I'm a dessert enabler & skincare addict. we'll eat the good stuff & push through the rough stuff
Happy Sunday! Take today to sleep in, be lazy, cook your favorite meal, and indulge. For the week ahead, reserve today for self care and to spread love to those around you.
I took this photo while on a hike at Red Rock with my lil fam bam and the view from the top is incredible. Blog on that adventure coming soon!
Hair can be such a beautiful thing! It can also be an over processed, fried, dried out, stringy situation that you cover up with a hat or better yet, do what I do and when in doubt, BUN. IT. UP!
So here are some things I do to keep my locks feeling and looking healthy, shiny, and bouncy! Vavavoom!
And keeping with the theme of deep treatments, beyond doing weekly night time leave in treatments with the coconut oil, I will alternate that with this deep treatment masque from Shea Moisture. It’s super rich and thick, smells like heaven, with argan oil and shea butter, and after this treatment your hair will look and smell angelic. This is a thicker treatment so you’ll have to wash it out a few times, but it’s my second favorite deep conditioner, my first being the coconut oil.
Soooo if you want healthy hair, you don’t have to do the 80284759 things I do to my hair I promise. I do a lot to my hair because I do a lot to it to have to. But I do suggest a leave in conditioner and maybe a coconut oil mask every week to lock in moisture and repair any damage.
I made a video about all of this a while ago, if you’re more of a watcher than a reader, have a looksie!
I’m doing a video soon about a mask for hair also, a DIY hot oil treatment, oh and that skin care scrub 😉 I haven’t forgotten. Soon my pretties!!!
xoxo
When I heard ‘Vegan’ nail polish I was like ‘oh man, nail polish just went all hipster on us!’ <—- true thought, is this an LA state of mind? But I really loved the colors so I gave it a go and hey, try before you buy right…or is that you break you buy? Whatever the case, this is my review of the Color Secrets Vegan nail polish and their lip gloss…pssst I’ll tell you if things suck when they suck, so here goes my thoughts.
I’m obsessed with these Forever21 combat boots! I love the color, I love the length of them, I love that they are sweetness meets badassness.
For the accessories I chose these Wildfox sunglasses, this blush pink Guess chunky necklace, and then stacked a few of these Dezso cuffs which I just love because they’re so dainty yet have some edge to them.
Finish off this casual chic look with a bold red lip and you’re set! This is perfect for a day out with the girls, a lunch date, or simply to run around town causing a ruckus!
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Sunny springtime wishes to you, and I’ll meet ya back here later for more! Off I go to put some more outfits together, see you on Polyvore!
xoxo
Yes you read that correctly, naturally!!!! So I get asked all the time if my eyelashes are real and yes there are real, butttt, there’s a but. While I naturally have long lashes, they are very fine, and there are things I do to make them more better. No we don’t use proper grammar here.
Well about a month and a half ago for like a good solid 2 weeks, I was just being lazy and not washing my makeup off before bed. Basically just leaving the tar that we call mascara on my lashes for beyond the amount of time you should have tar on your lashes. AND THEY STARTED TO FALL OUT! Ahhhhhhhh! (insert home alone scene here)
Well now they are back, and in full force, I feel like I have Snuffleupagus lashes actually, and the following regime is what I did to get them back, and I did this religiously for a solid month! Seems like a lil over kill, and a shit ton of work but this is the trick! Also, I don’t know about you, but to have your eyelashes fall out is just not a hot look to sport and I hate falsies, so onward we go.
So one, I made it a point to wash my makeup off before bed every night and I used Fresh Soy Cleanser as an eye makeup remover, because it’s uber gentle and the formula in the cleanser conditions your lashes. WIN!
Then I put a drop of DHC’s Olive Oil onto a clean mascara wand and brush it onto my lashes both top and bottom. I like DHC’s oil because it’s much thinner than a regular cooking olive oil (though that would probably work for you also) as it’s super filtered and gets absorbed quickly.
Why yes, that IS me in the photo above! Phhhh I wish! No, really, I have aging skin. Boom, there I said it. I’ll admit it dammit, I’m no spring chicken. I’m raising a sixteen year old, and I have student loan debt, AND the California sun to age me and drain suck the collagen right out of my skin!
Luckily, I do about umteen trillion things to my skin daily and I will share my secrets with you here because lets face it, we are all going to age. We are all going to get old but I’ll be damned if I don’t slow the process as much as I can until I wake up as Freddy Krueger one day!
So the silk peel…. first let me tell ya, I’ve done all the peels. Salicylic acid peels, at home peels, pineapple enzyme, dermadoctor, blah blah, all of them.
Then I saw on Instagram some glowing bomb shell on the popular page with her skin just oozing youth and glow and I was like okay what is she doing to her skin because she looks young – hey if you’re young, you’re like a fetus and have plump beautiful skin!
She was holding up a bottle that looked like coconut water with pulp in it, then proceeded to explain that it was her skin! IN the bottle, after a silk peel. Ewwwww! I mean wow! So naturally I googled it! haha. NO really I did and then I took it a step further and called my nearest dermatology skin center to make an appointment to try this sucker out. Yes, it sounds crazy I know.
Apparently, the skin peel works with microdermabrasion so that it exfoliates your skin and at the same time infuses it with a serum.
The serum stimulates new cell growth guys! Aka collagen, aka plumper younger looking skin, aka omgyes! I didn’t know about any of this until I researched it a bit and then when I went in for my peel I asked a bazillion questions.
I was given the hydrating serum since my skin is like the Sahara desert and refuses to even create oil. The whole facial / peel, took about 30 minutes and it was relaxing and not painful at all. I never get professional facials or skin care treatments done because 1) they’re expensive and 2) I’m afraid it’ll be painful or cause more damage.
But honestly I would do this again, I bought two more peels (you can find steal on Groupon or Living Social otherwise they run about $150 a pop and no thank you for that price!) and I’ll go again in about 3 weeks, maybe this time I’ll add an oxygen treatment or collagen booster because what the hell.
I don’t have horrible skin, but it’s definitely dry, it’s definitely aging, and the peel made my skin softer and made it visibly more hydrated and plump. I had a lil glow going on and the pores on my cheeks were smaller, not that it was even a big deal to me, I just want my raisins for skin cells to become full blown grapes again. Also, according to the sites I’ve been reading, this peel is great for acne, wrinkles, sun spots, and dryness. My goal is to prevent gravity from taking me down so that’s why I did it.
But hell, if someone told me to put manure on my face to keep it young, I’m pretty sure I would. Secretly. And then blog about it.
So this is my face below from earlier today. I had the silk peel done yesterday. No filters in this photo, to my dismay, just the light from my big ass window, and some mascara. Because I’m human and had to do human things today that made me not want to go for a 3rd day without makeup on. But other than that it’s bare, and as you can see I have some discoloration going on but that’s what all this skin care stuff is supposed to fix, so we’ll see what I look like in 12 years. For now I feel glowy and girly and I like that. I did this for me and there should be no other reason you do anything. Tell everyone to suck it if they think you’re getting old.
