in case you haven't done it Let's say you install a Linux distribution that does not have install pulse audio Most of them install pulse audio just because when you have pulse audio installed things work the way you expect them to work But let's say you install one that doesn't have pulse audio. How does it work? Well, if you install archer gen 2 or whatever You know just a minimal install And then you boot up Let's say you you know play some music in your music player And then you try and watch a YouTube video at the same time you want music in the background Maybe you're one of those. That's a weird thing, but people do it. Okay Well also by itself is actually not gonna work it can't play two sources at the same time It cannot do that you have to go into also and you have to add this configuration file now It's not just like activate this. It's not like a simple configuration It's like the also configuration file is actually very hard to understand frankly But you have to add a couple of lines that say okay I want to activate this module that allows me to actually play two things at the same time That's what you have to do with also or let's say what all nearly always happens is you install You know on your fresh install you realize that also is not loud enough. It nearly never is it's like a hundred percent It's like this little whisper. Okay, so you want to increase the volume the maximum volume That is another thing that you have to add to your also config and it is not just like change the maximum volume That's not what it is. It is this complicated looking stuff like also configuration It's like things in a bracket. Well, the other I should say this isn't like a thing where you can just read the manual There is no also documentation. This is what I need people to understand You cannot just look something up in You know the manual you cannot even look it up online because although all of these people are telling you not to use Pulse audio and use also only they're not actually doing it So they don't have there's not like a place online. You can look where it says Oh, this is how you actually do things on also It doesn't happen people don't actually just use also alone unless they're just being minimalists for the like and they don't care About the dysfunction here's some other stuff that it try it try I I've actually Asked people in the past show me how to do this on also no one I'm sure it's possible But no one has ever told me how to do it I want to be able to record audio output on my computer Let's say that I'm having a chat with someone Like a over the internet and I want to record the audio from my microphone And I want to record the audio that I hear from them. How do you do that on also? How do you do it? Like there's there is no built by default also cannot take audio output as an input Okay, you have to manually figure out how that works and I have asked many people I I've never run into anyone who knows how to do that. It is possible But you also and the other thing about the also configuration file is if you want to do multiple of these things at the same time That's actually a big rigmarole like it's easy to change the maximum volume on easy quote-unquote It's not really easy But you can figure out how to change the maximum source like the maximum volume of one of your outputs You can also figure out how you can have multi multiple Things on your computer playing output, okay at the same time But try and do both of them at once and you you realize oh, it's not just copying and pasting these two blocks You have to make them compatible cat shut up seriously this cat won't shut up. It's just been meowing the whole video What do you want? I just fed you anyway What was I saying?  Oh, but I can't actually do all this other stuff that people consider basic Okay, another thing that pulse audio does automatically and pulse audio, of course does all of this stuff automatically same thing if you want to Oh another very basic thing when I unplug my headphones I want the volume to be at a different level From once, you know, if you if you have like a or let's say you're playing music sort of loud on your computer It let's say it's at like a hundred percent and that might be, you know an acceptable volume To listen to music depending on what kind of speakers you have.  You don't want people to hear your music Okay, well, uh, if you do that it's going to be blaring in your ears at 100 which is much much louder If you're using also pulse audio on the other hand automatically says okay for each different You know if they if they plug in headphones, they're going to want a different volume So we're going to store whatever volume they set last time for their headphones and we're going to use that instead of You know just keep you know carrying over the volume. So that's one another one of these things So when it comes to pulse audio, yes, pulse audio does terrible things There are terrible errors that people complain about with it all the time Oh, I gotta I had to reboot pulse audio because it messed this thing up Uh, actually, let me tell you some of the things that i'm struggling with right now with pulse audio Biggest annoyance right now is if you install my dot files, okay There's this stupid incompatibility with chrome based browsers that they don't automatically Start pulse audio because it's fluid synth or something like that. Okay, whatever I got to figure out what how exactly to fix this in a principled way um But uh, you know, so if I if you install my dot files as it is right now and pull up the browser and try to Watch a youtube video the audio doesn't properly start you have to start the audio You have to listen to some other audio to start pulse audio before it actually plays It's so stupid. I gotta figure out how to fix that that is a pulse audio problem Or well really it's some other application not properly starting pulse audio But that would not be a problem that I or maybe it wouldn't be a problem. I've had on also I don't know but I'll just say that's one problem that I've had on pulse audio Other thing other annoyances that I have on pulse audio You might see that some videos I start up with my audio manager pulled up That's because every once in a while because really what I'm doing is I'm checking to see what source what input It's actually recording because sometimes pulse audio will decide, you know what?  Okay So, uh, those are two big annoyances of pulse audio that have actually cost me a lot of time But if I'm comparing pulse audio to also there's no contest because also is not a functioning Audio system unless you somehow magically know how it actually works, which no one does. There is no Institutional knowledge out there. You cannot look up online. How do actually configure things on also? Okay? It does it like there's no page. There's an manual. No one actually knows how also works People just complain about it all the time or they get complain about pulse audio And they say that also is better because they're not actually doing audio work with also also works if you like You know if you just want to play if you if you are just consuming product on youtube And uh, you know, maybe you have two input sources or something like that But you're not doing anything complicated for anything even you know, as I said recording audio output That's something really basic also. I've never figured out how to do anything on also There's no good directions for how to do things on also There's no good documentation It is just not workable and I'm not convinced that the people who say that they use and I mean like I have Tried hard to use just also when I used void linux void linux did not work well with pulse audio So I was like I'm just gonna force myself to use also did not work. Okay. It was a terrible time You can actually look back at those videos I recorded with also and the audio quality is awful because I had to like artificially increase Like the the the sound of the input and it ended up, you know There's just all this nasty gain and all this kind of stuff And of course the documentation for also is not out there to actually fix it Things actually work on pulse audio pulse audio has a lot of problems pulse audio can be an annoyance But it actually functions it actually functions like that like people think that we're all about Oh like looking cool on the internet and using fancy computers that uh Are hard to use so we can brag no it's about having a functioning computer And if someone wants to give me like the master also config that does everything right I will happily use it. I will happily never touch pulse audio again If someone wants to write great also deck documentation Or like show me this magical page that I've never discovered that tells you how to do everything on also I will gladly use it, but right now also is not functional So people who complain about you know pulse audio. I just don't all right. That that's it That's my that's my take on this people ask me every once and also there it is