Thursday 13 October 2022

Interview with Makeup Artist Dorothy Strouhal

Hi There..... Are you interested in makeup styles? How about a new makeup artist interview?


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I don't have them lined up in rows at the moment, so if you are reading this, and you are up for an interview, just let me know. That would be cool to have a long row of people waiting to be interviewed by me. 😉

So, it's almost Halloween, and you can often find a lot of cool makeup styles around this time. 😵

Wouldn't it be cool to share some scary, evil looks on my blog? Perhaps I should do a roundup of interesting makeup channels and scare the wits out of you. 😱

I think that would be quite cool, so if you have a YouTube channel, and you are planning to share creepy or beautiful Halloween looks, you had better let me know. There will be consequences if you don't. 😈

Ah yes, I will make you regret you chose not to share them with me. You are probably wondering how. 😨

If you thought I couldn't be evil, think again. This is the perfect timing to show you the ugly side of me. 😡

How? By not sharing your looks, of course. What else can I do? Completely nothing, but it felt good to scare you for once. 😂

Ok, back to the peace-loving, reasonable me. Let's hear what our next makeup artist has to say. 😍

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What are your name, function, and the company you work for?  

I am Dorothy Strouhal of Your Makeup Expert, owner of Luminess Cosmetics, and On-Air Beauty Expert.

How old are you? 

49

What kind of work do you do, or what are you studying to be? 

I am a celebrity makeup artist, beauty advisor, and image consultant.


What made you decide to become a Makeup Artist? 

I’ve always wanted to be a makeup artist from a young age. It was just a part of who I was. 

Is beauty important to you? Why?

I believe beauty is in everything and everyone. Sometimes bringing it out for others to celebrate is the challenge, so I love extracting beauty and highlighting it across the board. 

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What are your successes, and how did you achieve them? 

I have had favor in many arenas. It was an honor to be on set for national sports events, commercials, and movies. Having a great work ethic, character, and team focus open doors to these things. 

Is the name of the Brand important to you when you buy make-up? 

Important no BUT I will say a brand's name is only as good as its reputation. So if the brand has a great reputation for quality and consistency, I will take note of it and use it. 

Describe your personal make-up style?

I’m a natural glam. I love all things glam with a twist of edge but also like to keep the skin looking natural and healthy. 

How did you find your personal style? Do you have a signature look? 

I do! I have pink hair. When I started really coming into my full self and personality as an artist and grown woman, I started going pink because I wanted to. I have had it now for over 10 years. It’s my natural hair color 😊

Do you have an influence on other people’s make-up or clothing style? 

I hope so. But mainly help them discover their own look and style and become confident in that. 

Picture provided by Dorothy Strouhal

What are in your eyes the best trends at the moment? 

Healthy living, healthy fresh, hydrated skin

What are in your eyes the worst trends at the moment? 

IG fake makeup looks. Let’s erase the face and paint on a new one that looks good on camera but awful in person without lights. 

What kind of beauty advice would you give us? 

Hydrate, take care of your skin, and accentuate your best assets. Love you and be kind to others because that’s where the beauty shines through. 

Who is your style icon and why? 

I don’t really have one. 

Is there something else you would like to share with us? 

I believe that style and makeup are very personal and fluid. So it can change as you do. It doesn’t define you, but it sure is fun to express. Become confident in who you are and share that with the world. 

Picture provided by Dorothy Strouhal


Thank you, Dorothy, for filling in my questions. I love that natural hair color of yours. 😍

Hope you like my blog.....Until next time.....Have a nice day 

Renata (Seadbeady) 

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Saturday 8 October 2022

25 Free Tools For Bloggers - Improve Your Content Writing With These Blogging Tips

Hi There..... Have you been trying hard to improve your content writing?


