Color the Essence of You - book link

This is a digitized copy of an out-of-print book -

Compare and Contrast with DYT, they're pretty close, except that Caygill uses seasons instead of types.

 Get the PDF here (free)

T1 Lip Color

Here are some products that I've tried and the color works.

Neutrogena Moisture Smooth Color Stick - in Bright Berry

This is sort of a cross between a lip stick and a gloss. 
(purchased at Walmart)

Hard Candy (brand) Syrup Kiss (product) in Sorbae

This is a light shade, but really T1

(purchased at Walmart)

 

Urban Decay - Art Walk 

This is a doppelganger for DYT - You Wanna?

Old me, New me - epipheny

So this happened a couple of days...

wait, first some background.

I grew up in a very rural community.  I was awkward, my hair was always a mess (really!) - anybody who grew up in a small town knows that once people "know" you, that's what they know.   You cannot escape it, you are in that mold.

It's pretty obvious from my early photos that I'm "sanguine" - Myer Briggs and all that.

Even from a young age, my best friends were the ones who "didn't quite fit in"; I guess maybe because I didn't fit it.  I am super-smart (way back then, the theory was that girls didn't have as high of an IQ as boys so in 2nd grade they gave me an IQ test three times because they didn't believe it.)  Kids show off what they know in order to be accepted, but in grade school, "smart" is not the fast track to that.

By the time I was in the middle of grade school, I don't remember having any close friends.  I became a loner, a "book worm" and an introvert.  We went to a very small church and the kids I was there with were nice to me there, but largely ignored me at school.  Even a youngster knows how to interpret that.  It was not until my junior year in high school that I had a "best friend".

I grew into an easily intimidated, shy, quiet person.   Unsure of myself.

A true LYT Type 2 is not those things, but I think that somebody growing (or getting pushed) into that secondary eventually gets to be those things in order to protect themselves.

I was "living in my secondary" in an unhealthy way...

Or better put, I used my secondary to grow unhealthy habits.

My first marriage distanced me from that and I grew away from my upbringing.  My first husband died and for the first time, I was responsible for being "me" and I started growing.

My second marriage is different than my first.  Phil encourages me to grow in ways that nobody ever has.  I feel like I grew back into what I started out as.

LiveYourTruth Type 1 (as always I won't break any copyrights to explain that.)

So...this happened a couple of days ago.

FaceBook is a good place to stay connected and a bad place if you don't like drama.  I use it to get information out there.

A person I knew from the time I was very little, from church and school - her dad was a deacon beside my dad - is on my Facebook friends list.

I posted an article that she didn't agree with and she came to my page and insulted my intelligence ("you  just look dumb" and "I thought you were smart" and many more.)

My husband asked, "why are you letting her treat you like that?"

Especially since we share other Facebook friends from the same time, the same high school...who were posting the very same things and she's *NOT* going after them.  Just me.

After hours of talking and thinking -

She was treating me as she knew me then.

Easy to make back down.  Willing to put up with being bullied for the sake of getting along.  Unsure of myself.

And in that moment, I was thrown back into that space in my head.

THAT'S NOT ME ANYMORE

As I "grow into" Type 1, the energy traits are more comfortable.

I am not willing to be bullied into silence.

I will not back down from my convictions for the sake of "getting along".

This woman has been told that she is not allowed to come to my personal page and insult me.  She is not allowed to call names. 

She's been told that mockery and sarcasm is not convincing me of anything.

I'm not living there anymore and I'm not going to give her space in my head.

I actually credit LiveYourTruth for getting me to this place.  I had grown into Type 1 over a couple of decades, but didn't *understand* what that all meant until Carol Tuttle.  So I thank her for that.

Live Your Truth Eye Shadow (Review)

So...I wrote about "Live Your Truth" as a general concept.

I purged my makeup drawer (well, put non-Type colors in a baggie and set it aside)

Went all in and order eye shadow in my Type.

Pros

• colors are spot on by Type
• nice assortment of lights, mids, darks.
• colors are wet or dry, depending on how much saturation you want.
• sold separately are magnetic compacts - three or twelve wells that you can mix and match however you want.
• excellent lasting color 
• shadow cooperates with whatever brush you're using

Cons

• it's a bit more expensive that most of us are used to (but still within "Urban Decay" range)
• There's no way of marking in the compact which color is which (easily fixed with those little label stickers, but it would be great if the shadow came with a peel off sticker made to use with the compacts.)

 The website is LiveYourTruth.

Anybody can shop, LifeStyle members get free shipping.  Since I'm not giving any copyrighted info, you need to figure out what Type you should be buying for.  There's a quiz (at the top of the website page) that will give you a clue.  FYI, I was wrong about mine.

Stuck...

