New Year, New Me is what you will hear for at least the next
two- three weeks and rightfully so. As
2016 marked the beginning of the Apocalypse-2017 can only be epically better or
epically worse. I’ve had some highlights
personally and professionally as well as some personal and professional lows.
Rather than waste these last few days of 2016 in a vegetable state, I decided to
make an early effort to get back on track on a number of things, beginning with
this blog as well as better health habits and skincare. Why the last two- well
a chick may look young but, I ain’t and to at least trick these cats into
thinking I’m in my late twenties, I have to keep up both mind and body.
With health, I know what I’m supposed to do; I just need to
apply it. So I’ve cut back on my culprits (sugar, sugar and sugar) and eat more
whole foods. I get hungry because my meals
are to light so bye, bye fries and hello to cauliflower and of course, I treat
myself when I deem it necessary. Along
with being honest about my diet, I’ve switched up my workouts. I purchased a
Groupon to ILoveKickboxing a franchise that has an amazing martial arts program
as well as kickboxing class that really pushes my body to the limit. I found
that I take it easy on myself which is why I haven’t seen that much change from workouts, with a drill sergeant
in my ear, I can increase my stamina and drop some pounds as well.
I’ve always been very conscious of my skin, I hit puberty
pretty early and as an adult I can say that I didn’t have brutal issues of
acne, but growing up I felt like I had
the worse skin in the world and it mostly came from grownups. Now as an adult,
I know the breakouts were a combination of hormones, and not changing
pillowcases and wash clothes on a regular basis but, I don’t have any facial
scars more mental. No teenage girl wants to be called pimply face. Nonetheless,
partially for creating this blog I became obsessed with skincare and as I got
older and ignored the negativity, I realized I didn’t have bad skin, I had
typical teenage skin. In the past few
months, I fell off of my routine and found and just the basics, cleansing and moisturizing . At
one point, I completely stopped exfoliating, and couldn’t remember the last
time I did a mask or a peel and my skin was reflecting that so I said to
myself, do you want to look like a dingy dingo in 2017 or do you want to have
that bright ass skin you’re known for?
Ulta Beauty is always a great way to get your beauty fix.
With a host of brands from luxury to well known drugstore brands, Ulta has
created a community of beauty product junkies, who can get their hands on their
favorite brands without going broke. So what’s a girl to do with tons of reward
points and feeling not to cute- buy something because retail therapy is
sometimes cheaper than ObamaCare. I’ll
breakdown my haul in another post but what I was super excited about were my RoC Daily Resurfacing Disks, an oldie
but goodie, I mentioned when I first started this blog. The disks are dual sided where one side offers a self
foaming cleanser and the other is a
light exfoliant. It is suppose to diminish the look of fine lines and wrinkles
but because Black doesn’t crack, I don’t worry about that instead looking for a
light exfoliant that can get me to brighter
skin as opposed to the dullness I’ve subjected myself to these past few
months. The Daily Resurfacing Disks are
gentle enough to use daily and excellent to take off eye makeup but I prefer an
every other day usage as well as a good
scrub on my neck and behind my ears.
With 28 disks in a container
there is pretty much a month’s supply but here’s a trick, cut them in
half and you will have enough to last two months- thank me later.
So what new habits are you looking to kick off in the New
Year? What beauty, health habits do you want to leave behind?
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