Category: Beauty

Beauty, Friends of Mine, Women

Bunnies! Panties! Girls!

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Girls’ Night In tonight.  It was a great party courtesy of Amanda, the amazing sugar waxer from Bella Bunni Spas, and her magical massage therapist, Brenda.  Not only did they bring the spa to us, they brought gift certificate giveaways–really good ones, too.

Another great Girls Night In with these fantastic ladies. Some of my best friends in the world!

Amanda and Brenda bring the spa to your party, and make pretty delightful guests themselves!

Amanda and her sugar waxing set up–she turned our office into a spa!
Brenda brought her massage chair and worked out all the knots.

It was a simple spread tonight, just some snacky things to beat the munchies, and a few fun drinks.  Tasha had specially requested a drink called Pink Panties, and I think we were all pretty glad she had!  Mmmm.

Simple snack spread including summer sausage bites and cheese, asparagus tarts, hummus and pretzel chips, and chocolate covered almonds and malted milk balls.
Angela brought margaritas, and Tasha requested the Pink Panties.

Pink Panties Recipe:

  1. 1 can of Pink Lemonade concentrate
  2. 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream
  3. 1 cup of frozen strawberries
  4. 3/4 cup top shelf Vodka

Drop your strawberries and pink lemonade in the blender, and liquefy, then add the ice cream and vodka and blend until smooth.  Designate a driver, then Serve immediately.

Jamie (who can make ANYTHING) brought homemade limoncello that was fantastic!  Halfed with lemonade, it was even tastier.  Definitely need a designated driver for that one, though.  Whoo!

Thank you so much to Brenda, Amanda, and Jacque for bringing the spa to the party, and we were wowed by the great gift certificates! Check out Bella Bunni and get the girls together at your place!

 

 

Beauty, Style

And You Tell Two Friends, And They Tell Two Friends

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My friend, Chad, posted a beauty tip today, and I had to try it out.  He said:

–if you take vitamin C tablets and crush them into powder, put them into some dandruff shampoo or clarifying shampoo, leave it on your head for an hour – it will totally strip away about 3 shades of color.

Now, I’ve been struggling with getting my hair back to a more natural shade since January.  I gave myself a very bad dye job, then started seeing a great stylist, who has been working me back to normal.  I have been getting a partial foil of highlights from the crown forward, and doing a rinse over bottom back of my hair to hide the red.  But as the rinse wears out, I end up with forty different shades of hair, and it’s not nice.  I have an appointment this coming Saturday, so if I was going to try anything that would potentially do horrible things to my color, now was the time.

That’s Chad, my new beauty guru, at the bottom there. I am in the middle of a gorgeous Kimmie/Kerri sandwich. I have such awesome friends! And good looking.  I also have a huge hunk of spinach in my teeth.  Gross.

I grabbed some Selsun Blue and Vitamin C while I was at the grocery store.  Now, I could only find chewable Vitamin Cs, and I wasn’t sure how many to use, so I chewed up about 4 of them, and I think about 2.5 of those made it into the shampoo mixture.  Yes, I am just that gross.

Anyway, I put the mixture on my head while I worked on making sweet potato chips (epic failure for looks, but omg so good!) and washed it off a little while ago using my regular shampoo and conditioner.  It worked!

My highlights are as bright as their first day, the bottom back of my hair has stripped down to one chestnut shade (which is quite nice), and my hair feels like silk.  That last part is my favorite.  It’s been feeling stiff and yucky lately, so this is a very nice change!