Hey everyone,
I whipped together a mask last week based on a whole bunch of other things I usually do...and it was so amazing, I had to tell you about it.
Very simple:
1 tsp: olive oil music
1 tsp: honey
1 tsp: sour cream
Stir it all together and put it on a clean face. It was so gentle and my skin was smooth and soft when I took it off. It felt great.
Enjoy!!!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Multi-layered masks
Hi everyone,
Well, I couldn't sleep so I decided to treat myself to a mask I read about in one of my books. Now, I did some extras too as usual but here's what I did.
I washed my face: I wrote down the recipe in one of my prior blogs.
Then I boilded water, put it in a bowl with two drops of frankincense and 2 drops of rose otto. I draped a towel over my head and steamed my face for 5 minutes. I then submerged the towel and wrung it out. You will need to wear rubber gloves for this because the water will still be hot, hot, hot. Then I layed down and put the towel over my face for about 1 minute as the towel cools down relatively quickly. I didn't rinse my face. Then I took one tbsp of honey and stirred in 1tsp of sugar, regular sugar because it's finer and not to abrasive. I've said it before and I'll reiterate now: DO NOT EXFOLIATE ANY PART OF YOUR BODY MORE THAN TWICE A WEEK. True, exfoliation gets rid of dead skin but it also removes your skins natural oils. Natural oil is a GOOD thing.
Ok, then with a baster, I put a layer of plain yogurt on my entire face and neck and let it dry.
Next I blended one avocado and one mango together and with the baster applied a layer of this to my face and neck and let it dry.
Then, with my juicer, I made some carrot juice to which I added green clay and stirred it up. I applied this liberally to face and neck and let it dry.
When it dried completely, I rinsed it off in the shower, less messy this way and odds are you'll be washing your hair and body so you won't get it all over everything.
After my shower, I patted my face dry. Another tip, don't rub your skin dry, pat it.
I then applied my facial serum bar and my skin feels so great.
It's a bit extravagant of a mask but man did it feel good. Tonight, I do my moisturizing mask and I think I'm going to add my oils right to the rest of the avocado and mango mash. I added a bit of vitamin e to it so it won't spoil.
I am in love with the way my face looks and feels...
Happy Masking everyone!!
Well, I couldn't sleep so I decided to treat myself to a mask I read about in one of my books. Now, I did some extras too as usual but here's what I did.
I washed my face: I wrote down the recipe in one of my prior blogs.
Then I boilded water, put it in a bowl with two drops of frankincense and 2 drops of rose otto. I draped a towel over my head and steamed my face for 5 minutes. I then submerged the towel and wrung it out. You will need to wear rubber gloves for this because the water will still be hot, hot, hot. Then I layed down and put the towel over my face for about 1 minute as the towel cools down relatively quickly. I didn't rinse my face. Then I took one tbsp of honey and stirred in 1tsp of sugar, regular sugar because it's finer and not to abrasive. I've said it before and I'll reiterate now: DO NOT EXFOLIATE ANY PART OF YOUR BODY MORE THAN TWICE A WEEK. True, exfoliation gets rid of dead skin but it also removes your skins natural oils. Natural oil is a GOOD thing.
Ok, then with a baster, I put a layer of plain yogurt on my entire face and neck and let it dry.
Next I blended one avocado and one mango together and with the baster applied a layer of this to my face and neck and let it dry.
Then, with my juicer, I made some carrot juice to which I added green clay and stirred it up. I applied this liberally to face and neck and let it dry.
When it dried completely, I rinsed it off in the shower, less messy this way and odds are you'll be washing your hair and body so you won't get it all over everything.
After my shower, I patted my face dry. Another tip, don't rub your skin dry, pat it.
I then applied my facial serum bar and my skin feels so great.
It's a bit extravagant of a mask but man did it feel good. Tonight, I do my moisturizing mask and I think I'm going to add my oils right to the rest of the avocado and mango mash. I added a bit of vitamin e to it so it won't spoil.
I am in love with the way my face looks and feels...
Happy Masking everyone!!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
We Never Change
That title is a misnomer because I know and you know and hopefully, we all know, we can and do change. We have to, to fight change is to fight God, ourselves, everyone and everything. Change you see, is inevitable. I am not who I am 20 years ago and for that, I am grateful. But I fought much of it and it was a painful process. But I listened to Coldplay on the way in and this beautiful song played. Listen to it if you will...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq51hX9SbvM. The lyrics and the visuals in this are so pretty.
How lovely.
Parachutes
I highly recommend you listen to as much as them as possible. I'm going to take a day off this summer and just lay by the pool and listen to thier beautiful music. I hope they tour again, I want so badly to see them. I'm making music a priorty again, it brings me joy unimaginable.
What's going through my mind today? This winter has sucked and I got an email from someone yesterday speaking of perspective. This person means a lot to me. I've known him since I was a baby in AA and I went through a lot of pain in my early years there. Some, much, brought on by myself but he was a part of that...not the pain but my beginnings so to speak and I fucked up my beginnings but still I look back on that time fondly now.
