Day in my Life: bathroom reno updates, galentines candle craft night & shaving my face!

good morning y'all welcome back to a new Vlog it is Wednesday and I thought we could do a day in my life because I feel like every time I want to do just like a singular daily Vlog I always feel like I don't have enough content but I honestly haven't filmed in a while I recently posted but I feel like that Vlog was from like 2 weeks ago you guys know I'm in the middle of bathroom renovation so I'm so excited to show you guys the updates because yesterday they pretty much did like all the tile in the guest bathroom and we are waiting on a box of tile for the primary bathroom we ran out so that's actually getting here today and I'm just excited to see all the fixtures go in and our vanities because they're gorgeous I'm also very curious to see when the bathrooms will be fully done slash like halfway done like I don't even care if I have to put a shower curtain up but just like to have a shower in there would be nice so we don't have to go to Lifetime to shower anymore which it hasn't been bad honestly I'm going to go to Lifetime after this get a quick workout in and then shower it's definitely been motivation to get in the gym which is definitely what we need because um we're going to a wedding I think it's is it a month I feel like it's so much closer than that but we just like want to really feel good and look good and I was looking on rent the runway's dresses cuz I still have not gotten my dress for it and I forgot that I'm going to the rehearsal dinner so I have to get a cocktail dress too um but I was looking on rent the runways dresses and I just didn't love anything maybe it was just the dates that I picked out um but I also looked at newly and it has a ton more dresses and I've never tried newly I've done fashion pass and ren Runway but newly I always thought like six pieces cuz I think you only get six pieces a month I always thought that wasn't enough but if I just do it for the wedding I think it'll be perfect so definitely check that out a little closer to the wedding I have a head shot session and this morning it said it was going to be overcast and usually the session would start at like 8:15 if it was super Sunny like it is today but the weather app lied to me and I ended up pushing it to 9:30 because I thought it was going to be overcast so now I'm a little worried about the sun just cuz I don't really usually shoot in like super direct harsh sunlight but I mean it's still the early morning so we'll we'll make it work but I'm about to go meet my client down there before we go to the gym though we need to make some um returns at UPS so I can't forget about that this is waterloop Park there's so much nature there's also just like really nice neutral backgrounds and this is actually a concert venue I saw Tate McCrae here at like some Coca-Cola event it was so cool um but this would be cool for a head shot just like this white in the back these pillars we'll see what she needs just like that we are done with our head shot session these sessions are only 15 minutes I don't really do many sessions like family sessions or like senior sessions or anything like that but I know that business head shots will not take a full hour and I just wanted it to be super easy for my clients to get those head shot like before work or something like I said I was a little worried about the lighting cuz it's just like really really bright right now and I usually shoot like maybe like 30 minutes after the sun rises but it was honestly so good like the lighting looked amazing and she looked so cute I loved her blazer so now we're going to go to UPS before I forget and then we're going to head to the gym I forgot that there's a Life Time downtown so this makes it so much easier it just makes sense not to drive all the way South um so I'm stopping by the UPS downtown which honestly I sometimes hate doing because I just never know if there's going to be parking but I got a customer service spot so I feel like this is going to be a very good day just got back home and it's 12:30 so I'm going to make some lunch I'm going to do my favorite rice seeds of change and then some kitari and then I'm going to mix in some leftover butter chicken it's so nice outside we just sat out here to have lunch and Sophie is being dramatic you forget that Austin gets so much hotter Sophie she likes it this is looking very tempting maybe I'll just give myself like 10 minutes on here this is very much needed today cheers just curled my hair waiting for the L new to kick it in because I want to film some beauty stuff for Tik Tok but first I want to open this package I don't have like scissors around here Flamingo s over their new face razor since she reached out to me I've been waiting to shave my face with this so I feel like we have a lot to work with I honestly just shave it like around this area like sideburns and stuff I wouldn't say they grow back any thicker than usual but they do grow back like somewhat fast wo this looks very fancy it's also a nice weight like it feels very professional and they have a little refill in here this is called the dermaplane razor so basically what this is supposed to do is kind of like exfoliate your face take off the hair and just make your face a smooth canvas for your foundation like your foundation will go on perfectly after you DL your face also don't mind all my scars on my face I've been constantly picking out my face and I literally cannot stop um I actually got on a new birth control so that's super fun basically the last birth control I was on I somehow got my period twice a month like I don't even know why and how but I was like okay this needs to change I kind of like was waiting for it to regulate itself so that's why it was on it for a good amount of time but I was like okay we cannot do this anymore so I switched to another birth control and I got it on the planed Parenthood app I think I only spent like $25 to like talk to um like a doctor and then they prescribed it to me through the app and then they just sent it to my Pharmacy so if you guys are not like wanting to see