Summer is awaiting (:
Road trips. Live shows. Love.

Dark side, again.

I will never see another man who owns a mustang.

They are trouble… Enough said.

Lier lier.
I see a lier.

I am in love.

Well good bye 2011 and hello 2012!
It would be an understatement to say I started off the year with the wrong foot! Not only was today the most embarrassing day ever… But I think I might have fallen back into an old addiction! I need my muse, I miss his conversation and random thought. I miss the day when being romanced mattered.

Xxgladis

cultofpretty:

I love a product that just GOES THERE, despite their legal team probably pulling their hair out, throwing chairs and crying. 

Clean & Clear Advantage Popped Pimple Relief is one of those products - just read this j’amaze copy:

Although dermatologists do not recommend intentionally popping pimples (and you know it’s not the best thing for your skin), they can inevitably end up getting popped.

“Getting popped” - best use of passive language I’ve seen this year!  And you know there was a version that read “And gurl, you knowit’s not…” Anyway, I’m prouda ya, Clean & Clear, because this product is perfectly targeted and makes complete sense.  Also, it works.

                

I’m always “getting popped” ew, wrong-sounding - and it is bad for your skin, it definitely can cause scarring - but even Dr. Oz has shared the “right” way to do it [VIDEO - if you’re about to eat, do not click] … so let’s move on and talk about treatment.

This is a salicylic acid pen that helps dry out the zit and also creates a “seal.”  The main deal with the seal, for me at least, is that it enables you to apply concealer over the offensive area. The biggest problem with a popped blemish is that somehow, biologically, concealer just won’t adhere to it - or it cakes etc. etc.  This really helps with that.  Also, just having this pen around reminds you to treat the area rather than just averting your eyes from it … and it really speeds up the healing time. They also make a paste version that I haven’t tried.

Anyway, go there!  (It works just as well on a non-popped pimple).

Does this: Helps heal pimples (popped or not) and creates a seal over which you can apply concealer
Is this: Clean & Clear Advantage Popped Pimple Relief
Get this: Above
Price: $6.99

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-How Far Are You Willing To Go To Obtain Your Deepest Desire?

twloha:

Four months ago, a 14 year-old named Jonah Mowry made a video. He wrote on index cards and held them in front of the camera, one after another, owning his words bravely for the world to see. The world is seeing it. The video is seemingly everywhere this week, and we think it’s great. We are proud to share it with you.

Jonah is in eighth grade and no stranger to being bullied at school. He shares his journey through school, how bullying started in first grade and never stopped. There at the end, he acknowledges that things can’t keep going the way they’ve been going, but his recognition doesn’t imply defeat, rather it fuels his fight for his own story. He is stronger than giving up. He is worth more than giving up. He has a million reasons to live. In the dark, tangled up in his fears, Jonah seizes his own strength.

It is a hard road to find and hold on to the truths Jonah finds and holds in his video, and some of us don’t know how to get to the strength locked within ourselves. And it is in this place that I’m reminded that we need each other, that hope and goodness and truth and love, definitely love, can change a life.

People need you.
You need people.

What would the world look like if we lived like we believe in that? What would the world look like if we helped each other find the strength locked up within us? If, instead of tearing each other down with hate, we built each up with truth and love?

What would happen if we simply used our words for kindness?

Your words have power, and the way you shape them matters. Use them carefully, and use them often.

Wishing you hope and grace.
whitney