June Favorites

Hey Y'all!! Im trying out something new. I'm doing a monthly favorites! I'm going to do 3 categories. Hygiene, fashion, and random. Let's get in to it!

Hygiene 

So first is a cleanser I've really loved this month, Purity. Purity is a simple way to remove makeup or sunscreen from the day while cleaning and toning your skin, all in one step. I have seen huge improvements in the smoothness in my skin and the moister. 

Next is my moisturizer, neutrogena's deep wrinkle moisture. Ok this might be a bit weird if you knew my age (13.) But my dermatologist gave me some samples of this because it has retinol in it and that will help will cell turn over. So it was suppose to help with my acne. I really love it and i highly recommend it.

Next is Light Argan Oil from Josie Maran. I just got the $16 one some I could try it for my face and hair. And if you have dry hair or any skin you NEED to get this. IT IS AMAZING. If you are a skeptic on oil on your face I'm not going to explain it now but I'll be posting a post soon on why its actually good for oily skin. But basically I highly recommend it and you need to buy it.

Fashion

Ok let me just explain, I went to a religious camp for a week so these things are just meant for me going to camp.

First nike pro shorts. If you do anything that you need a harness to do, you need these. They don't let you flash and they are super comfy. Also if you have a little bit of a sorter dress you can wear these so you don't flash anyone.

Next are my Chacos. Ok well i couldn't find the ones i had online but i found these. But anyways, i love these for camp or for just going out for a little while. They are super comfy and they look so good on everyone. Everybody at my school wears chacos. I know a little weird but we love them.

Now on to the random section...

Fist is Ed Sheeran's new album. I am a HUGE fan of Ed Sheeran. If you knew me you would probably get annoyed by how much I talk about him.. Its a little weird but I love it. If you haven't heard him, go listen to "don't" or "sing" and you will be sold.

Lastly, Champion. If you haven't heard of the legend series, its soo good. I LOVE it. You need to read them. Champion is the third and final book in the trilogy and it goes by sooo fast. You need to read it if you loved divergent. You would love this.

Well thank y'all for reading and have a great day!! LOVE YALL!!

Love,

Caroline

Current Facial Routine

   Hey y'all! So if you can  read you would know that today ill be telling y'all my current facial routine. Now lately i've been keeping up with my routine and ive seen a huge difference in my skin. So lets jump right in!

1. Cleaning

Now i have no other category for this so I'm gonna throw it in here. My clarisonic! I LOVE this thing! 

Oh my word. It cleans my face and exfoliates it. I have noticed my face is brighter and smoother! And it cleans your skin 6x better than your hands can alone! YAY! Now I have to say it is an investment.
 And kinda a splurge. But I think its totally worth it.

2. Cleansing

Again again I know. But I have  cleaner. Not just a cleaning machine. 

Neutrogena has this amazing cleaner that is made for normal sensitive skin. Which is almost the opposite of me. But i do have very sensitive skin but I also have very oily skin. But this stuff is amazing!! It is around $10 for 12 oz. But they also sell it in sample sizes if you want to get a feel for it before you buy it. 

3. Spot treatment

Now I am a HUGE believer of using a spot treatment. And I am a huge fanatic of using natural

products. This is even better than anything I've tried. And I know natural lines like lush, have spot treatments. But for me they slowly cure the spot, and they help make less scars. But i need something fast because I don't wear make up. So this is perfect for me. Its only $7 and it says 100% of people show clearer skin in just one use! Oh my word! I could say i would agree with that statement. I haven't meet one person who didn't like it.






4. Toner
Ok with toner I have two that I LOVE.
     1.Witch hazel. Ok I don't know where I even want to begin. I first off have to say that witch hazel

is kinda like coconut oil in a sense that it has so many uses. It would take up an entire post if i wanted to do that. So I'm gonna just tell y'all what I use it for on my face and how I use it. First i get the rose pedal one, or the lavender one not the plain original kind because of the scent. I am very sensitive about scents and so this is perfect for me. So I use it for measures to make the aging process to go slower. And for an amazing toner that evens out skin tone, texture, and oil. So this is perfect for any skin even acne prone skin because its anti-bacterial. And how I use it: i just put about a nickel size amount in my palm and rub it between my hands and pat it into my skin. It feels so great and if you have oily skin your skin will become lots less oily and make up will last longer. And bonus its alcohol free, and has aloe vera so you don't have to worry about it drying out your skin. It will actually moisturize it.

