About Me

Hello! My name is Olivia, and here is a little about me:

I am currently a licensed esthetician in the beautiful state of California. That being said I’ve been a stay at home mom for a couple years now. I’ve tried to jump back into the beauty industry several times throughout the last couple of years but between leaving my kids and the new ideals I had about ingredients and the way we approach beauty, my heart wasn’t just fully in it no matter how much I was desperate for it to be. 

Prior to becoming a mom I was in the cosmetic/skincare retail world for a long time and after I was officially licensed I worked as a full body speed waxer. After becoming a mom I struggled for a long time with my identity as a person without a career. Even though I was raising my children and teaching them how to successfully “people” while also feeding everyone in my family and keeping them alive, I felt as if I wasn’t contributing to my family or society without an actual career. Obviously, not feeling like I was contributing was not true- I was contributing way more than just money for my family. Anyways, I tried to throw myself into several different ventures along with the aforementioned returns to the beauty industry but my heart wasn’t in them enough to take time away from my family or time away from my household responsibilities.

It wasn’t until this last year when I started dealing with acne for the first time in a very long time that my path started to get a little more clear and I started to feel passion and a purpose outside of being a wife and mother. It’s a long story I won’t get into here, but I was holding onto trauma after having my second child and that started to manifest into high cortisol which then turned into adrenal fatigue, and then that plus hormone and gut issues just caused some of the worst acne I’ve ever experienced. As an esthetician I started doing what I was trained to do, but nothing topical helped. If anything, it actually destroyed my moisture barrier and made my skin even worse. It was a long painful, emotional journey- but it brought me to looking at my skin through the eyes of my whole body. I started looking at my mind and what I was telling myself, what I was putting in and on my body, how I was keeping my whole body healthy, etc; and my skin finally started clearing up. That was when it all clicked: everything is connected, and as they say, “beauty isn’t just skin deep.” 

I’ve always loved reading and writing, and while I’ve always been a good reader, I’ve never believed I was a good enough writer. But this last year while I was struggling, I rediscovered just how much I love writing and how it feeds my soul. That’s when things fell into place for me: I want to write and I want to write about beauty and wellness through a whole body approach for anyone that might be struggling like I was or just wants to learn more about these topics!

That is a very short version of how I got here, which I feel is an important part of “about me” but here’s some other things that make up me:

I am a mom and a wife; sometimes being both of those things is hard but I love that I am both of these things, I constantly have ideas for businesses I want to start but this is the only one I’ve believed in enough to start, like most basic millennials I am addicted to coffee, I live somewhere that gets extremely hot but I still have to have a blanket on me at all times if I’m at home, I love being outside but actually getting outside is something I’m actively working on, I’m an introvert/homebody but I get legitimately crazy if I’m stuck in my house by myself too long, lastly, I’m an imperfect person who has a lot of personal contradictions that you probably may have already noticed. 

That’s me in a small nutshell! I hope I can bring knowledge and insight or even just community to my blog. One thing I believe deep in my core is that we can all feel beautiful inside and out if we take care of our mind, body and soul and that’s what I intend to do and hope that I inspire people to do as well. Thank you for being here!