♡ Kittens- Tinker and Peeta! ♡

Here are some pictures of the little kittens, Tinker and Peeta.

 Tinker

 Tinker and Peeta

 Peeta

 Tinker

 Tinker

 Tinker

 Peeta

♡ Paleo Favorites! ♡

I have been having some awesome paleo meals lately that I wanted to share with you all.
If you didn't know, I am gluten intolerant, and because of that I have many more intolerances. (dairy, corn, potato) So I eat a lot of paleo meals. Here are some of my favorites lately.

 Okay, so starting with breakfast, 90% of the time I have something like this! I call it a scramble. I cook some veggies on my stove. Lately I've been doing onion, squash and tomato. Then take those out and make my eggs. Sometimes I leave the eggs flat or hack them up scramble style and add my cooked veggies in.

 These 2 can be lunch or dinner. Sometimes for lunch I'll have left over veggies from breakfast since I make enough for 2 people. This day I had some tuna, a small side salad and some tomato. It was lovely!

And of course a nice salad is a great paleo meal. This was made with romaine, spinach, strawberries, blueberries and tomatoes.

 Now for snacks! Here I had some pecans, raisins, dried cranberries and blueberries.

 And lastly, I've really been loving strawberries. And just berries in general! They are packed with antioxidants and I love their taste.

What paleo foods do you love? :)

Stay Healthy
XX -Taylor 

♡ Berry Beauty Detox Smoothie- Drink with a Purpose ♡

Hey everyone, it's been a little while since I did a smoothie recipe.
This is one that I have been doing a lot lately and you can really alter it however you want.
I don't measure my smoothies so this isn't really exact. Everything in this smoothie has a purpose. :)

What I Used-
Frozen raspberries- about 4 (or strawberries)
Lots of blueberries- about a cup (berries are very high in antioxidants)
Half a frozen banana- (banana's are high in potassium  and protein)
Orange juice- about a cup and a half. (high in vitamin C)
and a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice (lemons are also a detox fruit. Very cleansing)
OPTIONAL- Sometimes I put some spinach in there to. But it does change the flavor a lot and I don't really like spinach so I don't always do this.

Put it all in a blender and blend it up :)

 

♡ Wednesday Wishlist! ♡

Hi everyone! I wanted to start Wednesday Wishlist!! Sharing things that I'm wanting to try, that way if you have tried any of them, you can tell me how it is! And you can tell me your 'wishlist' and I can tell you if I've tried it! We can help each other out. I'm personally very excited for this! Here's my wishlist!

Devita SPF 30 Moisturizer

Rainwater Botanicals- Face and Body Lotion with Sea Buckthorn and Hibiscus

Tangerine Grapefruit Lip Balm

Sweet Almond Soap

The All Natural Face Magic Vegan Eye Primer

Warm Honey Eyeshadow

Vitamin D Gummies- Yes I wish for vitamin D! It's great for your skin and a ton of other things.


That's gonna be all for this post, but let me know how you like these, if you do, you'll see another Wednesday Wishlist next week. :)

Have you tried any of these? What do you think?

XX -Taylor

♡ Beauty Uses for Coconut Oil! ♡

I love me some coconut oil. So I wanted to tell you about what you can use coconut oil for. It's great for even more than all this.

Beauty Uses For Coconut Oil-
1. Face moisturizer (Great for at night. I like to load it on.)
2. Eye 'cream' -Just pat some under your eyes, it has really helped my dark circles.
3. Lip balm- This works best for me if I massage it into my lips.
4. Body 'lotion'
5. Stretch marks
6. Cellulite -I've noticed a difference on my legs in this area.
7. Scarring
8. Razor burn- I use this after I shave, it helps a lot.
9. Nail oil
10. Natural SPF- It's not a very high SPF but it's better than nothing.
11. Hair Mask- I like to put this on the night before I wash my hair.
12. Mix with your shampoo- It doesn't leave your hair oily, trust me. :)
13. Anti frizz 'serum'- Just use a very little bit on the ends of your hair or wherever you need it.
14. Deodorant- Doesn't work amazingly but massage it in and it helps a little.
15. Acne treatment- You can either dot it on your breakouts or just use it like a face moisturizer and put a extra layer on your breakous.
16. Wrinkles/ anti aging- I can't say if this works for this or not but hey, it works for everything else. ;)
17. Tooth 'paste'- you can just put it on your toothbrush.
18. On bug bites
19. Eyelash 'serum'
20. For burns

