Happy Halloween! Put your face on and go crazy!

   Halloween is so much fun! This morning I did some festive makeup to set the mood for today at the office and prepared a mummy surprise for our potluck!!!
First, the makeup- I didn't go super crazy like I wanted to do. All I ended up with was a spider and its web, but I am happy with how it turned out! Personally I think it goes great with my headset... but that's just me. haha.

   I am still doing the $5 for $55 Mary Kay Makeup Give Away! I fixed the link, so if you saw it before and tried to comment. It is working now! So sorry about all the trouble with that before! Click this link to be sent to the Mary Kay Give Away page so you can enter! So far I only have three comments, so your odds of winning are great! I don't know why you wouldn't try. You don't have to put in any money to enter into the contest and if you randomly change your mind and your name is chosen, its not binding, you can forfeit your winning to the next person and they can get that awesome deal instead!!!  Go ahead and try! It's all in good fun and heck, who doesn't love makeup?! You can dress yourself up or be someone else for a day!
   Now, off the topic of makeup and onto another one I love so much! FOOD! We had our Halloween pot luck and I made little mini mummy hot dogs! Look how cute they are!
all you need are crescent rolls, mini hot dogs and a little bit of mustard for the glowing eyes! They are really easy to make and super cute! Here's what you do:

•  set oven to 350
• cut the crescent rolls into long thin strips. (as it gets shorter cut wider and roll it in your hands until its skinny and long)
•  wrap the roll around the hot dog with ends touching, don't forget to skip a space to make room for the mummy face!
• place three rows of five mummies onto a greased baking sheet and put in oven for 10 minutes or until gold and flaky
• place on cooling rack and enjoy your spooky appetizer!

Halloween time is so much fun! Go out tonight, dress up, eat lots of candy/ junk food and go crazy! (with that said please also stay safe!)
Fake blood = Awesome
Real blood = Not so much!
Happy Halloween everyone, I hope your night is filled with lots of tricks and even more treats!
-D

Little Insecure Girl in a Big Judgmental World

Fun fact, I sell Mary Kay. I love it. I love make up. Its rare that I leave my house without putting it on, and when I do, I am putting it on in the car. Ryan always make jokes about how I am dressing myself up for other people and looking for my next husband. But that's not it. The clothes I wear, the make up I apply, the look I try to present to the world isn't actually to impress the world, it's for myself. To prove to myself that I am good enough. That I am pretty enough. That I can just be enough. I care way too much about what others might think but that's because I am insecure about myself. It has nothing to do with trying to impress other guys. I will try to compare faults about myself to other random people and Ryan just laughs at me because he doesn't understand what I see when I look at myself. He loves me, he sees a beautiful strong woman and I love him for that. I wish I could be that girl he sees. One day I will but until then I use the tools I have been given (or bought.) I apply the coats of concealer to make me look even toned, the bronzer to make me look healthy, the eye shadows to make my eyes look brighter and bolder. I refer to it as "applying my face" but it would be more appropriately named "my mask" Its my way of hiding my imperfections and insecurities from this big giant judgmental world.
 

 

I have so many different idols who could take what people said about them or saw about them and shrug them off. They used what other people said as their fuel and made what society saw as wrong or imperfect and turned it into a key driver of their success. Marilyn Monroe, a gorgeous successful women, was not the size or look of today's "perfect girl". In today's standards she would be about a 6 and while things are starting to turn around a lot of people still argue that perfection is a size 2-4. Coming from a girl who happily floats around a size 8, I am definitely happy to hear one of the most beautiful women was close to my size.

I want to be like them. I want to not only not care what other people say but use it as my fuel. I know that everyone is beautiful no matter what size as long as they have a good head on their shoulders. I 100% believe that. If the most beautiful woman in the world has a hideous personality eventually she will take on the mental image you give her. Its amazing how the brain is able to do that but its true. Beauty really does matter on the inside. Even with that said I still want to see what my friends and family see. I want to see the beautiful strong woman on the outside just as much as the inside. Its an on going battle with the judgmental beast who fuels my insecurities. Its a difficult fight, its a tiring fight and it will be a long fight, but it's one I intend to win. And I will.
I know I'm not the only girl who feels this way about beauty. So to all the other girls who view themselves the same way (if you just happened to stumble across this blog) I just want to say, stay strong. People are cruel and they do it to feel better about themselves. Just remember the beauty on the outside is only as good as the beauty on the inside.
Stay happy, keep smiling. (no one like frowning lines :p)
-D

Pumpkins on the Brain- Check out the "Teal Pumpkin Project"

I LOVE PUMPKINS!
This morning I got my pumpkin spice latte, I'm currently eating my roasted and salted pumpkin seeds and I am looking up ideas for how I want to carve my pumpkin.

Without fail this time of year I always go a little pumpkin crazy, but I feel like this year is topping them all. I'm starting to wonder if all of those "basic white girl" posts from Buzzfeed are true. Haha! Granted I know its not just a thing I'm into or simply a girl thing, I'm surrounded by pumpkin loving people. My best friends licence plate is a playful abbreviation that says pumpkin spice and one of my brothers is completely obsessed with pumpkins as well. I swear Kevin could list every kind of pumpkin anything and he would sound like Bubba on a shrimp tangent. It would take days!

Now onto a serious note, I came across a really neat idea people are doing this year called the "Teal Pumpkin Project".According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, finding candy treats on Halloween without the harmful allergy tricks is becoming more and more a challenge. Kids allergic to nuts have to be careful with candy bars, if they are allergic to milk they can't have chocolate, and kids allergic to soy or eggs have a frightening Halloween as well. With this project we are making things a little bit easier for them and hopefully a lot more fun! What you do is paint a pumpkin teal to let parents know that your house also offers non-food treats like whistles, stickers, bubbles, all that fun jazz and make their trick or treating a little less scary. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for spooky Halloweens, but allergies is one thing I do not play around with. Ryan and I will definitely be partaking in this project this year! If you don't want to paint a pumpkin you can also print out a flyer from this link and display it in a window or something!

Want to paint a pumpkin but don't know how?? Here's a link to wikihow that will give you step by step instructions for making your teal pumpkin as perfect as possible!

Update! I made my candy free trick or treat bags for the Teal Pumpkin Project

I am seriously way too excited about this! Now I don't expect a huge amount of kids to come banging down the door for these, but still the option to get them if they need them makes me so happy! In the bags I've included temporary tattoos, erasers, fake vampire teeth and rings! How fun!!

 

Happy Trick or Treating every one! I hope you have a spooktacular Halloween!

-D