5 Videos To Watch This Week On YouTube!

Hi everyone! 🙂

It is that time of the week again. Here is my five video suggestions for this week:

Politics

In this video Tyler Oakley talks to Brandon Kyle Goodman about the upcoming Presidential Election in America and explains how your one vote could make all the difference. Really informative and interesting.

Make-Up/Drag

In this video, Bob The Drag Queen does a look using Party City supplies and RuPaul’s Teal the Show Wig. With assistance from Free The Drag Queen, Bob creates yet another fantastic look.

Musical Theatre/Film

With Halloween just around the corner, it is the perfect time to enjoy Todrick Hall’s take on Hocus Pocus called Hocus Broke-us. It’s amazing and a lot of fun. So well put together. Todrick and the entire cast are excellent.

Music

I love both Queen and Panic! At The Disco so this is perfect. A really great version of Bohemian Rhapsody from Panic! At The Disco’s The Death Of A Bachelor Tour.

Here is a throwback for you all. A wonderful performance of Nancy Boy by Placebo on Top of the Pops in 1997.

5 Videos To Watch This Week On YouTube!

Hi everyone! 🙂

It is that time of the week again! Here is my five video suggestions for this week:

Music

I have been a huge Scissors Sisters fan for a long time and Take Your Mama was one of their songs back in day (Jaysus, I’m old! :-)) that you would hear everywhere. Brilliant song, brilliant music video. 🙂

I think I went on a bit of a nostalgia trip this week because Mika is another artist I have been a long-time fan of. Relax, Take It Easy is very much an anthem kind of song, very festival-like and the words really we all need to do sometimes. Again great bop and an equally great video. 🙂

I feel there is a pattern emerging here because I am also a long-time fan of Ne-Yo. If you don’t know my age by now, you are probably beginning to guess it. Our music definitely tells on us! 🙂 This is Ne-Yo’s Beautiful Monster, excellent music video, brilliant song. And quite a cool song for a Halloween playlist too. 🙂

Fashion

Thank god I finally came to the present day! 🙂 This is Moschino’s Spring/Summer collection 2021. The clothes are gorgeous, they always are with Moschino but what really gets me about this collection is the way the show was created with puppets. Very inventive and creative by Jeremy Scott and his team. Really fun. Very storytelling. 🙂

Make-Up/Drag

I am absolutely loving Bob The Drag Queen’s Addams Family Series at the moment. In this episode, she does a make-up tutorial of Morticia Addams. Absolutely stunning! 🙂

5 Videos To Watch This Week On YouTube!

Hi everyone! 🙂

It’s that time of the week again! Here is my five video suggestions for this week:

TV/Music

In this really interesting video, reigning Eurovision winner Duncan Laurence talks about his experiences since winning the contest last year. I could very much relate to what he was saying about coming from a small town.

Music

Kill The Lights by Alex Newell & DJ Cassidy with Nile Rodgers is just so good to dance to! The beat is amazing, Alex’s voice is sensational and this video is just perfect too. I dare you all not to dance to this! 🙂

TV

I was reading about this new show It’s A Sin which is set to air in 2021 on Channel 4. I am definitely excited to watch this. Russell T Davis is an absolute writing genius and an early inspiration to me as a writer though I am nowhere near as good as him. I love Years & Years and seeing Olly Alexander from the band is in this is really cool. He’s a really good actor too. I remember he was brilliant in Skins. I love the Pet Shop Boys too so everything really works for me here. The cast looks amazing in general and the story is incredibly important too. Below is the trailer for the show:

Make-Up/Drag

Here the amazingly talented season 8 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Bob The Drag Queen (and I have seen Bob live at Christmas Queens in the past and she was superb that night) doing her Aunt Fester version of Uncle Fester from the Addams family. Really great make-up and really great costume by Bob’s drag daughter Free the Drag Queen.

Drag Performances

From one amazingly talented Drag Race winner to another, this is Aquaria’s first show which took place in Mexico City following her win on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 10. Everything about her show here I just adored and the support acts were really amazing too.

5 Videos To Watch This Week On YouTube!

Hi everyone! 🙂

It is that time of week again. Here is my five video suggestions this week:

Music

First up is Luther Vandross’ Stop To Love. This song is mine and my sister’s favourite Luther Vandross track. It is a really great bop and the video is brilliant, wonderfully cheesy and the whole way the standing on the vehicles thing was done was really cool.

Next we have X Factor semi-finalist Brendan Murray’s cover of Harry Styles’ Watermelon Sugar. Produced by Dylan Connolly, I think it’s a really great version of the track and the video is great too.

