Self Tanner 101

I love using self tanner, even though I am a mixed chick. I honestly love the look. Self tanner can be great, for hiding lighter scars, evening out skin tone stretch marks and camouflaging redness. It like body foundation no beats the glow. And it’s so much better than tanning in the sun, as we all tanning in the sun or in a machine is bad for your skin. It causes premature aging, and sun damage like spots. Also tanning in the sun can cause skin cancer.
So, this post is all about self tanners. What steps to take, different types, tips and tricks… everything you need to know to have a great sunless tan! 

Step 1 Hair Removal
Hair Removal before applying self tanner helps the tan last longer
Step 2 Exfoliate
You want to get rid of any dry dead skin, to avoid a botching tan. I like to exfoliate a couple days ahead and the day of. I like to use a exfoliating body wash, and a luffa.
Step 3 Moisturize Dry Areas
You don’t want any areas of the body darker then others! Dry areas will expose the self tanner more. Knees, Elbows, hands, feet and ankle.
Step 4 Apply Vaseline
Apply Vaseline to the areas you don’t want tanned. Hair line, curdles, palms of hand and sole of feet.
Step 5 Apply Self Tanner
Work in section, like upper arms, hands, thighs and tummy. Use the same movement starting down and moving upward. Don’t forget to blend.
Let’s tanner sit on skin (Time may vary depending on product) from 4-6 hours. Avoid getting water at the time.
Tips for hands and feet
Deep moisturize uses a heavy lotion or oil… wear socks and wear an hour or two before tanning feet.
To blend the hand and feet easier try patting the self tanner in those areas with an extra mitt that is clean.
Work in smaller areas making sure to blend, blend and blend some more.
Step 6 Wash Off/Shower
Wash the Skin; don’t worry if you see same color going down the drain this is normal.
Step 7 Maintaining you’re Tan
Uses a gradual tanner.
Colors of Self Tanner
Light
Medium
Dark, gives the deepest tan.

Different Constancy
Strays Like an aerosol stray, even coverage. Easy to use for first time users, but somewhat messy.
Gels
Creams
Mouse Easy to blend, buildable coverage.

Different Color Base
Self Tanner has a base color
Green Cancels out Oranges and Red

Some Brands
Air Blush Legs
Cost : $14 dollars
Comes in an aerosol bottle, easy to apply. It’s more of a drug store brand, but gives a great tan in a can. lol
Million Dollar Tan
Cost: $20 to $60 dollars
Shake the bottle well before using! The smell isn’t that great, it’s strong. It comes in lotion form, with a white color guard. It can leave the little bit of a orangey color, but I like it because it’s so deep of color. The biggest con is that it fades very patchy, you need to make sure to really exfoliate when using these tanner. It’s love/hate with this one…
I like the cabana tan extreme dark. They have different types.
*Fake Bake Flawless
Cost: $12-20 Dollars
A little orange (not that bad), but a deep color. A great floral or tropic smell. I really like this product; it’s not a bad price and is pretty great. It might leak around edges, because of liq. constantly and packaging. Great color guard fades, medium color. 3-4 lasting color. Take 15 min to dry, sticky feeling.
*St. Tropez Tan
Cost: $40 Dollars
Great for all skin tones, bronze glow. I recommend you get their mitt for apply the product really finish the look. Green based tanner, so no orange or redness. Mouse constancy. Leave on over night. Blend well.
Xen Tan
Cost: Around $34 dollars
Olive/green undertones, no orange here. Fades naturally, no real strong smell. Very Natural, not as deep as a color.

*The Brands that work the best for me, and what I like.
Tips
When apply self tanner to face, be carful it can break you out.
Self tanner might have a smell. Ok, most do and it stinks.
Beware of the orange look, use a tanner that has a olive or green tone to avoid the orange look.
Avoid marks, blend pat and blend! Work in small areas.
If you sleep after doing (but before washing it the first time) your tan, place older bed sheets on your bed, to avoid stains. Also, an old shirt helps. Oh, and beware of your towels!
Tools
Two tanning mitts (Wash them by hand after use)
Extra Pair of Hands for those hard to reach places or a handle brush
Self tanner (Of course)
Exfoliate Wash
Luffa
Vaseline
Lotion

Bad Beauty Advice and Social Media

I love social media, like YouTube, blogs and Pin Interest, but I am starting to notice a lot of beauty people giving out bad beauty advice. Don't get me wrong, there are so pretty kick buns, beauty people out there. That are talent at what they do, but there are also a lot of average people giving advice like they are professionals. While, I believe you don't have to be a professional to give out advice. I DO believe that you should have a good understand of what you are talking about. I am not try to troll on anyone, but I have seen some nightmares!!

