La Ropa de Hoy #5

Today was the first day of school... First days of school are always significant but almost entirely pointless, making them a perfect time to dress up. Unfortunately I couldn't get ANY good pictures.



I'm wearing:

- Old black flats from Target (not shown)
- Jean leggings from Forever 21 - loving these!
- Navy heart print dress from Forever 21
- Grey blazer from Forever 21 - SO surprisingly soft and comfy, with pretty blue lining. I wish it were a little more fitted, but I can't complain.
- AMAZING black door knocker earrings by Betsey Johnson
- Class ring (always).

Makeup... Same as last post, except I used both the NYC liquid liner from before in tandem with a Covergirl liner pen. The pen helps for getting smooth, non-smudging or transferring lines across the lash line, but it can't do a taper worth crap, which is with the NYC liner brush comes in. I really want to keep wearing makeup like this, but during school it means waking up earlier- so we'll see what happens. Other than that, all that's different is using orange eye shadow instead of purple (same palette).

Next fashion conquest: I need a watch. The classroom clocks in my school are completely, inexplicably wrong probably 9 times out of 10, and I don't want to spend the year fumbling for my phone to sneakily check how much longer I have in the period.

La Ropa de Hoy #4

I wore this to get lunch with friends at Panera... no doubt the last time I'll hang out with anyone before school starts on Wednesday.

I'm wearing:

- Old black flats from Target
- Flower print shorts from JCPenney
- Lime green tank from JCPenney
- White beads and white rose earrings from Claire's (don't judge me)
- Black and white purse by... who knows? I ordered it off of Amazon.







Makeup:

- Rimmel concealer
- Maybelline Pure liquid foundation
- Rimmel liquid eyeliner
- Cheap purple eyeshadow from Claire's
- Wet N' Wild mascara
- Covergirl pressed powder
- Lancome lipgloss (gift from a friend). I think it might be too much with the strong eye makeup...

I'm having a love/hate relationship with this outfit... It's a little more in-your-face than most stuff I wear, so I feel a little ridiculous... But, considering I was going to try and wear my hair in an afro today, I look pretty normal.

Product Recommendation: Peach and Willowbark Deep Pore Scrub

I got a little sampler of Burt's Bees products as a birthday gift many months ago, and most of it was so-so except for this one little gem.



I feel like Burt's Bees was a fad that kind of came and went - especially once the provider of "natural" products was bought out by not-so-natural Clorox - but this is some good stuff, guys.

A lot of similar exfoliating products dry out your skin. Not this stuff. The ground peach stone fragments clear away dead skin and eliminate the pesky, flakey remnants of breakouts, but the formula is shockingly moisturizing. I rinse this stuff off and my skin feels AMAZING. Tight, moisturized, and miraculously soft. I feel like if I get a full size bottle of this, I won't even need to hunt for a good facial moisturizer! It pulls double duty.

A quick look around Amazon shows that some people don't appreciate the surprising moisturizing aspect of this scrub, or that it doesn't cooperate with their skin. This probably isn't the best choice for you if you have oily skin or are prone to breakouts. But if you have fairly well-behaved skin like I do, I definitely suggest buying a tube of this. My tiny little sample has lasted me several uses - you don't need more than maybe a nickel-sized dollop - so the 4 ounce tube is well-priced at $8, especially for a natural product.