Sale Alert!: old navy layering basics

Just a heads up, Old Navy has layering basics on sale!  Stock up now and save your money for trendy accessories that can spice up and extend your wardrobe.  Camis, tanks, t's, and hoodies are all on sale through the old navy website.



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Kris

Quick Tip: Skin Care Solutions: homemade acne remedy

Instead of picking at your face more than a meth addict or buying countless ineffective acne products just grab some fresh garlic!  Garlic has many anti-bacterial properties and can do a lot more than flavoring your food (or keeping away vampires.... if that's a concern of yours)!

Take some fresh garlic, smash it down into a paste (this releases all the zit fighting powers) and put a hearty amount on the nasty pimple(s) keepin' ya from waltzing through life with perfect skin.  Let it sit for about 15 minutes and rinse with warm water.  ADIOS SUCKER, pimple be gone....No, really, this will help clear up your skin in a day or two.

How to mash garlic into a paste without hurting yourself:
1) Gather a few supplies: garlic cloves, kosher salt, cutting board, and a chef's knife

2) Cut off the ends (ya know the semi-hard brownish part at each end)

3) Carefully place the side of knife on the garlic and with the heel of your hand press down on the knife; this will help to remove the peel and loosen the pimple fightin' gem underneath

4) Chop it up....as fine as you can

5) Sprinkle some kosher salt on the garlic (the grit makes it easier to turn this into a paste)

6) Lay the knife flat over the garlic and salt and mash it all around

Voila!  Now, you can go from this: a pimply prepubescent character on a highly inappropriate cartoon

To this: A fresh faced, zit free skincare ad goddess

And possibly have some leftover for a delicious meal afterwards.

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Kris

Quick Tip: homemade lip and body sugar scrub

A lip and body scrub once a week can really help keeping your skin looking fresh and lips kissable.  Unfortunately most scrubs you buy at the store are expensive and don't really taste all that great.  Here's a quick recipe you can use to help exfoliate away all that dead, dry skin and feel silky smooth.

You will need:
3 tbs. brown sugar
2 tbs. raw sugar
2 tbs. honey
1 tbs. olive oil

Combine together (I like making it in a Tupperware container so I can store any leftover) until it forms a paste like consistency.  Rub it all over your body and lips (avoid your face, this is a little too rough for that pretty little head of yours) in small circular motions and rinse away to glowing, healthy skin and lips!  You can store your sugar scrub in the fridge, in the shower, wherever suits you best...just make sure it's well sealed and no where too hot.  When going back to scrub again, add just a tiny drop of olive oil to get everything moving and back to the proper consistency.

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Kris

Product Junkies on a Budget: beach hair edition

Product Junkies on a Budget feature beauty products I have purchased with my own money.  I am a college student and broke.... I can't afford YSL's Touché Eclat or La Mer face cream (as much as I wish I could) BUT I can gather my pennies and hit up the local drug store and feed my product fix.

I don't know about any of you ladies outside of New York, but here in the big apple, it's gotten pretty darn cold in what felt like a couple of seconds.  With the dry, static-y hair from the chilly air and flat, matted hair from the addition of hats to my daily wardrobe I was really missing that sexy, I just spend a day at the beach and I haven't washed it, there may still be sand in there but have no fear its gone from everywhere else, tousled hair.  Without having the time to sit and use a curling iron, (and risk it being gone after I take off my hat...) how could I possibly achieve that look I so craved?  The answer ladies, is Garnier Fructis Surf Hair Texture Paste and I got it for $4.39 at Rite Aid. 

The back label says to either use it on damp or dry hair for different effects.  I tried it out a few different ways and my favorite was using a TEEEENY TINY bit at the root while my hair was damp and then kind of scrunching my hair a bit all over.  I usually go to bed with a wet head so I let my hair air dry while I sleep, I am sure you could blow dry as well, then when I woke up I put about one small taco's worth of sour cream of the paste in my hair and rubbed it between my palms.  The paste has a matte finish is not oily so you don't have to worry about getting greasy hair if you use a little too much.  After both hands were sufficiently coated in the paste, i flipped my head over and started scrunching, shaking, and twisting away.  Flip over and repeat on top.  The finished effect is that surfer girl, slightly messy soft wave.  I put a hat on before I made my way to work and when I arrived I was able to just shake out my hair a bit and it looked great!  Even better, the second day I just spruced things up with a little more product and my hair looked so good, I think I liked it more than the first day!  For $4.39 and a nice big jar of beach hair waiting to happen, I'd say this is a great buy for anyone looking for that special something to make their hair winter chic.

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Kris