Glow Baby Glow

Hey ladies, I’m back with a new post. Have you ever tried to achieve a soft glowy NOT SHINY face with your brand new cleanser only to have absolutely no luck? It’s not that these products don’t work, but sometimes you just have to prep your skin a bit before doing them. Here is one of my favorite glowing exfoliating scrubs that I like to use to get that radiant look going on, but before I use that scrub here is what I do.

• Grab half a lemon and rub that all over my face (I like to let it sit for about 10-15 minutes)
• Rinse that off and go grab my African Black Soap and just do a gentle cleanse.
• Then I grab my exfoliating glow scrub, and rub that in circular motions all over my face.
• Special tip: let that exfoliator sit on your skin for about 10 minutes so you can soak up all the goodness of it
• Once that’s complete, wash the cleanser off, spray your face with your toner (I use rose water with glycerin) and put on your favorite moisturizer (mine is my organic coconut oil or my tea tree moisturizer by Monie Squared) and Walah! Glowy skin you’ve been wanting.

Try these steps the next time you want to achieve your glowy skin and watch as you shine bright like a diamond! 

Cantu Flat Iron Spray Review

Recently I took a trip to Target on the search for some bath towels and I avertedly ended up in the hair section! I saw a lot of people on instagram raving about the Cantu Flat Iron Spray so I thought “Hey why not give it a shot?”  Virginia weather is like a roller coaster sometimes and my hair loves to draw moisture from the air leaving my once straight and sleek hairstyle into a big poufy mess!

A can of this flat iron spray was under 5 bucks so if it didn’t work on my hair I didn’t really lose much. This spray claims to condition and add shine to your hair while also reduce frizz and produce a light hold. They also stressed that you must use it on dry hair and I will tell you why when you keep reading!

After I blow dried my hair completely I sprayed the product all over my strands! My hair instantly became stiff and that’s when I looked at the ingredients and saw that it contains ALCOHOL! My hair hates alcohol; it literally acts like a snail with salt on it! I was not going to wait for my hair to become stiff as a brick so I began to brush the product out to help coat it all over and not just the spots that I sprayed! Some of my strands still felt hard but I wanted to have faith that this product would help my hair!

I guess I ended up spraying majority of the product at the top of my hair because when my flat iron slid through those tresses, they instantly became CRISPY-FEELING! WHAT A BIG NO-NO! I ended up finishing my hair not satisfied that I obviously sprayed too much at the top of my hair because the bottom had lots of body but the top was like a dead person – UNMOVING!

Overall I will try this product again but definitely use much less and spray much farther away from my hair this time! My hair is actually still holding, I haven’t used any heat on it since I did this which is great, I also liked that my hair does have a nice sheen going on.

Pros:

Cheap

Makes straighten hair last

Produces a nice natural shine to hair.

Cons:

ALCOHOL is its main ingredient which dries your hair out

Hair gets hard

After flat ironing hair was crispy

It’s easy to use too much of this product

Any of you used this product before? Love it or Hate it?

XOXO

Victoria's Secret Semi Annual Sale

Its that time again! Victoria’s Secret Semi Annual Sale. During the next two weeks you can find your favorite bras, panties, beauty products, and fragrances up to 50% off. How lovely is that?

I really do wait all year for this sale because its one of my only chances to BALL OUT *rih rih voice*. Plus I had a 25 dollar gift card which gave me even more reason to head out to my closest VS.

Now, I did not MEAN to spend over 100 dollars, I really didn't mean it! But I wanted everything! When I see something half off, my minds goes to this place of its own and then comes back and signals back to my wallet saying "Yea, you can afford that!"

Needless to say, I will not be spending any more money at Victoria’s Secret anytime soon!

Check out some of the things I bought. 

 These are the very sexy brilliant lip shine, priced half off!

 (1) Rock Me. (2) Party Girl. (3) Diva. 

Victoria Secret Perfect Lipstick.

Victoria's Secret Sheer Lip Color Duo in Tete' a Tete'.

(1) Rockin' Body Luminous Perfecting Body Cream. (2) Body Creme with Shea Butter. (3) Beauty Rush Secret Crush Body Wash. (4) Hand Cream with Shea Butter. 

(1) VS Smokey Eye Palette. (2) VS Party Perfect Palette. (3) VS Lash Lust Volume Definition Mascara. (4) VS Airbrush FX Bronzing Primer.

(1) Victoria's Secret AMAZING bra. (2) Victoria's Secret KNOCK OUT push up bra. (3) Victoria's Secret Deep V Low-Back Multi Way Bra (not shown). (4) 5 for 26 cotton undies. 

As you can see ladies, these sales are very tempting! Have any of you shopped their sale yet! I would love to know what you all bought. 

Also, i will be doing a review later on on the lipsticks!

XOXO

- Ashley