What really had me wanting to talk about this is when it comes to hair coloring and Youtube. Ok, hair color is one of those things that you really should have some idea of what you are talking about. There is so much when it comes to hair coloring like levels, tones, and process.

Now, I know that a lot of you, more than likely think that I am hating, but I am not. I just don't want my beautiful readers to follow everything they see someone on social media doing. And not all professional are the best either, I am not say that.

What I am saying is do your own research, don't treat you hair(Or whatever) like someone else (It might not turn out the same way.) and find out how creditable the person giving you advice is.

You could end up saving yourself a lot of trouble. Social Media is crowd with (SOME) individual trying to get famous or copy other people. <-- Those type of people normally fade out, but the content reminds. So, be careful! There is nothing wrong with following someone for their personally, just wanna put that out there, too.

To the Social Media Context Makers
There is nothing wrong with sharing your ideas with people/readers, if you talented and interesting. Just keep them informed that you weren't a professional.

I don't know if it's a ego, or what.. but making readers/viewers believe that you are something that you were is wrong. Viewers/readers put a lot of trust into social media. Please present yourself correctly if you are doing something that could harm/damage or ruin something/someone.

There is nothing wrong with being a normal person with a great personally(or whatever). You can get viewers and readers, by being you. And if not why does it matter this should be something you like doing! A passion, hobby or whatever.

If you want to offer better information go to school to learn more about the topic you are tell people about or deeply study or shadow a pro!

Lots of love,

Kiki O.

P.S I am not talk about one, just in general. And I am sorry if I hurt anyone feeling!

Skin Makeover: Plastic Surgery

Acne Scars, Hyper pigment, sun damage, wrinkles? Skin Makeover! If you have try all the at home products, it might be time to talk with a plastic surgery.

Personally there is a limit to what a cream, can do. I don't care who makes it, or what it has in it... If you have really really damage skin, the way thing that might help is plastic surgery.

I know a lot of people are afraid to do something like this, but you shouldn't have to living with those acne scars or sunspots. A lot of times it's is cheaper and less painful then you think. Over all something to look into and do some research on.

A List of Some Different Treatments

1. Laser Skin Resurfacing
Cost: $1,850
Downtime: Around 8 week or longer
What it's for: treats wrinkles, acne scars, age spots, face blemishes, stretch marks, scars, sun damage and hyperpigmentation.
What it does: Uses intense light to burn skin, helping regrow new skin.

2. Scar Subcision
Cost: Vary depending on how many scars, around $150 per scar.
Downtime: Varies
What it's for: People with rolling scars & pitted scars.
What it does: Subcision is better paired with a filler.

3. Dermabrasion
Cost: $1,125
Downtime: regrowth of skin occurs in 5 to 8 days. The pink or red color, usually fades in 6 to 12 weeks.
What it's for: Scars, Color changes in the skin (like Melasma), fine lines and wrinkles and even skin texture.
What it does: a wire brush or a diamond wheel rapidly, taking off and leveling the top layers of the skin. This process injures or wounds the skin and causes it to bleed. As the wound heals, new skin grows to replace the damaged skin that was removed.

4. Fillers
Cost: Depends on type of Filler and how much injected... Est. $200-$500
Downtime: Around week
What it's for: Cosmetic treatment used to smooth wrinkles or pitted scars in the skin,
What it does: A needle goes into skin and add a "filler" to plump skin.

5.Fat Grafting
Cost: $1,500 and $4,000
Downtime: Around 2 weeks or longer
What it's for: treats wrinkles, acne scars, dips in skin.
What it does: Your own fat is taken and plump into your skin. Has longer results then filler.

