Sportin’ my first February 2012 outfit of the work week. Hope everyone had a great week. I find that lately Tuesday’s are really hard to get through and I don’t know why. It’s almost like I don’t feel like doing anything. It’s been going on like that for now two Tuesdays in a row, haha.

Also! Stay tuned for tomorrow as I’m going to be doing a giveaway for something from the Erin Condren store—her site is super great and keeps an organized person happy. I need to pick up one of the personalized journals on there. Anyway, I won’t get into it too much, as you’ll see tomorrow morning. Be sure to come back! But for now I’m going to show you my OOTWW and play a little more of yoyoplay for yomega before I head into work.

Care to share what your favorite outfit that you wore this week?

With the amount of giggling that Julie and I do, you would think that we haven’t seen each other in months and had tons of catching up to do. That’s what our server at the local Boston Pizza up the road, thought of us when we dropped in for lunch randomly on Monday afternoon. No, we just work across the hall from each other and make everyone want to work with us when we go out and have fun.

We love pizza! This is my excited face.

Can you please take our picture for my blog Mister Danny server guy? Thanks friendly man!

Jule-ster had a coupon to use. She’s a learnin’! Saving money = awesome.Full on sugar pepsi. This girl’s gonna be hyper. A personalized Rustic Italian, for the lil’ Italian lady.  Looks like love, right? I had a deluxe pizza, and I posed kinda creepy looking so you’re not going to get to see that one.

By the end of our lunch hour, we were the only one’s in the entire restaurant and couldn’t get our server’s attention for more (!!) pepsi, and our bill at the end of the lunch. Plus, heck man—we were on a time limit. We only got an hour for lunch. It was a tad annoying.

Love breaking up the day with a lunch time date with a co-worker (and not having to get HCG shots Austin done)! So fun!

How I Style… edition 11, moses!

Last week you saw how I styled my favorite brown cardigans. This week isn’t much different. It’s how I style beige cardigans! Ha.There’s a lot. Again. Don’t need a degree online to know I like my neutrals.

Check out previous How I Style posts below:

Week 1 // Week 2 // Week 3 // Week 4 // Week 5 // Week 6 // Week 7 // Week 8 // Week 9 // Week 10 //

ANOTHER surprise giveaway for you guys today! I didn’t realize that Tropicana wanted me to publish my blog post before the end of January so here I am trying to get this together for you guys. My coupons haven’t arrived in the mail yet—they’re getting sent in from the United States. But I wanted to post the giveaway up so you guys can be eligible to win a $50 Spa & Wellness Gift Cards by Spa Week.

I also wanted to mention the new juice that came out which is called Trop50. It has 50% less sugar and calories with no artificial sweeteners. You can even get a coupon code for $1.00 off Trop50 and enter a  sweepstakes  for a $1000 gift card (no purchase necessary). You just have to tell them what your New Years resolution was. It ends today though, so hurry on over and see Official Rules for details.

What is Trop50?

The reason I had no trouble posting the giveaway is that I remember trying the Trop50 juice out back in August when I was in San Diego for BlogHer, not that you guys would be getting it – the winner remember will get a $50 gift card to Spa Week. Back to Trop50: It was refreshing, and I remember drinking the pink flavored one which is appropriately called pink lemonade.

1 Winner will be chosen for the $50 gift card, and it’s only open to residents of the USA. Enter below:  

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I don’t know whether it’s because I simplified my makeup routine in January or if it’s the new Marcelle BB cream, but in the mornings after I get out of the shower and moisturize my face, I feel like I’m not as red and splotchy looking on my cheeks.

Here are three photos of me getting ready for work this morning.

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Left-to-right:

1. No Makeup.
2. Moisturized then Marcelle BB Cream on top.
3. Eyelashes curled (taking a break from mascara) then bronzer, and blush added.

The Marcelle BB cream photographs a little light I’ve noticed which is kind of a pain. I honestly didn’t think I would like this product as much as I did, and I’m surprised that I’m using it every day. I do feel that I still require some bronzer and blush to make my face not look as flat, where as the Laura Mercier foundation, I don’t always need to do that.

The BB cream only comes in two shades, and I presume I was sent the lightest one but I can’t be sure. But I’m definitely pleased with this product, it even made it into my Skin Saviors post, and I’m definitely going to use the entire tube of it.

