Even if you have the best intentions to wake up early, make a huge breakfast, and get the day started right, if you're anything like us, chances are you'll end up hitting the snooze button. Let's be real here...typically the most rushed part of your day is the morning. And when you're really in a time crunch, usually the first thing that gets sacrificed is your beauty routine. When you feel like a zombie in the morning, we're guessing you'll choose coffee over putting on eyeliner any day.
"Just five more minutes!" We're willing to bet you've said this to yourself once or twice after your alarm went off in the morning. But instead of hitting the snooze button and ending up rushing out the door in a halfway-buttoned up blouse, a wrinkly skirt, and wet hair, cut down your morning routine so you can actually get a little extra shut eye and still leave for work looking polished and put-together.
Lately, the word "full-time" has taken over my entire schedule: I have a full-time job, I'm a full-time student, and I've been a full-time health freak since this whole "new year, new you" idea started trending. So naturally, there's hardly any room to fit sleep into my jam-packed agenda. As sad as it is to say, sleep has become just another task on my checklist instead of a rejuvenating activity I need to, well...live. By the time I get home, I have just enough energy to shower, scarf down some food and watch the latest episode of "Scandal" before passing out with my iPhone in one hand and a to-do list running through my head. Basically, I'm a sleep-deprived mess.
I can't open a magazine or scroll through my Google Reader lately without finding a story on skin care oils. (I covered the best oils for every skin type last year.) But so much of what I'm reading is totally missing the point: Oils aren't just for skin these days. Every beauty category -- from hair color to nail care -- is having an oil boom.
