ITAtube - DAY 2

Here we are with the new ITAtube blog post, second and last (I think!)

If you haven't, go and check my previous one where I speak about the first day of the italian Youtube convention and then come back here to read this :)

HOLLYWOOD AFTERPARTY

This didn't actually happened on day 2, well... It was past midnight, so we can consider it as if it was Sunday ahah 

First of all, I don't want to be boring or polemic, but I have to say a couple of things: the most important one is that this club was really disappointing for the music and the location. 

I arrived really early with my friend Debora and Denise, because the party was supposed to start at 11pm as written on the flyer. There were no youtubers there at that time, only young boys and girls (I think they were 17 more or less) and I felt the oldest one in the entire club. Expect for the staff, who was nice and funny and we spent the night chatting with them. At about 1.30pm Harrison, Mazzi and Sam arrived with other guests, they went straight to the private area and stayed there.
Now, don't judge me, but me and my friends managed to get into this area at a certain point. The shocking thing wasn't this. It actually was that I personally had to convince the bodyguard to let Joe Sugg come in the privè. I don't know what happened, I think they left him behind when they were walkin in the club, and he was so lost. It was hilarious btw ahah

I have to say he's such a sweet and nice guy, I talked to him for a bit offering something to drink and he was so so nice with me. The youtubers left the party after half an hour I think: they were super bored and the afterparty was a complete fail. But I had fun anyway :)

HOW TO BECOME A YOUTUBER

On Sunday I went to a conference about how to start Youtube with HarrisonWebb, MazziMaz and HMATT, two italian youtubers. It was really good: a nice chat, good questions from the people and they gave us good tips and advices. One of the main topics that I found really interesting was when we talked about how much Youtube is changing through the years. But it's a little too long to explain now, so maybe I'll leave it for a future blog post. 

YOUTUBE BOYBAND

I have to say, honestly, that Saturday was way much bettere for me than Sunday. I spent the afternoon waiting to get on stage for the Youtube Boyband again and didn't have the chance to do nothing more really. The boys were nice as always and they "quite" remembered us because of the t-shirts. Quick pics, really quick cause we stayed too much on the stage talking to them ahah

So, my experience was almost over! So sad and tired, but really really happy! 

I took a picture with Tyler in the background, that's all I have for now ahah :)

When I went out, I met two italian Youtubers, LaSbii and CherylPandemonium. Two lovely girls, so sweet and nice like everyone else at the convention! 

At the end, I was so satisfied and proud of myself for what I did. And thankful to the girls who organized ITAtube. It was perfect!

YOUTUBE CHANNELS

ZOELLA

TANYA BURR

SPRINKLEOFGLITTER (LOUISE)

TYLER OAKLEY
TROYE SIVAN 

JOE SUGG

CASPAR LEE

MARCUS BUTLER

POINTLESSBLOG (ALFIE) 

JIM CHAPMAN 

HARRISON WEBB

MAZZIMAZ

SAM PEPPER

CHERYLPANDEMONIUM 

LASBII

Love G.

xx

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ITAtube - DAY 1

I arrived in Milano on Friday, a day before ITAtube, the first italian YouTube convention. 

The weather was so nice, it was really hot and it felt like summer to me! 

Thankfully I slept in my friend's flat, so the trip wasn't to expensive for my almost empty pockets. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about my first day in Milano, because I spent the afternoon shopping and eating ice cream as usual ahah

I was so nervous on Saturday morning when I woke up, you can't even imagine! I've never been to other conventions like this, so I didn't know what to expect. 

We bought the gold tickets for both days, it was about 50 Euros I think, more or less! 

ITAtube was at Alcatraz, a club in Milano also known for small gigs. It was quite huge for me, there were supposed to be 2000 people on each day. 

Infact, when we entered, it was already really crowded and we arrived in front of the stage just in time to see the lovely Tyler Oakley saying hello to the fans. 

Most of the day consisted in queueing for the meet&greets with all the youtubers so I'm going to describe everything I remember in order!

YOUTUBE BOYBAND

It was a huge impact for me seeing all five boys together and meeting them at the same time. I'm quite a nervous and anxious person, so when I walked on stage I was shacking without even noticing. Anyway, they are so tall (except Joe ahah) and I was quite surprised because they hugged every single one of us. In Italy we are used to kiss on the chicks people we meet for the first time, but english people aren't.
My friend and I managed to give the boys the presents (the t-shirts I painted for them), quick photo and then we got "kick" away. Really fast, meet&greets were too much short.

