The Glam Life {Randomness}

Before I start this post, I want to congratulate Brittany for winning the UPrinting giveaway AND for finishing her first half-marathon today. She is a rockstar! I love you girl. And thanks again to UPrinting for hosting the giveaway last week. If you like them as much as I do, make sure to like them on Facebook, too.

Ever wish your life was just a bit more glamorous? Not like red carpet glam, because let’s face it, most of us are nowhere near celebrity status. But just a bit more ooh-and-aah and less hmph and gggrr? Anyone? I know I can’t be alone in this feeling. One of my new year’s goals was to have a year of beauty. Beauty inside AND out. I vowed to take better care of my skin, apply makeup better, and even straighten my crazy hair more often…this lasted about 1 week because at the same time I vowed to do ALL of that, I also vowed to get healthy.

And apparently beauty and health don’t always see eye to eye. Let me elaborate.

I am currently about halfway done with my 100 days of exercise challenge- I still have 49 more days to go. Basically, this means I workout at least 30 minutes EVERY. single. day. Without fail. Even worse, this means I sweat daily. I sweat a lot. Which means it isn’t easy or feasible to keep my hair nice, straight and clean looking. I’ve tried a few dry shampoos, and they don’t make my hair feel and look as clean as I’d like, so the straight hair thing has gone out the window. I do semi-decent on the makeup application, but I don’t look anywhere near as nice as I’d like when I head out the door in the morning. I throw my curly hair into a messy bun kinda thing and I move on with my day.

Then there’s clothing. Luckily, the scale has moved down 18.6 pounds this year (woo!) so I am fitting into my clothes a lot better than I was before. But again, my working out daily leads me to wearing t-shirts, sports bras and workout pants most evenings and weekends. Once I workout and shower, the last thing on my mind is looking cute, especially if I am just at home. So, I throw on a clean t-shirt and lounge pants after I shower.

I feel frumpy and I do not like it. I look at pretty clothes, accessories and such online everyday to try to inspire myself to inject some glam in my life. I just want a bit of glam. Deep down I know if I truly, truly wanted to, I could MAKE time to straighten my rambunctious curly hair daily, but lord, just shoot me. That would be insane. And tiring. And insane! I have a lot of hair!

Glam. I want some. I need some.

So I am here to ask you, my loyal, lovely readers (all 4 of you), what should I do? Accept that right now my life is about health/exercise so I can be glam later? Should I buy some cute lounge wear to wear at home? Do I need to chop my hair a bit so I could maybe straighten it daily? Should I set aside 1-2 days a week where I straighten my hair? Do I need to just shut up?

I hope you have a glamorous evening. As for me...my t-shirt and sweats need to go finish up some laundry.

And if you wanna follow along with even more of my random nonsense, I now have a Tumblr. It’s going to be used mainly as inspiration for all things beautiful in regards to home, body, mind, and life.