Hi! Beauties! Today on Beth and Beauty, I want to share with you something very special to me. In the above picture is a gift I received from a very sweet lady, her name is Mary, she goes by the name Mary Mary on her YouTube channel realgoodbadexample. If you have not seen any of her beauty videos then you are missing out. Click on the link I gave you and check her channel out. First, I want to say she did not send me this gift for me to do this article for her channel. She actually sent me the gift to try to encourage me to start doing videos on my own YouTube channel or as she told me, “Go ahead and make a video will you.” I just want to say a big thank you to her because she does not know how much it has encouraged me to not only continue with my blog but to start making you tube videos. I hope to have my first one up on May 1, 2014. So enough about that. Let me share what she sent me (as pictured above):

1. H & B Health and Beauty Dead Sea Minerals Mud Mask – This is mud mask for your body. I have never tried one of these, so I am excited to give it a try. I wonder if it is going to make my body look like the model on the packaging….LOL!!
2. Two ELF eye brushes – a shadow brush and a smudge brush. My moto as a beauty junkie is that you can never have too many makeup/eye brushes. I love ELF brushes, not only are they good eye shadow brushes but they are very affordable and can now also be found in WalMart.
3. A Wet-n-Wild eyeshadow single in the color Creme Brulee. I have been trying to get my hands on this basic color but it is always sold out. I am so proud I have finally got my hands on one of these, so again thank you so much Mary Mary.
4. The well known beauty YouTube much raved about drugstore mascara, the Jordana Best Lash Supreme. This can only be found at Walgreens, K-Mart  or online. Get this, it is an amazing mascara for volume and it only cost $2.99.
5. A sample of the new SmashBox CC cream. I am actually doing research right now for a future article on BB and CC creams, so this was much needed.
6. Three Merle Norman samples: Wrinkle Lift and Firm Face Serum, Fine Line Reducer Serum and a Pink Grapefruit Body Butter.
7. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure nail polish in the color Loden Green.

I want to thank Mary again. This is one of the main reasons I started my blog was to get to know and make new friends from all over. I now have friends all over the United States, UK and Canada. I am so blessed. Thank you for stopping by Beth and Beauty today. Please feel free to leave any tips, suggestions or questions in my comment section. I read and reply to all of them. I hope you have enjoyed your visit and you have decided to stay a while by subscribing to my blog by email, BlogLovin, or Google+. We can also connect through any of my social media outlets. Just click on the corresponding social media icon. I am just a click away.

Hi! Beauties! In case you noticed, I took a little hiatus from my my blog last week. I needed some time to regroup. Thank you so much for all your kind words and thoughts. Today on Beth and Beauty I am going to share with you a little DIY project that I did for my lips. I don’t know if you have ever used Lush’s Sugar Lip Scrubs or not, I have tried the Bubblegum flavored one and I loved it, but the price of $9.95 is just a little steep to me for a natural sugar lip scrub. I was shopping at Ross’s last weekend and I saw the above pictured Sugar Time Pink sugar crystals and I immediately thought of making my own sugar lip scrub. I thought I would share my concoction with you. I am in no way saying mine is better than Lush’s but it does work for my lips and leaves my lips so moisturized. I will say though on my next batch I am going to go with regular granulated sugar because the crystals above does work but are little too big for my taste. I will be honest the pink of the sugar above is what caught my eye….LOL! I will just play around with some natural food dyes next time along with some more exciting flavors. I was in WalMart and noticed they have a Root Beer food flavoring…..can’t wait to try this one out. This recipe is going to be my base recipe. I am loving it, my lips are so smooth and moisturized. So first I will share with you the ingredients that I used (as pictured above):

1. 1 Tablespoon of Vaseline
2. 1/4 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil
3. 1/8 teaspoon of clear vanilla flavoring
4. 2 Tablespoons of the pink sugar crystals

Above you will see what I got after mixing all the above ingredients together in a small glass bowl. The little black containers are empty Lush sample containers.

As you can see by the above picture, my ingredients made more than what I thought. I had the little clear containers that I had picked up at the Dollar Tree. You can also find containers you could use on Amazon.com. For your convenience, I have an affiliate link to Amazon.com on my blogs sidebar. I will be sharing some of this batch with my friends that lives close to me. I have been using this every night since last Wednesday and my lips have never been so soft and moisturized. I added the olive oil because I knew I would be using it at night time and since olive oil is good to remove makeup, I figured it would help remove any stubborn lipsticks or lip stains that I had on my lips along with moisturizing them. I believe it really did help the lip scrub not only to exfoliate my lips but also really moisturize them.

Thank you so much for stopping by Beth and Beauty today! Please feel free to leave any tips, suggestions or questions in my comment section. I read and reply to all of them. I hope you have enjoyed your visit and you have decided to stay a while by subscribing to my blog by email, BlogLovin, or Google+. We can also connect through any of my social media outlets. Just click on the corresponding social media icon. I am just a click away.

Question of the Day: Have you tried making any DIY beauty products? If so, please share what product you made. Please feel free to leave a link to your DIY blog post, if you have a blog.