TYLER OAKLEY

You can see in my latest blog post that I painted a t-shirt also for Tyler. I actually didn't get the chance to take a picture with him because the queue was insane. But as I was walking down the stage, I saw this lovely boy staring all by himself. He had just finished his meet&greets so I call him and he turned around with a big question mark on his face. I run towards him, gave him my present and hugged him really quickly before running away. It was hilarious, and my friend Debora also kissed him on the ear ahah

ZOELLA, TANYA & LOUISE

Afternoon, with almost nothing in my stomach, I finally got to the stage again to meet these adorable girls. They are so gorgeous and nice, the sweetest people ever!
I spoke to Zoe, telling her about her tshirts with her lovely guinea pigs painted on it and she seemed really really happy and she kept smiling and thanking me, so sweet. My friend gave the other present to Tanya, you can see her tshirts in my blog too! Louise is such a sweet girl, everyone was so nice with us. We finally took a picture and a video because the girl couldn't push the right button to take it :)

HARRISONWEBB, MAZZIMAZ & SAM PEPPER

After all these meets I wanted to calm down a little bit, so I went to see these three british guys on the "main stage". I didn't know them really well before ITAtube, so I have to thanks this convention because they are so funny and entertaining, I couldn't stop myself from laughing! Awesome show! Loved them! And if you don't know them, check out their channels, you should really subscribe :)

BRITISH BOYBAND CHALLENGE

I was in first row, with a lot of pain but I was there ready to see the 5 british boys again. I couldn't believe it when they opened the door and I saw a red tshirts on Joe Sugg. I just can't describe what I felt at that point, I was so overwhelmed...

They came out, on stage, in front of 2000 people, with my tshirts on! 

My first thought was "OMG they fits" ahah
I was so worried about the sizes, but they were gorgeous with them on! 

Me and Debora kept calling them out loud, to get noticed somehow, and finally (I really don't remember who) understood what we were saying about the tshirts!
And then Zoella and Louise, who were sat on the floor behind the door watching the guys, noticed us and thanked us again! Trust me, I couldn't be happier in that moment.

Actually I can say it was one of the best moments in my life, I was so proud and overwhelmed. Can't wait to see the vlogs on their channel to see if they actually filmed when they opened the presents! :)

First day was over, actually not yet but I'm going to tell you about the afterparty in the next blog. This one is becoming way too long ahah

If anyone who came to ITAtube took some pics or videos of the youtube boyband on stage, please, PLEASE, send me everything! I would love to see those images again! 

Oh, I was forgetting to say that I uploaded a small vlog about ITAtube and if you want to watch it, I will love you forever (and maybe subscribe to my channel?) 

Love G.

xx

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TYLER OAKLEY T-Shirt!

As you guys now, I went to ITAtube last week and painted some t-shirts for my favourite youtubers. Tyler Oakley is one of them, if you don't know him... well, what the hell is wrong with you? He is the most awesome, lovely, amazing and sweet guy on the entire planet!
Check him out on his YouTube channel and you will fall in love in just one second, trust me :)
I wanted to represent him with his typical glasses and most important with his adorable floral crown! He is so charming that he managed to give one to each member of One Direction and interview them with this spring girly look! Lovely. 

"Forever me" is the main topic in his latest video "I had a vision of love" and i found it so powerful and true that i wanted to write it on the t-shirt. 

So that's it! Funny fact is that I don't really know if Tyler saw it. We literally run towards him when we were supposed to go down the stage, and we hug him really quickly saying "this is a present for you!" And then we ran away ahahah

So many people are asking me about my tshirts right now, I'm so overwhelmed! I want to thank every single one of you so so much! You are all lovely!
I want to say that I'm planning to actually print them at the moment, and then sell the t-shirts online as soon as possible! So stay tuned!

Love G.

xx

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YOUTUBE BOYBAND T-Shirts

This is my latest project: YouTube BoyBand T-shirts! Last week I went to Milan for ITAtube, the first ever italian conference about the YouTube world and I thought it would be nice to give the guys we were meeting some presents.
If you don't know who they are, check out their channels!

From the left: PointlessBlog (Alfie), Jim Chapman, TatcherJoe (Joe Sugg), Marcus Butler and Caspar Lee. I have to say I would never expect them to actually wear it, but it happened on the main stage of the convention during their BoyBand Challenge. I was so happy and shocked, I probably screamed a little bit too much :)

As usual, this t-shirts are handmade printed. I keep telling you this because so many people don't believe it and think they are printed, but they aren't!
It's all made by my little hands! 

I hope the guys will see this post one day, there were too many people at the meets with them and I completely understand it's impossible to remember every single face.
But anyway, I'm so happy they wore and enjoy them! 

At the moment I'm editing my blog post about the whole experience, it might take a while... Hopefully this week I'm also starting my YouTube channel too :)

Keep your eyes open! 

Love G.

xx

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ZOELLA & TANYA BURR inspired T-Shirts

Hello everyone! In the last week I was busy painting these new T-shirts and finally today I was able to take a couple of pictures to show you my work!

If you don't know, I'm a massive YouTube addicted and next week I'm going to ITAtube, first ever Italian YouTube Convention, so excited! My friend and I came up with this cute idea to give to our fave youtubers some handmade T-shirts inspired by them, so these were the ones for Zoella and Tanya. If you don't know who they are, I'll leave you some links down below to check them out because they are amazing!

Zoella, or Zoe Sugg, paint was inspired by her pets, two lovely guinea pigs that you can see in some of her vlogs and videos on her channel. Their names are Pippin and Percy and they are the cutest animals ever! I added some dots in the frame and in the top there's this large ribbon which I think looked nice. 

