Busy is a mindset. Busy is not an end goal. Being more stressed than your co-workers doesn't make you a better employee. It doesn't make you happier. Taking time to organize your life, take care of yourself and see the forest for the trees lets you keep that vacation feeling all year long.
Far too often, especially those of us who are moms, downplay our own importance. Our own good looks. We take pictures of our husbands or partners and our kids and don't insist on having them turn the camera on us. We hide behind our kids ashamed of our mom bodies and imperfect, probably dirty (thanks kid), clothes. We deserve to be in the picture. We deserve to take the time we need to feel great about ourselves. We deserve to strut our stuff.
This is a cosmetics ad from 1938. That's the last time any significant regulation passed and almost 80 years later we still find ourselves with only 30 chemicals restricted from use in personal care and cosmetics. Here's an article that... Continue Reading →
I never really thought of myself as beautiful. I still don't spend that much time thinking about it, but am slowly starting to believe that while Ford Models is unlikely to sign me, I have a a beauty all my... Continue Reading →
We all use makeup for different reasons. Hopefully those reasons are internal- it makes you feel good to highlight your best features or it makes you feel pulled together and ready to face the day. Sadly, often the reasons we... Continue Reading →
Makeup and your teeth? Have I gone nuts? No... stick with me. The lipstick color you choose can change how people perceive the color of your teeth. Now, if your teeth are a mess to start, just changing your lipstick... Continue Reading →
So today was one of those days. My daughter woke up around 4 hacking and sniffling and generally miserable. Awesome. Not. We had things to do and places to be, so after heading downstairs so Dad could at least sleep... Continue Reading →
A lot has been said on this blog about products and tricks about beauty. There is something to be said about improving the products you use on the outside because they end up in the inside, but there's also something... Continue Reading →
If eyes are the windows to the soul, eyebrows are the trim. Growing up, I always had bushy eyebrows and didn't know what to do about it. It was also the 90s, when pencil thing eyebrows were what the popular... Continue Reading →
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