2014 Beauty Resolutions AND Beauty Challenge!

Hello lovely readers! I know it's been a long, long time since you've heard from me and for that I apologize. However, you'll be hearing much more from me soon because as my main resolution (other than getting a full-time job when I graduate, because duh) is to write a blog post for you all at least once a week! I wish I was one of those bloggers who's compelled to write a new post every day but I just don't have that much time in my day, so this is what I'm committing to for now!

To start off the year, I've made a few beauty resolutions! My main ones are:

1. Wear less makeup
This is a really important one because for years and years I've caked my face in makeup to cover up my bad skin. I'm oily, sensitive AND acne prone which is pretty much the worst of everything, and I've always been very insecure about it. I've been coming to terms with my skin, and this year I want to minimize my makeup to streamline my routine and do more with less.

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2. Focus on skin care and improving skin health
This goes along with wearing less makeup. I'd like to find a beauty routine and stick to it for a while. What I'm doing right now has been pretty effective, and I want to tweak my routine just a little then stop messing with my skin!

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3. Continue to master the cat eye
I love love love this look and I want to get even better at it. I'm gonna share a super easy cat eye tutorial with you soon, but I'd like to master it to the point that I get it right every time!

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4. Wear more red lipstick
Red has really become my power color but I find that I really only wear it when I'm going to work (I work at a makeup store). So silly! I want to show my color off to the world, and not worry so much what other people think of it. I love red and I'm proud!

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Finally, I've set a sort of beauty challenge for myself that I'm really excited to share with you! To give you a bit of back story, I'm a bit of a beauty product hoarder, and I'm that girl who hoards all the toiletries from hotel room! This past summer I wound up with about 100 bottles of shampoo and conditioner from various hotels and I distilled them all into one big bottle. It's been about 4 months and I still have a fair amount of product left. SO my beauty challenge for 2014 is that I'm not going to buy a single shampoo or conditioner until I've used ALL of the hotel shampoos and conditioners I've accumulated! I have some really nice product, from Le Labo to Bvlgari to H2O+, so I'm excited to treat my hair like it's on vacation every day! To give you an idea of what that's going to look like...

Left is shampoo, right is conditioner. And yes, those are gallon-size Ziploc bags.

Wish me luck dear readers, you'll be hearing from me soon! =) 

xoxo <3