Favorite Cleanser! Thanks Brecken!

Say hello to my new favorite thing in the world! It's a 10% glycolic cleanser and it's amazing! It's from a company called Image (which I love) from their ageless line.

It's good for most skin types. I wouldn't suggest it if you have sensitive skin or problems like eczema or rosacea.

It's best for aging, hyperpigmented (brown spots), acneic, normal to combo skin types.

The glycolic is a AHA (alpha hydroxy acid) exfoliator.

Nothing takes make up off like this baby!

I've been using it for about two weeks now and their is a very noticeable change in the texture of my skin.

The best thing about it? It can also be used as a body wash!

My skin felt baby soft after i used this and my lotion absorbed much better.

You know its working because you'll feel a little tingle. That's the glycolic doing its job along with the eucalyptus which is also an ingredient.

As far as affordability goes its pretty reasonable. A little bit of it goes a long way so it will last you quite awhile.

You just have to find someone who distributes it because you can't buy it in a store.

I'm giving it a ten out of ten!

WARNING: Do NOT use if you are pregnant or breast feeding. AHA's (the glycolic in this case) need to be avoided. Or if you are sunburned.

CAUTION!!! SPRAY TANNING IN YOUR HOUSE WILL TURN IT PINK!!

Just thought i would send out a warning to everyone...one that should have been obvious to me. If you spray tan a lot in your bathroom it will get everywhere and turn everything a pinkish brown especially your carpet. I was doing it in the shower but.... didn't really make a difference. So unless you have one of those nifty tents to spray tan in take it outside to do most of it.

A new type of blog!!

So I've decided to switch up my blog a little bit... I hope some of you might have some input to some of my posts because I'd love to hear your opinion. As you probably well know I graduated from Taylor Andrews with my esthetics license a few months ago and I LOVE it. I also LOVE shopping and trying new products. So.... I thought why not blog about all the new products I'm trying. Todays post is about SPRAY TANNING!!!!

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Say hello to my LEAST favorite personal spray tan. So Tan So Bronze Airbrush Tanner 7.5 oz of non-color. I've been using this for about a week and can barely see a difference in my skin. I spent about $20.00 on this and have not been very satisfied. If you like a very light "I've been out in the sun for a half hour" type of tan than this is for you. Personally if i'm going to spend money on a tan I want to be able to see the color. I would not suggest this product.

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This is a step up from the previous spray tan. The color is very noticeable and VERY glittery. Depending on the undertones of your skin this tan has the tendency to have and orange tint. It also does not last past your next shower and if you get sweaty can rub off on your clothes. I would use for special occasions only and only use a light layer. The glitter is very fine and can add a lot to the tan but trust me from personal experience LESS IS MORE!! (and don't spray directly on your face, spray on cotton round and apply)

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This is MY FAVORITE spray tan so far. It leaves a great color that lasts for up to a week. You can apply it yourself pretty easy but it's not a bad idea to have someone help you. Good INSTANT color that is def more brown than orange. You can do layers and build your tan as light or dark as you want, but with a lot of layers you might feel a little sticky the first day. The one downside..... DO NOT get wet within the first 6-12 hrs or it will streak/spot. If you do, just spray some on a cotton round and blot on said streak or spot or just blend it in with lotion.

So there you go. My first product judging post. I'm open to any suggestion of products to try for future posts.

Spring break please??!!

Everyone is currently on spring break and gets a lovely break from school....except those of us at Taylor Andrews. Someone please steal me away to a beautiful beach where i can soak up all the UVA rays i possibly can. I need to get away from ST. G. I have the STG fever!!!!

New Hair.

Most Recent Investment :)

I don't usually get lucky when it comes to money. I never find good sales or discounts and i never find anything I need on clearance..... UNTIL TODAY!!! On this wonderful day i got about $600-800 worth of esthetic equipment for only $200!!!! I got a pretty nice table, a steamer, and some bowls and decorative storage things. Unfortunately there's not any room for it at my house so I have to set up shop in my old bedroom at my parents. It'll do for now. It's just slightly cramped. Now it'll be much easier to do waxing/tinting, eyelash extensions, and I can do facials at home too. So hopefully I can get some clients and start making some money..

All roads lead home....

So I am horrible about updating my blog and by the time i get around to it so much has happened that i don't know how to fit it all in.... So here's the updates in my life in a very organized, neat, and tidy bulleted list. :) I'll try to go in some type of chronological order....

• I decided to get my esthetics license at Taylor Andrews in St. G.
  
