by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Fitness, Health
Are you ready to get the body and have the energy that you’ve always deserved?
Then the 14 Day Fitness Plan is the perfect guide for you! I have spent some months doing all of these daily exercises to amazing results! Not only have I completely toned up, built muscle, and lost weight in trouble areas, I’ve also begun to reverse my scoliosis curvature and rid myself from back pain – for good! I finally have a strong body that I’m proud of. I’m even more proud to share all these amazing exercises and pro tips with you!
Along with providing effortless exercises that can be done by everyone, you’re given key workouts and healthy tips for every day – no weights or machinery needed! This comprehensive plan helps you kick cravings, build muscle and offers top strategies for a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. With a butt-kicking comprehensive workout, The 14 Day Fitness Plan builds in difficulty over time and naturally sculpts and tones your body as you go!
You don’t have to believe me, though!
Sabrina of The Brunette Ecoholic says, ” I just wanted to take a sec to thank you again for your generosity and help in purchasing your exercise plan! 🙂 These are exactly what I needed for my back! In fact, some of them are very similar to what I learned in physical therapy, so that made me even more excited to try them out! Thank you again so much and I look forward to whatever you have planned next!”
This plan will motivate you to make healthier, better choices.
Jump start your life, raise your standards and love your body!
PS I give so many thanks to my bestie Cassandra for helping me with the design work on this e-book! If you ever need your website tweaked, your business cards designed, or your book mocked up, contact this crazy talented beauty! Oh yeah- she’s a sword wielding bellydancer too! She totally beats me in cool points.
With love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Beauty, Blogroll, Giveaway, Green Beauty, My Organic Life, Product Reviews, Skincare
Happy Monday! I hope 2014 is treating everyone very well! I can’t believe January is almost half over! I’ve been doing tons of Brand Ambassador work, loads of castings, writing music, making more videos, and traveling! I’m also doing a bunch of Giveaways to Celebrate the New Year and give YOU the opportunity to try all my new Green Beauty favorites and feel like your best self! Want to add to your Green Beauty Ritual but you’re participating in #NoBuyJanuary? Want to Enter To Win Natural Skin Goodies completely for Free? Or just broke from the Holidays? I got you! 😉
Keep in mind: my SRS Naturals Giveaway is still going on. If you haven’t Entered yet, what are you waiting for?! 😉
They all close Feb 1, and are super easy to enter!
To Enter to Win These Gorgeous, Organic, Natural and Amazing Misoves Products:
Add My Organic Life on Facebook
Add Misoves on Facebook
For Extra Points,
Add MOL on Twitter
Add Misoves on Twitter
That’s it! 🙂
Now, onto the Reviews, so you know exactly what amazing green goodies you’re in for! 🙂
Now, I love Misoves! From the adorable name (MissYouLoveYou shortened) to their incredible commitment to healthy living, to the way their products work on my skin uncompromised, I am super impressed! Misoves was truly started to deliver natural and organic skin products that promote overall health and beauty naturally and every drop of every product delivers! I got a chance to try their Travel Set as well as their Face Cream this past month and my skin is so, so happy! Yours can be too, since I am also giving away the Travel Set & The Face Cream to one Lucky winner! 🙂
This Gluten-Free, Green Tea Face Oil from Misoves is pure antioxidant magic and provides glowing results! The multi-rich Argan Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Bulgarian Lavender, Italian Orange, and Patchoull makes this a high powered and high functioning oil that targets hydration, fine lines, and balances sebum in the skin. This lightweight oil glows just looking at, touching and feeling it, and smells very Earthy, sweet and calming. It’s a great before-bed oil, great as a spot oil for aromatherapy as well as calming for your pores and great for balancing skin tone and calming aggressive skin.
Ingredients: Combined Essential Oils of Bulgarian Lavender, Italian Orange, and Indonesian Patchouli, are both therapeutic and a soothing aromatic. Argan Oil, Grapeseed Oil, and Meadowfoam Oil, are strong multi-tasking natural oils that soften and protect for an overall improved appearance.
I’m pretty into my post-shower and post-bath body oil routine. After every bath or shower I apply a thick layer of moisturizing body oil from head to toe, and just a few pumps from this travel size version of Botanical Misoves Body Oil really does the trick! This paraben-free, sulfate-free and Gluten-free botanical oil smells heavenly – the first 3 ingredients listed are Almond Oil, Meadowfoam and Raspberry Seed. Mmmm–mmm! It absorbs easily, helps dry skin, smoothes skin, calms and hydrates, enriches with Vitamins A, E, B1, B2 and C for extra rejuvenation and nourishment! This body oil is completely gorgeous – I love smelling it, rubbing it on sore muscles and aches and pains and using it on my hands, arms and legs for a golden glow!
Ingredients: almond oil, meadowfoam oil, raspberry seed oil, organic rose hip seed oil, bergamot oil, organic sweet orange oil, patchouli oil, lavender oil, vitamin e acetate.