This is Gladys Knight’s bond theme License To Kill. Bond themes often have that amazing dramatic vibe to them and this song and music video are no expection to that. Wonderful. I love the song, a pure classic. Gladys voice is superb on it and I adore her outfit in the video.

Sport

This is a classic English Grand National from 1973 where Crisp was narrowly bet by a fast-finishing Red Rum who ended up making history by winning three English Grand Nationals. Amazing race made especially by two brilliant horses. R.I.P. to the amazing Grey Sombrero.

Make-Up

In this excellent tutorial, beauty influencer Jackie Aina does a stunning soft glam look using inexpensive products. Absolutely incredible look.

Beauty On A Budget: Pre-Summer Look Tutorial

Hello again everyone and welcome to the latest Beauty On A Budget make-up tutorial. For this tutorial I am going to be creating a combination of a shiny and well not so shiny make-up tutorial. A kind of a make-up opposites attract look. The transition between the casual look of spring to the glitz and shine of summer.  Hope you all like it.🙂

 

So without further ado let’s get to this …

 

First off here is me before the tutorial:

 

Step 1

 

Using Miss Beauty London Perfect Face Primer and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the primer in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the primer under your eyes. Using Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the foundation in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the foundation under your eyes. Using the make-up pad provided, blend in Miss Beauty London powder around the face. Using Make-Up Gallery Hide & Seek Concealer Natural Coverage dot under the eyes, just in the middle of the forehead leading off from the nose area, lightly around the face and on any blemishes. Rub in well with Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack. Again the little triangle is great for under eyes. To make the nose longer and thinner, draw lines down side of nose on both sides and in the middle of the nose without joining the lines and place a dot on top of the nose. Again blend in well with the little triangle.

 

Step 2

Using the brush above from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes, highlight your cheeks with the first colour indicated in the top of the Max & More Conceal, Highlight and Contour Cream Palette on the picture shown above by the direction of the brush and use the second colour indicated as blusher in the bottom picture.

 

Step 3

Using the Make Up Gallery Brown 4, cover each eyelid and do a mini wing by drawing upwards from the outside corner of your eye. Cover above eyelids with Miss Beauty London Eye Crayon Soft Creamy Eye Colour 2 Cappuccino. Also use the crayon to brighten up inner corners of eyes and dab under eyes too. Use Essence Kajal Pencil – White under eyes as well. Blend brown and white together. Use the black in Miss Beauty London Eye Brown Kit and with the brush provided use it as an eyeliner and on your eye brows. Using Max & More Mascara With Argan Oil – Black place on the top and bottom of your top lids and the tops of your bottom lids. When coating the under part of your top lids wriggle the brush through for extra volume and length.

 

Step 4

Using Miss Beauty London Eye Crayon Soft Creamy Eye Colour 2 Cappuccino, coat your lips adding extra shine to the middle of the bottom lip.

 

Step 5

Using Make Up Gallery Time to Shine Nail colour – Deep Amethyst 28, paint nails.

 

Hope that helps! 🙂

All products in this tutorial were purchased from three shops: Dealz, Euro Saver and Euro Giant with the exception of the Essence eye pencil:

1. Miss Beauty London Perfect Face Primer: €1.50
2. Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack: €1.50
3. Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory: €1.50
4. Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes: €1.50
5. Make-Up Gallery Hide & Seek Concealer Natural Coverage: €1.50
6. Miss Beauty London powder: €1.50
7. Max & More Conceal, Highlight and Contour Cream Palette: €3.00
8. Make Up Gallery Brown 4: €1.50 
9. Miss Beauty London Eye Brow Kit: €1.50
10. Miss Beauty London Eye Crayon Soft Creamy Eye Colour 2 Cappuccino: €1.50
11. Essence Kajal Pencil – White: €2.00 (My sister got this in a charity shop but Essence make-up generally isn’t too expensive. A little bit more than the other products in the tutorial though).
12. Max & More Mascara With Argan Oil – Black: €1.50
13. Make Up Gallery Time to Shine Nail colour – Deep Amethyst 28: €1.50

 

See you all next time! 🙂

Beauty On A Budget: Soft New Year’s Look Tutorial

Hello again everyone and welcome to the latest Beauty On A Budget make-up tutorial. For this tutorial I am going to be creating a very soft casual New Year’s look. Hope you all like it. To you and yours I wish you all a very happy New Year. May 2019 be all you all wish for and more! 🙂

 

As always make-up throughout is inexpensive and comes from Dealz, Euro Saver and Euro Giant.