    2. Tea Tree Water from Lush. It is almost as great as witch hazel. But wallet wise, its not as

reasonable. I got this from a friend for my birthday and I was like NO WAY. I was so excited. Now its in my everyday skin care routine. Once I used half of it I filled it up the rest of the way with witch hazel to make it last longer. Now if you don't have oily, "spot" prone skin lush has other toners. I love their toners in general. And all of their toners are alcohol free and so they won't dry out your skin. (Bonus!) And if you don't know which one to buy, when your at the store you can always ask someone who works there. The people who work there are always super nice and are always willing to help.



5. Moisturizer
Sweet almond oil. Now if you don't know already know if you have oily skin, putting oil on your skin

is actually going to help it. But it is amazing. I will link a few links at the end if you want to read into this because there is just so many benefits and i want y'all to hear them from an expert. But I highly recommend this oil to every one.










Thank y'all for reading this and I hope you try these out. I think they are all worth their money. Disclaimer I was not in contact with any companies for putting these up. And I was not paid to say any of these things. And these are my own personal opinion

http://www.untrainedhousewife.com/9-ways-to-use-sweet-almond-oil

Bath salts

   Hey y'all!! Today I'll be showing you how to make your own bath salts. Now if you were anything like me you are like "What in the world is bath salt?" And its really just a salt you put in your bath for different health and beauty benefits. Now again you might say "But doesn't salt dry out your skin and your body in general?" Now I'm not a scientist so I'm not sure how it works. But all i know is, is that it works. Lets jump right in!!

Ingredients:
1 cup Salt
Essential oil (20-30 drops)
Food coloring(optional)
Dried plants(optional)

How to make:
Now this is VERY simple. You just put everything in a bowl and mix it up. Easy as pie!

Why would I want to use a bath salt?
Well you might have told by a doctor to start using epsom salt baths. Now this is to soothe muscles, relieve pain, and just plain relax.

What kinds of salt could I use?
Now there are many you could use. Like some great options are: epsom, rock, or even just plain old salt. Now I suggest epsom salt because it can be used by anyone. Now usually athletes use this because it will help relieve sore muscles.

I hope y'all try this out!! If y'all do make sure you put it in the comment section below. Have a great day, follow us on pinterest;Pinterest
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Best Of Lush

  Hey guys its Caroline and McKenna and today we're going to be sharing with y'all our favorite products from lush.


About Lush
If you don't know what lush is, lush is a beauty shop where they hand make cosmetics. They're organic and natural products. Everything from soap to makeup, Lush has it all.

McKenna's Favorites

1. cupcake fresh face mask
Cupcake is a fresh face mask made with chocolate, made for young girls with acne

2. Big Blue bath bomb (aka ballistic)
Big Blue is a bath bomb, which are these balls that you put in your bath and explode, made with sea salt and sea weed

3. Love lettuce fresh face mask
Love lettuce is another fresh face mask that is used for normal to oily skin. It contains almonds, lavender, seaweed, and honey to smooth and and soften.

4. Grease Lightning
Grease Lightning is a spot treatment that is made with tea tree and witch hazel to decrease acne, get grime out, and remove oils

5. Porridge
Porridge is one of lushes soaps. In the middle of the store you'll see this table, Filled with massive wedges of soap. I like to think of it has a deli. If you want to spend ten dollars on soap, they'll cut up 10 dollars worth. Made with oats, oranges, molasses, and caramel.

6. Mask of Magnaminty
Mask of Magnaminty is a face mask, one of they're bestsellers, that you don't have to refrigerate. Made with adzuki beans, kaolin, and peppermint, it cools and gives the face a nice soft finish. It's a great product, lasts up to 3 months, and works on every skin type

7. Sexy Peel
This is another lush soap. OMG this smells amazing. Made with orange juice and zesty lime juice.

8. Butter Ball
This is lushes second cheapest bath bomb besides ickle baby bot (the cheapest). Butter Ball is made with cocoa butter and vanilla

9. Godiva
Godiva is a solid shampoo. It's made of jasmine, nut oils, and shea butter and lathers up nicely.

10. Fresh Farmacy
Fresh Farmacy is a calamine cleanser made up of chamomile, rose, lavender, and calamine. It's great for sensitive, troubled skin.


Caroline's Favorite

1. Honey I Washed The Kids
Honey I Washed The Kids is a soap with caramel and honey, with honey comb on top . It is one of their best sellers.

2. Dusting powders
Now these dusting powders help to absorb oils and can be used as a dry shampoo.

3. Tea Tree Toner
This toner I would recommend to all teenagers. Because of its oil absorbing properties and it helps with acne and other skin problems

4.Seanik
Now seanik is one of lush's solid shampoos and if you've ever heard of big this is like the solid version of it. It is suppose to make your hair volumized and shiny.

