July 2014

July 2014 by alovelylittlethought-1 featuring a volumizing mascara

It's been a crazy month with my internship and getting ready for my trip home to my parents next week. So I've gone back to basics with really light make up and simple statesman pieces in my fashion choices. While this might not be all too exciting it was fitting to the weather and the mood situation this month. 

That's all for now! 

My product gathering problem

I admit that I have a problem. It's really not all that dramatic, but I go through phases and this is the best part of that cycle. At least. In the long run. The thing is that I have a tendency to gather products, mostly but not limited to care products, because I want to try them, and many never get used up. This has multiple reasons, but three stand out : 

1. When I really like a product, I don't want them to be finished. Especially when they were pricey. 

2. Products that I don't particularly like tend to be ignored. (Things I really detest I try to give to someone who can make better use of them, and if they r that bad then they sadly end up in the trash) 

3. Last but not least, I always want to try new things. Especially because most things are not so great that I cannot imagine using anything else for that purpose. 

So the project remains to use what I have. Now, if I were to run out of shampoo for example, which is not likely, I will get a new one. But I want to use up products that I have lying around because I have more that enough products I started, and away more than enough that I haven't even started but have for when I finish the one I have open. 

Apart from a few strategic purchases that I plan to make during my trip to the states in August, I won't buy any new products until I have used up 8 products. I'm very curious how long this will take me and how well it works. I think I will try to do an empties post when I finish and try to reflect. I should really do this more often. 

Bye! 

Sunday Post

Hello hello,

I had my last day of school on Friday, and start my internship tomorrow. So although I have plenty of prep that I have to do for tomorrow I am also enjoying this transition to pamper myself a little bit because I want to start this last phase before my summer break revitalized and refreshed.

So I got some organizing stuff out of the way first because that really does have to take priority. For the fun part I started by making cake batter and putting it in the oven. In the time the cake took to bake I applied a clay mask that I am liking mask and then kicked back and watched some YouTube videos while that was working its magic. When the cake was finished I took it out and let it cool while I took a nice hot shower, during which I finished the deep facial cleansing and deep conditioned my hair since I don't condition it much anymore.

I might go the movies later or stay in and watch a movie with my roomie when she gets back. The rest of the day will probably continue as relaxed and fun as it has gone so far, but that is still wide open.

That's all for now, until next time.

After Sunset

I have been enjoying the warmer days, but I have been Loving the warm nights! Everything from grilling by the river to picnics in the park just screams summer and fun to me.

Don't be scared of the Dollar Store

As a young person who only works an the side while I am learning a "real" job I know the power of saving in the right places! When you are trying to save money, weather ur a student or anyone else, it is of incredible importance to know where to save, some things will cost far more in the long run if you don't make the investment the first time around. But there are sooo many things you can save on. And the dollar store is sooo much fun wenn you get over the often unorganized and massive pile of all kinds or things. There is also plenty of junk, or at least things that I have absolutely no use for, BUT if you have the time and a smidge of patience (and a sence of hummor) you can find so e really cool stuff at  the dollar store. And you can find stuff you might even need. Today I found some really cheep sewing materials and some ransoms things that caught my fancy. 

So my haul from the Eurofuchser earlier today consisted of dress pins, sarety pins, 2 zippers, assorted colorful thread, incense sticks, baking parchment, and chopsticks. All of which I am very happy with. 

I have two large downsides to the dollar store, but I think both of them can be over looked. Anyway, the first is that you may end up taking something with you simply becuase it a and so cheep and realize too late that you really don't need it. And while it may have cost you 50 cents, those are 50 cents you could have saved. The second problem is that it is unreliable so you have to calculate that you may still have to go somewhere else afterwards because there is no guarantee that you will find everything you needed. 

That's all for now! 

Loving this May

This May I discovered Pinterest and it is really bad. It's become quite the time suck , and very fast. I also found an aluminum free deodorant that does work despite my suspicions. And as the days have gotten quite warm here I have been loving simple flowy tops and syrups to embellish water because I have been trying to drink even more than usual with this heat. 

So so So MUCH

It feels like it has been half a life time since I last posted. Not to mention that so very much has happened everything from the start of a new sememster and therefore also new classes to my move. this was a huge time suck otherwise i would have tried to document the prosses because although it wasn't my first move away from home, it was still a huge change and I love it. I certainly want to post about my room including pictures very soon.
For now I just wanted to post about the start of spring because we have beautiful weather here and when we have great weather around easter I get kick where I feel like I need a few changes. So the other day I cut one side of my hair really short to creat a bit of an undercut. I really do love the new look although I'm not quite sure if I'm done with it the way it is now, I may cut more, and I may cut all of it into a very short pixi. but for now I am really glad that I made this change because it has been the change to start giving me a fresh outlook on life.

 

That's all for now!