The New Normal | July Vlog

[Music] on sundays ben and i have adopted a new tradition i think it's happened for a good month and a half now where every sunday we clean the whole house together i think in the past sometimes i would just deep clean the house as a form of procrastination but now it's just like ah like i'll put some stuff away but i'll save like the vacuuming and cleaning the sinks and the bathrooms on a sunday i feel like it really like primes you for the week on monday you just feel you just feel more motivated you feel more inspired because the house is [Music] sparkling [Music] it seems as if this time around now after the death of george floyd and how it happened it's so present and in your face that other people are like oh i totally forgot one of the reasons why i love getting ready is the fact that i can listen to podcasts today i am filming a mukbang with my dad this is really exciting because i don't know i've never filmed like an actual sit down video with him i just thought that this would be one of those videos where i could look back and really enjoy re-watching again also my tests came back in for copin 19 came out negative so i am in the clear so i'm very excited to see my dad all right so we just ordered from a restaurant called chamong and we got a lot of stuff here this is the vegetarian the murphy i feel like it's been a very long time since i've woken up without like any type of like heaviness or guilt i finally finished between the world and me and whenever i finish a book i like to do a book report oh my gosh i sound like such a nerd if you had told like the 13 year old version of me saying like you know you're gonna just voluntarily write book reports when you're older i would have been like [ __ ] off like that's never gonna be me but here we are every time i finish a book i like to just write a little summary and my little analysis about it i do have a goodreads account but i don't think i'm there yet where i want to like publicly share my reviews i'm realizing that not everything that i produce needs to be seen you know what i mean i like writing things down because now whenever someone wants to discuss this with me or if i want to refer to it i've got my notes to be honest i just started doing these book reports in may i read a grip of books in may i read one two three four five six seven i read seven books in may let me know in the comments down below if you would be interested in a video like that like a book haul you know that'd be fun i finished that and so that took a minute now i am enjoying my brand new issue of the new yorker this is my first time i've ever had my very own new yorker and i don't want to come off like super pretentious being like i lose i like read the new yorker but literally like i feel like this is the only type of magazine or like news publication that is like this that has articles that has current events reviews um short stories who else does this and it's i think it's weekly i don't know but i'm like freaking pumped even though i don't live in new york a couple of weeks ago i realized that i wanted to digest slower forms of media aka not just getting all my information on social media i do feel like my brain degenerates when i'm just getting all my information on social media it's just like like how can you properly explain and report what's going on right right when it's like breaking news when there's not enough information to base the work off of i also want to support like journalists and writers that are you know taking the time out to write all these because it's not like this just comes out of thin air like someone is going out there doing the research and you know aggregating all this information and then like throwing their analysis on it so i want to be able to just like continue to be a part of this cog that like feeds this journalism machine [Music] one time one time [Music] stay okay [Music] [Music] i have mentioned this before but i am currently a part of two book clubs one book club is mine which is called curl up club and i'm also part of another book club which is with my management company we are on our third book now and this month was me by elton john and so when we have our book club meetings we like have a little theme we like dress up to the theme a dress code rainbows crazy glasses anything silly over the top and or eltonesque he doesn't really play around with makeup it's mostly just the outfit i'll wear like a blazer okay i could do this yeah that's freaking dope all right guys this is my finished makeup look i went for just like a very like blended out tangerine sienna look there's a very very subtle cat eye and i didn't blend my eyeshadow too high i just kept it really low all right folks this is my finished outfit inspired by the icon the legend elton john i think that this mint blazer works really well i had to like double check to see if it was mint i think it works really well with my nails but i think this blazer really works he's really known to wear blazers in fun flamboyant shades i mean if this was printed that would be and i think what really ties in the whole outfit is definitely the sunglasses these are by bonnie and clyde and i love the fact that they're rose tinted they're oversized i feel like this color combo complements really well together like it looks it looks like a watermelon underneath i'm just wearing a bra from zara and then this like really stretchy skirt because i honestly like can't be bothered to wear any pants right now no one's gonna see it so yeah this is my uh elton john inspired outfit you know all right let's make a drink all right so this is the drink i'll be making i cannot guarantee if it's going to be very good but i like to do a mix between a sparkling ice and a lacroix now a sparkling ice is freaking delicious it's only five calories for this entire bottle but it's incredibly sweet it can't be good for you so i only like putting a little bit at a time i kind of use it as like like a syrup i suppose for my drinks because i don't like it on its own this is the grape raspberry flavor i do not recommend this flavor it's probably my least favorite one but cannot waste it so i'm gonna be using it all and then i'm gonna go in with my lacroix uh this is in the melon pomelo this looks really nice too with my outfit let's fill that up halfway and then for alcohol i'm going to put a splash of tequila this is hornitos there we go all right dope and there we have it my concoction [Music] i wouldn't try this i wouldn't recommend this combination this is it tastes really weird oh god it's this [ __ ] flavor dude it's not it's not good this like really came together y'all i've tried pretty much all of sparkling ice's flavors and i must say that the peach nectarine is by far my favorite oh also