5. Dusk till dawn
Lush has a huge selection of massage bars. This I believe is the cheapest and smells really nice.

6. Ickle Baby bot
Lush is known for mainly for its bath bombs and bubble bars. And Ickle baby bot is my favorite and the cheapest so you know. It has the most heavenly smell of lavender and jasmine.

7. Angels On Bare Skin
Good cleansers are hard to find these days and all natural is even harder. But Angels on bare skin is one of the best cleansers I've ever used. If you're new to lush cleansers i say buy this one first and you'll be sold.

8. Fun
If you have a kid, want to save money on soap, bubble bars, and shampoo, or just want a new soap these are great. They are like play dough soap. They can also be used as a bubble bar and shampoo.

9. Dream Cream
Now lush's lotions are really expensive and that is the same with this one. It is amazing though. It totally helped my burn and made the appearance  almost disappear.

10. Honey Bee
Now if you've ever smelled honey I washed the kids this is just like that in a bath bomb. Even my mom was like "That smells really good!!" and she sat there and just kept smelling it.

Extra

1. Catastrophe Cosmetic
Lush makes all of their fresh face masks in the store every day. And I also LOVE love lettuce it smells and feels really nice. But catastrophe cosmetic has fresh and local blue berries and calamine and leaves your face silky smooth.

Diy lip scrub

Now today on pinterest I found a post about a lip scrub. And I decided to change it up a bit.  This is perfect for before putting on a dark  lip color to get off all the pieces of dry skin on your lips. And it is a great lip conditioner. And you probably

1. What you'll need:
  1. 1 part sweet almond oil (or any carrier oil of your choice(i have a list of my favorites on another post)
  2. 2 parts White sugar
  3. honey
  4. a small jar or ziploc
Optional
  1. 1 drop of food color
  2. 3 drops of essential oil

2. Steps
  1.mix
     Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix

   2. package
     Now just scoop all the ingredients into you container.

 I added two drops of essential oil and one drop of red food coloring. 

  I hope you guys try this out. Its super simple and easy to make and use. If y'all want me to do a video of how to use the scrub and how to make face and body scrubs like our pins and follow our pinterest.Pinterest

  All of the ingredients are on our pinterest if you want to purchase them online. But you can probably find these ingredients in your kitchen. Hope y'all liked it. See y'all soon!!

DIY lip tint

Hey y'all! Today I'll be showing y'all how to make a tinted lip balm. Now what you be needing is

1. Carrier oil of your choice 1 1/2 part

2. Crayon (the color you want the tint)1/10 part

3. Beeswax or any wax 1 part

4. A tin

Now all you do is put all your ingredients in a heat safe bowl and put it in the microwave safe bowl and put it in the microwave in 30 second bursts until it is melted. Now once it's melted and the color you want you put it in the pot or tin to package it. 

  Now this is very sheer. So don't be expecting a lipstick type tint. And you can find all the ingredients on amazon or find them on our Pinterest. Have a great day. Don't forget to follow our Instagram and Pinterest!

Oil uses

Hey y'all!! Its Caroline and today ill be telling y'all about the uses of different oils. Now im going to tell you guys about three of my favorite oils and their uses. So lets jump into it!

Coconut oil:

Now all the many uses of coconut oil would be an entire post. So lets just name a few of the ones i use the most.
1. Moisturizer
Coconut oil can be used on the body or the face for a moisturizer. This is very simple and cheap. It is antibacterial and anti microbial and its anti fungal so its great for every ski type.
2.Healing
Now coconut oil has all those properties so its great for infections. And it has cell renewal properties so it can help heal scares and can help prevent them. It can also get rid of stretch marks and wrinkles. So anyone can benefit from it
3.Scalp salve
Because of the moisturizing properties it can heal any dry scalp you might have.
4. Heals hair cuticle
You put it on your hair for about a hour and shampoo and condition as usual and will leave your hair shiny, soft, and look healthy
5. Help stay healthy
Coconut oil will naturally heal things like cold soars. And if in taken it can help with hormonal production and keep your temperature regular.

Castor oil

Now castor oil is pretty cheap and has a good amount of uses i'm telling you about the ones I use.
1.Hair growth
Now if you've heard of castor oil uses you've probably heard it can grow your hair nice and long. And if you want long strong eyelashes you can just coat them every night and it will help. And by the way im doing the castor oil challenge so check that out.
2. Cleaning agent
If you've heard of the oil cleansing method for your face every single one says castor oil and a carrier oil. And thats because of its cleaning agents and small molecular structure. And believe it or not its too big to fit into your pores. But it works wonders for the hair and face.