♡ Makeup To Use Up ♡

I wanted to show you all of the makeup (non natural) that I'm trying to use up! And a few other beauty products. Working on making the natural switch so these things have to go!

 Revlon Eyeshadow- Addictive

 Almay Trio for brown eyes

 Covergirl Forever Fig

 (I know the lighting for this is awful but it was the only one that would show the color well.) This is a swatch of Forever Fig

 Maybelline Color Tattoo cream eyeshadows- Barely Beige, Bad To The Bronze, and Pomegranate Punk

 Loreal Caress Lipsticks- Rose Taffeta, Sheer Linen.

Revlon Balm Stain- Honey

Rimmel Vinyl Gloss- Be Famous

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer

ELF Mineral Eye Primer

 Bodycology Cherry Blossom spray
Dove Go Fresh Plum and Sakura
Body Fantasies Cotton Candy

 C.O Bigelow Lavender and Rose Salve

Bodycology Cherry Blossom lotion.

So there you have it. I have a lot to use up! And still have more perfume I want to use up, but I wanted to start smaller.

XX -Taylor

♡ May Empties + Spending ♡

Yay, time for my Empties!!

Spending update-
I spent way more than I needed too this month, but going on a spending ban for the month of June! Reallly gonna try this month!

( * -I'd repurchase (or buy full size)

 Yes To Tomatoes Cleanser- I didn't like this at all, it didn't help my acne, and it dried my face out and made my breakouts more red.
Derma E Moisturizer- I did like this a lot but it's not as natural as I'd like.
Mario Badescu- Healing and Soothing Mask- I didn't like this, it didn't do anything for my skin and was SO hard to get off.
Drying Cream- Yes... very drying. and flakey, and smells not so great. Not for me.
* Rainwater Botanicls Pimple Potion- (Travel Size) I loved this stuff! It works great and I already have the full size! I have a review of RB.

St Ives Lotion- It was nice but nothing crazy awesome.
Caress Evenly Gorgeous body wash- Smells wonderful but not natural :P
(Micah's Empty) Old Spice body wash- This smells really good!
Epsom Salt- I have been using this to soak in a bath with, very nice.

Degree Girl deodorant- This actually didn't work that well.
Loreal anti frizz serum- It smelled nice but wasn't anything amazing for my hair.

Maybelline color show nail polish- This has gotten goopy.
BABW Creamy Pumpkin germ x- Smells lovely.
Maybelline Baby Lips- Not done.This actually broke out the skin around my lips.
Revlon colorstay liner- Not done. And this caused a weird reaction on my waterline.
* Spry Cinnamon Gum- A very nice, natural gum.
Marvis toothpaste- Not bad, but not natural.

ScentSatoonals Cupcake wax cubes- This was just okay for me.
BABW Autumn Day candle-I actually wasn't crazy about this.

Giovanni Detox face wipe- This was actually pretty nice.
Alba body wash- I really loved this. It smelled amazing, you don't need much of it, and it was very moisturizing. I might consider getting the full size, I'm not sure of what's in it though.

Giovanni cucumber citrus face wipe- I wasn't crazy about this one, it burned my eye area.
Jason' Lavender- hand soap, body wash, and lotion- These were all pretty nice but I wasn't crazy about the smell.

*Pecans- I just wanted to show these cause I've been loving pecans lately.
*Santa Cruz Peach Lemonade- I loved this! It taste more like peach than lemonade and was very nice.

XX -Taylor