So without further ado let’s get to this …

 

First off here is me before the tutorial:

 

 

 

Step 1

 

 

Using Miss Beauty London Perfect Face Primer and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the primer in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the primer under your eyes. Using Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the foundation in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the foundation under your eyes. Using Max & More Make-Up Concealer Liquid – Medium dot under the eyes, just in the middle of the forehead leading off from the nose area, lightly around the face and on any blemishes. Rub in well with Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack. Again the little triangle is great for under eyes.

 

 

Step 2

 

Using the smaller brush from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes, place the light cream/beige shade ( shades in on the left in the above photograph) on your eyelids from Max & More Nude Look Palette and and put the gold shade next to it in the corners of your eyes for a little extra shimmer. Using Miss Beauty London Waterproof Mascara – Black place on the top and bottom of your top lids and the tops of your bottom lids. Us brush lightly for a soft effect. Using Make Up Gallery eyebrow brush, the bigger one, from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes, brush your eyebrows with the thin teeth side first and then with the fuzzy side. Using Miss Beauty London Eye Brow Kit, put on the black side of the palette using the brush provided and brush through your eyebrows.

 

Step 3

 

Using the two brushes above from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes. first with the bigger brush highlight your cheeks with the second colour in the top of the Max & More Conceal, Highlight and Contour Cream Palette on the shown above and also with the colour in the bottom left corner. Then with the smaller brush, do under your eyes with the colour in the top left corner and any redness with the green shade.

 

 

 

Step 4

Using Miss Beauty London High Shine Lip Gloss – Cappuccino coat your lips. Apply Miss Beauty London Lipstick Sealer to keep the lip gloss on for longer. Set make-up with Max & More Makeup Setting Spray.

 

Step 5

 

Using Make Up Gallery Time To Shine nail varnish – Vintage Pink, paint your nails to complete the overall look.

 

 

Hope that helps! 🙂

All products in this tutorial were purchased from three shops: Dealz, Euro Saver and Euro Giant:

1. Miss Beauty London Perfect Face Primer: €1.50
2. Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack: €1.50
3. Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory: €1.50
4. Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes: €1.50
5. Max & More Make-Up Concealer Liquid – Medium: €1.50
6. Miss Beauty London Waterproof Mascara – Black: €1.50
7. Max & More Conceal, Highlight and Contour Cream Palette: €3.00
8. Max & More Nude Look Palette: €1.50 
9. Miss Beauty London Eye Brow Kit: €1.50
10. Miss Beauty London Lipstick Sealer: €1.50
11. Make Up Gallery Time To Shine nail varnish – Vintage Pink: €1.50
12. Miss Beauty London High Shine Lip Gloss – Cappuccino: €1.50
13. Max & More Makeup Setting Spray: €1.50

 

See you all next time! 🙂

 

Beauty On A Budget: Christmas Make-Up Look 2 Tutorial

On December 10th, I was out at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre with my sister Sharon at Christmas Queens and in this tutorial I am re-creating my make-up look from the night. All products used are from Dealz, Euro Saver and Euro Giant. There is some similarities between this tutorial and the last tutorial so you get two similar looks but with differences that make a whole new look. The next tutorial will be very different from these two but I thought it was a nice look and I wanted to share how it was done with you all.

So without further ado let’s get to this …

 

First off here is me before the tutorial:

 

Step 1

 

Primer on!

Foundation on!

Concealer on!

Using Miss Beauty London Perfect Face Primer and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the primer in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the primer under your eyes. Using Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the foundation in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the foundation under your eyes. Using Max & More Make-Up Concealer Liquid – Medium dot under the eyes, just in the middle of the forehead leading off from the nose area, lightly around the face and on any blemishes. Rub in well with Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack. Again the little triangle is great for under eyes.

 

Step 2

 

Using the smaller brush from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes shown above, place the gold shade (3 shades in on the right in the above photograph) on your eyelids from Max & More Nude Look Palette and as a highligher blend into the top of your cheeks and put in the corners of your eyes for a little extra shimmer. Using Max & More Mascara With Argan Oil – Black place on the top and bottom of your top lids and the tops of your bottom lids. When coating the under part of your top lids wriggle the brush through for extra volume and length. Using Make Up Gallery Brown 4 Soft Kohl Eyeliner do under your eyes. Using Make Up Gallery eyebrow brush, the bigger one shown above, from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes, brush your eyebrows with the thin teeth side first and then with the fuzzy side. Using Miss Beauty London Eye Brow Kit, put on the black side of the palette using the brush provided and brush through your eyebrows.

 

 

Step 3

Sadly I couldn’t find out who the company was that created the red lipstick. The shade is called 334 Mercatura and was made in Germany. But there is plenty of inexpensive red lipsticks available and any of them in a similar shade to this one will do the job. Put on the red lipstick generously, applying more to your bottom lip for extra shine. Cover with Miss Beauty London Lipstick Sealer.

