Eeeee, we just added this little pretty and I couldn't resist taking some photos for the blog! Our Brand New "The Pink Mermaid" Grapefruit Soap! She's as purty as a mermaid, all pink and glittery and smelling like sunshine. You can find this darling little vintage mermaid inspired soap in our storenvy shop here. Plus, we've got a little special for you at the very end of this post. 

Don't you just LOVE the pretty pink and white striped vintage beach inspired wrapping?  Kind of reminds me of that New England Beach feel, doesn't it? 

I had to adorn it with a pretty pink bow. Come on. Everything looks better with a pink bow. *wink*

Zeus, my new kitten, wanted to get in the photos too! He thought the soap was super cute. Zeus approved kittens!

Didn't I tell ya it was super hot pink with glitter?! *Leans in Close* Mmm, smells sooo fruity and refreshing!

So moisturizing too! 

Zeus Bloopers!! Somebody loves the flowers!! heehee...

Now, for that special we were talking about!! 

You can get one of these beauties for free when you purchase 2 of them!! No code needed pretties. 

Now, you'll have one to use, one to show off in your boudoir and one to give to a friend or stash away for future use. 

Go get your pretties now! Shop at Margarita Bloom!!

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REVIEW ♥ My First Lush Haul ♥

Hey Kittens! OMG, this week has just blown by so fast...Zeus is quite the handful and demands so much attention which I'm happy to give him but I feel like I haven't been paying attention to my blog or to you! I've gotta find a nice balance between the two and of course as I'm saying this I'm stopping to go pay attention to Zeus. Ha!! Okay, back to work. *wink*
I've never been to a Lush. I know. I should get on that right. Well, I did...quite a few weeks ago I went to the cutest Lush store and bought some goodies for myself. It's kind of funny because a few years ago I had a customer tell me that my beauty brand Margarita Bloom was like the love child of Lush and Benefit...both of which I had never heard of before! I checked them out and boy, was I blushing like crazy because both of these companies are so well established and have gorgeous products. I was quite flattered, I can tell you. I had been meaning to check them out but one thing leads to another and you get busy and forget or you have a wish lust list about a mile long and you want EVERYTHING but can't get it all at once. Le sigh...
Anyway, I finally went a few weeks back...this was before little Zeus came into my life. I didn't have a chance to take any photos of the inside...well, just a few and they're on my phone. The Lush I went to was smaller in size...sooo cute and smelled amazing! I know I've read some reviews where peeps weren't happy with how overpowering the fragrances can be in the store but I guess because I work with fragrances all day myself for my company it just made me love it even more!! The staff was sooo nice too and helped me out to pick items and even gave me a sample for free to try. It was such a lovely experience and I'd definitely go back. 

The goodies I got, and I'm not gonna lie I went straight to the bubble bars and bath bombs because I've been drooling over them on their website, were the Brightside Bubble Bar, the Pink Bath Bomb, a sample of their Sexy Peel Lemony Soap and I got a sample of their Mask of Magnaminty Facial Mask. Let's start off with the samples I got first!!! 

They had a lot of soap to try...even Parsley Soap kittens!!...I have to admit some of the scents were a little too hippy herbally for me. I'm much more of a floral, sweet, candy, citrus girl....so that must be why I decided to try a sample of their Sexy Peel Lemon soap. It's AMAZING. Very moisturizing, smells exactly like our Lemon Pound Cake scent kittens! I'm not kidding! A warm lemony vanilla sweet scent. I love it. I would definitely get more of it. It has a slight exfoliating feel to it with the tiny bits of lemon peel in it. Super sweet buy. I might even try making my own version!! heehee...

The lovely girl who worked in Lush...  (She was SO nice! And I loved her tattoos that she had. Gotta love great customer service!) ...gave me sample of their Mask of Magnaminty mask and boy, am I love with it. It has peppermint oil in it and I swear it smells like spearmint it's so nice and mellow. It's a nice green color, has a slight exfoliation to it with ground Adzuki beans, peppermint oil, vanilla oil etc... It wasn't harsh at all and left my skin feeling very clean. Super sweet buy.

