FRÉ skincare

Lovelies,

I am sharing with you a skincare I recently started using and ABSOLUTELY love! FRÉ is a skincare designed for women with active lifestyle and or who sweat pretty often. I hike pretty frequently throughout the week and clogging my pores is something I definitely want to try to avoid. FRÉ is great for before and after my workouts and just daily use. The face wash leaves my face feeling silky smooth and the I had their serum and motizerizer as well after and it’s just glowing. In high school I had really bad acne and my skin is sensitive to many skincare products and you can just forget me trying anything in a drug store! I tried FRÉ for a few weeks and loved the results so I didn’t want to keep my skin care solution a secret so i’m sharing with you lovelies! Since I loved the skincare so much FRÉ offered to team up with me on spreading the word of this amazing product by letting me share a discount of 25% with you lovelies! Just use code SHAUNTE25 at checkout and you can save some money and be on the path to beautiful skin.

Another great thing about FRÉis for every skincare set you purchase they plant a Argan tree! Which is known as the tree of life!

“Planting Argan trees has a multi-layered impact by creating sustainable development, protecting the environment and empowering women who harvest Argan oil in Morocco.” -FRÉ

I hope you lovelies check out free and lets just live more beautifully in our skin and take care of our overall health. I would love to hear your experience with FRÉ so feel free to leave comments and messages, Feedback is always welcomed!

xoxo

Shaunté

What's in my bag?!

Lovelies,

Do you ever feel like you are always on the go? I know I do and sometimes life can just feel so hectic! I decided I wanted to share with you my favorite go-to items I try have with me on a daily bases. I am constantly in my car traveling through California and sometimes eating can even become a time restraint.  I love Cliff and GFB  bar's for when I have those days I can’t stop and enjoy a whole meal. They give me just the right amount of protein, fiber and carbs to help me keep going without feeling fatigue. My two absolute favorite flavors are Cliff bars peanut butter banana and The GFB coconut cashew crunch.  Not only can eating be something we sometimes forget to do or feel like we don’t have time for, but hydrating ourselves sometimes gets neglected. I love water and I would like to think I drink a good amount of it a day, but sometimes when I am constantly moving I feel like I need more than usual. Coconut water is a great way to hydrate on top of drinking water. There are so many coconut waters out there and finding the right one sometimes can seem difficult or confusing as to why they range so much from cans to bottles to pulp to no pulp… My favorite coconut water is Harmless Harvest for the exact reason of what it states in their name “Harmless” it’s one of the most purest coconut water's out there! They use organic Thai coconuts and don’t add any preservatives or pasteurize it. It’s also a pinkish purple color from the natural antioxidants inside it which make it a pretty and a refreshing drink. They have small bottles as well as medium and carton size. The small is a perfect addition for my busy lifestyle and something I can throw in my bag for the road. Since this coconut water is so pure it must be refrigerated and has a expiration date of three months per packaging date. It’s more refreshing cold anyway and I feel it hydrating me that must faster when it’s chilled.  

Another drink I wanted to share with you is TheBu Kombucha’s Lemon Ginseng. It’s my mid day pick me up and one of the most naturalist kombuchas you can buy at the store they use all organic teas and no added fruit juice which is super rare for most kombuchas. The Ginseng gives me natural energy without a crash. I love coffee, but I do feel the crash if I don’t stick with coffee throughout my busy days. That's where my Kombucha comes in and also makes me feel better throughout the rest of the day and my gut always thanks me after a bottle.  

Another great snack I try to always have with me is Justin's peanut butter pouches and Barney butter chocolate almond butter. They give me a great source of protein in a small slick pouch that is convenient to add to my favorite fruit, toast or just to eat out of the pouch. Besides food I also wanted to share with you some items I always have with me in my purse. Between all the things that make my day busy having a charged phone battery can sometimes be a issue when I am constantly using Waze to get around and streaming music all day. Having a portable charger is a definite must for me! No need to spend the extra cash on one to do the exact same thing a $5 one from Target. Mine has a super cute flower design and silck body make it fit easily in my purse, You can find them in there dollar and good deal section towards the front of the store. Or what I call it my guilty pleasure of Target and the one area I can’t resist every visit!

No matter what the weather is or season my lips are in need of a moisturizer.  I love Eos and I am excited that they changed the shape of their lip balm to be a slimmer design that fits easier in my purse or pants.   I have been using Eos for years and it’s always made my lips feel and look their very best. I started using their lotion and I find that it moisturizes and nourishes my hands just as great as their lip balm. It also is in a super slim and slick bottle that is easy to carry and have accessible. 

So throughout my day I am talking with many different people and having fresh breath is a  necessity. I like using Myco Sheild peppermint spray. It combines five powerful polypore mushroom species: Agarikon, Red Reishi, Chaga, Birch Polypore and Turkey Tail.  These ingredients work to support a natural immunity.  I use it 2-3 times a day and sometimes more during flu season to be extra cautious. 

