guys I have a confession to make three
days ago I downloaded tik-tok and I kind
of really like it yeah what's wrong with
me so where do I begin with this um I'm
a 21 year old adult which means that I
am far too old to be as into tik-tok as
I am I downloaded it ironically as
everybody does but oh ohoh we all know
how that's a trap I remember back in
like 2008 when I started saying lol out
loud ironically and it was only like two
days before I was say in lol at the end
of every sentence and it's pretty much
the same thing with tik-tok I had no
idea that I had spent like four hours
scrolling through tik toks until I like
looked up from my phone at 2:00 a.m. the
world of blur no sense of my own
physical form tic TOCs would be playing
in my head over and over again
also please ignore the fact that my
bangs look like a five-year-old cut them
with craft scissors I cut them a little
bit tipsy with hair scissors which is
essentially the same skill set so yeah
they're a little bit all over the place
I definitely thought I would be the type
of person who's like tick tock is the
death of culture I only listen to
podcast hosted by 30 year old males
talking about liberal ideals and a
black-and-white films with a French
new-wave
without subtitles but no to talk it
legitimately like so much fun I just
like miss a time on the internet where
people were just like mimin around
Zeidan having a good time with their
friends the little dances the cool
makeup looks girls like Neiman about how
they got brokenhearted over some boy
with the body of a spaghetti noodle do
you know how many times I cried over
boys with spaghetti noodle bodies there
are also so many girls who are just like
really funny on tik-tok so you heard it
here first kids I'm a tick tock stand
anyways one of the kind of communities
are like aesthetics on tik-tok is the e
girl aesthetic and it's kind of like
punk rock and anime and choke me daddy
porn had a lovechild and ionic Lee
really loved this aesthetic I don't know
exactly what it is but I just like
completely on Iran eclis want to turn
myself into a girl oh my god I'm 21
years old and this is my job I think it
would be really fun I really like the
so without further ado let's do it so
first up I shall attempt eager lake up
which is overall characterized by this
kind of chilly frosty anime girl look
with winged eyeliner and about 16
different layers of blush so I've
already gone ahead and done my
foundation and concealer as a base I've
been breaking out a lot recently because
I literally like moved across the
country and this is my first video that
I'm filming in New York and let me tell
you not knowing literally where I'm
going to live or if I have an apartment
has not been great for my skin awesome
not gonna lie I did finally cave and eat
pizza for the first time in like 3 years
because it's New York baby truth that's
the dance I've ever seen it so I don't
think my skin is enjoying that either oh
well it was kind of worth it honestly it
was very worth it so I'm gonna start
with eyebrows the e girl eyebrow seems
to be kind of a straighter shape that
tilts upwards rather than having like
the tail that arches back down if that
makes sense I'm just gonna conceal the
bottom here so that I can get a
straighter brow shape
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bro my eyebrows look like Zachary
[ __ ] Quinto
well let's fool your mouth there's
nothing a spoolie can't fix right okay
I'm gonna do the rest of my makeup and
pray that these eyebrows make more sense
so the trademark girl thing seems to be
a [ __ ] ton of blush and I love this look
actually I am no stranger to layering up
like three different blushes on my face
but I got myself some brighter pink
blush than usual so I can really layer
up and get that kind of cartoonish look
so all the tutorials I watched said to
also place the blush very high on your
cheeks and like bring it to underneath
your eye why does it look so hot on them
and it literally looks like I have
pinkeye so while I spend about 30
minutes smashing blush into my face I
thought I could talk some more about
kind of the tick-tock phenomenon this
whole like range of new aesthetics that
we found on the internet it's just super
interesting and on thing I think it's
really exciting because when I was
growing up there wasn't a huge range of
ways that people actually dressed and
express themselves like yeah you had
some kind of edgy Punk ish girls that
were like stripy shirts and converse and
then you had people who were Abercrombie
and that was pretty much the entire
range of fashion so I think it's really
awesome that girls and guys are like
really going out there with their
aesthetics I'm going in with a second
blush now this is Nora's orgasm ex I
remember seeing like all the beauty
gurus do this growing up and this is why
I'm on beauty guru because I'm
intolerable truely oh that is bright
skirt
yeah so much blush okay I'm gonna be
blending this for a while recently my
friend Avery made a really great video
reacting to these like sexist sick talks
where boys were preying on young girls
insecurities or there was one of this
like 30 year old dude reacting to a girl
tik-tok dancing and he was like ah so
cringy like where's her real talent and
I think that this tendency to really
easily make fun of young girls on
ticked-off points to this larger issue
which is something I learned about in
film school which is the fact
that woman and particularly teenage
girls do not hold cultural capital in
our society we live in a society but
basically this is the idea that things
that men generally like like sports
action films things just generally about
male heroes are considered good tastes
are considered cool things to like wear
as entertainment made for women like
rom-com girly pop music even fashion and
makeup are generally considered
superficial not intelligent and I think
it's important to ask like why do we
draw those distinctions why is a guy who
likes war movies not considered a basic
