Beauty blogs and YouTube

Beauty blogs and YouTube

Beauty blogs and YouTube are very popular today as they are very assessable and easy too follow. There are many beauty blogs that are availed on YouTube and you can learn loads of different things from these blogs like how to style your hair or how to do an make up look or even how to look after your skin. There are widely availed on YouTube and have a demand as people can learn things they never new from the comfort of their own homes, they are really easy too follow and appeal to both men and women. Beauty blogs are really fascinating as people are show the world of YouTube what they can do with make up and people get a ‘perfect flawless make-up’ look right from home and do not have to go out and get their make-up done professionally, however with that being said people/beauty bloggers also use YouTube to promote themselves and what they are doing with there beauty and make-up tips a lot of and how to use them. To me and to most other girls this is very useful as it helps us to look after our skin and look are best easily as all we have to do is watch a video and copy what the blogger is doing and most bloggers explain what they are doing during the video and what you shouldn’t do as well which is very handy to viewers therefore we are potentially getting a skin care/make-up lesson for free on YouTube. I am very into my make-up and fashion hence I think this type of blogging is very useful for girls like me as we can learn a lot of things and find out new techniques from people who post these blogs on YouTube for us too view.

YouTube doesn’t just help the views it helps the bloggers too as they can get ‘successful channels’ which potentially means that they get a large number of subscribers therefore the blogger can post longer videos and get a certain amount of money when they have a certain number of views therefore the YouTube blog is another type of business for the blogger themselves. Also talking about business many bloggers often use their channel to promote themselves and get their own brands e.g. a blogger who calls her channel ‘Huda Beauty’ has promoted her own false lashes and her false lash glue, this is as she is a well known blogger who is based in Dubai and has had the opportunity by being recognised for her talents through YouTube and was able to create a huge eyelash and eyelash glue line. With this they blogger also use their own products in their videos to promote them. Another example is right here from Britain two sisters who paired up to create a beauty blog and make up tutorials on YouTube and now one of the sister Samantha Chapman has now got a very successful line of make up brushes called Real Techniques which is available in the UK, USA and other countries too however these bloggers are famous on YouTube however they do not get the same celebrity status as traditional celebrities. However they do get called to events and get to host certain events they do have fans but they do not get paparazzi attention and get published in magazines for gossip but people do want to know about their lives as they request videos like TMI tags with is a video about a person in this case the blogger answering personal questions like ‘what is your weight?’

Also beauty bloggers team up on YouTube to give their subscribers two look/a themed look with other popular blogger this also helps to promote one another on channels.

Also with YouTube beauty bloggers they are very live and bubbly to get people to recognise them and make them successful. “Not overtly acting are ‘being themselves’” (Tolson, A 2012: P1) therefore we get to know the person who is making the YouTube videos a perfect example of this is a YouTube blogger Nicole in this tutorial linked bellow shows a perfect example of how she puts her personality in her videos most of her tutorials are like this and make the viewer enjoys them and make them feel like they know her as she jokes around with us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7RmxbMyKk.

These beauty blogger who put themselves out their on YouTube can experience hatred towards them as people can comment on their videos and sometimes people do not leave nice comments so even though they help people by sharing their knowledge they do get nasty things said to them as some people do not agree with everything they say or the looks that they create, I this is normal on the internet though as you can never please anyone therefore there are always an con to everything.

Also I think this is another way to express your knowledge and share what you know with other people, it is very accessible as well and easy to find a tutorial that you are looking for by simply typing what you are looking for in the search bar and loads of different tutorial of different/similar things pop up. I love watching these videos and learning loads off new things, I feel like I am kind of a make up artist who is self taught by YouTube tutorials this could potentially lead me to do a make up course but I wouldn’t have found that I like learning and trying pout make up with out watching all these tutorials so they can also inspire people like me to find hobbies and maybe a career I also have had a job on a make up count and got to show off what I had learnt from the YouTube bloggers. So it is also very inspirational as well as a learning factor. YouTube blogger are getting very popular by the day so it is amazing to see what new people do and have to teach.

Reference

Tolson, A (2012) ‘A New Authenticity? Communicative Practices on YouTube’, Critical Discourse studies, 7:4

Social Networks and the internet

Social networking and the Internet

Social net working is a huge part of peoples lives now as it helps us to stay in contact with everyone we know also it helps us to make new friends by simply talking to them online.

