Nicki Minaj: The Pink Print (Anticipation)

Nicki Minaj: The Pink Print (Anticipation)

Preface

"The Music Industry is merely a representation of human nature.  It shines light on what's different to learn and take from it and once there's nothing left to take, it moves on with no regard."   

"Every single mainstream artist that ever was was not "just" a person making music or just a commodity.  They are a movement.. and are something WAY bigger than themselves whether they are aware of it or not."  

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"When I heard some recent music, the feeling I got collectively was there is this no holding back kind of feeling.  It feels like this is specifically about art.  It feels like vanity out the window,  punchlines and radio friendliness out the window,and also male friendliness out the window."

So this article today is about the upcoming release of the album "The Pink Print" from Nicki Minaj.  I was in the car and I hear " I still love, I still love, I still love, I still love, I still lo o oove" on the radio! lol.  Had no idea it was Nicki Minaj until I hear Big Boy and her having an interview saying that this was her NEW single.  Right away I was like, OK, this Saturdays article MUST be about this new album!  It took me a minute to put this together because I had to do my research you know.  So this Saturday has been Nicki Minaj'd out with all her new music, articles, recent interviews to see what she's saying about this new album.  

First, I'll just say that I loove this title!  I love the name The Pink Print because it reminds me of The Blue Print. What it makes me feel is that this album will have A LOT of information on it and a no holding back kind of feeling about it.  When I heard some recent music, the feeling I got collectively was there is this no holding back kind of feeling also.  It feels like this is specifically about art.  It feels like vanity out the window, punchlines and radio friendliness out the window, and also male friendliness out the window.  I think that it's an interesting direction and I can't wait till it actually drops to hear more music and also see how the public responds to it.  In recent interviews she's said the album is a stripped kind of feeling.  She also said all the stories on the album are 100% true!  So I'm excited to hear what she talks about!    

Honestly,  I am a Nicki fan and not just because I like her songs.  I am a Nicki fan because I like to see women like her in the industry.  Even if I didn't like her music, I feel like I would still like Nicki Minaj the celebrity and business woman if that makes sense.  I like to see women like her and women she's paved the wave for like Iggy Azalea and others that aren't even in the same form of entertainment.  I like to see the things she does and what she's planning to do next in her music career.  It's sad because we are in a generation where it's sooo unbelievably fast paced in some ways and we just hear something or see something and discard it afterwards.  We love artists and then we don't.. and for some reason at this time, there is no such thing as recognizing someones talent and accomplishments.  This especially goes for mainstream people.  It's like if someone is mainstream, they all of a sudden are talent-less and are just a commodity because they do commercial things to appeal to the mass ie you.  Why is someone talent-less because they do things that appeal to you?  ..

I personally would never want to be in the music industry for a number of reasons and that is one of them.  I'll stick to makeup and graphic design thank you very much lol.  There is no winning in that kind of game.  It HAS to be about just the art in the end.  Celebrities of today are in such a different ball game than those of the past.  I don't think the people in music in the past would get any of their recognition if they were in the same music industry but in today's time.

Anyway, I am excited for her new album nonetheless! ^_^ and of course I will be supporting my girl because that's what women should do!  Even if you don't like her music, you should just support other entrepreneur women.. as I always say.  So I will be lookin out for the Pink Print and possibly do an album review right here on TrixieLuxx!  



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Easy Peezy How to: Contour =)

Easy Peezy How to: Contour =)

If you don't know what contouring is, then be prepared to have your life changed!  Contouring is something that many girls do and something that every woman in Hollywood has been doing for years!  I think Marilyn Monroe had these tricks down before a lot of us did lol.  She always looked so beautiful and radiant and this article will teach you how to do the same! 

What Contouring basically does is slims your face and changes facial features to what you want them to look like!  It's why you could swear some of your favorite celebrities had a nose job in one pic or they just look soo different and more than likely that was due to this very technique.

How contouring works
 The way contouring works is basically shadowing areas you want to be minimal while highlighting areas you want to be seen.

You can go from this..

Very Tired and Drab.. to this!

LOL!  I used the funniest pics but you can see the clear difference right?  I think she looks beautiful in all these pictures but makeup just helps you look your best I think!  It makes you look awake' and alive' and just highlights your best! 

This pic can give you the jist of how its done visually.