Tanya T-shirt is similar, but I wanted to draw some make up inside the frame. Tanya is a make up blogger/vlogger/youtuber and she recently started her own makeup collection, so I thought it would be nice to paint this cute products and obviously the girly ribbon on the top. 

Hope you like my new paintings! Leave me a comment down below and contact me on the links I'll leave at the end of this post! 

Zoella: zoella.co.uk

             youtube.com/zoella

Tanya: tanyaburr.co.uk

             youtube.com/tanyaburr

Love G.

xx

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"DARK HORSE" summer trend 2014

"Dark Horse" is the brand new Katy Perry video and if you didn't watch it yet, you are out of this world! (I'll leave the YouTube link down below to enjoy this amazing song)
It's a powerful and strong track accompanied by a cool and colored video.
I always like to get a closer look to the fashion part: clothes, accessories, vibe of the entire outfits. And in this particular one, I really enjoyed the choices made by the fashion stylists. 
So I decided to share with you my thoughts about this incoming trend that will rule this summer season! Last year when I graduated in my Fashion studies, I designed a spring/summer 2014 collection and looking back to that book I recognized some similarities between my draws and "Dark Horse" video. 
I put all together and here it is the result, I hope someone will find inspiration for new summer outfits! :)




PALETTE 
The most important thing about this trend that I'm going to call "Dark Horse" is definitely color! Bright and powerful to wear next to darker ones.

-hot pink: this tone is the brightest one, it can be hot pink or coral pink if you prefer a less strong color. So you can go for the pinky side or for the almost orange one! My suggestion is if you have pale skin even in the summer, go for the hot pink. If you are tanned, the coral pink goes better with your skin. But you can try both and let me know which one works the best for you :)

-blue sky: go outside, look up and observe the sky's shade, a bright light-blue perfect for everyone. It works with every type of skin and hair color, even if you have red hair! You can choose a pale tone or a brighter one, it depends on how brave you are! 

-gold yellow: last but not least, this color is an evergreen. You can use gold in massive necklaces and jewelry or wear it with gold clothes. It's a strong color, so beware to don't put to much of it in your outfit! I think it looks better on tanned skins, on pale ones try to brighten up your look with small pieces of gold. 

-dark grey: this is not a summer color, but in this particular trend I'm going to use it to make a contrast. This is the key word for "Dark Horse" as you can see in Katy Perry's video. I didn't say black, because I think it's too strong. Dark grey is a perfect tone for darken a bit the look without being too boring. 

SHAPES
I want to focus on some cool pieces that you already can find in shops atm. 

-long skirts: they are so comfortable and wearable, really easy to use. I prefer the high waisted ones. If you are brave enough or if it's hot, you can choose some transparent fabrics or cutted shapes longer on the back and shorter on the front to show the legs. 

-high waist: you can find this items really everywhere right now. Last year was really hard for me to find high waisted shorts in Italy, I bought them in London. But last week I saw them in shops, so don't worry! I think this particular shade works really well on short girls (like me): your legs will look longer than they actually are and your waist will look thinner! 

-crop tops: I love this tops in every size! The only advice I want to give you is to remember to balance the volumes. If your skirt is long and large, go for a crop tight top. If you are wearing hot pants or skinny jeans (always high waisted!) try a large crop top! 

-round neck: this is for tops. I find the round neck really cool and on trend right now. I also like when it's a little bit high on the neck, actually! Let me know in the comments if you like it too!

INSPIRATION
Last but not least, I want to talk about a few more things! 

-egyptian decorations: "Dark Horse" trend is all about mosaic applications and gold accessories that bright up your look. Don't be afraid to try new stuff: heavy necklaces and earring, gold massive rings and bracelets. I suggest you to buy some cool egyptian inspired ones, as Katy Perry in her video! 

-discovery: this is the key word that inspired me while drawing these figures. "Dark Horse" is about Egypt, but why don't research for other ancient civilizations? I also like a Maya inspiration, I find it really interesting. 





I finally ended this massive post! My last advice is to search for strange and ancient fashion styles and adapt them to your personal style. And don't be afraid to try new things!
I hope you enjoy this post and I hope someone will find new inspirations on their summer looks! Feel free to comment down below and telle me what you think!
As soon as I can I'll do a post with some summer outfits inspired by this trend!
Here's the "Dark Horse" video by the amazing Katy Perry :)

Love G.

xx

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THE NEW FOKKA: first gig and t-shirts

On sunday night I went to see a couple of friends playing in a local bar, "The New Fokka". It was their first ever gig, but it was really impressive. They asked me to design and paint their t-shirts, so I came up with this idea of a draw that reminded the old-vintage circus posters. 
Very proud of the result!
I think their Facebook page will be available soon to check out, so keep your eyes open!
Meanwhile, this t-shirts are available to buy! All you need to do is contact me on twitter/facebook down below, or by mail here: ginineko@gmail.com
Also, thanks to Angelica Lazzaro for the pictures!
Feel free to comment and share this blog to who you want :) 

I leave you with this amazing song by Mumford and Sons, Little Lion Man,  which the band played on their gig, enjoy!

Love G.

xx

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