they go today would be are going rifting
or a special reason i am starting a
website which i think you guys may know
at this point I'm trying to get excited
I'm excited so basically as you guys may
know I've been thirsting and reselling
stuff for a while now but as I got this
exposure but as I've been selling more
and more stuff and as my channels grown
I thought it would be time to take the
next step so for me that means starting
a website that's where they're always
taking out the recycling while I'm
trying to film why I was thinking about
how I wanted to do it I remembered that
I had built a website whispers base over
winter break just for my portfolio site
for those of you guys that's exposure
again for those of you who don't know
I'm also a film student so I just needed
a website to show off all my work and
stuff literally work with me camera work
with me so basically I emailed
Squarespace and I was like hey do you
want to help me build this website and
they were like yeah let's do it you guys
feel like you're about Squarespace from
so many youtubers but honestly a huge
thank you to them for making this whole
website and this video possible so I'm
just gonna set this camera down because
I feel like I am NOT a great vlogger but
the first step in this process is gonna
be gonna go thrifty my god but you're
gonna hit the thrifting rounds today and
hopefully we'll find some good stuff
time for some country radio I just
realized I forgot my wallet so we got a
head back
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No okay I love country but this song is
it's different for girls and this song
is some actual sexist ass even though
it's so catchy but it's so sexist so I
gotta hate it
why is everything ruined by being a
feminist I don't worry but tomorrow
still tricky from the bottle I know it
all right now
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hey guys it is the Wednesday before I'm
supposed to launch the site I have
hardly built any of the site and I
haven't shot any of the clothes that are
supposed to be on it currently they are
all sitting on the bed right over here I
spent about $300 on stock for my online
store I spent like $150 at one thrift
store and I was a little bit scared but
you know what they say you got to spend
money to make money or spend money to
lose money cuz nobody wants to buy your
damn clothing Ashley I have been
freaking out a little bit all week
because I have a lot of work to do I
haven't filmed a thrift haul that's
supposed to come out next Thursday with
the announcement either I have a ton of
videos to edit from my side job I had a
shoot for my editing class and I'm on my
period as well so you know things are
great but if there's one thing I do it's
meet my deadlines just barely
I've also just been so tired and in like
a whole slump this week that this
morning I drank about 6 cups of black
tea and now I can't stand stove without
my legs shaking so that's good at about
2 hours before my roommates come home
and I'm just gonna shoot as many of
these outfits as possible ok so I have
to put this down because my arm is
shaking because I'm so caffeinated so
I've already cleaned up my room the
cleanest it has probably ever been in
several months I've done my hair and
makeup but before I start I have a
separate pile of items that I need to
crop or I'm thinking of cropping so
don't try those on now and crop anything
that I need to do
so a lot of you guys asked about how I
cross things and basically my process is
folding up the shirt to about the length
that I think it would be good Croft and
I can kind of visualize it this way and
then I just take a safety pin and put it
along the bottom where I want them to
have to be
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so now is the most exciting but also the
most nerve-wracking part even though
I've been filming with this camera for
around six months now I always get
really really nervous whenever I upload
it to my computer because everything
looks so nice on this little tiny like
two by three inch display but when I
actually put it on my computer sometimes
it looks like complete ass so let's see
I've got my old computer friend here and
I actually edit all my videos off this
hard drive because around a year ago my
tea kettle which happened to be on my
desk with my computer because I'm an
idiot exploded all over my computer like
literally it just leaked all of its
contents all over the keyboard and I
just turned off my laptop and let it dry
for a couple days and it worked
completely fine so I thought I got away
with it but recently it's been glitching
like all over the place and one time
when I was editing my makeup tutorial it
just randomly deleted like an hour's
worth of editing work the only thing
more painstaking than editing a video is
editing is the exact same thing all over
again
so ever since then I've just been
working off this harddrive backing
everything up on my computer and waiting
for it to give in and die one day just
like the rest of us okay so I went ahead
and imported everything and just all
first glance it looks pretty good right