When Seeing/Choosing a Doctor
Always see more than one
Do your own research
See if they have reviews
Ask them about the possibly of side effects

I hope this helps, some of you guys with really damaged skin. Remember they best thing you can do for you skin is careful it, where skin screen and get a good skin routine.

The Basics of a Skin Care Routine

The Basic of a Skin Care Routine by kiki-owens featuring a facial mask

Your skin is the most important part of your makeup look. It's the canvas to your painting. If you don't take care of it's you will regret it either now or later. It's also important to change up your skin care routine as you age or your skin change.

There are many different type of skin and what works for one person might not work for you. This is why I love making my own custom skin care routine! But if this is your first time in learning about skin the first thing you will want to do is asset your skin. See if there is any skin damage or natural aging to think about before embarking on this.

Firstly ask yourself the following question, to asset your skin

1. Do I have acne?
2. Oily skin or Dry, a mix of both.
3. Spots whether light or dark
4. Under eye circles?
5. Thinning Skin?
6. Scars?
7. Patchness?
8. What do I do to, or with my skin? (Like tan or wear makeup)
9. Other problems.

Parts in a normal skin routine

Makeup Removals
Baby Wipes, work great they are cheap and do safe for even a baby skin.
Some people also use olive oil or coconut oil to remove eye shadow. If you have acne prone skin, I don't recommend it.

Wash
This is the cleanser to your skin, removal oil, Bactria, and left over makeup. It can have medication.

If you have acne prone skin look for a cleanser with Salicylic Acid, it should be listed on the back of the product. It helps in fighting acne.

Forming Cleanser are great for dry skin.

Toner
Restores skin pH balance. A lot of people don't use toners.

Mask
a mash draws out impurities from the skin. Although, there are some masks that do more. Using a mask maybe 2 times a week, masks are not for everyday use.

They are better wipe of with a skin *damp wash cloth.

Treatments
Retinol
Rids the skin of dead skin and creates skin turn over, as well as collagen.
Start off with a low % and more up. Don't use everyday. Be careful, when use wrong it can damage the skin.

Zinc Oxide
Astringent removals excess oils. Reduces, inflammation and the appearance of zits.

Benzoyl Peroxide
Is a great Spot Treatment for acne.

Peptides
Helps fight wrinkles, by rebuilding collagen.

Serum
Made to go deep within the skin a good serum allow nutrient to help the skin.

Different serum have different vitamins, here are some of the more common ones.

-C
Producing Collagen and antioxidants.
-E
Helps fade scars, anti-aging, and and great for sun burns.

Moisturizer
Help seal in Moisturize. If you have dry skin, invest in a good one.

Night Creams
Great for preventing wrinkles, under eye circles or promoting collagen.

Chemical Peel
Not everyone needs a peels! They in my option are for damaged skin, from scarring or pigmentation problems.

Tools
Wash Cloth, use a new wash cloth every time.
Clarisonic Brush, this is great highly recommenced by dermatologist and YouTubers.
Exfoliate Tool, I use Modesa Facial cleansing Buff 3 times a week. (Plus, they only cost a dollar at the Family Dollar store, great right?)

Age and Skin care routine
When your are in your middle 20's, maybe even early start prepping for winkles. You want to stop them before they start. Peptides are great when it comes to helping wrinkles.

*Don't forget about your neck! And hands. Nothing show your age more than the neck and hands, because the are also easily forgotten.

Sensitive Skin
If you have sensitive skin you need to be careful of necessary chemicals and scents. Natural is better for Sensitive skin, also look for mild cleaners and don't uses hash exfoliation tools.

a little note, sometimes where you start a skincare routine, your skin breaks out. It can be a trail and error process to see if the product works for you. You could start off one product at a time or dive it. Another thing it could be is the impurity being drawl out of your skin. Give it a couple days, see if it starts clearing up before discarding a product.

If nothing else use this information and invest in a prepackaged system! Thanks.

Don't Over Do Your Hair! Big Chop

This is a big chop warning, to all of you girls over processing your hair. Don't do it! The damage from process you hair might be permanent. You really never know the effect of bleaching, relaxing your hair until it's, too late. I know everyone wants the latest celebrity look, but sometimes we fail to think of the effects of this on own hair.

