We’ve already turned you on to the exploits of YouTube star GlowPinkStah and her makeup tutorials. Now get ready for 10 other beautifying YouTube vids. First up, an at-home eye moisturizer trick (that costs next to nothing) from a Ford model with zero eye-baggage. (Uh, she’s a model after all.) Click on for more beauty video genius.
Imagine this: You’re at a bar one night and meet a cute foreign guy. You have a nice conversation, and decide to go for a walk by the river. You get caught up in the heat of the moment, and end up back at your place where you do the horizontal polka with this mysterious man. When you wake up in the morning, finally sober enough to ask questions like “What’s your name?” and “Where are you from?” he’s gone. Only he’s left behind a little memento of your night together—in other words, you’re pregnant.
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It used to be that only Google’s YouTube users who “regularly produce videos that reach a wide audience” were able to make money from ad revenue sales on their videos. But now, Google is explanding its partnership program so those with one-hit wonders can cash in, too. If a video gets enough views, users automatically get a message saying, “Enable Revenue Sharing.” If you see this link, click on it to get a share of the revenue YouTube makes from selling ads on your video page. We hope this will be very good news for the couple who made “JK Wedding Entrance Dance,” which got over 10 million views but never made them a dime. And for the owner of that darn bulldog on a skateboard. [News AU]
Meet YouTube star GlowPinkStah (whose real name is Gloria). The success of genuine video makeup lessons like those made by Michelle Phan has spawned a whole category of spoofs, but Gloria’s video makeup tutorials beat them all. And by “makeup tutorials” we mean she puts crazy-ass stuff all over her face, and manages to be hilarious and educational at the same time. In the video above, she guides us through the Japanese “Ganguro” look, starting with a dark foundation. “You want to make sure it gets all over your face so you don’t look stupid,” she says. Then comes huge white panda eyes and white lipstick. “I understand why they use the white ... it gives you a sense of purity, like I feel like I’ve never had a penis stuck up my va-jay before.”
Where has this genius been all our lives? After the jump check out some other looks by GlowPinkStah including instructions for how to do “whore” and “emo goth” looks. Be sure to check out Gloria’s channel to get the lowdown (possibly the craziest video she has there) on the “chola” look. Seriously, don’t miss that one. [GlowPinkStah on YouTube]
We thought they’d last “Forever” after a viral video of a bride and groom dancing down the aisle hit YouTube. But, alas, a new video has surfaced with the couple in divorce court. Well, not really, but a production company wanted to continue the fun and choreographed a divorce parody version of the wedding original. Check it out.
I never saw “The Exorcist,” but it cannot be any more disturbing than this real life video of what’s being called a “gay exorcism” performed on a 16-year-old boy in a Connecticut church. The kid looks like he’s having a seizure while being whipped around as a man shouts for his “homosexuality” to come out. (Double meaning probably not intended.) At one point, the boy pukes all over the people circled around him. Not sure why the church filmed this abuse, but the original 20-minute video has since been taken down from the church’s YouTube account. So here is just a glimpse of the shocking footage.
Sometimes you know a friend of yours is gay, but it’s hard to put into words. While Ryan from the “Real World: Brooklyn” tried to help Chet come out by strumming him a song, that awkwardly hilarious ditty didn’t work because Mormon Chet thinks being a metrosexual isn’t a “sin.” Sigh. Luckily, YouTube sensation Nuglah has stated the obvi in an even better techno track! It’s definitely a hot beat to dance out of the closet to. [World of Wonder]
What if Katie Holmes posted homemade videos about her life on YouTube and gave the world a look inside one of the more mysterious marriages in Hollywood? That’s what the chick behind Don’tCallMeJoey has in mind when she films herself impersonating the former Dawson’s Creek star and wife of Tom Cruise—her resemblance to the actress is uncanny, as are her vocal inflections, and the result is hilarious. Check out the clip of “Katie” drunk, above, as well as others on her YouTube page.
Um, have you all seen this video? It’s taken from a DVD called Christian The Lion: At World’s End, about a lion cub raised by two men and then reintroduced into the wild, and if it does not make you cry, you are probably dead inside. I’m currently sitting in a puddle of my own tears.
