My Experience With Microblading, Hair & Lash Extensions | Beauty Q&A

Hi guys and welcome back to my channel today, I'm going to be doing a Beauty, Q & A so this can include anything as far as things that I've had done. If you will not like plastic surgery, you've never went. There never went that far, but I have had my eyebrows micro bladed. I do have lash extensions and I do have hair extensions, so I opened it up to you guys on Instagram to see if you guys had any specific questions about any of those things that I have personally done, because quite a few of you have messaged me On Instagram asking a specific questions about these things and asked me if I had a specific video dedicated to each one, and I really don't other than my hair extensions. I do have a video entirely dedicated to that everything else. I thought it would be cool to just put it in one video and also open it up to any general makeup questions or hair questions or nails tanning. Anything like that that you guys have so. I have a list of the questions that you guys submitted. So we will go through these and I will finally let you guys in on all of the secrets: they're not really secrets, but I guess I just haven't really talked about a lot of the things in detail. So anyways, let's just get started with all of these questions. This is gon na, be a weird video for me because I'm usually like showing you things and today, I'm not so I'm just gon na be like talking with my hands a lot I feel like, but um. Let'S get started talking about the three things I specifically asked you guys if you had questions about and those were my brows, my permanent eyebrows, that I've had done my lash extensions and my hair extensions. So I do have a few questions for all of those and then I also had another like random category, so we'll get to those. At the end, I will try to remember to put timestamps in case there's only like one thing that you are interested in then you can just go to that portion of the video. Let'S start with my eyebrows because I feel like that is the thing that I get the most questions about day to day so yeah I did have them Micra bleated, even though I feel like my brow technician. If you want to call her that she didn't call it micro bleeding, she called it something else that she said was more fine than micro bleeding. So that's what she did on me, and that is what I will be talking about today, but it's very similar to micro bleeding. I think, but the first question is: where did I go to get mine done? Did I do it here in Roanoke Virginia where I live, and the answer is yes, I did. I went to Melinda T Kanter skincare consulting. I will link their website down below it's. Basically a mom and daughter that run a business. The daughter is the one that usually does the eyebrows. She was great, and this leads me into the next question or I guess set of questions, and that is what even is it, and what does that process look like. So basically, I reached out online for a consultation I went in. You do have to put a little bit of money down at your consultation. If you want to proceed basically what you do you go in for a consultation, she draws on your eyebrows with a very fine like pencil and she tries so you work together to get a shape. So when I went in, I was telling her like. I don't want them to be super thin, but I cuz I've always had like naturally really thin eyebrows, and I will also try to insert some pictures of like my eyebrows before filling in eyebrows was a thing and you can see they were very thin. I'Ve always had like a very strong arch to my eyebrows, so that wasn't really something we had to create. I already had that. Basically, you just work with her to develop what you want. If you're someone who has a rounded eyebrow, she will work with you and develop an arch in your eyebrow since I already had an arch. Basically, what we did with mine was just elongate my eyebrow, because I had kind of been filling them in like starting here. So she brought them in a little bit and drugged them out a little bit. I just got to a point where I just wasn't. I don't know just something was up with my eyebrows and I was filling them in like in a way that what I don't know it was just getting way too much like. I would just mess it up and then I would add more and then they would end up being like really thick and just not natural looking at all, and that is the reason that I decided to go. Get my eyebrows micro bladed, because I was just like sick of doing my eyebrows like every day I love doing makeup, but the one thing I hated was doing at my eyebrows because I would like I said they would just take so much time and they would End up looking like thick and just not cute girl. So that's why I reached out and I'm happy I did it in my opinion. Is it worth it? 100 %? Yes, I love it love it love, it love it and if you are someone who your eyebrows are super super thin or you have a rounded eyebrow and you're just like, I cannot get the arch right when I do my makeup, any any person like that. This is totally worth it so yeah you go for a consultation she'll draw on your brows with a sand pencil. Of course it's not gon na look the exact same because a needle is a lot thinner than any pencil could ever get, but that kind of gives you an idea. You kind of approve it. You say hey. Can I make this a little longer? Can