Mary Kay is AWESOME!

Today I got the best message ever from a customer. For several years, she has purchased Timewise age-fighting moisturizer from me, but that was all she wanted. Yesterday she came to me asking for help. Her eyelids were so dry, they had scales and were puffy, and her cheeks were bumpy all over as if she had poison ivy.

I was seriously worried, her face looked so bad, and actually asked her if she might need to see a doctor. She said it would take months to get an appointment with a dermatologist, and wanted to know what I could do for her. I told her she needed to use Mary Kay cleanser with her moisturizer--because products from different lines don't always work well together. I also explained that she should never use cleanser on her eyes, just our oil-free eye-makeup remover. I sent her home with a miracle set, firming eye cream, oil-free eye-makeup remover, and the targeted action eye revitalizer (which is for dark circles, another of her problems.)

She texted me today (a message 5 texts long) so excited because after only 24 hours of using 100% Mary Kay, the bumps were gone from her cheeks. The extreme dry patches on her eyelids that had been there for 2 months were gone and her face felt smooth and good. I had told her to wait a couple of days on the eye revitalizer because it tingles when you use it and I was afraid it would burn her dry skin. But she's already using it and can already tell that her dark circles are looking better!!

I'm so happy right now!!!! I really truly helped her and I made her happy. That's why I love my Mary Kay Business!!

Eyebrows

Okay. It seems that the 1st Lieutenant who sometimes resides in my house took MY camera with him to his State Emergency Tornado Cleanup Duty. Thus I can provide no pictures of the murderously short summer haircuts. (Which looked better in the light of day next morning, thankfully.) So if I wish to blog, I must content myself with blogging about something for which I already have pictures.

That means I have to tell a story on myself.

Sigh. Here Goes....

As you will note in the following picture, some people in my family have great eyebrows. Some people meaning all of my sisters.

Don't they look fabulous? p.s. this little pouf hairstyle is the one that earned me the polygamous hair comment from a friend. My sometimes resident 1LT reluctantly admitted upon questioning that it seemed a little old fashioned. I said, "But so & so wears her hair like that." He laughed and said, "Yeh, she does." Apparently that was not good defense on my part. dang't

So about a year ago, I decided that kempt brows would help with making me look more like I cared how I look (You can always tell a cheerleader/soccer mom by her thin eyebrows, even if she has no makeup, a messy ponytail and sweats on. You can also tell her by how skinny and tan she is, but I have limits. No offense intended to any of my readers who are skinny or like to tan a lot. I still love you, my skin just genetically will not tan. Plus I fear cancer.)

anyway...
I got my brows waxed for my birthday. After that I tried to keep them up myself. Last summer, while in Dallas for Mary Kay Seminar, I sat down in front of one of those lighted magnifying mirrors. It was amazing. I could see every little hair. I got a little carried away and perhaps overplucked a bit. (alot) In my defense, I think I had low blood sugar and it affected my judgement.

exhibit A:

Several months later it was again my birthday and I mentioned that perhaps I would go have my brows waxed.

My sometimes resident 1LT said, "Just don't go to the place you went last time. They gave you old lady eyebrows."

me (!!!! no way am I admitting I did that to myself!!!)

"Was it that bad? You didn't say anything at the time."

Him: "Well, you really couldn't do anything about it, so no point in making you feel bad."

Me: "Don't worry, I won't go back there." (note to self: Never pick up tweezers without having eaten something first. ever.)

I'd like to interject here that he said it all very nicely and picked just the right time to tell me when I could appreciate his advice and not have my feelings hurt. I really was glad to have been warned away from making the same mistake twice. So don't be hating the 1LT.

I think I'm doing better as the first pic in this post and the following one show.

Meh, I don't know. My eyebrows are still more round than angled. The thing is, I have round eyebrows. Just do. No getting around it. ha ha... around it ... round eyebrows... whew! I should get some sleep.

