NYC Summer Survival Guide

NYC Summer Survival Style

The summers in NYC are miserable!!  Over the last 2 years I have found things  that make it bearable without having to look like a melted mess.

#1- Learn some updo's.  If you have long/thick hair like mine accept the fact that your hairdryer is not going to help you at all, so put it away till fall and the fact that you wont be wearing it in long bouncy curls either, it will be up.  Embrace your natural curl or waves and find anti humidity/anti frizz products to keep your up do looking fresh.

#2- Good light Facial Sunscreen- 

Good sunscreen, but light so it wont cause makeup to run off!

#3- Mineral/powder based make up

Honestly do you really think liquid foundation is going to stay on for more than a second in 90% humidity?  NOPE, not a chance!  When you can get away with it, skip foundation all together.  Stick to neutral colors as well.  Nothing looks worse if you can see it running down your face.  These are my Favorites, 

Nars Orgasm, best Blush EVER!

 Bare Minerals Foundation, added Sunscreen and sheer weightless, fresh look.

My favorite eye shadow pallet.  In The Light by Stila

Maybelline Mascara, waterproof

Happy Summer!!

Checking off the Bucket List- Brooklyn Bridge

This was such an awesome day!  We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and explored the Brooklyn waterfront for a while.  The Bridge was so much more that just a foot bridge.  What I found most interesting was to look at the writing on the bridge.  I found little messages and the usual so and so was here graffiti, but for some reason I found it more meaningful on this bridge. If you think about New York and the Brooklyn Bridge as destination places, it is usually somewhere on the bucket list of most people, and its usually a one time adventure.  People have written their favorite quotes, and messages to loved ones that have passed on.  I see it as someone wanting to leave a little bit of themselves somewhere meaningful to them.  These were two of my favorites:

I also came across hundreds of pad locks attached to parts of the bridge and along the Brooklyn Waterfront.  The tradition with these "love locks" is to go to a bridge with your love and lock your souls together symbolically by putting the lock on a part of the bridge.  It supposedly started in China, but it VERY popular in Europe.  I found these two on the Brooklyn Waterfront:

Loved this day, can wait to check off something else.