I'll put it out here, since nobody reads (according to stats)

I'm planning on a rather drastic measure to lose weight (for now, mostly liquids and very restricted calories.)  Yes, I'm under the care of a doctor.

I've been doing things right, but I haven't lost weight for a week.  Yes, I know about stalls, it's not as if I haven't been on a diet (on and off) for 40 years.  It's too soon for a stall and I haven't lost enough weight for stalls to kick in.

This is my body being stupid.

The Weight Loss Plan

for right now, I'm working really hard.

Reset the "MyNetDiary" on New Years Day.

January 3

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 30

 

Super Bowl Sunday - February 2

Live Your Truth (review)

The basic version...

Live Your Truth

Note:  the developer of the entire program is Carol Tuttle and she has branched out (before I discovered her) into some really New Age and Mystic stuff that I simply don't buy into and will not participate in.  BE AWARE of that danger)

I am ONLY dealing with the energy/color/fashion aspect.

Tuttle's theory is that there are four main energy types and each person will manifest a primary (T) and a secondary (s) energy type, giving us 12 combinations.  Each primary type has a combination of "yin" and "yang" energies.

(NOTE:  yin and yang are used in the fashion industry in a way that is *NOT* in the Eastern Mysticism sense.  They're a non-offensive way to denote a more masculine or feminine feel - color, design lines, patterns)


Tuttle teaches that these energies are set from birth and can be identified from facial features.

To get the full benefit of the program, you need to buy a "style kit" which includes 12 glossy card stock cards, three cards for each of the four Types - a large card with a palette of colors on one side and key words and design elements on the other, a smaller card with a reduced palette of the same colors and a sample of patterns for that type on the other, and a business card size palette that you can carry in your wallet at all times.

This style kit has been really helpful, and makes shopping easier, but in some way more frustrating because finding that "type's" navy or brown can be challenging.  Buying the kit gives you access to a Facebook Group for that type.

There is also a "Lifestyle" program you can buy with either a monthly or yearly subscription.  Just starting out, I'd recommend it.  This gives you LOTS of video tutorials and access to a Lifestyle Members Facebook group.  Seriously.  You can binge watch for hours.

If you're not sure of your type, they suggest a "30 day challenge" when you commit to wearing only your "type's" colors for 30 days.  I did this and felt like I was coming out of my shell all over again!

When I found "Live Your Truth" - I thought "this is dumb, I'm a winter, yada, yada."

I can't wear orange (then I tried my Type's peach and coral)
But I have to wear black and gray (no, I don't)

One vital thing to remember, this is a money making venture for Carol Tuttle.  Lots of stuff to buy, lots of programs to join.  This is not a bad thing, I own a small business and I don't begrudge her one single second.)

The makeup is huge.  

cons

• a bit on the expensive side, but not by much.  It is not drug store quality...or cost.
• There's no instant gratification
• you can't try before you buy (with the colors that doesn't matter so much - see below - but I won't buy a foundation without seeing it on my skin)

pros

• the quality of the product makes up for the cost.
• the makeup is grouped by Type, so you know that the shade you buy will be spot on for your type
• again with the quality.  From time to time I fall asleep without getting my makeup off.  In the morning, the eye shadow is still there.  I have all four lip colors for my Type and there is a difference in wear between them.  There are two different cases, one is all black, the other has a "window" where you can see the lip stick.  The one with the window seems to wear a bit better, but I'm happy with all of them.
• What really make me happy:  most palettes come with a...palette of colors.  You get 16 colors and the colors that are already in the palette are what you get.  DYT (Dress Your Truth) sells empty, magnetic palettes in either 20 blanks or 3 blanks, and their eye shadows drop into the palettes.  You can arrange them how you would like, you only buy the ones that you want, this is marketing genius.  The blushes are the same way, and one palette has 3 blanks for blush and I think 5 or 6 for shadows - I will most likely get this (and buy more makeup) for travel.

So far, I really like the fashion and color system, even the subscription LifeStyle.

The other programs  really seem to hang on New Age strategies (Healing Center, etc.)  I have not and will not be joining any of those.

But the LifeStyle...it will open new horizons and stretch your comfort zones.  And for me, it was a good thing.

Well...Happy New Year.

 Lot is new.

1 - We moved to a new state - we are now residents (for over a year) of the Silver State (Nevada).  We live in the high desert so drinking water is even more important!

2 - Life is not about having diabetes.  I’ve been “watching myself” but not hyper focused.

3 - Life is not about having diabetes.  I’ve been exploring *ME* - one of the things that popped up on facebook was “living your truth” and I feel different, in a good way.  More about that later.

4 - Life does include having diabetes.  So...new year, new start.  I restarted MyNetDiary with a goal of losing 50 pounds this year.

(the photo is me at age 60.)