B is for Beauty (ABCs of Beauty)

AVON Empowerment

Part of my mission as an Avon Lady is to empower women. My goals are to:

1. Help women find or develop individual beauty through beautiful Avon products, 
2. Help women be empowered to begin their own beauty business if they choose, and 
3. Contribute to the fight against domestic violence.

For Campaign 6, I will be focusing only on launching my first Speak Out campaign. Then, I will continue to support local domestic violence resources, reach out to help women in need of personal empowerment, and continue to promote Avon’s Speak Out program. 

The Avon Foundation has Speak Out Against Domestic Violence Programs that directly contribute to helping victims of domestic violence. To that end, they offer empowerment products and a portion of the sale of those products goes toward the Speak Out programs. 

Empowerment Charm Necklace

Faceted faux stone and silvertone disc with infinity symbol. 

$4 with $1 donation

Empowerment Butterfly Link Watch

Silvertone with faux mother-of-pearl dial. 

$20 with $4 donation

 

Empowerment 2015 Tote

100% cotton

$7 with $1.50 donation

 

AlphaBeautyCream

What exactly are BB, CC and DD beauty products?!

BB is Beauty Balm, and is a combination of facial skin care and tinted foundation. It can be used like a foundation, to create a primer for the application of makeup colors. But it also has the benefits of a skin care cream. It can help even out skin tone and reduce redness. The hydration is intended to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles. Plus, it has 15 SPF.

BB

AVON's Ideal Flawless BB cream is available in 5 different colors: Light, Light Medium, Medium, Medium Deep, Deep

CC

CC is Color Corrector, and helps to correct the appearance of flaws such as acne, dark spots and redness. It primes and moisturizes with a lightweight feel.

AVON's Ideal Flawless CC cream is available in 5 different colors: Light, Light Medium, Medium, Medium Deep, Deep

DD

DD is Dynamic Do-All, or Daily Defense, and combines skin care benefits with body lotion.

AVON has a Skin So Soft DD body cream with SPF 15.

Free Skin Care ecourse

FREE 4 part ecourse about skin care. Sign up to receive this ecourse.

Part I. Skin Science
Part II. Skin Types & Solutions
Part III. Three Keys to Healthy Skin
Part IV. Skin Concerns

Free Skin eCourse

I am offering a free four part ecourse about skin. The first of my ecourses, it will be delivered in four ebooks.

• Part I. Skin Science
• Part II. Skin Types & Solutions
• Part III. Three Keys to Healthy Skin
• Part IV. Skin Concerns

Sign up to receive the skin ebooks, or send me an email at cheriefrid @ gmail . com.

The ecourse will culminate in a live online event where you will be able to ask skin questions and find answers to problems such as: acne, dark circles, sun damage and aging.

 

Feeling Beautiful Equals Feeling Happy, Healthy and Positive

I don't FEEL beautiful today.

I'm exhausted. My headache has returned with a vengeance. And my family has expectations for me that I'm struggling to meet. I just don't feel beautiful.

And that's OK! We don't have to feel beautiful every single waking moment. But we do need to take steps to start feeling beautiful again. In my mind, feeling beautiful equals feeling happy, healthy and positive. It's more than looking beautiful when you go out. It's about feeling GREAT about yourself.

Maybe I need a spa day. No, I definitely need a spa day. Unfortunately, I just cannot afford the time or the expense right now. Check back with me about how you can create your own spa day at home with a small budget! So I'm going to try to take a hot shower, and somehow get back into mommy mode for the weekend.

In the meantime, since it is 19° outside, I am going to dream of relaxing in a rainforest with my Amazonian Treasures.

Unrealistic Expectations

We all have expectations for ourselves. Those expectations depend on our past experiences, our exposure to media, our cultural and family influences, and how we view the world and our place in it.

Most beauty expectations are unrealistic. There, I've said it.

Skin care is important. Wearing makeup is a choice. And general, healthy body care helps us stay healthy, make sure people are not turned off by our odor, and ward off vampires. OK, maybe not the vampire thing, but you get what I'm saying, right? Body care helps us stay clean and smelling good. We wear clothing and jewelry to express ourselves. All of that is great.

The problem comes from having expectations we simply cannot achieve. Many of us have seen the evidence: the Dove evolution commercial, the before and afters of celebrities, and the obviously Photoshopped bodies of models. Yet, our expectations for our self, for our own body is so unachievable, it's sad. While I could probably do a whole Ted talk on the idea of unrealistic beauty expectations and body self acceptance, I will give this one singular piece of advice for now.

Learn to love the skin you are in. Decorate it. Adorn it. Nourish it. But love the you that you are.

I Love My Liquid

For a very long time I struggled with the skin tones on my face. I have (and have always had) a lot of red tones on my face. I flush easily and have a "ruddy" complexion. When I was younger that went oh so well with my stick straight blonde hair, big nose and freckles. BUT I've learned to love my face and I'm not even afraid to share it without makeup, like I do in this tutorial.

I didn't even start using liquid foundation until my 30s. Seriously, what was I thinking?! I usually used just moisturizer and a loose powder... Now I love my liquid!

This video is different ways that I personally apply liquid foundation. This is the first time I have used the AVON MagiX (Magic-X? Magicks? How do you say it?) and I have to say, it is smoother and softer than any other foundations I've used, from Cover Girl to Studio Gear.

Get the tools I use here:
MagiX cashmere advanced liquid foundation (available in many shades)
foundation brush
groovy black and pink makeup sponges