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Perhaps you could use some blogging tips from someone who has had some experience in the field. 😀

Ah yes, believe it or not, I was talking about myself. In August this year, I reached the magical 5-year blogging milestone. 😎

It’s so hard to believe I have been at it so long, and still haven’t made a fortune. I wonder if I wasn’t trying hard enough to hit that jackpot. 😳

Nah, unlike most, I am not into affiliate marketing. I'm not looking for that pot of gold. At least not here. Can you tell me where it is? 😂

That doesn’t mean I don’t want to deliver a quality blog post. So how do you create amazing content? 😱

I don’t have an exact answer, but what I am giving you today is a list of tools to help you get better at content writing. 😊

Then again, don’t try too hard, because I don’t want you to get better than me, and steal away all my readers. They are mine, and mine alone. 😜

What’s your favorite blogging tool? Do you have great blogging tips? You can always share them in a comment below. 😃

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1. Ahrefs

Discover keyword ideas.
Find relevant keywords from their database of over 8 billion queries. 
Just enter up to ten words or phrases and choose from one of the six keyword ideas reports.
Fill that content calendar of yours for weeks, months, or even years in just minutes.
Every keyword comes complete with local and global monthly search volume estimates and other advanced SEO metrics — all powered by clickstream data.

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2. Brainy Quote

BrainyQuote has been providing inspirational quotes since 2001 to their worldwide community.
BrainyQuote is the world's largest quotation site. They educate and entertain audiences of all ages with family-friendly quotations from history's most prominent figures through to today's newsmakers - celebrities, athletes, politicians, authors, and everything in between. They are passionate about quotes, and on a mission to share their knowledge with the world.

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3. Buffer

Publish Flawlessly, Analyze Effortlessly, and Engage Authentically.
Build your audience and grow your brand (blog) on social media
Plan and publish your content for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, all from one simple dashboard.

Get in-depth insights to grow your brand (blog) on social media
Measure social media performance, create gorgeous reports, and get recommendations to grow your reach, engagement & sales.

Build a loyal and engaged audience on social media.
See all of your comments, stay on top of important interactions, and turn followers into fans by using Buffer.

The link in bio that drives more traffic to your content for free
Start Page is a simple, beautiful, flexible link in bio page that brings together all of your best content in one place. Share it in your bios on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or any other social profiles.

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4. Canva

Canva is an online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower you to design anything and publish anywhere.

Canva makes image creation super easy (especially for non-designers) with their pre-made templates, custom image sizes for every social media channel, drag-and-drop interface, cool fonts, and more.

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5. Days Of The Year

We gather all the special holidays, moments, and occasions from around the world that bring people together, and help everyone celebrate them with special events, helpful tips, and heaps of fun.

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6. E.ggTimer

E.ggTimer is a simple countdown timer.
As a writer, it's easy to lose track of time once you write. With this free time tracking tool, you can find out how much time you spent on each individual task.

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7. Evernote

Memorize everything and tackle any project where your notes, tasks, and schedules are all in one place.
Evernote was founded to address a growing problem that technology had helped create: how to succeed in a world of an ever-increasing amount and speed of information.
Today people are inundated with information. How to deal with it is unsettling. Evernote now helps people focus, and move forward on what matters most.

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8. Google Analytics

Get essential customer (blog readers) insights.
Get a full view of your customers (blog readers) across all devices and platforms. Google Analytics gives you free tools to understand the customer journey and improve your marketing ROI.

Measure interactions
Understand how your customers (blog readers) interact with your sites and apps throughout their lifecycle.

Discover new insights and anticipate future customer (blog reader) actions with machine learning from Google to get more value from your data.

Take action to optimize marketing performance with integrations into Google's advertising, and publishing tools.

Quickly analyze your data and work with an easy-to-use interface and shareable reports.

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9. Google Drive

Easy access to your content.
Store, share, and collaborate on files and folders from your mobile device, tablet, or computer.
Built-in protections against malware, spam, and ransomware.

Drive can provide encrypted and secure access to your files. Files shared with you can be proactively scanned and removed when malware, spam, ransomware, or phishing is detected. And Drive is cloud-native, which eliminates the need for local files and can minimize risk to your devices.

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10. Google Trends

Discover what the world is looking for. Our mission is to organize all the information in the world and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google Trends displays a list of the top hot searches and charts of the day. You can also see searches by category.

