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MLK Motivational Mondays

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Happy MLK Jr. Day!

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If there's one thing we all should be doing on this Motivational Monday, it's to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's wise words. What a humanitarian. What an eloquent man. 

I can currently say that I'm quite happy living in the reality of dreams that have come true for equality and humanity alike.

Let's bring back some good morals like being a good human being with actual character in this country. They're not dead values simply living in the days of horses and bayonets in 1917, ya' know.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us of that.

Live long and prosper.

Maleficent Trailer Love

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
Please stop giving us new peeks into the upcoming Disney movie Maleficent!

"Dream" Trailer - Maleficent on Disney Video

As I've said before, I can't wait to see it! I'm dying inside until then. Thanks for again pointing out that it's not coming out until May 30th. Aargh.

I also can't wait for the YouTube beauty vlogger swarm of Maleficent tutorials that will be made from the looks in this movie. Maleficent is sure to be a makeup artist dream movie to watch if you need inspiration!

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First, there's all these highlighted, contoured and angular looks to feast your eyes upon. Next, look at how deep and bright that red lip is on Maleficent. Finally, look how magical and jewel tone the setting of the movie is! I believe my bling and glitter radar is honing in on this movie's visual deliciousness.

Never have I ever wanted to be more evil, Mr. Bigglesworth. Maybe I should do a cool red lip today as well as channel my inner skeleton self with highlighting and contouring techniques. Only then will I be able to find the Hulk so I can steal his green eyeballs. Bwa! Ha! Haaa! (evil witchy laugh, then raises pinky finger to lip like Dr. Evil...)

Enjoy your day, friends.

Marketing: Branding Vs. Sales

As a former advertising and marketing consultant, I find it really hard to differentiate and keep all my topics on beauty and the ridonkulous. Eventually you'll see this blog categorized so if you want to just see one topic, all you'll have to do is click on that page's tab.

Anyway, keep reading if you'd like to dig into my mush brain of a head on the topics of marketing, social media, branding and sales.

It burns me when someone asks me how much money I'm making from my online adventures. To put it lightly, not much. You've got to start somewhere. Geez. Allow me to add that there are other perks, though, to blogging that some could attach a dollar amount to. Eventually I'll divulge the info so you can reproduce what I'm doing in half the time. Learners unite! I love teaching people. Anyway, I am quite thankful to my hubs that I am able to do what I do right now as well. Not everyone can. I just so happened to be at a juncture in my life where I was at home anyway taking care of my baby. And guess what?


I wasn't just sitting around twiddling my thumbs eating bon bons. I want to grow up one day and have a really successful career. Sure, there's always more laundry to do and bathrooms to clean. Writing & social media takes hours sometimes, people. Women these days need to work, not just sit around being barefoot and pregnant, the perfect model of a 1920's housewife.

Obviously there are some who can just sit around. These ladies are well off and I give them props. I'm also not trying to diminish a housewife's worth. Taking care of kids is hard, no matter if you're dirt poor or rolling in the enviable dough. Blogging has been a total sacrifice, but at the same time I now have peeps to market to if I so wish to do so. I now know why mommy bloggers take up a huge population of the entire blogger network. Currently my main bread & butter part time job is occasional nights and every weekend. It would take a hefty full time salary to change that once you factor in daycare, gas & lunch expenses. Plus, the economy stinks worse than smelly gym socks after a marathon practice run. It's changed every one's typical work schedules. Thanks, economy, thanks. Anyway... moving on to marketing efforts.

There is a HUGE difference in branding yourself vs. converting your social media efforts into sales numbers. Sure, I know I could be doing more things online to make money. Yet, there's still only one of me and so far only a cloned sheep in existence. As far as I know.

So, let me ask you this...
do you now know I do makeup as well as write about makeup? Well, aaaallllllllrightythen! I think I made my point, even though I possibly should of named my blog something other than makeupbyj since it's all over the place. My first goal was to market me and my knowledge of the beauty industry from a professional's perspective. Then, after a while... I goaled myself toward total media world domination. Just kidding. I don't foresee me pimping out my main blog with different writers and such in order to do so. I personally don't want to lose the integrity of it just being me speaking to my main audience, which is you. Yes, you! Again, thank you for reading! Actually, who knows waaayyy far in the future.

Justin Bieber says "Never say never!"

Anyway, branding comes by different advertising platforms (print, digital) and social media channels. The more you have, the better your efforts in the quest for people seeing you. You also brand yourself by number of impressions. For my case in point, it's tweeting that takes the cake along with blog posts.

Now I ask you this... do you think it's good practice to always be selling stuff? I think not. Most would probably deem you as annoyingly spammy with no fun involved.


Marketing statistics show Twitter readers stay on the site an average of 20 minutes, give or take. So, hypothetically it would probably be good practice to tweet 3 times an hour, maybe 6 tweets an hour so each person can see a tweet of yours twice in their news feed. Then, they might actually begin to remember you.

How many people do you think would unfollow me if I started selling things with every tweet? Get out of town with your not thought-through ideas. Thanks. Bye.

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Motivational Mondays, Spock Style

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Don't even ask me why Spock popped into my mind to assist with Motivational Mondays. He does, however, want you to live long and prosper.

Friends: Live long and prosper.
Haters: Live long enough to see me prosper, and then let
Spock's death grip take care of you.

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It might be highly logical to conclude that we all will die one day. But, what type of mark will you make on our planet before that time?


There is no time space continuum, peeps.

We all have relatively the same amount of time, generally and illogically speaking. Thank you, statistics. There are 24 hours in a day. This is logical, sir. I want you to live long and prosper within that time.

The choice to work toward a goal is within you, and one never knows how much time they will have until they meet their demise.

So, let me ask you a question...
Are you sucking the life force out of you or someone else by your negative attitude death grip? If so, you are not invited to Party Spock's house tonight. Karma is a Klingon for sure. Good vibes are Godly and statistically speaking, people with positive attitudes reach their goals much more quickly.

What I want you to do right now is give yourself a hug and a high five. Everyone has adverse circumstances. It's okay. But trust me. You can overcome it. Fight with your significant other? Get over it. People talking or treating you badly? God bless them to live long and prosper. Broke as a joke? Do something proactive to change it. It doesn't have to be that large leap. A step in the right direction is fine. Also, allow me to note that it's important to envision the end goal and tell you it's not your place to try to control all the ways your steps toward that goal will play out. Believe. For the love of Spock. And all things logical and illogical. Cheese and rice.

I may not go around voicing my beefs about who does me wrong and such. Friends and family alike. There's both actually. They know who they are and the guilt is way more killing them than me. You have no idea what kind of extenuating circumstances I live with currently. Really. It's surprising I'm not totally crazy yet. Again, this all depends on who exactly you talk to. Of course. Yet, you also rarely hear about how I have major stomach problems daily. It's really embarrassing, so we won't get into exactly what condition it is. Let's just say that spicy foods, greasy foods, anxiety & worrying make it way worse. But Kandee Johnson makes a great point in her recent video. I'd rather take my problems than someone else's because more than likely they're worse than mine. Me even mentioning mine is so petty compared to someone who is homeless or on their deathbed. Anyway, the point is that no one should be judged.

The other point is to live long and prosper.
Enjoy your day   ;o)

Dancy Tech Updates

So, yeah. While perusing around my email inbox today, I came across this Gmail tech update...

Then I thought, "How can I make this more exciting?"

I give you now my nerdiest accomplishment. Ever.

What do you think?!