The Horrors of Technology
This blog post has nothing what so ever to do with makeup I just have to write this!
So amongst the things in my life that's not makeup I'm a complete technology freak. And one of the first (or more like the 100th) rules in technology is that when your about to do a large update or change something large on the computer you Should do a back up if anything goes to hell.
This rule does not only apply to computers but everything around technology. If you have an external hard drive you should do a back up on it, if you have an iPad or any tablet you should do a back up AND you should absolutely no matter what do a back up on your smartphone! The horrors you'll feel when you do an update and the phone doesn't work!
So during a lecture today my cellphone wanted to do a System update. It did sound harmful and I decided "Why not, I'm stuck here anyways".
The first thing it told me was "You won't be able to use your phone or make any emergency calls during this update". I thought that if anything were to happen during that lecture there was alot of phones to make emergency calls so I pressed update.
It worked fine and after the update it Tried to restart.... It was on the loading screen forever and then didn't work what so ever! I tried to reboot after reboot but nothing helped it was dead.
When I got home I tried to google any soloutions but the only thing everybody said was to factory reset the phone which I didn't want to do since I haven't done a backup. I tried and tried for two hours and then just left the phone and decided to leave it until tomorrow and if it still didn't work then do a backup (for now it booted I just couldn't use it) and then do the factory reset.
Came back two hours later, looked at the phone and it wanted me to lock up the simcard which I couldn't do before and now the phone works again :D
It's very very slow and some things still is a bit fucked up but all in all it works :)
So amongst the things in my life that's not makeup I'm a complete technology freak. And one of the first (or more like the 100th) rules in technology is that when your about to do a large update or change something large on the computer you Should do a back up if anything goes to hell.
This rule does not only apply to computers but everything around technology. If you have an external hard drive you should do a back up on it, if you have an iPad or any tablet you should do a back up AND you should absolutely no matter what do a back up on your smartphone! The horrors you'll feel when you do an update and the phone doesn't work!
So during a lecture today my cellphone wanted to do a System update. It did sound harmful and I decided "Why not, I'm stuck here anyways".
The first thing it told me was "You won't be able to use your phone or make any emergency calls during this update". I thought that if anything were to happen during that lecture there was alot of phones to make emergency calls so I pressed update.
It worked fine and after the update it Tried to restart.... It was on the loading screen forever and then didn't work what so ever! I tried to reboot after reboot but nothing helped it was dead.
When I got home I tried to google any soloutions but the only thing everybody said was to factory reset the phone which I didn't want to do since I haven't done a backup. I tried and tried for two hours and then just left the phone and decided to leave it until tomorrow and if it still didn't work then do a backup (for now it booted I just couldn't use it) and then do the factory reset.
Came back two hours later, looked at the phone and it wanted me to lock up the simcard which I couldn't do before and now the phone works again :D
It's very very slow and some things still is a bit fucked up but all in all it works :)
Use of language...
Okay, so this post is not about make up, or at least not make up products, more make up-gurus.
I was watching a make up tutorial on YouTube just a few minutes ago. It was made by an Italian girl on Italian, at first I didn't notice the comments but one of top rated was about her not speaking English in her video.
For me this seems perfectly normal for more than one reasons.
1. Large parts of the Italian population don't speak English very well. If you come to the big tourist cities sure, they will know some English and some of them very well, but for the most parts Italians don't speak English.
2. When you upload videos to something like YouTube and it gets viewed you probably will face hate. If you're not completely comfortable with the language someone probably will comment that as well.
3. If you're not interested in international viewers then why put up with the hate according to reason number two?
There's probably alot more reasons and I very well know that everything isn't as black and white as I put it there but still, why is it so hard to understand why one want to talk one's mother language instead of a language one might not speak very well?!
Now for me it's a different thing, I see English as my second language and alot of times I find myself talking English even to myself (not saying my English is perfect because I know it's not). And since I'm only writing and not showing everything on camera it's alot harder to get everyone to understand (especially when I want to reach a larger group of people than only Swedes).
Which brings me on to another thing, how hard is it to watch a tutorial without sound (if it bothers you that it's not in English)?
I would understand if the person watching is new to putting on make up and actually want it spelled out, but as soon as you get into make up you can get things out of just watching. I wouldn't mind watching and arabic, greek, african video that's not in English as long as it's filmed so you get the purpose of what the person is doing.
I suppose this is enough ranting and I want to give somewhat a shoutout to two people who I follow that makes videos or blog post's in more than one language
http://www.youtube.com/user/MissChievous Swizz-Canadian girl who does most of her videos in English but some of them in German
http://www.23rdmarch.com/ Polish girl who writes in both English and Polish (which is good for me since I wouldn't understand shit otherwise)
I was watching a make up tutorial on YouTube just a few minutes ago. It was made by an Italian girl on Italian, at first I didn't notice the comments but one of top rated was about her not speaking English in her video.
For me this seems perfectly normal for more than one reasons.
1. Large parts of the Italian population don't speak English very well. If you come to the big tourist cities sure, they will know some English and some of them very well, but for the most parts Italians don't speak English.
2. When you upload videos to something like YouTube and it gets viewed you probably will face hate. If you're not completely comfortable with the language someone probably will comment that as well.