Furthermore, we don't a credit those changes in a celebrity appearance to weaves, wigs or a team highly skilled beauty professions. We think that, we can achieve these dramatic changes, without inflicting damage. Although, most of the time we just end up frying our hair.

With there being so many different styles, we want the free to change our hair like we change our clothes. There maybe so many different dye and haircuts, but you only have one head of hair. Ladies don't over bleach, dye or cut your hair. It's so easy to fall in love a style one day and hate it the next. Not to mention that you have to maintain that style. And damaged hair is the hardest to care for. Fried hair is like straw, it's breaks very easily and can you say "hash tag" suffering. You can only do so much before your hair starts falling out, end start splitting and your scalp suffers.

Personally, I am starting to understand why the big chop had such a big impacted on the social media world. Some of the damage inflicted on hair is unrecoverable. After years of dye my hair, dramatic colors... I am left with a crazy mess. Rather, than do the big chop I decide to cut my hair into a short layered bob. Then when the new growth is long enough, chop off the reason of the fry hair.

It's important to love your hair, and not over do it! Because health hair is the most beautiful. ^.^

Kiki Owens

Low Cost Makeup: To Build a Starter Kit

These are some great brands of makeup offered at a low cost to starting building up your makeup collection. These are all brands I have tried, and like for certain things. These are the brands to look for if you are on a budget or just starting out.

1. E.L.F

e.l.f stands for Eyes, Lips and face. There fairly low in cost, and great for younger individuals just starting to get into makeup. I love e.l.f for it's low cost, at $1 to $40 dollars at the most there makeup is afford to almost everyone. One of the product line that I like from e.l.f is the Professional line, which cost a little more, but is still a steal.


The downside is that e.l.f makeup can sometimes lack in quality. Yes, they are offered at crazy low price, but it does come at a cost. Don't think that these products are high end they aren't. You have to invest extra care with them, so that they last. On the upside in my opinion with how much they cost, they are the best at their price.

2. BH cosmetics

If you don't know about BH cosmetic by now, where have you been? Honestly? Their eye-shadow pallets have been the highlight of so many youtube videos. Don't worry though, I am here to educated you. Their 120 palette for eye shadow is affordable and great for multicolored look. With over 120 colors their is so many different looks that you can create. And for that I love them.


3. NYX

4. Wet & Wild
Who hasn't used a 99 cent, eye liner pencil from Wet & Wild? Need I say more? >.< 5. Jordana
I used to wear there lipsticks in high school. For myself they are hit and miss, but still pretty descent starting out.

6. Rimmel
I like their loose powders.

7. Maybelline
Mascaras are the best! They have a large line of products, that can be found in drug stores.

How to get low cost makeup to last?

1. Primer! It's a wonderful thing, try not to be cheap a it, if you are cheap on primer it shows!
If you primer you eyes eye try to use a NYX Jumbo stick, it will help the colors pop.
2. Setting spray... Makes it last long though out the day.
3. Care for the products. So, they last longer in shelf life.


Where to Shop

http://www.strawberrynet.com/
http://www.eyespice.com
http://www.allcosmeticswholesale.com/
http://www.coastalscents.com/
http://www.sigmabeauty.com/
http://www.cherryculture.com/
http://www.nonpareilboutique.com/
http://www.beautyjoint.com/
http://www.sleekmakeup.com/
http://www.elfmakeup.com

Asian Products

http://www.prettyandcute.com/
http://w2beauty.com/
http://www.wishtrend.com/

Nail Biting: How to Stop it!

I know what it's like, I suffered for a long time with nail biting. There is a lot of ways to help this problem, but first you must make a commit to stop. For me biting my nails was something, I started doing as a kid and just never stop, I tried to stop many times... but could hold to it. Until, recently.


These tips and advice really help me, I hope they help you!
1. Get fake nails, the limit the access to your real nails... Giving them a chance to grow.

2. Wear gloves, like getting fake nails the limit the access to your own real nails and in addition keep you from seeing your real nails. Which might be a trigger to start biting them.

