Some Thursday Fun

You know...sometimes you just need to have a little fun, and I love these pointless-in-the-grand-scheme-of-life-but-fun-to-read-anyway quizzes. I found this one on Sarah Shaneyfelt's blog earlier this month and thought it looked fun. I'd never answered these kinds of questions before. So here you go!

This round of questions focuses on beauty products and beauty routines. This could be interesting - HA! After all, I'm SUCH a beauty queen, right?

1. Eyelash Curler: Yes or No? I really feel strongly that if I tried to use an eyelash curler, I would look like I crawled off the stunt set of I Love Lucy. I can really see nothing good coming from such an experiment (FOR ME) so I pretty much avoid the thing entirely. Having said that, I will add that since I started using Lemongrass Spa mascara, my eyelashes are much longer and fuller than they ever were. So I feel like I'm in the best eyelash season of my life. (Is that even a thing?)

2. Favorite Nail Shade? I really can't answer this because I love them all. I will say that I use gel/Shellac polish exclusively, and it has revolutionized my nail polish life. I first started using it eight years ago now when I got my nails done at a salon all the time. And then after Ryan and I got married, he bought me all the supplies to do it myself at home, and I love it so much. I can get two (or more) weeks out of nail polish now and that makes my life much happier. I have a very small collection of colors, so I rotate them and make wish lists of new colors.

3. Favorite Lipstick Shade: Confession: I really need to do better with lipstick. I used to wear it religiously and now I don't and people are always asking me if I'm sick. (I look pretty dead without it. I don't have a lot of natural color in my lips.) I don't wear it much now for two reasons. One: I'm home most of the time and I don't want to use up products when no one sees me. Two: Ryan doesn't kiss me as much if I have on lip color. Something about not wanting to wear it. HA! Maybe this can be one of my turning 40 resolutions: do better with lipstick! When I do wear it, I like to wear something that is fairly neutral or leans toward a brownish color. Nothing super bright in the reds or pinks.

4. Blow Dry or Air Dry Your Hair? Oh my soul, I must blow dry. If I don't, I look like Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries. My hair does not air dry beautifully on its own. I can't get those sweet natural beach waves some people do. It just looks like I didn't try. In further news, I must also continue to either crunch it with product or flat iron/curl it because I still look like Mia if I blow dry and go. I have a lot of hair.

5. Artificial Nails: Yes or No? I used to get them all the time. (Before the Shellac.) It was my one treat to myself and I adored them and how they looked and felt. It was one of my most favorite things. I gave them up when my nail lady moved, because I didn't trust anyone else, and I do confess my natural nails were a mess after that. I never liked my nails again until the Shellac showed up, and now they're strong and healthy again. So I don't use them now and probably won't ever again.

6. Foundation: Yes or No? Oh yes. I wear concealer and foundation every day, even if I'm not going anywhere. I will save on the rest of the makeup if I'm just at home, but I feel better about my mirror glimpses if I have on a basic foundation. Just kind of evens everything out.

7. Hair Up or Hair Down? Confession again: I am really not very good at most hairstyles. I can do very basic things and that's about it. So I wear my hair down almost all the time - unless I'm working out and then I put it in a pony. Upon occasion I'll try to do something fun/different with it, but I'm mostly a failure with that.

8. Bar Soap or Body Wash? Both. I use Lemongrass Spa skin products (and makeup) and I use a bar soap to wash my face every night. I used to use a gel soap (same thing, different form) for my face, but I found out the bar soap lasts a lot longer, so I switched. I use body wash in the shower.

9. Bath or Shower? Shower. I used to love relaxing in baths, but my first house (the Marion house) did not have a tub that lent itself to relaxing. (Glass doors, kind of shallow.) I got out of the habit and now I'm a shower girl exclusively.

10. Favorite Body Lotion: Confession again: I don't use lotion like I should either, and sometimes my skin pays dearly for that! Lemongrass Spa has a body icing that actually works as hair gel (I know, right?) and is a good, thick lotion, too. So if I am a good girl and use my lotion, I use that. I like it because it's free of all the toxic stuff they tell you to RUN from in lotions these days.

11. Do you wear perfume? If so, favorite scent? I use my Stress Away oil as my perfume. I love the way it smells and it doubles as a calming agent, so it's a win all the way around.

12. Do you shave your legs every day? Usually every other out of sheer laziness. I will sometimes kick it up a notch in the summer when it's shorts season. :)

13. Favorite Lip Balm? Lemongrass Spa again. They have one that kind of tastes like bubble gum, and I really like it. It's a bit shiny and helps my lips not be so dry!

14. How old were you when you first started wearing makeup? Well, I had pizza face as a teenager, so I wore concealer and foundation in high school, but I wasn't allowed to wear more than that. When I went to college, my roommates taught me to wear the rest of the face. :) I have a good friend that sells Mary Kay and she's taught me a lot over the years about makeup application too!

There you go! Information you'll never need, but hopefully I entertained you for a few minutes!