I make this a little higher whatever? Then you will schedule your two sessions, so you have to do in two sessions the first session. I think it takes like three hours and then you have to wait six weeks for that round to heal because of course, you're basically getting a tattoo on your face. So it's going to scab and all of that you have to take care of it and just like you would a tattoo and then six weeks later, you'll have your second session just to touch up any places that might have a peel flaked off during the healing Process, so your second session is literally exactly like your first session. It is three to four hours it lasts forever. I mean it's a tattoo. Of course you wash your face and put makeup on every day, so you might have to have. It touched up every once in a while. A lot of people go once a year for a touch-up. I am approaching, I think six months I don't know, I just don't see myself really needing a touch-up in a year, but she said that if you feel like you do, you can always reach out and they can schedule that and the biggest question that I get Regarding my eyebrows is, does micro bleeding hurt and unfortunately I don't have a sugar-coated answer for this, and this is just my opinion, but yeah it may hurt pretty bad. It depends on what you think hurts to me. It was extremely uncomfortable, pretty much the entire time. I would say the first half of the session you're like oh, this isn't at all. They do put numbing cream on your eyebrows. Once I reach the halfway point in the session, my eyebrows were just very like inflamed. It felt like it felt like, and although they were none that I couldn't necessarily feel the actual blade going into my skin it just the pressure of her rubbing them and doing the strokes just was really really uncomfortable. So it's kind of like you, I don't know, had a scab and someone was just kept like pushing it and pushing it and rubbing it and something like that. That'S the best way I could describe it and I do have a pretty high pain tolerance. I would say - and I do have two tattoos - I have one tattoo on my foot - that one didn't hurt at all. I kind of sat there all day and then I do have one tattoo here on my wrist and that one hurt a little more, but it was on my wrist and I would say my eyebrows was right up there and that pain level. Because I mean it's basically a tattoo on your face: the only difference is they don't numb you for tattoos. So if you've had a tattoo, I feel like you'll be fine. You can definitely know what to expect, and this is a little different, because I do use numbing cream, but it's on your face, so it just makes it a little bit more uncomfortable and to maintain them afterwards. All you really do is just rub like an oil or like an ointment like moisturizer on them, that they give you. You can't get them wet for like a week and you have to like try to stay out of the Sun for a little bit like no tanning things like that, and then the only other question I have about my brows is: do I still fill them in On a day-to-day basis - and I do but that's really only because once you put makeup on they kind of like - I don't know, get lighter because your foundation covers them or you might get powder on them whatever. So I just go in with a brow, Wiz pencil or a really thin brow, pencil and just fill in the strokes and things like that, but this is the shape that she created. I do have them filled in today, like I said just with a small brow pencil, but I don't go crazy. It takes me less than five minutes now, whereas it used I used to sit there, for. I could literally sit there for an hour doing my stupid eyebrows, so I do still fill them in, but if you didn't want to, you, definitely don't have to and when they're healing you can't really fill them in. I would just have to carefully do my foundation around them, which wasn't bad. I mean you get used to it pretty quickly and you just love the way they look. I remember I just loved it and, as I got them done all right, let's move on to the second most asked about thing, and that is lash extensions. So the obvious question here, of course, is: where do I get them done? Do I get them done where I live and who does them? So? Yes, I do get them done in Roanoke Virginia where I live, and the girl that does mine. She just opened like her new own little business called Beauty by Iverson, and she I've had them done by two different people in Roanoke and she's. Definitely my favorite. She does them phenomena phenomenally and her little setup is so comfortable to like lay in because you're there for like an hour. She doesn't really quick, so she's amazing. I will have her Instagram links down below if you were in the same area and are interested in setting up a consultation with her. Probably the second most asked question for lash extensions is how much do they cost and is it worth the money? What is the cost to maintain them? So I get a lot of different questions about that, and this really just depends on your area. I mean that's gon na with all of these things. It just depends on your area. If you live in a bigger city, I hate to break it to you, but it's gon na be way more expensive than what I'm telling you today IV charges the girl that I see I I don't want to mess up her prices, but so basically there are Different prices for a two week fill a three week, fill in a