DIY Coffee Face Scrub

This is probably going to be one of the most complex face masks that you will ever encounter. The amount of products that you need is just insane. I don't even know why I am telling you all this! It's just.....hah!

I'm kidding, this is probably one of the easiest DIY face masks you will encounter. You only need one thing and that is used coffee grounds. Yeah, that's really it. I am sure that you have see this multiple times before, but my friend Polarbelle suggested me doing a DIY face mask maybe. I"m not going to suggest something that I don't use, so I went for the coffee face scrub/mask thing. Because, why not?

If you don't drink coffee at home, I know at one point Starbucks was either giving their grounds away or they were selling them. I am not sure if they are doing it anymore though. Trying your local coffee shop as well. They could be more than willing to give up their grounds because it's less trash for the to deal with. Or heck, just ask a coffee drinking friend! Luckily for me, my entire family, except for myself, drinks coffee. I always have an over abundance of coffee grounds in the house!

Just take the grounds and apply them to your face. Just slather those bad boys on! Make yourself coffee faced and drink some coffee (or tea). This is really good for your skin. It's best to use in the morning because it will help wake your skin up. Plus, when you're ready to wash it off, it is a mild exfoliator! TWO USES! Blasphemy. But yes, dual use...well really if you can use it for compost as well..So I get that would be multi-use. Good for you and your plants.

I leave this on for 5-10 minutes and wash it off.
Your skin will feel awake, energized and plump. Plump? Well, lets just say your face will feel amazing. I suggest doing this in the morning, because why wake up your skin to just go to bed?! No point in that. Follow this up with your morning skincare routine!

Sidenote: ridiculous faces not needed but thoroughly enjoyed.


Have you ever done a coffee face mask? Would you try one if you haven't?!

The Beauty Buffs - Make Your Own Pastel Polish

Hello everyone!

For those of you who are new to my little bloog (no I didn't spell that wrong. I like to pronounce it bloo-guh.. I'm weird) I started off as a beauty blog and make my way into nail polish, both subjects have been a growing obsession of mine. I've dabbled into fashion but I am the least fashionable person you will ever meet in your life. My blog is a little over 3 years old, even though if you look back you wouldn't know that because when I switched from blogger, to wordpress and then back to blogger, I lost my earlier posts.

Enough about me though. I want to welcome you all too the first post of many of the group The Beauty Buffs. This group was started by Norelis of Fierce Makeup & Nails. I can't thank her enough for inviting me to be a part of this absolutely amazing group! There is a wide variety of bloggers in The Beauty Buffs; makeup, nails, fashion, lifestyle... you name it, I'm sure one of us posts about it. The Beauty Buffs will be posting every other Wednesday, starting today with the topic of Pastels. What I particularly like and I'm sure you will enjoy is that TBB's topics are open to interpretation. Meaning we're not all going to posting the same general thing. (ie it's not all going to be nail polish, etc) I think that's what really makes this group unique! Also, I'm going to say that I feel like I am in with blogging royalty! Holy wow, I'm absolutely honored and fan girled insanely hard when I saw who all was in the group!

With the first topic being Pastels, I was at a total loss. I don't think I own a single pastel thing. I've got polishes that could lean towards pastel, but not really nor do I have any pastel makeup. So instead of going shopping because I'm trying to conserve money, I decided to make my OWN pastel nail polish! It's really easy!

You're pretty much frankening (mixing polishes) your own polish. I originally was just going to lighten a couple of polishes, but they weren't really pastel, just lightened. Thank you Kirby :P. She's my pastel guru so I had to ask for her help on creating a good pastel. I'll show you the versions I made, but ultimately I only have one that comes pretty dang close to being pastel. Okay, enough of my rambling!

What you need;;
1 white polish
1 polish (or more depending if you want to create a completely custom polish)
1 empty polish bottle

(I don't have a photo of the empty bottle because I forgot to add it into the shot.)

Now the amount of white polish you use definitely depends on how light you would like your pastel polish. For an entire bottle I used maybe 6 drops. I also added more green (which I'm sure you can see) then I did purple to get my desired shade. I wish it would have been more green but it is what it is.

I now have a full bottle of this gorgeous pastel polish that I made without having to go out and search for one! It's honestly very simple to franken your own pastel or really franken your own polish. It's all about mixing other polishes together! Frankening is different than making indie polishes. There's an actual science to making indie polishes. 

Please excite how shoddy/sloppily I applied the polish, with it being 3:26am I was kind of in a hurry to get these pictures done D: ... I'm sure you can see the smudges etc. :P You live and learn!

The shade itself is a gorgeous pastel purple! I'm really pleased with how this turned out! I love frankening my own polishes. It's kind of therapeutic for me. I used to have a giant collection of custom made polishes, but I got rid of them all but a few. I'm thinking of putting this up for sale in my blog sale, but we will see what happens.

Have you made your own franken polish before?! Would you ever consider doing it?!

Thank you so much for reading my post and I can't wait to do the next Beauty Buffs post!

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