MOISTURIZE WITH OIL

It's known that I have oily skin and I use to fight with it in the past but have come to love and appreciate my oily skin for obvious reasons; When your skin is oily, you are less prone to wrinkles.  Though I am less prone to wrinkles I am more prone to acne and dreadful break-outs.  I remember being a freshmen in college and reading in a magazine (I don't remember which magazine) that you should coat your face in petroleum jelly and you'd wake up with beautiful dewy skin.  I did this for a few months... I didn't break out, and I even thought I saw a difference in the glow of my skin.  A guy that I was dating at the time was head over hills with my skin and asked me what I did to get the glow.  I told him the petroleum jelly trick and he began doing it himself.  I didn't stick with him long enough to find out if he liked the method over time but I did fall off the petroleum jelly band wagon and went back to using lotion to moisturize my skin.  Point of this story was to give you in idea of the type of things I've tried with my skin in the past.

I've come a long way from just using body lotion on my face.  I went from just plain lotion to a fancy face moisturizer and now as I'm growing wiser and learning more about the things we put on our skin and how they affect our overall health,  I've decided on the natural route.  I'm slowly but surely transitioning all of my skin care and cosmetics.  My hair and skin loves natural products.

I want to introduce you to the holy grail of facial oils! All month long I've been using the Facial Oil by Body Cosmetics.  Oily girls, I know you're just about ready to run the opposite way because WHY WOULD WE PUT OIL ON OUR OILY SKIN?! I've used this product 2 times a day since Oct. 1st and just a slight observation of mine... I didn't experience my usual menstrual related breakouts.  Now, I haven't been using this product long enough to know whether the oil contributed to it or if it was luck but I'm betting on the oil. It has truly been a savior for my skin and you guys have been calling me out on it in my recent videos on my YouTube channel.

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CONCEALING DISCOLORED KNEES & ELBOWS

Every now and then I feel the need to pull of that "perfect skin" look and I've hunted for a body concealer that would not rub off, had no shimmer and most of all a concealer that actually matched my skin tone.  I find that with products in stores today, they don't really cater to darker skin tones.

Genius Beauty's Nubian Skin Perfecter is available in a number of shades:

Creme brûlée for light skin tones
hazelnut for redder tones
mocha for warm brown skin tones
dark chocolate for the deepest dark skin tones

Check out my video for an actual demonstration on how the concealer is applied:



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5 Summer Beauty Tips

SUNDAY PREP

Have you ever gotten to a point where your twist outs no longer seem to lay right?  My gosh, I suffer from this problem far too often.  One observation I have made is that my twist-out's don't come out as well when I put way too much time into them.  The parts are ultra visible, twist were made way too tight making the lower portion of the hair look tight while the root is puffy, it almost gives off the apparence of having split ends.  I've realized that my hair looks better when I do my lazy Celie twist with a flexi rod at the end! If you've been natural for a few years, you remember back in the TWA days, the more time you put into your hair the better it seemed to look? As it grows I really see that less is more.  See an example of my easy twist with the flexi-rod at the end in today's Sunday Prep video:

My hair doesn’t like when I use too many products so for this fresh simple style I am using water, Shea Butter throughout my hair and spraying Carol’s Daughter moisturizing conditioner on the ends.  I then applied flexi rods to the ends

Product List:

Hair

Carols Daughter Moisturizing Conditioner: http://bit.ly/1jnxr7R

Shea Butter

Flexi Rods: http://bit.ly/1hSFM2i

Face

Queen Helene Mint Mask: http://bit.ly/1ld2Tdj

Michael Todd True Organics: http://bit.ly/1mnp6pl