Thank you to Emani for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. I love makeup. I love being able to play with colors and try different combinations to come up with new looks. One of my favorite makeup brands is Emani. Emani offers customers a line of vegan and gluten-free cosmetics and makeup brushes. When formulating new products, Emani is careful about the ingredients they select. They want to ensure their products are safe for those with allergies, Read more [...]

I received samples of type:A Deodorant to facilitate this post.  All opinions are my own. About 12 years ago, I began a journey.  I decided to start looking for more natural products and foods for my family.  So while the journey has gone in streaks.  (There were times where I purged the entire house of all food and only had organic and natural options.  We are now more balanced road and consider most foods okay at least occasionally.)  But one thing that I've stuck with being natural is our Read more [...]

I started the curly girl method in late April after seeing it recommended over and over again as a way to fight frizzy hair. I had first googled frizzy hair and tried to find solutions a couple years prior. I kept running into the curly girl method being suggested, and I kept ignoring it because my hair was straight. At least, I had always thought of myself a having straight hair. The frizz was so bad in 2016 and 2017 that I wore my hair up in a bun probably 90% of the time. I didn't like how my Read more [...]

Thank you to Arbonne for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. For the past several weeks, I have been using products from the Arbonne RE9 Advanced Skin Care Line. For my review, I was sent the NEW! RE9 Advanced Age-Defying Neck Cream, NEW! RE9 Advanced Retexturizing Serum in Lotion, and the NEW! RE9 Advanced Firming Body Cream. RE9 Advanced Age-Defying Neck Cream has been crafted to help improve the texture of your skin on your neck Read more [...]

Most of my life I thought I simply had straight hair, that was prone to being frizzy and poofy. I've kept my hair long most of my adult life for the primary purpose of keeping it less poofy. It sounds so silly to me now, but I just thought 'if my hair gets too short, it gets poofy!' and I didn't care for the poofy look, so I kept it long. It never occurred to me that the poof was brushed-out curls. See, people with curly hair don't typically use a brush in their hair, at least not when Read more [...]