The Juicy Beauty Word

Hello friends! (This post updates monthly.) I don't know if you know about this interesting tidbit about Zoya, they have been making a special color of the month in addition to their seasonal color collections!  The Color of the Month began in 2023. These are limited edition colors, so you must grab them before they sell out. You can find the Zoya Color of the Month on the Zoya website.  I have included my Amazon Affiliate links to help you find great deals on things I use. I earn a small amount from qualifying purchases at no cost to you. Thank you for using them!  💕 This post will be an on going post where I update the colors as Zoya sends them. Enjoy! The Zoya Color of the Month Colors April 2024 Candy Meet Candy! She is the Zoya Color of the Month for April. Candy is a light, bright, white candy pink cream. A perfect pastel Barbie pink that will look beautiful on any skin tone. Look at this fabulous pink T shirt! 🠟 March 2024 Lucky What could be more springy than this super f

Hello my friend. Happy New Year! I haven't been focusing on my blog sorry to say. There have been so many distracting events and emotions going on with me. The number one event being my mother moving from independent living at her retirement community, to memory care, to full blown nursing care within one year. Dementia is stealing her away. Her symptoms lead us to believe she has frontotemporal dementia.  She still seems to know who the family is, but she no longer talks or expresses any emotions or does any daily care for herself. It's heartbreaking. The bright side is she appears to be very peaceful where she is with no anxiety. All this has lead me to do quite a bit of soul searching and digging deep into topics like what is the meaning of life and why are we even here on this earth. Heavy duty stuff. I can be hard on myself, feeling that what I do just isn't good enough or meaningful enough. It's negative energy that no one should be emitting.  So, I am working to

Here is your annual reminder to protect your skin as you decorate this holiday season. My daughter called me out for not following my own advice after my arms got all scratched up handling our artificial tree! 🎄 It's tim e to get the house looking festive for the holidays and lucky for me, I have plenty of helpers.😸  That means putting lights and decorations not only on indoor Christmas trees, but on outside trees and bushes as well resulting in scratches and rashes on hands and arms in the process!  It happens every time for me with both real and artificial trees.  People can be allergic to the sap or rosin that evergreen trees produce causing painful, burning rashes on the skin. It can be similar to a poison ivy rash for some people. The pricks and scratches from the pine needles exacerbate the allergic reaction.  The sap may not be the only allergen. Real Christmas trees can have pollen, mold and fungus on them which can cause skin rashes and other allergic reaction