Tantrums, Extensions and Francis Chan....

So this past week was a fun one. I busted out a bunch of videos since I start work this week coming up. Yes I said work. I'm very excited about this but nervous to leave Ariel for the short period I'm gone. I know she'll be fine and I will too but it's a new journey for us and have to get comfortable. 

But what did we do this week. Let's recap. 

We took some selfies like all mommies and babies should. #selfies

We went grocery shopping for thanksgiving because we didn't want to do it this week when it's all hectic. Don't you love her flowery jacket? TJ MAXX all day. Lol 

Then I was doing this, because I had to stay up late and edit those videos I recorded. #redcupsatstarbucks The holidays are here. Yeah!! 

Then I added my extensions and made a video on it so make sure to stay tuned for that. Have you worn extensions? How do you like them? They are so fun to wear but I'm so comfortable with my short hair it's weird sometimes seeing myself sith long hair. 

Then we went shopping, kind of, for work clothes for me. Actually I was in search of a sweater dress to wear to work. And I found not really a sweater dress but a long sleeve versatile black dress I can dress up or down. Now if you know me, you know I don't wear dresses so this is an adventure for me to even add it to my wardrobe. Lol keep a look out for pictures. 

Playtime!! 

Ariel didn't get her way and I recorded her having a for and my friend made a meme out of it. Haha I know it's not right to laugh at her pain but you have to admit that face is priceless. She's even cute when she cries. 

Then today we spent the morning watching Francis Chan, a sermon on how to hear God. Man it was so good. I recommend checking it out. And right now Ariel has been asleep while I'm typing this. She actually just woke up now that I'm almost done. Have #Undercoverboss on and man this show always has me tearing up. Anyways let me know how your week was Id love to know. Don't forget to check out my latest videos on my channel and follow me on all my social media. I'm on tumblr now so make sure to check me out. 

Fuller Lips Naturally

So I started a new series on my youtube channel called "Quick Tip Tuesday" and yesterday I showed you all how to create a fuller lip look with lip liner. I figure some people aren't subscribed to my channel, (why? Im not sure, you should be) so why not give you a little pictorial here on my blog. Okay lets get started.. 

Step 1 - You want to clean off your lips.

This gives you a clean canvas to work with, just like when you apply makeup, you apply it to a clean face. 

Step 2 - Take any cream eyeliner you have and fill in the center of your top and bottom lip only!

Then make a funny fish face like me, just because it's fun.. 

Step 3 - Outline your lips with a brown or nude lip liner. Only line the outer corners of your lips leaving the center with only the cream liner. 

Step 4 - Use either a chapstick or a nude lip gloss and blend it all together.

Use your fingers to help blend out the cream liner.

Now you can use this technique with any color lip color you want. I also did this with a darker red lip color as well, the only thing that's different is you apply liner to the outer corners of your lips as well as the center. Didn't do a step-by-step with this look but you can go check my channel to watch the whole tutorial.

http://youtu.be/NRMv2tKwl8E

Here's me blowing you a kiss thanking you for reading and hopefully watching my tutorial. 

Send me your pics, I'd love to see how you look.. Don't forget to subscribe so you know when I post new blogs and videos.. See you soon.. :)

Just one of those weeks...

So have you ever started your week off and things are going great then BAM!! Something knocks you for a loop.. 

Well that's how my week went. 

I was on a super high full of hope and happy for my life and the blessings I have and then something just brought it to a halt. 

Let me tell you about it. 

I started off my week by doing a makeup tutorial and started a new series called "Quick Tip Tuesday." This is the look I did for the tutorial: 

http://youtu.be/p1gRbV_ySYA

Make sure to check out the tutorial, this was inspired by QueenofBlendingMUA who I love.. 

After this we got to go to my favorite store, Target and look at this awesome toy we found.

This Cat Piano has so many options and you can record yourself singing, who doesn't want to record your own LP? LOL I think I want to get this for Christmas for Ariel (really for me) even though it says ages 2+ years old. I enjoyed it and so did my baby girl.

