Five on Friday Linkup

Giveaway Extended

I wanted to make an announcement y’all!  The giveaway has been extended an extra
week.  Now, you have a chance to enter
and win a Ralph Lauren Tote Bag (you can pick one between the two colors
pictured above).  The giveaway will end
Wednesday 7/13.  Good luck to everyone!

Fixate Cookbook

My Fixate Cookbook came in this week!  If you’ve been following along the past few
weeks you would’ve already heard about how I started the 21 day fix.  Well Round #1 is already over.  I will complete another two rounds before my
trip to Poland and because I don’t want to continuously eat the same thing (so
I don’t get bored) I bought the cookbook as well.  It has so many delicious looking recipes in
it.  I cannot wait to test out some of
these dishes! 

Keep Collective

While I was away this weekend one of the people who was
staying at the boyfriend’s parents house in their vacation home is a designer
for Keep Collective.  If you haven’t
heard of Keep Collective I highly recommend you go check it out.  It’s these adorable bracelets with charms and
they are actually super affordable compared to other charm jewelry out
there.  It’s such a brilliant idea
because you can build your own bracelets and they even have watch charms as
well.

Work Out Clothes

Since I’ve been working out every day I was running super
low on clothing before laundry day.  Some
things I actually started hand washing because I just couldn’t catch up on
doing laundry.  I went on over to the TJ
Maxx website just to take a look around and did you know you can actually order
things online?!  I know in the past you
couldn’t so I was leaping for joy.  I did
some research and it’s actually really unhealthy for a female to either wear
workout clothes a second time without washing them AND it’s unhealthy for us to
stay in our workout clothes after we’ve done our workout.  Unfortunately for us ladies our privates are
extremely sensitive.  Even though it’s so
easy to go from the gym to run a few errands because hey we’re already out,
make sure to change out of your workout clothes ASAP.  I’m not going to get into details here on the
blog but I did find some information on the Livestrong website regarding how
important it is to get moisture wicking clothing and why it’s important to
watch yourself even though you’re doing something positive for your health.

New Skin Care Routine, any eye cream suggestions?

Recently I decided I needed to start taking care of my
skin.  I’m a beauty blogger/vlogger and I
usually talk about the importance and washing your face or at least removing
your makeup.  Since I started working
out, I sweat A LOT.  My face at the end
of the day would just feel nasty.  I even
stopped wearing eye makeup so that I wouldn’t have to worry about it smudging
all over the place and getting into my eyes. 
So I decided to jump on the bandwagon of getting in the routine of
caring for my face every day.  I started
using the Olay Oil Free Moisturizing wash and Toner.  First I wash my face, then I use the
toner.  I also bought this adorable Tony
Moly Brightening Eye Base.  It’s not an
eye cream, it’s just for puffyness and what not.  I have not found an eye cream that I want to
try so if any of y’all have any suggestions please please please leave them in
the comments.  I’m getting closer to 30
each day and I want to make sure I start taking care of my skin before my crows
feet get a little more noticeable.  I
need to find a specific moisturizer because my pores are a little larger but
for now I’ve been using Nivea because that’s what I have been using my whole
life (literally since a baby) so it’s hard for me to switch over but I do need
an oil free moisturizer.  So, if any of y’all
have any recommendations on that too just let me know but I’m more concerned
about the eye cream.