bastard but a girl who likes Taylor
Swift is a basic [ __ ] when in reality
both of those people are just liking
things that are kind of in their
assigned gender roles and I definitely
used to buy into that a lot more like
when I was younger I would never admit
to anybody
that I liked Taylor Swift or One
Direction even though I secretly like
listening to them in my bedroom because
I didn't want to be associated with the
like dumb basic teenage girl stereotype
and I felt the need to prove that I was
hashtag not like other girls and that I
could be a cool girl by rejecting things
that I genuinely kind of enjoyed like
imagine if we made fun of teenage boys
for liking superheroes the same way that
we made fun of young girls for liking
Twilight teenage girls shouldn't be made
fun of for enjoying teenage girl things
I'm really gonna go ham on the nose oh I
look like Rudolph he's a Christmas time
again already my face looks so right I'm
gonna go back with some concealer kind
of around the edges here and like
underneath my eyes to get a little bit
of this is this the poster for it three
and I think that also ties in with toxic
masculinity and the fact that we
basically don't allow men to enjoy
things that are feminine went out like
questioning their sexuality or their
manliness so men feel like trapped in
only liking a very narrow range of
things but it also ties in to the idea
that things that men like are
automatically cool and acceptable for
everybody to like let's do the eyes for
my eyes I'm just gonna use this same
blush which sure as hell is pigmented
enough to be an eye shadow
anyways this ties into the whole
tick-tock phenomenon because I think
that honestly like a lot of men or the
way that our culture raises men is to
say that
in order to assert your masculinity and
your intelligence that you have to not
only not participate in things that
teenage girls like but actively hate
them and actively [ __ ] on them to assert
your distance from it and okay this is
getting very serious for like a little
video about tik-tok apart that type of
mentality in our culture and especially
on the internet like has real effects
young girls are so much more at risk of
developing like eating disorders anxiety
depression committing suicide because of
things that people say about them on the
internet like that chick has real
repercussions
anyways that's like my PSA for today
like seriously the internet needs to
rethink the way that it treats teenage
girls because like they're literally
just humans like everybody else
on top of the pink as if there wasn't
enough pink on my face I'm also gonna
put this pink sparkly stuff for a little
bit of extra dimension I swear any
beauty guru who's watching release right
now is like screaming at me um I really
am NOT great at makeup but I'm having a
good time
next up we got to do some eyeliner the
tutorials I watched said till kind of
like angle it downwards so you look sad
it's just not a problem
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exciting development I bought my first
ever set of fake lashes I have literally
never put on fake eyelashes in my life
before okay how the [ __ ] do you do this
two and one brush on street honestly I
have been a little bit scared in the
past to essentially put a small
caterpillar on top of my eyeball but
today we're facing our fears I think
you're supposed to like waited I feel
like I'm developing a Polaroid bro wait
these look kind of good you feel like I
have a whole nother head of hair I could
just like pet it it's like a little
chinchilla also can we talk about the
fact that like I literally have nothing
to do today after I film this video so
I'm just gonna be sitting at home in the
most extra II girl makeup maybe I'll
take photos to send to my ex's who are
like really into anime or something no I
just want to pet them next up let's do a
little bit of highlighter I'm gonna get
that little button tip to the nose
bridge and our cornice for my lips I
bought literally the cheapest dark
lipstick I could find but I just dabbed
it on the center of my lips and blended
it out a little bit so it would give me
this kind of bitten look question work
okay my makeup is nearly complete but to
finish it up I am gonna draw the little
hearts underneath my eyes I know this is
like the very stereotypical girl thing
and not all actually girls do this
hashtag girls but I legitimately think
it looks really cute and it gives me
like Marina and the Diamonds lives I'm
so scared I'm gonna [ __ ] this up and
have to redo my entire face
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does it kind of look like I'm one of
those butterflies that has four eyes in
order to like deter predators yes but
does it also look really really cute
also yes so this is the finished makeup
look but your girl did not stop there oh
no no hold on one second oh my god I
have never felt like more of a weed I
literally went to a big store yesterday
and I tried on like four different wigs
and at first I was gonna go for like a
classic pink one which is more of a
stereotypical eager link but I tried on
this green one and I thought it suited
my skin tone a little bit better
why does this wig make me want to laugh
like a [ __ ] anime girl like this I
don't know why this sparks so much joy
in me guys okay I don't know
but I think I look great I forgot to do
the UM freckles so most girls have this
thing called Freck which is like a
specific face freckle product but I did
not have the time to get that so I'm
just gonna use my brow pencil and do a
little dots why does this make me so
happy what is wrong to finish off this
look I also bought a couple barrettes
okay
lastly for my outfit I would describe
eager all style as kind of like goth
meets anime so though layer like panties
over long sleeve t-shirts and have
chokers but there are also a lot of like
mini skirts and kind of chunky anime
inspired shoes so yesterday I went to
like a goth clothing store in New York
and I picked up this mesh t-shirt and um
