Check out this amazingly simple "recipe" I stumbled across while surfing the net!!

Beach Sand Foot Scrub

2 Tablespoons Canola oil
2 Tablespoons dry beach sand
3-5 drops rosemary oil

The next time you decide to spend the day at the beach, take advantage of the "on location foot treatment."  Brazilians, particularly, are known for scrubbing their entire bodies, particularly the feet, deep into the sand while they relax on the beach. 

When going to the beach, take a small vial of ingredients with you:  2 tablespoons of canola oil (or use your suntan oil!), and, a small vial of rosemary oil — or premix and take one vial.

Once at the beach, use an empty container (a soda cup is fine) to mix the ingredients together. Mix into a paste.  Massage sand scrub onto feet (and elbows), concentrating especially on problem areas.  Rinse off in the foamy waves, pat dry with your beach towel.

This sounds sooo easy and totally effective. I will try to remember to link it again as the summer nears - it’s simply perfect for summertime! Thanks to SpaIndex.com for the resource!

Ok so I will admit something. The Aveda Carribbean Therapy bodyscrub I just reviewed was totally a gift. I would never ever pay 38 smackers for a body scrub…even if it IS Aveda (My favorite product line). Here is what I used throughout college when money was tight, and now when organics are SO in!

The Daily Grind - Homemade Latte Scrub

2 cups of coarsely ground coffee (grind up some coffee beans to the count of 10 in an electic grinder)

1/2 cup raw sugar or sea salt (sugar will desolve easier, salt will exfoliate more, sugar smells better)

2-3 T massage oil (or whatever body oil you happen to have in your cupboard)

Mix all ingredients together. Take a hot shower to moisten your skin and open your pores. Using wide, circular motions, rub the coffee exfoliant onto your skin with strong, even pressure. If you are using sugar, let the mixture sit on your skin for a bit to let the minerals dissolve. I usually will do my other shower activities while the scrub sits on my skin (wash hair, face, shave legs etc) Shower off, pat skin dry (don’t rub if you can help it), and apply a thin layer of your favorite body lotion. Layering with a nice coffee scent or even vanilla scented lotion will totally lock the Latte smell in. Mmmmmm! And it cost next to nothing!

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It seems like everyone has a sugar based scrub these days, and Aveda is on the bandwagon too. Packaged in a tub and needing to be scooped out and slathered on either wet or dry, it has more benefits from the oil methinks than the sugar scrub. With a name like Carribbean Therapy, it does indeed sound a bit more upscale than a basic sugar meets oil scrub, but that is exactly what it is, with a faint scent of a Mojito. Which isn’t a bad thing, really.

The bad thing is that you can buy a comparative product from Target for 1/10th of the price, and you really won’t be able to tell the difference. Aveda is by far one of my favorite products, but this one simply doesn’t make me want to shell out the $38 bucks.

Located in the Los Angeles area, Rosalinda Macias is the bomb makeup artist!! I just saw her on Oxygen’s “The Bad Girl’s Club” and actually also have the pleasure of working with her in real time and have seen the magic she works. Faces start around $150 for a Hollywood Look that will guarantee the MOST amazing photos and memories! Check out MakeupByRosalinda.com for her full portfolio!

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Being a footfanatic, I have always thought that reflexology and me would be a match made in heaven. Notsomuch. Reflexology, or zone therapy, is the practice of stimulating points on the feet, hands and ears, in order to encourage a beneficial effect on some other parts of the body, or to try to improve general health. Reflexology is most commonly performed on the feet, moving on to the hands and/or ears where physical restraints, such as veruccas or fractures, apply.

