Category Archives: Being pretty

I’m a lucky lady but God did not bless me with good brows and lashes. Yeah, I realize it’s kind of a trade-off. I don’t have much hair anywhere, no really, look at my legs, no, LOOK AT THEM. I haven’t shaved in two months and you can barely tell. I know those with brilliantly full brows and lashes typically have to pluck and groom all the time. Still, I think they win. I’d rather be a hairy girl.

Some lash and brow p0rn.

[Insert jealous face here.]

I’ve tried lengthening mascaras and brow powders and gels, and they’ve worked to varying degrees. But I wanted something that would help boost the appearance of my own brows and lashes. A company called Code.ai heard about my first-world problem and sent help—in the form of its clinically-tested, hypoallergenic Lash Extend Serum, Brow Boosting Shaper and Lash Extend Primer. I’ve been using the products for about a month now and while I’m a doofus for not taking a “before” picture, I’m pretty certain they’ve been working. I don’t have to “fill in” my brows as much. They’re starting to look … normal. Like actual brows. It’s fantastic.

For all those with sparse, short, damaged lashes or over-plucked brows, you’re in luck. This week, Code.ai is giving my readers 50 percent off their activation products. Just enter WELOVEBLOGS in the coupon code box during checkout at www.codeai.com. Three redemptions per user.

Do you have any secret weapons for your brows and lashes?

I’ve been having a bad hair month. It’s so dead and droopy and greasy. Yuck. Why is it greasy? Even hours after I wash it. Whatever happened to second day hair? I think it’s all those fish oil capsules I’m taking. (My skin does still look radiant, by the way.) Even when it does look clean and somewhat voluminous, it’s kinda mom-ish. Like I’m about to slip on a pair of expandable-waist jeans and jump in my Toyota Sienna.

I’ve decided that I want long-ish hair again. I haven’t had long hair since high school! I was telling my sister about my plan and she was like why, and I was like ‘cuz I’m tired of short hair … and because I will one day have a wedding and brides don’t have short hair so if I start growing it out now, by the time it’s the big day, it’ll maybe be past my shoulders. And then she’s like, it’ll probably be down to your butt. Ha. Ha. Ha. See what she did there? Since no one ain’t proposing to me?

Anyway, here’s a video of one of my favorite singer/songwriters Priscilla Ahn getting a haircut. The video is freakin’ adorable (watch it!) but it kinda made me sad, not like Felicity-chopping-her-locks-off horrified, but more like awww, her long pretty hair! She still looks cute though.  By the way, it’s like 2:30 a.m. right now and I think this might be one of my delirious and superficial posts ever. Huzzah!

Okay, so maybe this is kinda cheating, scaling down my makeup-less face so  you can’t see the budding zit on the side of my nose, but I’m giving you five whole photos to make up for it. It works (says me). Matt took these right after I woke up so please excuse the bedhead and nippage.

I do feel like my skin looks better since the last time I attempted the Naked Face Project (coined by the gorgeous Wishcake), that time I looked at my photos and nearly cried. I’ve been taking my fish oil capsules and drinking my water with Crystal Light and slathering on this amazing mask. Now I’m fresh and glowy again — huzzah!

So hurray for natural, makeup-less faces. It’s empowering to bare all to the world like this and I’m glad I made myself do it. But honestly?

I LOVE MAKEUP.

Makeup (especially you, eyeliner), thank you for making me pretty. Other girls might tell you they don’t need you because they feel beautiful just the way they are. But I’m not that type. Let’s reunite in the bathroom right after I finish this post. I’ve missed you so.