dr.brandt microdermabrasion skin exfoliant

Hello! My people :) 

Today I have a lil piece of heaven to share with you all. The dr.brandt microdermabrasion skin exfoliant.

I got this sample tube in my october BirchBox And I could not wait to share it with you all, but with the move it got delayed. So lets get into this bad boy.

Key Ingredients:

Chamomile - calms, soothes and reduces irritation.

Aloe vera - healing emollient that soothes irritations and prevents scarring.

Aluminum oxide - pharmaceutical grade crystals that polish and remove dead skin cells.

Jojoba - easily absorbed vegetable oil that soothes and softens the skin.

Lactic acid - alpha hydroxy acid derived from milk gently sweeps away dead skin cells and softens skins texture

Dr. Brandt recommends: Dampen skin with warm water. Slowly and gently massage cream onto skin for 1-2 minutes avoiding the eye area. Rinse well, pat dry. Best if used 1-2 times per week allowing 3 days between applications. 

I do exfoliate often like almost everyday, BUT! its with a gentle exfoliant so its not that bad, I hope.

I have never microdermabrasion-ed myself so this method is new to me.

Anyhoo, I looked at the tube and thought what is this little tube going to do for me?

I applied a small dime sized amount to fingertips and immediately I got hit with this lovely lemon scent.

I began to apply it to my face and noticed a little goes a long way, It spread to nicely and smooth.

It has a gritty feeling to it, like a soft fine milled feeling that allows you to know this product will go deeper than any other product had before. 

Once I had it spread I couldn't just stop there, I brought out my ClariSonic Mia and used it for the recommended minute all over my face . 

Wow! It was so heavenly and felt so good. I can honestly say my face has never felt like that before.

My face felt clean and fresh and it looked brighter too. I just love that I felt like, Okay I know my face is clean now. 

This product claims to get your skin ready for your other products. This is true, I felt like it opened my face and ready to accept the goodness of my other skin care products.

I love this product and so thankful to BirchBox for letting me try a product I would have never looked into on my own.

I do recommend you try this product at least once, so you can understand the love I feel for it.

I did get three uses our of the trial size, so a little goes a long way.

2012 Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner - Best Scrub

dr. brandt microdermabrasion is a revolutionary formula designed to mimic the transformative brightening, smoothing effects of the popular in-office microdermabrasion treatment at home.enables better absorption of skincare products an at home alternative to professional, clinical treatments helps diminish the appearance of fine lines, acne marks, and skin discolorations.

This product retails for $78.00 for a 2oz. tube on drbrandtskincare.com

Products I have mentioned above

BirchBox

ClariSonic

drbrandt

Have you tried an at home microdermabrasion product?

Thanks for reading and have a great day :)

The Google of Beauty

BeautyStat.com Launches "The Google of Beauty" Product Search Tool

Search and discover all things beauty with the new BeautyStat.com!

BeautyStat.com has relaunched its site with Pinterest-like visual features and an e-commerce angle to provide its users with an easy-to-use search and discovery platform, being called the “Google of beauty” by WWD.

The new platform allows you to search for your favorite brands, retailers and items to compare prices, find out-of-stock products and learn about the best steals, deals and giveaways. In-depth editorials and honest product reviews let you discover what’s new in beauty from cosmetics to haircare.

BeautyStat.com will soon become your one-stop-shop to search, discover and purchase all things beauty! Along with a new sleek design, there are also new features that include creating your own profile to store photos, articles and items you wish to purchase. The more you use the site, the more products and reviews will be recommended towards your unique beauty needs.

Find out today what BeautyStat.com has to offer! And with Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up, BeautyStat is the perfect resource to shop for the best prices, deals and steals of your favorite products!

I honestly love this company!! They sent me out a product for review.

The Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum. You can see the review in the video below!

Thanks for Reading and have a great day :)

Beautiful Jewell Micaylah

Once in a while we come across people in our lives that we know and feel they are headed for greatness!
And that is exactly how I feel about Micaylah from BeautifulJewel. We have gotten to know each other from our passion and love for beauty that we just clicked. I hope she doesn't mind when I say that I feel  a strange closeness with her in some weird magical makeup way hehe :) We decided that we wanted to interview one another, things that we wanted to know about one another not in the usual tag way get down to the nitty gritty of the Beautifuljewell. Micaylah has interviewed me, you can find her interview on her blog, here.


Below is the interview I did on Micaylah, I hope you will come to love her just as much as I do! Enjoy :)



1. What is it that draws you to follow a certain blog?

I love blogs with a cute simple layout, they have to be readable. And also, I love when people talk in their blogs post as they are talking to their friends

2. Do you have intentions of starting a YouTube channel?

No, I have a really bad stuttering problem. Lol! I would like to, but I just stutter so much.