someone in person I mean I definitely recommend if you're just now getting on birth control like for the first time ever see someone in person because it's like a lot to go through and just like a lot to learn about but if you just want to like switch over or get another refill I high recommend to check out Planned Parenthood like the app not sponsored but I just thought I would tell you guys cuz I just found out about this like this past year I'm going to do it in the mirror so I can actually get like a good view of my skin and like the hair on it but it already feels so much softer over here I recently saw a Tik Tok about this mascara hack and basically it's just putting on like one light layer of mascara which is very hard for me to like stop myself cuz I just like put 100 coats um but then you wait like maybe I don't know 30 seconds to a minute just so it gets a little tacky and then you go back in and do another coat and it makes it like so much longer so much more voluminous and I feel like I cannot go back to the way I was putting on mascara like this is just the standard now for reference this is layer one the mascara I've been loving recently is the L'Oreal telescopic I used to on this like I feel like I tried it because everyone talks so highly about it but now I get the hype also this is probably not like a groundbreaking mascara hack but usually I just put on coat after coat and like it just gets really clumpy and here's after the final coat oh my goodness you guys they brought up the vanity is it going in today holy crap I wasn't in love with this color it looked a lot like grayer and more cool toned online and it's literally like orange in person but hopefully in the bathroom it won't look as bad they couldn't fit it through the door because that bathroom is shaped really weird so they're literally taking off the door hinges oops but I am so excited like I literally have butter FES I don't know why it's in I uploaded all the photos and she already picked her favorites so this is great cuz I can go in and edit them my editing as a photographer is like true to color very airy bright and especially for head shot I try to do very minimal editing but it's weird because like my eyes know when something's a little bit too green and knows when it's a little bit too warm for my liking cuz I definitely air more on like the cooler side because I feel like my photography compared to a lot of people's especially like with that trendy like warm yellow filter on it mine tends to be a little bit more cold toned so I went in and edited all these photos within maybe like 10 15 minutes but now I'm just like staring at them and I'm like is this good enough I feel like that one's too green and then I'm like switching it back over to be a little bit more like pinky toned and then I'm like that's too pink and it's all subjective I know my clients wouldn't notice it as much as I do but I obviously want to edit it as best as I can I'm just sitting here looking at the before and afters and I feel like I need to be more confident in my editing cuz at the end of the day that is a reason why people hire me they look at my Instagram profile and they look at my portfolio and they're like okay I really like these photos not just my angles but it is really the editing at the end of the day so I just kind of have to remind myself that but I don't know if I'll ever not just sit here and like look at a photo for like 5 minutes I feel like able to like walk away and then come back with fresh eyes this is the first photo she chose and this is a before after and before after it does look a little bit more warm on the camera I will say these photos are so cute I cannot wait to post them just sent Michelle over her photos and I just realized that it's almost 5:00 where the heck has the dig on I really wanted to film like a sit down video a favorites video cuz I really want to start like recapping my months but I feel so paralyzed right now because there's like people in my house and I haven't really been as active as I want to be on Tik Tok and like Instagram and stuff it's just a weird feeling when people are in your house and you're like filming you know and I feel like the noisy part is kind of over because they pretty much did all the tile at least the bathroom that's connected to my office so it's not like noisy it's just I don't want to be like talking to myself maybe I just need to get over it but I had like a lot of filming planned I hate this like I have so many ideas for Tik Tok and reals and all that but it's not easy to execute it and it definitely doesn't help that there's people in my house I am so excited about these bathrooms but I literally cannot wait for this renovation to be over I feel like the showering at lifetime is not even the worst part of it it's just like people in your house I feel like I haven't been sharing all of the like Road bumps in this renovation with you guys um because I haven't filmed in like I don't know 2 weeks a week and a half but I really wanted to have lime wash walls in both the bathrooms and I found out that Sherwin Williams doesn't even sell it Home Depot sells it only online and I finally found it at Lowe's online but it took like a week actually I think it said it would take longer than it actually took but it got here a little bit earlier um but basically it takes a while to get here long story short I ended up buying way less than I needed and I thought I was over buying because I think we thought that we were going to like be able to rehydrate the paint um and like dilute because lime washing is like a couple coats but like light coats of it so if you just walked in my room and pushed the door open for some reason there's something wrong with this handle on my door so even if I like pull it shut it like easily opens um but anyways so yeah I under bought the paint so we're going to try your plan B because I think you could make your own lime wash paint with like adding cement in why my sister just called me my dad just called me I think I should answer okay everything's all good that was just like a coincidence but like that just scared me a