I'm not gonna lie like I actually have
just wanted one of these for like sexy
times for a while so getting my money's
worth I'm gonna change it to this in
three two what do i off about this
although I feel like that's a little
distracting I don't have you guys relate
to this but like I think that part of
why just makes me so happy is just that
like I have not gotten the chance to see
myself look different from like my
regular [ __ ] face that I stare at for
like 40 hours a week like the last time
I did something fun with my hair was
when I was a freshman in college so this
is just like really exciting
to me like it's weirdly riveting to be
able to like embody a different persona
okay now I just need to learn to make
the girl faces let's see how do you do
the season my problem my tongue is like
really awkward so it just never looks
good when I try to do the tongue
sticking out poses I would like to issue
a public apology that you had to see
that
I honestly procrastinated posting this
video for so long because I realized
like in the months that has passed how
embarrassing this is but I had fun doing
it so like [ __ ] it I don't know I just
slapped myself in the face a little bit
the facial expressions kind of brings me
to the part of Agriculture that is like
very fascinating to me but also more
controversial which is this like sexual
BDSM element and I'm not gonna lie I
think that it is maybe like why I get so
geeked about you girl stuff because like
yo girls kinky like your girl likes that
[ __ ] but it is like an undeniable
cultural product of tik-tok that they
are probably like younger kids like 12
year olds who know what like choking is
in a sexual way now which is like a
strange to think about because like
that's only stuff that I realized when I
was like 19 and I think that's maybe
more of an appropriate age to learn
about it and I think that regulating the
content that younger kids see is
something that needs to be actually like
enforced more on the internet kids are
watching porn a lot younger than they
used to and I don't think it's great to
get desensitized and especially to like
kinky or images when you are younger but
maybe on a little bit more of a positive
note personally how I discovered a lot
of my like sexuality was originally
through tumblr where I would watch those
like black and white gifts of like artsy
couples like kissing and I feel like
Tumblr and tik-tok have a very similar
energy sorry for the camera change by
the way my camera my other camera ran
out of battery as I was saying I think
that it's always really uncomfortable to
talk about the effects that the Internet
has on kids sexuality which is like why
we don't really have legislation about
it or like a larger discussion about it
because people just want to like
it exists well if so how do you sustain
a business model in which users don't
pay for your service senator we run ads
I say that's great I guess it's
complicated because it's like on one
hand I want to be like excited for
teenagers who are like expressing
themselves but it's very hard to find a
space on the Internet to do that without
also exposing children who are much
younger or inviting attention from older
men who might not have the best
intentions looking into that type of
content this is all really complicated
stuff that I probably should not just be
like glossing over in a makeup video I
would love to make like a whole nother
video about kind of the cultural impact
of tik-tok once I have more of a chance
to research it deeply let me know if you
guys are interested I know that most of
you guys are like above tik-tok age as
am i but i still find it really
fascinating anyways now that i'm dressed
up like this what else is there to do
than to make my first-ever tick-tock
okay my man keeps like falling back cuz
I have a big-ass head it like does not
want to stay properly on my head line it
but anyways I'm in the hotel bathroom
because that seems to be the place that
the kids do the chick talks and I'm
gonna learn a kick Tom dance which I'm
gonna have to mute while I do this so
that I know any copyrights right but you
guys like know the one it's like punches
that you roll with something like that
who needs the original music when you
have that incredible rendition so yeah
here is the just spending my free time
as an adult learning a tick-tock dance
now I'm not gonna lie I didn't think
this dance would be that hard to learn
even though I am an incredibly awkward
string Dean of a human
look at FLETC how do you make a
tick-tock
because this was literally my first time
operating tick-tock I at first tried
putting myself on two times speed to
make my dance seem smoother but it just
made it way more awkward oh I have so
much respect for dick colors also for
some reason and I had assumed that most
people were just dancing on two times
speed on tick-tock because I didn't
think that it was physically possible to
dance that well at one time speed but no
they are doing this in like real time
and they just look really good at it so
yeah this was the best attempt that I
could come up with
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well that was about three hours of my
life that I will never get back I hope
that those chick talk dances are the
only thing that they play at my funeral
no speeches whatsoever just me and light
BDSM we're dancing to dojo cat I think
that's that's the legacy that I want to
leave anyways I think that we've all
learned a valuable lesson here which is
that I should not become a professional
tick talker and YouTube was definitely
I'm gonna [ __ ] take off this week now
oh yeah my eyes are free that's like
taking off a bra for your eyeballs I'm
gonna wash this all off now but I hope
you guys had it as much fun as I did I
don't know why I just I'm like a craving
to make this video and now I feel
emotionally fulfilled so that's all we
can ask for anyways I'll see you guys
next week bye
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