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after searching far and wide for the perfect shade of bubblegum pink lipstick, i finally found it. and then i realized it was $42 a tube. insert face palm emoji here. however, for this one time i decided to splurge because a) i had a gift card and b) i really have been looking for ...
after (barely) surviving 10 days of the stomach flu last month, we've declared 2022 the year of the playground-alternative adventure (aka: operation avoid kid-germs). thankfully, living in san diego, we're so fortunate to have a bevy of wide open spaces at our disposal. so for today's romp, we headed southbound to balboa park. we couldn't ...
after hearing its praises sung by the internet and my current style muse and saie's creative director, geri hirsch, i finally got my hands on two products from the clean beauty brand with both a cult-like following and gorgeous branding, saie. thanks to their black friday sale, i nabbed their glowy super gel and dew ...
so after having a mini meltdown about the pressure to make the holidays *perfect* for the twins this year, i pulled myself together, thought about how i did want to celebrate the upcoming season, and decided that first and foremost, i wanted to fill our home with cute neutral (and toddler safe!) holiday decorations to ...
we took the twins to their first pumpkin patch today and the photos were too perfect to not share. while they were still a bit young to partake in all the patch had to offer (hay rides, bounce houses, corn mazes, oh my!), we managed to take advantage of what was toddler appropriate. i remember ...
between quarantine and raising 13-month-old twins, we have spent more time in our home in the last year than we have in the entire three years we've lived here. all that time inside can make you go insane entertain home improvement projects you had long since put off for another day. besides eventually redoing ...
after seeing it all over instagram, i finally got my hands on some ilia beauty products. while i've used beautycounter makeup almost exclusively for a few years, i've been itching to branch out and sample other clean cosmetics. what i loved about ilia specifically was the fact that they are just as focused on protecting ...
when the twins were first born and we were surviving on two to three hour increments of sleep, the two makeup products that always brought me back to life the next day were a brow gel and something bright for my lips (and occasionally concealer depending on how dark the bags were under my eyes).now ...
considering the fact that for last year's memorial day we were just being discharged from the hospital without babies (who were making themselves cozy in the NICU), i much prefer this year's holiday to last. the babies actually slept in until 6:30am (!!!), ran errands with mommy, pit stopped for playtime at gogo and papa ...
since becoming a mother, the qualities i look for in a product have definitely changed. these days i ask myself -is it cute? but more importantly is it comfortable? (with "is it machine washable?" a close third). when it comes to items for the babies, the second query definitely takes top priority. one area where ...
shawna leeann rivera
san diego-based style blogger and twin mom to henry & delilah. curator of simple, affordable fashion. lover of my husband, family, coffee, traveling, and the bravo network.