Great makeup tutorials by women of color?

[PolyphonicLove]

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Originally Posted by chocolategoddes Well, I can't handle Slipknot, either. haha It's funny that people would call me a sell-out because I've ALWAYS been this way. It's not like I abandoned "black culture" and all of a sudden began to embrace whatever a "stereotypical white culture" is. I've always listened to a wide range on music (rap to techno to punk to metal) and I've always gotten good grades. And who said being intelligent, having a mixed-group of friends (mostly non-black, though), and enjoying a variety of music was a "white thing" anyway? Grrr...

EXACTLY. I listen to everything [they just happen to catch me on my Daft Punk days], and I hang out with a diverse group of people. How the hell is that a big deal? Though I must admit, last year my grades went down the tube! Normally they're pretty good, but with a lot of "personal stuff" going on, I just stopped caring. I really want to bring up my lousy 2.7 GPA! ;-;

And I hate the stereotype of whatever "white" is supposed to be. I remember in 7th grade, one day I was wearing all navy. We wear school uniforms, but it was laundry day, so my white tops and khakis were washing. But some girl said, "Why are you wearing all navy? Are you goth? HEY EVERYBODY, SARAH JUST SAID SHE'S GOTH!" and I hadn't even opened my goddamn mouth! I hate the ignorance that surrounds me!

 

[user79]

I'm sad you left YT, BeautyAllure. I loved your channel, it will def be missed by myself and many other Youtubers.

 

[dominichulinda]

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Originally Posted by AarisZilton Well I wanted to say NICKY (BeautyAllure) you're amazing and beautiful and whether you make any ore youtube videos again I respect you as a woman and a person. You did the right thing for you and I wish you well in life. Oh and thought I'd drop a name or two- DominiChulinda and Pinkpornstar1. Oh and IAMGRAPE1119. They're AWESOME! Anywho, laterz! AZ

thanks mama!! <33333333333333333333 your forever in my heart hehe

(muaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!@beautyallure your the best forever)

 

[HeavenLeiBlu]

thanks for starting this thread, for real.

 

[chocolategoddes]

Looks like Scandalousbeauty will be taking a break from videos for a while, too. That sucks because I really loved her vids.

 

[AarisZilton]

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Originally Posted by dominichulinda thanks mama!! <33333333333333333333 your forever in my heart hehe (muaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!@beautyallure your the best forever)

You're more than welcome! Your videos are the best! Love them!

AZ

 

[Lovey99]

My favorite is SCANDALOUSBEAUTY!

She is great and is helpful via email too

 

[Lovey99]

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Originally Posted by lipshock Actually, it wasn't, chocolategoddes. I am a full time college student with a job and extracurricular activities (even during my vacations I do volunteer work), so I rarely have the time enough as it is to breath but I still made an effort to put out videos and though I didn't have 30 something like others, I made sure I put time and effort into them in making them right. When I did rush to put up a tutorial, I would constantly get comments like something was bad about it but the tutorials I didn't rush, those type of comments were rare. I was busting my ass in my classes because I am trying to get into graduate school when I finish undergrad, so I'm sorry if making YT videos was not on my top priority list (this isn't directed towards you, just in general). By the end of it all, I was just so burnt out, it was unbelievable -- I didn't feel like doing anything, yet alone put on makeup. It was all worth in the end because I made Dean's List and I am proud I plowed through it all, even with the negativity. Besides, the people that would write comments like that were the main reasons why I did update videos and I would personally email them and let them know as to why I haven't done a video in awhile. Even so, I still kept up to date with answering a ton of emails pretty much every day. So really, people need to sit down and think how much work goes into creating tutorials on the internet. . .on top of your offline life. I still don't understand why I got so much flack because of it since there are others out on YT that didn't update frequently (like myself) but didn't seem to get such a negative backlash from it. But it really wasn't my reason for leaving because I knew that though people seemed upset about my absences, I still responded to every single email and it wasn't like I completely fell off the face of the earth and I ignored people. I just cannot be one of those individuals that do more than one tutorial in a day. And just to clear things up: one of the main reasons (besides the racism and just downright nasty comments/messages) I really left was because of the negativity between those in the WoC YT makeup community (all the competitiveness and cattiness was really ridiculous . . . especially since most of the women are grown individuals, so I never will understand why people felt the need to self validate themselves with the highest amount of subscribers you had). I mean it was like cutthroat seriously. It really was shocking and I just didn't want to do it anymore. It was like it was a race of who could become YT partner first blah blah, who could reach 2000+ subscribers first blah blah blah. I am not on the internet to participate in a popularity contest of any sorts. The comments regarding my personal life really didn't hurt me that badly because the comments I read were nothing new to what I experience on a somewhat daily basis, I've grown a tough shell for it, to be honest. What bothered me is when people started taking my YT videos a little too far and it got weird. I only have one word to write about that without going too in depth: stalkers. That's it. i love my life way too much and when I feel like my personal safety has been threatened, it's time to leave and I did. YT videos were not my career and I would never use them as such. They were meant to be fun and informative but like I said before, the fun was taken out of it by some ruthless individuals. Ah well, I believe in karma and all but I really hope they never have to go through what they put me, and others I knew very well on YT, through. In spite of all this, I thank you all so much for the supportive comments. :] This is why I love Specktra and will probably never leave this beauty forum. You ladies are so awesome and are truly some great motivating factors for me in possibly doing it again.

