My white nails

Hi,

Look at this.

What in the world? My nails are white! They are like a blank canvas right now. I didn't even have time to fix the edges :( As soon as they were close to drying, the baby woke up. I was like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I messed some up and didn't get to do anything else to them. But I kinda like them. It's weird.

They kinda remind me of mint gum for some reason, you know the ones that are hard.

The funniest part, about this picture, is the fact that I am not holding anything in my hand, so it makes it look like I'm all :"arrrghhhhh!"<--- monster growl.

Ok gotta go!

Bye!

My make up on New Year's Eve

Hi You!

I really don't know why the pictures look like this, but I noticed that if you click on them, it will take you to the original picture. Any tips on how to do this better next time, from you professional bloggers, is appreciated.

Ok so my New Year's Eve was at my inlaws house. Grandma has a room especially for her grandkids. Isn't that nice? Anyway, here I am in that room LOL!

I'm all dressed up, my make up done! Got my top at TJ Maxx- Love that store. My make up is the 2nd look from this video

Hubby and I

My makeup

Happy 2010!

Iris

What's been going on with Iris

Hi,

I think you may like to hear about what is going on in my life. As you may or may not know, I am a mom. It takes a lot to be a good mom, a good wife, a good employee, a good housekeeper, a good cook, a good YouTube video maker, a good dog mom and a good friend.

When you juggle this much, some things get dropped.

But for the most part, I try to keep everything afloat.

The holidays have been great to me. I love everything that came with it. My husband bought me a lot of cool things this year for my videos! Isn't he great? You will always hear me boast about him, hence my screen name.

He bought me 2 coastal scents shadow palettes: 1 regular and one shimmer, I also love to continue to use the Personi. You will see me make a lot of videos with that palette.

He bought me a set of mac brushes and a Stila blending brush.

I got some ankle weights for my walks with baby and dog (which I LOVE and wanted!)

We spent the evening at my in laws. Hubby's brother and his family came over. It's always nice to spend time with them.

I ate so much though! I ate about 5 tamales that night. I know I gained some weight LOL! But I have been working out. Why just the other day, I went to the gym and burned a lot. I am still sore and it's been 3 days since that hard workout. I also went yesterday. I plan on going today.

I always have these ideas for making videos. But the problem is, it takes me about 1 hour to get things ready: set up, lighting, makeup, tools etc. About 40 minutes to shoot because I have to stop and start, stop and start to get the right angles etc. And then about 1-2 hours to edit a video! With a baby, that's tough to do all at once. I do it in spurts. As you can imagine, I don't get to do all of the ideas I have in my head.

Perhaps when our baby gets older? I don't know.


What I am looking forward to in 2010? To be better at everything I do.

For now, I want to thank all of you who have stuck around in 2009, watching my videos. Thank you for following my blog. I wish more of you who read this, would comment and not just move on. It's nice to see that people actually read what I write. It motivates me to come back and write more.

Hope you are doing well and best wishes for you and yours!

Love,

Iris

Where I get my hair cut and styled

Click on the pictures to zoom in, if you want to :)

Recently, I went to get my haircut at this salon. The last time I got it cut was in this video. The person who cuts my hair in the video, is not the same one I went to this time.

I try to get my hair cut every 6 weeks, but being a new mom, it's been tough to be constant.

It was wonderful. I totally loved how my hair came out. My hair feels so light :) My stylist's blow drying skills are amazing. I wish I had her to do my hair every day :)

Anyway, if you are in the Southern Cali area, and need a new do, give her a call.

Ask for Mary. Tell her Iris on You Tube sent you.
Cache' Full Services Salon
102 W Foothill Blvd, Glendora, CA
(626) 852-1128‎

Weezer girl hair

As promised in my previous post

Here is the video. Make sure you go to the video and click on a star for me :)

A class act!!!

I am subscribed to iwanted2c1video. I love listening to her talk and describe how to apply make up. Besides the fact that she is talented.

Recently, I saw this video she made in gratitude for her favorite make up guru, Petrilude

I was so impressed by the fact that she admired him so much and made an effort to credit him and make a video thanking him for his work. You don't know how much I admire that in people. She could have easily taken his ideas, or have been inspired by his work, made them her own and credited them as her own. But no, she took the high road.

I think she will be another rising star on you tube because of this. Currently, she has over 23k subscribers and I know it's because her ideas and creativity are ORIGINAL. And when she copies or is inspired, she gives credit. I LOVE IT!!!!

UPDATE:

After commenting on the video, PETRILUDE himself, responded to my comment ZOMGOT!

This just proves, we gurus love to receive the credit. It's like a reward for all of our hard work.

ilovegerardo

You know what I think is great? Is that you admit to copying him and you give him credit. Also, that you copy him, but have your own stuff too. I am gonna blog about this video today. Thanks for the inspiration.

Iris on You Tube.

petrilude (3 hours ago)

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ilovegerardo: Not only that she gives credit (like a lot of youtubers don't do), she takes the original and adds to it making it even better.

My next attempted look

Although, I am cutting my hair tomorrow, I am going to attempt this look:




You can see her look starting at 1:19.

So cute. I hope I have time to record it tonight!

Love,
Iris