3. Paint them with a nail polish with a bitter taste like "Thum Thum Anti-Thumb Sucking & Nail Biting Liquid." It doesn't have to be these brands, there are a number of bitter nail polish out there. They let you know when you put your nails in your mouth, so you can stop. Truth be told if you keep biting them though the bitter taste after abit it won't bother you, so stop when you notice!

4. Chew on something else like a Bamboo Skewer, but you don't want to eat them... of course. Just lightly chew on them. Or safer, yet. Try candy or gum.

5. Rubber band around your wrist to pluck every time your fingers are in your mouth.

6. Make a list of reasons you want to don't, they will help with you commit to stop.
Do you want to stop so you can paint your nails? Do you want to stop, because you realize the nasty germs, that live under you nails?

You must commit to stopping these things will only help, if you have the willpower to stop.
If the list method above don't work. And you feel as though the nail biting is out of control. The next thing you might want to do is seek help, you might have Onychophagia a form of OCD.

I wish you the best of luck,

Kiki Owens

10 Things about Red Hair

10 Things About Red Hair by kiki-owens featuring red halloween costumes

1. It bleeds and bleeds
Red, Hair dye will run and bleed. It will get on your clothes, in your bath tub and pretty much anything else it comes in contact with. Depend on what shade you dye your hair and with what type of dye, has an affect on how much it bleeds.

2. You don't always have to bleach your hair first.
There are dyes that you can use to get bright-ish red hair without bleaching the hair first. Like L'Oreal Hi Color. These are great, because you save yourself some damage.

3. You need to invest in proper conditioners and shampoos
There are C&S made for just red hair. These C&S will help the color last and keep the hair healthier. Also, try not to watch your hair as much, every time you wash your hair the color fades.

4. Red hair requires a lot of up keep
You might be needing to dye your hair red, two times a month and I am not just talking about just the roots. The hair color will become dull. You are going to have to process your hair a lot if you want to keep that color fresh.

5. It's hard to get red hair dye out of your hair.
If you decide red hair isn't working for you anymore, good luck getting it out of your hair! There is a lot of struggle in getting red hair dye out.

6. Protein fillers are your friends.
They let you color you hair evenly. It helps seal the color which means less coloring.

7. Different Shades work for different shade tones.
Explore the different shades of red, there isn't just one color fits all, have fun and look up some great color online.

8. You might want to fill in your brows.
Filling in the brows with a redish/brown is a great idea. After all not everyone can pull off black brows with red hair.

9. If you like red hair, but aren't sure if it's for you.
Try out a red wig, there are some great places you can get wigs online from.

10. Lastly, Be very care where you get the dye, when dyeing your hair.
Red hair dye is one of the hardest to get out! Beware. You don't want your bathroom to look like a murder took place there.

Beauty Boxes

So, there are a number of beauty boxes emerging onto the consumer scene. What is the beauty box, well a beauty box is subscription box which normally you pay a monthly fee to receive beauty or makeup products. The prices range and so do the size production can be anyway from sample size, to full. I think a lot of that depends on what your monthly fee is. There is a large number of beauty box subscription out there. So, it's important to decide which subscription is the best for you. Different boxes also offer different product brands. Which is important in making a decision. There are also some companies that offer woman or men boxes. So, this is great for guys, too. Some Beauty Boxes offer skin type assessments, which is pretty nice. Some boxes even offer the option to skip out on a box if you aren't into the products for that month.

The pros, to a beauty box is that you get to try a number of products. There for Great for trying out new product.
The cons, small sizing, you don't get to pick the production. Most of the sizing for beauty boxes is trial or travel.

It's a great way for companies to target individual for promotions. You may be able to even try some new products before they hit the shelves. And fall in love with a new product.

These are some of the company for beauty boxes, but I am going to keep the list somewhat short, this is to give you an example of the differences in beauty boxes.

Birchbox
$10 a month
Beauty Profile for more customization. They also, send out a food product to try.
They offer Birchbox points for recommending other people.

Beauty Box 5
$12
Mix of products
Variety of brands
Unable to customize boxes

Julep Maven
$20 a month
Nail polish
Style Profile
You can skip a month or sent it to a friend as a gift

And so much more... like Glossbox, Beautyarmy... the list goes on. There are even food boxes!

