Christie has worked in my office for about 2 years now. She is currently undergoing a personal transformation and she is doing all sorts of cool things to beautify herself. I have jumped on the band wagon because, as we all know I am always for the quick fix.

 Luckily, Christie has some very savvy beauty queens as her source of information. Her friends are very thorough researchers and so that’s pretty much good enough for me. I take them at their word. And I have not been disappointed.

Things to do to yourself:

#1. New lipstick:  check this one out, “Infallible by L’oreal”. a two sided lipstick with color on one side and some white finishing glass on the other side. this case acts like a little mirror. The good thing about it is that it comes in a ton of colors and it really lasts all day. It does not make your lips dry, it doesn’t flake off or feel weird.  I like it.  I picked #10 orchid for a naturally pink look. Christie went darker – she wanted DRAMA.

#2.  I am the queen of creme. There is no creme I won’t or haven’t tried to make my skin younger and wrinkle free. There is almost no amount of money I wouldn’t pay to gets those results. I have drawers of disappointments. If they say 28 days – I count the days and it better work in that time or I toss it in the drawer of disappoint or give it to Barb King. They don’t work on her either or I wouldn’t have had to touch up her face in that photo for the book. Sorry Barb. and so on that note, I have found a creme that is really working. Olay Pro x. They sell it in a 3 part package (about $69.00, a bargain) and I have definitely noticed a difference in just two weeks. More importantly, other people have noticed a difference. The daily moisturizer also has SPF 30 in it which is a plus, and one less creme you have to put on. Give it a try. I think you will like it.

#3.  And this one is the most fun. Well, it really wasn’t fun at all to be truthful, the fact is, it kinda of hurt. This idea came from Christie’s friend. She hooked us up with special lady and when I saw what she had done I said to Christie ” We have to do that”.  What did we do? We got permanent eye liner makeup. Now, I don’t know what I was thinking when I heard the term permanent make up. I guess I was thinking something like “sharpie pens”.  I was just a little off in my thinking. It is more like a tattoo, in fact, it is exactly like a tattoo.  The little tattoo gun, the needle thing, the numbing gel. The only thing that was not like a tattoo was that it was missing the parlor part. It was done in a quasi- medical environment.  So, it hurt and my eye ids were really red and the initial effect of the ink if very dark. I don’t know if we looked like drag queens or kids who actually used sharpies to do their eye liner. My own children still do not know i did this and their only comment in those first few days was ” Wow – a little heavy on the eye liner mom.” Bob on the other hand, didn’t notice or was too afraid to comment, figuring nothing good could come from his mentioning my Amy Winehouse look. After a few days, the color faded and receded and now it looks great. I mean really great – and it always looks great. It won’t come off in the shower, swimming and it is there when I wake up. I can cry if I want to and it will stay where it is and not run down my cheeks. I love it.  Costs about $325.00.  Only go to a very reputable place, preferably a place that only does permanent makeup.  If it isn’t not done correctly, you will look like Amy Winehouse, forever.

#4. This one is not so much fun but it is good for you and it works, but it involves you working too. That is the only drawback.  ExerciseTV.  If you have On Demand, it is the best thing as you can do as you can choose your program and it is available anytime you want. I do the ten minute workouts, because that is all the attention span I have for exercise and I figure 10 minutes is better than nothing. I am currently do 2  ten minutes programs: Cardio Sculpt and Bootylicous Buns.  I can see the improvement. No excuses – just do it. You always have ten minutes, and you know you want bootylicious buns.

 

Good luck and I will give you new beauty tips as Christie share them with me. thanks Christie!

Faux Farm Girl

Annie