now everything is sideways and I haven't
really shot a whole lot in this vertical
format before but what I think I'm gonna
do is create a new project and Final Cut
with vertical dimensions I'm just gonna
take the normal horizontal dimensions
and flip them and now I'm gonna rotate
my video inside my project so the
lighting on this looks pretty good but
I'm just gonna do a little bit of color
correction so it turns out a little bit
brighter
since the background of my website is
white I'm gonna try to get my background
as close to white as possible without
looking super processed okay so I just
went through and exported all of my
photos and now because I want to make
this that's complicated for myself as
possible I'm just gonna airdrop
everything to my phone and on my phone
I'm going to filter all of the photos in
visca honestly I'm not sure if this step
is necessary or sustainable once I put
more products on the website what photo
quality is like really important to me
especially because there's no brand name
associated with the stuff that I'm
selling the visuals are so so important
to make it look good and also I'm just
like feeding for that aesthetic so
ignoring my actually disgusting phone
here we are in visco that's what the
photo looks like after I just did some
initial color correction in
cut and sew and visco I use East too in
case you guys are wondering this is also
the filter that I use on all of my
Instagram photos I don't know this is
such a godsend it's not one of the
original ones that comes with visco you
have to go into the store and download
it but it is free which is good cuz I
refuse to do in app purchases so I just
take that and you know snack a little
bit of it there and now that I have all
my editing photos I'm gonna here drop
them back to my computer and then we're
gonna put them on Squarespace right now
I'm running off like a spicy three hours
of sleep so I apologize if I'm a bit in
this segment of the video I was up to
like 4:00 a.m. last night and I haven't
done that since I was in high school
things were getting like real wild by
the end there - I was like making up
phrases and Japanese in my head which in
retrospect is a little bit weird and
racist but Here I am now thanks to my
superb time management skills I only
have a couple days before the website
launch and I haven't really done much on
the site at all I'm hoping that I'll be
able to get a good chunk of the work
done today I'm one of those like really
neurotic people that wants things to
look exactly how I want them to look but
I also get really overwhelmed by too
many choices so hopefully being able to
start out with a template will give me
kind of like the base and then I can
just put my finishing touches on it and
I won't have like an existential crisis
halfway through but that's always a
distinct possibility welcome to the only
other angle of my desk that doesn't show
what a disaster the bathroom is over
there so pretty much the only thing that
I've looked at so far is the template
Squarespace has like a ton of
templates to start with and all of their
sample sites are like beautiful
the main thing that helped me narrow it
down is that I knew that I wanted a
template that had navigation access as
you scroll through the page from the
online store ones I haven't narrowed
down to either supply or indigo the main
advantage for supply is that the
navigation so like the sections like
dresses and tops and skirts would all be
available at the side of the browser
which i think is like super duper handy
but i don't really like where the logo
is placed for the other template indigo
I really liked that as you scroll down
like the logo does this transparent
overlay with the rest of the images
which i think looks really cool and
professional okay I feel like I'm
leaning towards indigo right now this is
I'm incredibly indecisive which is why
this process is like
so painstaking okay let's give this one
a shot I guess this is how professional
decision-making works I feel like the
main big decision for me is gonna be how
I want to brand my website suit I do
want the website to be called the same
thing as my channel or it's gonna be
best dress store because somebody
already bought the domain best-dressed I
don't want to go for some type of
consistent branding okay
title font let's see oh my god okay
there are so many fonts I kind of like
something that's cursive but like a good
handwritten looking cursive and not one
that's super cheesy I kind of like this
one but I'm kind of on the fence about
it cuz I think it might look really
cheesy but it also kind of gives me like
really funky in-your-face of retro vibes
which I like another issue with branding
which is like my own fault is that my
youtube doesn't have like a super
consistent font that I use all the time
my videos I use this special 2d font in
order to get my little like on-screen
text but sometimes I do handwriting and
then normally in my thumbnails I use
Arial and italics but with extra kerning
so I could give that a shot as well you
know that doesn't look bad I like it
color is gonna be important but that is