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are very popular as we can tell everyone we have as a friend/follow what we are doing and how we are feeling by simply making a status update or a tweet. People use Facebook and Twitter every single day as it is so easy to access on out phones and computers, its also a good way to cope with boredom as you can just sit anywhere and scroll through the timeline of the social networking site.

I love to be on social networks I have both Twitter and Facebook as I think they are useful to me and I am sure that other teenagers think this as well, as they help us to keep in touch they also inform us things like what is happening in the world and I your city, when your friends tweet or post a status about something it tells us what is going on and maybe why so therefore social networks are a source off news as well in a way this could be know as citizen journalism as they are posting new on social networks. With this being said new institutions also have made Twitter and Facebook pages so the public can follow them and be updated on the news and what is happening this is useful as you can access social networks from anywhere with an internet connection, also people can tweet the new institutions and tell them what is going on around them, which is also citizen journalism as the public are informing the institutions so I think this is good as we can get news from places where big institutions do not have access to or where they can not get to.

Social networks also have a bad aspect to them as well as you can get trolls and unpleasant people who are on there, celebrities can get harassed on Twitter and Facebook as people who are not fans can get nasty towards them and escalate things, even for normal people this could happen, this is why cyber bulling is more apparent and people have to be careful of what they post as it could effect someone in a bad way, also there are also law on cyber bulling and what will happen if people do bully people over the internet, as the internet is meant to be safe for people everyone to use.  But with this being said and all the Social networking sites putting security settings and report buttons on the websites they sometimes take to long to react to these problems yes they might having million people reporting things but sometimes its very serious and no action by the site every take place its just left there so how effective are the social networking sites with the security of their users.

Ethnography Presentation

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Fashion and the internet

Fashion and the Internet

Fashion and the internet have had a good relationship over the years, which has lead to many new ways to look and create fashion, the first thing being online clothes shopping I think this was a great idea as may people hate going out and spending hours going shop to shop looking for something nice, with online shopping you can sit down with a cup of tea and enjoy shopping and relaxing. Most people prefer to do this as you get what you want to your doorstep. However there is much more to fashion and the internet then just online shopping there are now apps and much more that can help you get exactly what your looking for, there one app that I use to find what I'm looking for called Polyvore this app help people like me to get what they want buy searching for it on the website or mobile app, it has a bunch of different shops clothes displays it in that one app, for example if I was looking for a white skirt with a black pattern I would simply search it on the app and it will show me which shops have a white skirt with a black pattern, you can also refine your searches from the shop or brand your looking for. The app not only display clothes it helps people to style them as well, as they have tab for were you can create your 'sets' this means you can piece different clothes together and publish them for others too see and get inspired by I think this is a good app for people who are just getting into fashion and need a little inspiration.

Fashion and the internet also come together with small online start ups like boohoo and miss guided these are now very popular online start ups with affordable clothing, both companies do not have any stores for customers its all online as now a days people do prefer to shop online as they can sit at home, relax and shop. The internet has made it easier for everyone to get access to shops like these therefore they can work as they have low cost on running the website and maintaining the website its much easier then looking for a shop and maintaining the shop then expanding the business, as with the internet business is easily expanded with advertisements and cheap shipping is always a nice way to draw costumers in. This shows that the internet is an good opportunity for small fashion companies as they can get the products to us for cheaper than the stores as they don’t have to send it out to stores they directly send it too us. Not only that we can also get things from abroad easily as fashion trends in the US are different to the UK we can get a global choice of what clothes we like and what we don’t like this shows that we have more variety now a days with the internet and fashion collaborating.

Student finance campaign

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Psychogeography Project

This was the first project we did in the workshop. it was very interesting going around Leicester town and breaking my habits of going into the same shop all the time, this time what me and my partner did was put my iPod on shuffle and picked a lyric form each song that related/reminded me of a certain placed and when there and looked around it was a good experience as i saw things and went place that i wouldn't have gone when going into town.

Before this i also had other ideas like walking around with a coin and flipping it to tell me what direction to go in and exploring the city in that way, another idea i had was to go out and ask people what direction i should go.