Lifestyle
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A Few of My Favorite Things Summer 2019
The summer season is officially upon us which means it is time for the list of products and brands that I will be using the most this summer. A Few of My Favorite Things is one of my favorite series to write for and I always love hearing all of the products you enjoy using in the summer, so if you have any you think I should know about leave a comment! Tanning Lotion One element that is so essential to my summer routine is looking after my delicate and fair complexion. Since I know that I am more susceptible to burning my skin in the sun than the average…
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Wisdom Teeth Removal Series: the Recovery
If you haven’t read the first and second part of this three part series, you can read about the consultation and the removal here. Today officially marks one whole week for me without having wisdom teeth. It has been a rather interesting week and it feels like the first part of it went by really slowly. That may sound a little confusing, but I will explain it all once I share the recovery process post procedure. I am going to count the day I had my wisdom teeth removed as the very first day, so let’s start there! Before the medication they gave me to go to sleep wore off…
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Wisdom Teeth Removal Series: the Removal
You can read the first part of the Wisdom Teeth Removal Series all about the consultation here! Well, the day has finally arrived. By the time you all are reading this (and I am writing it) I have finally had all four of my wisdom teeth removed. Now, if you read my blog post about the consultation I had with the oral surgeon who would be preforming the “operation”, you will know that talking with the surgeon gave me quite a bit of confidence in him. Nevertheless, I was still a bundle of nerves when walking into the oral surgeon’s office. It was an early Tuesday morning and I hadn’t…
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5 Things I Learned from Pageantry
In light of the Miss Georgetown Fair Queen Information Tea being this Sunday, I felt that it was only right that I share some of the things I learned from pageantry. Specifically, what I learned as the 2016 Miss Georgetown Fair Queen. Some of the lessons I learned from pageantry I did not know was something I absorbed until I got to college and saw how useful they all were. So today I am going to share more than the average tips and lessons learned like smile and be approachable. I want this to truly give everyone a taste as to why pageantry is important and how there are some…
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My Summertime Skincare Routine
I have had many requests for a hair tutorial blog post and a skincare routine. So today I am accomplishing one of those two tasks by sharing my summertime skincare routine! The blog post about my hair and how I do it is coming soon so stay tuned for that. As you may already know, taking care of your skin changes vastly depending on the season. For instance, in the winter season I like to use more products to product my skin from getting dry. If the Faintly Familiar Family would like to see what my winter skincare routine is I will do another post about that, but today I…
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Let it Bee
As promised from my Look Book post about the Happy to “Bee” Here polo, I want to share a more in depth post about the bee symbol that seems to be everywhere in fashion. Bees are the symbol of the year! This happy little symbol is a reminder of fancier and happier things. As you can see, it is being used to inspire people to “bee” kind. I personally think this is such an adorable little symbol for the summer of 2019 and for the fashion that will be coming our way this year. High fashion is really what caused the happy little bumble bee to take over the fashion…
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Faintly Familiar’s One Year Anniversary!
I absolutely cannot believe that Faintly Familiar is turning one! This website has thrived in the last year and it is all due to the love and care every Faintly Familiar reader has given to this community. Although the first year has flown by, it feels like Faintly Familiar has always been apart of our lives. From the first ever post I published on Faintly Familiar all the way to this very day, I have felt nothing but support and excitement from everyone! Your excitement has made me excited and has lead to a ton of amazing moments! For those who are wondering, yes, the colorful balloons featured in the…
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Wisdom Teeth Removal Series: the Consultation
Yes, the image above is a real photo of the x-ray taken of my teeth. You could be a dentist reading this or someone who is about to get their wisdom teeth removed, too. Either way, it is clear in the x-ray that my mouth does not have enough room for my wisdom teeth to come in. This is the first installment of my three part series about getting wisdom teeth removed. I want to share this experience in the most relatable way possible because as I searched the internet for more information I was never able to find something that was actually from someone’s own experience. All that is…
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What I wore to My Brother’s College Graduation
The day was finally here where my brother would graduate from the University of Illinois with his undergraduate degree. Of course, on big days like that everyone thinks about the logistics of getting people to all of the places they need to go and the work that went into my big brother graduating. However, if you are like me, your first question usually is “What will I wear?” Well, I shared a few ideas with you all not too long ago of what to wear to a spring graduation. A lot of the ideas I came up with kind of fell into the dress that I chose to wear to…
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My Brother’s College Graduation
It is on graduation day your realize how fast four years can go by. This past weekend my big brother graduated from college. I remember the day we dropped him off at his dorm at the beginning of his freshman year, now he had graduated and on the job hunt. They grow up so fast! I was even more personally invested in the last two years of my brother’s undergraduate college experience since I had finally joined him on campus as a student at the University of Illinois. So, to sit on the sidelines and watch my brother Jacob graduate really puts a lot into perspective. There were two different…
