Shameless plug......

Well So I am sure people might not care about this.... but when I find a product line I am THIS excited about I had to share..... Now as an Esthetician I sort of feel like it is my professional duty to only promote "professional" products. Since I started Esthetic school in 2004 I have used nothing but professional products. Some I liked some I didn't.

After the salon closed in summer 2009, I no longer had access to ordering my favorite products from Dermalogica because unfortunately you have to have an account with such companies and well in these economic times I do not have 2k to spend on opening an account and it is sold in other salon/spas but I would have to pay retail... GULP GULP and I just couldn't bring myself to do it..... ok finished with this tangent....

ANYWAYS... on a trip to Sally Beauty I decided to try the Beyond Belief skin care. I thought hey this is in-expensive and it will get me through for now. At the time I bought the product I was experiencing a lot of clogged pores and my skin was just BLAH!! I had read some reviews online about the products but I am a BIG believer in testing things for myself. This product claims to be developed by professionals, but a LOT of product lines claim that and well they suck.

So I bought the Vit. C foaming cleanser (pictured above left) and I FELL IN LOVE!! on the front of the bottle it says that is removes all traces of dirt and make-up... I can verify that it DOES!! Best of all?? It does this with-OUT stripping my skin! After like using it for a week I no longer had the clogged pores! Amazing.... I will of course not guarantee that for all who use it but I can tell you it made a difference in my skin! It was soft and supple. I actually did not HAVE to put moisturizer on right away!

I have SUPER SUPER oily skin so I also got the oil-free moisturizer... WOW! I noticed a decrease in the oily, heavy-ness of my skin in the first use!! My forehead is still quite oily but no where near what it was before! Also it goes on GREAT under make-up. I usually have to wait a few minutes before applying my makeup after I moisturize... not with this!



As I am quickly approaching my 30's I have been very diligent in using an under-eye, wrinkle reducing, make me young and beautiful forever, erase the bad nights sleep under eye cremes. Since I had loved the cleanser I thought I would try the Vit C nourishing eye treatment. For several years I had this millia, clogged pore thing under my right eye... really close to my lash line. As an esthetician I know that these things happen in the eye area and really the only way to get rid of it is to see a dermatologist. Mine was small... no larger than the head of a pin so I didn't bother me much. After using this eye cream for 1 week I noticed that this thing looked kinda like an ingrown hair.. So I kinda picked at it and it came off!! Just off! It didn't hurt but it just sloughed off..Looking back I think it was an ingrown eyelash. But wow this eye cream sloughed it off without irritating my skin!



As I mentioned before my skin is SUPER oily. I saw this serum that claims to refine your skins texture and even skin tone with Alpha Beta Hydroxy acids. Now most OTC products have some ABH but in a concentration that usually just irritates the skin. Not this product!! At first I was using it everyday and I noticed my skin was getting a little sensitive so I have cut back to every-other day. LOVE IT! I did use it last night and then decided to wax my eyebrows... not a brilliant idea since these acids tend to thin your skin and make it prone to ripping. Well this is true.. I do not apply this on my eyebrows but still.


In conclusion I would just like to recommend these products to my friends and family if you are looking for some new, inexpensive skin care. I still use some professional products, there are just some that cannot be duplicated. But I will let people know that the Beyond Belief Skin care is a personal favorite of mine and they offer a wide variety of products.

Today might suck but the future sure is looking BRIGHT!!!

This is me being MAD at January 2010

So the month of January pretty much sucked. Ya, no other word for it. It sucked. I was sick pretty much the ENTIRE month! At Christmas I got the croup.. THEN got an infected tonsil. 2 weeks later I got a NASTY sinus infection. Here comes round 2 of antibiotics (which I JUST finished). Also, there was a lot going on the family front... A lot. I attended 2 very, very, very sad funerals in less than 1 month.

We lost a dear friend, Charlie. Charlie took his own life soon after the New Year. This is a great loss to all those that knew him and he is going to be greatly missed.

The second service I attended was for my Cousin Jessis' baby. Jessi was due in early March but suffered some complications and the baby did not survive. This was the first funeral for a baby I have ever been too. I truly hope it was my last! This little angel is going to be greatly missed but loved even more. Going to this service to support my amazing cousin I took the time to reminisce about our wild youth. Jessi and I used to, in her mom's words, "Raise hell." Haha and well that wasn't too far from the truth. Jessi and I liked to have a good time and one could be had no matter where we went.

This is me being happy about February 2010

February started off pretty great. The family stuff is 90 times better.... I am not sick... and I have some AWESOME things coming up.... wanna know what they are? Well here goes.

This is Cami, Lor and Nikki 2007

In April I am going to sunny ST. GEORGE with 3 of my favorite people! Nikki, Cami and Lor Lor! This will be a MUCH MUCH needed girls trip. We are going to hang out, eat crap, shop and um be crazy girls! Soo excited... I just wish ALL of my favorite girls could come... oh man that would BE AMAZING and we would need a really really big house, a fire extinguisher, a slip and slide.. and well basically it would be like the playboy mansion without being skanky and gross! HAHA. What can I say? All my friends are beautiful!!!!!

These are some of my beautiful friends!

After St. George I (WE) are going on our annual Billings, Montana trip. This trip is always so so so so much fun. 9 hours in the car on snowy highways isn't so fun but man the people that go make dying in the wilderness worthwhile :0) I hope I didn't just jinx us... hmm... scratch that last bit about dying in the wilderness......

Kathy, Mark, Danny and Me 2009

A few weeks ago I took HarLee and Jade to the mall. Ya.. what was I thinking!? It actually was pretty fun. I think Jade was more traumatized. He had to go in a lot of girl-y stores and well we went to Ulta and Jade saw his first um..... homosexual wearing make-up. Needless to say it was an experience he won't soon forget.... and neither will I!!

Aariel and Har
while at the mall Har and I got some matching "glasses" they are not prescription but boy oh boy we look cute in them! Aariel could not be left out of this.......... Har ditched us to go to a stake dance.... but to make it up to me she let me do her make-up. I think I did an awesome job...

Me and Har in our glasses