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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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Organized Kitchen Pantry

8:00 AM

Whoa Momma!! That's a crap load of stuff! I can't even believe that my pantry even looked like this at one point. I'm so proud of the way I organized my pantry.

Since I live in New York, apartments are small and limited in storage space so I have to make due with the lack of cupboards I have. My pantry which contains all of my baking ingredients was just awful and sad looking. As much as I love baking, every time I opened it, something was falling out. It was hard to find what I wanted and just the clutter itself would just spoil the mood of me wanting to bake sometimes. Something had to be done...and it needed to be quick!

I purchased these containers that I found. It was important to me that it had a airtight seal without the hassle of opening and closing. This happened to fit the bill. It's BPA free plus it is safe to use in the refrigerator, freezer and top rack dishwasher safe. My kind of container! I provided an *affiliate link to where I purchased it here.

I used a label maker to name each container

Ta-Dah!

I will show you an updated picture to see how this new organized pantry has been holding up...

so be sure to check back for the status. =)

*Disclaimer: all items mentioned above were purchased with my own money. This is not a sponsored blog post. Affiliate links help fund a small amount towards my blog to continue to make content. Thank you so much for your support.

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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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My DIY Shoe Rack

12:33 PM

My DIY Shoe Rack

I love my customized shoe rack that Tricky and his brother Mikey helped me make. Living in New York, apartments are known for being small and not having enough closet space. So you really have to be crafty on your storage space. You have to utilize wall space and build up. Generally, people would put them in the closet: on the floor beneath the clothes or top shelf. Or sometimes even invest in furniture, cubby holes, etc to store shoes which just takes up valuable floor space. Either case, shoes take up so much space! I love my shoes, but hate how cumbersome it can be when I don't have enough space for them. It was a love hate relationship that I have had with them for quite a while...up until now.

Anyways....it wasn't until one day I was Skyping with my dear friend Lisa and she noticed my shoe rack in the background that she wanted to know more about it. I posted a picture of Lisa and I Skyping on my Facebook and it stirred up questions about my shoe rack in the background and people wanting to know where I bought it. lol No, I didn't buy it. It was custom made. My initial inspiration came from Pinterest (oh how I love Pinterest, but how it sucks up a lot of my time from browsing. But that's a whole 'nother story lol). After a few requests to make a tutorial video on how this was made, I will be uploading one shortly on the process of the making. But in the meantime, here's a little sneak peek of some pictures of the building process.

Tricky picked up some wood from Home Depot, took some measurements based on the width and height of our bedroom wall.

Mikey cutting the wood based off Tricky's measurements.

Painted the wood with some leftover paint that we already had.

After a few nails and screws in the wall...VOILA!

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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!