Sweet Almond Oil

1. Lip scrub
I'll be doing a post later on, on a lip scrub and this one just has less ingredients and it is only a few time use. But all you need is 1 tbs of sweet almond oil and 1 tbs of sugar. Mix them together and use this a few days in a row and the sweet almond oil will stay on the lips and moisturize them.
2. Hair cure
Now sweet almond oil is a great oil for the hair and im going to list a few uses for the hair
  1. It will make your hair long strong and thick
  2. It will control hair fall out.
  3. It will prevent split ends
  4. Massaging into the scalp will add shine and makes it soo soft
3.Moisturizer
It will moisturize the skin like crazy!!! You can put some in the hot bath water and it will moisturize and soften the skin. And its a great cheap cuticle cream. It also helps with dry patches on the skin.


Ok yall those were some of my favorite oils and some of their uses. I hope you liked it follow me on pinterest and share these to yalls friends. By the way all the link to where you can buy these oils on my Pinterest board called blog products. If you dont want to buy them online you can easily find it in health food stores like whole foods, akins, and trader joes. Have a great day

natural skincare routine

  Hey guys its Caroline today. And i'm going to do my all natural skincare routine. This routine has many options. I decide what cleanser and moisturizer I use by how I feel my skin is doing. Lets jump right in!

                                                                       Cleansers
  So I'm going to be showing y'all my cleansers first.  First of all i have oily to combination acne prone skin so these work for me but may not work for you. you just have to try them out. But my sister has dry skin and I will also post what she uses too. All the links will be on my pinterest under the board blog products.

This is angels on bare skin by lush. Lush is a all natural company that has amazing products. This cleanser is clay based and is made in the store fresh. It has almonds, lavender, and roses to soothe the skin. And this cleanser is for combination skin but is great for oily skin too because it is clay based so it will draw out impurities.

Next is actually the oil cleansing method. now before you freak out and say "NO WAY!! I'm never going to put oil on my skin!!" And probably if you have oily skin you would skip this. But believe it or not if you have oily skin this is best for you. Because putting oil on your skin will trick your system into making less oil. But I know the chart is hard to read but for oily skin you want 50% castor oil and 50% of a carrier oil. (I will post a list of carrier oils at the bottom of the post) For balanced skin you want 30% castor oil and 70% carrier oil. And for dry skin you want 25% castor oil and 75% carrier oil. Later on I will post a blog about my favorite oils and why you would use them. So if you want to know the best carrier oil for you, you'll be wanting to look for that. And if you want to know more about the oil cleansing method I will pin somethings on Mckenna and my board called blog.

Toner

Now with toners I only have one that I like and it just happens to be natural.

This is witch hazel. Now if you're anything like me and the word toner makes you nervous. This one has no alcohol and is all natural. It is on the pricier side but a little goes a very long way. It is around $9 for 12oz. I have used this for a while and it helps my oil in my face to even out, it moisturizes slightly, and gives your skin a nice healthy glow. I know that most of you dont use toner but if you do your research you  wont regret buying one and you will use one for the rest of your life.

Moisturizers

This is dream cream form lush. And this is kinda a splurge for a moisturizer I know and its a body lotion. But because it is all natural it is great for the face too. I use this on my face at night only because it is a little greasy but besides that it is amazing and has great benefits.

Now if you want a cheaper version this is the way to go. Coconut oil. Now again an oil you are probably freaking out. If you've never heard of coconut oil I have a post about a few of its many beauty benefits. So go check that out. But basically the molecular structure of the oil id too big to get into the pores and clog them. And if you have acne it is anti bacterial so instead of clogging pores it will unclog pores! So for all skin types this is great.

 You're probably thinking another oil? Sweet almond oil. But it has vitamin e to help with fine lines and wrinkles and it will make your skin super soft. And it is anti bacterial so it will actually help pimples. And same with the coconut oil. The molecular structure is too big to get into the pores.

Masks and Scrubs

Mask of magniminty. Now besides from the cool name it actually has peppermint oil magniminty. It has a great cooling sensation to create more blood flow to the skin. It has chocolate bits in it so it looks and smells like mint chocolate chip ice cream. It has kaolin clay so it will harden on the face and pull out any impurities. 

Now for a scrub I use sugar and a carrier oil. The ratio i use is 2:1 two parts sugar one part oil. This is about the consistency of sand. But if you want a drier scrub add less oil if you want a wetter scrub add more oil. Just make it to your liking.

Thats it! I hope you enjoyed. Make sure you share this with friends follow my blog and my pinterest!

Carrier oils:

sweet almond oil

avocado oil

coconut oil

 castor oil

olive oil

and there are many more these are just a few of m favorites!