3. If your blog doesn't grow within six months will you continue blogging?

Of course, blogging takes patenice.

4. What advice can you give to other bloggers on how to gain more blog followers?

What I do is make sure togive feedback to other people blog, and I follow tons of people on blog lovin'. They usually follow back awfully quick. And usually follow my blog too.

5. Where do you see yourself in five years?

With my babe in Paris. Still blogging, and still loving my beauty community.

6. What are your current thoughts on the beauty industry?

It is an amazing industry. No two people are alike in the beauty industry. Everyone has something that makes them unique and who they are. And most people in the beauty community aren't close-minded.

7. What is the one thing you would tell your younger self to prepare you for today?

Inner beauty is what God seeks. -Matthew 23:27


8. How long does it take you to get ready for a date?

Wheew, it depends on how my hair want to act. But not over an hour.

9. Does anyone in your close circle family or friend tell you that you wear too much makeup?

Well, my babe is always telling me idk why you wear makeup, but he also knows it's my passion, and every time I do my face it's practice for me. But I never get told that. Everyone always says they love my makeup.


10. How would you feel if makeup were outlawed worldwide?

I would definitely be an unhappy camper. I would be so mad I would probably try to sue whoever outlawed it!


Thanks for reading and have a great day :)

How Others See You!

So you got your makeup on and your hair is done, your pretty satisfied with the way you look, but have you ever wondered how others will see you? I am not talking about judgment, but the way they see you.

Ever do your makeup and thought is was okay or blah even, yet that day you just get compliment after compliment? And you're like what are you all seeing that I am not?
Or when you have a breakout and your friends are like we didn't notice it.

I am going to be sharing a trick my aunt taught me on how to see, what others see when they look at you.
This probably isnt even a trick maybe you all know this and I am the crazy person who thinks its real haha!

It is very simple really, to see how you look from another persons perspective and I swear it works.

Okay, Okay I will tell you!

The trick is to see a third reflection of your self. Now, I don't know why or how it works but it does!

If you are standing facing the bathroom mirror, Grab  two extra mirrors. I used a handheld beauty mirror and a large compact.

Now get one mirror to reflect the main mirror, then get the third mirror to reflect the second mirror.

I guarantee you won't see all those imperfections you notice in the main mirror.

I put together this diagram so you can get a better idea of what I am talking about.

If you're forever confused, I am truly Sorry. If not Great!
If my aunt is a crazy lady let me know!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

BBBB Blogging Advice Tips, Tricks, How to's and Other Valuable Information.

I am collaborating with my friend Shalunya from shalunyaboyet, she handles more of the technical side of blogging using Blogger as the main platform and she has some great information from Layouts to Gadgets.

Here you will find links to posts we have written on starting up a blog or a youtube channel. I feel you will find these posts very helpful in the growth of your blog and youtube channel.

We will both be adding to this list as we go so check back often. We both wish you and your blog great success! 

What's in a review Something every Beauty Blogger should know!

Everything a Beauty Blogger Should Know Part 2

Blog Planning and how it can help

Beauty Blogging Tips and Advice

Starting a YouTube Beauty Channel: Things you Should Know

Understanding Your Beauty Blogger

When Disaster Strikes! Bloggers Survival Guide

Shalunya offers more advice here.

Building a Better Beauty Blog, The Basics

What Exactly Is a Gadget?

Creating a Grabber Button

We Love hearing from you so let either of us know if we have helped in anyway, if you need help in a area we have not covered please feel free to contact either of us.

Beautiful Envy Chapter 2

Beautiful Envy

Chapter 2

Upon opening her eyes and seeing the glow from the OPI's hovering over head, Sephora quickly came to herself, realizing she has fallen asleep under the stairway she was hiding under. Looking at her surroundings she noticed night had fallen and they would come looking for her.

Sephora knew she had to keep her hiding place secret incase she needed to hide again. She reached for her palette opened it and waiting for a response, nothing. She began making her way home, things looked different to her in the dark, she secretly hoped she wouldn't run into Henri Bendel.

A rumor was going around that Henri Bendel had returned to Tarte and was causing a quite a stir, with his thievery and tricky ways, Sephora thought him handsome, but never let anyone know especially Ulta who would tease her with it if she knew.

Sephora felt a rush of slime upon her leg as she stepped in a puddle of Wet N' Wild and did her best to keep moving, but she has to get the slime off as it began to itch and burn. She heard a loud thud in the distance and she knew it was time to move, picking up per pace, "just make it to the corner." she said to herself. Boom! she fell to the ground, Wet and full of slime.

