It’s very clear by now that I have a huge amount of love for Beauty Pie.
The subscription skincare and makeup brand keeps going from strength to strength, adding great new products all the time. From supplements to silk pillowcases, there’s a lot they’ve tried out.
In fact, almost all of my skincare routine is from the brand, and increasingly more and more of my daily must-have makeup as well. If you’re wondering how Beauty Pie works, want to take a closer look at some of the skincare,see the Japanfusion skincare line, or take a look at some of Beauty Pie’s best new launches, I got you covered!
I know there’s a lot of love and curiosity about the brand, so I thought I’d share some my latest order. I was so excited to try some of these items. When I pulled up on my drive and spotted my postie I practically rugby tackled him - hey, gotta get that pink box magic, right? If you know, you know!
Bad days - there’s no way to avoid them and they suck.
Sometimes they’re obvious from the moment you open your eyes in the morning, as if storm clouds have gathered over your pillow during the night. Sometimes they creep up and ambush you when you’re least expecting it.
But however they happen, they’re an unfortunate fact of life.
And with the super challenging conditions over the past year and a half, you may have noticed them becoming a lot more frequent.
I know for me, it’s been a fraught balancing act at times. Coming to grips with work issues, pandemic childcare and thornier topics like bereavement and isolation - sometimes I’ve felt myself sinking.
The signs are easy to spot. I feel withdrawn from life and want to avoid social contact. I start to panic about things that don’t normally affect me. And that familiar sensation of something heavy sitting on my chest starts to kick in.
So what do you do when this happens?
There’s a silver lining to everything, right?
One of the few positives of having been a total shut-in due to the pandemic is that we live in the age of online shopping, courier services and subscription boxes, so there’s every chance the daily post brings a nice surprise.
The quarterly FitFabFun box is definitely something I look forward to receiving. A lifestyle subscription box from the US, it generally has a great mix of beauty products, fashion, things for the house and wellness items and some great brands that can be hard to get hold of here in the UK.
Who hasn’t had to turn into a beauty tech throughout this pandemic?
With salons shut for so long, all those little treatments that we rely on to make us look and feel our best have been inaccessible.
So we’ve had two choices - either embrace the natural look (let’s be honest, I was never going down that route) or turn ourselves into our own beauticians.
During this lockdown I’ve balayaged my own hair, done my own facial treatments and learnt how to apply gel nails and how to do my own eyelash extensions.
It’s a one stop shop here - and a one woman show. I’m not going to let a little thing like a global pandemic stand between me and my treatments.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve done one of these types of post, so I felt like it was high time to welcome back a series of ‘What’s in my….’
Why? Simply because these are the posts and videos that I enjoy looking at myself the most. I honestly never seem to get bored of seeing what people carry around with them.
I hope you feel the same way, and if you clicked on this post, it’s a fairly safe bet that you do!
We’re kicking off with a peek at my out-and-about makeup edit. Not that there’s currently all that much leaving the house, but I still keep the same makeup bag in my handbag, and then if I need to pop to the shops or on the school run quickly, there’s everything that I need to touch up.
It’s mind blowing to think we’ve been in lockdown for near-as-dammit a year at this point. Day 353 of this strange, altered existence that has slowly become comfortable in some ways.
At this point, going out into the world and actually interacting with people is going to feel so strange. I never would have imagined writing my life update post in March last year when the pandemic was just beginning to hit that we’d be in this limbo state for so long.