Practitioners believe the foot to be divided into a number of reflex zones corresponding to all zones of the energy of the body, and that applying pressure in the form of massage to “tight” or “gritty” areas of a person’s foot will stimulate the corresponding part of the energy body and assist the self-healing process. Contrary to some beliefs, reflexology does not seek to diagnose or cure medical conditions - merely imbalances in the energy of the body.** From Wikpedia.com

My final determination has concluded that the non-pressured pressure doesn’t really seem worthwhile to spend and entire hour on while my feet get stretched and moved around and find that most massage therapists will actually incorporate elements of reflexology into the massage appointment. And after experiencing it firsthand, I realize that my dentist Dr Tank’s nurse actually uses reflexology on my ear while the dentist is injecting my gums with the numbing agent. Interesting!

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Georgie was swearing by the very home-made facial consisting of honey. Honey? Um…yes. It is definitely a Honey Do!!! Here’s the trick…drop just a itty bitty bit on your fingers and dab on directly to your skin until it has a tacky type feel. Don’t worry about heating it up or slathering it on too thick - just a tick-tack pat all over your skin will do. Chill out and relax with the honey on your skin for like 15 minutes and then take a warm wet towel and pat/wipe all the honey off of your skin. Splash with warm water and follow up with your favorite moisturizer. Your face will feel amazingly smooth, and it didn’t cost you a cent!!! Good looking out Georgie!

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While browsing my neighborhood Whole Foods, I was absolutely captivated by the fresh herbal lavendaresque infused scent of the Avalon Organics products that were right on the edge of the aisle. I thought the cleanser to be a bit on the pricey side (say 9 bucks) for a brand that I hadn’t had any referral or recommendation on, but I figure wth, it’s smells divine! Two weeks later, I am absolutely obsessed with this product…I want more more more! I ended up back at the Whole Foods aisle, and jumped in head first and splurged on the Avalon Organics anti-aging night treatment. The next day I got a HUGE pimple right on the edge of my nose. It’s been there for almost 3 weeks now…and although I absolutely love the way this product smells, I simply cannot seem to talk myself out of thinking that it caused the massive pimple I have been at war with for almost a month. What controlled it sayth you? Why Proactive, of course!

Bottom line: yay on the Avalon Organics cleanser for under 10 bucks, nay on the over 30 night cleanser.

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I have gotten sooooo many emails about shared negative Janna K experiences - somuchso that I didn’t want to edit them and delete actual names, so if you don’t see your comment posted, that is probably why. I think that it’s great that we can use a blog board for open and honest feedback. I personally have had more than a couple bad experiences with JannaK so I would give my overall advice of simply not going!

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it’s easy as pie…just dust on your kitty pouf from Benefit and it dusts on just the tiniest shimmer on your collarbone, shoulders and decolotte…never overpowering or hookerish - just a little bit of glamfun!

this and other Benefit items are available at:

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just and FYI for you all out there who are’t aware, or perhaps simply forgot — you can take back 5 tubes of MAC lipstick once you are finished with them and “recycle’ the packaging - and get a brand new MAC lipstick of your choice in exchange. (Excludes the Viva Glam series who’s profits all go directly to Aids research). So continue to look good AND feel good!

MAC stuff is available at Macy’s Online and Offline.

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Ok so does anyone know the downlow on what is going on with the Total Woman gym franchise? The last time I checked, there were locations in Camarillo, Oxnard & Ventura, but after thinking I would join so that I can go to various locations, I see these pretty bad articles reporting that the Ventura County facilities were sold and members were still contractually obligated to pay thier annual dues.

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What I really liked about the fragrance is the name. But then again, I do realize that everyone’s chemical makeup is different and that everything sits differently. I think that perhaps this is a better fragrance for a young girlie - maybe high school or even early college years. It’s light, airy and just a teeny weeny bit sweet.

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I know, I know…you think that I fell victim to the proactive infomercials…I must say that Kelly Clarkson’s promo was my favorite (they have a poll on proactive.com) but here’s the jist of it all: I have a teenage son who struggles with typical acne and after spending tons of money on over the counter medicated soaps, pads lotions & potions, I figured that this would be the last try before heading to the dermatologist.

Continue reading ‘Proactive!’

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