What you want to think about when decide on a Beauty Box Subscription
1. The cost of the subscription
2. Brands you like
3. Size of Product you want
4. Any extra you might want like Vegan products...?
5. Is it somewhat custom? Can you skip if you don't like what they are sending?


From the point of view of a blogger they are pretty great, but I like the flexibly of choosing my products by hand. I won't discredit some of the amazing blogger that are subscribed to getting boxes, but they are a little over play to be individual review, unless I got some amazing product that I loved. Then of course, I would share it with you!

Makeup Allusion Tricks!

Makeup Allusion Tricks! Yep, this are some of the best tricks you can do to give a total makeover.


White Eyeliner in the water line. Nothing makes the eyes look bigger.
You can than contour underneath the white line with a brown pencil or power.

Fake eye lashes are great for making the eyes really pop. Their are so many different ways that you can apply many to create a varied of different looks.

Highlight with a little white shimmery white power in the tear duct comers of your eyes and in cupids bow, the place under your nose where your lips dip.

Contouring and highlight, if you are a master at this, the makeup world is your for the taking. It depends on your face shape. It's great for different character transformation.

Highlight the corners of your eyes with a shimmer power, to achieve the doe eyed look.

Likewise you can use this same technique to highlight your cupids bow. This creates larger looking lips.

Circle lens, are contact lens, that enhance the eye. They can change the color, make the eye appearance bigger and even give that doll like look.

Brushes are so much better than your finger tips or makeup sponges. With the excision of the beauty blender of course.

The eyebrow make the face, have these baby done professional. It makes a huge different. Also, invest in a great power for filling them in.

Add a bit of shimmer to the middle part of your lid.

These are some great tricks are there are so many more to come this list is on going...

Weightloss: Corset Training

Corset Training does it work? Corsets come from the 1600's, however many people are starting to see the value in these garments are they are making a comeback. They can be very beneficial in shaping the waist and even can reducing inches off your waist. They are also create a more noticeable shape and great for posture, and curves. There is a woman name Cathie Jung, she is a extreme version of the corset training and the affects it can have on you waist. Miss Cathie Jung waist is 21 inches, personally way to small for my liking. However, it is a testament for the use of corset training.

Shape wear can provide better posture, less pressure on your back. Corset can also be great for helping support the back, like a back brace. If you have serious back issues corset training might be harmful, but for reliving extra stress off of you back they can be great. It's a great way a encourage proper body posture.

Raise and shape the breasts and pull back the shoulders. Although, it can shape the breast, my opinion is this is only when wearing the garment. Somewhat, like a bra.

So, there are many benefits to corset train. How do you get started? Well, you have to know what to look for, how long to wear it, dangers of corset training, and of course the care factor.

How long should I wear a Corset for:

Start off slow, 1 to 3 hours per day. This time frame allows for your body and corset to get use to each other.

If you are excising, don't wear the corset, it's not made for that.

Warning wear corset can cause some of the following problems
Wearing a corset shouldn't hurt, if it hurts it is too small. It should be uncomfortable.

There are some safety risk when wearing corsets, if you are thinking about extreme change talk it over with your doctor.

Rearranging internal organs and fat. Remember that the fat and organs have to move somewhere, so it is important to wear a corset correct. Or you'll end up with a muffin top.

Lacing tightly can seriously and over time for your ribs to be effected.

Corset don't take off weight, they rearrange it.

What to Buy:

Corset prices may vary, but really good corset can cost around 200-300 dollars. Ouch, right. However, the good thing about starting out is that you can start with a small investment and move up from there. Just don't buy thin, poorly made corsets. Or you aren't going to see benefit from it.

Corset is “heavily” constructed with steel boning, layers of fabric and heavy duty laces.

Buy a corset that laces up the sides or the front.

Corset that is 4 to 5 inches smaller than your actual waist measurement.

Extending Life of Corset:
Wear with a tight camisole/t-shirt underneath. Keeps it from sweat and body oils.

Air Dry your corset at the end of the day.

Alternate Corsets, because not would be like own only one bra and wearing it all the time. That's gross!

Cleaning. Follow the instruction from manufacturer.

