DIY Coconut Lime Sugar Scrub - Summer Series!!

Ok seriously who is ready for this? Um me?? Yep...me!  I don't know about you, but I unfortunately do NOT have a perfect Caribbean white sand beach in my backyard. At least not in my Spokane house...that's at my other house, duh guys lol.  So, for now while I'm in Spokane and not blessed with a hammock and palm trees and crystal clear ocean water and soft white sand and warm salty breezy air, I have to kind of improvise. I have a sun so that helps with a tan, but you have to be careful with getting too much sun, we don't want to look like prunes by the time we are 30 if we can help it! So, how about a good fake tanner?? Yes, BUT how do you keep from getting all streaky? Well, my dears, you MUST prep! So how do you get your skin prepped to get the best tan possible AND have a little mini island getaway at the same time? Well over the next few weeks, 3 to be exact, I will be your guide to an amazing bronzed body a perfectly relaxing beachy summer minus the beach...unless you have a beach in which case, let's be better friends ok?? 

The first thing we need to do is slough off all of that dead winter skin. Don't lie, you and I both know that you probably didn't shave as much as you should have during those cold nasty winter months. You probably just shoved your gams in some leggings and uggs and figured that since nobody was going to see your legs it didn't matter. While that is kinda true, it didn't help you much in getting your legs summer ready. Each time you shave, you get rid of dead skin cells that build up on your legs ESPECIALLY in the dry winter months. No worries though, a good exfoliating scrub is all you need!!! I have just what you want too, not only will it leave your legs feeling baby's butt smooth, but it smells amazing! You honestly might think that you are on a beach in the Bahamas somewhere...you can thank me later ;) Ready? OK here we go 

Ingredients: 

1/3 cup Coconut Oil

1/2 cup Granulated Sugar

Zest from one Lime (use a microplane grater, or chop REALLY fine)

Lime and Coconut flavored oils

Place 1/2 cup oil, all of the sugar and lime zest into a bowl. Stir to combine and then add the rest of the coconut oil to the mixture (1/3 of a cup ended up being enough for me, but use more or less depending on the consistency that you want). Add the flavored oils to smell the desired smell. 

Place in a cute jar and use in the shower before shaving. Be careful when using because the oils with make the shower floor slippery! You can keep the jar in the shower or store anywhere where the room stays at room temperature for several weeks. 

TA DA!!! Silky smooth legs and a vacation in jar...plus you can eat it...if you want lol. 

So, that is it for now! Next will be my top picks for self tanners and how to apply without getting streaky! I love you all! MUAH!

Sometimes Life Sucks

So, I feel like whenever I write on here things are REALLY good and then something bad happens and I totally just disappear. Without going into too much detail I got a blood clot, almost died, and then pretty soon after that happened, the guy I had been dating that was SO amazing...was not so amazing anymore (or ever actually) and was trying to be amazing with some other girl in Florida. I actually ended things before even finding that out due to the fact that he was acting so weird and being such a jerk to me, but then I found out about the girl about 2 months later....that was just icing on the cake :) So here we are 3 months after that nightmare and I'm finally getting over all of it. It's been hard...like really hard actually. But it's all going to be ok! I'm ok and that is all that matters. Yes life seriously sucks sometimes, hence the title of this blog post, but things do eventually get better and slowly things HAVE in fact been getting better. I have so many exciting things happening right now! As they happen, there will be posts! I am going to get back into posting things again because I was having fun doing it even though it was for such a brief amount of time...the blood clot really kept from doing a whole lot :( I'm not sure what I want to post, but I'll figure it out :) I hope whoever is reading this is having a wonderful day and has had a much better past couple of months than I have had, that being said, I do understand that my couple of bad months pale in comparison to some others and I pray for those people every day! I love you all!!!