I see a lot on tumblr lately regarding the defense of underage participants in a certain community, as well as the underage participants expressing anger that they are not welcome on NSFW blogs. As a NSFW blogger, as well as someone who has come to know various sex laws due to their career, I thought I would clarify some things:

1. It doesn’t matter what the age of consent in your state is. Age of consent refers to the age that you are able to consent to sexual activity only.

2. Even if you are able to consent at age 16 or 17, by law you are still a minor. Pornography cannot be sold or viewed by minors.

3. If you are under 18 and you post explicit photos of yourself, you can be charged with creating and circulating child pornography, as the images contain a minor.

4. It is normal to have interests in sex and kink, regardless of age. There are safe spaces on the internet to seek these out and ask questions regarding your interests. Spaces where you can communicate with other teens, that are well moderated and do not allow adults to freely graze and prey. Scarleteen.com is probably the greatest example.

5. As a minor, showing purposeful disregard for another blogger or a website’s request that no minors be present on the site (and for some explicit material, 21 is the age for legal viewership) puts the owner of that blog and/or website at risk. No one wants to see awesome sex bloggers get shut down or sex friendly spaces on the internet get hit for having underage members. Think about more than just yourselves.

aka “I’m a 22 year old newb and needed to find some resources”. Here’s what I’ve found so far that has really helped me! Lots of these are youtube tutorials; I find it more helpful to see someone doing it rather than just reading about it.

General:

Makeup Starter Kit Guide

How to Apply Makeup for Beginners

18 Makeup Tips for Beginners

Easy Beginners Makeup - Drugstore

Simple Everyday Makeup Tutorial

Makeup for Beginners 101: Intro and Essential Items

Beginners Makeup Bag (with TONS are helpful links in video)

Makeup Mistakes We All Make

10 Beauty Mistakes I Used to Make

Makeup Mistakes Black Women Commonly Make

13 Beauty Hacks

Makeup Trends We’re Ditching in 2015 (hilarious)

Specific:

Eyes:

9 Different Eyeliner Looks

How to Make Your Eyes Look Bigger

Beginner Eye Makeup Tips and Tricks

Easy Ways to Use Liquid Eyeliner

Eye Shape x, x, x

Face:

How to Cover Acne & Scars

How to Apply Foundation

Best Foundations for Women of Color

How to Find Your Undertones

Blush for Face Shapes

Make Your Nose Look Smaller with Contouring

Lips:

How to Wear a Dark Lip/Finding Your Tone

Matte Lip Routine

Brows:

Eyebrow Tutorial

Perfect Eyebrow Tutorial

Tools:

Breakdown of Brushes

Youtube Channels:

TheMakeupChair

Chanel Boateng

Makeup Game On Point

Michelle Phan

Blogs:

Makeuploversunite

makeuptips-blog

makeupartistsofcolour (half makeup, half informational)

Cruelty Free Brands:

Hard Candy

N.Y.C.

e.l.f.

Lush

Wet n Wild

bh cosmetics

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics

Impulse Cosmetics

Urban Decay

illamasqua

Melt Cosmetics

Sugarpill

Colourpop

Kat Von D

Anastasia

NARS

Smashbox

*Important Note: Some of these brands may or may not be sold in other countries that require animal testing by law in order for the products to be sold, but I don’t have the time to research animal testing laws outside the US as well as what brands sell in those countries. So I’m leaving this one up to you. 

Okay, this has been in my drafts for at least 3 months now. Time to roll it out! Keep in mind, these are videos/bloggers that helped me specifically and there may be some videos/links that aren’t as useful to you. That’s okay! I recommend you get lost in the beauty blogger side of youtube at some point, it’s a lot of fun and you never know what you’ll find!

Select your Bra set hon!! 😍

These are actually really fun to make so I made a few of my own. (They’re like spoken sigils! :D)

Protenox: (pro-teh-noks)

PROTECT (english) + NOX (latin: night)

Offers protection and comfort for those who are scared of the dark/night and the monsters hiding under their bed and in their closet

Protection at night, in the dark, and while sleeping

Protects against “dark” things

Works best when holding comfort object (teddy bear, lucky charm, the gun under your pillow, etc) and visualizing a protective bubble around oneself

Beructitatio: (behr-ook-tih-tat-ee-oh)

BERUHIGEN (german: soothe) + ACTIVE (english) + COGITATIO (latin: thought)

To soothe an active mind, to calm your thoughts. Essentially telling your brain to stfu or take a chill pill.

Calm anxiety/stress

Fight off intrusive thoughts

Decrease insomnia caused by an overactive mind

Stop thinking so much about That One Thing

Lunceudor: (loon-kooh-dor)

LUNE (french: moon) + BERCEUSE (french: lullaby) + DORMIR (french: sleep)

Kinda like asking the moon to sing you to sleep.

Fall asleep quicker

Sleep at night

Decrease insomnia

Works best with calming music and visible moonlight or an object nearby associated with the moon

Voikeindillas: (vuah-kyn-dee-yuhz)

VOIR (french: see) + KEIN (german: not any) + ARDILLAS (spanish: squirrels)

See no squirrels, referencing the easily-distracted “Squirrel!” jokes. Especially useful for ADHD-ers.

Improve focus

Decrease distractibility

Hitori Kakurenbo (Hide and Seek Alone)

This is a game from Japanese legends that is used to call something from a different realm.

To play the game you need: (this varies) a doll, rice to fill the doll, scissors and nail-clippers (they are used to cut hair and nails from your body to add to the doll) a needle with red thread, glass of salt water and finally a sharp instrument to stab the doll with.

How to play:

Cut open doll, replace stuffing with rice

Sew back doll with read thread and bind it

Name the doll

Wait till 3AM (make sure you are alone at home)

Fill sink/tub with water then turn off all lights

When ready to start say: “(your name) will be the first it. (your name) will be the first it. (your name) will be the first it.”

Drop the doll in the water and go into another room to count to ten and go back into where the doll is

Pick of the doll and say: “(Dolls name) I found you!” Stab the doll. Then say “Now (doll name) is it! Now (doll name) is it! Now (doll name) is it!”

Hide!!!

The doll will supposedly come looking for you, if you are found, something bad will happen to you. When you are ready to quit playing, fill your mouth with the salt water and spit it onto the doll. Then burn the doll.