Plastic Surgery Overseas

http://nydn.us/PcSvEDRead This a link from NY Daily News a story about a young blogger who under went plastic surgery, in the Dominican Republic and sadly lost her life. She left behind a young child.. :(

Be careful, if you want to get plastic surgery! I am fine with people wanting to change their appearance it's their body, face or whatever. However, I want people to be safe. There is always a risk, I repeat always a risk, when getting any surgery. Any doctor that tells you otherwise, "Hmmmppt!" to them! Also, good doctors cut down the risk, but there is always a risk.

If you decide to go overseas for a plastic surgery to save money you might end up losing your life. Cosmetic Surgery is not a place to be cheap on. There are many reasons why it costs, what it cost. Fees like going under, garmets, new needles, malpractice insurance... and so on.

Medical tourism is become more and more popular. There are a lot of people that are willing to go overseas to get work done. Some people it works out great for and, others it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I am not complete against going overseas. The individual just need to there is a greater risk.

Furthermore, the standards of that Country might not be the same as the you are from country. You have to do your research and then some. The internet is a very tricky thing. Someone could very easily say, "Hey, guys I am John, a doctor with my license though so and so... I have been doing this for ... amount of years and have hundreds of reviews and great feedback. " When the truth is John is not a doctor and all his friends, family and hired people post theses fake reviews. That's the internet, it has more lies than truth. You have to put together the facts with the fiction you are given and make the best decision you can, your life depends on it.

There are agencies that you can call and get facts from like the American Board of Plastic. Where you can call and ask in your doctor is licensed in America. Also, get an adequate medical evaluationbefore a  procedure in the Country you are from. Perhaps from your family doctor who already knows all of your medical information/history. There are so many other things that you can do too if you are looking into getting work done overseas.

Just be careful!! It's is so sad what happened to that young blogger, don't let it happen to you. Let her story be a warning.

Kiki Owens

Dermaroller eBay

I know I have talked about the dermaroller before. However, I just got a new one. So, I am revamp to talk about it some more! Yay.

I order off eBay and paid under 5 bucks (USD). No shipping cost which is a good thing because the roller came from China.


I really like the packaging. It came in a tube like case which is shown in the picture. Nice design for something so simple.


It also came sealed in the silver bag with the size doted and a booklet for usage. I order a size 2.5 which is pretty brave. The size is based off the needle length.

I wanted this size because it goes deeper into the skin. With all that being said I want to say this my pain thrush hold is pretty high. At 2.5 even I said ouch at first! All in all, I was really happy with my buy.

Kiki Owens

Plastic Surgery among Makeup Gurus/Bloggers

Plastic surgery is getting more and more common, singers get it, actors, and even social media stars. There are several YouTubers and bloggers that have open admitted to have cosmetic surgery. It has become in fact pretty treading, among the bigger YouTubers. But what is the impact that social media plastic surgery is having? Also, what is the cost of getting plastic surgery in the social media world?

Guys Makeup

It maybe seem a bit taboo for any guy to wear makeup, but why should girls be the only one? Guys can get great benefits from wearing makeup just like girls. It has nothing to do with sexual, it just a great tool to help you look your best. Even male stars wear makeup on movie sets to look their best, and no one was complaining at a hot Johnny Depp as a Pirate.

Foundation: Great for covering skin imperfections! With a male foundation you want it to be natural, not matte or shimmery. (Unless you are going for the Twlight look. lol)
BB cream can be a great foundation for men. It's helpful in covering problem areas, but keep the skin natural looking. It just a plus that it's beneficial to the skin.

Concealer: If you have a facial hair it's a good idea to try a concealer instead. The concealer is more of a spot cover up, and will be easier to apply.

Eye shadow: A little dark eye shadow around the eyes is a great way to had a little edge. It can enhance a rocker look or alternative. It gives a softer look than Eyeliner.

Eyeliner: A little more detailed and harder lines, it can also be used to give that rock star look or pirate, RRrrr!

Lip Balm: Health for your lips, sometimes those girl brands are really just great for your lips.

It's important to remember when wearing makeup to keep your skin clean, wash it in the morning and before bed. You don't want to go to sleep with makeup on your skin. It's a no-no, it's causes break outs.

Guys can wear makeup, too!