I've struggled with some pretty debilitating mental illness for nearly the past year, and I'm sort of finally picking up out of it. The anxiety was absolutely unbearable and made it pretty much impossible for me to do almost anything, including create things, which was incredibly frustrating and upsetting.

But! I'm making things again. I'll probably be mostly posting extra content with my videos here, as Youtube is really the medium I love most! My goal is three videos a week, and if you're interested in any of that you can go here for song covers and original songs + here for.... literally everything else! (no one even is reading this, are they? ....hi, mom!)(just kidding, my mom doesn't even read this blog.)

Annnyway, this is a makeup tutorial I filmed a couple weeks ago because Autumn makes me happy and so do all of its colors. I hope you're all well and that lady Autumn is treating you so nicely.

Love love love,

Alyssa

The end of a year is always laden with heavy makeup—lots of deep colors and glitter—and something about the idea of moving into a New Year always has me feeling like January is the month of fresh, clean makeup.

AKA: GIVE UR SKIN A BREAK GEEZ

I filmed a video on what has become my "fresh face" go-to in the past year or so. Subtle, simple, and clean.

Also!!! I'm definitely planning on utilizing my YouTube channels more this year, so if you like this, please do subscribe!! :)

I suppose it's sort of symbolic that my last blog post of 2015 and my first of 2016 are both playlists.

Or maybe I just really like making mixes lately.


Now, whether I always followed through is a whole 'nother story...

But, I do kind of love the idea of a fresh start of sorts, and even though that whole "new year, new you," is so trite, this year, I sort of feel it. A changing of tides. Something about 2016 feels infinitely more promising and hopeful than the past few New Year benchmarks have. Maybe that just has more to do with where I'm at in life, currently.

The point is, I'm genuinely excited about things for the first time in a while, and for me, that means making HAPPY SONG MIXES.


CLEAN SLATE — a mix for a new year + fresh starts; cheers to twenty sixteen;

Also, listen.... I know there's, like, an excess of Hilary Duff in here. I'm not even sorry about it.

May twenty sixteen treat us all wonderfully. ♫