little bit um but anyways we're just going to have to like test some paint out like some normal paint and then mix in cement and like dilute it I think that's what he was saying that he saw um online that he could do whereas it comes to worse we'll just paint it with a normal paint and then I'll just make sure to do lime wash downstairs in the powder bathroom don't know when that's going to be but I definitely want to do that like within the year since I haven't vlogged in a while I haven't gotten the chance to announce the giveaway winner for the day designer planner um I closed the giveaway and put her name in the description of that video she's already been messaged so that was fun to do a giveaway on here I think I might start doing like giveaways on my Instagram stories so that they're like 24 hours and it's like quicker to pick a giveaway winner I have a lot of PR that I want to give away so I might just do like small giveaways here and there so definitely make sure to go follow me on Instagram I really do work better under pressure it's currently 5:00 p.m. I need to leave the house by 6:00 because we're going to a galentine's day thing even though it's not February yet but I also got the Skins hoodie on I'm pretty purchased this like I don't know like a week ago a little over a week and it just came and I love it I will have it linked below if you guys are wanting to check out their Valentine's Day collection it's so cute I wanted more things but I stopped myself um but I'm currently setting up to film my favorites video because we're doing it today really hoping it doesn't take me an hour to film it honestly I'm a rambler you guys know this and I feel like it could very well take me an hour to film this so I got my road mic set up that is why like the sound might be a little bit different really haven't been filming like a ton of sit down videos anyway so I just feel like oh I'm probably like moving this around and like making it sound really bad and this is why this is a tester clip I did recently see that DJI came out with their own like little microphone receiver things they're about half the size but these are awesome too and very easy to use this is a tester without the microphones to see which one's better let's see I just looked at that video and it didn't even really seem like this was on it's been so long since I've used this I don't remember if I need to like turn a setting on on my camera I'm so confused let me look it up I got it to work literally YouTube saves my life guys I'm so happy right now I was really frustrated and I'm like I've used this before why can't I figure it out there was like a little tiny tab on my camera that I just had to pull out and it was not connected to everything else I was putting the jack thing and the headphone jack and not the mic Jack goodness we done for the favorites video but the sounds from the renovations have gotten increasingly louder so I'm so sorry about that um my camera is about to die but I need to get another battery in here and then we need to like head out ASAP I don't even know what I'm going to wear tonight but basically I'm going to like a candle making class if I haven't said that already I really should be leaving now this is Lauren we're at of her little galentine's day party and we're going to be making candles right cand with a secret message all these moms were like can I just can you just run a camp like for a week for like our neighborhood and I was like okay so I did it and then like they were like can you do it one more time I'm like just Vendo me for supplies and then it was like strangers were like can we come to your house so I ended up doing these random that sweet sweet that is so sweet and so at the end of the summer I that was it and then the next summer all these strangers started emailing me like hey when did your summer camp sign ups I I don't really I have another business I wasn't my kids can they can they move in with you so I did one more summer I did like 3 weeks I was like well maybe this is another business I'll try it out it was fun for me too it was like a passion project so did it at the end of that summer parents were like can you do birthday parties can you do after school classes and so it's like you know what if the star is a line and I get a building I'm not having kids come to my like I had a back house but I'm like we're not like Shing through the dog crap to get to my garage like we're not no so found a studio signed a one- year lease and kind of screw it up in the air like maybe this will work and so that was a year and a half ago and so I just moved from that location to this one so amazing we do kids and adults which is why y are all here so um we do like bachelorette parties private parties corporate events we did a big bracelet bar for Miller Light at ACL that was really fun kind of like DIY activations my best friend we're about to pick out our letters really I know exactly what I'm going to write no I'm not do [Music] it [Music] hi did you miss me did you miss me I gave her a bath last night are you the cutest little girl yes it's at that point of the evening where I don't really care what my hair looks like but I came home and I forgot that Ryan got me Chipotle thank God for this man because I was really needing some protein and I filmed that video literally like the second up until I had to leave okay this looks like really weird and I didn't get to eat before I went and I was literally thinking on the way home I just need like some protein or like some meat I would just like love like a big ass steak and then I remember that R got me chip oh thank goodness this is literally Reviving me I'm going to get a container though because I want to like try to meal prep the Chipotle because knowing me I will eat a lot of it in one sitting but it'll be nice to have like lunch for tomorrow you know and I'm also still trying to do the calorie deficit but this week has not been off to a great sore I'm not even going to lie on Monday we were driving home from the gym and we were like starving and then Ryan said like do you want Indian food how can I say no to Indian food like