Have you ever found yourself faithfully in the midst of your makeup routine, only to find that over time this weird, hard FILM has developed on the top of your makeup powders? Your blush used to travel perfectly to your brush. Now, no number of swipes can transfer the color from the powder, and therefore,…
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Top 18 Clean Beauty Finds for Summer
Summer is in the air! Here in Arizona, things start to heat up early. Ooh, it makes me so ready for summer! Lots of people don’t enjoy the heat, but I really love it. It’s a dry heat, you know. 😉 No matter when you start feeling the heat, it’s never too…
Quick and Easy Homemade Magnesium-Based Deodorant
You know, back when I started my blog in 2013, not a lot of information existed on the dangers of antiperspirants. I’m really so pleased that the word has spread and more and more are aware of the problems in commercial deodorant. Problems such as aluminum, parabens, etc. Through the years, I would…
Overnight Resurfacing Peel Tutorial
Hello, beauties! Some questions for you: Who doesn’t want fresh-looking skin that glows? Who doesn’t want to increase cell turnover and constantly be revealing thriving skin cells on their face? Who doesn’t want facial peels that DON’T contain formaldehyde? Who doesn’t want to improve skin texture? Who doesn’t want a brighter, more youthful complexion?…
Goals for 2019
I really love the New Year. It’s a time of new beginnings, fresh starts. Resets. I love the feeling of forgetting what lies behind and forging into the future. Even if nothing technically changes from December 31 to January 1 besides the year I write on my check, the New Year MEANS something…
A Beauty-ful, Beautycounter Holiday
Holiday Has Arrived at Beautycounter! Ahh, fall. Pumpkin spice, falling leaves, football season, pumpkin patches, apple orchards, and… Every company drops their Holiday line for that year. I love it!! I love oohing and aahing over new products. I just even love looking at beautiful photos of them, like you’ll see here. I mean,…
The Best Beauty Finds at your Local TJ Maxx!
So… I’m in love. We just had a new TJ Maxx and Ross built in our area of Tucson. I’ve never lived near one of these stores, not within a ten-minute drive. It. Is. Amazing. But here’s the deal. Did you know your local TJ Maxx is sporting some seriously good beauty deals? There are…
My Favorite Morrocco Method Products!
As you may or may not know, about four years ago I decided I wanted to grow my hair long. It all started out quite innocently but ended up with me completely overhauling my approach to hair care. When I began growing out my hair, it was in one of its worst states….
23 Delicious Real Food Muffin Recipes
Breakfast. Am I the only one who feels like I am in a breakfast rut? Maybe it is just me. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so they say. I’ve really found this to be true. I love a good protein shake, or bacon and eggs. Yum! However, my…
11 Healthy Dandelion Recipes
Have you heard of the wonders of that familiar backyard “weed,” dandelion? I’m sure you have, but for those who haven’t… dandelion is an amazing plant and flower, packed with vitamins and healing properties! Did you know… Dandelion is used to purify the blood? Every part of the dandelion is…
Starting My Own Blog
It was around the New Year, January of 2013. I had given birth to my fourth child, a daughter, four months prior. Yes, I was busy… but I also had this burning desire inside of me. You see, I wanted to teach. I wanted to write. I had so much bubbling up…
Why Do We Procrastinate?
Procrastination. A word I have been familiar with almost my entire life… as soon as I learned what it meant. 😉  As much as I dislike that word, it hasn’t kept me from practicing it every day, in multiple ways. I’ve always wondered what it is about some people who don’t procrastinate. My…
20 Real Food Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
20 Real Food Homemade Ice Cream Recipes Yum! Summer’s not quite over – especially for us here in Arizona! But I figure homemade ice cream recipes are good year-round. 🙂 Sometimes we think of ice cream as an unhealthy, sugar-filled, fat-laden overindulgent treat with no merits. But I really feel differently! Sure, most store-bought…
How to Make Water Kefir / Water Kefir Tutorial
How do I tell you about water kefir? Water kefir sort of changed my life. Does that sound unbelievable? It’s true; if I could pinpoint one change we made that made the most difference in our lives, I would chalk it up to water kefir. That fizzy, bubbly, tingly, probiotic vitamin powerhouse. It was…
Healthy Root Vegetable Bake – try it tonight!
I’ve felt maxxed out on recipes lately. By that I mean, I just never feel like cooking anything – and I always feel like I am making the same exact things over and over. Bleh. So strangely, I decided to throw some things together, and they turned out pretty good. This…