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11. Grammarly

Compose bold, clear, mistake-free writing with Grammarly’s new AI-powered desktop Windows app.
Get suggestions from Grammarly while you write in desktop applications and sites across the web—as you move between apps, social media, documents, messages, and email
From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly’s suggestions are comprehensive, helping you communicate effectively and as you intend.

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12. Optimizilla

This online tool shrinks JPEG, GIF, and PNG to the minimum size while keeping the required level of quality.
You can upload up to 20 images. Wait for the compression to finish. Click thumbnails in the queue for quality settings. Use the slider to control the compression level and mouse/gestures to compare images.

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13. Pixabay

Free images and videos to use anywhere
Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives who share copyright-free images and videos. All content is released under the Pixabay license, which allows you to use them safely without asking permission or crediting the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Stunning free images & royalty free stock
Our talented community shares over 2.6 million high-quality stock images, videos, and music.

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14. Pixlr

Photo editor, animation, and design.
The No. 1 in photo editing and design tools. Edit photos and create stunning designs right in your browser, on your phone or desktop, for free. 

Start with a blank canvas, a photo, or a video, and select one of the professionally created templates.

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15. ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid provides more features than any other manuscript editing software on the market, including many that are unique to our product. We want to help you write the best you can.
Whatever kind of writer you are, ProWritingAid helps you improve your writing skills and get your ideas across more clearly.

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16. Quora

It's Quora’s mission to share and grow the world’s knowledge. Not all knowledge can be in writing and much of that which can be still isn't. 

It remains in people’s heads or is only accessible if you know the right person. They want to connect the people who have this knowledge to the people who need it, bring together people with different perspectives so they can understand each other better, and empower everyone to share their knowledge for the benefit of the rest of the world.

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17. Removal.ai

Removal.AI is an emerging online image background remover, and photo editor software company. They provide services to improve images using innovative technology. They incorporate knowledge-based techniques and advanced image-processing methods to create outstanding outputs. 

Their expert team has years of professional experience in photo editing, retouching, and artificial intelligence technology. They are aiming to simplify clients’ workflows to foster productivity, creativity, and design.

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18. SEO Review Tools

They started SRT (SEO Review Tools) because they were working on another SEO tool project, which was a pretty frustrating experience. It was too complex, too many people were involved, too many critical decisions.. just too corporate. 

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19. Tailwind

They've rebuilt the main flow of Tailwind to promote multi-channel marketing from the get-go, and are developing or acquiring unique technologies that make it workable for small businesses to market themselves across multiple channels with limited time and resources.

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20. Toggl

Time tracking that's easy, powerful, and frictionless.
Boost performance and get paid for every billable minute with an intuitive tool that makes time tracking painless for the entire team.
Skip the timesheets and get your team an intuitive tool that gets the job done for you.

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21. Trello

A tool to jot down ideas for articles. You can also use it as a content planner/calendar.
Trello is a visual tool that empowers your team to manage any type of project, workflow, or task tracking.
It’s more than work. It’s a way of working together.
Start with a Trello board, lists, and cards. Customize and expand with more features as your teamwork grows. Manage projects, organize tasks, and build team spirit—all in one place.

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22. Tweak Your Biz

Generate impressive titles for articles and blog posts.
An outstanding title can increase tweets, Facebook Likes, and visitor traffic by 50% or more.
Tweak Your Biz is a thought-leading global publication and online business community. Today, it receives over 50,000 unique views per month and publishes a ton of articles every month covering every aspect of the startup, entrepreneur, and corporate lifestyle.

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23. Unsplash

Photos for everyone. Unsplash is the internet’s source of freely usable images with over three million curated photos.

They hand-select every photo and accept only the best, so that no matter what you need—you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for on Unsplash.

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24. Website Authority Checker

Domain Authority / Page Authority checker.
In the eyes of Google, not all websites are equal. Some sites get tons of search traffic from Google each day (think of Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB…), while others are struggling to show up in the SERPs (Search Engine Result pages). 

