One brand of cosmetics that has a great quality and is easy on the pocketbook is e.l.f. e.l.f (Eyes, Lips, Face) Cosmetics is brand that is known for being super affordable (prices start at $1) yet still having good quality. At first you could only find e.l.f products on their site but now you can even find them in your local Target! Here are
10 Favorite Items from Past Birchboxes
“This post contains affiliate links. For more information please visit my disclosure page.” According to the tracking my Birchbox should be here tomorrow (WOOT, WOOT!) so I thought a cool post would be took back at some of my favorite items from past Birchboxes. Here are my top 10 favorite items from past Birchboxes. 1 | Embryolisse Moisturizer – $28.00 2 | Shea Terra Whipped Shea
OPI Gargantuan Green Grape Swatch and Review
Today I’m reviewing and showing swatches for OPI Gargantuan Green Grape nail polish. I will be judging the polish on Ease of Application, Color, Feel, and Lasting Power. Ease of Application It was pretty easy to apply two coats of this polish. Sometimes with polishes when you go to apply the second coat it go a bit tacky. This polish did not have that problem
Drugstore Beauty Buys: January 5th to January 11th
Welcome to the first set of Drugstore Beauty Buys for the 2014 year. For those of you who don’t know what a Drugstore Beauty Buys post is, it is where I essentially go through the Sunday Sales Ad’s and tell you all of the sales on “beauty” items. These are the guidelines that I follow: The sales mentioned will be ones from ad’s I receive
Birchbox December 2013
“This post contains affiliate links. For more information please visit my disclosure page.” My Birchbox‘s just keep getting better and better! After several great boxes I’m torn between not knowing why I cancelled my subscription in the first place and knowing that sooner or later I’m going to get a box that I’m not fond of. However, December’s box isn’t that box, actually this month’s box
2014 Book Challenges: Book Selections
Tuesday I posted about some of the book challenges that I will be participating in. I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday compiling my list of books that I will be reading. Now some of the books do cross-mingle but all of the challenges allow for this. NOTE: Some of these books are tentative based on availability and my whims, to keep up with the
2014 Book Challenges
Last year I had a bunch of book challenges that I SWORE that I was going to participate in…but I never did. One of my resolutions for this upcoming year is to read more and I think that actually PARTICIPATING in the book challenges will help me to hold to this resolution. Here are the current book challenges I’m participating in, for a more detailed
Drugstore Beauty Buys: December 29th to January 4th
This is the last set of Drugstore Beauty Buys for the 2013 year. I can’t wait to do these again next year. If there are any suggestions you have to make these better feel free to leave them down below and I will see about implementing them in the new year! For those of you who don’t know what a Drugstore Beauty Buys post is,
My Favorite Posts of 2013
Yesterday I covered the top 10 posts on the blog based on page views. While I love seeing some on there, I was a bit disappointed that others did not make the cut. Therefore I thought today I would do what MY favorite posts from this year were. 10 | Beauty On the Inside This post essentially touched on the fact that beauty isn’t just
My Top Ten Posts
In just a few short days it will be another year. 2013 is drawing to a close and hopefully 2014 will dawn bright and clear. I have so many plans for Southeast by Midwest in the upcoming year. I plan on doing more reviews, more tutorials, and featuring some of my favorite bloggers. However, before that time comes I thought it would be fun to








