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

I was pregnant in these videos

I was pregnant almost all of 2008.

This was my first pregnant video. I was about 2 months along here. I had NO idea what my body was in for in the coming months! I was still small and actually wore a bikini to the beach, when we went to Miami.



I think in most videos, though I was glowing. Around this time, I was planning on being an eyeball for Halloween, using my big round stomach as the iris of an eye. But I was too lazy to put it together. I didn't dress up after all for Halloween. Bummer.



This was my worst looking video. I was soooo tired. And I was a little anemic.
I actually got several comments from people asking me if I was ok and to take care of myself.


In this one, I was just a few days away from giving birth. It was my last pregnant video. I can tell you that I was HUGE and wasn't sleeping well. I know this was filmed early in the morning. My husband was still asleep. I got up, went for a walk with Zero, the dog, took a shower, got ready and it was still like 7 am, when I was filming.



If you are curious want to look for more of my pregnant videos, go to the Spring through Winter 2008 videos. You will see my preggo face in all of those :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/ilovegerardo

Your you tube channel-I want to subscribe

To all, you tube video producers ;) tell me a little bit about your you tube channel.
I want to subscribe to you.

What is your channel about?
How many videos do you currently have on your channel?
On average, how many minutes are your videos?
How often do you upload a NEW video?
What makes you different from other you tube channels, with the same type of topic?
How is the quality of your video? (Can I hear you well? Is the lighting good? Is it focused?)

Anything else you can do to entice me to come check out your you tube channel?

Remember to post the link to your channel. OR give me your channel name. Make sure it's spelled correctly :)

Thanks!

Iris