P.S Those little Pom Pom Balls next to Hello Kitty in the first photo above are my gorgeous Frilly Pops Earrings that I got especially made with clip on earrings!  You can't see it very well in these photos but they have iridescent glitter in them. They're soo cute! I still need to get a cute enough outfit for these!! lol...

The next thing I got was their Pink Bath Bomb! I couldn't not get it. I mean, look at it! PINK! and cute little flowers in it....and when I popped it in the water little itty bitty hearts floated out. SO cute.  

It didn't fizz quite long enough for me...but it was fun seeing the water turn a pretty pink. Who wouldn't want to bathe in pink water?! #beautyprincess #pink #girly It smelled like well....candy! It says it's fragranced with tonka bean, vanilla and neroli. I almost didn't want to use it...it's so pretty. 

  Now, we come to quite possibly my favorite product out of them all, the "Brightside" Bubble Bar. OMG. I LOVE THIS THING. First of all...the colors! It's so gorgeous and I love the idea of a solid bubble bar. It smells like a delicious orange but better! SO citrusy! I first broke it in half...(And it wasn't hard to break in half either. I was worried about that.) ...and used one half in a bath and the bubbles....so...many...bubbles. I was in heaven. It smelled so wonderful.

I really wanted it to last so I took the other half and broke it into three parts. I wanted to see how much I could use and still get a big tub full of bubbles. First I took one of the three parts and crumbled it under the water like the first half I did. I didn't really get as much bubbles as my first bath so I was kind of bummed. Then, I took the second piece from the three and just put it whole under running water and whoa! There were as many bubbles as my first bath so now instead of crumbling it in my bath I just put it whole under running bath water. I got about 4 uses out of this bubble bar but if I would have broken it up like the second half I would say I could easily get 6 uses!! I've got to figure out how to make these things...they're soo wonderful but until then I'll probably be getting another one of these yummy smelling bubble bars. *wink* 

So what did you think kittens? I've been wanting to get this up for weeks...I'm a bit of a perfectionist and wanted these photos to look awesome for you which means taking forever to get them edited. Ha! I can see why peeps love Lush so much.  (Even Antoinette my Unicorn wants to get a sniff of the pretties!) 

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♥ Cinderella...Cinderella! ♥

I've got fairytales, dreams coming true, & Cinderella on my mind this week...what with my last post about dreams coming true, getting a kitten!...squueeee...a real kitten finally!!! after wanting one since I was in single digits and then this week I went into a cleaning frenzy. I literally felt like Cinderella!  All I've been doing is cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning, polishing and shining. lol... I want everything to be perfect and safe for little Zeus. All I needed were a few little chirping blue birds and to tie a pretty bow around Zeus neck and it totally would have been a scene from Cinderella. 

Plus, I came across this fairytale whimsical themed tumblr blog called Angel Cake Queen and the music on it just put me even more in a fairytale mood as they were playing, "The Secret Garden" from the movie Cinderella as well as other magical sweet songs.  Soooo dreamy...Zeus agrees too! 

I LOVED that movie! Did any of you kittens see it? The costumes were so delightful from her beautiful blue ballgown designed by costume designer Sandy Powell to the stunning wedding dress. Le sigh... fairytales always get me right in the heart.  I don't think I'll ever outgrown them. I kind of always fancied myself Aurora, Sleeping Beauty since my middle name is Dawn which is another name for Aurora and of course I do love my beauty sleep. giggle... #fairytale #beautyprincess #magic #whimsy #dreams

I hope this post fills you with magical inspiration and gives your week a magical sprinking of fairy dust or as in Cinderella a magical sprinking of Fairy Godmother magic!  Don't forget to click the music link below so you can really feel fairytale inspired. (Don't worry it'll pop open in a new window.) 

♫ ♫ Lavenders Blue (Dilly Dilly) ♫ ♫ 



I truly believe this. Have courage and be kind. 
I always try to be kind to everyone I meet. 

