Women and weight

While I was at work today and of course checking the news like I always do, I saw something very upsetting. And it actually burns me up a little. As a young women and also the older sister to a few girls I find it very very upsetting to someone as beautiful and  talented as the young women below Kelsey Williams    would even be remotely called pudgy. 

This women is not even close to pudgy. I would just like to know who exactly decides what or who is considered pudgy, over weight, etc. etc.

As a young fashion and beauty blogger, who is always looking at fashion and models, you see this a huge portion of the time.

Yes there is a clear difference when you look at the two. Just because one is skinnier then the other does not make over the other pudgy.  When you are always hearing and seeing as well that this ( the above photo) is what we should strive to be I find it insane. We are human, no one should look the same. Just as our finger prints are different our body weight is also different. No two will ever or should ever be the same.

 As I was saying before, being the older sister of several girls, it truly gets to me when someone like this writes a post about being under or over wight. One of my sisters is always working out and is always worried about what she is eating. Now I see nothing wrong with that, I think you should want to be fit and healthy, but I know that she is doing it for all the wrong reasons. When you always see something about weight in the mainstream media it will at some point start to affect you.

Almost every....I take that back pretty much every main stream media magazine, blog, tv personal etc. has talked about weight as some point. It truly is heart breaking for. I have family that struggle with weight problems. I feel awful seeing everything mainly made for women of smaller framed bodies.

I always ask myself these two questions. If it were you, would you want someone too do the same thing to you? My second question is...If that were your daughter, would you want someone to say or make statements like that about your daughter?

When you take such questions into mind it starts to really make you think before you write or say something.

I hope you enjoyed this little rant, and always thank you for reading. I hope this makes people think before that say or write something.

XoXo

Union Leader,
Pey

Cover Girl BB Cream review

Hello everyone! So I have not done a review in a long time, so I thought since I am trying the BB cream from cover girl I would do a review of it.  So lets start with this review!

So this is what the packaging looks like. It reminds me of a a mermaids ha or water either one works.  I find it very easy to use. I have no problems whats so ever getting the product out from the tube.

Pros - This product is very light. I am so far loving it! My makeup does not cake and it just feels really light. I feel a bit more natural wearing it.  A very big plus for me is that It does not take very much product to cover my face at all. A little goes a long way! I think the main thing for me though is that the product just feels really light on my face. Where I live it is very very humid in the summer and when I wear makeup I can just feel the makeup melting off and I can feel it being cake-y but with this I do not get that feeling.

Cons - Even though it is a tinted moisturizer I still find my self having to use concealer, but I do not really mind that. I really really do not like that I am having to use a lot more powder during the day. My face just feels and looks oily but I a thinking that is simply because it has SPF and my skin type is also oily, so those might and probably do play a role in that. But I just find myself having to apply a lot of press power to I feel and look matt.

Other than those couple of cons I really like the product and I am for sure going to keep using it. I also noticed that my skin looks a lot clearer and hey that is always a plus for anyone that wears makeup.

As always big thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the short reviews. Please be sure to check back for me :) Please be sure to share and comment.

XoXo

Union Leader,
Pey

New hair cut - again!

Hey ladies! So here it is again...I got my hair chopped and layered! I love it! So basically I went to my stylist and I handed her a picture and told her this is what I wanted. This is what I went for.

this is the picture I handed the stylist

As you can see it is a very simple yet sexy hair style. I think it is great for summer, and I have been teasing the hell out of the roots, ha!  but here is the back and the front of my hair .

the back is stacked with layers as you can see and the front she just razor-ed it and did it so that it framed my face. I am totally loving this hair style! This is great if you have an oval shaped face. I takes like no time to style it, or dry it. All I have doing is blow drying my hair upside down to give it more volume and brushing ( with a round brush) it while drying it before I style it, I have gel mouse and the I straighten with the flat iron, and once I am done with that I tease the back and sides just a little in the front and top it off with hair spray. I totally love this hair style :)

XoXo

Union  Leader,
Pey

Hair tutorial - Long lasting bouncy curls

Hello lovelies! So today I am bring you hair  tutorial ( in case the title didn't already give that away!) So Yesterday I thought I might try something new cause my hair is much shorter and I am actually considering getting it cut even shorter! Ah still thinking about it thought! But here we are enjoy the extra long blog :)

So let us get started with the hair tutorial.

Three hair ties, and a LOT of bobby pins. 

hair dryers, as you can see I use CONAIR

hair straightener I use Style Element 

and good ole' trusty hair spray that I always rave about! 

1. I just started by spraying my hair with a good amount of hair spray.  Make sure that you lift up the layers of your hair so that you get a little extra added volume and hold. 
2. After spraying your hair with hair spray you are going to take your three hair ties and section off you hair. I did top ( that was basically my crown and bangs) middle ( from the top of my ear in about the middle) and then the bottom section. I put the first two sections in separate buns. Now you will have one hair tie left, just leave it you will need it later. 
3. take the bottom section and separate that into two sections. I normally put one half on the left and then the other on the right and then break that down into smaller sections and start the process of curling that is what I did the whole way up my head when I curl my hair. 
4. take your straightener and use that to curl your hair. I find that straighteners ( at least for my hair) give a tighter and longer lasting curl.
5.  once you curl the small section of hair take one of your bobby pins and I pushed the curl up towards my head and pinned it now the first time you do it this will not look right and it may even be a bit harder to curl the next section of hair  but once you do this a few time you become a pro and know what you are doing.  Here is what the pinned up curls look like. 
   
   * Please ignore my outfit and the fact that I have ear buds in. I was actually getting ready for work and listening to music to get me going*  
6.  Ok now that you have mastered that go an do that all through out your hair. 
7. once you finish curling and pinning, you are going to once again spray your hair with hair spray while it is still pinned up. 
8. After spraying your hair you are going to take your hair dyer and turn it on low and press the cool setting and blow dry your hair, I did this for about two or three minutes.
9. Once you have finished step 8 you want to take all the bobby pins out. Now you can either leave the curls as is or you  can brush them out a little with your fingers. I just brushed mine out. 

 This is what the curls looked like before I brushed them out. Because my hair is a lot shorter now I thought just had too much curl so I brushed  them out.

This is it! As always thank you for reading :) I know that my posting has not been as I normally did it in the past but I have been so busy and sick, and trying to balance everything so now I just post when I can. But hey at least I am trying ha! Enjoy your weekend and try not to party too hard ;)

XoXo


Union Leader,
Pey