Pinterest Trial and Error

Most American's are obsessed with Pinterest. I am one of these people. I find the greatest ideas, outfits, and general health information. The problem is I pin it and then nothing ever happens with it. It sits in the virtual world of the internet waiting for someone to like it or repin it.

It is the ultimate display of laziness. I said it. Laziness! I have 44 pins in my DIY folder. I have done 1 of them. This year I am determined to go out and try new things. I want to meet people and experience things that I can tell my nieces, nephew, and future Katie babies about. I want to have fun. I truly believe that Pinterest is a way that we can enrich our lives. Yes, there are tons of beauty tips and vain ideas but there are also ideas about home building and traveling to new places. There are tips for traveling on a budget or organizing the home/office space for maximum efficiency.

I have mumbled about all this to say that I have started doing one pin a week. It doesn't matter what the pin falls under-DIY, health, beauty, or cooking. I am determined to basically live. One great idea at a time.

I honestly believe that there is more to life than checking Facebook or Pinterest and wasting our minds away. We need to get active! We need to work with our hands. Use a flipping glue gun or a hammer once it awhile. We might actually exercise our brain for more than scrolling through a webpage or watching television.

This week I will be doing two of my pins-a face mask for black heads and something off my bucket list, snow tubing. This particular blog is about my honey/salt/baking soda mask. I know most people suffer from black heads. I have used EVERYTHING. The stupid expensive strips that rip half of my face off and are so painful that I am able to color the walls of my bathroom with horrible words that should probably never leave my mouth. Creams. Gosh I love the creams that dry my face out or leave my feeling sticky. Oh and I just love squeezing the life out of my face to get a tiny little black dot to go away. The best part is that none of them work. I loose skin and go to bed with a dry face to wake up in the morning and have no results.

I saw this pin a couple of days ago and I thought I should try it. I have everything in my cabinets. I mixed it up just like the pin calls for. 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, and 1 teaspoon of salt. You stir it until it becomes a cream color. Then the fun begins. You smear it across the infected areas (mine is my nose) and rub in gentle circles. The directions call to leave it on for five minutes but I left it on while I was finishing up some homework. It was about twenty minutes. After this I used a loofah to exfoliate my skin a little more. This task isn't easy since it was on the side of my nose but I was determined. As of right now I do  not see a huge difference BUT some of the black heads are gone. I am not going to lie. I took a moment to dance around. It did not harm my skin. It is not dry-it's actually softer now than before. And, I didn't rip dead skin cells off my face. It was great. I plan on trying it a few more times this week to see if I can see more results.

I plan on doing more pins next week to see what I can learn or who I can meet. Next post will be about our epic family snow tubing adventure!


-Katie