The thing is, I can't sleep tonight. It's one of those nights where I keep thinking of all the ways I fell short today and what a terrible selfish mother / friend I am. Sigh. I just have to do better tomorrow and be grateful that most of my friends are the really forgiving type. You know, the kind who always look at dumb things you do or say and think of the most positive wonderful reason why you did/said that. The kind who know I meant well even if it all came out horribly wrong.

I love you guys.

You help me to have hope that I can be better.

Thanks.

I love Dallas!!!

Christmas Special

As many of you know, I have a Mary Kay business. I am making an order next week--the last one before Christmas, and it needs to be BIG!! So I am having a special sale for all of you wonderful people who read my blog. Order by Dec 10 and get 15% off your whole order plus free shipping and gift wrapping and a free mini spa set gift with $40 purchase.

You can order right off my website!

And have you done the virtual makeover on my website yet? It is too fun. Get over there & do it!!!

Top 10 Things to Buy

I was so bad today. The weight is just not going to come off if I keep doing this to myself.



To get out of the kitchen, I am posting. My cousin(well, actually my cousin’s wife) did this on her blog. It looked fun.

My top ten favorite things (Either I buy these all the time, I wish I could buy them all the time, or I am sooo glad I bought these)

10. Aprons, Sexy Aprons—okay, this was a present, not a purchase, but that is because I am a lucky dog. If you don’t own one, then your life is not complete. Go buy one right now.


9. Lindt Chocolate Truffles—so shiny and round and so heavenly…


8. Books to read and do-- The Fly Lady Book




7. Piano books to play—this was my birthday present to me in November



6. Mary Kay Eye shadow and lip gloss—I FEEL good when I know I LOOK good, don't you?


5. Mary Kay oil-free eye makeup remover—can’t function without it.


4. Organizing bins, tubs, drawers and files. They make me so happy. (and you can tell from the pic that I don't have enough yet. Anyone want to go to Mal-mart with me?



3. Page Protectors (for organizing things in binders)





2. Garlic—so ordinary yet gormet all at the same time.




1. Quilting Fabric—We likes it, My precious

My SuperWoman Alter Ego

I am a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant!


I have a fabulous website www.marykay.com/RebeccaLesue I put a link at the bottom of this page.

Feel free to visit my website. there are virtual makeovers, lipstick personality tests and so many fun things. There is a whole section on Bridal Makeovers. You can even order things. I have some great gift ideas for the holidays and I do free giftwrap and delivery. And you can hostess a virtual party online!

Here is my Mary Kay story:
About 4 years ago, I was a stay-home mom with 2 kids (now I have 4). I hardly ever left my house because we are a one car family. I admit I had let myself go. My hair went up in a sloppy ponytail every day. I wore big, stained, worn out t-shirts every day, and hadn't worn makeup much at all since my marriage 4 years previous. One day I was brushing my hair and my son, then 3 years old, came into the bathroom and cried, "Mommy, where are you going?" Now I know that kids do this, but I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, "If all it takes is me brushing my hair and he thinks I am leaving the house, then I have let myself go too far."

I considered and decided that I wasn't wearing makeup because I was so unsure of what colors looked right on me, and because the cheap eye-makeup I bought always stung and burned my eyes. I decided I needed some quality makeup and someone to show me how to put it on. So, I went to the mall. I tried talking to the Lancome lady, but she was snobby and rude. So I went to the Clinique counter. I got more help there, and went home with 4 beauty items and $100 on my cc.

A few months later my old college roommate called me. She had just become a Mary Kay Consultant and wanted to give me a free facial. Of course I said yes!! I loved how the skin care made my skin feel. I bought the skin care and started taking care of my face. Soon I realized that I could get all the makeup I needed for my face from Mary Kay for what only 4 things had cost at Clinique. Then she moved away. 5 hours away.

To make a long story short, I decided to become a Mary Kay consultant myself about a year later. I love it! I get to earn extra money for me and my family. I get to earn fabulous prizes. I get out of the house a couple nights a week and talk about something besides diapers and car seats. I have learned to be more organized and am a better wife and mother because of the things I have learned while in Mary Kay. I take care of myself better and feel better and more confident because of it. Best of all, IT"S FUN.