After Target, we went home and Ariel got a new toy from grandma which is so cute. I talked her into it because it's really for kids 2yrs + but she loved her right away.

She wouldn't let go of Amori from Moxi Girls collection. When we look for dolls we only find white dolls or hispanic or sometimes Hawaiian but never mixed dolls or rarely do we find black baby dolls. My baby girl is mixed black and white so I would love for her to be able to find a doll that she can relate to as far as skin color but I will teach her that her skin color does not define her too. It's a complicated topic but in due time I will deal with it when it's time. 

Later this week we went to get Ariels 1 year birthday pictures and she did so good. My mom is a photographer so we went to her job and she took her photos. Here is her casual outfit I put her in and she got to rock her Jordan's finally now that her feet fit in them.. 

Isn't she so cute.. A little sports attire model. 

Now were here on Saturday, yesterday and it was such a beautiful day out. We got to go for a walk and all the trees are changing colors and leaves are falling. So nice. 

I did do a vlog so make sure you go to my channel to check for it and see what else we did yesterday..  

www.youtube.com/user/desireestyles4u

On to our night time routine: change Ariel into her pajamas, lotion her up, read a book "Goodnight, Moon," nurse and put her in her bed all around 7-7:30pm.

I cherish this time, she absolutely loves to read and I am so grateful because I don't. Maybe by her wanting to read all the time it'll help me get motivated to read more. We shall see. Well I hope you all enjoyed my week; I didn't discuss the downhill parts because after recapping on my week and looking at theses pictures, it was a lot better than I remember. 

Here's a selfie from me to say goodbye for now and check in soon to see what's going on this upcoming week. 

Have a great week, don't forget to subscribe to get updates and also subscribe to my youtube channel for videos of what I don't show here.. 

www.youtube.com/user/desireestyles4u

Vaseline VoxBox via Influenster

Ok so I do realize my last post was about a VoxBox as well, which is quite ironic that Im now posting my first blog in such a long time about the same company. Anyways if you read my last blog you know about Influenster.com and if not be sure to check out my last post or just visit the website. 

So when you receive your box this is how it comes. They won't all be vaseline but it has the product logo and the company name on a post card on your box. This time it was actually one of the smaller boxes I've gotten. I thought maybe it was going to be a small Vaseline or even maybe 2 small Vaseline products but it was one full size Vaseline product. I was actually very excited because I was in need of some lotion since I have been using my daughters. 

First thing it tells you to do is a skin test. You have these 2 strips: 

One is to test on skin without lotion and the other is for after you apply the lotion to that same lotion. If you look at the top strip that was before lotion, it has little pieces of my dry skin which is what the paper describes as "dry skin." The second strip is after I apply the lotion and seriously no dry skin flakes at all. 

This is a 5 day challenge to better skin is what they say so lets test it out. 

Day 1- I was a skeptic. I wash dishes, wash my hand a lot and with the cold weather have dry hand all the time with lotion or not. So I applied it to my hand only before bed and it felt great but couldn't really tell if it was going to last through the night or after getting my hands wet. 

Day 2- I applied the lotion in the morning and of course I washed dishes that day and got hands wet multiple times. I actually was very surprised at how not dry my hands were, and I never reapplied the lotion until later that night. 

Day 3- Again, I wash dishes everyday and wash my hands almost hourly. My hands have been feeling soft and moisturized, no cracked knuckles or even dry spots. I am very impressed so I decided you know lets put this on my feet as well. I know who doesn't lotion their feet everyday, sometimes I don't. 

Day 4- Just from applying it to my feet on that first day, my heels are definitely softer and not cracked from this weather. I also have to say this lotion has made my hands and arms feel better than they have in a long time. 

Day 5- Today. I am pleased to give this product a positive review. I will definitely buy this again and recommend you all give it a try. 

Success!!

They say the reason it works so well to repair is they use micro Vaseline Jellies which fill in the top layer of dry skin to make smooth. (put in my own words) 

Will you all give it a try? I would love to know if you do and tell me how your 5 day challenge goes. 

Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me and waiting on me to got my butt to blogging, I appreciate you all and your love & support. 

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"I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes"