LIFE AS YOU LIVE IT: 52 WEEK MONEY SAVINGS CHALLENGE

LIFE AS YOU LIVE IT: 52 WEEK MONEY SAVINGS CHALLENGE: Update 12/30/2014: I'm IN

DIY holiday decor

I helped my neighbor make a wreath for her door last night and it came out cute!

#holiday #Christmas #wreath #JesusisTheReasonFortheSeason #diy #doityourself #crafts

My new chocolate planner from Levenger

Got my levenger planner with a zip out iPad case that can be removed.  
It's totally cute, full leather, cute and durable.

I'll be using the Passion Planner pages with my planner and waiting on copper discs I ordered from levenger.

I'm ready for the new year! It's so freaking cute!
#yeahitspapersowhat #Levenger #discboundsystem #circa #arc #planner #planneraddict #prettyplanner

Hello Kitty eyeshadow pallette, it's mine!

Loving my new eye shadow pallette from hello kitty, love the colors and shades and it goes on really cute. Who knew Hello Kitty had it going on like that?
#eyeshadow #makeup #mua #hellokitty #sephora #fashion #hk

Fired the fitbit and hired Jawbone Up24

I fired my fitbit and got work the Jawbone UP24. My fitbit literally split in half and kept jumping off my arm so it got returned (thanks tar-jay for the great return policy after many months) and replaced by the Jawbone (thanks best buy for price matching! )

Reg. $129.99 price matched from Microsoft site for $79.99.
#jawbone #up24 #jawboneUP24 #fitness #healthy #gettingmyfitnessOn

Influenster!!!! I'm one and you can be too!

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Love hair food moisture hair mask!

Today's cute curls brought to you by a deep conditioner, Hair Food Moisture Hair Mask from my #ModaVoxbox, followed by #hydratherma leave in conditioner and topped off by 4Naturals curl creme. The hair food moisture mask is in Target stores and is amazing, making my hair feel so soft and smooth after using it, and my curls were popping. 😘 #influenstervoxbox #voxbox #influenster #clairol #HairFood #Target

Klout perk from Shiseido!

I just got Perk'd!!
Big thanks to @Shiseido for this deluxe sample of their Ultimune Power Infusion Concentrate, my #kloutperk from @klout. It also came with a complimentary facial services gift certificate for me and a friend. #yayme
#Beautytag #Shiseido #beauty #beautiful #GotItFree #klout #beautyblogger #serum #beautyproducts #facial #ultimune

Refresh with resource

I received the Refresh resource water from my moda voxbox from influenster. I don't always like bottled waters that I'm not familiar with, but I decided to give this one a try. I actually like it alot. It had no aftertaste, went down smoothly and just leaves me with a refreshing feeling after drinking it. I will actually look into buying more, not because I'm made to or feel obligated to, but because I really liked the water.
I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

#refreshwithresource

Rimmel London scandaleyes & lips

Tried out my @RimmelLondonUS products from my @influenster #ModaVoxbox and I'm loving the Rimmel brand of products.
👀 Eyes: I used the Scandaleyes Rockin' Curves mascara and only a little because my eyes were a bit itchy, but that little went a long way and looked pretty cute on the eyes.
💋 Lips: I'd been wanting to try the Rimmel London moisture renew lipstick and glad I'm finally able to try it. The shade is #360-"As You Want Victoria" along with the transparent lip liner and the color is a very bright and bold red, which I loved, and I toned it down to a matte with some translucent powder and it's still cute! 😘
Oh!! And it stayed on all day long! Loving the Rimmel brand (eyeshadow and eyeliner is #Rimmel too) #RockinIt #RimmelLondonUS #voxbox #influenster #influenstervoxbox #MoistureRenew #GotItFree

ModaVoxbox has arrived!

Got my #ModaVoxbox from @influenster full of freebies and goodies to try out and play with!
Contents include...
-Rimmel London scandaleyes rocking' curves mascara
-Rimmel London moisture renew lipstick 
-Rimmel London moisture renew lip liner
-puffs soft pack tissue
-hair food moisture hair mask
-Swiss miss simply cocoa
-jergens ultra healing extra dry skin moisturizer
-resource spring water
#influenstervoxbox #voxbox

Free Cascade Actionpacs with Clorox

What's better than buying some dishwasher cleaner? Getting it for free, whoop whoop. 