the pineapple one is great as well yeah grape raspberry you can probably pass on that [Music] pee for breakfast i'm having a fruit salad these days i have been enjoying to have fruit as my first meal of the day i go into different phases man but i have been finding slicing fruit and arranging it very therapeutic and for today's platter we've got an orange a couple of strawberries and some blueberries let's enjoy i am incredibly thirsty today i think this is like the my fourth time filling up my water bottle i've got quite like a big day today there's a lot of different things that i must do the first thing is i need to go grocery shopping because pretty much out of food ben and i go grocery shopping at least once a week and honestly it is a huge highlight to my week there's something very soothing about going into each of the aisles and getting the food that i need i don't know um i thought that i would show you guys what i get the grocery store because we pretty much get the same things each week my cups that i bought a couple of weeks ago arrived i feel like i've been doing this whole overhaul of everything in the kitchen from like bar wear serve wear i've just been very inspired by food these days it's like it's one of my main joys in life but anywho i got these cups from nordstrom this is just like a super good looking glass great quality i like the base here because it's quite thick i also got these elixir high ball cups oh this one's nice and grippy so this one has like crystal studs on the outside and it just like you just get a really really good grip on them this one is a bit of a rounded square shape and again absolutely gorgeous this is by the brand luigi bormioli i think the reason why i got all these cups is you know obviously i do enjoy uh cooking and experimenting with food but this will also be great when we start having people over again and i think there's just going to be a lot of hosting that's going to be happening towards the end of the year because yeah i just don't see a world where we'll be like back at restaurants and bars i think it's going to be a lot of like hosting at home and so i thought you know these cups would inspire me to you know have guests over when i think the second wave starts to taper off i feel like right now we're all just trying to make sense of this new normal i'm just getting ready to go to the grocery store i am putting on super group's matte screen spf 40 and this is obviously to protect my face from the sun and it just mattifies me like it's perfect so right now i'm just doing like the super bare minimum of makeup boom we've got a face i don't feel like getting ready just yet because tonight i actually have a shoot it's gonna be at 6 30 it's gonna be at the beach and i am so excited to be doing this because i am launching something later on this month i can't give too much away but we've been working on it for such a long time and there's just been so many ups and downs everything is finalized and today we're doing a shoot for it so i'm really excited all right guys i thought i would show you my grocery store outfit just popping out the door but i'm wearing my joy division graphic tee i think this is like a decade old at this point but this is one of my summer staples because it is so thin and so breathable and then for my bottoms i am wearing the rochelle shorts this silhouette i think is super flattering i love the paper bag fit it cinches the waist and then just kind of like flares out i like how it's like kind of flared out here cinches in and then flares out again it's just like a nice little fashion shape you know what i mean there's like two triangles stacked on each other for my earrings i'm wearing these little hoops by eight other reasons i went for silver hardware because this belt area is silver so ben and i have a shared grocery list which really comes in handy because whenever we need something we'll just jot it on this list all right guys we are back from the grocery store it was a successful shop uh now i think i'm gonna go into chunks and the categories of the food that we got all right let's start for animal protein we've got some smoked salmon and some chicken breasts this is our veggie based protein we've got some portabella mushrooms a can of beans tofu ben is also a huge fan of morning star my fruit selection really depends on how i'm feeling but the staples are definitely banana blueberries and watermelon and these are a couple of veggies that we got we've got broccoli corn three poblano peppers celery kale and two zucchinis so here are some more essentials you've got two carrots two potatoes two sweet potatoes uh i think tomatoes and cucumbers are considered fruit and also avocados so i just threw them in this section here we have some pantry essentials we've got two onions and two bulbs of garlic for herbs we've got basil and cilantro all right this is a bit of a random section we've got some spinach and cheese ravioli some pasture-raised eggs pine nuts and some brioche bread and now we've got some oat milk and two flavors of sparkling ice i've got the coconut pineapple and the peach nectarine these are so good they're by far my favorite flavors whenever i get a watermelon i just start cutting it immediately because i love the taste of cubed chilled watermelon it's honestly the best and there's like not going to be a moment where i'm like oh i want to cube this watermelon so if i have time i just immediately prepare it so that way i can enjoy it a lot faster [Music] and i'm out of water again i have exactly one hour to get ready to do my hair my makeup and my outfits dang it's like honestly been so long since i've done like a photo shoot feel like i'm gonna be a little bit rusty for foundation i'm going in with bite beauties change maker i love how much coverage this one has and it wears really beautifully throughout the day it's one of those things that i know is going to photograph well i want to make sure that my brows are decent so i'm going to take some extra time on them i've been seeing that laminated brow trend all over the internet and to be honest i feel like it's another beauty trend that i can't really hop on because like just imagine what my brows would look like if they were laminated brows are definitely not a strength on my face you know when sometimes you just look at someone you're like damn we got a good strong brow that sentence has never been uttered towards me [Music] baby [Music] paris next song [Music] so for today's breakfast i'm having one sliced nectarine and a half of a papaya yesterday's shoot was not a fail but there was just a lot of factors that weren't in our favor luckily the launch isn't until a couple of weeks so we do have time to try again [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Thu Jul 09 2020