Summer Trends: Beach Waves

It's no surprise that beach waves are back again for the summer. Hair tends to become more frizzy, dry and damaged during warmer weather. This is mostly due to high humanity and long exposer to the sun, which is why hot-tools like curling wands and straighteners should be used to a bare minimum. Hair mists are a great way to create an easy, put together hairstyle without the damage. 

Sachajuan Ocean Mist $28.00- Sachajuan has quickly gotten onto the radar of every beauty outlet. This Ocean Mist is their most popular product and for good reason. This helps anyone get a flawless tousled, beachy texture. 

Sevi Vegan Blue Yarrow Texture Spray $4.00 to $14.00- Not only is this a great budget buy but it also has a beautiful fragrance. You get light body and curls without the stiffness a lot of beach sprays cause. 

LUSH Sea Spray $12.95- Out of the three, this is probably my favorite. It's reasonably priced, has the best citrus scent and is a great product that does what it promises-gives texture, volume and shine. In fact, I like to use this for a beachy look, after I curl my hair to hold the style and on braids and buns for a fuller look. 

*Trends are a great way to experiment and get out of your comfort zone. Ultimately, trends should be taken with a grain of salt and are great to keep in mind if you ever get bored. But if you're confident with your style, you do you boo.

Sunscreen: The single most important thing you could ever need for the summer. A personal cautionary horror story (that's a bit funny.)

With the rising temperatures and spring quickly blurring into summer, it’s safe to assume no ones staying home all day avoiding the sun. Instead, you’re making plans with friends, going to the beach, and making up for the horrid winter. However, though the sun and warmth is a nice change, it’s also important to change around some of your skincare routine for your face and body. Different cleansers, lighter moisturizers, lighter body lotions and more importantly incorporating sunscreen. 

I was never that great about using sunscreen when I was younger, this was very foolish and obviously led to a vast amount of very unfortunate situations. One in particular, which I will be sharing as a horror story and an explanation on how I quickly became the biggest advocate for sunscreen.

June Vegan Cuts Beauty Box

Though I enjoy every day in every month, the arrival of my beauty boxes are very much a highly anticipated moment of each month. A few days ago I received my June box from Vegan Cuts Beauty Box. If you aren’t familiar with Vegan Cuts they offer both snack and beauty boxes. For $19.99 a month, a beauty box contains 4-7 vegan, palm-oil free and cruelty-free products ranging from sample to full sized items. 

Lets take a look at my June box!

Blogging Hiatus: Grab a coffee and lets catch up.

Sadly, it's a bit obvious that it's been months since I've last blogged. I had been really focused on progressing in school and work this past semester. It was all a lot more difficult and time consuming then I had originally thought, go figure.

Anyways, I am really excited to get back into blogging. This break has given me the opportunity to think about why I started this blog and if I truely want to continue. I obviously have a love for everything beauty, though my friends would say I’m more obsessed then anything. From the start of my exposer to beauty, I knew I liked it in more ways then just want it could do to my face. As I delved into the industry, I was in awe with all the smoke and mirrors. Honestly, haven’t we all fallen into that trap? As I kept investigating there were things that became clear to me, both on a logical business sense and ethically. I just didn’t like what was behind all the things I originally fell in love with. Being someone who not only had such a strong interest in beauty but also a love for politics and research I began focusing on researching different cruelty-free brands and products. When I decided on switching to strictly cruelty-free brands, I felt like I was doing this confusing transition alone. I wondered if others felt like that too and I wanted to spread my thoughts, ideas, reviews somewhere where others could read it. It all led me to start this blog as an outlet and journal to track my shift into cruelty-free beauty. 

I’m really looking forward to continue sharing and seeing where this takes me. I also started an instagram account for the blog where I’ll be posting beauty and lifestyle photos, @theurbanbeautyjunkie. I’m really glad to have the opportunity to continue this and I really wanted to thank you for reading this.