Night one - My beautiful, young skin approach!

Olive Oil, Olive oil, Olive oil! 

Tonight is my first night starting this whole EVO thing. I’ve decided to try the olive oil on my face for tonight and will continue for a few weeks and see how it goes! Why? Well, apparently EVO is the ultimate beauty solution. Yep, that’s right! I’ve been doing tons of research and I’m just curious enough to see for myself. From what I gather, Extra Virgin Olive Oil will keep your skin looking young and supposedly beautiful. Now, I need all the EVO I can get! 

You can use “EVO” (sorry, but using EVO is much quicker than typing it out. It’s my lazy day!) on your cuticles, hair, body, face, ingest it, etc. It’s an everything in one kind of deal I guess. 

I don’t have time to soak my hands in EVO, but if it’s as amazing and miraculous as I hear, I’m happy to try it on my face every night.

NIGHT ONE:

I’ve had the EVO on my face for about an hour and a half. OK, OK, you caught me. I’m lying, I didn’t use EVO because I didn’t have any so I ued DHC’s Olive Oil stuff for the face. So sue me! Anyways, I figure it’s good enough, right?

I’ve had it on for a while and I’ve used it before, but didn’t repeat it til’ now. The thing is, I hate the feeling of the oil on my face! It itches! I guess those tiny little peach fuzzies soaked in olive oil make things itchy. After a few minutes if I don’t touch my face, it doesn’t bother me. Now since it’s so anti-aging, I smothered the areas around my eyes (even my lids!) in the stuff. (Hey, If I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it good!) and that was a mistake. I’ve had watery, itchy as hell eyes for the past hour because the stuff runs in them! Tomorrow night, the eyelids stay oil-free! It’s also contributed to my killer headache. 

I thought I’d share my new beauty adventure with you guys, but I want to hear your beauty regime! Anybody else use this EVO solution? Care to share? Any tips would be very welcome as well!

I’m off to do my school assignment and then bed. If I happen to wake up and be stunningly gorgeous, I will report back ASAP! Tomorrow I’ll be adding the oil to my bath. I just hope it doesn’t make me greasy and I also hope I don’t forget to do it! Ha. Ha.                                              

My PeArL of the day - A lovely sunflower body wash

                   ~SUNFLOWER BODY WASH~

 As you may have read in my previous post, I've been reviewing & loving the Miessence bath and body product. Today, my PeArL of the day is the Sunflower Body Wash.

 With the first sniff, I thought it smelled just like lemon meringue, I took another sniff & it smelled like lime, and another sniff I kind of got a light vanilla smell. It smelled so good! As I got to reading the back label on the body wash, I saw that there is lemon and lime peels in the ingredients. I guess that's why I was smelling the lemon and lime. I loved the scent.

                                               TEXTURE

 The Sunflower Body Wash is a kind of thick texture, very creamy. Like most of their wonderful items, I can stick my finger in the liquid and pull it right out without anything dripping off. Just a few small drops is enough to clean your whole body so I can see it lasting a good while. I like the light silky texture of it. I like even more that it's very good for your skin, mine soaks everything up and I can see a difference in how my skin looks.

DOWN TO THE BASICS:

PROS:

- The Sunflower Body Wash smells great.
- It gets you clean.
- Vegan product.
- Safe for babies/children.
- Contains no chemical ingredients.
- It has a pretty silk texture when rubbing on skin.
- Leaves skin so soft and healthy.
- The Sunflower Body Wash (as well as the other products combined) has rejuvenated and livened my skin up in a way that I didn't know was possible.
- Brings out a beautiful glow all over body.
- I thought the body wash was extremely hydrating! I really love how hydrating their products are. I'm like a new person, with new skin and all!
- All of my dry, irritated, blotchy, red, inflamed area have totally been relieved and I show no signs of them at all!


TIPS:
After using the Sunflower Body wash, I used the Body Milk (you can read about it in my previous Miessence posts) With the Body Milk applied immediately after my shower and after using the Body Wash, my skin felt like velvet! It also made my hands feel wonderful!

  Overall, I totally love it. No cons. Nothing at all negative about the product. I would absolutely recommend it to anybody with any skin type, including children. These are all my own opinions and I believe that the products are made with some of the most amazing ingredients.

  Be sure to check them out here. To find this Sunflower Wash click here. Have any of you lovies tried any of their products before? If so let me know which is your favorites! If you haven't used them before, I really hope you decide to. I wish I could put in words how amazing they all are. There's so much care and hard work put into each and every product. I would love to hear y'all's opinions too!

