Healthy(-ish) smoothie

I really, really want a Vitamix. If I were to write my x-mas wish list early a Vitamix would be at the top. SIGH. For now I have to tinker around with my refurbished Breville mixer; no, not tinker, BEAT WITH A HAMMER. It worked beautifully for the first few months after I got it, but now it freaks out if there's ice cubes or if my frozen bananas aren't cut into teeny, tiny pieces. Okay, enough venting--just get me a Vitamx for xmas Santa and I'll be a good girl for the rest of the year. ^^

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Ingredients:

•  1/2 frozen or fresh berries; my bag of frozen has dark cherries, strawberries, blueberries, and pomegranate
• 1 banana
• 1 yogurt cup
• 1 cup of almond milk
• Scoop of powdered wheat grass

Method: Hopefully you don't have a junky mixer like I do and you don't have to cut everything down to little pieces. I always throw all the ingredients in the order I listed above. If you are using powder wheat grass or if you add any protein powders you will want to add it last or in the middle. The powder tends to not mix well if it's at the bottom (or course that's just MY janky mixer).

You should get two servings. Silly me I forgot that Dillon is allergic to bananas. But that just means there's more for me! And I usually it will keep me full for hours. And I say it is healthy-ish because it does have a lot of sugar from the yogurt I used and of course the berries. But you know I can't always stay away from sugar. And I say it's better than getting a sugar fix from candy bars.

YAY, the wheat grass didn't make it army green! (no filter pic)

Beauty box: Julep Maven

One of my many guilty pleasures is watching some of the "beauty gurus" on YouTube. And a lot of them promote monthly subscription beauty boxes. There's Birch box, Glossy box, Beauty box five, Blissmo, Beauty Army box.. list goes on and on. The only box I subscribe to is Julep Maven ($19.99/mo) which is mostly nail polish and nail care products, but I've received full size skin care products and makeup products. I've received sunblock, anti-aging lotion, skin brightener, and a blush. And my September box (American Beauty) had two nail polishes and a full size mascara. Thank god, because I was running out and I didn't want to drive all the way to Greenwood to go to Sephora.

The green color is called Hoch and the white polish is Eileen. I'm not sure how good these two colors will look on my darker skin color, but I'll give it a try. Oh, I can use these for some of the cool nail art designs I saw on Pinterest.

I think I might try either the Boho Glam or Bombshell boxes. ^__^ You can try a month free by going to this link. I have to warn you tho, while you can skip a month (maybe it's not in your budget for the month, or the box previews don't interest you) it's very easy to forget to log in on the 21st of each month to skip. That's the only thing I hate about these box programs; it makes them seem so shady! Any way, you have been warned! ^__^

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