also a lot easier branding mine I still
really like that like light dusty pink
that I use on my end screen and on the
cover page for my channel so I think I'm
just gonna stick to that it shouldn't be
too hard to recreate in Squarespace and
hopefully that way everything will be
really nice and consistent and
recognizable
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[Applause]
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it is day 2 of tryna shoot all these
outfits I'm slowly starting to realize
that it may not physically be possible
to model everything and the time that I
have left but I'm gonna try my best I've
sorted out everything that was on my bed
as you can see it so this is the stuff
that I shot this is the stuff that I
still have left to shoot honestly we're
about halfway through it could be
worried so I'll show you what I have on
the website so far so here's what it
looks like right now guys okay I have to
say my photography could be better like
this this looks a little bit amateur but
it is a really exciting this is the most
professional-looking thing that I've
ever made when I was cropping the photos
I originally thought it was gonna be
look really weird that I had this kind
of line in the background between the
super overexposed wall and then this
shadow but I kind of like how it looks
because like this part blends in with
the background of the site so it kind of
I don't know I think it has a cool
effect although the photos aren't that
consistent I'm just gonna continue with
the same setup from yesterday and try my
best to get these photos up on this
website in time wish me luck
[Music]
[Applause]
hey guys so today is the day of the
website launch I just posted the thrift
haul announcing my website a couple
hours ago I just like literally rolled
out of bed in the morning to do it and
then like sprinted to class and still
managed to be late but all through my
lecture I was like reloading my YouTube
comments and looking at all the nice
things that you guys said thank you so
much for being so supportive especially
while I have sponsors and stuff - you
guys are so nice about it so a few
updates for today when I came home I
already saw that I had like 5 emails
from you guys from the site contact me
for the first one that I noticed was
somebody telling me that my checkout
page literally wasn't open yet because
like an idiot I somehow assumed that
Squarespace would like automatically
accept sales for you and you could set
up your bank account information later
or something even though that is
evidently not the case so I had to real
quickly set up all my payment
information and then I got checkout
rolling and pretty much within like one
minute of me setting up the checkout
page two of my items already sold um I
don't know why I'm so excited about this
like I know technically it's the same
thing as selling something off Poshmark
or Macari it feels really good that it's
like on my own platform and knowing that
you guys came out especially to buy my
stuff um I don't know it's really
exciting and it makes me feel like a
really legit human for some reason okay
it's gonna open my laptop to show you
but it is run out of battery everything
in my life is running out of battery all
the time including me I need to sleep
because this entire week I've slept
maybe like five hours a night okay I'm
gonna go sleep now
[Music]
so today is Monday February 26 it's
about a week and a half since I launched
the website so since the launch
everything has run pretty smoothly I've
gotten sixty orders so far I used to
actually be a super religious about
logging all of my like item costs and
shipping costs and fees involved in each
item but I kind of lost track of that at
this point because I did buy so much
stock for this website and I haven't had
time to go back and keep track of all of
it so I'm just running on good faith
here all-in-all as I hope this video has
shown you guys are a lot of things to
take into consideration when you're
starting a business even when it seems
relatively simple like drifting and
reselling clothes it's really not like a
get rich scheme at all if anything I'm
probably making around minimum wage
doing this but at least it's something I
enjoy if you guys have any more like
specific business related questions that
I could answer leave them in the
comments below or like DM me on insta is
it's a more personal question and I'll
do my best to answer them at the end of
the day I will say that the web design
part was actually probably one of the
easiest things in this whole process so
here's the part of the video that you've
been waiting for if you guys do need a
website or a domain or you want to start
an online store or make a portfolio site
like I did for my films please consider
using Squarespace there is a code link
below or you can just type in the code
best dress and you can get 10% off that
is all for this video I think I hope
that helps you guys if you guys are
interested in starting a business or if
you just wanted to like watch me derp
around I hope it also serve that purpose
for you
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