four week, fill and then, of course, a full set. So if you've never had lash extensions and you just go for a full set, I think it's gon na run about $ 100. Maybe a little more and then, of course, whatever you tip, which I usually tip, 15 to 20 percent. So when I first started getting them, I would wait for weeks cuz the way that she does lashes like they will last for weeks and still look pretty dang good. So I would honestly go sometimes 3 to 4 weeks and then see her and I would just pay a little more. I mean it ends up equaling out, but if you go every two, I think it's only $ 60 each time I think so say it's $ 60 for a two-week fill and you tip 20 %. That would be $ 72 and you get them done every two weeks, so that would be one hundred forty-four dollars a month, which I know to some of you might seem like a lot, and it is I mean, of course you could use that money on groceries Or towards your mortgage towards your car payment, whatever I totally get that, but for me right now. First of all, why I even got lash extensions was because I was going on my Bachelorette trip and I wanted to not have to worry about them like, while I'm at the pool and the beach and just all of that stuff, and they are totally worth it For that you wake up and you feel glamorous, no matter what I love them. I honestly didn't think that I would love them as much as I did. I was like I'll get them for that and then I'll be fine like I'm. Not gon na continue to do them, but I have continued to do them because I do think they're worth it and I just love them like it makes getting ready. So much more convenient I don't have to spend hours on my lashes I'll, also insert a picture of my lashes before when I was just doing like a crazy amount of mascara and then lashes and now, of course, with my lash extension so I'll insert both of Those pictures here that is the cost of them and I will say I've went another place in Roanoke and it was like a more well-known salon and they were charging me like $ 100 for a two week fill. I can't do that. You know so IV. The girl I see now she doesn't, if you're watching this shout out, because she does an amazing job. They are they last longer. They look more full and voluminous. How I like them and they're cheaper and she's quicker. So, honestly, she checks all of my boxes, and that is who I will continue to go see which brings me to the next question classic or volume. So you can either get classic lashes, which are just gon na, be very natural. Looking lashes or you can do volume, which is what I do, and that is what Ivy specializes in so I'll try to get close right now, so you can see my skin is doing some wild things guys. So do not judge. But here are my lashes. The way that they look today, this is just after I think I got them done last week, so they haven't been done for very long and I'm obsessed with them. I just love them so much like. I said I totally think they're worth it, and these are the volume she could do them thicker. If you wanted, I just you know. I'Ve been going to her for a while we've kind of figured out what I like. What looks good on me and what doesn't someone else asked if I do all one length or staggering lengths? I personally like staggering lengths and then another question doesn't hurt your real lashes or doesn't make your real lashes fall out? You really have to go to a person who knows what they're doing if you go to your friend, who just randomly got certified and lashes, and you don't know really if she knows what she's doing but she's gon na do it for free awesome, then you could Run into an experience where it does mess up your real lashes, like I said, I've went to two people in Roanoke where I live and both of them have said. My lashes still look great my real lashes, so that's all I can. I haven't seen my real lashes because, like I said, I've been getting them done consistently. I haven't not had them, but I have not noticed any pain with it. No more lashes falling out than normal and based on what they tell me. My lashes are still very healthy. You have to take care of them. You can't just sit here and rub your eyes and you know put a bunch of mascara on them and then rub it off. If you do that, of course, it's gon na damage, your lash extensions and your real lashes, but I be sure to be very careful. I brush them every day. I do not rub my eyes and I don't put mascara on them and if you do put mascara on them, which I do if it's like a three to four week, fill at that point, like literally on the very very tips just do one flick and you're Good, you don't need a lot of that at all. So as long as you take care of them and as long as you go to someone who knows what they're doing you should not have any issues with it, damaging your real lashes and then another person asked if they were high maintenance, which I really don't think So at all, I don't even do anything different. All I do is brush them every day and that's usually when I'm doing my makeup and if I don't put makeup on that day, I just do it at night quickly. Next up and the categories is my hair extensions, and I'm not gon na - spend a whole lot of time on this, because I do have an entire video dedicated to my hair extensions. It'S an old video, but I will link it down below because all of our stuff is still pretty accurate. So first I guess I will start with the different