Received this little gift of goodness free from @expoTv for trying it out thru their Tryology program and providing a review of Cascade Action pacs with the power of Clorox. I've loaded my first load and can't wait to see the results. Thanks expoTV! #CascadeActionPacTryology #tryology #cascade #expoTV

Keurig with the carafe! Hello keurig 2.0

Hello keurig 2.0! 

Tried my carafe earlier and it's pretty cool. You can make 2-3, 3-4 or 5-6 servings.

Just drop the carafe kcup in the brewer, and place the carafe, with the lid on where the cup goes. It brews and goes right into the carafe thru the carafe spout.. Pretty cool

My view on the new Keurig 2.0 - Hello Keurig!

So I received the new Keurig 2.0 for free by being a member of Influenster, a cool site where you answer surveys, give reviews, link up your social media networks and in response to your participation, you may get selected for one of Influenster's voxboxes, full of freebies that you provide your opinions on. 

I was lucky enough to be one of the cool peeps to get a Keurig 2.0, Hello Keurig voxbox campaign.  I got it for free!!! The retail value is $199 and it comes with a carafe, kcups, kcups for carafe, a water filter, touchscreen and more!!!

I really like the touch screen. where you can choose background screen colors, choose from 3 different colors of the water reservoir, choose from over 10 different brew sizes for the cup and carafe and has a hot water and "strong brew" option.  Many options to choose from just from the set up.  Checkout my flipagram below for the features.

You have to use the new k-cups that have the keurig name around the rim of the kcup, which have been in the stores for a few months.  Did I mention that I got this for free???  In all, I love my new keurig and find myself using it more and more.  Sometimes the touchscreen is a bit deceiving because you don't know if you should hit the keurig 2.0 button or the touch screen, but with more practice, I'll get it together.  

Overall, I love my new keurig and thankful I got to try it out for free!!! Thanks to Influenster. It's made me more of a coffee snob:)

Saved on gas with my Shell Fuel Rewards Card

Finally used my @Shell_US fuel rewards card, that saved me 3 cents per gallon off my gas price. Sometimes every penny counts and I have no issues saving money when I can.

Latest Sephora purchases (and returns)

I had such high hopes for my sephora purchases of foundation by sephora that looked great in the store, but not so great when I brought it home and wore it for a day. 

My face wasnt "dewy" like they advertised, but more greasy according to my grease-dar. Smh. #returned

And I love makeup forever products and was so excited to try out their new artist eye shadow palettes. The colors are gorgeous, but does not show up as vibrant on the chocolate. I have their aquamatic eye pencils which are perfect. This Artist palette is not.

You barely could see the colors and that's work with a primer used. I could use it wet or with expensive primer, but that then becomes more labor intensive than I need to invest in. So that got returned to.

Selfies Anonymous

Review of Crest 3D White Brilliance.. Coming next week

Just received my Crest 3D White Brilliance sample I received from ExpoTV for their Tryology program. I received a full size of the Crest 3D Brilliance tooth paste and a Brilliance boost polisher for free to sample and provide a video review.

I'm excited to try this out because I love the 3D paste. Will let you know how my teeth reacts!

**New** Hair color!

And just like that... I changed my hair color. For some reason I was stuck on burgundy and reds again, which I thought I left in last year.

But I wasn't feeling the shade on me and decided a change was needed.

The top left is the reddish color and the right and the bottom is my new color, medium golden brown with a few highlights of the reddish shade and I LOVE it. Finally!

New Kat Von D. Lipsticks! - love, love, love

My latest lippies that I'm loving, both by Kat Von D. The lipstick is called, wonderchilde and so purple and wonderful, and stays on all day.

The skinny tube shade is called L.U. V. and is a liquid lipstick that dries to a matte finish and stays on all day and night. It's like lipstick glue and I love it!

Sometimes you just want to say thank you #TDThanksYou

Pure Ice polish review

Mani done and my nails came out cute! I used Pure Ice #HeartBreak in teal with 3 coats and a coat of the glittery #OverYou so my nails look like a color I would call, mermaid because it's just gorgeous.