3. If you're not interested in international viewers then why put up with the hate according to reason number two?
There's probably alot more reasons and I very well know that everything isn't as black and white as I put it there but still, why is it so hard to understand why one want to talk one's mother language instead of a language one might not speak very well?!
Now for me it's a different thing, I see English as my second language and alot of times I find myself talking English even to myself (not saying my English is perfect because I know it's not). And since I'm only writing and not showing everything on camera it's alot harder to get everyone to understand (especially when I want to reach a larger group of people than only Swedes).
Which brings me on to another thing, how hard is it to watch a tutorial without sound (if it bothers you that it's not in English)?
I would understand if the person watching is new to putting on make up and actually want it spelled out, but as soon as you get into make up you can get things out of just watching. I wouldn't mind watching and arabic, greek, african video that's not in English as long as it's filmed so you get the purpose of what the person is doing.
I suppose this is enough ranting and I want to give somewhat a shoutout to two people who I follow that makes videos or blog post's in more than one language
http://www.youtube.com/user/MissChievous Swizz-Canadian girl who does most of her videos in English but some of them in German
http://www.23rdmarch.com/ Polish girl who writes in both English and Polish (which is good for me since I wouldn't understand shit otherwise)
Long time no see
Okay, so I never figured I would be this swamped by school but I seriously haven't got the time to do much but studying and working.
Since I'm let go from work last March I hopefully have the time to blog a little bit more than I have been doing.
Anyways I'm going to share some of my thoughts the last couple of days before I'm going back to my studying (got an exam this friday).
After a quite short and weird winter the spring is on the run at least for a couple of days now. And what is more fun than make up in the spring and summer? Alot of events to go to and so on.
But it's not all of the days that make up with foundation and everything seems to appealing, but wearing no make up doesn't seem to fun either. So the solution? Well everybody already heard about Tinted moisturizer but might find it a bit hard finding one that's covering enough or not to expensive.
So the soloution to that? Some might already heard about that as well, it's definately not my idea, but for those of you who haven't this is the greatest thing ever. Simply blend your foundation with your moisturizer. The great thing is that you don't have to spend alot on a foundation, any drugstore brand is great. The moisturizer can be totally drugstore but I would buy one that's a little bit on the expensive side (not the most expensive but not the cheapest one) and if you're exposed to sun, buy a moisturizer or foundation with SPF in it! One less product to wear.
What I tend to love is to use a matte finish on the foundation so you can skip the powder. A dewy foundation with a dewy moisturizer = horrible mess :P
Have flaky winter lips? A toothbrush with a lip sugar scrub (or make your own with sugar and water or lemonjuice) and scrub the lips until smooth, then remember to put on lipbalm, especially before bed and when you just woke up.
Last but not least, which make up product do you have lots of?
Usually people have alot of eyeshadows, eyeliners and lipsticks. Very few have alot of blushes, bronzers, mascaras and foundations. All the kinda everyday use products. A thing I've found myself buying alot the last few months are foundations. Different coloures and different finishes, and I use them for different things and occations.
It actually started with me buying a foundation from Loreal and one from Maybelline, neither one matched my skintone but together they were quite okay, but since I bought one earlier than the other I finished the first much earlier and the other one was left standing on my make up table when I decided to try out different foundations.
To make a long story short, foundations are the one thing I love to look at.
Since I'm let go from work last March I hopefully have the time to blog a little bit more than I have been doing.
Anyways I'm going to share some of my thoughts the last couple of days before I'm going back to my studying (got an exam this friday).
After a quite short and weird winter the spring is on the run at least for a couple of days now. And what is more fun than make up in the spring and summer? Alot of events to go to and so on.
But it's not all of the days that make up with foundation and everything seems to appealing, but wearing no make up doesn't seem to fun either. So the solution? Well everybody already heard about Tinted moisturizer but might find it a bit hard finding one that's covering enough or not to expensive.
So the soloution to that? Some might already heard about that as well, it's definately not my idea, but for those of you who haven't this is the greatest thing ever. Simply blend your foundation with your moisturizer. The great thing is that you don't have to spend alot on a foundation, any drugstore brand is great. The moisturizer can be totally drugstore but I would buy one that's a little bit on the expensive side (not the most expensive but not the cheapest one) and if you're exposed to sun, buy a moisturizer or foundation with SPF in it! One less product to wear.
What I tend to love is to use a matte finish on the foundation so you can skip the powder. A dewy foundation with a dewy moisturizer = horrible mess :P
Have flaky winter lips? A toothbrush with a lip sugar scrub (or make your own with sugar and water or lemonjuice) and scrub the lips until smooth, then remember to put on lipbalm, especially before bed and when you just woke up.
Last but not least, which make up product do you have lots of?
Usually people have alot of eyeshadows, eyeliners and lipsticks. Very few have alot of blushes, bronzers, mascaras and foundations. All the kinda everyday use products. A thing I've found myself buying alot the last few months are foundations. Different coloures and different finishes, and I use them for different things and occations.
It actually started with me buying a foundation from Loreal and one from Maybelline, neither one matched my skintone but together they were quite okay, but since I bought one earlier than the other I finished the first much earlier and the other one was left standing on my make up table when I decided to try out different foundations.
To make a long story short, foundations are the one thing I love to look at.
