A friend of mine recently made me contemplate something I’d never given thought to before.

In this time when I’m trying to exercise and focus on being healthy, how can I also incorporate trying to care more about my appearance and learning how to do so?

Lately I’ve had change on the brain. I’ve recently been motivated to better my body. Eating right, working out, sleeping more, and focusing on all of the sensations I feel physically & emotionally. (And that means good & bad!)

But I’ve been trying to improve myself in other ways too, and trying to forage my way back to the simplicity of who I used to be. In the smallest ways, I have accidentally pit-fallen into negative attitudes and habits. I have been doing a lot better letting go of life’s little eccentricities and my friends can probably attest to the turn around in my mood, behavior, and all around warm silliness I seem to have found again. However, there’s another aspect that I want to improve.

I’m not the most beauty oriented gal. I don’t brush my hair a lot. I wear leggings 9/10 times because they’re comfortable. My make up routine consists of Chapstick and blush. My application of the latter is hit or miss (at best). I know almost nothing about make up or its application. Despite the fact that this pleases my boyfriend, who says I am more beautiful without any make up, I would never want to cake on make up. I just want to hone the task of jazzing up the face I have.

Anyway, I’ve come to the conclusion that every day is an opportunity to work on every area I want to grow in by splitting the day. A new idea I’ve had is to make mornings about working hard, exercising, and starting the day right. And then my day can begin with one area of improvement, and later on incorporate working on my appearance as it refers to beauty, etc. 

SO! This blog is going to archive my self improvement, from learning what the hell “toner” is to becoming healthy and making scorpion pose my bitch.

-M