All Nighter

Hey dears. It's quite exciting to say that Hayden has been officially sleeping through the night for about 3 weeks now. Yes that's right at 3.75 months he's sleeps through the whole night & by whole night I mean 7:00-5:30. Amazing right?!

Let me quickly take you through how I got him into his little routine. Hayden is usually at daycare 5 days a week, which he stays up majority of the time he's there or so they tell me. So once we get home from about 5:20-6:15 we have a little mat play time and then a little cuddle time before bath time. 

Around 6:30 we start bath time & after that we lotion up and put on a sleeper. After that I give him a bottle with a syringe of Nighttime Gripe Water and after he has a good burp I swaddle him & he's usually out a short time later to go into his bassinet. After that I'm free to do whatever and I just randomly check on him until I go to bed. I set my morning alarm for 5:00 am & get everything together so that I can wake him up at 5:30 am and get him ready & fed.

Let me say this too, he knows his routine. If were not home around 6:30-7ish you can see his mood start to change because he usually bathed, fed, & asleep. Routines are important, so so important & what worked for me may not work for you. You just have to find what works well with your daily life & your little one & just roll with it.

Pure Brazilian Miracle |Review

Hey dears. In a recent post I mentioned this product as something I use in my hair after every wash & it's such a great product so I wanted to post a little review.

I originally got a small sample size bottle in a prior subscription box & to say that I fell for it, well that part is known as I've brought a full size bottle. 

It's a leave in conditioner & after I finish washing my hair, I spray this throughout my hair, along with a few other products, & give it a good brush through. It smells amazing & leaves my hair really soft & healthy looking. I got mine off of Amazon for $20.

Luxury Lush Pud | LUSH

Hey dears. This little one was something I had lying around from Christmas time so I figured why not give it a go. I'm pretty sure I've had this one in the past & may or may not have written a post about it, but oh well!

This little fella is from Lush. As you can see it's quite the colorful one. Mainly consist of pink & a white top with spots of blue, yellow, & green. Smells of lavender (love) & leaves you with pretty pink water. The little piece of holly stays a float a bit once the rest has dissolved & will eventually dissolve itself. Still love this one!

Maintaining Naturally Curly Hair vs Straight Hair

Hey dears. Let's talk hair. I have naturally curly, frizzy hair & let me be honest it can be a pain sometimes. You always hear people with straight hair saying they wish they had curly hair & I can say I wish my hair would be peacefully straight sometimes. With my type of hair I either let it air dry after a wash to get my curls or if I blow dry it I have to straighten it or else it frizzes out like a lions mane, yes like an actual lions mane. 

For my curls, after a good wash & condition I spray in BB Curl Primer, Pantene Detangler, &  Pure Brazilian Leave In Conditioner. After that I give it a good brush through with my tangle teezer (God send!),  I let it air dry, & tada curls!

* To style once it's dry I just add in a little Aussie Aussome Volume Texturizing hair gel & Aussie Mega Aerosol Hairspray.

For my straight hair, after a good wash & condition I again use my Pantene Detangler & Pure Brazilian Leave in Conditioner & give it a brush through with my tangle teezer. After spraying my hair down with Phyto Keratine Repairing Thermal Protectant Spray & I give it a good blow dry & then I'm able to move on to my Sephora straightener, tada straight hair! (I usually get a "did you put extensions in your hair? No, no I didn't.") 

* To style my straight hair I just basically touch it up every morning to make it all nice & straight again & God forbid it be raining or be to humid. (que lion mane again) I mainly wear it straight during the winter months because that is my safety proof net.

Now after all that hard work on either occasion before I leave my house I toss my hair into a hair ban... I know why would I do all that work to just put it up?? Well let me tell you I've never been a person to wear my hair down unless I really really have too. Sad but it's true. 

Does you hair need as much maintenance??

Deck of Scarlet | Edition No. 01

Hey dears. I'm excited to say that I received my first Deck of Scarlet palette! if you're not sure what that is you can check out my post here. 

The packaging is just so cute! At first glance this is such a beautiful summery palette. You can get multiple looks from each. So lets break it down. 

Eye Shadows: Fudge, Sunshine, Mermaid

Lip Color: Coral Kiss, Almond

Highlighter: Halo

Cheek Color: Sandstorm

Eye Liner: Chameleon

Lip Liner: Cake Pop

This past weekend I gave this palette a go and this is the look I came out with. Now I'm not a professional make up artist but I don't think it came out to bad.

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Sigma Beauty Express Brush Cleaning Mat

Hey dears. So this little beauty is a new find from Sigma. It's a silicone mat that suctions to the bottom of you sink for you to use to give your make up brushes a good clean. As you can see it has 7 different textures you can use for your brushes. It does give you advice on which texture may be of better use to a certain brush. I've used this for the past 2 weeks & I can honestly say I love it. I find it gives my brushes a deeper cleansing wash that you cannot really get when you would normally wash them. You can get this straight from Sigma for $32 with a free 2 year warranty. My personal opinion it's definitely worth it.

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Happy Easter

Deck of Scarlet Subscription

 Hey dears. So you know I have a love for make-up subscriptions, well this is a new one I stumbled upon. It called Deck of Scarlet & basically like the picture says you pay $29.95 every other month & you get this amazing palette that has 2 cream lip colors, 3 eye shadows, a highlighter, a cheek color, a lip liner, & a eye liner. It was created by beauty bloggers & youtubers who have gotten together to arrange these beautiful palettes. I did however cancel my Ipsy & Sephora subscription for the time being because I was starting to get and over run of beauty supplies, so I figured it was 1 step up from having multiple little pieces to a full palette. I know that insane to say but it's true. I will however eventually resubscribe to them.

I cannot wait until I get mt first palette in & I believe it is the palette pictured below. Again look how beautiful it is.