How Semi-Permanent Eyeliner Aftercare Differs from Microblading Aftercare
7/9/2022
By: Melissa
While the techniques used for microblading and semi-permanent eyeliner tattoos are similar and yield similar results, there are some differences in the application and healing processes.
Microblading After Care -
Tips for Your Best Brow Results
2/24/2022
By: Melissa
Microblading aftercare is important for ensuring optimal pigment retention. This means you’ll be much happier with your results if you follow proper microblading aftercare steps.
Eyelash Extensions -
The Gateway Drug to a More Efficient Morning Routine
2/13/2020
By: Ashley
If you ask every woman you know what her day-to-day routine looks like, chances are you won’t find two that are the same. But chances are also that each woman’s routine includes some form of putting her face “on” at the beginning of the day, and then taking it “off” at the end. How much time do you think you spend on this process each day? What would you do with that time if you could get it back?
Get in Shape without Lifting a Thing
1/24/2020
By: Ashley
I know the new year tends to be about resolutions which so often include getting in shape, losing weight, or making dietary changes. I don’t know about you, but the winter months don’t inspire me to do much more than hunker down, snuggle up, and just relax. But what if f you could enjoy your slower-paced downtime for the next few months and still emerge in the spring looking and feeling even better than you do today?
The Emotional Piggy Bank
6/28/2019
By: Melissa
I’m a total self help junkie. Not sure why, exactly, but I know that I always have been. Anytime I’m facing a personal problem I can’t solve on my own, or simply want to understand myself a little bit better, I pick up a book and get to thinking.
Play Big, and Be Nice
6/14/2019
By: Melissa
I’m a total self help junkie. Not sure why, exactly, but I know that I always have been. Anytime I’m facing a personal problem I can’t solve on my own, or simply want to understand myself a little bit better, I pick up a book and get to thinking.
Mel's Microblading Lessons
5/31/2019
By: Melissa
As I mentioned a little while back, I finally got it together and asked Ashley to do my brows. They’re in process right now and once they are all done, you’ll totally be seeing before and after photos.
In the meantime though, I thought I’d share some photos of the process as well the answers to the questions I asked before I decided I was was comfortable letting someone TATTOO MY FACE. I trust Ashley implicitly, but I still had to do little bit of research before getting started. Because IT'S MY FACE. And it’s (semi) permanent.
Here's To Soulmates
5/17/2019
By: Melissa
I always felt “wrong." I didn’t even realize it until I was well into adulthood. I was constantly guilt-tripping myself into caring about things I didn’t actually care about. Into doing things I didn’t really want to do. Into believing things I never really believed. I felt so out of place and I assumed it was because I was doing something wrong. I believed I just didn’t understand the world around me and I needed to work harder to do so. It was exhausting.
I'm Definitely The Bleep.
5/3/2019
By: Melissa
So there’s a reason our podcast is called Beauty and The Bleep. And I’m pretty sure it’s not difficult to figure out which one I am. It’s not just that I can curse like a sailor without thinking twice, but it’s also because I’m certainly not what most people think of when they think “Beauty.”
This has more to do with personality and mindset than physical attributes. First, I’m clumsy as hell and grace has just never been my strong suit. This week I hit myself in the face with the phone receiver at work so hard that I ended up with a bruise under my eye. I don’t even know how that happened. I waddle, I don’t walk. It’s because my thighs need to move around each other with each step. Plus I’m the girl who can trip over her own two feet while stone cold sober.
Well, Hello There
4/19/2019
By: Melissa
So this is a little strange for me. I'm not quite sure how to do this introduction, but I feel it's necessary.
My audience at My Life My Normal has already known me somehow - my friends and family in real life, my acquaintances, and those already connected to me on social media. When they click the link to read my personal blog they most likely already know the basics about me: I’m a bit of an oddball, with a much odder husband, an obsession with my pets and my nephew, a few close friends/family members, and a love for great food and wine, preferably together.
Also, if you know me in real life you know that I’m a consistent over-sharer, and that I'm proud of that fact. So let’s get the Indellibelle Family up to speed so that you have some context for when I start over-sharing with you, too!
Beauty & The Bleep
4/5/2019
By: Ashley
In January of 2015 I packed myself up into a little Ford Focus and drove from Utah to Maryland to take the next step in our relationship with a man I loved dearly. I was kind of starting over, so if it didn’t fit, it didn’t ship.” This means that literally everything I owned made that four-day
trip, though a blizzard, to the East Coast with me.
I knew one soul in Maryland when I left Utah, and driving away from my home state and everything I’d known for so long was one of the most frightening things I’d ever done at the time.
Shine On, Indelli•Belle
3/1/2019
By: Ashley
A diamond is a precious stone consisting of a clear a colorless crystalline form of pure carbon. It's the hardest naturally occurring substance known to man. Without intense pressure and heat over an extended period of time, a diamond would never form. This is what I had to remind myself of throughout pretty much all of 2018. To be honest, there were so many times I thought that I might not be able to withstand it all. Every time I thought I might break, I just told myself, I can survive. Pressure creates diamonds.
Indellibelle started as a home-based business in 2016. By the end of the year I moved my one-woman operation to a basement storefront in downtown Frederick, MD. By January 2017 everything was up and running, the clients were coming in, I’d hired an additional employee. I had accomplished the first step of my dream to own and manage a chain of permanent cosmetic shops. I was so happy! Of course, anytime you start a new venture or put yourself out there in any way, you’re going to feel some pressure. I thought I was under pressure at this point, but I had no clue what 2018 had in store for me.