Don't you just love that dress that Lily James is wearing?! It's Elie Saab of course!! I love everything that he designs. Sooooooo dreamy. So July is starting off with a bang! We've got lots of orders to get working on with these popular body potions this week. Our Hello Fabulous! Rose Buttercreme Hair Conditioner, Pistachio Macaron Lip Balm, Big Mermaid Hair Sugar Beet & Algae Tonic, ALL of our deodorants!!! and our Rich & Famous Lipsticks!! Oh, yeah!! July is hopping!! ‪#‎beautyprincess‬ ‪#‎busy‬ ‪#‎lovemypeeps‬ Happy Wednesday kittens! 

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♥ Dreams Coming True ♥

It's been pretty hectic these last two weeks for me. I kind of had something unexpected and amazing happen to me....something I thought would never happen happened!  A "Dream Come True" you might say. Another thing to check off my Dream Wish List. Yes, I have one of those. Doesn't everyone have a Dream Wish List?

It's basically a list of goals that I hope to achieve whether it be something I wanted to improve about my physical appearance to places I want to travel to to so many more other things! I've had a list ever since I was a little girl and frankly, I hadn't had any of my dream goals checked off until these last two years. It's been pretty great!  I just hope the momentum keeps going and I can check off more from my Dream list. hahaha....

♫ HOLYCHILD - Happy With Me ♫

I thought I'd share some of my "dream goals" with you and let you know about the latest dream come true that just happened & the reason why I've been so quiet on Facebook more so than usual and believe me I have a great reason. 

ღ ღ ღ Dream Wish List  ღ ღ ღ 

 1.) Stop biting my nails. Check. 
I've had this dream goal since I was probably 10 or so . I stopped doing that a short few years ago and I love having long nails! I'm more into nail polish and nail art now than I've ever been. I absolutely adore pastels, white, black and hey, I just realized I haven't tried red nail polish yet! Another Dream Goal to set!  

2.) Get my hair looking healthy and vibrant after a disastrous perm when I was 7. Check! 
I'm kind of a little (a lot) obsessed about my hair ever since I was seven and my mom made me get a perm that made me look like a poodle zapped by electricity. Oh, it was way worse than that. I even have photographic proof but uh huh, that photo is never seeing the light of day. The only thing I loved about my hair was the color...it was SO much lighter than it is now...kind of a whitish blonde. Boy, my hair has really darkened a lot over the years...to a goldeny dark blonde. I should probably spend more time outside to lighten it.

So now every time I go out I have to make sure my hair looks it's best. It takes a lot of effort and work but I'm pretty darn happy with my hair. My hair isn't the kind you can just roll out of bed and go oh, hey I look great. It's not naturally straight and takes me quite some time to get it that way and get all the wavy kinks out...thank goodness for my Hana Hair Straightener. I don't know where I'd be without it.  I will say there are times when my hair frizzes out so bad due to humidity and sweat...so I'm always on the hunt for a new frizz tamer/hair straightener. I don't think I'll ever stop trying out new products to tame my frizzies. Maybe I should do a hair care post about what products I use? Would you peeps like that?  

3.) Lose Weight & Be Healthy. Check! 
This had been a goal of mine since I was 12 and I became a size 5. I never felt right being that size. There's nothing wrong with being a size 5 but for me it just didn't feel right. I didn't feel comfortable in my own body and then from there I went to a size 7 and maintained that size until two years ago when I almost became a size eight...an unhealthy one at that.  I was always tired, had heartburn and acid reflux starting up, and just was plain depressed that I didn't look like how I saw myself in my head. I think it was being up on Tumblr, instagram, and Pinterest that really helped me see there were other peeps out there that felt the same way and really helped me understand how to start eating healthier and now I'm a size 2!!!...a healthy size 2 without any indigestion or acid reflux bothering me. I'm SO FREAKING HAPPY which is why you see tons of Fashion Obsessed posts up on all my social media. It's like I was set free and all these years of holding back my love for clothes has become unleashed! *wink* I've probably bought more clothes in these last two years than my whole life. Ha! 