There are two major factors influencing the performance/rankings of your website in search.
The Website Authority Checker helps you to quickly check the authority of a website to give you a very strong indication of how well a website can perform in Google.

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25. Wordcounter

Apart from counting words and characters, our online editor can help you improve word choice and writing style, and, optionally, help you detect grammar mistakes and plagiarism. To check the word count, simply place your cursor into the text box above and start typing. You'll see the number of characters and words increase or decrease as you type, delete, and edit them. You can also copy and paste text from another program into the online editor above. The Auto-Save feature will make sure you won't lose any changes while editing, even if you leave the site and come back later.  

Those are my blogging tips for today. I hope they help you with your content writing next time. 😍

Hope you like my blog.....Until next time.....Have a nice day 

Renata (Seadbeady) 

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Wednesday 5 October 2022

Interview With Fashion Designers Jackson Cunningham and Josh Bluman

Hi There..... Are you ready for a new fashion designer's interview? 


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Today’s interview is all about men’s suspenders. Did you ever wear them? I haven’t, or at least not as far as I can recall. No, they weren’t a thing when I was a baby, so that’s out of the question, too. 😏

What I have worn a very long time ago is a garter belt. Ah yes, on my wedding day, because my mom talked me into it. Not that I minded, because I found it quite fun, and it absolutely fit the type of dress I wore that day. 😊

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Romantic, isn’t it? I can’t show you the garter belt anymore, because it got lost somewhere, and after 36 years, we still haven’t found it. Perhaps some jealous broad took it thinking, “If I’m not getting any tonight, you won’t either”. 😂

I’m going to whisper because not everyone needs to know what I'm going to tell you right now. Perhaps we were way too tired to do anything but sleep on our wedding night. True or false, you will never know. 😴

Enough of this whispering time to scream it out about those men's suspenders from the fashion designers on my blog. Ah yes, they came in a package of 2 this time. 😉

Picture provided by Jackson Cunningham and Josh Bluman

What are your name, function, and the company you work for?

We are Jackson Cunningham and Josh Bluman, the Founders of JJ Suspenders!

How old are you?

35

What kind of work do you do, or what are you studying to be? 

We are entrepreneurs with a background in marketing and product development.

What made you decide to become a Fashion Designer?

We actually never originally intended to become fashion designers, rather it just kind of happened when we entered the suspender business. Basically, we saw an excellent opportunity to make a higher quality product and to deliver on that promise we had to learn fashion design. Luckily, it worked out well!
 
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Is fashion important to you? Why?

Absolutely. It's how you present yourself. The vibe you want to give. It's how you represent yourself and identify with others. A form of art. 

What are your successes, and how did you achieve them?

We're very proud of our company, jjsuspenders.com which was successful right from the start. It was the first time we designed our own products, and we put a lot of effort into making sure every detail was perfect.

Is the name of the Brand important to you when you buy clothing?

It depends. You can buy a brand because they have a reputation, and therefore you don't have to think about the purchase as much or evaluate other options if you trust them. Or the brand could represent something you want to be a part of. I think both can be important depending on the type of clothing. 

Describe your personal style of clothing?

Minimalist!

How did you find your personal style? Do you have a signature look? 

I enjoy going with what’s easy and consistent. So these days, a crisp white tee shirt and jeans.

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Do you have an influence on other people’s clothing style?

I don't try to. But with our business, jjsuspenders.com, for sure. Lots of people are inspired by the styles of men's suspenders and the options we present in how you can wear them.

What are in your eyes the best trends at the moment?

Over the last few years, seems to be organic and rustic colors (dark greens, browns, reds). But I suspect more bold and bright colors are on the horizon. Cottage core is also interesting. You should check out my friend Natalia (https://www.instagram.com/wandwoodsstudio/) who just launched a brand aligned with this trend. 

What are in your eyes the worst trends at the moment?

Nothing comes to mind, really. Style is so personal, and we should be careful not to judge others.

What kind of fashion advice would you give us?

