La Dolce Vita is Italian for 'The Good Life'. This is what I strive for every day. I strive for happiness, balance, fun and love. Here you will read about my insights and struggles and how I try to deal with life's challenges in a way that improves my life, the life of my friends and family and of my children.
I am brave, I am proud, I even wax my own bikini line!
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I’ve always been a bit of a DIY beautician. I love spending time at home putting in hair colour, plucking my eyebrows and painting my nails. It started from the time I was a teenager and couldn’t afford to visit a proper beautician followed by too many visits when I got my first proper job in my early twenties. I spent thousands of dollars and countless hours at beauticians getting my hair done, my legs waxed and my skin treated.
And I looked the worst I’ve ever looked in my life.
My hair was full of skunk-like streaks and was dry and brittle. I had been convinced to get acrylic nails and my life revolved around getting my next in-fill. I had acne, usually made worse by the latest fashionable skin treatment I decided to pay hundreds of dollars for.
And it was boring and time consuming.
I stopped getting everything done except my hair by the time I was twenty-seven. Then I had my first child and decided I’d have to do it all myself.
It is SO MUCH FUN.
I put colour in my hair once a month and also use brilliant hair treatments. I shave my legs and wax under my arms. I have great creams and use the ones that work for my skin, ignoring the latest trends. My nails are natural. My life is no longer hijacked by the need for an in-fill like my sister. I watch her trying to squeeze in an eyebrow wax, a spray tan…it’s exhausting.
My skin is natural. Any brownness is from hanging the washing out in my back yard.
My feet are in need of a little extra TLC at the moment. In my late thirties they have become lizard-like and I regularly have to violently file off the dead skin and moisturize them to within an inch of their lives. I then walk around in socks all day while the moisturizer works.
And my kids think it’s hilarious.
When I have a face-mask on they run away from me yelling “Monster Mum” and hide behind the lounge giggling. When I have hair removal cream on my top lip they tease me for having a moustache. When I wax my underarms my little girl calls out, “One, two, three” and then I rip the strip off.
I paint my nails every couple of days and do her toes.
I’ve even given myself a bikini wax. I am brave. I am proud. When my husband asked me what I’m doing from the other side of the bathroom door I usually yell out, “I’m gardening honey” and he knows to walk away.
I have evolved into a DIY beautician so when I do get out of the house it is relaxing and social. I don’t have many appointments to squeeze in aside from the occasional hair cut.
And I think I look a lot better than I did in my twenties when I was getting EVERYTHING done.
A little DIY never hurt anyone.
Do you DIY your beauty routine?
