Life Experience: Meeting the Saccone Jolys!

           As some of you know, my boyfriend and I recently ran into Anna, Jonathan and Emilia Saccone Joly in Ireland! I knew there was a chance we'd run into them, as we were staying in the same town that they live in, but I really didn't think it was going to happen! Then while I was in line at Costa Coffee, (which I had only heard of from their vlogs) they came walking in!

In case you don't know who the Saccone Jolys are, they're an Irish couple that record their day to day lives and post them daily on YouTube in about 20 minute segments. I began watching them about 2 years ago now, as I remember it was right after Anna found out she was pregnant with Emilia! They're such a fantastic, fun loving family, and they're both very honest and real about how they live their lives. Anna is absolutely gorgeous and is pretty much what everyone my age aspires to be like! She also has a beauty/fashion/lifestyle channel on YouTube, which is where I got to know their daily vlog channel. Jonathan is the kind of husband and father that everyone wants to have, and Emilia is the sweetest, cutest little one year old ever!

This may sound strange, but I don't think I've ever been so excited to meet anyone! Daily vlogs are so different than reality shows. The people who do them are actually letting you into their daily lives in such a personal way. Unfortunately, this opens them up to a lot of criticism, as people think that this gives them a right to say whatever they want about their lives as well. However, with almost 300,000 subscribers who love them like crazy, those people don't matter in the least.


The Saccone Joly's Daily Vlog Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LeFloofTV/

Anna Saccone Joly's Channel

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdEQyIy-uCVXcjwfq8SbKw

Goodnight! xx

Life Experience: Having My Face Cast

             This was an incredibly strange experience that not everyone gets the chance to have done! While participating in a special effects makeup program at Ryerson University, it was required that we each have a casting done of our own faces in order to create prosthetics for them. Doing this to somebody else is easy enough, but having it done yourself is a completely different story!

Some people who have experienced this think it's no big deal, others think it's one of the scariest things they've ever had to sit through. Coming from someone who is somewhat claustrophobic, I found it was somewhere in the middle. Having said that, it did end with me wanting to rip the mask off of my face. Here's what I had to have done!

A very thick layer of alginate was first applied to my face, which felt okay, even when it went over my mouth. A couple thick pieces of burlap were then applied over top to help support the mask. Alginate is basically what dentist's use to cast your teeth, except this is a slightly different kind. It starts off as a powder, then when mixed with water turns to rubber-like consistency.

Next, was the application of the plaster bandages, which is actually the same thing a doctor would use to cast your arm. I believe we used Ultra-Cal 30, which is gypsum cement. This wasn't all too bad, until it was put over my mouth...and then started to dry.

This waiting period was by far the scariest. I think it was only five minutes, but it felt a lot longer. I really did want to rip the mask off, as I was freaking out underneath and breathing heavily. As you can see, you have very narrow breaking slits for your nostrils, because it's best for the mask if they're as small as possible. 

I literally could not communicate verbally at all at this point, so it was important that we had a pad of paper next to us to give an update on how we were doing. For some reason I was laughing a lot when they were applying the alginate, so it set partly in my mouth!

The end result before I sanded it down! It felt extremely weird holding an exact replica of my own face! Overall, an experience I will never forget, and will probably never do again!

HAVE A GREAT NIGHT! xx