Branding: Youtube: January Favorites|Growth|Healthy Skin Routine

Happy Monday to you Beautiful People. It's a new week, a new day and a new month to become a better you. We are already in our second month of 2015 and I must say I am excited so far. Why? Because I've been taking action to set myself up for a great year. Besides Blogging again, I have started working on my Youtube Channel as well.

I started the videos to become more personable with you all. So, if you do not FOLLOW my blog or you aren't SUBSCRIBED to my channel, do me a favor and click those wonderful little mini buttons. Youtube Name: Erica Lipstick

My channel will feature beauty tips, fashion, lifestyle such as motivational talk, careers, passions and so much more. I'm excited! Three new videos are up so grab your tea, or cocktail and watch them all.

Lipstick & Love, XOXO

Erica

1. JANUARY FAVORITES| or NOT : Featuring Beauty|Skin|Hygiene|Natural Hair Products

2. GROWTH| Where were you a year ago?| Hello, Older Me.

3. Healthy Skin| Prepping After Cleansing & Before Makeup

Real Talk: Keep Pushing Forward

Sunday is closing and the weekend is coming to an end. We dread knowing Monday will be here and it's back to reality if you're like me and work the 9-5. Can I be honest? I'm absolutely not in the most amazing place when it comes to my job. I transitioned from a medical office to medical insurance call center without realizing how big of a difference it was. It leaves me frustrated, mind boggled and very impatient. I don't want to go back to my old job because I feel like a failure but I also don't want to stay in the current because I feel like it's not for me. 

How we do thrust forward? How do we step away from doubt, fear and frustration and find that happy place in our career? 

Thee Lipstick Canvas has been a passion of mine for many years and yet I feel like I've accomplished nothing in my blog. TLC is here for the woman to create her own art, her own beauty and lifestyle. It's to empower and motivate. 

So what have you all done to change your career that you weren't satisfied with or what have you done to make your dreams come true? 

I know the Best is Yet to Come and even when my faith seems so far off I won't give up or stop believing. I CAN, I WILL. 

Lipstick & Love,

Erica 

Empower: Staying Passionate about your Dreams

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Do you have dreams, goals, and aspirations? Are you doing everything in your power to create possibilities for them? We all have a purpose in this life, a calling and not just a hustle that brings money. I believe that some people confuse their true purpose with their temporary careers. You know that feeling you get when you know what you want to do in life, when you see something that reminds you of your dreams, and how you just want to do everything to bring it all to life. At times, we let obstacles block our view, we let fear keep us from getting started, or we let others talk us out of our own visions. 

"Allow your Passion to become your Purpose, and it will one day become your Profession." It is important to stay passionate about what is on the inside of us. We have to keep our flame lit so that our light keeps burning and never dim down. I think that in order to stay passionate you have to feed your mind and creative being each day with new ideas. You have to also stay consistent with your passions. Don't let days slip by and procrastinate, remember the saying don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Journaling your thoughts is one way to open your mind up and fuel it. Get started, you can be whatever it is you want to be, you can do whatever it is that you want to do, but it all starts with YOU!

Lipstick & Love XOXO