- Use on all skin types to even out skin tone & tighten pores
- Key ingredients: organic aloe leaf juice, witch hazel, goji berry, noni & rice extracts, pomegranate, white tea
- Rice, oat, and soy proteins nourish
- Alcohol free
An important part of any routine is moisturizing, so prepare your skin for that intense moisture by removing all residue with a toner. This organic face toner contains acai, pomegranate and white tea botanicals to keep you looking young and fresh. Further intensifying this formula, crimson seeds provide calming and skin-toning power and witch hazel extract tones and tightens your pores, while skin is nourished and hydrated by rice, oat and soy proteins. This gentle and effective formula is 70% organic and completely alcohol-free.
Ingredients: purified water, certified organic aloe leaf juice, witch hazel, certified organic acai fruit, mangosteen peel, goji fruit, noni & rice extracts; acerola, white tea, pomegranate, cocoa & grape seed extracts; hydrolyzed oat & rice proteins, glycerin, panthenol, citric acid, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate, orange oil, patchouli oil, sandalwood oil, organic sweet orange oil
I love this Face Wash from Misoves! It really does the trick! And it’s definitely one of the best smelling face washes I have ever used – hands down! This Shea and Apple scented Face Wash from Misoves is simple, clean, gentle, and jam packed with certified organic botanicals, antioxidants and natural moisturizers, so it ensures skin is soft and protected all day. Sweet orange oil, organic aloe, organic lavender & lemon verbena, skin brightening apple along with the protein rich, anti-oxidant properties of Vitamins A, B1, B2, B6 and E, this is 70% Organic and perfect for all skin types! A great, safe, eco gift for a loved one, great for travel or perfect to treat yourself!
Ingredients: certified organic aloe vera leaf juice, water, certified organic lemon verbena & lavender flowers; certified organic mandarin orange & sweet orange peel oils, PPG-2 hydroxyethyl coco/isostearamide, shea butter extract, pro-vitamin B5, oat & apple amino acids; sodium PCA, glycerin, sodium chloride, decyl glucoside, phenoxyethanol, caprylyl glycol, citric acid, patchouli oil, sandalwood oil, organic sweet orange oil.
This Earthy, sandalwood aromatic natural defense renewing cream from Misoves boosts cell immunity, promotes cell regeneration, brightens skin with Indian gooseberry and keeps skin healthy and radiant against free radicals and environmental toxins! Perfect for all skin types, this 70% organic, 100% natural cream is packed with anti-oxidants, and is nutrient rich. This Defense Renewing cream is great to protect against aging and against UV irradiation. I saw an immediate reduction in skin redness upon a few days of use! I put this on in the sun and it protects against burning while keeping my skin hydrated and moisturized richly. Although I can’t speak for everyone, it Doesn’t clog my pores so it is perfect for acne-prone or sensitive skin!
Ingredients: water, organic aloe barbadensis leaf juice, organic sunflower seed oil, cetyl alcohol, glycerin, emulsifying wax, sodium stearate, glyceryl stearate, shea butter, pomegranate sterols, watermelon & indian gooseberry fruit extracts, sodium hyaluronate, sodium PCA, tetrahydrocurcuminoids, ferulic acid, maltodextrin, organic acai & goji fruits, oat kernel extracts; licorice root extract, ethylhexylglycerin, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin E acetate, tocopherol, phenoxyethanol, xanthan gum, caprylyl glycol, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate. organic sweet orange oil, patchouli oil, sandalwood oil.
Don’t forget:
Add My Organic Life on Facebook
Add Misoves on Facebook
For Extra Points,
Add MOL on Twitter
Add Misoves on Twitter
That’s it! 🙂 Good luck!!
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by Tara Mackey | Beauty, Blogroll, Green Beauty, My Organic Life, Product Reviews, Skincare, Travel
The last thing I want to worry about when I’m living out of my suitcase is my skin. This recent trip to NY came at a stressful time in general – health wise, mostly, but little things also added up.
For instance, because I am Standby for the plane, as well as Standby for First Class, I have to dress like I’m going on the plane for First Class, regardless. Not only because if I don’t, they won’t let me on the plane at all, but – I don’t know, did your Dad ever pick you up from the airport after not seeing you for months? I mean, you wanna look nice, right?
Anyway, #firstworldproblems aside, that normally means I am stuck in the worst possible, last ditch Coach seat on the plane that everyone else looked at and went ” ewwww who wants to sit there?”, wearing the fanciest thing I own with a ton of makeup on for 5+ hours. Not only that, every time I travel from West to East, I lose practically my whole entire day from the time difference. You try getting on a plane at 7 am and arriving at 6 pm! I mean really?! A WHOLE DAY is gone before I can wash my face!!