• My brother got married Aug. 8
• My grandma died Aug 9 :(
• I was going to live with my grandma so i had to find a new place within the week.
  
• Found a sweet place on KSL in Hidden Valley Heights with normal roommates. *phew*
• Started school Sept. 8 and i LOOOOOVE it!
• Recently became debt free because i'm smart like that :)
• Just got called as ward choir director. I didn't even try to hide the cringe from the bishop.
• I've started waxing people at my house and making some money. Always a good thing
• My roommates told me I was keeping the spirit out of our house because i left some muffin tins in the sink and two bracelets on the kitchen table.... all i can do is laugh
• and the biggest thing off all.....I've decided...to get.... A PUPPY!! i'm going to get a teacup yorkie! i'm not sure when but i'm going to make it happen and i'm so excited :) :)

Activities as of late!

So a lot has happened since my last post. I quit my job at the Investment Co. (it sucked way bad!) to go to lovely Hawaii. Not knowing if I would have a job when I got back I quit spontaneously Wed. moring a few weeks ago and we were leaving for Hawaii Monday morning. An hour after I quit I got a call for an interview for a dream job an hour later. I had the interview the next day and got the job! Heavenly Father loves me! My new job starts June 9. I'll be driving to Park City everyday to be a counselor for a horsebackriding summer camp at the National Ability Center. :) :) I'll be teaching kids how to ride horses everday! I'm so excited! We also are moving into a new house next week. We're leasing there for at least a year and we're acutally going to try and make it cute... So before and afters to come soon!!! Anyways Hawaii was the BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE! You know how something always goes wrong on vacation or someone is upset? NEVER HAPPENED ONCE! We chilled at the beach all day, say the temple, met a cool convert on the bus that helped us a ton! We also went on this way fun tour starting off with a cool bike ride from the top of this huge hill so we could see all of Honolulu. (and the weather was perfect all week, no rain!) after the bike ride we got a sail boat all to ourselves! Only four of us on an awesome boat. They took us out to a spot where there are always sea turtles. We swam right next to them! It was amazing. There was always at least four of them! We ended the week perfectly with an awsome luau full of hot, buff, shirtless ethnic, men. I pretty much was crying on the plane ride home....

New Job

So for the last couple weeks I've been laying around the house, sleeping till two in the afternoon, cleaning, watching TV, and basically just feeling sorry for myself. I knew it had to stop or I was going to go crazy. Luckily last week I get a text from my good friend Scott asking me if I still wanted a job cause his sister could get me one.... Now do I really want a job? Of course not! But I knew I had to do something and I will never ever say no to money. So I interviewed on Thursday and my first day was Friday! The company is called Go Invest Wisely. It's an investment company that buys forclosed homes from the banks and then sells them to investors. As you can imagine with the economy they've grown lately and are way behind. I work in customer support and my job is to basically deal with really pissed off/frustrated rich people all day long and tell them what's going on with their properties... It's not that bad because the people there are so chill and for the first job i've ever had I get to wear whatever I want! Yay!
That's pretty much all that's going on in my life right now. I work 8-9 hours a day and come home and sleep! I'm just glad I finally am doing something to keep me busy and help keep my mind off things I don't want to think about....

Snow Day!

The last day before school starts was a snow day in Provo. Starting off with Miki's car not being able to make it up our street to the house. Followed by lots of shoveling, sledding and snowboarding down the street and a short snowball fight. Maybe snow isn't that bad after all...maybe..

Missy Higgins Concert

Missy Higgins!!

Our really cute painful shoes!

Gotta love it.

I really don't know why i have this blog anymore. I originally got it so keep up with mik and mag when they went to russia...but now they're back....and i still have it.... hoping everytime i pull it up that someone has comented or at least updated heir blogs so i'll have something to read. Usually, those hopes are crushed. But I now have found another reason for this blog. I have a hour between all my classes so I usually go sit in the library on a computer. By updating it looks like i'm actually doing something, like maybe i'm studying or doing research for some paper instead of my usual purusing of facebook. So to update on life. School is school, work is work. I'm most likely moving back to St. George in December to be with Brandon. Pretty much the end. I still really want to get my aestheticians license and i guess two new schools have opened in St. George. The taylor andrews one and some other one. If by chance anyone hears amything about them let me know! Soon to come: pics of the missy higgins concert we're going to tonight!

To Europe and back!