Getting to her feet she noticed a body on the ground moving but unable to get itself up, talking but slurring it's words, she walked around the body not taking her eyes off it for a second. She heard the stories of what happens on this side of Tarte to young girls after dark.

As she was about to run off The body reached for her leg and dropped her a second time, this time it revealed itself from its cloaked shadow. She kicked and it rolled back over on its side. "Serves you right Estee Lauder." she said getting on her feet.
"you should have said something, anything, instead of your drunken mumbling". "Oh, its you Sephora." He said looking at her as he recognized the voice and tone coming from the small creature he knocked down.
"I thought you were Burt or one of his bees." He said looking around in his sneaky manner.

Sephora felt bad for Estee Lauder, he was once a great and proud man, who spent all his father's fortune at The Body Shop, thinking he could win Murad's Love. Murad was a Spiritual Seer and could see Estee Lauder's true heart and knew deep inside he could never truly love anyone until he loved his true self first. It was a sad story really.

Everybody in Tarte knows The Body Shop Replaces broken or worn out limbs but only through accident, illness or act of war, but not for vanity. Estee Lauder had bribed many Employees of The Body Shop in his search for the perfect body, but it would only last a day or so. The magic knows if its truly needed or not and it wasn't, so it failed over and over. And here is what is left of the great and proud Estee Lauder.

"You Come Home." Said a Loud and rocky voice from behind. Sephora closed her eyes and tilted her head back to the heavens asking "why?"

"I am coming home!" as she turned to face Smashbox the household rock giant turned body guard by Sephoras parents. She had a knack for getting into trouble.

"You Come Home." he said once again  pointing down the street towards the house.
"You grab him." Sephora said pointing at Estee Lauder. Sephora had a plan to use Estee Lauder as an excuse as to why she was out so late.

The giant picked up the drunken Estee Lauder and put him over his shoulder in one quick movement and reached for Sephora. "I can walk Smashbox." She said as she began to lead the way home.

The giant, the girl and the drunk walked down the road. Henri Bendel who watched and listened emerged from the shadows. "Orly." he said calling to his pet. "Things are going to get interesting."


Chapter 1

I hope you enjoy These stories, if you have any questions Please leave them below.
If you would like to see your favorite brand as a character let me know in the comments below.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Break outs and Cold sores!

Okay, so I got sick last week and I have a red nose to prove it! When you have a two year old that get a cold odds are mommy is always the first to become infected. Not only are you spraying everything down with lysol and and sectioning the house off between the sick and the well, you are also blowing your nose and working through the aches and pains yourself. This is no easy task ask any mom.

I never understood what makes a cold sore appear but they can be quite painful.
I got mine right on my left cupid bow and it hurt bad and still does, these can last a few weeks depends on care, I guess.

And to add to my joy, I broke out on my right side cheek, Oh boy!

I pretty much look like I lost a fight. Red nose, Break out and cold sore pretty sexy huh?

I want to show you guys what I do to cover up these ugly things and The products that help me to look like a person when I don't feel like one.

Now, This is not a Halloween costume, this is my sick face.

Notice the redness around the nose.

The small village growing on my face.

And the crater that landed on my lips.

In this picture you can see the redness around my nose is gone!


The Breakout is still there but not as pronounced.


And you really have to look to see my cold sore.








I did not apply foundation because, I just don't like putting makeup on top of a breakout, I feel it only enhances its appearance on my face.

I applied L'oreal BB cream to my face. It did the trick in hiding that sick hue from my face and hid all the redness around my nose. I truly love this product! I do use this on the regular as an everyday foundation and if I am looking for extra coverage, I do apply foundation over this for a flawless look.

I applied my go to concealer just to wake me up a bit and brighten my eyes. I love this concealer! It blends wonderfully and it quick and easy. I did set it with Coty Powder for a softer feel and look.

I used my There Real Mascara from benefit on my lashes just to define them a bit, but not go overboard. I love this mascara because it enhances my lashes and doesn't overload my lashes with product. Perfect for an everyday natural look.

To add some color to my colorless face I used a very light application of a blush from my BH cosmetics San Francisco palette on my cheeks. I love this color for everyday It adds just a touch of color for a natural I am not dead look :)

To heal my nose I applied neosporin daily to help with any scratching or chaffing from tissues, I also applied it to my cold sore to help with the healing, along with the neosporin on my lips I applied some vitamin E to speed up the healing as well.

I hope I didn't gross you out with this post.
What do you do when you're not feeling like person?

Thanks for reading and have a great day!