Makeup, MMOs, Me & More.

Wishing you, reader, a happy new year! Enjoy 2015!

I am thankful for Tuong-Phu being by my side throughout the entire year of 2014!

Never thought I'd be chosen to be in a video commercial. But here I am! Too bad this wasn't my job earlier. I wish my skin was more flawless for this video.

Take a look.

Thank you to Brian and Stephanie for creating this video.

Today Daddy wanted me to help him create his business logo so he can have it branded on all his parts by laser. I was nervous about not being able to do it, because I didn't even know how to type text in the shape of a circle.

I now know how to type text along a path, and how to draw a circle without a fill!

I don't do this everyday, so I probably will forget. That's why I'm going to post the article and video where I learned these basics here.

Creating Type on a Path in Photoshop

How to draw a circle with no fill in Photoshop

It wasn't much to learn, but I'm feeling pretty proud of myself that I learned something new today. It would've been heard to figure out by just playing around. Gotta thank the internet! It can teach you how to do anything!

I came back here because I've missed this blog and I miss the whole practice of blogging in general. I've been feeling like I want to write, but I don't know why I keep waiting for that right moment to start documenting my day and life here in this special space online.

So much has changed since my last post on here. Thanks to micro-blogging on Twitter and Facebook, people are making quick and short updates on those websites. That leaves the world of detailed and long blogging almost dead.

Heh heh, feels so nice to write in here again. I love how this blog is always waiting for me to record any thought in it.

I am glad something called me back here tonight.

I miss Tuong Phu so much.

I am relatively new to makeup.

When I was in college, I would wear makeup on special occasions, and the only kind of makeup I would put on was some powder, blush, mascara and lip gloss. For the bigger stuff like beauty pageants and formal evening events, my parents would take me to a beauty stylist to get my hair and makeup done. That would cost around $70! So expensive! I would take pictures of my makeup after, in hopes that I would remember how to do evening makeup so I wouldn't have to spend so much on a makeup artist again. Still, more pageant activities came, and I still had to go to my makeup artist.

Just a few months ago, at the start of summer, I became obsessed with the Japanese "gyaru" style of makeup, where girls would transform their ordinary looks into looking like super cute dolls with huge eyes. It was all about having doll-like eyes and small lips. I would be amazed at how some of these girls look completely different with makeup on.

That's how I got started with makeup, trying to replicate these big-eyed looks. Still working at it!

Then I found that YouTube was such a wonderful place to learn about makeup. I've been watching countless videos of makeup tutorials, and I think I've got the basics down. I can do so much more than powder, blush, mascara and lip gloss now! I can't believe I'm playing with bright eye shadows, using foundation and eye primers, applying falsies on my own, taking better care of my skin, and trying to come up with new looks using colors I've never used before.

I am so lucky to have a mother who is so much into looking beautiful. I have to thank her for starting out my growing makeup collection by giving me a lot of eye shadows she wouldn't be using. She only uses neutral colors, so the rest is for me!

I am currently exploring mineral makeup. I like how a lot of mineral makeup is in loose powder form. Is there any difference between mineral makeup and "regular" makeup other than it's supposedly good for your skin?

I am so in love with this new past time of mine, my artistic hobby. I just sometimes wish that I got into this stuff earlier, like in my teen years.

Once again, after so many months, I have made another post.