Roxy Tries

I'll admit, I found eyeshadow to be intimidating ever since I've started playing around with makeup. It wasn't until Jaclyn Hill announced her eyeshadow palette collab with Morphe last spring, did I get excited about eyeshadow again. I bought the palette, along with her Morphe favorites brush set and I was determined to learn how to do good eye looks. I watch countless tutorials, read articles and even practiced with friends. I did get more comfortable with my blending ability, but my eye makeup never looked like the makeup gurus I see all over social media. It wasn't until I starting taking eye look photos of my own, did I realize the problem. I have hooded eyes, with tons of landscape above my brow bone. Whenever I wore eyeshadow, it'd look nice, but you could barely see it with my eyes open. Whenever I felt adventurous and added color above my brow bone, I looked like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show. My eyeshadow was either very subtle or very bold, w...

My whole little family has a milk sensitivity, however, that doesn't stop us from indulging in ice cream and cheese from time to time! I try to avoid dairy-based products in our food, but we are a foodie family so sacrificing flavor is never an option. You'll swear there's buttermilk in these pancakes! I use the Easy Basic Pancake Recipe by Martha Stewart as my base. This is hands-down the best pancakes I've ever had. I've used this recipe since all I had to feed was myself. I love how this recipe serves 4 people (about 8 pancakes). A lot of pancake recipes make a huge batch. I modified these pancakes to make them dairy free and full of flavor from the bananas and chocolate chips. Okay, let's get started! Ingredients needed: 1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled) 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup of unsweetened soy or almond milk Juice of 1/2 a lemon 1 large egg 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted...

Having shared my breastfeeding experience with you earlier this week, I wanted to share some things that helped make exclusively pumping a successful one for me, while it's still fresh on the brain. I do want to start off by saying, I won't be diving into breastmilk food safety, for the sake of this post, because I could probably write a whole blog post on that subject. Breastmilk is a perishable food item and food safety is so important. I'm assuming your doctor has provided you with some literature on how to store breastmilk properly, and if they haven't you can easily find that information on the internet. If you plan on pumping in any capacity, do your research girlfriend! Okay? Okay cool, moving on! During my early stages of EPing, I joined different breastfeeding support groups for advice. As my journey continued, I found myself in a good place with pumping and was able to help quite a few different women out. I noticed a lot of the questions were the sam...