brands and styles and kinds of extensions. You can get what the heck I there's so much with hair. Now, like so many things you can do with your hair, so I will quickly run through all of the different options and talk about my personal experience. So, of course you have your clip in extensions. That is the most traditional thing that people use, because it's easy. You can pick them in take them out. Whatever you want to do. Next is tape and extensions, which is what I have, and those are a little more permanent. You cannot really take them out yourself. I mean I wouldn't recommend it. Third, you have the little halo, hair extensions now that we're seeing that are just like a band that you stick around haven't tried that and then there are like micro or nano beaded, hair extensions that are a little more natural-looking and those are probably more expensive and Take a lot more time, whatever takes more time, takes more money. Those are kind of the extensions that I of course know about. So I've only tried clip-in, hair extensions and tape and hair extensions. As for clip in extensions, I wore clip in extensions for probably a good year of high school, and then I tried them again right before I got my tape ends as far as the clip ends I were in high school. I literally just went to Sally Beauty, Supply and got. I think they were like the Remy brand, just like remy hair and those were pretty good. I mean they lasted for a good year. I put them in and out every single day I washed them like. I should, and they lasted me for a good year and I actually still have those they're, probably at my parents, house somewhere but yeah. They lasted pretty good I'll, maybe answer a couple pictures of me wearing them. I wore them for prom, and things like that. I went every day in high school because I was that that just wanted hair extensions in high school, but, like I said I research, I took care of them and they lasted a year. The next set of clippings that I got was from Bellamy, which well Bellamy, has some good quality hair. I really love their hair extensions. If you have the money, I would definitely recommend getting Bellamy hair extension. There are so many coupon codes out there online. I don't have one because I'm not sponsored, but I know so many other people here on YouTube do have coupon codes and you can probably find them online. So I don't know, I think, that's probably the best. In my opinion, I've also heard of a lot of other companies that I really can't speak of because I haven't tried them, but for me the best quality was Bellamy, and that is the most well known most reputable company, so I definitely recommend looking into theirs. They have so many color options as well. As far as my tape and extensions, the brand of my hair is Donna Bella, and that is just who my salon uses. I go to a girl that I went to high school with she does them. Her name is Megan shoutout to Megan um. She does a great job. I went to her for years now, so that's just what brand of hair that they use, and I mean it has been fine like I mean I've, worn them for over a year now, and this is what I'll have on my wedding day and um. I really like the hair, I think it's great, it's very natural, like tape, pens are so much more natural-looking, then clip ends in my opinion, and you don't have to worry about putting them in and out every day. The maintenance is the exact same. That'S your normal hair. You wash your hair, just like you would normally would I mean you have to scrub a little more intensely just to get in between the Westons are the tapes and everything but um. I don't find it to be difficult at all other than that. There'S really no maintenance. You just have to put oil on them every day, which you should be doing with your own hair anyways on the ends at least, and then I braid my hair every night and sleep in it that way just to protect it, so it doesn't get so tingly Of course, every six to eight weeks you have to go in and get them moved up and every year or so you'll have to buy new hair. So that brings us to what is the cost of hair extensions, and this is definitely the most costly thing that I've done. It depends on how much hair you get. I wanted really long, full thick hair, so I got five packs of 22 inch. Extensions is what I have in right now and I believe it was like 400 ish dollars and then, of course, every six to eight weeks. When you do go and you have them moved up, you will have to pay for your stylist to do that and, of course, whatever coloring that you want done as so. That just honestly varies between stylist, I'm, not even gon na sit here and try to tell you what that would cost. It'S just going to be setting up a consultation with someone in your area and seeing what they do charge for that and, of course, what brand of hair they use could greatly impact that price of the hair that I told you like I said I live in A smaller town and that is actually pretty cheap compared to what I was originally looking at online. So when I was seeing online, it cost a thousand dollars for hair extensions. Then the link that I wanted and then I go in to my salon - and she says: oh it's like four hundred dollars for the hair to me I was like okay, that's really not bad, so it's just a comparison thing and I think that's why I ended Up going with it, plus I just wanted, my hair was so damaged, guys, like