My 100th Blog Post!

My 100th Blog Post!

Woo! It feels like I just started this blog yesterday and here I am at my 100th post. I am a very diligent person by nature and I take my daily tasks seriously, but this blog is the furthest thing from a chore. I love how I have been able to learn and grow from every post and reading old posts to see how the blog has transformed over these months has been so exciting. I can see that as my posts progress I get more comfortable with the blogging format and let myself insert more of my own personality in each and every entry.

I hope that one day I will be doing this type of thing as a job! My ultimate goal in life is to be a beauty editor at a magazine so writing about beauty/makeup/products is absolutely something that I want to do outside of blogging in my future.

I'll try to keep developing this blog into something that I continue to love writing and hopefully people love reading!

Here's to 100 more...

Weekend Away Update (As Promised)

Weekend Away Update (As Promised):

I said in my Weekend Away post that I would let you guys know how the packing went and if I forgot any beauty essentials this time around so here's the deal. Makeup was actually a success! I had everything I needed and really didn't wear that much anyway. Hair care was another issue, however. I didn't bring any styling creams or leave-in conditioners so i was not a fan of my hair texture. Also I just brought my mini travel brush and no round brush so blow drying my hair was an experience. Definitely not how I would normally want to be equipped to deal with frizz!

I also mentioned that we drove all night getting there so I was pretty tired and my sleep schedule got a bit skewed so after 6+ hours of driving back (yikes!) I went to bed around 9:45 that night and didn't get up until my alarm went off at 8:30 the next day! Much needed sleep! I woke up with a sore throat that morning and have has a stuffy nose ever since :( Hopefully it goes away soon!

Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Cream Cleanser

Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Cream Cleanser:

This name is a mouthful! I have always been a Neutrogena face wash girl (as you know if you've read my morning/evening skin care routine posts) and I have used the pink grapefruit scrub for about a year now. I use it when I need to get my exfoliation on so I thought I would give the cream version a try. I love the smell. There is nothing better to wake you up in the morning or perk up a groggy shower session. However, the 2% salicylic acid content is a little high for my skin type and this tends to make my skin fairly dry. I actually have that literal squeaky clean feel after using it which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do need to pack on the moisturizer after using it. I think I will save this for the hottest summer months when I am sweaty, oily, and generally feeling super gross.

Frizz-Ease Smooth Start Hydrating Shampoo

Frizz-Ease Smooth Start Hydrating Shampoo:

So I have already raved about the conditioner version of this product and I knew I had to try out the shampoo. Personally, I have been using it with the conditioner so I can't really tell if the shampoo is doing much, but I like it anyway just because I am so hooked on the conditioner. Why not use both, right?

Maybe I should throw a controlled variable into this experiment and use them separately for a week and let you know how that goes. More on this later...

Herbal Essences Tousle Me Softly Mousse

Herbal Essences Tousle Me Softly Mousse:

This drugstore buy seriously works. Period. It works better than my 50 dollar curling creams, better than my department store products, better than anything really. My hair straight out of the shower with nothing done to it can look like a boring wavy mess, but with this mousse my hair actually has fabulous curls that stay through classes, errands, and a trip to the gym. It smells good, it is easy to apply to my wet, freshly combed hair and it lasts a very long time. I love it when great products come with a cheap price tag, don't you?

The Body Shop Coconut Body Butter

The Body Shop Coconut Body Butter:

When I was out shopping with my mom the other day we just had to stop outside of the Body Shop because they had samples of their body butters and our hands were just parched. I had not stepped foot inside a Body Shop store since about the sixth grade, but I am not sure exactly why. I went through a crazy Body Shop phase where I had every product that they sold, but then I just ran out of steam. I remember using their Mango Body Butter all through middle school. It smelled so good and was so moisturizing. I figured I would try a little blast from the past and get a tub of the Coconut scent. It smells and feels just as good as I remember. Plus right now they are having a body butter sale where all butters are buy one get one half off so my mom got the lemon scented tub. I love how it reminds me of when I was younger and is still such a great product.

Makeup on the Cheap

Makeup on the Cheap:

Ever get your products/beauty buys wholesale? I'm always tempted, but I've never actually tried it. If I did I think I would go for a legitimate site like http://allcosmeticswholesale.com/ or try a blog sale from a YouTube beauty guru that I would trust. Gurus that often have some pretty nice sales are Allthatglitters21, juicystar07, and lollipop26. Check out the blogs of any gurus that you like to watch to see if they are having sales. Make sure it's someone that you trust to sell only completely new or unopened products.

Beware of EBay! I've heard so many stories of very well-informed beauty lovers that have been duped through EBay and the only thing you can do is give the person a bad review- no returns on scams! People sell everything from fake MAC brushes to non-cosmetic quality pigments so be extra careful of what you buy and who you buy it from. This is not to say that you can't find great deals on EBay. There are definitely honest sellers out there, but you just have to watch out for those nasty scams.

Do you buy makeup on the cheap?