Review of Laura Mercier oil free tinted moisturizer

Tried a sample of Laura Mercier oil-free tinted moisturizer in a shade called, Mocha, from Sephora and wasn't quite feeling the shade, which why I made that face.

The bottom pics shows when I first applied it, and the chocolate shade on my face is very different than the caramel shade on my chest. I was definitely NOT feeling it. But.... Within a few minutes the color calmed down and matched my natural chocolate, from the top pic.

It turned out very natural looking so not as bad as I initially thought. May be a winner.  #sephora #lauramercier #mocha #chocolate #makeup #mua #beauty #fashion #face

Revlon Parfumerie polish review

My latest mani is a cute shade from Revlon called Ginger Melon 🍈.  Part of their parfumerie scented nail collection where the color is awesome, I can smell the scent of the Melon, but the application and formula sucks.

This picture shows 3 coats that was needed to get to this shade, and which bubbled once dry. I think they took more time to perfect the scent instead of the formula. 

This one hit wonder will be coming off later, if it doesn't chip off first. 😡😬😕😤

#revlon #parfumerie #nails #nailsdid #polish #polishaddict #barbiefingers #beauty #scented #nailpolishaddict #kindaCheap

Loving my new Makeup Forever #15 lipstick

Have I said how much I'm loving Makeup Forever's #15 lipstick? I saw it in the Sephora last month and just had to have it. Of course, they had none in stock and I was totally bummed. 

So I'm a devout MAC girl and have most of their glosses, lipglasses and lipstick.  A new color or collection comes out and I'm first in line... Until I saw this wonderful purple goodness called #15.
It was love at first sight!

I finally found the color in stock during my trip to Vegas and bought that baby with a quickness, lol.  It goes on smooth, doesn't dry my lips out, very moisturizing and best of all... Stays on all day, even with meals.  The price is $20, seven bucks more than Mac, but it's so worth it. 

My final verdict... Bye bye MAC, makeup forever has stolen my heart... As I had back to Sephora for the next shade called  #15....this is so  #1 in my book!

Southern Charm on Bravo....charming or charmless?

I was chosen by www.Sverve.com to be one of the bloggers to view Southern Charm, this past Monday, April 14th at 10/9 central, on Bravo.  It's a reality show about Charleston, SC old money descendants. Coming in on the show that's been aired prior to Monday, it was a little hard to remember all the characters, but very easy to understand the storyline.  A group of friends with real and pretend money to throw on what ever they desire or they think is missing from their single lives.

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There are 6 main characters, centering on Thomas Ravenel, a 51 yr old man going through a mid-life crisis with his teeny bopper girlfriend, Kathryn Dennis who's barely 22.  The show references a pregnancy scare that was aired on an earlier show, but I just found out today that the scare is now a reality, as they're now the proud parents of a baby girl, just born last month.  

To me, the relationship seems to be highly superficial and based on romps in the bedroom, instead of a love and mutual respect for one another.  

What makes this match made just a little bit in heaven is that they have full approval from Kathryn's father, who's about the same age as her baby daddy, Thomas.  On Monday's show the father gave his thumbs up and even bragged that they had an aunt that had a 40 yr old difference between the aunt and her husband.  REALLY??? Who does this? I would not find this to be such an easy pill to swallow if my daughter came home with someone my age. It would make me wonder about the man's intentions, but after watching Monday's show, it's apparent that Thomas has very little intentions towards Kathryn.  

The show has 5 other characters, 2 women and 3 men, and they all seem superficial, living in a made up world, spending money from God knows where, and trying to pass themselves off as southerners.  My opinion, and this is only my meek opinion, is that they claim more than they seem to be.  The show was entertaining and got many laughs and tweets from me, but bottom line, it seems like another fake, one hit wonder, reality show.  Time will tell what the future holds for this new Bravo series....Southern Charm?

Peace out,

Neicy!

Southern Charm....do you have yours?

Have you seen Bravo's reality show #southerncharm  ?

http://www.bravotv.com/southern-charm  I'm one of the lucky peeps chosen by #sverve  to be part of a group of bloggers who will all be watching the show on Monday, April 14th at 10e / 9c  #tweeting live!

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