Be yourself. Wear what you want. But consider best practices and your audience. For example, if you're going to a rustic wedding, you may not want to dress overly formal. But, maybe you do? As long as you're aware of your own style, and your audience, you'll be golden.

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Thanks so much, Jackson and Josh for answering all my questions. I love how refined your men's suspenders are. 😍

Would you mind asking your friend if she would care to be on my blog because I also love her style? 😁


Hope you like my blog.....Until next time.....Have a nice day 

Renata (Seadbeady) 

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Saturday 1 October 2022

Most Comfortable underwear for women - HemdVoorHem - Sloggi Women's Briefs

Hi There..... Would you find it somewhat awkward to talk about women’s briefs for a change? 


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I would love to know what you think is the most comfortable underwear for women. Then again, is there such a thing? Everyone is different? What’s best for me could very well be the worst for you. 😊

That’s no doubt the reason there are so many types of women’s briefs. There are hipsters, thongs, mid-rise, cheeky,... Yes, cheeky, I didn't just invent the name. 😈

I wonder if I even like the fact that there is such an enormous range. That makes it extremely hard for me to choose. 😟

Of course, I like it. Come on, you’d have to be crazy not to. Nobody ever said you have to wear the same type of women’s briefs every day. Then again, you can never be too sure what people may have said or not. 😜

Believe me, there is nothing as important as your underwear to be comfortable and give you confidence. 😎

Ah yes, confidence is key to success. Everything you think, do and say influences your confidence, even something as stupid as the choice of your underwear. 😉

That's why I was so excited to get this pack of 4 Sloggi basic briefs from HemdVoorHem in exchange for my honest opinion. 😍

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HemdVoorHem also now HemdVoorHaar

For women's blouses, shirts, night or loungewear, socks, slippers, and underwear, you can now simply order online at HemdVoorHaar.nl

The same ease and service level that you are used to at HemdVoorHem.nl is now also available for women who like to wear a blouse and find it difficult to find the right one. 

At HemdVoorHaar.nl, you will find blouses that we carefully select for you. Choose from our favorites from the Eterna and Seidensticker brands for perfect fit and ideal everyday blouses. 

You can now also order the best and nicest socks and the finest underwear at HemdVoorHaar.nl. Easy online ordering with free shipping and returns.

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Sloggi Women's Briefs

Black Sloggi women maxi slip in a handy 4-pack, the wonderfully soft cotton waist slip from Sloggi from the Basic series. 

Because of the elastane, the briefs fit like a glove and stay in shape. The finish is smooth and soft, making these classic women's briefs very pleasant to wear. Available in a handy set of four, also available in other colors.

Details

Close Fit
Waistband width = Narrow
Type of fabric underwear = Stretch cotton
Packed Quantity = 4
Type of fabric = Tricot
Material composition = 95% cotton, 5% elastane
Colour = black
Design = Uni
Collection = Basic
Gender = Women
Washing instructions = 60 degrees machine wash
Elastic = Yes
Waist height = High
Model briefs = Waist briefs
Seamless = No


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My opinion on the Sloggi Women's Briefs

I know you didn't get any pictures of me wearing those briefs, but I didn't want to give you guys a heart attack. 😂

I want the number of readers to keep going up, and not go down because you didn't survive my horror pictures. 

What's most important here is not haunting you in your dreams but to tell you my opinion on those women's briefs. 😉

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They may not be the sexiest, but definitely the most comfortable underwear for women I ever had. I almost forgot they were on me. The maxi style is perfect as it is nice and high, with no muffin-top! 😍

I would recommend, however, ordering at least one size larger than you are accustomed to. 😊

Now, close your eyes if you are faint of heart, but finally, here is the picture you have been waiting for so long. Me in my new underwear. 🙈

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If you want to know more or have some extra time to spend reading, here are some of my previous blog posts about HemdVoorHem.


Hope you like my blog.....Until next time.....Have a nice day 

Renata (Seadbeady) 

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How to connect with European Brands or Small shops and Bloggers or Influencers

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