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My Microblading Experience

As I've said many times before, the 90s ruined my brows. I was a teenager with a pair of tweezers and no direction. They started going and kept going and then never came back. I've had to draw my eyebrows every day for at least 5 years. I should have started before then, but I didn't know anything about makeup prior to those days. So here I am every morning waking up at 4:30am and spending at least 20 minutes drawing on these darn things and hating every second of it. After talking about it for months, my husband asked if I wanted microblading for our anniversary and I was elated, not only was he supportive, it wasn't going to hurt my debt Snowball!  The above is my before picture. Now I'm a natural blonde who is currently rocking bright red hair. My eyebrows were WAY too light.  I did a ton of research and being in Atlanta I had A LOT of options for professional microblading. I found XoBeautyandBrows on instagram and I didn't see a single pictu

June Cash Envelope Report Card

Let's throw the truth out there real quick...June was hard! I was so close to overspending in the last four weeks of cash envelopes it gave me a panic attack! Now that is not the right way to go about this process, but I do like that I'm pretty darn committed to this!  The first half of the month did not get it's own separate post so I will break down the month for the biweekly periods. Really only because I did so much better at the beginning of the month.                                                Planned                     Actual                                                                Groceries                                 $200                        $198 Household/Pets                     $100                        $90  Eating Out                           $50                          $45 Personal                               $100                        $8 Misc                                   $25                         $0