Beauty and skincare DIY
Homemade Sea Salt Hair Spray
Sharing a recipe for homemade sea salt hair spray you can make on the cheap (with better ingredients) and also add as a little gift or stocking stuffer. Hi friends! How’s the week going so far? I hope you are having a great summer si far! For today’s post, I wanted to share a super…
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DIY Hand Soak for Dry Hands
Sharing a recipe for a DIY hand soak you can use for dry hands this winter. Hi hi! How are you doing today?? I’m getting in a quick workout and then studying for IHP the rest of the afternoon. I really want to finish Level 2 in the next couple of months. I hope you…
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DIY brown sugar body scrub
Friends, we have a bit of a Sephora problem. While I’m pretty sure it’s the basis behind all things Sephora, I go in for new mascara and well, you know how it goes. (photo source) I shared some of my latest beauty faves here, but (collective sigh of relief) failed to mention the hundreds of…
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Homemade Orange Honey Body Wash
I told the Pilot that it’s time to prepare… my hippie is about to be unleashed in a serious way. Never before have I been in a land where all of these natural options are at my fingertips. I fondly remember the time in Tucson when I called a natural health store to see if…
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Homemade rose lip balm
Rose-flavored and scented things? Nope, not obsessed at all 😉 I’m not obsessed with lip glosses, either. (<– try telling that to my husband who just found one in his car… minus the lid… melting everywhere. Yikes.) Ok, so I kind of have a problem with both of the aforementioned beauty pleasures. I stock up…
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DIY Bath Bombs
Two things officially turned me into a bath person: our tub, which is much larger than any we’ve had in the past and LUSH bath bombs. It’s a huge deal, as I’ve always preferred showers, but there’s something seriously awesome about sitting in a super hot bathtub with your hair in a messy bun, a…
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DIY: refreshing rose facial spray
There are so many beautiful and extremely different personalities in our work locker room. We have the dancers, the spinners, the hardcore ass-kickers (that’s their official title), the yogis and more. Some flow from one type to the next–like the same airy fairy yoga instructor can kill you in bootcamp class. It’s amazing. I learn…
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Meg: DIY Bleach Pen
I wanted to thank everyone for their input in the comment section of the Self-Tanner post! I’m looking forward to trying out some of the recommendations 🙂 In other news, my best friend and I tested out an extremely easy DIY the other day! The cost of this fun little project was under $4 and…
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Meg: Winter Lip Care DIY
Lip scrub can be the key to helping your winter-dry lips when lip balm on its own isn’t cutting it. Here’s a simple, homemade lip scrub that you can keep on hand to use in a pinch. Perpetually chapped lips are something I have always dealt with. Even armed with a medicated chap stick, I…
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Face mask
You listened to me rant and rave about the Clarisonic, which I love. Well, I have discovered the cherry on top that certainly completes my skincare beauty routine! You may have heard of BB Cream, and if you haven’t, you’re in for a real treat! BB creams (the double B’s stand for beauty balm) are essentially…
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At-home Beauty Mask
If you could Photoshop yourself on a daily basis, would you? The truth is, many of us have skin issues. We have things we don’t like. But we have what we have, we should rock what got, and fix what we can. (source) I have always been diligent about taking care of my skin,…
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Avocado hair mask
Hi guys! How are you?? Hope you’re having a lovely morning! <3 To start things off, the winner of the macaroons giveaway: Congrats, Eileen!! Send me your shipping info (fitnessista at gmail dot com) and I’ll get them in the mail tomorrow 😀 If you didn’t win the giveaway, no need to fret 😀 The…
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