Melissa:
1) My birthday is tomorrow!!
2) My allergies are kicking in and I'm full of snot!!
So currently my face is plunged over a steaming pot with rosemary steeping inside. Gross. But it has inspired my Fashion Friday! I'm big into homemade DIY beauty remedies. Yes, I love Bath and Body Works and Lush and that whole shebang. But I can't afford it half the time, and the other half the time it's not worth it to buy whatever it is I want. I also have tons of skin problems so I am very peculiar about what I use on my face. So below I've listed several of my favorite DIY beauty remedies.
Basil Toner: This is seriously the best toner ever. It's easy to make and it tightens pores like nobodies business.
Ingredients:
2-3 tsp. dried basil leaves
1 cup boiling water.
Instructions:
Steep 10-20 mins. Cool, and apply with cotton ball
Lavender Spray for the Face/Body/whatever you want to spray.
Put a few drops of Lavender essential oil into a small spray bottle you bought at $1 at Target. Fill the rest of the bottle with water, and shake. Spray on your face, bed, after a shower, before you go out. Whatever. I love this stuff!
Sugar & Spice Face Scrub Recipe: I made this for the girls last Christmas. Rachel loved hers.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon almond oil (I used Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Works just as well)
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 Tbsp ground oatmeal
1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions:
Combine all ingredients. Scrub face with mixture 2-3 minutes then rinse.Egg and Honey Face Mask: This is my favorite go-to mask. It's so easy and feels good once your done.
Ingredients:
1 egg (I frequently use the white, after I've used a yolk for baking something.)
2 tbs. milk
1 tbs. honey
Instructions:
mix all ingredients well until creamy. smooth on the face and sit for 15 to 20 minutes. rinse with lukewarm water the cold water. All recipes from naturalfacialrecipes.homestead.com/facemaskrecipes.html
Rachel:
I sit upon my stoop and think, of all the things I've seen, of rolling hills of golden wheat, of forests evergreen. I close my eyes and take a step and tumble down below, where purple nights and strange delights before my eyes are shown. With petal skirts and naked feet I enter a forest glen, and to the Seelie I gladly go, and am never seen again.
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand. For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand.
Rachel:
I sit upon my stoop and think, of all the things I've seen, of rolling hills of golden wheat, of forests evergreen. I close my eyes and take a step and tumble down below, where purple nights and strange delights before my eyes are shown. With petal skirts and naked feet I enter a forest glen, and to the Seelie I gladly go, and am never seen again.
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