BeYouTiFul (Beautiful) Tuesday

Happy BeYouTiFul  Tuesday, Blessings!!

There are many blogs that focus on beauty as its main focus and  that's awesome!!...
I need a little bit of help myself in that department sometimes...

But isn't funny that with ALLLLLLLLL the beauty magazines, websites, blogs, entertainment shows...etc. that are made available and are consumed that women, of all ages and ethnicities,  still suffer a great deal from the lack of self esteem?

I know there are days when I can look amazing!!...not to toot my own horn AT ALL, but only because of tons of complements I may have gotten that day, and none of it  can even matter because of the pre-negative thoughts I already have stored up within me...you know those days, right??

So, BeYouTiFul Tuesdays will be dedicated to affirming our natural born beauty and our God-given attributes that make up our beauty inside and out. This will be an outlet to encourage and inspire girls and women to love who they are no matter what the media may be feeding us...

There are two stories to everything...
you have to make the decision to choose which story you're gonna believe...

...'cause whether you believe it or not...your views on what is beautiful, YES...YOUR'S...are somehow in some shape or form,
somewhat based off what society has implied that it is...

BeYouTiFul Tuesday is here to reformat our programming...and the only way to do that is to do that is to reboot OUR  system and start over...with a perhaps a brand new program.

Let's begin with the TRUTH?...you ask what is true??...

Let's start with this today:

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Be Blessed, my BeYouTiFul Blessings <3

MONday Make My Morning Blog Hop

Happy MONday, Blessings!!!


Yes...I said Blessings...You know how people have "tweeps", followers, or friends on various social networks, well I JUST decided, at the THIS very moment in time, that my followers, readers, supporters will be my "Blessings"...because it is TRULY a blessing when you gain a new new reader or follower...its shows that they like you...your views...your opinions...your silly stories...whatever it may be that you blog about...and you must admit...it feels good, doesn't it...like a little blessing.

ANYWHOO...I just found a Blog Hop that I want to pass on for those looking to meet to Bloggies (my name for Blog Buddies) and network.  Its the Make My Morning Blog Hop Hosted by three wonderful divas: Jeannette of The Adventures of J-Man and MillerBug, Lisa of Mompreneur Mogul and Jen of Life With Levi! I'd love for you to join me...come on!...what are you waiting on???

This morning's question is: WHAT MAKES YOUR MORNING?

For me an awesome morning would be waking up restful...FULLY RESTED...not drowsy nor lacking energy, meaning my butt had to be in bed by a decent hour the night before...I love...LOVE...L-O-V-E!....the idea of chillin on the couch, in the backyard, or even in the car parked with my coffee and catching up on my blog threads and Twitter timeline...AFTER all the kids have been dropped off to day care and school and baby is knocked out sleep for his morning nap...

Okay...enough about my morning...what makes yours??

Start Something Beautiful

Your life is whatever you dream for it to be...

Beauty, Business, and Future...

Beauty, Business, and Future...

all in one bag...

Who DOES that?!?

No one but 

Mary Kay Cosmetics.

Free Microdermabrasion Giveaway for Memorial Day Weekend

In honor of Memorial Day, I'm giving away 2 Microdermabrasion Sets just for showing

 Pink Hugs & Blessings some L-O-V-E...

The Microderm Lowdown:

For those that don't have a CLUE of what I'm talking about, Microdermabrasion is a very powerful exfoliation treatment that  contains aluminum oxide crystals to help remove the top layer of dead skin cells to minimize and soften the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, helps smooth uneven rough skin, decreases scarring from acne and pore size, and reduces age spots. Since it unveils a new layer of skin after each use, it makes it easier for your high tech skin care products to penetrate your skin to build  collagen to give you a more youthful appearance....Microderm spa treatments normally cost you $100-$150 each session with an average of 6 monthly series of treatments...Crazy right?!?

Mary Kay's Microdermabrasion Set allows you to control the pressure of exfoliation, in the comfort of your own bathroom, and gives you about 30 series of treatments for only $55...SHUT UP!!

So...enough of all the "skin care 101" mumbo-jumbo...

Here's how you can win your very own full-size set...

Get 1 entry for each completed task:

1. Subscribe to Pink Hugs & Blessings blog
2. Like Pink Hugs & Blessings on Facebook
3. Add me (Christine/Xtinebee) on Twitter and Pinterest (gain up to 2 entries)
4. "Find Your Way to Beautiful" by subscribing to the                                      Beaut-e-News newsletter
5. Share this Giveaway on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest (gain up to 3 entries)

**That's right...that's 8 entries right there!**

And as my gift to you:

Receive 3 EXTRA ENTRIES when you treat yourself to something on my website and take advantage of one of my special offers to say THANK YOU...