There are many parts of being a witch and there's to much to go into here although I decided that's where I'm going to in the next couple weeks. Some explanations, some definitions of my belief and spirituality. For anyone interested in the basics, I have a number of books to suggest.
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Includes Author's Book of Shadows), Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn's Practical Magick Series)
. This is very basic and your beliefs will change, grow and expand. If you would've told me when I first read these books that I would eventually move beyond wicca and become a heathen, I would've laughed at you, maybe even been scared. Heathen is a term that was vilified by the Christians when they took over. A heathen is simply someone who came from the heath as many of the early Vikings and Scandanavians did. We'll get more into that as we pass through all of this. I know I said I'd do a series on meditation but it's going to require more reading, more experimentation.
Right now, I'm listening to Courtney Love with Hole. Miss World, you want some lyrics -shit:
I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie
I am the girl you want, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie
I'm Miss World, somebody kill me
Kill me pills, no one cares, my friends, my friends
I'm Miss Workd, Watch me break, Watch me burn
No one is listening, my friends yeah
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I die in it
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I die in it
Kill girls watch when I eat ether
Suck me under, maybe forever my friends
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I die in it
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I cry in it
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I cry in it
I make my bed, I die in it, I lie in it my friend
I am the girl you know can't look you in the eye
Miss World
That was me. I still love that song but I don't feel bad when I listen to it anymore. You know what song I love, it expresses such joy and how I see myself now. It's by a band called the innocence mission.
The song is so amazingly beautiful that I got the whole CD. Turns out their christian. You wouldn't necessarily guess it from the music or lyrics but something told me they are and it turns out, yup, they are. They are not witnessing on this CD though, had that been the case, the CD would've gone in the trash. Here are the lyrics.
Bright As Yellow
Do yourself a favor, listen to them...the CD glow is amazing, light and lilting and pretty...floating music.
I'm bright as yellow today, I'm flower scarlet
. The sun is shining, bitter winds blow but spring is just around the corner, there are stirrings deep in the earth that we cannot feel but my heart feels it.
I am Spring today. Happy Imbolc to all my lovely pagans out there and to those who do not follow the ancient ways, I wish you a Happy Imbolc as well. At one time, long ago, we all were witches, witches with different talents, different specialties but we worshiped the Lord and Lady in all their aspects. We were attuned with the Mother, who gives us life and sustains us.
Who is Denise today?
I'm flower scarlet, flower gold
I'm bright as yellow
I'm a witch
I AM LOVE
Share that love, feel warmth today, close your imagine the stirrings of the seeds, the preparation of the soil for growth and then look inside your being and feel those stirrings there...
Blessed Be!!
How lovely.
Parachutes
I highly recommend you listen to as much as them as possible. I'm going to take a day off this summer and just lay by the pool and listen to thier beautiful music. I hope they tour again, I want so badly to see them. I'm making music a priorty again, it brings me joy unimaginable.
What's going through my mind today? This winter has sucked and I got an email from someone yesterday speaking of perspective. This person means a lot to me. I've known him since I was a baby in AA and I went through a lot of pain in my early years there. Some, much, brought on by myself but he was a part of that...not the pain but my beginnings so to speak and I fucked up my beginnings but still I look back on that time fondly now.
There are many parts of being a witch and there's to much to go into here although I decided that's where I'm going to in the next couple weeks. Some explanations, some definitions of my belief and spirituality. For anyone interested in the basics, I have a number of books to suggest.
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Includes Author's Book of Shadows), Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn's Practical Magick Series)
. This is very basic and your beliefs will change, grow and expand. If you would've told me when I first read these books that I would eventually move beyond wicca and become a heathen, I would've laughed at you, maybe even been scared. Heathen is a term that was vilified by the Christians when they took over. A heathen is simply someone who came from the heath as many of the early Vikings and Scandanavians did. We'll get more into that as we pass through all of this. I know I said I'd do a series on meditation but it's going to require more reading, more experimentation. Right now, I'm listening to Courtney Love with Hole. Miss World, you want some lyrics -shit:
I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie
I am the girl you want, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie
I'm Miss World, somebody kill me
Kill me pills, no one cares, my friends, my friends
I'm Miss Workd, Watch me break, Watch me burn
No one is listening, my friends yeah
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I die in it
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I die in it
Kill girls watch when I eat ether
Suck me under, maybe forever my friends
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I die in it
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I cry in it
I make my bed, I lie in it, I make my bed, I cry in it
I make my bed, I die in it, I lie in it my friend
I am the girl you know can't look you in the eye
Miss World
That was me. I still love that song but I don't feel bad when I listen to it anymore. You know what song I love, it expresses such joy and how I see myself now. It's by a band called the innocence mission.
The song is so amazingly beautiful that I got the whole CD. Turns out their christian. You wouldn't necessarily guess it from the music or lyrics but something told me they are and it turns out, yup, they are. They are not witnessing on this CD though, had that been the case, the CD would've gone in the trash. Here are the lyrics.And you live your life with your arms stretched out.
