My mom, stepdad, me, and the kids are headed to Chicago today to check out the National Ukrainian Museum (we are part Ukrainian) so I felt I needed to wear something more than my typical Saturday garb of yoga pants and a hoodie.
I matched my eye colors to my shirt—two limited edition colors, Seafoam Shimmer (sadly, no longer available) and Sapphire Shimmer (happily, still available)! Not everyday colors but they definitely work with this!
This month has been my SeneVersary month (four years!) and I always have a big party in my group…and this year it got insane. INSANE. I couldn’t believe the amount of sales I was getting! And they kept coming.
And then at about 9:30 tonight I realized I was literally $91 away from a super crazy super stretch goal. So I never ask for help…but I did tonight. And three of my friends/clients jumped in to help…so…
SUPER DUPER STRETCH GOAL ACHIEVED: $8,000
Keep in mind that a normal month for me—my normal goal—is $1500. And a stretch goal is $2000. And I worry every month about making those goals—JUST like I did at the start of this month—so to hit $8,000 is simply unheard of. I’m still stunned.
I love my customers.
Me doing my eye looks off camera vs. Me doing my eye looks live.
Have you ever found yourself doing something you absolutely love, but never imagined yourself doing?! I’m the poster child for this!
I had so much fun tonight watching my friends earn incredible awards for their businesses! And I also may or may not have felt a little jolt when my name hit the big screen each time. Out of around 1500 men and women, I was recognized for being #300 in the USA and #276 in the World for personal sales! Doing some math, that’s the top 20%!
I absolutely couldn’t do it without my amazing customers that have followed me and supported the past four years… and I look forward to many more years!
I forgot to post this when it happened…
Owen decided he wanted to start clearing up his face so we’re doing all the things!
I was going through some old photos on my phone and when I saw the 2019 photo I had to do a Before and After.
I mean we look great in both—duh!—but we just look… BETTER now. Right?
I didn’t think it looked that great when I was doing it but the pics are fire!
I only kinda think I’m missing lipstick but I decided today was a gloss kinda day.
Under a warm laptop and a warm dog.
An hour later…
After I left for a phone call and lunch and came back and slid back under her.
You guys.
YOU. GUYS.
I know I’ve talked about the difference in my skin…but I happened to be looking at some old pics today and the difference was GLARING!
First check out my eyes. Yes I still have some wrinkles but there are fewer now and they’re less defined!
And then look at my forehead?! The pores have shrunk and the age spots have allllllllmost disappeared!!!
So don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here Benjamin-Buttoning. Yes, I just made that a verb. #47looksgood
I felt today was momentous enough I needed to do a patriotic eye look! But hmmm… What red lippy to wear for this momentous day?
It was a tough call between Fly Girl and Hurricane Red…but I went with Fly Girl! Let’s get this inauguration going! (If you want any of the awesome products I used for this look, check out https://www.senegence.com/livinglippy!)
I’m not a political person at all, but after the last four years, I felt like I needed to watch in solidarity. And it was honestly more emotional than I thought it would be. At one point during the ceremony I was crying—and Owen noticed and came and held my hand (which made me cry a little more because the last time he did that was when he was little and came to hold my hand during one specific scene in Tangled).
Of course Owen being Owen he had a million questions but I was trying to listen to everything so I had to keep telling him I’d answer everything later!
There were too many names to read off individually, but I did get my name on a slide during the virtual training!
She always wants to help me and it’s often not workable but tonight it is! So she gets to spin the prize wheel for everyone who earned it during my huge sale earlier this month!
Just got this via email! The virtual award ceremony is tomorrow night! ❤️
And I’ve been in this recognition publication before…just not at this level!!
I’m not the best at close up photos to be sure, but you’ll still get an idea of where colors go. It’s a start!
Here’s where I got my inspiration… She’s amazing.
These are the gifts I can choose from for reaching my goal and achieving Ruby SeneSales! I absolutely don’t need knives or a drone…so I narrowed it down to a purse and eventually decided on….
The Hobo Velvet Tote. It was close with the Ralph Lauren tote (because when in my life am I ever going to get a Ralph Lauren anything?) but went with the other because of the long handles since that’s how I most use a purse.
Taking a break on prepping orders (since the mail has come for the day) and indulging in some self care with the kids. Owen and I are doing the Hollywood Magic Mask and Katie is just doing the Detox mask.
I put on a new lip color to take advantage of having my makeup done… Plus had some fun with the lighting.
So this morning a friend was having fun with the SeneLook app and I joked not to tempt me because I could do that look. So then another friend challenged me to make it a totally wearable daily look.
So here’s the look!
It isn’t perfect by any stretch—I need more blending, I need a liner and probably fake lashes, and the lips are too gold (I think I need to do an ombre)…but overall it’s not bad at all! 😂
Regardless, it was fun and really didn’t take that long!
I decided to throw a customer appreciation event on January 1 to thank everyone for my best year yet and to start 2021 with a bang!
Day one, I literally didn’t stop moving all day! I started working at 7:30am, took quick breaks to eat—didn’t even shower!—and was busy all day answering questions and helping people pick colors and decide on skincare solutions! The day flew by so fast I didn’t get nearly any of the extra things done that I wanted to…so I extended a day.
But y’all won’t believe this. My awesome clients helped me blow my first goal almost totally out of the water the first day. THE FIRST DAY.
So I upped my goal (and I eventually got well beyond that, too)!
Day two was a bit of a whirlwind as well. Extended again. Day three calmed down a bit. In the end, I did about 2.5 average months worth of business/sales in three days! (Now you understand why I was sooo busy all day long!)
If you want to join my group to be around for events like this, come on over!
This. This right here is the goal I met that I didn’t even know I wanted. I still can’t believe it happened. And it’s all because of my amazing customers! And it’s why I’m having a huge thank you/customer appreciation event Friday!
I started with Pink Champagne lips and it looked okay…but that color is really just too light for me.
So since I am trying to redo ALLLL my color collage photos, I tried two other colors. My favorite is the Sheer Berry.
But check this out. I had Anna try the same Pink Champagne color and look at how different it looks! That’s simply due to the different color of our lips—hers are much more pigmented then mine!
We did a thing tonight!
I let her wear LipSense now and again and today was one of those days—and she always picks Skyline! So tonight I decided to just start adding some makeup…I’m not great at it (I’m barely good at it on myself) but she didn’t care and loved everything. I can’t believe she’s only 8.
I even made her do the full makeup removal and face washing routines to hopefully show her it’s not all fun so she won’t want to do it. We’ll see.