Beauty Sundae

When I’m working I have to wear a lot of makeup. Something about showing up in people’s homes at half past dark without makeup on doesn’t make the powers that be very happy.

So most of the time, a makeup artist works magic on my face (read: they airbrush me until I am unrecognizable) or I put on makeup myself (with tips I learned years ago from a high school friend). Either way, because of all the product I wear, when I get home, I reach for a makeup remover wipe.

Despite being on morning television for over a decade, I still have beauty insecurities and since I am so used to wearing way to much makeup, I hesitantly took the Neutrogena Face-Off Challenge.

I trust Neutrogena because Neutrogena is recommended by dermatologists two times more than any. And I know Neutrogena provides superior cleansing and make-up removal products. It was just me vainly worrying about how my ‘after’ photo would look.

After lunch with one of my friends where I was wearing a reasonable amount of makeup — nothing over the top — I used one of the Neutrogena® Makeup Remover Cleansing Towelettes to remove traces of dirt, oil, and makeup and revealed clean, fresh, makeup free skin.

The towelette was gentle on my skin and cool on my face. And as it wiped off my makeup I had a silly sense of accomplishment since I only needed one towelette to take off all the makeup I was wearing.

Neutrogena says 99% of makeup is removed when using the towelettes but as you can see from the #nofilter “before and after” selfies I took, it passed the white towel test as there is no makeup leftover!

I wish I had the workout gene. You know the “wake up at six, head to the gym, and stop by the juice bar before 9AM” mindset. I just don’t have it but I do take part in editor’s workout sessions when I’m invited. Group fitness, FTW!

And last week JCPenney invited me to get my butt kicked kick off my 2014 fitness goals with a one hour workout taught by Karina Smirnoff of Dancing With The Stars.

Dressed in the agency supplied JCPenney Xersion activewear line I took to the studio floor just hoping to make it through the class without embarrassing myself. I ended up having so much fun in the class I am going to pretend my arms didn’t burn and my legs didn’t want to give up at a point. OK, several points.

Karina, who from now will be known as “my best friend who offered a list of guys to knee since I didn’t have anyone to knee”, walked us through some Usher video moves and may have taught me how to twerk all while keeping the energy of the room up with her jokes.

Karina looked fit in JCPenney’s Xersion and CityStreets Activewear lines as she led the dance class. My Xersion outfit was really comfortable. The hot pink racerback singlet tank top and grey fitted capris  had a nice look to them and the backside zip pocket didn’t annoy me at all. I even wore the outfit along with the black half zip pullover out the door to my next event.

When the workout class ended, Karina took some silly photos with me as I confessed to her boring photos with celebrities are not my thing. These are two of the ones she came up with.