  *You can read my honesty pledge at the top of the page. These opinions are only my very own. I was not paid to say anything about the products. It was by my own choice to review & share my opinion. I strongly believe in honesty and the opinions I share are ALWAYS my own, unbiased opinions. The free products I may receive do not influence my opinions and the contributors (or companies) have in no way pressured, paid, or asked me to write a positive review. I believe that writing a dishonest review is unethical and disrespectful to the company, the people who are influenced by the review, loyal readers, and myself. I will ALWAYS abide by my honesty pledge and provide a 100% totally honest review at any and all times. I care and appreciate my readers, the companies who are kind enough to send me their products to review, and myself far too much to lie. I believe that by writing a dishonest review DOES classify as a lie.*

Mango Grove - Body Wash

                                 - Mango Grove Body Wash -

  This Body Wash is certainly making my nose happy! I've caugh myself inhaling deeply just trying to catch the scent from the Mango Grove Wash.

  This mango and banana mixed scent is so energizing. It really woke me up, gave me a nice little boost. I don't know if it just smelled so good or what, but I had taken medicine for anxiety just minutes before bathing and was so drowsy I thought I'd pass out in the bath then, whoa! What a boost!

  It's also relaxing to me as most of the Hawaiian Body Products have been so far. It's been an extremely stressful week and these have really been relieving and uplifting in every aspect.

  I'm really "digging" Hawaiian Body. Apparently I'm not the only one either. I caught the BF sniffing me twice! He said I'm smelling sooo good these days. (Did I smell bad before?) He sniffed my legs!

  These Hawaiian products have had my mind of the beach all week! I was already planning for the vacation in October. Thankfully, these scents have given me enough taste of the beach to keep me from running away and taking a road trip!

  All in all, these are just too amazing to describe. They're nothing like the cheap alcohol smelling "tropical body products." These smell and feel like they came straight from the beach.

  The Mango Wash left my skin just as soft and pretty as the other Hawaiian Body Products. I can't decide on which I love more!

Hawaiian Coconut Tropical Bath Soak

                      Hawaiian Coconut Tropical Bath Soak

  Oh, if only I knew how to put in words the joy this soak brought me! Another Hawaiian Body Product, this exotic coconut and pineapple scented Pearl makes my day everytime.

  The lovely Coconut Tropical Bath Soak contains pineapple, coconut milk, coconut cream, and virgin coconut butter. Doesn't that sound good enough to eat! I wanted to, but resisted this time. It does smell delcious enough.

  I also like to use the wonderful Island Tuberose Tropical Mist Spray while in the shower or even in my bedroom to create a relaxing, stress relieving experience. It especially made me happy while I was working on a million things in one day and up to my eyeballs with stress. Everytime I'd get a little whiff of the Tropical Mist, it took me right back to the beach! It really brough back even the simplest memories of my visits to the beach.

  Back to the Coconut Bath Soak. I loved how soft it made me & it was really nice to have in a hot bath.

PROS:

1. It softens your skin.
2. The smell is beyond amazing.
3. Great to use after a really long day, just the smell is relaxing.


I loved the Island Tuberose Tropical Mist just as much.

Pros:
1. The Tropical Mist is a light, beachy scent.
2. Very relaxing. Perfect for spraying in your home, while bathing, office, etc. Anywhere that you want to get light whiffs and reminders of the relaxing beach is a perfect place to spray.
3. Not strong. Didn't cause me any headaches.
4. This stuff really reminds you of a beach vacation! If I didn't know I was home, I'd swear I was at the beach.

Hawaiian Body Products has a new fan, me! I love the scents, softness, of all the products.

Hawaiian Body

                          ~  A beautiful Pearl of the day ~

                              Hawaiian Body Products


  Packed with fruit extracts and some of the most wonderful, tropical scents, Hawaiian Body Products has some excellent products.

This is a photo of some of the Hawaiian Body products, I will be posting a review for the rest soon so keep an eye out!

  Over the last couple of days, I've been so eager to try the entire contents of my sample kit from Hawaiian Body Products. So far I've gotten to several, but not all. The first Hawaiian Body product that won my heart is the Coconut Lemongrass Cane Sugar Scrub.