1. 30% ALL Website Orders
2. FREE GIFT w/$40 (before tax) or more on website orders
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Can you get excited for the opportunity to have up to 

11 entries for your chance to win!?!?...

Make sure you leave a comment here on this blog post telling what tasks/offers you took advantage of and feel free to tell why you're most excited about winning the 

Mary Kay Microdermabrasion Set.

The winners will be announced on 

Wednesday May 30, 2012...

May the best TWO luckiest women win.

Happy Memorial Day!!

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*
Christine Bryant
Independent Beauty Consultant
www.marykay.com/cbryant380 

Me, The Co-Creator of My Life??

So, while keeping up on my blogs that I read daily, I've been seeing this idea of "ME" being the "Co-Creator of My Life". I haven't quite understood what exactly this meant so I would pretty much breeze through that part, especially knowing that my Lord and Savior is THEE ONLY Creator of my life and yours.

Recently I've been on an emotional roller coaster as I'm undergoing "My Lessons of Life," AKA: My Circumstances, My Storms, Major Tomfoolery...LIFE!  I choose to refer to them as "My Life Lessons" because I choose to believe that God is not just allowing bad things to happen to me as I sit here questioning his motives as to why are these things occurring.  But instead, I know that God is teaching me important lessons to help live my life to the fullest, to help build me into the D.O.R.K. (Daughter Of The Righteous/Risen King) He wants me to be, to help me find and live my purpose in Life, and to better equip me with the godly characteristics that I need major work in.

So, for when my marriage is at a low, I could, and have many times, choose to feel like a complete loser and think, "Boo on my life," or I can thank God for the test (and for the testimony to come) and work my butt off on Acing It, so I don't have to struggle with this storm anymore. I look for the lessons in my circumstances, and trust and have faith in God, that He'll see me through since I know He does not give me anything that He knows I can't bear. 

So when I feel burnt out, like a loser, unloved, lonely, stressed...(ADD YOUR OWN HERE)...I choose NOT to!  I choose to change my way of thinking about the situation and choose to feel the POSITIVE feeling to the previous negative one I was just experiencing. 

I have learned this is what it means to be the Co-Creator of My Life.  I choose to feel loved, not lonely, to feel like a winner, to feel refreshed and blessed. Because I am fearfully and wonderfully made...

As Lady Gaga would say, "I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way" but only because God made ME and YOU to be nothing less...So why think and act like you are?

Choose to be the Change you wish to see.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*

Mary Kay Featured in Essence June 2011

I <3 when I see Mary Kay products in magazines...because we are just THAT good. This is the new Time Wise Liquid Foundation (in a matte and luminous formula) that includes all the anti-aging fighting benefits that our skin care line also has...double the benefits!! This is Essence and the foundations are also featured in O Magazine, as well.

Wonderfully Made

He tells me that I am "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made"...but how much of that do I truly believe?...I've been going through a lot of tomfoolery (you'll see that I use this word way too much) this past year and it's led to stress and worrying; not leaning and relying on God to see me through and it's been taking a physical, mental, and emotional toll on me...no bueno. 

But God is a GREAT God and he knows EXACTLY what he's doing in our lives...we just have to trust and believe that he knows what's best...

'Christine, even if that means going through it right now in my marriage?'

...Yes, even if it means troubling times in my marriage, Christine, God still knows this is what I need to go through right now...(whomp whomp =/ )

Through these ever-much-so trying times, I've been reading two particular blogs: The Daily Love (whoot whoot!!) and Proverbs 31 Ministries, along with a few new Twitter Accounts that I'm following now, and I've been noticing a re-occurring theme from the content of each of their postings: Self Love and Acceptance.

I began thinking, 'Do I really care for and love myself the way I thought I did?'

I've been so into my family and my husband and my mess, that I may be neglecting myself and not even knowing it...You know, we as women, invest and sacrifice all that we are and have for our families that we tend to forget ourselves...and any thought of taking care "me" would be just darn right selfish, right?!?...but I'm beginning to realize that I have to take care of me, and know and believe that its not being selfish...but its the self love and acceptance for myself that I've been lacking.

Now, through my trials, I'm learning not to be worrisome and stressed (have I mastered it, GREAT SCOTT, NO!...but I'm learning), and to rely on God, for he knows I need to learn something from these circumstances and he's building me up into the DORK (Daughter Of The Righteous King) he has created me to be (which is one of my requests I've been recently praying for anywhoo...). 

I'm also learning not focus on the problems before me and to focus on the results or the outcome...focus on the lesson to be learned...on the person that I will have grown into due to my endurance, patience, and faith during my tomfoolery...

...and that is what I am CHOOSING to do.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*