my real hair, so damaged so having these in. I don't put heat on my real hair as much I just let my real hair be, and so it actually helps my real hair grow quite a bit, and I wanted long hair for my wedding and for all of these, like wedding events coming up. So I pretty much got them for that and then after my honeymoon I do plan on taking them all out and cutting my hair, pretty short and just starting over with my real hair. So we will see, but honestly, I'm gon na tell you guys once you get clip and extending it tape in extensions, you will never want to go back to your real hair cuz afterwards, your real hair, it just feels so much thinner. It'S not that your hair is thinning out. It'S just that you were used to having this extra pound of hair in your head, and now you don't so it's gon na be hard to adjust back to your real hair. That'S the dealio with hair extensions. Guys is now moving on to other random questions about makeup Beauty. Things like that, so we will start with the makeup questions first and the first one I will talk about is my go-to foundation. Someone asked my go-to foundation - and I have a few here to show you - these have been my go-to foundations as of recently, if you watch my videos, you know I'm a foundation mixer. I almost always mix two foundations together, and these are the three that I have been loving lately. If I had to pick, that's been my go-to for over a year two years now it would definitely be the Urban Decay all nighter. A lot of people don't like this, according to the Sephora reviews, but I love it and I have combination skin. It'S a waterproof, long, wear liquid foundation, this stuff stays on me like no other, and then the two I've been using more recently, honestly, just because they are in lighter shades, and I do not have a tan right now are these two, and this is the Yvonne. She Tiant Coppola ever wear. I have no idea. I said that right, but as long as you say it with an axe and right, then it sounds okay. But apparently this is a 24 hour. Wear satin finish full coverage and comfort, and I would agree with all of those things I do think it's full coverage. I do think it stays on for quite some time and I do think it is a satin finish. It'S I have these to mix on today and um. The Givenchy I just feel like gives it a little bit of a more natural looking finish, because it is that satin finish and I mixed it with the huda beauty um. What is this? The fill filter, high coverage cream foundation again, as you can see, I'm a full coverage gal, and these are my three favorite full coverage foundations. As of right now, another lady asked she said that she was 44 and that she's looking for her go through foundation. That is a medium coverage, but that's not going to settle into fine lines and wrinkles and honestly, there are a lot of foundations that I can stay here and recommend, but I do think a primer is really gon na help with this situation and anything for me That helps to smooth out your skin is going to be like a silicone based primer. So this is one of my favorites. This is the Urban Decay self adjusting complexion primer, but also - and this also helps with redness a lot guys. I really love this suffer redness or shine control. I feel like it fills in those gaps of the fine lines and the wrinkles and the texture that I've been having like anything like that. So I think a primer is gon na, be good for something like that and really key in making sure your foundation doesn't just sink right into those places. Another good one would be the benefit poreless or pore professional, or something like that. Whatever it is, I will have down below at the port professional professional. I can't speak, but that one is always a fan. Favorite, it's a classic primer and it is still one of my favorites because I again it just it sinks into those fine lines for you and it helps your foundation just glide on really smoothly as far as a foundation. That will be good for that. Unfortunately, the two that come to my mind are very expensive and I haven't played around with enough drugstore foundations to be able to recommend a drugstore one. That would be good for this situation, but the two that come to mind are the Giorgio Armani foundations, the luminous silk foundation. I'Ve heard is amazing, for that. I haven't played around with it enough to really sit here and give you a five-star review for it, but the one that I have used a lot went through a whole bottle of it is the Giorgio Armani power fabric foundation. It'S like a medium coverage foundation, but it just glides on the skin so smoothly. It is amazing. So if you have a Sephora near you, I just recommend going and getting a couple of samples of both of those foundations, because I think they might be worth it for something like that. But that's the only thing that I could think of when it comes to that someone else asks the best lip product to wear on their wedding day and ask them right now. I think I am going to be wearing the Kylie lip kit in bare on my wedding day, and I just got the lip kit came with the bare lip liner and then the bare velvet lip her stuff just stays on my lips for so long. So long and I've honestly not found anything that stays as long as these products and to me they don't dry out my lips. I feel like her very first formula did but the newer ones that I've gotten