I didn’t need to do anything crazy but I did want to look nice since I was planning on delivering my Blessing Bags today!
I just looooove all the pinks. And I might have found a good place to take my photos in natural light (if it’s bright out).
I didn’t have high hopes because my lips are very poorly shaped to be a football from the start…and it was indeed a spectacular failure.
Katie helped me get the Blessing Bags started! Now I’m just waiting for a last shipment to arrive so we can finish the last 15 bags!
Edited to add: I just realized I never posted about this. I’ve been wanting to do an event like this for years but I just never could get it going. So this year I just decided to do it! And it was a great success!
So I let her pick the color and apply it herself and she did a great job! But then she didn’t want her picture taken…
Y’all. I did a thing!! I did my first real SMOKY EYE for a date night!
I probably could have made it a bit more smoky but I think I did pretty well considering all of these colors are outside my comfort zone!
Face: #cctmlightmedium
Brows: #smokedtopazshadowsense
Cheeks: #silverrosepowderblush
Lips: #velvetlipsense #sugarcookiegloss
Eyes: #sandstonepearlshimmershadowsense #forestmistshimmershadowsense #onyxshadowsense #silvershimmershadowsense #undersenseprimer #volumeintensemascara
Tonight I did a little shopping from my own stock for things I am running out of… Color Correcting Tinted Moisturizer, Buff Foundation, Rejuvenating Anti-Wrinkle Serum, Advanced SenePlex+ Renewal Serum with Retinol, Digital Age Defense Serum, and Brightening Multi-Vitamin Treatment. Phew! Plus a few extra backups of the Hydrating Mist because SeneGence is getting rid of it and it’s a favorite of mine.
(Is that how you spell that?!) Look at what I found while I was searching for something else! Talk about a #glowup eh?!
▪️2017 was when I first started wearing LipSense (and no other SeneGence makeup or skincare)!
▪️2021 is after day-in/day-out SeneGence makeup AND skincare!
Yes, please!
I always thought the SeneGence glow-up photos were retouched but now that it’s me, I promise you there’s no filter or touch-up happening!
I also never thought I’d see this big of a change in my skin but here we are! I’m proof!!
When you grab a shadow out of your bin and apply it and it doesn’t feel quite right so you look at the tube and WHOOPS it was a Limited Edition smaller LipSense.
One of these is Cinnamon Shimmer ShadowSense and one is Bronzed Maple LipSense.
The good news is that it’s okay—it doesn’t hurt to wear LipSense on your eyes (you just want to be careful since it does have alcohol in it). I love products that are double and triple duty!
Face: #cctmlightmedium
Brows: #smokedtopazshadowsense
Cheeks: #silverrosepowderblush
Lips: #lipvolumizer
Eyes: #eyeluminator #copperroseshadowsense #bronzemaplelipsense #undersenseprimer #volumeintemsemascara
In all honesty, I’m only up now because I had to put some samples on the giving tree for a customer this morning.
I may or may not have had too much tequila last night. I didn’t think so at the time, of course, and I did take Tylenol before bed…but yeah. It was too much. But! It was a super fun night. And yes, I did remove my makeup and wash my face before bed!
Testing out a new SenGence LipSense—Diva from the Ultra Intense Matte Collection!
I totally wasn’t expecting to like it…but I actually FREAKING LOVE IT.
I looooove hair washing and straightening day! I mean, I hate having to do it 😂 but I love the end result!
I also looooove a quick and easy look using just four products!! I didn’t specifically set out to do a barely there look but it happened and I was fine with it. (I had to jump on a PTA zoom meeting last minute and this was all I had done…then just decided to leave it!)
Face: #cctmlightmedium
Brows: #smokedtopazshadowsense
Cheeks: #silverrosepowderblush
Lips: #solarflaregloss
Hear Tom get up early to make sure the kids get off to school. Roll over and wake up a bit later and work my SeneGence biz from bed until Tom gives me crap about being a lazy butt. Get out of bed making old person grunting sounds. Text BFF off and on all day. Take a shower. Do my skincare and makeup and take photos for future posts. Take kid to appointment. Do random house things—pick up, let Maggie out/let Maggie in, water plants, let Maggie out/let Maggie in, feed Maggie, organize office, do laundry, let Maggie out/let Maggie in/let Maggie out/let Maggie in, give Maggie her meds, clean kitchen, wonder aloud who left six glasses on the kitchen table/who left candy wrappers on the couch/why there are dirty socks everywhere, walk by the kids’ bathroom and lament how disgusting kids are, let Maggie out/let Maggie in, pop into the office to work for a bit. Spend some cuddle time with Maggie on the couch while working my biz. Run errands. Get nails done. Jump in the hot tub with hubby. Watch a TV show with hubby. Try to make the kids do chores when they come home from school. Make dinner for/with friends. Watch a TV show with friends/Tom/kids. Remove my makeup, wash my face, apply nighttime skincare. Take more photos. Go to bed and work my biz from bed.
