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Music Festival Fashion for 2016

March 30, 2016

Coachella fashion…be still my beating heart! Seriously though, I LOVE music festival fashion. Therefore it should come as no surprise that I adore the fact people take getting the perfect blend of high fashion meets flower child very, very seriously for Coachella. It makes for fabulous people watching but also admittedly sets the bar pretty high for us mere mortals who lack designer friends and a never ending supply of festival-ready clothing.

In preparation for this year’s festival season I gathered inspiration from the Spring/Summer 2016 shows and blended it with my favorite hippy girl trends to come up with my top festival fashion picks. While I won’t be rocking all of them at Coachella in a few weeks, I have kept my inspiration in mind when selecting my wardrobe for the festival and tried to infuse a little bit of everything throughout.

Image via Cleobella

Music Festival DIY – Gold Foil Bag

March 26, 2016

The release of the Coachella 2016 app signals that the wait is finally over. Festival season is upon us and I could not be more excited! I am quite literally counting down the days until I’m dancing under the desert sky.

In the next few weeks I’ll be revealing my favorite fashion and beauty picks for this year’s festival season and Coachella-specific Music Monday playlists so you can listen along even if you aren’t heading to the polo fields this year. I’ll also be sharing three music festival DIYs that I could not be more excited about because, let’s face it, Coachella can be a bit of a fashion show and it can be hard to feel unique in a sea of crochet, rompers and off-the-shoulder crop tops (most of which I fully admit I’ll be wearing this year). That is why I want to add a bit of individuality to my outfits with a few DIYs that I know will be singular to me. First up is this glam and whimsical gold foil festival bag.

A Natural Approach to Anti-Aging

March 23, 2016

As I have mentioned in the past I have been using heavy duty retinol for several months now. While it has worked miracles on my skin (goodbye acne and the beginning of fine lines and wrinkles) it feels incredibly harsh on my face and often times leaves it dry and peeling. I have known all along that as my skin calmed down and normalized again I would ease off using retinol on a daily basis. It’s a fantastic product and I’m incredibly grateful to have been prescribed it but there are chemicals in it that, in a perfect world, I wouldn’t be applying to my body.

It is well known at this point that our bodies absorb a large amount of topical products into our bloodstreams. What is not fully known is what the long term effects of using products ridden with chemicals will be. In an effort to find a more natural approach to anti-aging and a way to continue using a retinol-like product I jumped at the opportunity to try OZ Naturals’ Super Youth Retinol Moisturizer. I had previously heard of OZ Naturals, a US based company that was founded with a goal to create healthier, efficacious skin care products to help those of us that weren’t born with perfect skin. A quick Google search led me to the product’s Amazon page and the astounding 4.5 star average taken from 2,000+ reviews. I knew there had to be something to a product that many people were raving about.

Sunny weather essentials.

How to Keep Skin Moisturized In Dry Weather

March 9, 2016

The combination of dry winter air and prescription strength retinol has wreaked complete havoc on my skin. For months it has been alternating between dryness and peeling, at times staging all out revolts against me. It has been a really fun time.

That in mind, you can imagine how excited I was to team up with Valentia Skin Care to put their new Royal Rose Hydrating Serum to the test. Valentia’s products are formulated solely with natural and organic components that are combined to repair and protect skin. Since one of my goals for the year is to move towards using safer and more natural skin care and makeup products, I was thrilled to try out this serum and see if it could make a difference on my skin.

Keep Skin Moisturized with Hydrating Serum

New Year’s Eve Beauty

December 14, 2015

I have historically been one to stick to fairly simple and classic hair and makeup looks. It is coming as a surprise that as I get older I’m finding myself increasingly interested in experimenting with my look and learning new tips and tricks. I’m ready to mix things up a bit! That is why I am especially loving these four New Year’s Eve beauty and hair picks; they are the complete opposite of what I would normally be inclined to wear. I want to push the boundaries of my comfort zone in 2016 and there is no better time to start than the second the clock strikes midnight on January 1.

Top New Year’s Eve Beauty Picks

This is such a fresh and relatively easy to duplicate look – bronzed skin, flushed cheeks, lashes for days and a barely-there nude lip.

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