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The Los Angeles Times featured a week long dialogue this week about modern feminism between Katha Pollitt and Amanda Marcotte, who are 20 years apart in age. Very interesting read. [LA Times]
Daily Bedpost discusses LiLo and the L.U.G. phenomenon. [Daily Bedpost]
Boinkology unearths an awesomely archaic educational guide to becoming a woman. [Boinkology]
Awesome! An abstinence teen magazine to read when we’re wearing our abstinence sweatpants! [Feministing]
People brand their videos as fake porn to get them viewed on YouTube. [Shine]
CNN has a fascinating and heartbreaking story of a girl who posted a video on YouTube alleging that she was raped. In the video, a 16-year old girl cries, “Hi, my name is Crystal ... I need some help. I didn’t want to do it this way, but it’s the only way I know that’s going to work, that someone out there in the world is gonna listen to me.” It seems Crystal, who did go the police about her sexual assault, decided to bring her story to YouTube after her case was dropped by her State Attorney’s office.
GodTube is so awesome. A sin-free alternative to YouTube, GodTube has all sorts of Christian videos, including ones that teach sinners lessons. Like this guy, who gets busted watching dirty, disgusting porn by Jesus Christ himself! Isn’t it kind of blasphemous to suggest that Jesus has a mullet? Pretty sure he’d like to be thought of as more stylish than that. [GodTube]
And you thought the Paul McCartney/Heather Mills divorce was ugly! British actress and playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith is in the middle of a very heated divorce from her husband, Phil Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway. Not only is she spilling her guts in court, but she’s doing so on YouTube. Above is the video Walsh-Smith filmed from the apartment she says her ex-husband is kicking her out of, in which she reveals a litany of complaints against him, and at one point gets on speaker phone and calls Smith’s assistant to ask what she should do with her estranged husband’s Viagra and porn collection. It is a hot friggin’ awesome MESS.
Beth & Val are two women who host their own Q&A show on YouTube. It is terrifically funny, especially in this clip, where they discuss what they would do if they had a penis for a day—which just happens to be exactly what we would do, i.e. pee, diddle ourselves, and put it on top of things. Also, I would probably do that thing where you make it flail around. But that’s just me. [YouTube]
New York’s new Governor Patterson, the replacement for hooker-lovin’ Eliot Spitzer, has just admitted to cheating on his wife for years. What is going on with our male politicians? They may make (and break) the laws, but it seems like the ladies have got more clout over Capitol Hill than any lobby!
Say hello to Hulu, a new website which archives movies and television, proving the best things in life are free. From Working Girl to The Girls Next Door, you can watch old and new classics over this fancy thingamajig called the Internet. Hulu is like the YouTube of quality programming with clean-as-a-whistle copies of episodes from hot shows like Lipstick Jungle and Chelsea Lately to vintage picks like The Facts of Life. No more hunting through foggy, pirated footage, now you can finally find hilarious clips from shows like In Living Color—like this hilarious clip about the PMS Defense System. [Hulu via Battellemedia]
YouTube video contests can yield some, um, interesting results (like this dance video, set to ‘N Sync’s “Tearing Up My Heart”, which was submitted to a Swiffer contest). So, when I came across the winning video for 1-800-Flowers’ Greatest Love Stories contest, I skeptically pressed play. Rapper TraPhik’s winning entry is pretty awesome. He rhymes about how he falls in love with a girl who comes into CPK (California Pizza Kitchen) to apply for a job. He brings her a Shirley Temple (that delicious drink made of ginger ale and grenadine syrup) and a bag of cookies, and after a few phone calls to Cupid, they end up making out in the back room at work. [YouTube and TraPhik on MySpace]
Politics aside, I think Barack and Michelle Obama are the cutest couple on the campaign trail (though John and Elizabeth Edwards were pretty sweet too)—here’s a video clip of Michelle describing how and why she fell for the Presidential candidate. It’s nice to see that even in the middle of a tough campaign, with all that mud-slinging and sleepless hours on the road, a couple like them still seems so in love. [You Tube]
Brenda Dickson was a soap star who played villainess Jill Abbott on The Young and the Restless from the 70’s through the 80’s. On screen, she stole the heart of a rich married man and then slept with her stepson, but she’s put more daytime drama into her Welcome to My Home video where she’s just “playing herself.” In the short video, the former Miss California, who is credited as writer, director, and exec producer, said she was motivated to make the piece by her fans who have written her and asked, “How do you look better today than you did 11 and a half years ago?” And girlfriend looks craaaaaazy good for 1987! Her closet is covered in beading, she has a jumbo portrait of herself over her sofa, an entire rack of red high heel boots, and every outfit shows off her cleavage. The queen B is an inspiration…for drag impersonators, Beyonce, hookers, and gals like us. Sure, when Ms. Dickson describes her accessories as “diamonds”, she means rhinestones, but there are some real gems! Our favorite is when she says, “Leather is always great, I wear a lot of it.” And how! Just see for yourself… [You Tube]