Let's take care of our Wonderful Skin

Hey My Beauties. I hope this Friday finds you well. I made on post about FaceBook to talk about skincare. Now most of you know that I work at Lush Cosmetics and a part of my job is giving people consultations about their skin and how to help clear up any concerns that they may have.

Now we all know the skins types : Normal, Oily, Dry , Combination and sensitive.  The issue that I seen arise is sometimes we honestly forget to take change of seasons into account in to how our skin adapts. Remember skins covers 100% of your body and is exposed to the elements more than any other physical parts of you.

What this post is a prelude of what is to come. I will post about what is really great for each skin type and help you figure that weather, your health and food affect how your skin is going to behave.

I do hope you beauties will find the posts informative and helpful as I go through them.

Today : Dry Skin

As we all know, dry skin is very uncomfortable and it feels as if your skin has seen as much moisture as the Sahara desert. It feels tight and you will use about anything to give yourself comfort. 

When looking for a great cleanser, I would suggest looking for something for dry or sensitive skins. I lean more to sensitive skins because you are almost guaranteed that the ingredients will be extremely gentle. Make sure the ingredients to look for have lavender , glycerin and chamomile.

 The reasons for this is Lavender soothes, heals, help to balance sebaceous glands aka your oil producing glands and its antibacterial. Balancing out your oil glands will help wake them up to produce more of what you need to make your skin feel amazing.

Glycerin is a wonderful softener and moisturizer which is what your dry skin needs.

Chamomile helps to heal so your skin will just feel better.

Also , though you may have a wonderful cleanser, I would suggest getting a facial mask as well. 

MASK!!!

There is nothing more comforting or relaxing than getting a facial or giving your self a facial. For Facial Masks, again find those that help dry or sensitive skins. One the great face masks that Lush has is called Oatifix.

Oatifix has oats, bananas and almonds which help moisturize and gently exfoliate your skin. 

PLEASE BE AWARE... just because your skin is dry doesn't mean you do not need to exfoliate. Remember your skin is exposed to elements and every skin needs a good exfoliation. 

Now after you have cleansed, you will need to tone your skin. Toners help balance your skins ph after cleansing so it extremely important to find one that works for your skin type. Find a toner that is great for dry and sensitive skins. Toners for dry skins will not only help balance the skin but help lock in the moisture from your cleanser. 

Your final step is Moisturize. We all know but guess what, we don't all do it.  Moisturizing is am important for all skin types but especially for dry skin. Again, look for ingredients that will help bring moisture to your skin and if at all possible find one that has SPF protection. 

We all know how protection from the sun is important especially as we grow older.

******WARNING*******

Make sure loves you find out what you may be allergic to. 

I do hope this will help some of you. The reason I have not mentioned too many products is because I want you make your own decisions. My advice would be to look at the ingredient list and make wise choices. 

BE GORGEOUS. BE WONDERFUL. BE YOU.

 

Absence Make the Heart grow fonder...Please don't leave me

Hey my Gorgeous loves. My apologies for not posting as of late. As most of my Twitter followers know, I have a new job at Lush Cosmetics so my time has been taken up with learning more about the company and becoming a phenomenal seller. During this time, I do hope you all have not missed e too much. I know I have missed you.  Today was a day I have to stay home, so ideas began flooding my brain and one such idea was creating a blogtv account. For those of you that may not know what blogtv is, it is a live chat with people all over who can interact with you in real time. I broadcast and chatters can post questions or make comments. I figured it would be a great way to learn about the people who follow me and find out what makes them tick.

I do hope I do get to interact with you lovelies soon..My first official broadcast is at 6:30 pm this friday. EST.

http://www.blogtv.com/People/BeautyAmateur

Have a fabulous day my lovelies.

BE GORGEOUS. BE WONDERFUL. BE YOU

The Lovely Sdglitter has blessed me again with another AWARD.. AWWWW I feel the love

Hey my BA BEAUTIES!!!. One of my Favorite beauty Bloggers has blessed me once again with a Blog AWARD.. THANK YOU GIRLY.  Here is her Blog ---- SDGLITTER

This award is called the Laine Blogger Award 

So here are the rules

The Rules

1) Link back to the person who gave it to you.

2) Blog about your award.

3) Give this award to 5 bloggers & let them know you gave

 

it to them.

Time to Bless some divas 

 

 

1. Nancy-lee of Fashionchicsta

2. Stephanie of NewBeautyReview

3. Tina D of OfficialStinaD

4. Nikk of Beautytherapy

 

5.Bethan of Beautify with Beth

ALWAYS LOVE

BE GORGEOUS. BE WONDERFUL. BE YOU

woo Hoo, I got tagged by the lovely Miss Niki

Hey my gorgeous ones. I am doing phenomenal in this tagging game. I got tagged by the lovely Miss Niki. Yes I am so late.. I swear I need to get better at these things.

Here are her lovely questions:

1)  What make-up brush is a must have in your collection? Now since I am fairly new to this wonderful world of makeup, my fav brushes to have is Sigma's performance eyes kit

2)  What is your favorite color to wear on your nails? Nail Polishes are my Achilles heel but my fav color is Purple.

3)  What was it that got you into make-up? I got introduced to it in my modeling days and was rekindled into it last year

4)  Addicted to The Hunger Games?? ((I had to ask a Hunger Games question LOL))  Unfortunately, I have not read of the books ( i must be the only one)

5)  What make-up trend can you live without? All the wonderful use of color and the double winged eyeliner.. So wicked

6)  What is your favorite season and why?  Fall. I love wearing my layers and love my sweaters. It is my season.