4.) Get into my Dream Condo/House.
Unfortunately, I haven't accomplished this yet.  I really don't like my current living environment and so that's a dream goal of mine to get into a place that's perfect for me. It has to be big enough but not too big, be near a city, have white subway tile in the bathroom, white Carrera marble (I love Carrera Marble!),  wainscoting, beautiful wood floors, white crown mouldings, be light and airy with lots of sunshine. I want it to be modern & urban, yet have a certain Parisian feel to it; very chic and just.....Parisian. Ya know what I'm talking about. *wink* And the kitchen would be white with that white Carrera marble I was talking about with a big island and gorgeous stainless steel appliances. le sigh...so perfect.  I would love to be able to interior design it. If you follow me up on my Instagram you'll see me post inspiration posts like this one.  Doesn't it look dreamy?! And while I love the modern feel of that photo I'd have to add cute Kawaii elements like this Pretty Baby pillow in my bedroom! 

5.) Travel! I've got Wanderlust!
Haven't done this one yet, but I SO BADLY want to go to Paris and London as my two top picks. Well, let's add California in there too because I mean I LOOOOOOVE California. To be able to travel to Paris would be amazing and learn French! All the pastry shops, fresh baked bread, sweet little cafes, French Macarons...fields of flowers, the Louvre, Versailles! Swoon!!! And London!! the food markets, flower shops, Big Ben, The Royal Opera House, even a department store! Ha!! .....Liberty London. I've seen photos of it from fellow bloggers and would love to check it out.  And California...I mean, come on I'm a California Girl at Heart. It would be my dream to live there.

6.) Get a kitty or puppy! Check! 

This is something I've wanted it seems like forever but it never happened when I was in single digits. I was always expecting a basket under a Christmas tree with a wee kitty or puppy in it but alas it wasn't to be....until now!  I guess fate or destiny decided to intervene because this little precious bundle was delivered directly to my door! Meet the sweetest, most adorable kitty ever....Zeus!! And he's all mine!! 

Two weeks ago that little cutie pie came into my life....since then he's completely taken up my time getting to know him, bond with him, and yes, I've taken copious amounts of photos of the little cutie pie. Can you believe this little adorable but very much a troublemaker was a stray and he found his way to me? He's just two months old and was out on his own but come on, how could I resist that sweet little face? Such a cutie!!! I'm not going to lie I was a bit scared of taking care of him or if I was even able to. I've never taken care of someone else before except me and though I can be high maintenance it's much more of a responsibility to take care of this little fur ball. He's counting on me! 

After that first day together though I just knew I couldn't give him up. So it's been two (Exhausting!!!) weeks and he finally knows his name. He comes to me anytime I call him!  SO smart! We've taken him to the vet and he's pretty healthy. Just getting him started on flea prevention, deworming and regular checkups. He's a happy, healthy little boy and so photogenic. 

Zeus loves being carried around. He's a little daredevil who loves heights!  He loves chicken just like me! Ha!!  And he adores pumpkin for dessert.  He gives me morning kisses and head butts after yawning about four times of course. He loves his beauty rest just like me...giggle... I love it when he just gets up, he's in such a lovey dovey mood. 
Look at those whiskers!! 

Here he is getting some beauty rest, purring and enjoying a massage from his mommy. 
Doesn't he have just the sweetest nose and little mouth?!! Awww.....

Here he's just chilling. I LOVE his tiger stripes and look at his cute pink paws!! 

LOOK at those adorable big ears!!!

Here he is being all sweet and innocent....but this little troublemaker has sharp little claws and my clawed pants are proof of that. I'm trying to teach him not to claw playfully at me but he seems to love jumping up my leg and climbing...ouch!!!!....and playfully going after my hands to bite them...even though I never use them as toys. le sigh... I've read that he'll eventually grow out of this cause all I want to do is pet him and hold him and getting scratched is not my type of fun play time.  Anyone have any suggestions on how to get him to stop? 

I just love him to pieces! Be sure to keep up to date with this cutie pie up on my Instagram because he will be making his debut and there will be TONS of kitty spam. Heehee....

Those are just a few of my "Dream Goals" right now. If I went into any more detail I'd have a book, not a blog post on my hands here.  *big smiles*  Zeus gives you kitty hugs and nose kisses!!! And well, I'd give you kitty hugs and nose kisses too...but that might just be a little too weird. *grins*

Happy 4th of July weekend babes and dudes!! 

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