I kinda love it all and wouldn’t change a thing (minus the old person grunting sounds, the messy kids, and the geriatric dog that goes in and out 28x a day).
This actually makes me soooo happy because I love that I love my skin and no longer feel the need to wear makeup before taking any pics! (If you want this freeing feeling, too, I’ll hook you up!)
Today has been a day of catching up and finishing the Emerald Extravaganza prizes, lazing around my mom’s house (I didn’t shower until 3p), working on a puzzle, enjoying the silence when my step brother and wife took all the kids to Hartwick Pines, and then enjoying homemade pizza in our Ooni pizza oven that we brought with us!
It’s hard to believe I’ve been working and sharing my makeup and skincare biz for almost 5 years now (!!) and it’s beyond humbling that so many of my friends and acquaintances have chosen me as their makeup and skincare girl.
But…
I hope y’all know it’s more than that to me.
It’s gained confidence.
It’s growth.
It’s showing my kids that you can set HUUUUUGE goals (over and over) and achieve them with hard work!
Friends…it’s a journey I NEVER expected to be on (like seriously, my mom even commented yesterday that l certainly never expected ALL THIS to happen and I wholeheartedly agreed!), yet one of the BEST parts about this journey is…
The new friendships with all of YOU…
And knowing that I’m surrounded by some of the most incredible women out there.
And knowing that I’m making some small part of your lives better.
Thank you just never seems like enough, yet there are no better words.
So… Really and truly from the bottom of my heart…
THANK YOU!
Thank you for the best year ever!
And if you’d like to be a part of my little world where I love on you and help try to make your life a little better…the door at Living Lippy with Jen is always open!
This was a week ago. I’m behind. /shrug
Well, y’all. I tried it. I give myself a B-.
I’ll have to go back and watch her video—I just looked at the photos. I thought I did better until I actually did a side-by-side. And I know I didn’t even attempt the wing because that would have been a recipe for disaster! BUT! It’s still a million miles ahead of where I used to be and what I was able to do. And this took just 14 minutes which isn’t bad at all!!
So…I gave myself a B- because it didn’t really turn out the same as the original/comparison look. But if you don’t compare it to anything and just judge on its own merit? I’d give myself an A for sure.
Lesson learned? DON’T FALL INTO THE COMPARISON TRAP!
I am constantly amazed at how long this makeup lasts! My lipstick is mostly gone, but that’s only because I didn’t gloss as much as I should have all day!
I rarely wear pink. Pink clothes don’t jump out at me. I never pick pink as a color for anything.
And pink shadows were included in that.
Until I started wearing SeneGence ShadowSense. And now I want ALLLLL the pinks. Especially if they are shimmery. 💗
That’s one of the many things I love about my little “side gig” — it has caused me to expand my horizons in so many different ways.
I’ve been up — and working — since about 8:30 so I’m not a TOTAL slacker. But I just want to show you a “naked” face pic so you can see what my skin actually looks like without makeup. I swear it looks like I have a filter on but I don’t. Pinky promise.
If you wish and dream for better skin, I’m your girl. You can shop day or night here!
So I’m gonna toot my own horn for a hot second.
This past November turned out to be my best month ever since I started this “side gig” almost five years ago…and I made the Top 5 leaderboard out of thousands of people in my group!
Technically I didn’t have that amount of sales — they can only see what I purchased — but that’s how they track things. But it was still my highest sales month ever, coming in at $9,272! (My previous highest month was April of this year during my SeneVersary month with $8,114.)
I can’t thank my amazing clients enough as they’re the ones who helped me get here—but I’m obviously doing something right since they keep coming back! I never thought I’d be doing this but here we are!
What timing. I randomly made this graphic this morning…and then went to the salon to get my eyebrows done…and she commented that she loves the silver streaks in my hair! She said not to touch them because they look great!
And some lovely words from a friend:
So I’m going to toot my own horn here (and give props to my customers as well).
For the month of October I participated in a four-week Ultimate Beauty Madness challenge. I won three of my four weeks overall…and I learned today that I ended up in the top 20 in sales out of almost 500 women!
This is who I beat in the fourth week—someone who was at the top of her team for sales!
Oh. Em. Gee. I could talk with my amazing leader Jenna Clark forever. She is so funny and warm and open and welcoming — I think we just might be besties if we lived closer! Our 20 minute coaching call today just flew by. She has adopted me into her squad with open arms and I am forever grateful.