7)  Are you a professional make-up artist or self taught? Self taught though I may have to call on some of my pros to help :)

8)  Who is your #1 inspiration and why?  Will always be my mom. SHe always taught me to go for my dreams and never give up

9)  Must have cosmetic brand? Smashbox

10)  Who are your top 3 Favorite Beauty Bloggers? Stephanie of the new beauty review, Lady Sdglitter and Fashionchicsta

11)  Favorite Drugstore Product? Neutrogena oil free makeup remover

Though I wont tag just yet, I wanted to answer Lady Niki's questions.

HAVE A GREAT DAY LOVES!!!

BE GORGEOUS. BE WONDERFUL . BE YOU.

Do you feel Gud???????

Hey my lovelies and welcome to another installment of my POV. Today , I turn my attention to Gud. Gud is a new product line from one of my favorite natural companies, Burt's Bees. Gud is a new all natural product line that is not tested on animals and contains no parabens, phthalates or petrochemicals.

I was lucky enough to be able to receive this product for free. I am currently part of measure of influence site called Klout and because of my high level of influence in Beauty, I received this as a perk.

I decided to use these products for the week to see how I feel about them products.
1st - They smell amazing. The scents I received were Orange Petalooza Body Wash,  Floral Cherrynova Body Lotion and the Vanilla Flame Body Spray.

The Gud Box

2nd - All sizes received are full size. We are not talking even deluxe sized samples. FULL SIZE. This means I can truly assess what I have.

Vanilla Flame Body Spray

Floral CherryNova Body Lotion

Orange Petalooza Body wash

3rd: The scents are wonderful without being overwhelming. Even with washing, moisturizing and spritzing  with three different scents , I do not feel I fragrance overwhelmed.

All over these products well make you feel great and refreshed.
The orange petalooza body wash suds up so well and you honestly do not need to use a lot on your loofah to get very clean.

With the Floral cherrynova body lotion, you do need to be careful in squeezing out the lotion. Burt's bees loves making their lotions thick and this body lotion is no different.

The body spray you really only need two spritzes and you are good to go.

If any of my beauties are looking for an all natural body regimen, I submit Gud to be a great choice for you. The price points for these products are amazingly cost effective. Prices range from $5.00  to $12.00. For a full list of products, please check the website Gudhappens.com

BE GORGEOUS.BE WONDERFUL.BE YOU.

Pucker Up @eosproducts

Hey my BA Beauties and welcome to another installment of my POV. Today, we are going to PUCKER UP.

Hello My Soup Coolers

Yes our gorgeous lips are on display for the world every day and in world of Chapstick , Blistex and Carmex, how will you know what to choose from. Well,  I found something that feel great on these soup coolers of mine.  Introducing the Evolution of smooth or  EOS Sphere Lip balm.

Here are my spheres Red- summer fruit, Light Green- Honeysuckle honey dew and Blue - Sweet Mint

Now, I have seen these wonderful spheres talked about on various YouTube videos and seen glowing reviews on different beauty websites. I decided to give them a try. I consider myself a Blistex and Carmex girl because Chapstick did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for my lips. (I hope you notice how I bolded that)
 Now I have had these for about 4 months and if you notice, the Summer fruit is almost gone. I am

Barely any left 

trying my best not to use them all at once and use each as they slowly go. What I can tell you is that each of them make my lips feel supple and soft  and the taste is not too bad either. The EOS spheres are 95% organic and 100% natural. ( So all my lovelies that love all natural, you need this in your life)

All the spheres are packed with

antioxidant-rich vitamin E, soothing shea butter and jojoba oil.

Honeysuckle Honeydew

Sweet Mint

 
<---- This is what they look like when they are full.










You lovelies can pick these up at your local drugstore and on average are $3.29. However, if you are not drugstore shopper and are an online shopping junkie, you can order from EOS online store or drugstore.com









Well my Beauties, I do hope you add these lovely spheres to your lip care arsenal.

BE GORGEOUS. BE WONDERFUL. BE YOU.

Want Your Bod to feel like Butter.... Review of Burt's Bees Honey, Almond & Shea Body butter

Hey my Loves. Welcome of to another installment of my P.O.V.  Today, I am going to talk about Burt's Bees Honey, Almond and Shea Body Butter. I received this body butter as part of set in a giveaway I had won a couple months back. One of the reason for the delay in review is because I already have Vaseline intensive rescue repairing moisture lotion (which by the way, I love) but I have to say, this body butter is thick and feels really good.

Size shown is 6.5oz/185g

Be warned. When I say thick, I mean it. Be careful how much you apply.

 My suggestion is not to scoop too much out or you will be rubbing into your skin for a bit.  Once applied, your skin will feel amazing and you will smell like a candy bar (specifically an almond joy)

See how thick and creamy that is ?

I have seen some reviews on this on Drugstore.com but since I have not tried the older formulation, I can only give you my opinion on the current one.

I will warn that if you are not into fragrance, you may want to pass up this butter. The fragrance does last for a while and you will probably hear comments such as " What is that lovely smell?'

I submit for you  trying assessment , the Burt's bees Honey, Almond and Shea body butter

BE GORGEOUS. BE WONDERFUL. BE YOU