Sunday Quote: Contentment

Happy Sunday! Take today to sleep in, be lazy, cook your favorite meal, and indulge. For the week ahead, reserve today for self care and to spread love to those around you.

I took this photo while on a hike at Red Rock with my lil fam bam and the view from the top is incredible. Blog on that adventure coming soon!

Making eating healthy easy!

I don't know about you, but when people say 'eating healthy', I automatically think "oh yum, rabbit food! Salads! No sugar! No carbs! Ummm... no thanks!!!" 

I personally love to cook, even more so I love to bake! I like when food tastes good, and I like food in general, don't we all? I mean, social events revolve around food and we celebrate all things in life with food - all the foods. So thanks to a few of my friends' different recipes, today I give you the yummiest dish to make for lunch or dinner, and this super healthy dish makes eating healthy, super easy.

Angeles State Park Adventures!

I love LA but sometimes you just gotta get away and enjoy some fresh air, and unplug for a while. This weekend we took a trip to Angeles National Park and hiked the most beautiful 6 miles I've seen in a long time, picked pine cones bigger than my head, and had a picnic outside with the birds and the bugs. It was awesome!

Shepherd's Pie and Irish Guinness Geniuses!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm half Irish so this is my day to go around telling people that, whilst wearing green, dawning "Kiss Me I'm Irish" buttons, and consuming all things corned beef and green on this day! Oh and Irish jager bombs, must not forget those! So happy St. Patrick's Day to you, cheers if you're Irish, kiss kiss to you all, and today I give you the yummiest Irish Shepherd's pie recipe. Paired with traditional Irish jagerbomb beverages but of course! I changed the name to Irish Guinness Genius because it has Guinness which is well genius duh.

How to make your hair more healthy

Hair can be such a beautiful thing! It can also be an over processed, fried, dried out, stringy situation that you cover up with a hat or better yet, do what I do and when in doubt, BUN. IT. UP! 

So here are some things I do to keep  my locks feeling and looking healthy, shiny, and bouncy! Vavavoom!

Vegan nail polish?!

When I heard 'Vegan' nail polish I was like 'oh man, nail polish just went all hipster on us!' <---- true thought, is this an LA state of mind? But I really loved the colors so I gave it a go and hey, try before you buy right...or is that you break you buy? Whatever the case, this is my review of the Color Secrets Vegan nail polish and their lip gloss...pssst I'll tell you if things suck when they suck, so here goes my thoughts.

Spring into bold prints and splashes of blush

Spring time means a change in fashion for the ladies, and a change in time for the fellas! I put together this photo set for you of some of my favorite things to pair together at the moment. Gotta love this California weather!

Chocolate raspberry chia seed pudding

Today I'm bringing you all the noms, with this easy, home made, healthy, and super delicious recipe! I took the traditional chia seed pudding recipe and added some of my personal favorites to create one of the yummiest treats this side of chocolate pudding!

Naturally longer, thicker eyelashes

Yes you read that correctly, naturally!!!! So I get asked all the time if my eyelashes are real and yes there are real, butttt, there's a but. While I naturally have long lashes, they are very fine, and there are things I do to make them more better. No we don't use proper grammar here.

Well about a month and a half ago for like a good solid 2 weeks, I was just being lazy and not washing my makeup off before bed. Basically just leaving the tar that we call mascara on my lashes for beyond the amount of time you should have tar on your lashes. AND THEY STARTED TO FALL OUT! Ahhhhhhhh! (insert home alone scene here) 

Well now they are back, and in full force, I feel like I have Snuffleupagus lashes actually, and the following regime is what I did to get them back, and I did this religiously for a solid month! Seems like a lil over kill, and a shit ton of work but this is the trick! Also, I don't know about you, but to have your eyelashes fall out is just not a hot look to sport and I hate falsies, so onward we go.

Drugstore Dupes!

Drugstore products comparable to their high end twinsie products!

Soooo unless you just really love spending money on a ton of beauty products or just really love a particular name brand makeup item, I think there is a cheaper AND just as fabulous dupe out there. To prove it, here are my picks for best bank friendly dupes!

Foundation. Foundation is well- the foundation of your makeup, the base of your face - I realize I'm turning into a rapper here, but you're pickin up what I'm layin down.

Silk Peel - youthful and glowing skin

Why yes, that IS me in the photo above! Phhhh I wish! No, really, I have aging skin. Boom, there I said it. I'll admit it dammit, I'm no spring chicken. I'm raising a sixteen year old, and I have student loan debt, AND the California sun to age me and drain suck the collagen right out of my skin!

Luckily, I do about umteen trillion things to my skin daily and I will share my secrets with you here because lets face it, we are all going to age. We are all going to get old but I'll be damned if I don't slow the process as much as I can until I wake up as Freddy Krueger one day! 

Recipe to end all other French toast recipes

Ahoy! I have a blog now! Yes I am on Tumblr also, but here will be my words, my rants, my thoughts, my videos my blah blah blah. 

My first blog will be a secret recipe that my mom used to make and this recipe will beat  end all other French toast recipes. I mean it! And if you're not into the baking of it all, click on the linkies above and it'll take you to your desired destination. Disclaimer this whole code html updating stuffs is pretty new to me so my apologies if it takes you to a blank page, I'm workin on it ;)

Now please keep all hands and feet within in your box and lets start cooking! ps they may not look like the game changer to all breakfast plates.....but it is.