how how so I had to say yes and that was just like not a great start because what we got obviously just wasn't the best butter chicken like not very healthy you know and then obviously like you guys saw we had leftovers so I had to eat it you've been watching me for a while you guys know the trash can situation we really need to work on that room but honestly it's just not a priority right now but it is kind of embarrassing when people come over because the door has been taken off and then like our trash is just like hanging and it like looks so bad and yes I could buy a trash can but like why are trash cans so expensive like what and like I want a nice trash can but I was just thinking actually this yesterday once I get my cabinets over here I think I told you guys my idea of moving the fridge over there and putting more Cabinetry and like hiding my appliances and then also this is my idea that I just came up with is a trash can like a pull out trash can right underneath here that would be so nice um so I'm going to pitch that to Ryan I've said this before in Vlogs but her cabinets are Ikea and I know because when you open it up there's like a tag on it and it says like the um like style of them and I did find a cabinet that perfectly fits like the width but I need to measure the height because these cabinets are really high I feel like that's not normal for them to be up so high so I'm just not sure if it's going to like match all the way through anyways I feel like I'm chatting a lot tonight was such a cute event it was posted at Austin DIY studio and they do like kid birthday parties but they also do like adult craft nights I've really been wanting to get more into crafts and it was just like so nice to like not be on your phone do something fun and you get something to take home look how freaking cute this turned out it looks like a little candy heart in my candle I also made this little one and I wrote messages in both so I can't wait to light those I might actually light one tonight I honestly maybe shouldn't be eating this right now because sometimes I don't feel too great after I me cholle I do need to take a loct tap pill maybe that's my issue but um I am doing a workout class at like 700 a.m. so I need to like be there at like 6:45 a.m. to claim my treadmill um I'm doing ultrafit at lifetime again I did it I think a couple weeks ago maybe like two weeks ago and I actually really liked it there's two versions of the treadmill lifetime but the more intimidating one is actually so much easier to run on than like your standard treadmill so I feel really cool because I can actually run for like more than like 4 minutes or like even 3 minutes I feel like I can't really last that long on a normal treadmill just because I have really bad chin splints and my knees are kind of bad I mean even this whole time I've been just like walking and like just working out in general my knees like I need to crack my knees almost every 3 hours like that can't be normal something is definitely wrong with my knees got lunches for the next 2 days does Chipotle even like last for 2 days I mean probably not with this guacamole I definitely think it's going to turn so brown but that's okay as long as it tastes good I'm fine with that I was so close to ending this Vlog without giving you guys an update on the bathrooms that would have been so mean to me there's been a lot done to the guest bathrooms so I'm excited to show you guys tile is in everywhere like it literally looks almost done to me I cannot wait to see all the fixtures in here obviously the vanity supposed to go over there not really sure why it's over there but it will go over here soon here's a better closeup on the tile that we did this vanity top is what I dream about I love this kind of marble it's so pretty to me here is the primary bathroom oh I guess you guys can't see it we were waiting on some more tile for this and they actually got it today so I thought they would be done with the tile floor today and I guess you can't see this tile I can't remember the last time I updated you guys I asked my contractor how hard it would be to take this trim off the niches because I just feel like this gold kind of cheapens up this nice tile and he said it would be really hard he basically said that like you would have to buy more tile and we would have to like take the tile out and like pretty much break it to get this out and I was like okay well I don't really want to do that so I honestly felt really stupid for asking and it took a lot of balls for me to even say anything about it but worse comes to worse I think you can paint this and I kind of want to wait to see what it looks like with all the fixtures in as you can see it's gold on here and here so there's double niches on here and just one small one over there but you see it just kind of cheapens it like a white or a gray I feel like would look a little bit better anyways I'm going to wait to see what it looks like when all the fixtures are in because they're all gold so hopefully it looks a little bit better but if anything we'll try to paint it I'm so curious how far they're going to get this week they don't usually come in on Sundays but they do work Saturdays because my thought process is that if we have Runing water and we're waiting on just like the glass we have our old shower curtain so we could just use that our shoulders are wider than the St uhoh it's a good thing you won't be using it cuz it's not the primary when you're happy you put the sne nice yeah sneak jues nice oh and on this Niche I told them not to do the trim because they did this one after so I learned my lesson I honestly think it looks better like this rather than with like the gold trim rocking yeah Sophie are you excited to get bats in here no I'm about to take my makeup off and get in my jammies and call it a night because I have to wake up very early for that workout class but I hope you guys enjoyed this day in my life let me know if I should do more like daily Vlogs or if you guys like the week in my life Vlogs let me know in the comments down below and I will see you in my next one [Music] bye