Feeds to Follow: @duyguozaslan

As a Turkish American, I am always fascinated to see what trends both countries are on top of, and what people our age are looking to in terms of style. Prominent Youtube vlogger Duygu Ozaslan is known in Turkey for her profoundly bougie tastes, makeup videos, and almost religious adherence to any mainstream trend. Check out her style below and a few of her videos (all in Turkish, but hey, good makeup techniques are universal).

One thing I do wish is that there were more Duygu-level popular Turkish insta baddies who were more accessible to the Turkish public as a whole: with the Turkish economy in relative freefall and goods harder and harder to attainably get ahold of, I can understand why Duygu’s feed can be aspirational, and maddeningly so, but until that void is filled, Duygu has the hold on this authority.

Check out her content below:

MAC çekiminin kamera arkası kanalımda yayında, linki bioda! Benim için çok anlamlı bir video oldu, izlerseniz çok mutlu olurum🕊

51.7k Likes, 196 Comments - Duygu Özaslan (@duyguozaslan) on Instagram: "MAC çekiminin kamera arkası kanalımda yayında, linki bioda! Benim için çok anlamlı bir video oldu,..."

T G I F 💥 Bir haftada neler giydim vlogum kanalımda yayında! Hepsi uygun fiyatlı ve size özel bir indirim kodum da var!

62.2k Likes, 194 Comments - Duygu Özaslan (@duyguozaslan) on Instagram: "T G I F 💥 Bir haftada neler giydim vlogum kanalımda yayında! Hepsi uygun fiyatlı ve size özel bir..."

Bir önceki uygun fiyatlı ürünlerle makyaj yaptığım videoda uzun zamandır kullandığım ürünler olduğunu ve de yeni şeyler görmek istediğinizi söylediniz. Ben de sizin önerdiğiniz listedeki uygun fiyatlı ürünleri aldım ve bu videoda denedim. Her zamanki gibi bilgi kutucuğunun devamında kullandığım ürünleri bulabilirsiniz.👇 Benzer şekilde bu videonun altına görmek istediğiniz pahalı ürünleri yazarsanız onlarla da bir video yapabiliriz.

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Worth a Watch: Lucy McRae

Describing herself as "sci-fi artist, director, and self proclaimed body architect" on her website, Lucy McRae is actively bridging the gap between fashion and advancing science -  fusing futuristic technologies with the feminine figure. Her videos range from creative short films to innovative music videos to advertisements for the beauty world. She focuses on the feminine form enhanced and modified by science, with motifs and allusions to the very relevant topics of body image, food, and beauty. 

The following are some of my favorite productions of hers - definitely worth a watch!

"Make Your Maker" - Short Film: 

MAKE YOUR MAKER Short Film from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

Centering on the inseparable relationship between the body and food, Lucy highlights this fundamental entwinement through a scientific lab setting featuring a woman "using her own body as a test bed, fusing gender and blending ego like a chef constitutes food." She artistically harps on the all too relevant societal obsession with food, calorie restriction, and the "ideal" body, "taking on the domain of genetic manipulation and human cloning, delivering a world where clones are edible; their sensory effects absorbed through the body."

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Reptile Youth "My Yoko Ono" - Music Video: 

REPTILE YOUTH 'MY YOKO ONO' Music Video from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

In by far the best music video I have ever seen, Lucy continues to blend the controversiality of scientific meddling with human genetics with art, exercising "the concept that we are all operated by a higher order, becoming 'Puppets of technology'." Full of artistic camera angles and collage-esque compositions, the allusions to gene selection and human modification critique the extent to which science and technology have increasingly entered into the field of beauty. 

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Morphē - Short Film for Aesop: 

Morphē Short Film for Aēsop from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

Epitomizing the luxurious and scientific based skin and hair care brand, Aesop, McRae's video advertises "a new kind of super-sensory beauty treatment," set in a futuristic spa-laboratory-hybrid. Through artistic close-ups and captured breath-like movements, the film channels the feminine form and pampering of the hair and skin. 

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These are just three of my favorites from her, but all of her content is definitely worth a click and an afternoon spent oohing and awing. 

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Videos to Watch: October 2016

If you've been reading the exact same sentence in your Adam Smith for the past twenty minutes, it is probably a good time to take a break. Put down your book, plug in your headphones and check out our favorite videos on Internet right now. We will be sharing the funniest, coolest, weirdest videos we find online with you every month in our new series: Videos to Watch. 

Enjoy!

1. Eric André and Hannibal Buress Hijack Each Other's Tinder Accounts | Vanity Fair

After watching this, you'll definitely want to give it a try with your friends' Tinder accounts (and maybe have them sabotage your love life as well)!

2. Amy Schumer and Anna Wintour Swap Lives | Vogue

If you still haven't watched this video, do it now. Rare moments of Anna Wintour smiling and making jokes is not your run-of-the-mill YouTube clip. Better yet, Amy imbues the video with her honest, cringe worthy sense of humor that we've all come to know and love. 

3. Victoria Beckham: In the Bag | Episode 4 | British Vogue

Perfect wife, perfect mom, perfect career, perfect life... Need we say more? 

4. Vlog 1 is this really my first vlog? | Negin Mirsalehi

One of our favorite, most influential bloggers just started a vlog channel. Her videos track the various aspects of her hectic, blogger life and are guaranteed to give you serious FOMO. 

5. Freedom! | '90 x Vogue

Adriana Lima, Joan Smalls, Taylor Hill and more models of the moment share the latest looks from the Spring 2017 runways–all to the soundtrack of our favorite disco, dance-pop recording artist, George Michael!

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