  I'm a fan of sugar scrubs, if the product is very well made. I have to admit, in my searching, I've only found 3 sugar scrubs that met my over the top standards. If I'm going to scrub myself with it, it might as well be the best, right?

  Now that the Coconut Lemongrass Cane Sugar Scrub is my #1 top favorite, there will be room for no other. This one totally blew the rest out of the water by a long shot!

  With it's tropical, clean scent, the scrub made me feel just like I was on the beach! It has the most beautiful scent and feels oh so good on my skin.

  This body scrub contains tropical butters, coconut milk, organic local honey, hawaiian cane sugar. It all smells so beautiful!

  It's the perfect texture, rough enough, but not so rough that it irritates or makes your skin raw. I have a slight redness, bumpy texture on my upper arms after going so long with no sun and it's nearly impossible to clear that up without tanning, but with a gentle rubbing of the Coconut Lemongrass Cane Sugar Scrub, it was completely gone! It has stayed gone too, which does matter.

  Unlike most scrubs, I didn't have to apply a whole lot of pressure just to get scrubbed and exfoliated. I really love this scrub! It's so nice.

  Like the Coconut Lemongrass bath soak, it leaves your skin so smooth. The lemograss and coconut scent really complimented each other well. With the coconut giving the tropical feel and lemongrass giving an energetic feel.

  I felt so soft after using the Scrub and Bath Soak.

PROS:
1. Smells so amazing. Really made such a wonderful bath!
2. Ingredients are vegan.
3. Not tested on animals.
4. Contains natural ingredients such as fruit extracts, etc.
5. Doesn't dry out skin.
6. Hydrating.
7. Leaves a slight glow to skin.
8. Isn't greasy/won't clog razor.
9. It doesn't irritate or scratch skin.
10. Soothed and took away redness.
11. Rejuvenates skin (awesomely!)
12. Exfoliates very well!


No CONS! When, I can't find any CONS, then it must be a pretty goood one!

Check them out! http://www.hawaiianbodyproducts.com/

My PeArL of the day ~ brown sugar & lemon grass - it gets me going!

   Hello my sparkling little kittens,
I'm here again to bring you my luxurious, mouth watering, get-you-going PeArL of the day...

  First, I'll let the picture do the speaking.

This is the Brown Sugar Body Scrub from http://www.justnaturalskincare.com/ it contains brown sugar and butters! How amazing does that sound? Multiply that by 10. I have never in my life used or even known of a body scrub like this. It's truly mind blowing!

   The smell of it alone just gets me going. It smells like a very rich desert, you can definitely smell the ingredients. It has a hint of lemongrass scent too. It's enough to make my mouth water. It's extremely rich. I loved that it wasn't "just another one of those body scrubs." This one was much more than that. It's a pretty powerful little scrub. Many scrubs tend to make you soft, but they don't always seem to be very cleansing. This one, I found to be all.

   PROS:
1. Cleansing with the perfect level of exfoliation, not too rough, not too subtle.

2. It gets the job done, but leaves a beautiful scent. Perfect for a relaxing shower.

3. Leaves your skin more beautiful than ever, glowing, so soft. It doesn't leave a single patch of dead/dry skin behind and still leaves your skin flawlessly smooth. I actually said "My legs look gorgeous!" to the B/F after I showered. If you know me, you know I don't say things like that often.

4. Thick & rich. When I say rich, I mean rich like gourmet chocolate!

5. Results are not temporary. Most scrubs I've used end up being good until a week later, it seems they just don't quite stick to their job & they only keep your skin smooth for a few hours. The Brown Sugar Scrub from http://www.justnaturalskincare.com/ will never slack on the job! It has kept my entire body, (keep in mind this body goes through quite a bit of tanning bed visits) flawless & 100% smooth.

6. A scent so rich & luxurious.

7. The only way I know how to describe this scrub is to say it left my skin like silk and that is an understatement!

  The only thing I didn't care for was that it did seem to clog my razor, but it the company did not claim that it wouldn't so by no means do I blame them.   

   I can truthfully say the scrub is more promising than it claims. The razor clogging was more than likely from the scrub being so rich, not greasy. Had it not been, it probably wouldn't do as great of a job; a little razor clogging is totally worth it.

 The search is over. I have found 2 of the best sugar scrubs ever. This is certainly one of them.
 
  Go ahead, see for yourself. http://www.justnaturalskincare.com/

Much love to y'all. Check back for my upcoming PeArL. HINT: Lemongrass, baby!

-Kendra