Help Spread the Spirit of Giving This Holiday Season!

Mary Kay Ash’s dream was to enrich the lives of women everywhere. This year, we’re celebrating 45 years of bringing that dream to life with efforts such as the Host a Class, Help a Cause® initiative featuring the Holiday Wishes* necklace. And you can help make a difference too!Right now, you can host a class or a party and choose the glamorous Holiday Wishes necklace as your FREE† gift!

With each necklace, you help the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation with its two causes: finding cures for cancers affecting women and ending the epidemic of domestic violence against women.

That’s because Mary Kay Inc. will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the Holiday Wishes necklace to the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation.

Ask me about hosting a class or a party today!

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Quantities are limited and available only while supplies last.
Offer expires Dec. 15, 2008.
†Yours free with $200 in total sales and one booking.

Online parties are also eligible for this special offer; participants must register and specify their hostess in the "comments" section located on the bottom of the first page during the short 3-step checkout process.


*The Holiday Wishes necklace is the third in a series of Mary Kay 45th anniversary hostess gifts.

Our Pics AUG - OCT 2008

Sorry the file's so large...blame technology!  Our chip holds like 500+ pics.  It adds up really fast!
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Forwarded Emails

At the risk of sounding cold or uncaring, I really do have to say something. Those who know me understand my sensitive little heart. They all know that I cannot watch an episode of Extreme Home Makeover with Ty Pennington, or see that ad with Sara McLoughlin and the mistreated animals, or Save the Children without bawling the entire way through it.

BUT I am just plain sick and tired of the forwarded emails of some (likely false) sob story where in the end they say if you don't send it to at least 20 people you will rot in you-know-where! Most of these emails have no real purpose and I would prefer not to get any of them.

Back in like '94 or so when email was relatively new to me, I fell for each and every story I received. I felt compelled to drop whatever I was doing and forward these IMPORTANT messages along where it could reach millions - only if this group sent it to that group and that group sent it to another 30....the message could multiply, essentially creating an electronic miracle! All these wonders could be accomplished just by me doing my little part!

Fourteen years later, we find ourselves in the midst of a different kind of electronic miracle. It's called SNOPES, folks. Use it!

Oh, and if you don't know the address and weren't aware that you could google it, just copy & paste this address: http://www.snopes.com

If you don't know how to copy and paste, just type it in using your fingers and keyboard.

lol :-)

Me: AFTER Mary Kay

Okay, so this is the closest pic of my face without makeup that I could find. I have other closeups, but I'm wearing makeup in most - if not all of them. This picture was taken in July 2008. My family and I had just gone to Carolina Beach in Wilmington, North Carolina. You can tell I don't have any makeup on because my face is so sweaty (eww) and most of you know that I rarely go anywhere without at least some lipgloss.


Yep, my face is totally bare and it looks awesome, doesn't it? I think it does!


I'll try to hunt for more pictures or I'll just go ahead and take more bare-faced close ups soon.

xoxo

Me: BEFORE Mary Kay!

This is my skin at it's BEST point before using Mary Kay. It normally had big, red and scaly bumps all over my cheeks. They were, at times, very painful both physically and emotionally. They itched and burned really badly. Like I said, most doctors thought it was rosacea and wanted to give me antibiotics. Another doctor wanted to try some laser procedure. I'm glad I didn't listen. I knew it was something else. I tried everything. I don't think I can even begin to list everything I've EVER tried, but I will tell you what happened right before this picture was taken.

I was up late, watching TV and feeling bad about myself. Mainly about my skin. Then that ad for ProActive came on. Okay, so I'd seen it SO many times before and thought it was probably not even worth the $19.95, but I'd tried everything else and thought, "Well, why not?".

Big mistake. It burned me. It made everything so much worse and I had huge welts going from underneath my cheekbones up to right underneath my eyes. Huge blisters; puffy welts. All I really could do was cry. Oh, and use cover up, over makeup, over cover up, over powder - just to be able to show my face at work. There were more layers than Tammy Faye Bakker. Not kidding.

I called the company and they refunded my money...but not before trying to convince me that I needed to buy more of their products. OH and I almost forgot! NOT BEFORE TRYING TO CHARGE MY CARD AGAIN AND SEND ME MORE SHIPMENTS!

So, what in the world was I going to do? I tried olive oil, neosporin, hydrocortisone cream, elecon cream, popping open vitamin e gelcaps and applying it directly to my skin...nothing was working and the burning was driving me crazy. I was walking around the house with cold compresses on my face. It felt like I stuck my face in a pot of boiling water. So, as I'm frantically searching for something else to try, I found an old tube of Mary Kay's Extra Emollient Night Cream.

As soon as I slathered it on it began to feel better. It was almost bedtime so I decided to just leave it on all night long. I didn't expect anything else; I was just glad the burning was gone.

BUT OH MY GOD...

When I woke up the next morning, IT WAS ALL GONE! All the welts and blisters, the burning and itching...all of it! There were still pock marks on my face from years of improper skin care; you can see them in these pictures. I knew it would take time, but it looked so much better!

I really don't know if I have pictures of it at it's worst point. I layered on makeup and avoided close-up shots at all cost. That's why there's a period of about two years where there are hardly any pictures of me. Any pictures I had out or on myspace were either from far away or from a long time ago. And NOW? I have a HUGE close-up of my face - taken just a couple months ago - right on my homepage of myspace. I love it!

So, anyway, this is why I believe in Mary Kay and signed up to be a consultant. I'm not in it for the money or some big Pink car or whatever. I just want to share my story and help others who may have had similar problems with their skin.

xoxo

P.S. I wouldn't be too terribly sad if I ever got a big pink car someday!