A few weeks ago, I had an allergic reaction and my eyes puffed up. I didn’t even look like myself when I looked in the mirror. It was the strangest thing. After the swelling went down my eyes started to get parched and dry out so much it looked red, scaly and ever so painful. Thankfully it wasn’t. It just felt dry to me.  I’d like to spare you the details but I think it’s necessary to show you what my eyes used to look like.

This is the biggest photo you’re going to get, the real deal. No need to send over anyone in a medical uniform. When it was enlarged you could see on my cheeks that the skin looked taut and pulled so tight it was creating lines on my upper cheeks. So gross.

I minimized what I wore on my face for weeks, and only used three products in the morning which included my mascara and foundation and only two at night. I’ll get more into that below. This photo was taken two weeks after my flare up. I noticed a few hours later that my skin was still parched and I probably shouldn’t have used a thicker concealer under my eyes. I ended up using a Lise Waiter cream concealer wheel that morning to make my eyes brighter. Unfortunately in this photo you can’t see how bad it looked in real life. I guess I’m thankful that the camera didn’t pick up the flaky skin under my eyes. Lucky for you, you don’t really have to see. Just take my word for it :)

The products that ended up saving my skin altogether happened, literally overnight.

My neighbors back home both work in the health field (The Mrs reads my blog, so hello Mrs. W!) and I e-mailed them asking if I could use Vitamin E oil on my face as an intensive moisturizer. I’ve read that you can buy capsules of Vitamin E oil and break them and use them one at a time. However, we had a bottle of it on hand as we used to use it on our Hedgehog’s quills before he passed away.

My nightlight routine has changed drastically! I used to just use a moisturizer not knowing how to keep my skin replenished and moisturized. It always got so tight after I washed my face with any kind of cleansers.  I present to you, my skin saviors.

In the morning and evening: The first thing I do is always moisturize my under eyes and orbital bone area with the Desonide cream (what is Desonide? Find out here) which I got from the dermatologist since I had eczema on my eyelids one winter. This has been the main help in repairing my eyes lately.

Next the  Bioderma cream goes all over my face and neck. I have to use about three pumps of this cream to cover my face since my skin wants to sop up everything I put on it. No trouble using it all up though, this is a product I got in one of my makeup baskets that I won off Twitter (and blogged about here).

The white tube of  “BB Cream Lab Sample” is my Marcelle BB cream that I mentioned here. This is like a foundation for me, so I obviously put it on only during the morning.

The Life brand Vitamin E oil is a very thick, sticky consistency. I only put this on about  half hour before I go to bed. Underneath is the prescription eczema cream and I wait for that to soak in before I put on the Vitamin E oil. I always wake up with really soft skin near my eyes. Loving this combo!

I had two trial sized bottles of Kiehl’s midnight recovery serum that I used all up this month, and I loved it. I would’ve included it in my skin saviors but I ran out.

My skin is in no way 100% just yet. Once a week I try to go back and use some sort of creamy or liquid under eye concealer, but it ends up being cakey within 20 minutes. It’s ridiculous. So, I guess I’ll have to wait another while yet before it’s fully repaired.

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It’s Friday, the snow is falling super lightly making it picture-perfect, and it’s payday. What could be better! Happy weekend!!

What are everyone’s plans?

Here’s my OOTWW:

I’m loving Monday and Fridays outfit. How about you? :)

Don’t forget to watch the download videos shown in my previous post, to catch up on my YouTube channel!

Just a quick blog post. If you haven’t seen already I’m on Topboxes Facebook page and am featured on their blog! Hee hee.

Read their blog.

See me on Facebook.

I’m on the hunt for a new wallet.

I don’t carry much cash on me, but when I do there isn’t much room for it because the wallet I”m currently using isn’t really a wallet. I guess it’s like a coin purse. I purchased it online (I forget where) and it’s a Juicy Couture brand.

While I do still love the wallet, I just need a change right now. Plus, it’s looking a little rough around the edges. Literally. Zipper on the first pocket is ripped off and sitting inside the pocket.

Here are some of my recent favs, but not omg must-haves. Know what I mean? None of them really stick out to me. But I thought I’d show you what I’m looking at, ha! Until then, I will wait til one sticks out. Just like my blue one did two years ago.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

What kind of wallet do you carry around? Take a photo and show me! :)

What are everyone’s plans for this wonderful late January evening? I was thinking of going to CrossFit but I also have to help a friend look for Occupational Health & Safety Technician Jobs. I think I’ll end up doing both though.