Bambi

I looked out of our window the other day and saw this little fella....

Ahh I love Boulder. Deer just crusin' through the yard snacking.

Happy Friday!

Hair

I love big hair. It is a known fact to everyone who knows me well that the bigger the better for me. I should have been born in the 60's or the 80's where the hair was always huge.
Any of these would be a dream if I could every get my hair to look this way.

In my quest to get the perfect volumized hair I am always trying new products (and spending like 30 minutes on the hair care isles) so here are some of my new faves.

Pssst Dry Shampoo... it's totally weird looking, but it is by far the best dry shampoo out there. I have used hair powder forever, but that sometimes gets a little cakey feeling. So I started to search for dry shampoo and I read about this one in a magazine some where.

Dry shampoo seems to be the new cool thing and there are now tons of brands out there. I have tried a good amount of them, but this one is the best, I swear! It's cheap ($6) but it leaves your hair fresh, volumized and feeling like you just showered. It is seriously my new go to. I even use it when I just finished drying my hair (read the beauty department to see why).

Not to bash another brand, but Treseme is pushing their dry shampoo like crazy on TV ads. Don't buy it. It is not that great, it works like to 75% and hen just leaves your hair feeling oily and sticky.

LOreal Elnett Hairspray

I wear hairspray everyday so this is a big one for me. I read about this hairspray again in lots of magazines recently because it just became available in the US. It's amazing. A little pricey for hairspray, but if you use it everyday like me. It's great. It holds anything. It doesn't get crunchy and it brushes right out if you need it to. LOVE.

Clip-in hair extensions.

LOVEEEEEEEE. I finally got some of these a few months ago after seeing my friend Liz's hair (fine, thin hair like mine) grow in to gorgeous full curly hair. So did some research and went out to get some. The brand I got is Euronext Remy Clip-ins. They are real human hair so you can curl, straighten, wash, etc. They are so easy to put in and so far they have been amazing. Adding volume, they curl and stay curled and they just are great! I also wore them in a wedding recently and my updo was so much better!

Oompa Loompa Land

Tonight I was getting ready for bed when I remembered I had bought a bottle of Neutrogena sunless tanning micro mist back in the pale, pale months of winter after reading in a magazine that some cool hip California girl swore by it.

Well the pale, pale months have been continuing on my skin and I am going to a pool party this weekend so I thought what the heck why not try it out (I was bored and exhausted at that moment).

I read the back, see that it says to test a spot first.
So I test a tiny spot on my ankle and then decide what the heck and GO TO TOWN. This stuff is apparently addictive it's like crack it's so easy.

Next thing I know I am spraying my whole body and then trying to highlight my abs with spray tanner because I read that is what Kim Kardashian does.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!!! I do not have real abs much less fake ones.

Tomorrow may be a fearful day with random lines of tan because I know that was not even. And who knows what my stomach may look like.

I'm pretty sure my whole bathroom is going to have a tan too because that stuff goes everywhere. I don't know where they expect you to do this in your home.

Stay tuned....

Tomorrow I will either look like this:

(minus the white eyebrows. Don't worry there was no eyebrow bleaching this evening)

Or this:

But with hope maybe a nice little bit of color will magically transform me in to this:

I'm going with doubtful... but here's to dreaming! Goodnight!

Beautiful Things

It's finally summer in Boulder.

Flowers quite similar to these are everywhere.

Even growing next to our back door where we keep the trash cans are these beauties...

This also means....

Lots of bike rides to come. And hopefully not just to and from happy hour which is what I had been using my bike for so far.

This past weekend I did a local ride with my friend Lauren in Denver.
It was gorgeous. 25 miles along the river on a beautiful sunny day.

Golden Rule

The other day while driving home from a very long day at work. I passed 2 little girls on the side of the road with big signs saying "LEMONADE".

I instantly smiled. I love lemonade stands. LOVE. And I love little kids who sell lemonade like it is the greatest thing anyone could ever buy.

New rule in life: Always stop at a lemonade stand.

How badly do you want some lemonade now? I am dying for some right about now... ahhh summertime!