I hope iv'e encouraged you to check out some of the products iv'e mentioned above.  No matter how busy life can get taking care of yourself should always be your biggest priority. When you take time to take care of yourself life doesn't seem so hectic or crazy. It's about a good balance overall and I hope no matter what life brings, you enjoy it.

I hope you have a lovely week!

xoxo Shaunté

Introduction

I can’t believe this year is so close to being over, what a year it has been.  I had a lot of changes happen within this past year. Last year was a difficult chapter from losing my uncle to ALS and getting out of a long term relationship. I decided to make the move to beautiful Los Angeles December 23, 2016. As this time approaches closer a lot of reflecting of this past year has been going on in my head. I can’t say changing my life has been easy, but nothing in life worth changing ever is. Sometimes while things are happening it’s easy to be negative and wonder why they are happening to you, but if you just wait patiently enough God will unveil his reasoning for these changes. I can honestly say that I am a different person than I was a year ago. I have changed so much over the past year and really found what is important in life and what matters most to me. I wasn’t very happy this time last year; I was watching my uncle who was like a father to me struggle to live and do everyday tasks. 

It was a big wake up call as far as being grateful for my health and the life I have. I promised myself last year that I would really try to take care of myself and live a healthier life and just enjoy life and not take anything for granted. My uncle was healthy and full of life and he didn’t deserve to get ALS, no one does, it is a horrible, horrible disease. I am, however, so grateful that I got to spend the most time with my uncle in a while the last couple of months he was alive. He taught me to be kind to people and to love and just enjoy life and not worry about the little things.  I have always admired him and he has been such an influence on my life and my career.  September has always been a happy month for me since it’s my birthday month, however God wanted my uncle to come home so he took him to Heaven September 2nd 2016.  Last September wasn’t the same and this year I wanted to make the most of this month and the rest of the year to follow.  

 I decided to add to my blog a lifestyle section to share with you guys the changes I have made in my life and why. I want to be able to connect with you and help you to understand me a little better and why I am who I am.  As we grow older life changes and people change and they come and go, but how we react to these changes can make us a better person and a happier one.  I try to stay positive in everyday situations and when things are just going bad it can be hard to stay smiling.  Life is too short ultimately and we only have one life to live, so why not make it the best life you could have?

 I know I said I got out of a long term relationship well that was my longest relationship I ever had. We dated for 6 years that wasn’t easy and one of the hardest bumps in life I had to go through. I was on and off with my ex-boyfriend in that time span and he was in fact my only real relationship I’ve ever had with a guy. We started dating when I was only 19 such a baby… Well as time goes on like I said before people change and the things we want in life change. I had a lot of great times in my relationship and I am happy that he was a part of my life and I learned a lot about myself during that time. I also lost parts of myself in that time and didn’t even realize it until now. When you are with someone for periods of time you start to adapt to what they like and their ways of life. I was changing things about myself without knowing it. I wanted to make things work with someone who ideally didn’t want the same things as me. 

Love can blind us sometimes and we don’t see as clearly it’s something we would rather fight for than lose. I had a good fight, but the battle wasn’t something I needed to win. It was something I needed to surrender to and had to find the strength to give up on. You see sometimes things aren’t what they seem at that time I realized that my relationship wasn’t something I could just fix, instead I needed to just walk away. 

 I made the decision to move to California to start fresh and focus on what I thought mattered to me. My family, my career, and my happiness. I never would have thought a year ago that I would be sitting in my room writing this and living in California. I had dreams and aspirations living in Las Vegas that I no longer have living here in California.  You see my dreams changed because my life did. I wanted to get married and start a family and buy a house and just live the American dream and be a cute little house wife. That sounds great still, but it’s not my focus anymore at this time in my life.  If you would have asked me a year ago where I saw myself in 5 years that would have been my answer. 

Now where do I see myself in 5 years? Well I hope I live to see 5 years first of all life is so unexpected and you can’t plan life and that is something I have always tried to do and learned you can’t.  I wrote this post in September and had to re-write it because my goals started to become my reality and changes kept happening.  I wanted to get my own place and I finally did in the heart of Los Angeles. I never thought I would be making these changes so fast, but then again I can’t predict how my life will pan out.  I still have dreams of my career in photography and my blog becoming my full time career.  

I plan to be the healthiest version of myself and just live with fulfillment and joy, rather than questioning my life or the mistakes I may make along that 5 year journey. For these are all just lessons to grow and learn from.  I hope that you lovelies are along for this ride with me and this new chapter on my blog helps you understand me a little better. I don’t want to sugar coat life because “Even salt looks like sugar” so I plan to keep it real with you lovelies and I am excited to see where this life takes me! Thank you for taking the time to read the newest section on my blog! Until next time have a wonderful day!

Xoxo Shaunté