 Big Difference right?  So whats happening here is you are taking a shade of cream/powder that's darker than your skin and place it in the areas that you want to be sunken in as you can see in the 2nd picture.  A popular place to do this is in the middle of your cheek to create an illusion-ed chiseled jaw but really you can do this anywhere you want! And then blend it out!  Everyones face is different so there is no wrong.  This is just a guide.  I honestly don't do it to this level for myself because I don't change my features.  I just highlight in certain areas to make me look awake and shadow areas to give me a more chiseled look sometimes.

For the Highlight, you guessed it! You get a light cream/power and place it in areas you want to stick out.  A popular place is under the eyes because it hides your dark circles and illuminates this area to create an illusion of being more awake, looking energetic etc. When placed in certain areas, this can alter your features slightly as well.  Marilyn Monroe use to extend the highlight under her eyes out and past and around her eye close to her eyebrows.  This gave her a wider and more open face.      

A trick of Mine is I always do this stuff for job interviews and I'm telling you, it makes a grand difference!  It makes me look awake and ready, energetic, ready for the tasks ahead,healthy! lol, it looks like I got a good night of sleep which makes me look like I have good time management among other things I think.  It also just makes you look clean and neat and more attractive.  And if anything, doing that to my exterior gives me that kind of complex so It's just all a positive thing.

This is heavy contour.  There is also much lighter contours you can Google or better.. search it up on You Tube.  There are plenty of how to tutorials so you can see step by step how it's done!  I hope you guys try and enjoy!    
Yayy! A make up blog.  I haven't done one of these in awhile so I wanted to kick it off right!  I will be having some more make up blogs coming up soon and I'm very excited!!


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How to be Productive and Happier

How to be Productive & Happier

 So I was watching another TED Talks on Netflix and I came across this guy who was talking about his theory on how to be more productive and how to attain happiness and success.  In short, he says in order to be productive or successful, you need to be happy first.. which is kind of the opposite of how we generally operate.  The way we think is, if I work harder then I'll be successful and if 

I'm successful, then I'll be happy.  This concept is in our parenting styles, the way we manage style, and the way we motivate our behavior and he says the problem with that is that it is scientifically broken and backwards for 2 reasons:

 1st, Every time your brain has a success, you just change the goal post of what success is.  If you got good grades, now you have to get better grades.  You got a job?.. Now you have to get a better job.  You have money?.. Now you have to get more money. You hit your sells target?.. Now we have to change your sells target and so on.  So if happiness is on the opposite side of success, your brain never gets there.

2nd, Our brains work in the opposite order from this.  The way our brains work is if you can raise someones optimism and happiness in the present, they perform drastically better and then success naturally follows.  Intelligence, creativity, and energy all rise and because of this, you become more productive!  

Dopamine which floods the system when your positive has 2 functions.  Not only does it make you happy but it turns on all the learning centers in your brain.  Basically, he says to reverse the formula for happiness and success by training your brain to be positive.  That's basically it.  Change your brain to be positive and the rest should follow.  The next question would be, well how do you do that?  The answer is by working on it.  

We work on everything else don't we?  Looks, Health, Money, Intelligence but not Happiness, the one thing we truley always wanted.  But don't worry.. He put together a list of things that will train your brain to be more positive. 

1. Write down (3) things your grateful for everyday over a (21) day period.  This should retain a pattern of scanning the world for the positive first.  

2.  He also recommends writing about one positive experience you had in the day.  Writing about a positive experience allows your brain to relive it.  

3. Exercise.  He says exercise teaches your brain that your behavior matters. 

4.  Random acts of kindness.  I think just doing things for others is like asking to be happy yourself.  That's why they say its better to give than it is to recieve. 

5.  Meditation.  When you meditate and slow things down, you can watch your thoughts and understand them better which eliminates confusion and then worry.  I look at it as creating a balance mentally though I don't really meditate like that myself I do understand it.  What exercise does for the exterior, I would think meditation does for the interior in a way.

This list is a very generic list and doesn't need to necessarily be followed.  It's more like a starting point or a point of reference kind of thing.  Everyone works differently in my opinion and you know what works for you.  If you don't , you can try following this list but if you do, don't feel obligated to start writing and making sure you noticed 3 things everyday for a total of 21 days if you dont want to.  You have to do what you like or you wont stick to it anyway.  

But I thought his whole theory of how we should go about success and happiness is spot on.  I know from personal experience that this is a real teaching because just looking back on my experiences, I either see how it's true or how it applies and have seen it work with my own eyes before even hearing this theory.  It just makes common sense.  So give it a try.  The next time your trying to get something done or are concerned with success happening right now in a frantic way, take a step back and regroup, find something to get positive about, find something to be optimistic about and go back to work with a renewed mind.

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