I did a thing! I launched a SUBSTACK. Welcome 🤠 Shall we do an "about us" aka me?

Beauty & brain dumps coming your way about literally beauty, skincare, life, wellness, probably food because I, like you, are a foodie, and maybe some travel. 🤷‍♀️ Who knows.

Well I know, actually. I love l-o-v-eeeeee beauty and skincare and makeup, and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on the topics from my own passionate research, and having worked in medical spa consulting for almost a decade (on the branding, social, marketing, and copywriting side).

As a creative I love Instagram and TikTok, but I’m a writer at heart. I have a masters in journalism, and before I was plugging away at boosting woman-owned medspas in the digital world, I was writing for various digital media sites, local newspapers and copywriting for social. I tried my hand at blogging back in the Blogger.com days, but was just too busy to commit. Now feels like a good time to take another go; substack feels significantly less ominous than hacking together some code for a blog amiright?

Since I mentioned some topics I’m interested in, let’s do a quick rundown of them right now. A little rapid-fire rundown if you will!

HELLO IT’S ME

BEAUTY

• Trying to convince myself I DON’T need the new Saie Bronzers or Makeup by Mario Bronzers or Haus Labs blush sticks (coming soon) (don’t look in my Sephora cart!!! 🛒) Shameless plug: if you like beauty/makeup/skincare video content I do have these nice social accounts you could follow 😇 Instagram / TikTok

SKINCARE

• Recently did an at-home microneedling treatment. With a PEN! 😱 Writing that up next so stay tuned. As per usual trying not to over extend my skin barrier’s abilities to heal my face. So chillin’ on the exfoliants and focusing on hydration and barrier repair. Sometimes I think these kinds of products also irritate me? But anyway loving this moisturizer and this one.

MAKEUP

• Well, I already kind of touched on some makeup [see above]. But I am ready to try out the new Fenty Beauty glowy foundation. Or should I say the Soft’Lit Naturally Luminous Hydrating Longwear Foundation. They kindly kindly KINDLY sent me an incredible PR package?? Like why me? I’m so thankful 🥹.

LIFE

• Summer will quickly be upon us. These are the summer jams for the girlies. No explanation needed:

WELLNESS

• Started incorporating this collagen supplement into my coffee because I don’t think I was getting enough protein first thing in the morning. Also trying not to have coffee first thing in the morning 🫥. Trying to incorporate healthier whole foods that align with my cycle with inspo from Ale & Alexis

FOOD

• Speaking of healthier foods and cycle syncing… I was craving chocolate and decided to make black bean brownies. (Protein!) But I didn’t have eggs, so I subbed with chia eggs but then added them to the blender with all the ingredients. And now 30 mins into baking they look like this. They are NOT set, like full on batter still in the middle. I put them back in the oven. Will not report back.

Normally I am an EXCELLENT cook/baker I swear.

I think that wraps it up for this intro post! Are you interested in reading anything specific from me? Would love to hear it. DM me or email me or how do you contact me on here? I need to look into that. But do it!