Since I missed posting about a ton of things over the last year I figured these next few posts should probably be dedicated to some of the things I skipped. And of course as usual I went all out for Halloween. You can see past Halloween posts here, and here… oh and here… maybe here too!
Working in the beauty industry gives me a bit of a free pass when it comes to costumes and I tend to go a little hog wild. This year was no exception.
Oh and this little experiment was preformed as hurricane Irma was attempting to blow our house away, you can hear the roof creaking in the background. I'll have more updates on what I failed to post in the coming weeks as well as a few new projects in the works. Let me know if you would like to see more makeup looks.
Or should I say what I missed.
I've been gone over a year and a lot has happened in that time! Where do I start?
Chronologically I suppose. So I started my own business. Quit my job to focus on my business. Got new flooring throughout the house.
Went to universal (again, see my first trip here).
We lost one of our fur babies, The Little made it to the ripe old age of 18.
And in between all that I managed to repaint or redo my office, the library, the dining room, and the master bath! So I haven't really been idol I've just neglected posting anything about it. So let's see if I can get this started back up!!!
Well half of the house is (semi-) cleaned, though that's primarily because most of the mess just moved to the other half of the house.
This whole "let's just travel all summer" thing is a strange cycle of cleaning house so we can "come home to a clean house" when in reality we just come home and throw all our things wherever they may fall just to have to pack them up again.
Between Florida, North Carolina (which we just got back from earlier this week) and Michigan (which we are headed to next week) we will have been home about 3weeks in the moths of June and July.
Next year we are definitely stretching out our traveling over more than just two months.
Enough of my first world whining.
My best friend has different color hair every time I see her. Purple, blue, teal or some amalgamation of all of them and I've always wanted to have funky colored hair but haven't had the guts to do it myself and won't pay the price to go to a salon. Since she does her own, and does it beautifully I convinced her to give me some subtle colorfulness.
We used several different colors to do my hair. All pravana brand, we used a vivid purple, a locked in red, locked in blue and various mixes of the three.
Because the colors were developed at different times and placed over different color highlights I got all different colors.
Some orange, green, yellow, red, purple, blue, we inadvertently oil slicked my hair and it's amazing. Pictures don't do it justice, I've gotten so many compliments on it already.
I've been working a lot of nights so I haven't had the chance to do many projects around the house, nights throw my whole game off.
But much like last week I have some skin stuff to go over.
This week I started on accutane. I've struggled with deep, cystic, nodule, acne for a very long time. I thought "well maybe I'll grow out of it." "Maybe it will at least get better." But I won't (my father still struggles with it) and it hasn't, if anything it's gotten worse.
I'm sure that has to do with genetics and the hormonal changes that have come with age.
Luckily I've never been self conscious about my acne. I was never bullied, I'm perfectly fine going out without any makeup on. For me the main problem isn't the way it looks or emotionally feels , it's the way it physically feels. Anyone who has had cystic acne knows what I mean. It's a terrible inflammatory response. I've had ones swell to the point I couldn't move my lips properly and I've been getting really annoyed at being so reliant on anti-inflamatories.
So on to accutane. I've only been on it for 5 days and I'm already starting to feel the effects.
That's how dry and sensitive my skin has become in such a short period of time. Since then I've had to completely reassess my skin care routine which is both strange and oddly satisfying. Strange because I've only ever had one skin type and that's combination-oily. I have dryer areas of my skin but for the most part it's pretty normal verging on oil prone, at least my face is. My body has always leaned towards the dry side which is probably why I felt the effects more quickly there.
And it's satisfying because this is what I do for a living. I've had a pretty set skin care routine for a good long while now, and though I've introduced a few new things here and there and eliminated others I've never had to start from scratch.
It's going to take me a while to figure out exactly what will work but luckily there are lots of resources open to me from the blogging community, my dermotologist and of course my coworkers and other peers in the world of skincare.
It's not all itchiness and cracked lips and dry skin though. Even though I've only been on it a few days I've had a few little pimples appear overnight and be gone within a few hours. I'm not prone to little pimples all I get are gigantic deep ones that bever come to a head so apparently it's clearing something out. And I'm already discovering that my inflammation has lessened.
One thing is for sure I will definitely be taking the advice I gave myself last week and slathering on the sun screen.
Also I'll be sure to give you guys updates of my progress.