Beauty

As a teenager I would read countless Cosmo and Glamour magazines that I would borrow from friends. One year I actually got a subscription to Seventeen magazine as a gift from my sister. That rocked. Once in a while I'll pick up a magazine and thumb through it but the allure has faded somewhat.. It's almost masochistic to look at products I can't afford.. I sigh, I dream but in the end I know that the chances of owning that Herve Leger dress (or having the body to wear said dress) are close to nil. I go through the beauty sections of these magazines and try and justify spending 60 Euros for a moisturizer or 120 Euros for an exfoliator but I can't... plus the Husband and I share an account. He'd see.. So what's a girl to do? Make her own damn stuff.

Oh Olive Oil. How I love you.. This sh*t's da bomb. You can eat it and you can wear it.. like edible undies but with fewer chances of catching a yeast infection...

Use 1 for Olive Oil- hair conditioner. Sunday nights I take a half cup of Olive oil and rub it in my dry hair. I cover my hair up with a shower cap and leave it for a couple of hours. Then wash it out with shampoo and then condition with regular conditioner. It really makes a difference. And the Husband loves looking at his lovely bride wearing a shower cap and smelling like Nonna. Total bonus!

Use 2 for Olive Oil- Body scrub. Take 1/4 cup of olive oil and 1/4 white sugar and mix a little. Using an exfoliating mitt, use the scrub all over your body. You will be a goddess of soft skin. You will be adored. You will need to buy more olive oil soon.

Use 3 for Olive Oil- intense moisturizer. Once in a while in the winter my skin is kind of lizardy.. it's hot. So I use OO (I'm like Rachel Ray without the EV) on my face and on any dry spots. Use some on your feet and pull some big ass ole socks over them. Don't use your husband's military socks. Just don't.

Now, another homemade remedy is the aspirin facial I mentioned in an earlier post. Take a couple of aspirins and grind them up. If you went to college or lived in any city, this should be easy. Add a few drops of water on to them and make a thick paste. On your clean face, spread the paste on and wait about ten minutes. It will be tingly and a little wierd. Do this, wear the shower cap and your husband's big ass ole socks and he'll be lusting after you, I tell you what. Afterwards gently wash the paste off. Your face will be soft and your pores will be smaller and your mustache will no longer have a headache. Please do a skin test before you do this just in case your face can't handle aspirin.. I've never done a skin test before for any product. I'm a dumbass.

I have a couple more homemade remedies but I'll save those for later...

Enjoy!