I have now officially been out of the country! Yay for me. I just returned from a two week tour of the British Isles. It was definately and experience. We flew into Shannon, Ireland and then procedded on to Wales, Scotland, and England in that order. I didn't really care for Ireland but i loved the rest of them! I went with a tour group of 53 people. 98 percent of which were over the age of 60.... we had to make a lot of bathroom stops. But overall it was fun. I saw a lot of things and made some new friends. Some of the things i saw were...

1) lots and lots of cathedrals and old churches
2) the smallest house in the world
3) lots of castles and ruins, including edward longshanks castle
4)Blarney castle where i kissed the blarney stone
5) Windsor castle
6)went on the london eye
7)westminister abbey
8)buckingham palace
9)the trooping of the colors in london, (that's the parade they do for the queens birthday)
10) Glastonbury Abbey (the supposed grave of king arthur)
11) Stone Henge
12) one of the original copies of the magna carta
13) the street in bath where jane austin lived
14) the roman bath in bath
and much much more.
I also learned the people who reside in the UK are a little different from us. For instance they don't believe in having clocks in hotel rooms...or really anywhere else. And since i didn't have a watch on me i never knew what time it was the whole trip. All there clocks are in military time too so even if i could look at one it wouldn't really help me. Also they don't believe in sugar...or salt. They're food in general is pretty good but often bland. and they're pasteries and sweets aren't really...well sweet. They usually don't have salt or pepper on the table and when we asked for ketchup to put on our fries they looked at us like we were sinning. Their bathrooms are usually much nicer than ours. They call chips crisps and fries chips. I actually liked driving on the left side of the road. It didn't bother me at all. I think i actually like it better....Weird i know. Their toilets don't always flush either. That was a pretty consistent and annoying thing. Everyone smokes. My throat hurt the whole time i was over there. But overall i was glad i went and it feels weird being home. I can't wait to go somewhere else like Italy or Spain! I would gladly accept donations. Just look at it as helping a young woman culture herself so she can become a better person and make her more capable to help others. ;)

Europe here i come!!

My plane for Europe officially leaves in six hours! woo hoo! I'm so excited! We fly into Shannon Ireland then to Scotland then Wales and finally London! Yay for fun long vacations to foreign countries!

My Personality

You Are The Inspirer

You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends.You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority and rules.Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives.You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're quite the storyteller!In love, you are quite the charmer. And you are definitely willing to risk your heart.You often don't follow through with your flirting or professed feelings. And you do break a lot of hearts.At work, you are driven but not a workaholic. You just always seem to enjoy what you do.You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist.How you see yourself: compassionate, unselfish, and understandingWhen other people don't get you, they see you as: gushy, emotional, and unfocused

Tag i'm it!

All About Me -- Alphabetically

I was tagged by Jessica

A-Attached or Single. attached currently to Brandon C. Staples a.k.a hottie
B-Best Friend. Maggie and Miki
C-Cake or Pie. hmm... probably pie. i really like the frosting on cake but i like every kind of pie.
D-Day of Choice. um totally the day i get back from europe and me mik and mag get to hang out all day long!
E-Essential Items. probably my lap top so i can keep in contact with everyone while i'm a prisoner of village bank as a teller every single day
F-Favorite Colors. can't choose. it changes everyday. today it's yellow
G-Gummy Bears or Worms? both! i love everything gummy!
H-Hometown. St.Geezy Utah!
I-Indulgence. peanut butter. i can't get enough of it. i put it on almost everything
J-January or July. July. cause it's the best month to go to the lake and go swimming and have bbq's and just not be in school
K-Kids? i think i'd have to be married first
L-Life isn't complete without? The Gospel, peanut butter, mag and mik, and singing
M-Marriage Date. TBA
N-Number of Brothers and Sisters. One older brother and one older half sister
O-Oranges or Apples? apples cause you can put peanut butter one them! yum!
P-Phobias or Fears. sharks, spiders, dark water that you can't see what's in it, being fat, never finding the right person
Q-Quote. the race isn't always to the swift, but to those who keep on running
R-Reason to Smile. I just got all my laundry done and ironed!
S-Superman or Wonder Woman. is there a difference?
T-Tag four people. I tag Abbie, miki, mag, and whoever else hasn't been tagged
U-Unknown fact about me. one of my thumbs is noticebaly longer/bigger than the other
V-Vegetables? are good for you
W-Worst habit. sometimes i'm a flake. as ashamed as i am to admit it.
X-X-Ray or Ultrasound? once again. what's the differece? you can see things with both
Y-Your favorite food. i really like muffins. of all kinds. especially costco.
Z-Zodiac Sign . aries. the ram