Eye to eye when speaking.
Enter rooms with great joy shouts,
Happy to be meeting.
And bright,
Bright,
Bright, bright as yellow,
Warm as yellow.
And I do not want to be a rose.
I do not wish to be pale pink,
But flower scarlet, flower gold.
And have no thorns to distance me,
But be bright,
Bright,
Bright, bright as yellow,
Warm as yellow.
Even if I'm shouting, even if I'm shouting here
Inside.
Even if I'm shouting, do you see that I'm wanting,
That I want to be so so
Bright,
Bright,
Bright, bright as yellow,
Warm as yellow.
Eye to eye when speaking.
Enter rooms with great joy shouts,
Happy to be meeting.
And bright,
Bright,
Bright, bright as yellow,
Warm as yellow.
And I do not want to be a rose.
I do not wish to be pale pink,
But flower scarlet, flower gold.
And have no thorns to distance me,
But be bright,
Bright,
Bright, bright as yellow,
Warm as yellow.
Even if I'm shouting, even if I'm shouting here
Inside.
Even if I'm shouting, do you see that I'm wanting,
That I want to be so so
Bright,
Bright,
Bright, bright as yellow,
Warm as yellow.
Bright As Yellow
Do yourself a favor, listen to them...the CD glow is amazing, light and lilting and pretty...floating music.
I'm bright as yellow today, I'm flower scarlet
. The sun is shining, bitter winds blow but spring is just around the corner, there are stirrings deep in the earth that we cannot feel but my heart feels it. I am Spring today. Happy Imbolc to all my lovely pagans out there and to those who do not follow the ancient ways, I wish you a Happy Imbolc as well. At one time, long ago, we all were witches, witches with different talents, different specialties but we worshiped the Lord and Lady in all their aspects. We were attuned with the Mother, who gives us life and sustains us.
Who is Denise today?
I'm flower scarlet, flower gold
I'm bright as yellow
I'm a witch
I AM LOVE
Share that love, feel warmth today, close your imagine the stirrings of the seeds, the preparation of the soil for growth and then look inside your being and feel those stirrings there...
Blessed Be!!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Facial Serum Bars
I just made up a recipe for facial serum bars which I will feature at my next party. What are facial serum bars?
They are in many ways similar to a lotion bar. I use sesame oil as a base. Sesame oil is stinky stuff, although I don't mind the smell. It is also a natural sun screen, NOT a sun block, but a sun screen, it helps to deflect harmful rays.
I made it with sesame oil (the darker, the better sun protection) - 1/4 c, 1/8 c beeswax, 1 tsp avocado butter and then I added one drop of each of the following essential oils:
1/4 c sesame oil
1/8 c beeswax
1 tsp avocado butter
1 tsp vitamin e oil
Francincense
Myrr
Clary Sage
Lavendar
Sandalwood
Rosewood
Spikenard
Rose
Patchouli
These are all used in anti-aging products. You cannot by substitutes, it has to be the actual essential oils.
Oils you should NOT use are phototoxic oils. This means with exposure to the sun, they can actually do more harm then good, they produce a super sensitivity:
These are: Angelica Root
Bergamot
Cumin
Ginger
Lemon
Lime
Lovage
Mandarin
Orange
Verbena
Ok so heat the oil, beeswax, vitamin e. Once wax is melted and liquid looks clear, turn off heat and let set for 3 minutes, then add essential oils...stir. Pour into ice cube trays (should make enough for four squares in the tray. Freeze to harden quicker faster. Turn tray over and bars will fall out. Put on face as moisturizer in A.M and use at night before moisturizing.
Works great, let me tell you!!!
They are in many ways similar to a lotion bar. I use sesame oil as a base. Sesame oil is stinky stuff, although I don't mind the smell. It is also a natural sun screen, NOT a sun block, but a sun screen, it helps to deflect harmful rays.
I made it with sesame oil (the darker, the better sun protection) - 1/4 c, 1/8 c beeswax, 1 tsp avocado butter and then I added one drop of each of the following essential oils:
1/4 c sesame oil
1/8 c beeswax
1 tsp avocado butter
1 tsp vitamin e oil
Francincense
Myrr
Clary Sage
Lavendar
Sandalwood
Rosewood
Spikenard
Rose
Patchouli
These are all used in anti-aging products. You cannot by substitutes, it has to be the actual essential oils.
Oils you should NOT use are phototoxic oils. This means with exposure to the sun, they can actually do more harm then good, they produce a super sensitivity:
These are: Angelica Root
Bergamot
Cumin
Ginger
Lemon
Lime
Lovage
Mandarin
Orange
Verbena
Ok so heat the oil, beeswax, vitamin e. Once wax is melted and liquid looks clear, turn off heat and let set for 3 minutes, then add essential oils...stir. Pour into ice cube trays (should make enough for four squares in the tray. Freeze to harden quicker faster. Turn tray over and bars will fall out. Put on face as moisturizer in A.M and use at night before moisturizing.
Works great, let me tell you!!!
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