Favorite Fridays: beauty haul

Hey hey hey!!!

 It's Favorite Fridays! 

Here's another video post of a makeup haul of some of my favorite things!!

http://youtu.be/vDypjOq1L-g

4 years

 

Today is hubs and I's 4th wedding anniversary. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. I remember like it was just yesterday I was walking down the aisle to become a wife. Our wedding was very beautiful and wonderful. I really enjoyed every second of our special day. I know people sometimes are nervous or anxious about getting married. I never felt that way. I knew very quickly upon dating with my husband that I wanted to be his wife. Marriage is truly wonderful. Like every marriage, ours is definitely not perfect. We have had our big ups and our lows. However, we are partners in our marriage, which has made our marriage strong.

It has been a great 4 years and I look forward to what the future holds for us! Here is some pics through the years....

 

 

 

Wedding day, 09/19/09

First Anniversary

Second Anniversary

Third Anniversary

Fourth Anniversary :)

Favorite Fridays: the case of finding a dupe

Hey everyone! 

It's been a minute since I have posted!! A few weeks ago I posted about a fabulous but pricey mascara duo. 

I got good feedback but many people didn't  want to spend a fortune on mascara and I agree. So I made a video because  I think I found a dupe! Check on my video! As a disclaimer I made this video bright and early BEFORE my students came. Just wanted to throw it out there so there was no judgement, LOL

http://youtu.be/SKbrKh6abrM

No heat bouncy curls...the experiment

Hello to my faithful three readers!!

 So I didn't get a chance to do "favorite Fridays" this past week which is kind of a bummer because I did have something planned. Well I'll double up this upcoming Friday. 

  Well I have been wanting to do this experiment for a long while now. As many of you know I have androgenetic alopecia. Which bottom line means my hair is thinning. I was diagnosed with this 2 years ago. I will say my hair has improved some. I've tried to not worry about it because honestly there are worst things in life. However I try to do things to take care of my hair. Unfortunately I have one of those types of hair that you cannot just wash and dry. It looks disgusting, frizzy and crazy looking. Unfortunately for my hair to even look somewhat good requires a lot of product and tools and mostly heat, which isn't good. I end up wearing my hair a lot which is a total bummer. About a week and a half ago I posted on Facebook if people knew of a good way to achieve beach wavy hair without using a lot of product or heat. 

A friend posted a tutorial for headband hair which is supposed to achieve bouncy curls with zero heat. I decided it wouldn't hurt to try it. 

So start with cleanish, dry hair, like so:

Next wet it down just a touch. Not a lot or it won't stick. Next put mousse or hair spray:

Next, grab a stretchy head band. Love this one:

 

And put it on like so. I have seen lots of girls wear headbands like this lately! Wish I was brave to copy the trend!

Next, grab a 1-2 piece section, wrap it around the headband and gently pull it through:

Will look like this:

Keep going all around your head and it will look like this:

End product and now go to bed! 

 

Next morning...

Now gently pull out the headband...and this monstrosity came from it.

Yikes....

Um yeah...so I put some major frizz tamer in my hair, mixed with a few drops of water. After playing around, this is now my hair 

Much better! Some thoughts:

-they are totally right with it saying it will be curly. Holy crap I had ringlets!

-your hair, if its like mine, will be big time frizzy. Make sure to have some sort of frizz spray on hand. 

-I will say for shorter hair like mine, your hair may look nuts. However just play around with it and it will look fine!

I'm stoked this tutorial ACTUALLY worked! I'm sold!!!

Till next time dolls!!!