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Whisper Challenge

11:40 AM

My best friend and I did a video tag that has been going around called the "Whisper Challenge" - have you tried it? It is so much fun!

Basically, the rules of the game is that one person will wear headphones with music playing loud and has to guess what the other person is saying. My best friend's favorite color is pink, so we were using her daughter's rhinestone Hello Kitty headphones lol. Let me tell you...it looks much easier than it is. Man was it hard! But it was so much fun! It's a perfect game to do with kids, family and friends. I hope you enjoy watching as much as we enjoyed making fools of ourselves. Haha

Items shown in this video:

Pink Hello Kitty Bejeweled / Rhinestone Headphones

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FALLing to Autumn Nails (YouTube Beauty Collab)

8:10 AM

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've made a beauty video and what better way to start but in a collaboration with some of my YouTube beauty girl friends! We all created a video inspired by Fall. As for me, I was inspired by my scarf which I love wearing during this season. If you don't know yet, purple is one of my favorite colors. I love the combination of the gold and purple on my scarf and recreated it on my nails. I hope you like it! Please check out the video above. If you have trouble viewing it from my blog, click here to watch.

Products I used:

:: Base Coat - Formula X for Sephora
:: Swatch Me - Julep Nailpolish
:: Glamorously Glittering #6 - Milani Eyez Glittering Eyeshadow
:: Beautifully Brilliant #2 - Milani Eyez Glittering Eyeshadow
:: Olive Oil
:: Q-tips - Target
:: Nail Glitter - LA Splash
:: Hardwear Top Coat - Butter London

Please check out the videos from my other YouTube beauty friends who are also part of this Fall collaboration. You can find their links to their YouTube page below:

:: Nicole (Mommytipsbycole)
:: Yanyi (Missyanyibeautynlife)
:: Arlene (QueenLeilani)
:: Airah (Airahmorena08)
:: Wing (Divamakeupqueen)
:: Diana (Saldanadiana)
:: Rheesa (Reesiibabe)
:: Melinda (Memeathroughz)
:: Grace (Xogoxo)

Happy Fall!! xoxo Arlene

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EDC 2013 (part 2 of 2)

11:55 AM

Check out the video above from EDC 2013 ( Electric Daisy Carnival ), a yearly celebration of EDM ( Electric Dance Music ). It was another great time with my friends! We will be going to EDC Las Vegas next year - super excited about it! Check out the video above that I edited and some pictures below.

If you are viewing this on a mobile device and have trouble watching it, you can view it on a computer. The video was blocked for mobile viewing due to copyright music. Boo! Unless you are tech saavy, you can watch it on your mobile device on "Desktop Mode" - if you can't figure out how to do that, just watch it from a computer.

I had so much fun...and just to name a few of who were there... Rebecca & Fiona, Empire of the Sun, Calvin Harris, Cedric Gervais, Dirty South, Nicky Romero, Porter Robinson, R3Hab, and more....

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Electric Zoo Festival 2012

1:53 PM

I had an awesome time with my girls Nathalie and Frances at Electric Zoo Festival here in NYC. It was my first time going. Instead of me explaining it, check out the video I made below. =)

Who's going to save the world??

We mustache you a question!

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Fashion's Night Out 2012

1:38 PM

I had a great time during Fashion's Night Out in New York with my girls who are also on YouTube. Lee Lee aka Mamichula8153, Melissa aka oxPRETTYSPiFFYxo and Nathalie aka NatyMidnight and let's not forget my friend Waise in the back which technically he was considered one of the girls for the night. He actually flew in all the way from San Francisco, California to New York the same day just for Fashion's Night Out and flew back home the next day. Only a 1 day trip. Now that's real dedication to fashion right there! As Waise quoted for the night, "I have to look fabulous just in case I see Anna Wintour" haha. Speaking of Anna Wintour, you must watch "The September Issue" which is a documentary of the behind the scenes of the making of fashion magazine Vogue. If you're into fashion, it's definitely something worth watching. Click here to watch the trailer. As for Fashion's Night Out....we had a fabulous time, despite the riot that took place in SoHo. Check out our video below to see how the night went....

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EDC - Electric Daisy Carnival 2012

9:00 AM

I went to EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) with my friends held here in New York. An experience that I'll never forget. A weekend full of music and love. Take a look of the video that I edited below to get a glimpse of how much fun it is. If you've never been to EDC before, be sure to go next time it's in your area. You'll have a blast!

click here to watch video

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Give Good Face at IMATS 2012

5:06 PM

I did a recent blog post of some pictures from my experience working at IMATS with Jordan Liberty, creator for Give Good Face. If you missed that post, you can catch up on it here. I finally finished editing the video of my time working at IMATS, check it out below.

It was such a pleasure working with Jordan who I've been an avid admirer of his work since way before he joined the YouTube community.

I first discovered Jordan on Model Mayhem years ago when he answered questions on the forum to eager makeup artists who had questions such as "what are the best products to use for a glossy eye for photo shoots." He was really good at responding back to these questions...however, it just made much more sense to just make a tutorial video which can be re-watched over and over again. Thus, the Give Good Face YouTube Channel was born and Thanks God for that! I actually used some of his techniques for my photo shoots and thanks to his advice, some of my work ended

up making the front cover of a magazine and centerfold. (see pictures) It was so awesome walking into almost every store such as Barnes and Nobles and seeing my magazine. Thank you Jordan! =)

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IMATS NYC 2012

12:40 PM

I had the opportunity to work at IMATS over the weekend here in NYC with Jordan Liberty, founder of Give Good Face. Jordan is one of my favorite makeup artists so I was so fortunate to be able to work along side him during the weekend. I took some pictures of pretty much everything that was going on during IMATS. Enjoy!