I’m not wearing any makeup in this pic.

First, a little background… My face got really bad in November 2012. I was having terrible-terrible breakouts, probably due to me being an old & crusty hormonal woman on the verge of geriatric splendor. Then I started doing my natural face care routine and the breakouts calmed down dramatically.

But wait! What remained was a ton of dark spots & scarring from where I had been picking at my face like a battle rat clawing at its prey. I had to resort to wearing makeup every day to cover those spots & scars — something I never had to do before in all my life. The breakouts stopped, thanks to good face care, but my skin still looked terrible.

Then I started juicing and my face began to clear up at an accelerated rate. It happened very, very quickly. Less than 2 months after the start of juicing, I’m back to wearing NO make up again. Sure, I still wear it on occasion, but not everyday and only when I feel like it.

I’m grateful to be juicing!

Sidenote about my morning meal planning: I drink my Shakeology in the morning and slurp on my juiced greens in the afternoon (about 4X per week). When I was previously drinking the juiced greens in the morning immediately following my workout, I noticed that my post-workout recovery was horrible (ravenous morning hunger & prolonged muscle soreness). I need protein in the morning for adequate fueling and recovery, which is why I re-introduced Shakeology as my morning meal and pushed back the juice-drinking until the afternoon. This is working out wonderfully for me.

Do what works for you and be awesome.

I hope you’re having a Good Memorial Day. I wrote this post while in a food coma (you impressed?), although I was not as greedy as anticipated. Darn.

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HAIR? check. MAKE-UP: check. Camera crew? CheckCheckCheck.

We all I remember this photo because it captures the first real make-up application I’d ever had:

The final flat-ironed product turned out like this:

Amazingly it all came together to produce this (please to note the hand. can you tell I LONG to launch into the Elaine Benis Thumb Dance?):

You may or may not have ever seen this:

The Tornado, while she possesses a streak of tomboy, LOVES her some make-up application and dress up time:

Today those two worlds shall collide for her.

FOR US.

And while I’ve told her—-I dont think she has any concept of what’s coming.

Fila & a film crew flew here last night and will descend (along with hair, make-up, & myriad outfit changes) on our house** around 8am.

We’ll be filming Fila Fitness minutes.

Im playing Spokesmom with appearances by the Tornado as spokeskid.

I *think* this consists of doing various & sundry PLAYouts, talking about staying healthy WITH your children, & am hoping any dancing will be of the PARTY variety in our kitchen.

Oh, and  the Tornado has repeatedly informed Ren Man & me she plans to teach us to break-dance.  Apparently on the kinder playground they kick it like it’s 1984.

So there is that.

 I’ll be back.

With stories Im certain…

**Yes. The surprise of the coming-to-my-unkempt-house thing could have been frazzling had I allowed it to be. I chose to simply shove my head in the dirty, stained couch pillows sand & not think about it.   

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