Summer, Sunshine and Your Make Up

Now I'm not sure if you can truly call this weather "summer", but the calendar does say the days are long and the nights are short. Don't think that just because it's not 35 degrees out your beauty products are safe from being ruined from the heat.

Keep beauty products away from direct sunlight. There's someone in another suite in my apartment complex that likes to keep all their beauty things on the window ledge. Yeah it looks nice, but it's not good for your hair, face, and body products.

Avoid leaving them in the car. I don't know how many things my friends have lost to the heat that gathers in the glove box or ash trays of their cars.

Here's a couple tips on how to make your makeup and beauty products last their full lifetime, by avoiding certain climates.

1. Check the label. Does it say to keep you product between a certain temp?

Self Tanner/Sunless Tanner - Update

One week later...


At about Thursday last week I had to stop using the tanning lotion.  I was starting to turn orange.  I was using it twice a day, since I ran out of my regular moisturizer and the box did say to use as your regular lotion.  After about 3 days I started to look like my regular old pale self.

Now this doesn't mean it's a horrible product, it just obviously didn't work for my skin type, that often. I may try this again after a weekend out in the sun and I have some natural colour, then it might work better for me.

The lotion on my legs unfortunately didn't take as well. I got a little darker. This product did even out my skin tone amazingly before I turned orange. Ha-ha!

I wouldn't recommend the Life Daily Glow lotion to anyone as fair as I am, with pink undertones.  It, like most self tanners/sunless tanners, may go orange. If you do choose to use it, I don't recommend using it everyday, once you get the desired colour stick to every other day or every third day.

All products were purchased by me. All opinions are mine, and mine alone, with no outside influence.

Self Tanner/Sunless Tanner

After many hours of debate I have decided to take the leap into self tanner again. I haven't done it since high school and for good reasons. I ended up being super orange after a bad self tanning incident. So here we go!