OMG

Because I've gone all Amish as I have no tv in my new pad I must rely on Yahoo's OMG for my daily dirt of boring Hollywood gossip. I find it almost sad that I could totally see myself wearing this same ensemble that Marc Anthony is wearing! Right down to the cutest stinkin sandals evah!! Love ya Jenny not from my block but you're forgetting a little something. Maybe it was all a ploy on Marc's part as he says to Jenny hey lets go grab ice cream and she just simply forgot her bottoms! I guess food can have that affect on one!

Seriously tho....I'm loving his not her sandals!

P.S. I'm not against receiving late birthday gifts of matching sandals in a size 6!! I mean gosh I did turn the big 3-0 this year!!!

Frugal Beauty

As I'm about to devulge my most frugal beauty secrets you're probably gonna think I'm a bit nutso! I'm the kind of person that will try just about anything once. So when someone told me to use baking soda as a facial scrub....I did! And I've used it ever since! Just pour a little bit into the palm of your hand add some water and gently scrub your face and neck all over. Get under your nose and above your lips and all over that face of yours. Rinse off and pat dry. I've even read about this being compared to microdermabrasion and we all know thats a bit pricey and time consuming compared to a few minutes and a box of Arm & Hammer. My girlfriend that told me about this noticed a difference in my skin a few weeks later and was all 'see I told ya so!' My skin and wallet have been thanking her ever since!













I tried the whole Vaseline over problem areas on my skin and it worked for awhile but like most everything else I've tried this too stopped working so well for me. I do continue to use it on my lips from time to time. I like to put something on my lips before bed so they don't dry out. I was told to apply Vaseline to dry spots and blemishes before makeup and bed so you can try this method also and see if it you have any luck.

















Prepare yourself for this trick....I hope you're sitting down and don't die of laughter reading this but I swear by it! I use Extra Virgin Olive Oil on my face. Yes, I have a bit of a mini kitchen going on in my bathroom cabinet but I'm telling ya it works for me! Here's the link I read that actually suckered me into trying this. I have combination, oily, dry, acne prone, in other words pathetic skin. I've never used the suggested sunflower oil but I have mixed my olive oil with castor oil when my acne wants to flare up and it nips it in the bud so to speak. If I was any good at taking care of my skin I would do this faithfully every single day because when I do my skin truely behaves. Another perk with the oil is that I find I don't even need to mess with eye makeup remover most days because it removes that for me too! Again, frugality at its best! A way to save a bit of time and water is to go to the kitchen and wet your washcloth and then pop it in the microwave to get it all 'spa steamy' before applying to your face. I do this a few times and then wipe any remaining eye makeup off when I'm done.

So on a typical day I never use any soap on my face. I either cleanse with oil or use baking soda as my scrub but I always apply a little bit of olive oil all over my face, even on my eyelids because they tend to dry out, as a moisturizer before applying makeup and before bed. I rub this in really good and give it time to really soak in. My skin tends to feel dry without it and my little lines that come with age are less visible keeping me looking like I'm in my early 20's! Thank you olives!! The olive oil is great on your lips too as it makes them super shiney and sooo soft.

I've tried so many products out there but these simple things from our kitchens have worked like no others. You have to give them time though. Its not an over night thing however the scrub I noticed right away especially under my eyes. As for the olive oil, it has sooo many other uses as its packed full of vitamins. Look it up if you have time, you'll be amazed! I like that they are natural ingredients cause I feel so 'green' using them and I'm saving a ton of money that can be spent on other little luxuries like Bare Escentuals Dolly lip gloss! This color looks good on any skin type and has that lip plumpin' cooling tingly feel so we can all look a bit Hollywood!

I've been working on easier, healthier, safer alternatives to the harsh chemicals we so easily use day in and day out. Some safer alternatives we already have and just need to look at in different ways. Crazy as some may seem...you may be surprised at what they can do for you too.

Career Change?

I've been told its cute, funky, stylish, wild and full of sass! I like to change it up all the time and keep it a bit different. I'm always game for something new and enjoy tinkering around with it. It grows entirely too fast and has its days. But its part of me and I suppose I do as well! I'm not perfect so I don't expect it to be either as its more of a reflection of my inside funky, creative, sassy self as to what it is in the mirror. I like it a bit messy and fuss free cause I'd rather not spend too much time on it...although some may disagree on this!

