The Beauty Diet- how to stop buying so much makeup The other day I came across this quote and I found it very interesting: “He who buys what he does not need, steals from himself“. Pretty melodramatic start for a post about makeup, isn’t it? As I mentioned before (numerous times, I’m sure) one of my goals for this year, is to surround myself with less….. stuff. Why? Well… because my beauty collection was getting out of control. I’m not just talking…
“Idiot! What is wrong with you?!” That was the first thing that I heard myself say when I missed a turn. I was going home after running some errands. Since I was in an unfamiliar area, I turned my GPS on. GPS that hasn’t been updated since I bought my car. The rain was pouring down hard, it was right around school-traffic time and I could barely see where I was going (not that it mattered since I didn’t actually know where I…
As slow as this month has been, it was also a little special for me as I finally shared a very honest post about my life-long struggle with acne. It was something I wanted to share with you guys for a while now, just haven’t had the time to actually sit down and put my feelings into words. I felt like it’s been such a huge part of my life, but something I rarely talked about. At the time of…
It’s no secret that I have a slight obsession with candles. I always have one burning and love switching them up, depending on my mood. This, of course, has turned me into a bit of a paranoiac. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, only to get up and check that I’ve put out all the candles. But hey, better safe than sorry, right? I love reusing my candle cars for things like storing some beauty bits,…
Ever have one of those days when nothing in particular goes “wrong” but you feel a bit… off? I had one of those days today. I was at work, trying desperately to catch up on a few deadlines and everything kept going wrong. I found it so difficult to focus and ended up redoing half of my work about three times. At one point I had to step away from my desk, take a few deep breaths and try again.…