I understand you leaving Nicky. Your videos were awesome. You gave me a lot of confidence to step out of my neutral color pallette. You are truly missed.

 

[lafemmenoir]

Stalkers? Wow, I have really been intimidated by so many of the talented people not soley on colour, but talent and...illustration I s'pose. It takes me 50 photos to get a decent not even high quality photograph which captivates the magic of makeup, live tutorials can be tricky as well and I'm no director and some really look like movies/infomercials and I feel if I'm going to do something and post it, it better well be bloody good so despite reading tuts and purchasing 3 cameras, 2 webcams and a laptop with a webcam, I'm a chicken. I do miss Scandalous as well. I should mail her one of my camera's as she really is informative and encouraging.

 

[nunu]

^ Scandalous is coming back

she said that in her latest videos. I am so excited!

 

[lafemmenoir]

YAY!!!
Thanks NuNu, I'm quite pleased for her return

 

[Dulcemiel]

I wish BeautyAllure would come back i love her talent. she is amazing.

 

[lipshock]

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Originally Posted by Dulcemiel I wish BeautyAllure would come back i love her talent. she is amazing.

Aw, thank you!

That's very nice of you to write that!

 

[chocolategoddes]

^^^ Seriously, are you going to ever return to Youtube?

Pwetty Pwease 8(

 

[lipshock]

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Originally Posted by chocolategoddes ^^^ Seriously, are you going to ever return to Youtube? Pwetty Pwease 8(

Ssssshhh, don't tell anyone but . . . .




































MAYBE!

Seriously though, I am thinking about putting tutorials up on Vimeo because I really just don't like YT. Especially now that they are starting to delete videos that have music in them blah blah copyright infringement blah blah.

 

[nunu]

Lipshock: Thank you!

Can you tell that i'm really excited?
We miss you.

 

[MAC_NERD]

Okay I barely ever post but I have to come out of my usual lurking to say I'd love to see you tutorials again! You are so talented and I've learned so much from your vids.

 

[OneFlyMiss]

*another lurker coming out the shadows*

I really do pray that you come back online with tuts LS/Nicky. It is upsetting that you left esp. over some cattiness,people I tell ya *rolls eyes* Congrats on Dean's list!!!!! That's whats important in life

Dominichulinda, Erin, yasjencon, itsjudytime, popobaby ae a few of my favorites.

 

[BlaqueBarbie]

I rarely rarely post here but I have to give a big ups to the WOC on YOUTUBE I've directed so many of my regular clients to youtube for m/u tutorials and they all rave about the videos when I'm doin lashes and brows etc. Through my MySpace page I have gotten los and lots of request to start making tutorials but honestly with work(customer service sales) and Freelancing and School (Esthetics and Stand Alone Makeup Classes) there is no time!
So Hi5 to the women that take the time out of their lives to make these videos that do benefit women of color who are SCARED of color and are blinded by beauty myths! So once again Hi5

 

[PollyRhythm]

*falls out of chair* Are you kidding me?

Nicky, don't make me chant because I will! I'll start doing the Arsenio Hall on you

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*whispers* Nicky...Nicky...Nicky....