Its my hair! I've had so many compliments its crazy! Literally! I haven't done anything too drastic to it but all week I've been hounded by women all over about it. People I've never seen or spoken to are coming up and complimenting it. Kinda blows one away cause its the same hairs on my head as always. They just got a fresh coat of spring color last Saturday and maybe that alone just puts everyone in their chipper chatty ways! Either way it can make one feel good. And also put the pressure on one to make sure its at its sassyness everyday!

This is it! Nothing too exciting! I simply run the trusty Chi through it to smooth it out and bend the ends a bit to girl it up cause I'm not into spikey hair on myself as I feel it makes one (or maybe just me) look kinda butch-ish if ya know what I'm sayin'!














-I did say I don't like to spend too much time on it right! Pic was taken before work so don't expect too much!

I keep the back super short (so misleading from the front! Ha!) so I really just have to mess with the top and front of my hair.

I should totally give up my day(night) job and become a hair model eh! Ha!

Shazam

I've been a 'Shazamin'! Ok so you're probably thinkin' what the heck is that crazy girl a doin' now? Well, if you knew me in person you would easily know that I love my IPhone dearly. Who doesn't just feel completley nek-ed without their cell phone? I mean don't we all sleep with our phones tucked under our pillows now a days? And take them everywhere we go? And go crazy if we're out and don't have much of a charge left on our phone? I mean shoot, Sarah Jessica Parker may be calling to invite me out for lunch and shopping and then my phone dies mid conversation! Then she thinks I'm blowing her off and never calls me back again! The stress involving our cell phones! Arg!

Anyway, I'm really lovin' all my 'Shazamin' lately. Shazam is a free app. on IPhones that I highly reccomend to anyone with such a handy dandy device! Wait, did you catch that its FREE! Probably one of my favorite apps. on my phone. Me and Felisha love to Shazam tunes in the car all the time. Its so easy to use too. You just tap the Shazam button on your phone and then tap Tag Now and viola! You have yourself the song name, artist and tons of other info at your fingertips in seconds. It also stores all your Tags so you scroll back through them when you're no longer on the freeway and you can even share your tags with others! I'm really quite amazed with its abilities because it can still read the song while me and Felisha are belting out the tunes in the car. We jam big time! Its alway been accurate, to my knowledge, and can even pick up the tunes in the grocery store cause we all wanna know where they get that elevator music from I know!

I think for all of you non IPhone users, bless your hearts, you can possibly get this app on your phone as well. I'll have to try with Felisha's and let you know. Shes asleep with her phone tucked under her pillow at the moment! I asked her earlier if I could mess with hers and she's like ah, I have your phone for that! It may take awhile cause I just can't figure her phone out as the IPhone is all I know.

Update: After messing around with Felisha's phone and having no success I realize that we must move to the UK in order for her to have such service. I'll get right on that ya know! Seriously, that feature only works there apparently, by dialing 2580 and holding the phone up to the music. I really must plan a trip to see if this works! Otherwise it's just us IPhone and Blackberry users!

So Shazam it Baby!

Get Scented

Beings as though I have a slight addiction to Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works smell goods and of course my new found love of Ed Hardy I suppose you could consider it my personal addiction or just that I strongly believe in good personal hygiene. Lets not discuss the fact that I have 5 different types of deodorant in my bathroom. Seriously, a girl can't be stinkin'! Since I can really only smell what I decide to douse myself in on any given day temporally, like for a whopping 20 minutes, I don't feel the need to spend a ton on smelling great. I do however spend a lot of time sniffing and scouting good smellies. Hey lets face it, its time well spent at the mall!

So what are my all time favorites?

From Victoria's Secret I love, love, love Blossoming Romance the most.

From Bath and Body Works....I could say everything but I think I like the Sea Island Cotton the most because of its fresh cleanliness like scent...

My latest love crazy smell good ever...Ed Hardy's Love and Luck!!! WOW! Now I do spend some buckage on that bad boy...but hes totally worth it! I mean just the lotion alone you can smell on yourself like perfume hours later! I love this scent and its one I can actually smell on myself.













I like simple, clean, fresh, light and floral scents.

My daughter being the one with obsessive disorders (OCD), who now refers to herself as Twilight Diva, loves her Harajuka Love perfume. Harajuka has to have the cutest line of fragrances out there for girly girls. And they all smell so good I'd wear them too but I buy them for her and have enough of my own collection going on.













See the bottle shes holding? Yes thats the perfume! And the jacket, Harajuka cuteness! They are so right when they say its a fatal attraction to cuteness!


P.S. As I type this post my 2 year old is wearing his coat carrying a Target bag of I don't know what, putting sandals on my feet and begging me to take him somewhere in the car. Braden you smell fine! Geez!