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First purchase together

I won't embarrass myself and show you the before couches, but we were in desperate need of a furniture facelift.  My condo was on the 29th floor, amazing view and very modern. I did not focus on furniture and decorating the condo because I knew it would be too hard to leave if it was perfect, it was too small to be anything but a bachelorette pad. 

It's been about 12 years since I last couch shopped and when I did it last time it was all alone.  As a married couple we went to By Design, my favorite store in my budget, and picked our top 3.  The next day I went shopping and found a more expensive better couch. 

My accountant husband immediately fell inlove with the top pick from the first store and gave me orders to go buy the original less expensive couch. Sometimes you need to show them how good of a deal you have. 😉 I'm so glad we went with the brown leather. It's the leather version of the couch we had.  

Doing these things as a couple makes me feel like a grown up.  I love consulting with my husband. I love that he pays even more!  He has made sure to make me happy in every way.  I swear marriage is a hard decision but when you find the guy it's the best thing ever. 

Catching up to present day

January 5, 2012 start talking to a really nice guy on match.com.  I'm headed out of town for a ski trip so I don't meet him until 

January 25, 2012 meet him for a drink 

January 26, 2012 first date at Dante's down the hatch 

February 3, 2012 go to my psychic and she tells me I've met my soulmate and I meet his parents.  It goes really well. 

February 14, 2012 he buys me a very nice pair of Alexander Wang shoes and hangs with my sisters. 

February 25, 2012 we are officially together 

December 26, 2012 we go to the Bahamas and discuss the future 

April 20, 2013 he proposes 

August 15, 2013 I move in 

October 1, 2013 we got married in Las Vegas in front of 44 of our closest friends and family.

My Skin

The number one question that my clients ask me is what am I doing to have perfect skin.  So I am going to change the course of this blog and I am going to ask all the beautiful people I know know how they take care of there skin.

Khalua Croft
Esthetician
Twenty Something
Dry and sensitive skin
My biggest issue is dryness and hyper-pigmentation
My fave products:  Laura Mercier Lip silk, Privai antioxidant repair and Clarisonic brush
Winter Regime: Am: Aveda Sensitive cleanser with clarisonic brush, Privai antioxidant repair, Sensitive moisturizer and Epicurean spf.
Pm: Creme Cleanser, Clarisonic brush, Hydrating Mask 2x a week, Privai antioxidant repair, Hydrating lotion Aveda green science eye creme. For my body I use 29 vineyard creme with some grape seed oil while wet.
Skin Secret: My skin care secret is if you have really chapped lips put honey on them, let it dry and they will heal in about a day.  You can even put lipstick over it no problem.

The Lipstick

Tom Ford is a design god –but what could be in his $45 lipstick that makes it worthy of such a hefty price tag, other than his name?  Are you unable to find a lipcolor that lasts more than five minutes? Tom Ford is to the rescue, as his new Private Blend Lip Color ($45) remedies this problem. The Tom Ford lipstick comes in 12 classic shades and is made with rare ingredients like soja seed extract, Brazilian murumuru butter and chamomilla flower oil. Yes, $45 for a tube of lipstick is expensive, but this isn’t the same as your drugstore options. The lipstick is extremely creamy–no more dry and cracked lips–and the formulation helps the color stay put–no more excessive reapplying. I started out with buyers remorse or amazement.  Now I am just glad I am part of the haves and not the have nots. 

Dry Skin Infusion

This is my secret weapon to dry skin.  

Skin can become out of balance causing blemishes, sensitivities and dehydration, Aveda Balancing Infusion for Dry Skin can help it return back to harmony.

The highly concentrated blend of pure flower and plant essences in Aveda Balancing Infusion for Dry Skin, helps re-hydrate skin and normalise the production of natural lubricants. Contains patchouli and ylang ylang oils to help soothe, jasmine to help energise and plant ceramides to help moisturise.

Directions of use:

• Once or twice a day add one drop to a single application to your moisturiser, cleanser or exfoliator.

Korean Hip Bath

I have to blog about this new ritual I have discovered.  Its called a Hip Bath.  I got it at JeJu Spa just north of atlanta. Its a cleanses the vagina by sitting over a boiling pot of herbs for 45 mins.  It is suppose to tighten and get rid of toxins as well a list of other things.  She had me at tighten and I tuned her out.  $30 and you wear a cape to hold in the heat and you just bake!!  I don't know how much it worked to tighten but I loved to sweat and the herbs have to be good for my skin if nothing else.  I want to go get it weekly.  I wish I took some pictures to show.  Next time I will def take a pic of me sitting on the pot. Think the child potty with a boiling pot.  Its a sight to see that's for sure.  The things that we do for beauty.... just add this to the very long list.

