BACK TO SCHOOL - BEAUTY

Books [CHECK!] Clothes [CHECK!] Cool gadgets to set you apart from everyone else [CHECK!]. So you’ve got everything you need for Back to School but don’t forget to update your beauty routine to head back  with a fresh face. Here are my top picks for heading back to school smelling awesome with glowing skin and gorgeous hair.

     1.      Biore Blemish Fighting Ice Cleanser, $6 (walmart.com)

     2.      The Healthy Deodorant in Vanilla Lemon, $14 (dermstore.com)

     3.      Tie Dye Boho Wrap, $9 (ulta.com)

     4.      Wet Brush Squirt, $7 (amazon.com)

     5.      INNI Customizable Nail Wraps, $10 (inni.com)

     6.      Remington S5500 Anti-Static Digital Ceramic 1” Flat Iron, $15 (walmart.com)

     7.      CHI 44 Iron Guard & Stay Firm Hold, $16 (ulta.com)

     8.      Shea Moisture Lipstick Crayon, $11 (target.com)

     9.      Maybelline Baby Lips Crystal Lip Balm, $4 (cvs.com)

    10. Layrite Original Pomade, $15 (layrite.com)

    11. GlaMER Natural Lip Scrub, $10 (etsy.com)

    12. sugar 6pc Stackable Makeup Wand, $12 (kohls.com)

    13. Bodycology enchanted forest, $8 (target.com)

And there is one product you definitely want to incorporate into your back to school beauty routine and that’s the Covergirl Ready Set Gorgeous Foundation. To see the look I achieved with this foundation click here. 

Here’s to a successful & flawless school year!

WEEKLY BEAUTY CRUSH: FALL FACE

 

The Scoop

This week’s Weekly Beauty Crush is not simply for one crush-worthy product; it’s for all of these products that helped me achieve a great new face look for the upcoming Fall season. I always like to switch my foundation routine in the fall and spring and since Fall is quickly approaching I thought now would be the perfect time. Plus, when I walked into the pharmacy today I have no idea what came over me – I just had to have the new Cover Girl foundations and Maybelline Baby Lips lippies. 

So as soon as I came home I cracked opened the goodies and started playing around…

The Look

First of all, let’s just disregard this bad hair day I’m having (more like bad hair week but hey…)

 

The Products

     1.      Mally Beauty Shimmer, Shape, & Glow, $40 (ulta.com)

     2.      sugar Gleam Highlighting Glow, $14 (kohls.com)

     3.      Maybelline Volum’ Express The Rocket Mascara, $6 (target.com)

     4.      Miracle Skin Transformer Treat & Conceal- in light, $36 (ulta.com)

     5.      Cover Girl Ready Set Gorgeous Foundation, $8 (ulta.com)

     6.      Maybelline Baby Lips Crystal Lip Balm, $4 (cvs.com)

     7.      Physicians Formula Bronze Booster  Glow-Boosting Shimmer Bronzer, $14 (Walgreens.com)

     8.      The Body Shop Liquid Eyeliner, $8 (thebodyshop-usa.com)

What new products are you excited to try this Fall?

Therapy

Therapy…

…sometimes you just need a little. Call it a quarter-life crisis if you want. Call it a “give me a sign I’m doing the right thing” from powers greater than one’s self if you will. But at some point we all let go of the wheel and allow our life to unfold uninterrupted by our own control issues. Let’s say I’m in that place. 

Now, this current state I would say was forced upon me. Those close to me know that last year I worked my little booty off to move back to NYC and start over. Well, it wasn’t long before I had to come to terms with the fact that NYC may not be for me anymore. On January 10^th while walking home (in Jersey City) from work (in NYC) I slipped on ice and broke my ankle on both sides (MOTHER FU&*%R)! 

[My ankle, present day; swollen and scarred.]

So that dream job I JUST landed disappeared and city living quickly lost its shiny sparkling luster. A recovery that started out estimated at three months is now pushing on month five and will probably go into at least month six. I still have to get a second surgery for crying out loud and I still have a lot of pain when I walk (with a limp might I add).

So, what to do you when you’re driving along in life and someone throws a brick at your windshield? You buy stationary!!!

[Planner $3, Notebook $4, Notecards, $1 ea, Pencils $4 (Target)]

…and beauty products (of course)!

I suppose for me I always take things like this happening as a sign to focus on things I’m really passionate about. Perhaps that “dream” job I worked so desperately to get wasn’t really MY dream at all? 

So now I have the opportunity to put my time and energy into things that I am passionate about such as blogging and growing my children’s online website (Lonon-Rock.com).

 I hope that you guys are still rocking with me even though I’ve been on a hiatus while I’ve been trying to recover from this injury. Moving forward I definitely want to incorporate more mommy focused posts on the site since being a mother is such a huge part of my life now. Check out my handsome little first born…. 

[London James, Age 2]