You Have An Amazing Body: Lip-Loving, Gratitude Meditation
Hey, baby. You have an amazing body.
Yes, you.
I don’t care if it’s fat or thin or missing a limb, your body is rollercoaster amazing. How do I know this? Because you’re reading this right now. Because you’re breathing. Because that bag of mostly water that carries “you” around is the vessel through which you experience everything. Everything.
Your body’s with you all the time, so it’s easy to take it for granted, or even hate it for not being what you think it should be. We’re going to start telling our bodies thank you for a while. Today, we’re going to start with the easiest part of our bodies to love.
Our lips.
Simple Homemade 3-Ingredient Facial Oil Moisturizer – Customize It For Your Own Gorgeous Skin
Shoot, you guys. I owe so many of you an apology. For years, so many of you have been asking about what I use to moisturize my face. Every time, the conversation goes like this:
Curious Person: “Hey, Leslie? What do you use to moisturize your face?”
Me: “I use a blend of oils.”
Curious Person: “What kind of oils? Can you give me a recipe?”
Me: “Oh, a whole bunch, blended together. I’ll blog it soon, I promise.”
Fast forward to eight thousand years later, otherwise known as today, I was mad beautying around in the kitchen, experimenting with blends for the perfect facial oil to sell on the Crunchy Betty Natural Market for oily and blemishy skin (I haven’t perfected it yet, but MY personal moisturizing facial oil is now up there for sale). Anyway, as I’m blending and shaking, I realize this is something I should probably blog about.
Before I do, lest you think I was kidding about being a mad beautyist today, this is what my kitchen counter looked like after the experiments, full of my personal oil stash. I never realize how much bloomin’ crunchy stuff I have until it’s overtaking my kitchen:
Tada! Crunchy Betty’s Natural Market on Etsy – Limited Special for Crunchy Betty Readers!
What? WHAT? Yes. This is really happening.
Crunchy Betty now has a Natural Market Store on Etsy, where you’ll be able to pick up some of the end products of recipes you’ve seen here on Crunchy Betty. Let’s not make too big of a deal about it, though; I’m just giving it a few trial months to see how it goes. I’ll give you the insider story here in a minute (ooooh … insider.)
To kick off the store, I thought we’d celebrate by offering you an extra amazing just here through the site (before we get into having to deal with Etsy charges and other major expenses). So, on a very limited basis, you can pick up one of three exclusive Crunchy Betty cleansing grains HERE on the site for a major discount over what they’ll cost at the store in the future.
On the Etsy store, they’re $16-16.50 plus $4.50 shipping (if you’re in the U.S.) – but right now, on the site, they’re only $15 total, including shipping, if you’re in the U.S. (Outside the U.S. and want some? Hit me up with an email at [email protected] and we’ll discuss shipping prices.)
You’ll see a few “Add to Cart” buttons throughout the post, so be sure to use ‘em if you feel the urge.
Get to Know: Lusty Maca Root Powder
Lusty: full of or characterized by a healthy vigor. (Her lusty complexion bathed him in a radiant energy, and under her gaze he felt kissed by the sun.)
Lust: intense sexual desire or appetite; ardent enthusiasm, zest, or relish. (He felt a deep lust for life, with one look at her lusty complexion, and lusted lustfully for her lusty haunches. Lust.)
You want lusty? You want lusty lust that courses through your veins and pours through your pores like warm summer’s day?
Then you want maca root powder. Oh yeah, baby. You want it.
We’re just going to talk quickly about maca powder, what it is and what it does, today. It’s been my favorite little occasional supplement over the last couple of months, but even more recently I’ve discovered what it can do for your skin.
So, a quick overview of maca root powder and then a recipe you can try in the romantic glow of your very own bathroom. Your bathroom IS romantic, isn’t it? Nothing says love like a toilet in the corner.
Smooth ‘n Silky Banana Milkshake Hair Mask
Bananas are mystical fruits designed by a higher power to be the exact shape and size to fit perfectly, snugly, miraculously on your counter top for two weeks, while you forget about them and instead eat the granola.
They also have a built-in color-coded system: Banana day one is green, banana day three is green, banana day four is yellow, banana day five is as black as the heart of Genghis Khan.
All over the wild of India, there are families of monkeys, bickering about who didn’t eat the last two bananas and now what are they going to do with them? They’re too dark and mushy. The kids won’t touch them, George. What a waste. Fine, go ahead. Just go outside and throw your poop with the guys. I’m sick of discussing this, anyway.
Well, here’s a way you can avoid that conversation. You’ll also avoid spending six hours debating whether you should throw the bananas away or bake banana bread, during which time the bananas grow legs, get up, and just walk away, sick of your indecision.
Smooth ‘n Silky Banana Hair Mask.
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