I am forever changed....

Life with parole (Death sentence sought)
Nathan Perry Sliger, 19
Chady Abou Zeidan, 18
Sliger and Zeidan bought marijuana from dealer Daniel West in 2001. Later in the day they returned to rob him. They beat him in the head with a hammer and stole several hundred dollars. Plea bargains.


April 9 2001 this happened to my friend Danny and I feel like he is forgotten.... I think about him everyday.  I had such high hopes for his life.  I wanted to believe that I could help him get on the right path.  I'll never know how his story should have ended.   I now love people for who they are and understand that it is a process to become what you are suppose to be. Danny was a drug dealer and a drug user so what.... he was my friend and I loved him and I miss him everyday.  

Id love to meet some that feels this way about me...

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO MY HEAD

WHEN YOU PULL ME UPSTAIRS

AND YOU PUSH ME TO BED

Oh I LOVE WHAT YOU DO TO MY HEAD

IT’S A MESS UP THERE

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO MY HEART

WHEN YOU PUSH ME BACK DOWN

AND THEN PULL ME APART

OH I LOVE WHAT YOU DO TO MY HEART

IT’S THE BEST Oh YEAH!

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO MY LIPS

WHEN YOU SUCK ME INSIDE

AND YOU BLOW ME A KISS

Oh I LOVE WHAT YOU DO TO MY LIPS

IT’S SO SWEET IN THERE

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO MY HIPS

WHEN YOU BLOW ME OUTSIDE

AND THEN SUCK ME LIKE THIS

Oh I LOVE WHAT YOU DO TO MY HIPS

IT’S THE BEAT Oh YEAH!

YOURE THE ONLY ONE I CRY FOR

THE ONLY ONE I TRY TO PLEASE

YOURE THE ONLY ONE I SIGH FOR

THE ONLY ONE I DIE TO SQUEEZE

AND IT GETS BETTER EVERY DAY I PLAY

WITH YOU

IT’S SUCH A SCREAM

YEAH IT GETS META EVERY DAY I SAY

WITH YOU

IT’S SO EXTREME

YEAH IT GETS WETTER EVERY DAY I STAY

WITH YOU IT’S LIKE A DREAM

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO MY SKIN

WHEN YOU SLIP ME ON

AND SLIDE ME IN

Oh I LOVE WHAT YOU DO TO MY SKIN

IT’S A BLUSH ON THERE

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO MY BONES

WHEN YOU SLIDE ME OFF

AND SLIP ME HOME

Oh I LOVE WHAT YOU DO TO MY BONES

IT’S THE CRUSH Oh YEAH!

YOURE THE ONLY ONE I CRY FOR

THE ONLY ONE I TRY TO PLEASE

YOURE THE ONLY ONE I SIGH FOR

THE ONLY ONE I DIE TO SQUEEZE

AND IT GETS HAZIER EVERY WAY I SWAY

WITH YOU

IT’S SUCH A SCREAM

YEAH IT GETS MAZIER EVERY PLAY I SAY

WITH YOU

IT’S SO EXTREME

YEAH IT GETS CRAZIER EVERY DAY I STAY

WITH YOU IT’S LIKE A DREAM

Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE Oh I LOVE

WHAT YOU DO TO ME

The Cure: The Only One

The Best Eye Creme Ever

Cosmedix Eye Believe

A potent combination of protective, reparative and collagen and elastin-stimulating properties make Eye Believe the ultimate eye serum.  As liquid crystals replenish damaged, thinning skin around the eyes, alpha lipoic acid and growth factors work to reduce the look of fine lines.

Ingredient List

Cholesteryl Stearate/Carbonate Complex, Zea Mays (Corn) Silk Extract, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Copper Gluconate, Cococin (Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice), Spin Trap (Phenyl Butyl Nitrone), Beta Vulgaris (Beet) Root Extract, Indigofera Tinctoria Extract (Indigofera Tinctoria Extractfera Tinctoria)

Spin trap is described as an intelligent antioxidant.  

It amazingly transforms skin damaging free radical activity into productive regenerative activity by trapping and detoxifying free radicals.