From Inmates to Playdates

While visiting my sister-in-law and her family in New Hampshire, we had a great time eating, visiting, chomping crushed ice, painting, timing contractions and talking beauty products.

Unfortunately, her sweet baby girl decided to wait until July 4th to make her appearance, so I did not get the pleasure of meeting her, but, we did paint a kitchen wall, ate ourselves silly and chomped on crushed ice (because that’s the only thing Angie has craved throughout her pregnancy!)

Angie is a loyal Arbonne user and consultant who happens to have fabulous skin. During my visit, Angie’s Arbonne friend hosted a make-over party. Four of us sat around the dining-room table having a great time as we applied each product and watched our faces come to life. All of Arbonne’s products are pure, safe and beneficial.

Angie has tried her to best to convert me to Arbonnism even though I have been a faithful maybelline cover girl for most of my life. I was first introduced to Arbonne when I visited Angie last year. Around that same time, I ordered Arbonne’s Virtual Illusion primer and have even talked about here on the blog.

During the make-over, I learned that I have pretty much been applying every make-up product I’ve ever used in the past 20 years incorrectly a lot!

For instance… Did you know that using a loose powder is only appropriate if you use a liquid foundation first?

I had no idea.

I also had no idea about the whole animal rendering thing, but I won’t bring that up again today.

I also learned that instead of brushing mascara in an upward motion on the eyelash, one should jiggle the mascara on the lash in a side-to-side motion to prevent clumping.

Pure genius.

During the make-over session, we were introduced to a dual mascara. First I applied black mascara to my upper lashes ONLY and then I applied a “clear” mascara that added mad volume to my lashes.

Oh internets. What a difference that technique made for me and my eyes.

Another discovery I made that night was brow wax.

While I have NEVER had my brow waxed or plucked (or anything else for that matter) can I just say that I was amazed at how much fuller my brows looked after I used the Arbonne blonde brow wax. I’m not quite sure why it is called brow wax because there is no waxing involved, but, I can tell you that my brows looked fabulous.

I was amazed.

I ordered both the wax and the dual mascara. And several other products.

Unfortunately though, our little make-over party ended at approximately 9:00 PM.  And sadly, it was too late to take our fabulous freshly made-over faces out on the town. Which would have been a hoot because Angie was approximately 42 weeks pregnant. So, after the make-over lady left, we promptly marched up the stairs to get our four kids ready for bed and subsequently washed the fabulous right from our faces.

Sadly, that make-over was wasted.

 But the techniques were not.

The techniques worked for me!

My sweet sister-in-law, Angie has agreed to do a give-away here at Inmates. She is offering a tub of Arbonne’s bodybetter – Myseterious to one lucky reader. Simply visit Arbonne.com, then come back and leave me a comment telling me about a product you’d love to try.

The contest will end on Wednesday, July 15th and random.org will pick the winner.

Thanks, Angie!

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And the winner is…..

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9

Timestamp: 2009-07-17 01:45:31 UTC

 

Congratulations, Commentor #9 – Debbie

Debbie does not have a blog but has a YAHOO e-mail address!

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