Category Archives: Living Lippy

And get caught up on some work and blog posts since the weather was so nice!

I like that I’m much more comfortable nowadays without anything at all on my face. (Well, I do have skincare on…just no makeup!) I also love knowing that my skin cells are turning over and renewing 23.3% faster!!! 🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏼‍♂️🤸🏿‍♂️ #ladiesofacertainage

😳Two years ago today I was inviting people to my LipSense party. Sara tried to convince me then to sign up but I didn’t. She tried again when I bought more LipSense. I didn’t. I think she asked me/hinted at it four? five? six? times before I finally jumped on board…and the rest is history. You just never know what saying YES will do. 💙

So this is what happens when you try to match your shirt and you THINK it is Lexie Beary but you haven’t worn it in so long you’ve forgotten it is NOT the color you thought so you add a dark color to fix it and then it’s too crazy dark so you add your favorite color and it’s still a little scary. I did end up wearing it to my morning event but decided to change it for the night event. 🥰

🐈 I decided I was going to do a cat eye no matter what. Every single time I try this I say I’m going to just go balls to the wall and draw that cat eye like nobody’s business but I really meant it.

And then I started and it looked good…until I let go of my eye and–voilà!–it completely disappeared! DAMMIT. I added some more liner. It still disappeared. 📸 You can see the result: on the left, I’m pulling it taut and it looks smashing; on the right, I let go and buh-bye cat eye. Up close it was even more horrific. 😂 😡😣😢 I just don’t think my old baggy-ass eyes are cut out for a cat eye.

I posted my lament to a group I’m in and they basically said GO BIG OR GO HOME or get over yourself and do it like you mean it. My actual text to them: 💬 The amount of eyeliner I have on my eyes right now is completely frightening. Like it literally covers my entire eyelid and almost goes out to my eyebrows.

📸 You can kind of see it on the right. Crazy, right?! And while it looked kinda okay (like I went out in public with it), it’s nothing I’d want to do on a regular basis.

I sent the pics to one of my stylists (now don’t I sound all fancy) because she has agreed to help me learn how to actually do make up this year…and I had to show her just how desperate my situation was. I might have scared her off as she hasn’t responded yet. 😳😂

But the moral of the story is JUST TRY IT–it’s only makeup. And even if you screw it up badly there’s still comedic value in pictures.

I’ve seen a lot of business strategy groups and individuals talking about their word of the year… Since I’ve never done one I thought I might as well try—I never did a vision board before last year and look what happened, right?

But what word to pick? There were lots of good ones floating around. Brave. Consistency. Kindness. Which are all good choices but they didn’t speak to me.

And then I got fed up with the clutter everywhere in our house and realized we really need to simplify our lives. And the more I thought about it, I realized I wanted to try and keep my business simple, too—I sometimes spend too much time trying to make things perfect when I should just worry about getting it done.

So Simplicity was chosen. I can’t promise that I’ll be 100% successful, but at least I have a goal.

What’s YOUR word for 2019?

Do you do vision boards? This was the first one I ever did and truthfully I only did it because it was an assignment for a training class. Little did I know that almost everything on it would come true!! Whoa!!

✅ My eye make up application isn’t amazing but it is miles ahead of where I started. And I don’t feel crazy nervous anymore. Looking forward to advancing in 2019!!

✅ I doubled my team. Most of them are in it for the discount but that’s fine with me—I’m thrilled people are getting their lipstick and skincare at a discount!

✅ I more than doubled my sales. Almost tripled, actually!! Now, I take that with a grain of salt because my first “year” was only nine months plus it was my first year. 😂

✅ We haven’t yet taken our Disney family cruise but I did make enough money for it. (Well, we didn’t actually plot out the whole cruise budget but I’m pretty sure I came damn close.)

❌ I didn’t make my weight loss goal but that started again today. I did it before…I can do it again (and I obviously don’t have as much to lose this time).

I’m now thinking about what to put on my 2019 vision board for another training… I think my word for 2019 is Simplify but I’m not sure how to translate that to a vision board quite yet…

Any guesses what I did differently today? I think it’s subtle, but maybe a bit too subtle.

Maybe a side-by-side with extra graphics will help. 🙂

Yep, purple brows! I didn’t want to go crazy at first so went with the lightest purple we have. Next time I might try Deep Plum.

1. Yes I now believe in “season-appropriate” colors. I don’t always follow it but I understand it now. I’m not sure if that’s too anal or I’m finally just understanding makeup application more. 😂

2. My eyes feel naked but I opted against doing them as I have a brow appointment plus a demo tonight and I don’t feel like putting it all on just to take it off in few hours. #YouAllKnowImLazy

3. It’s cold out so the pic was taken inside in my hot mess of a house…in the one spot that looks clean!