Friday, January 2, 2015

Top 5 Beauty Products of 2014

Here are my favorite (top 5) beauty products of 2014These were all brand new products to me last year.


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What were some of your favorite beauty products from 2014?

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy New Year & Goals for 2015

Happy New Year! I can't believe it is 2015 already! I hope you're having a great new year. Today I thought I would talk about some of my goals for 2015 since everyone is talking about their New Year resolutions.




Several years ago I resolved not to make New Year resolutions and instead change things when I felt they needed to be changed. This year I would like to focus on goals for the year. I think it is very important to have goals for yourself and to write them down. So, here are a few of my personal and professional goals.

1) Reach 10k subscribers on my Beauty channel - I know this is a big number but if you don't dream big then you'll never get there. 

2) Walk 3 hours a week - aka I want to be healthier and I believe walking at least 3 hours a week will help me get there.

3) Help my church grow - We are very small and are looking for ways to reach out to the local community. I hope that I can help with that.

4) Grow church Youth Group - Kinda the same idea as above. I am the YG leader at my church and would love to see it grow even bigger.

5) Cook more meals at home - I do love to cook but recently I have gotten lazy and have not been cooking as much. 

6) Read the Bible in 1 years time - I started this last month and am already behind but I know I can do it. I am reading it chronologically to make it a bit more interesting. 

7) Read more in general- I usually read about 50 books a year but last year I read about half that. (Although, several were 1,000+ pages.) I would like to get back to that 50. Follow my progress on Goodreads.

I have many more goals for 2015, but I hope you enjoyed the few that I shared with you. 

What are your goals for 2015?


Monday, December 29, 2014

Influenster FrostyBox

This was day 11 of Holiday Hodgepodge

Yay, I got another box from Influenster. This one is the Frosty 

VoxBox.



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 If you would like me to review any of the products please let 

me know in the comments.

Not sure what Influenster is or would like to get a free box 

check out this video.

Giveaway Unboxing & First Impressions

This was day 10 of Holiday Hodgepodge.

I recently won a giveaway here on Youtube and I wanted to 

show you the makeup that I received. I also decided to give 

you my first impression on all the products by Valtoria.


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To learn more about Blacklock Beauty check out this post.

To see how to purchase Valtoria cosmetics see this video.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Ren 1 Minute Facial Review

This was day 9 of Holiday Hodgepodge. 

I let you know what I think of the Ren 1 minute facial and if I think it is work the money.

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Have you tried any Ren skincare before? 

Vlogmas Vlogs

I got really bad at posting my videos up on here towards the end. Sorry. I am posting all the blogs together in this post and each beauty video will get it's own post over the next couple of days.

Day 8- Giving Back





Day 12- Gingerbread Houses




Day 13- Merry Christmas



Monday, December 15, 2014

Hidden Gems - December 2014

https://www.facebook.com/Blacklockbeauty
Our very first Hidden Gem is Courtney of BlacklockBeauty. If you have been watching me for awhile you’ll know that Courtney is the reason I started watching Youtube way back like five years ago. I wanted to learn how to curl my hair with a curling iron and I came across her video. Five years later I am glad to be able to call her a friend. She has great content and I think there is something for everyone on her channel and blog.


Now let’s let Courtney tell us about herself.

1. When did you start your Youtube channel?

I started my Channel back in 2009 and then I took a long break where I did videos off and on eventually stopping, I'm not sure why, I think it was a few things, negative comments, losing control of my weight, figuring out who I was. I just got back into it the beginning of this year.

2. Why did you start making videos?

I started making videos because my dude, now husband suggested that I make my own channel. When I did it just took off, but that was before I took a long break, now it's coming back, but very slowly now that I'm much different on camera.

3. What is the main focus of your channel?

Mainly Beauty, but I do diet and recipe videos as well as fashion occasionally.

4. What or who inspires you and why?

I don't have one person in particular, I would say the youtubers that have consistently made videos despite negative feedback and have made their channel grow.

5. What would you like people to know about you?

This one is hard to answer. I would like people to know of only great things about me, but I also would like them to come to their own conclusion.

6. What has helped your channel grow the most?

I did a lot of Google advertising and a lot of pinterest posts. What I noticed is that the photos make a big difference, an eye catching photo sells. Photos and video quality.



Where you can find Courtney




 
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