Pick up the phone.

Sometimes I get very "down" in how I'm feeling. Mostly I have that feeling because I'm either torn up about how I'm feeling or I'm sad about an event in my life. My biggest tip for when your feeling"down" is to talk to a friend. I don't care if they live 5 minutes away or 5000 miles. Talk to them.

However, I would pick the right friend. I wouldn't pick that friend that doesn't make you feel great after talking to them.

 Personally, I love all my friends for different reasons and wouldn't have it any other way. I have a friend for when I need to talk about make up or TV shows. I have a friend for when I like to talk about deeper subjects. I have a friend for when I need to talk about my day and need insight to how I'm feeling. However, when sometimes goes on in my life I feel the need to ask my friends their opinions. I trust my friends enough to know that they want whats best for me. They know why I'm upset and my problems with the "problem". I love hearing their insight because I can come to terms with how I feel. When I'm not feeling "right" about a situation, I will talk about it for hours on end, just trying to come up with how I feel! It's the best way for me. Probably because I love debating and arguing with people about subjects so much...

Having someone I can call once or twice a week makes everything better about my day/week. I get to hear about their lives that I may be far away from. Or get to make plans that I'm over the moon about doing. I've had some of the best conversations over the phone at 3AM in the morning. However, now that we are getting "older" and more busy with life, we have less time for those late night chats. But, the 2PM I'm about to leave for work chats are just as great. Always make time to relates to the ones you love.

Anyways, never forget your true friends are just a phone call away and just talking to them for 20 minutes with make your day feel more "right", it always works for me.

Open your flaws

The first step to being happy is being open. 

Be open to your flaws because they are apart of you.

I'm dorky, I love laying on my bed for too long, I talk without thinking and it gets me into trouble, A LOT. I don't eat properly most of the time and I hate running. I've VERY bad at spelling and I repeat myself over and over. Oh, and I talk WAY too much. I own all these facts about myself. 

"Owning" these facts about myself doesn't mean I'm not going to eat healthy. It doesn't mean I'm never going to go for long walks instead of a run. It for-sure doesn't mean I don't give good advice. I also know how to use spell-check. These are also apart of me. 

A song randomly came on while writing this blog and it made writing this that much better. 

"Human"by Christina Perri 

The lyrics fix so well with that I'm trying to say right now! Kind of creepy how music can do that, huh?

 "I can hold my breath,

I can bite my tongue, I can stay awake for days,

If that's what you want,

Be your number one" 

^ This is how I've been feeling lately. I did even notice until I looked at these lyrics. I always feel like I say the wrong statement. Or that I didn't say enough. I didn't act the "right" way in the situation or I didn't choice the "right" option. I've been trying to change myself for dumb reason like wanting to be "cool" or "spontaneous". I've been going against what my "inner-self" thinks and acts.  

"Your words in my head, knives in my heart,You build me up and then I fall apart,'Cause I'm only human"

Lately I've noticed when people don't "like" me. They don't "like" how loud I talk or what I have to say. Which is fine, but why am I focusing on what they think? I shouldn't care what these people think! I'm my own person and I shouldn't have to change for them. I found out someone didn't like me recently and I felt "relived". I think thats extremely weird, but I thought hard about it and it was because I was always trying to "say the right things" around them or trying and get them to "like" me as myself, so I would change myself. (yes, I know how backwards that is) When I truly think about that person, I feel bad for them. They hardly like anyone and hide behind "acting" nice to your face. I find that very incredibly sad. This person would whine about how they didn't have any friends and then turn down invites because "they weren't cool enough" or "too cool" for them. 

I want to be the person that looks for the best in people. I also want friends that will look for the best in me. I want them to help me become the person that I can be. I don't need them "picking" at my flaws and telling me what to change, just because they don't like it. There is a difference between helping someone become a better person rather than just changing them because they do something that annoys you.
So, the first tip to being happy, be happy with yourself.
Know your own flaws and work with them Don't let people make you feel bad about those flaws, they are apart of you that makes you, you. 

Be proud of the person you are and who you hope to become/grow.

February Favorites!

Make up: 

Matte eyeshadows, I've been loving the matte eyeshadows in Naked 3, I've falling out of like with shimmer and I hope it doesn't last. 

I found some new Lush products this month and it's been fun! I've been really enjoying the "Eau Roma Water", it has been a really great change for my skin from the Clean & Clear's essentials deep cleaning astringent because I felt my skin was getting too dry and Lush uses more natural products, just nice to switch it up. 

Face masks have been my jam this month! I tried two different face masks this month and I really liked them. Both were from Lush and they made my face just feel so great! 







Music: 
I've had lots of different songs I've been loving this month, but I think they have one thing in common. They have a greattttttt "beat" to them. 

I rediscover Lindsey Stirling and found this gem, it's John Legend "new" song All of Me and I've fallen in love! I really like the lyric "What would I do without your smart mouth
Drawing me in, and you kicking me out" It reminds me of some of my favorite relationships off of movies and tv shows and I guess because of the 14th, I was in the mood to fall in love with a song like this. However, I LOVE Lindsey's part in this song, I wish they had it on itunes because I would totes buy it! 

Talk Dirty to Me by Jason Derulo is just fun. It's the kind of song that you dance around with your friends pretending that no one else is as sexy as you are. Plus, my inner trombone nerd LOVED the trumpet parts. 

Gavin Degraw made the perfect song to describe about how I'm feeling. I don't really have a person I can relate this song too, but I can relate to some of the lyrics in ways that are just plain weird. I love how freeing the statements are. "I fail algebra", "You said, “Take me home, I can’t stand this place ‘Cause there’s too many hipsters and I just can’t relate.” or "Hey West Virginia, Hey North Dakota I think I love you, but don’t even know you" I guess it just made me excited for the future of exploring new places and new people.