Scottsdale is a young and thriving city and I feel like every. freaking. New Year’s Eve there’s NOTHING to do for those in their 20s that doesn’t involve going to the bars!! Most of the ASU kids have gone home for the holidays and town feels dead. BUT if you’re like me you’re totally over the bar scene and have no interest freezing in Old Town on New Year’s Eve where it’s too loud to speak to the person next to you lol. Last year was…
Alrighty alrighty!! So this post is a bit late lol, but I wanted to do a recap of my first full month as a freelancer. I’ve made some good progress but still have so much to do and learn. This next month I really want to set some goals and a vision for myself for 2018, but I figured starting with month-to-month progress reports will hold me accountable and force me to try and grow. See below for a little recap of my month! I’ll try…
shop my: make up cleaner // make up brushes // my makeup // clear makeup holder // hand towels Ok so it’s noooo secret I have a little OCD, and especially when it comes to taking care of my skin. Like any another girl though, I’ve never been one to build a routine around cleaning makeup brushes after every use (does anyone actually do that?!?) and sometimes the makeup tends to build up and they can be hard to wash. About a year and a half ago, I had…
While I’ve hardly been a full-time freelancer a month, I have received SO many questions, DMs, emails, comments in Facebook groups, etc. about how I got started as a freelancer. While I had been doing freelance projects on the side for about 2 years while having a full-time job, making the transition to full-time freelancing was quite a bit harder than I thought. However, taking the leap was so much easier than I thought. On my first real day of freelancing I thought I’d be stressed out…
This past weekend was a WHIRLWIND. I flew out to LAX from Phoenix on Friday morning for a wedding in Malibu that evening and then flew from LAX to Dallas on Saturday morning for a wedding in Dallas Saturday evening. And thennnn flew back to Phoenix on Sunday. Needless to say, I did NOT make it to my 7:15am gym class on Monday morning lol. While experiencing the supa fancy ~jetsetter~ lifestyle (joking… I flew Spirit on one of the legs lol) was fun for a…
What is Microblading? It’s kind of like a semi-permanent tattoo for your eyebrows! Unlike a regular tattoo, it is a form of pigmentation that is implanted under your skin with a manual, handheld tool instead of a machine. The “artist” who does your eyebrows will draw hair-like strokes with the tool to mimic the natural hairs in your brows, but they can also enhance the shape and fullness of them as well (this is the main reason I got them done). I just wasn’t satisfied with…
A bit of an intro to this post…. Earlier this year I did a blog post on the skincare products I used while I was on an intense acne medication called Accutane. To this day, that post is the #1 source of traffic to my blog, so I wanted to give those people coming to my blog via that post more resources about skin care, and from an educated source. I decided to reach out to Rachel (@the_aesthetician), a aesthetician at Desert Sky Dermatology in Gilbert, AZ who…
I feel like some of you may already know this or may already have noticed… but this past week was my first full week of self-employment! Ahhhh! It’s been my dream to eventually transition to self-employment managing brands’ social media and digital marketing, but I didn’t think this day would come so soon. Sometimes, all the stars align and you just have to take a leap of faith and go for it. I’ll really miss the team at Bloguettes – I had such an amazing 2…
Ever since I was a kid I remember having the FINEST hair. I have a picture of me when I was like 3 and I had just gotten out of the pool and my ponytail is like 3 threads of hair lol. Luckily, I have plenty of hair now haha but it’s so fine and can break so easily. In college, I played around more with bleaching my hair via highlights, ombré, etc. and saw an improvement in texture and volume (basically because my hair was…
How is it already September?! I feel like this summer literally went by in a blink. Before we know it the holidays will be here and Phoenix may even start to cool down 😉 For my post today, I wanted to share my experience working at DeskHub (a coworking space in Scottsdale, AZ) for the past few months. I’ve always been interested in trying out a co-working space, but as I have a full-time job I didn’t have the chance until my office started allowing us…