 

Step 4

 

Set with Max & More Makeup Setting Spray.

 

Step 5

 

Hope that helps! 🙂

All products in this tutorial were purchased from three shops: Dealz, Euro Saver and Euro Giant:

1. Miss Beauty London Perfect Face Primer: €1.50
2. Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack: €1.50
3. Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory: €1.50
4. Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes: €1.50
5. Max & More Make-Up Concealer Liquid – Medium: €1.50
6. Max & More Mascara With Argan Oil – Black: €1.50
7. Make Up Gallery Brown 4 Soft Kohl Eyeliner: €1.50
8. Max & More Nude Look Palette: €1.50
9. Miss Beauty London Eye Brow Kit: €1.50
10. Miss Beauty London Lipstick Sealer: €1.50
11. Miss Beauty London Nail Colour – Cosmic Glitter: €1.50
12. Red Lipstick: This was €2.00 so roughly that price. €1.50 – €2.00 or so.
13. Max & More Makeup Setting Spray: €1.50

 

See you all next time! 🙂

 

Beauty On A Budget: Casual Gothic Make-Up Tutorial

Hello everyone and welcome along to my very first makeup tutorial on here on Culture Vulture Express. I did do one many years ago on YouTube but I didn’t really keep it up after that. But this section which I’m calling Beauty On A Budget is one I plan to make a regular feature of this blog. The basis premise is that every product used in the tutorials will be cheap and my hope with the tutorials is to show that you don’t need expensive make-up to look great. All the products in this particular tutorial are from Dealz.

Here is me prior to the tutorial:

 

So without further ado, let’s do this:

 

Step 1

Using Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory and Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack, cover your face and neck and rub the foundation in. The smaller triangle sponges are great for any blending of the foundation under your eyes.

 

Step 2

 

Using Beautiful Bronze Giant Bronzer Dark Sunkissed with a brush from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes lightly highlight the cheeks and gently around the face. Blend very well.

 

Step 3

Using Max & More Make-Up Concealer Liquid – Medium dot under the eyes, just in the middle of the forehead leading off from the nose area, lightly around the face and on any blemishes. Rub in well with Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack. Again the little triangle is great for under eyes.

 

 

Step 4

Using Max & More Baked Eyeshadow – Burgundy and a brush from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes, mix the gold and pink colours together then move further up above the eye and paint on a purple under layer with the purple colour before mixing the gold and pink over the top. With the beige colour, brush under your eyes, not on the waterline, just under your eyes and in the corners of your eyes.

 

Step 5

Mix together the pale pink and the dark beige shades from Simple Pleasures Perfect Pout Lip Gloss Collection for your lips and apply generously.

 

Step 6

Using Make Up Gallery eyebrow brush from Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes, brush your eyebrows with the thin teeth side first and then with the fuzzy side.

 

Step 7

Paint nails with peach cream colour nail varnish from Make Up Gallery Time To Shine collection.

 

Step 8

Set with Max & More Makeup Setting Spray.

 

Well there you go, hope that helps! All products are available from Dealz and the price list is below:

1. Manhattan Fresher Skin Foundation – Classic Ivory: €1.50
2. Make Up Gallery Make Up Sponges 24 Pack: €1.50
3. Beautiful Bronze Giant Bronzer Dark Sunkissed: €1.50
4. Make Up Gallery Cosmetic Brushes: €1.50
5. Max & More Make-Up Concealer Liquid – Medium: €1.50
6. Max & More Baked Eyeshadow – Burgundy: €1.50
7. Simple Pleasures Perfect Pout Lip Gloss Collection: €3.00
8. Make Up Gallery Time To Shine Nail Varnish: €1.50
9. Max & More Makeup Setting Spray: €1.50

 

See you all next time! 🙂

James Byron’s Androgynous Smokey Eye Make-up Tutorial!

James Byron has put up his second make-up tutorial on YouTube. The tutorial is about androgynous smokey eye make-up and is brilliant once again.

You can view the tutorial below:

James Byron’s Everyday Androgynous Make-up Routine!

Former Voice contestant and all-round make-up icon James Byron has put up his first make-up tutorial on YouTube. It’s a guide to everyday androgynous make-up and there’s some great tips in it. Check it out below:

Also if you have time (and you want a laugh! :-)) while we’re on the topic of make-up tutorials, check out my attempt at rock make-up which I uploaded a bit back at:

I know that was kind of shameless self-promotion! 🙂 Forgive me, I’m small! 🙂