May 10, 2021

A Love List for Monday

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Good Morning!

I hope you had a beautiful weekend. My sister and I spent the entire weekend treating my mom like the queen she is! After not seeing her for so long due to the pandemic it was nice being altogether again!

Today’s love list is all about the simple things to love on an early Monday morning!

I Love Stupid O’Clock Wake Up Calls
People call me insane for waking up so early but I’m up at 4:45am to start my day every weekday. I am not a morning person. I am an utter zombie in the morning. If I could I’d sleep all day and stay up all night I would do just that. But there are benefits to dragging my butt out of bed at stupid o’clock. For one thing I like getting all my blog posts done early in the morning. Another thing I love about early morning wake up calls is not having to rush. I can get my workout in, do my morning tasks, and take a long hot shower without rushing around like a chicken without a head! So, yeah, waking up early in the morning makes my love list even as a non-morning person.

Smartly Summertime Shaving Foam
Just a buck (well, a buck nineteen) and oh so awesome. I’m obsessed with the happy, citrus scent of anything in the Summertime range from Smartly! The shaving cream is thick, rich, and a great budget pick for shaving legs.

Makeup Revolution Conceal & Hydrate Foundation
I feel like I’ve spent so much of life changing and switching up foundations but I’ve finally settled on the fact that I really love Makeup Revolution Conceal & Hydrate Foundation. It’s light, it’s creamy, it brightens my complexion, it’s perfect and I realized I can just stick with it and have great coverage everyday versus always trying something new.

Exercise
I seriously groaned and moaned and whine all the way to the basement this morning to hop on the treadmill. It’s raining out so I couldn’t do my normal two mile power walk outside. The combination of too much weekend, rain, and wanting to sleep a little while longer made it hard to hop on the treadmill this morning but I did it and I’m happy I did because I felt so much better for it not to mention it woke me up (especially the steep uphill at the end)! Sometimes we gotta do things we don’t want to but really should because we know they’ll make us feel great.

Brown Cow Maple Yogurt
I’m not a breakfast person but this morning I wanted to have something in my tummy before heading to a meeting (Yeah, a real live meeting! I posted about the scariness of that on Instagram if you wanna have a read). Brown Cow makes the best yogurt in the world. So creamy!

My Boyfriend
For pumping me up today and reminding me he can’t always be there for me to hide behind! I was really worried about having my first in person meeting in over a year today but he was there to hold me this morning and tell me it’ll be fine and I’ll do great and I’m not going to die simply by meeting someone in person! When it’s time for him to head back to campus I’m not really sure how I’m going to handle it. As some of you know he works in Cupertino and travels back and fourth but this past year and a half he’s been working from home. It’s a novelty having him home!

I hope whatever you have to do today you do it with a brave face and plenty of confidence.

I know you got this and so do I.

I have hopes you’ll have a great, productive Monday.

Be well, be a good human, wear your sunscreen, and drink plenty of water (your skin will thank you for it)!

And if you have time go ahead and share your Monday love list.

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May 9, 2021

Never In My Life Have I Been Excited About the Ulta Gorgeous Hair Event

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Ulta Sale

Ulta’s Gorgeous Hair Event starts today at ulta.com bringing with it a few week’s worth of steals and deals on haircare and honestly, I’ve never really been excited about it before. Fact of the matter is when I’m at work I like my hair out of my eyes, out of my face, and I also, like to look professional. I have wavy, long crazy hair and wearing it down and loose isn’t an option for me. So, up in a bun, slicked back, headband of some sort on and I’m good to go. At home or out and about I leave it loose and flowing.

However, during the pandemic I started hoarding away all sorts of hair care! I also started experimenting so much more with different looks. Braids, pigtails, space buns, French braids, crown braids, there was so much happening with my hair. I cut it a few months ago because it was well past my butt and donated it but it’s back to being crazy hair again 🙂

So, now I’m kinda like oooo Ulta has hair stuff on sale I need some!

Today the Gorgeous Hair Event kicks off with these deals:
50% Off IGK Good Behavior Select Products
Pattern Leave-In-Conditioner $12.50
Revlon One-Step Paddle Dryer in Black $19.99
Coco & Eve Like A Virgin Super Nourishing Coconut & Fig Hair Masque $20

Enjoy!

Where to buy

Ulta

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May 8, 2021

What’s Your Makeup Look of Choice?

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Smoky eyes, nude and natural, bold lips, what’s your makeup look of choice? Lately less is more due to the pandemic and mask mandates. It’s a little hard to be creative with your makeup when you’re wearing a mask but remember when we could wear makeup? 🙂

Do you have a preferred look or style you like to do and do often? Maybe you love a certain eye look like a cut crease or a smoky eye or maybe you like a more natural eye paired with a bolder lip!

I prefer a doll look. Glass skin, flushed cheeks (typically achieved with good cheek stain), and long lashes. Getting a doll look is probably one of the easiest makeup techniques in the world. There’s absolutely nothing to it. I use a gripping primer because it gives me that glass-like finish, a little tinted moisturizer on my face, concealer under my eyes, for my cheeks it’s either The Body Shop Lip & Cheek Stain or Little Bits Liquid Bloom of Roses, curl my lashes, layer Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes with It Cosmetics Superhero Mascara, and done!

What’s your makeup look of choice?

Would love to hear about your routine!

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May 7, 2021

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Good morning beautiful people….!

Well, by the time this posts it’ll afternoon! It’s 5AM and the sun is just starting to creep into my office window. I’m hoping for some lovely weekend weather for the mamas out there! Happy early Mother’s Day! You do the most and we all appreciate you! What would we do without you? I get to see my mother this weekend and how odd that’s a novel thing…! I’m very close to my parents but the past year and a half with the pandemic it was Facetime only! I hope you get to see your mom this weekend too!

I do know many of you are dealing with the heartbreak of losing your mom recently or even many years ago please know I deeply feel for you and I’m sending you good vibes to sooth your soul. Remember her with fondness, not sadness. Mother’s are the most unselfish humans in the world and I know yours wouldn’t want to see you sad and sobbing. Try to remember all the beautiful times with her and let those memories put a smile on your face.

I’m not a mom, unless you count my dog, but I want you to know I appreciate mother’s so very much. I think you play one of the most important roles in life. Without you things simply wouldn’t work.

Shout out to my bestest friend, Sam. Sam, Happy Mother’s Day! You not only mother your own daughter but you mother me LOL! You’ve talked me out of so many dumb purchases, made me feel so much better when the pandemic was making me anxious AF, always the voice of reason when I think I’m dying from a small cut, ALWAYS going out of your way to send me packages, and made me laugh many times over the last year I don’t know how I’ll ever thank you. I can’t express much I relate to you. Have the best Mother’s Day ever! You deserve it.

Have a very special day Sunday!

You deserved to be treated like the royalty you are.

Happy Mama’s Day!

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