Americans Try Italian Candy

Guess who's back, back again. Sophie and I are! Last week you may have seen our Italian Makeup Haul. Well this here is part two to the videos we filmed for you guys. This time around we're trying some Italian candy. We really went all out and just grabbed everything that we could find at the supermarket that didn't look familiar. After this there will be one more vlog about our travels in Italy and then that's it! I go home on Friday and start school on Monday.

Note that we kept commenting about how weird their chocolate tasted. I actually read an article today about how Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars are only 11% chocolate and they add a ton of milk, sugar, and other acidic components to make it taste how it does. Americans have gotten so used to the taste of "our" chocolate that they have to do this so it tastes good to us. Fun fact though: Apparently it tastes like vomit to everyone else. Crazy! I love Hershey's Bars!

This has been such a whirlwind of an adventure and I literally would not have been able to survive without Sophie. This video was so fun to film and I hope you all enjoy! My next blog goal is to reach 10,000 page views and my next YouTube goal is to reach 100 subscribers (only 83 away) so please be sure to share! Let us know if you've tried any of these candies before and what your favorite candy is.

Italian Makeup Haul

Okay, excuse this icon, it's the thumbnail for my new YouTube video, and my friend and I totally forgot to actually take a picture for me to edit.

Damn Meagan, back at it again with the YouTube videos. Okay I hate myself for using that meme and I know it's months old but I've found myself referencing it too much lately. And it's true! I am back at it with some YouTube videos. I've been hoping to get this channel rolling so I can have it partnered with this blog. So sometimes you'll get YouTube videos and other times you'll get straight posts. I'm not a natural writer, I'm a natural talker (I can pound out a great essay for school but journalism is something new to me) ((and I just love talking)) so I'm experimenting with both for now. This video brings you myself and my friend Sophie, here in Italy, doing a chatty Get Ready With Me/Italian makeup haul.

Sophie and I found this shop called Kiko Milano that had super crazy sales going on. I bought a ton of stuff for under $50 and Sophie also got a lot for under $20! There's no way I could've budgeted that well in a Sephora or even an Ulta with the amount that I got. If you have a YouTube we'd love for you to give it a like and subscribe so you can be the first to see these videos! We have another video coming up, Americans Try Italian Candy, so you really don't want to miss that one!

Thanks for reading and watching! What is your favorite drugstore makeup brand? Let me know in the comments below!

VidCon 2016

This past weekend I got to experience VidCon for the first time! VidCon is a convention that has been going on for seven years, quickly growing year after year. After starting off in a small rented out area its first year, now in its seventh year, VidCon has grown to over twenty thousand attendees and is hosted at the Anaheim Convention Center. This gathering of YouTubers, Viners, film industry members, and fans was created by John and Hank Green (Yes, that John Green) when they decided they wanted to bring the reaches of the internet into one place, so the community could interact in person.

VidCon allows fans of online video creators to meet them in real life. Beyond that, there are a plethora of activities to do. Besides being in sunny Southern California and being only a half hour from the beach, VidCon has set up activities within the vicinity of the convention center from eight in the morning running all the way until past six at night. There were food trucks lining the outside streets, stages for musical guests to perform, lecture halls filled with famous YouTubers for panels ranging from beauty to gaming to mental health and everything in between. Inside the center, hundreds of sponsors set up booths to promote their products. There were booths to buy merchandise, but also booths from sponsors like HGTV, The Food Network, Nyx Cosmetics, and Nickelodeon providing free video games, free makeup, free food, the list just goes on, but you get it. Lots of free stuff. It wasn't uncommon to run into one of your favorite YouTubers as you got something to eat or walked through the sponsored booths.

Because I was at a convention for video creators, obviously I had to create some content of my own! Check out my newest YouTube video here to get an inside look into VidCon and how it all works. Check out tons of videos and pictures from the weekend! Watching this video back, I definitely need to work on transitions and being a better "narrator" or "storyteller" throughout the video. The vlog gets choppy sometimes because I just jump from one moment to the next! I got a nicer camera than my phone or computer though, so the quality is already much better!