really have not done that to me at all. So that is really the only thing that I would recommend as far as, if you want something that's gon na be on there all day. Another question was the best drugstore makeup brands and if you guys want, I can do a video all about my drugstore favorites, but I did pull a few items to share with you guys today, I'm gon na run through them. Quick, quick, quick, I shadow makeup. Geek is going to be the best quality eyeshadow that you can find sort about a drugstore. It'S only at Target right now, whoa guys makeup, geek shadows aren't the best other than that I haven't played around recently with a lot of eyeshadow from the drugstore, but Maybelline L'Oreal are always my go-to Physicians Formula always has good stuff, NYX, always good stuff. Speaking of Physicians Formula, my favorite products from them are the butter products. You guys have to try them they're, so good Physicians Formula is amazing. They'Re butter bronzer is to die, for I have it on today and then the butter highlighters are another amazing product. I don't have on these today, but this one did crack on me, but I still use it but they're so soft that I really wasn't even disappointed when I cracked, I was just like it's just so soft that it's honestly gon na do that. You know just like the Becca highlighters. They are so soft that they kind of crack easily, but I still get use out of it, and these are amazing, this one's in Champagne and then this one is in pearl a L'Oreal product. I love is the paradise enchanted, scented blush and the shave charming, and I've talked about this so much on my channel. It is amazing, it's honestly one of my favorite blushes of all time, not even just from the drugstore but like of all time. It is so good so definitely check that out. Another L'Oreal product, I love is my telescopic mascara, especially if you're into the lash extensions. This is perfect for your bottom lashes. Lastly, so many lip products can be found at the drugstore guys, like so many good lip products. I love these Maybelline lipsticks and this one is in touch of spice so good. These are both like very fall colors, but they have neutrals as well, and then this one's in divine wine really good, lipsticks and beautiful pigmentation. Another lipstick from L'Oreal is this one, this one's an all-out pout and I use this guy so freakin much and then my favorite lip gloss is by far from the drugstore. Are these Maybelline elixir lip glosses? I'Ve had these for quite some time now, but they are amazing if they're so smooth, not sticky, very pigmented, beautiful and then a couple of other quick questions. Someone asked a skincare routine for dry skin. This is something I should pretty much just film a video on, because my skin has transformed into more of the dry side, which I never thought would happen. I love the fresh hydration mask sleeping mask that is the drunk elephant. Waist risers are a must if you have really dry skin. I know it's a splurge, but guys it is worth it. I have the poly protein II peptide whatever, but my mom has dry skin and she uses the whipped one. It'S like the whipped moisturizer, which I think I might transition to next, since my skin is being so difficult and dry, but both of those moisturizers. You cannot go wrong if you have extra dry skin, get the whipped one if you have more oily skin, get the other one. But those are some things that I love to do also just not over exfoliating, which is something that I've really had an issue with, because I my skin was just doing so much crazy stuff and I was like exfoliate exfoliate exfoliate and now I think my skin Is like whoa, the last question was about my nails and someone just asked jus. I prefer acrylic SNS or gel. I have gotten SNS or dip powder for years now. Actually my college friend Kenzi shouta, if you're watching Kinsey introduced me to dip powder years ago, and it was so funny cuz, no one had heard of it then and she's like yeah. You have to do it and then it came to our little college town and everyone did it and then it now is everywhere. So I've always gotten dip powder, and this is what my nails look like. I asked for the coffin shape when I go. That was another question that I got quite a bit and ever whenever I post my nail photos - and I just picked the colors - that they have there, every salon has different colors. I tried to take a picture of them, so if you guys asked, I can tell you but yeah, I ASNs, I definitely recommend SNS. It is the most healthy way to wear fake ish looking nails. So most of these are my real nails. They'Ve just grown out over time, and they put this like dip powder that hardens and looks like acrylic nails, but it's not so yeah definitely recommend SNS, but that is everything guys. This was probably a long video because I had so much to cover - and I have so many thoughts and so many details that I want to include. But I really hope that this video was helpful for you guys if it was give it a thumbs up and let me know it down below what you learned or what you're excited about trying out whether it's makeup related hair, lash, extensions micro bleeding. Are you gon na go that far? I don't know but um anyways. I love to talk to you guys in the comments down below so definitely leave me a comment and, of course subscribe down below. 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