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Happy Hump Day ladies and lads! We’re over the hump and the weekend is looming right ahead. It’s just in our grasp. Do you have any weekend plans? It looks like it’s going to be a beautiful one here in Gotham. Well, actually, not to brag, but it’s 80 today. I tiptoed out of work to do a Container Store and Whole Foods run. I was tempted to get my hair cut because it’s just crazy hair but I wanna grow it a little more so I can donate it once I do cut it. I swear one day, ONE DAY, I’m going to get a pixie cut and call it a day.

Summer releases are very slow going this year but there’s plenty of newness at Sephora.

Here are 10 new beauty picks available now at sephora.com!

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Now that you know how to apply hyaluronic acid the right way after reading my article a few weeks ago I thought I’d get into essence. In my article I discussed applying hyaluronic acid on damp skin. Please, don’t apply your HA on dry skin! You’re defeating the purpose if you apply it on dry skin because the the acid immediately goes to work drawing moisture out of your skin and if you’re dry it’s going to suck every single bit of moisture from your skin resulting in a tight feeling. You remember when Malcolm McDowell stick that dude with the disposable water bottle in Tank Girl and sucked the water clean out of his body? That’s what HA does on dry skin.

Misting your face with your favorite facial mist prior to applying hyaluronic acid works a treat but…

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With time comes experience with experience comes knowledge with knowledge comes age and with age comes fine lines, wrinkles, gray hair….

I was watching a Tiktoker this morning say that some of his followers were accusing him of being 17 and yesterday JenLuvsReviews posted a 17 vs now photo. Apparently the Internet gods know exactly the content I am viewing online because today everything that pops up on social media is about aging.

I don’t think I mind aging all that much. I’ve seen a lot, done a lot, traveled extensively, had some amazing life experiences, but there’s still much, much more to go but so far it’s been a good trip and hopefully, with age, it gets even better. I have to admit the idea of death does scare me. Not only dying myself but also most importantly losing loved ones. I’ve never experienced the death of a loved one before and the idea of it makes my heart hurt. I mean, my grandparents are gone it sometimes feel like I was really too young to understand that. Also, they lived in Europe so, I wasn’t seeing them every single day or even once a week which made it a little hard to miss them.

I can’t lie to you and say I relish the idea of gray hair and wrinkles. I do everything in my power to take good care of my skin in the hopes it’ll look good well into my 50s, 60s, and beyond. I’m not really into surgeries or botox so, I don’t think that’ll ever be an option.

So far, I think I’m well preserved ;-D That’s my senior high school picture above followed by me at two. And you all know what I look like now:

I dunno if I’m not seeing it or not but I don’t think I’ve changed all that much over the years. Same buggy eyes, same out of control wavy hair, same smooth complexion, I don’t really look in the mirror and see changes. But that’s the odd and tricky thing about aging! We don’t notice the change in the mirror because it happens so very gradually however, it does happen and others notice if they haven’t seen you in a year or two.

Do you think you look the same at 17 as you do now?

Or have you dramatically changed?

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