Never mind all the time spent waiting at the airport before I get on the plane, or the drive home from it after arriving. That alone is enough to get my skin acting up for days.
But, honestly – I’ve never stepped off the plane more confidently. In fact, this trip – I didn’t even NEED makeup, and these travel-friendly skincare products were able to get some use on the plane ride! All thanks to a Travel-sized, TSA approved sample pack of Pai!
This is the story of:
This Organic Skin Care Sample Set is a perfect introduction to the Pai brand, and it includes:
1 x organic muslin cloth
4 x 5ml pots of moisturizers: Chamomile & Rosehip, Avocado & Jojoba, Geranium & Thistle and Macadamia & Rose
1 x 5ml pot of Kukui & Jojoba Skin Brightening Exfoliator
1 x 5ml pot of Camelia & Rose Gentle Hydrating Cleanser
I have extremely sensitive skin – it reacts to every little thing that I do (or
don’t do) to it! So I have to be super careful about what I use to treat it after a long flight or in dealing with totally different water than it’s used to. I used the
Kukui & Jojoba (my skin loves Jojoba – thanks Mixed genes!) for my Exfoliator when I arrived in NY and I couldn’t get enough of it! My only “complaint” is that I wish there was more in the sample! 🙂
Out of all the skin creams in this pack, the
Chamomile & Rosehip is my favorite! My super sensitive skin soaks it up!
It makes me skin feel smooth, calm and glowing! I am really sensitive to creams and this not only didn’t irritate my face – it worked!!
The smell is also DIVINE. I recommend this to anyone with eczema or skincare problems! I will absolutely be purchasing a whole bottle!
One day running around NYC shooting and your skin, nails, even the inside of your nose is likely to be clogged with some dirt and smog. For this, the organic Muslin cloth is actually one of my absolute favorite parts of this set! It’s perfect for removing dirt, makeup and crud from your face if you’re traveling, in a dirty city, on a plane or just woke up or plan on going to bed soon! 🙂 It’s been wonderful all around!
All of Pai’s products are 100% Organic, and they work fabulously!
Thank you very much.
Love & Light
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by Tara Mackey | Around the World, Blogroll, My Organic Life, My Photography, Travel
Oh, New York.
I’ve prowled up and down your narrow 12 miles more times than I care to count, hop-skipped and jumped all of your gum stained sidewalks, taken shelter in your countless museums, corner bars and over-priced restaurants, bravely voyaged your subways in the freezing cold, pouring rain and stifling summer heat. I can finally appreciate your rain storms, your always-late trains, your hyper-manic town-folk, your dirty streets (still having quite a hard time with your high prices, but your amazing views, skyline, food and people make it really worth it!)
How proud I am to call you my birth place, my home town, the isle of my first real job, a place that I was educated about life and allowed to happily and curiously explore as a child.
I don’t know who I’d be without you:
For real.
It does finally feel good to be back in the City – somewhere I know every nook and cranny, all the short cuts, every side street, every little nuance so that I can play a sort of restaurant roulette – saying hi up and down streets to friends and comrades who I normally catch glimpses of between longer travels. Normally can’t have a long chat with, never mind one or two full days spent enjoying each other’s company.
I finally got a chance to see Jane’s Carousel in DUMBO! Jane bought the carousel as a whole at an auction in the 1980′s so it wouldn’t be sold off piece by piece. It was originally created in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. After buying it, she then spent the last twenty-something years restoring it in Brooklyn with her husband. They hand-scraped through 62 years of park paint to get to the original colors and wood carvings of the carousel and restore it to its original self from 1922! 62 YEARS of paint!! The killer backdrop of the Manhattan skyline with both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in view doesn’t hurt the overall experience, either! 
I meant to go back to NYC for only a week, but, like I touched on in this post, I stayed for 2. It was really nice to not have to rush through anything, to enjoy my company, to explore things with my family, to go at a slower pace and bring peace into every action. 
I am super grateful to be able to go back home to NYC so often. A small perk about Dad working for the airlines for 50+ years is that sometimes, just sometimes, when I wish and hope hard enough, and the Airline Gods are with me, I get First Class… 
This was one of those times. There is literally no better way to start a trip!
It was SO nice and I felt like a Princess. Didn’t even have to sit next to anyone!
Ahhh!!! Dreams come true.
They say ” You can’t go home again“…
I beg to differ. 🙂
I got to spend a considerable amount of time in Brooklyn. Couldn’t be happier about it.
(Click for a larger-than-life BK collage ^^ )
I think I’ll post on Manhattan another time, because Brooklyn really touched my heart this time, and I think it deserves it’s own little space.
I remember working here 6 years ago, in the same neighborhood I now frequent, and feeling mostly unsafe. The streets were empty a good amount of the time, and my walk from work to the LIRR was often panic-striking when I was alone. I remember the patrons being rude, the tips being bad, and the neighborhood being mostly uncared for. The locals were extremely passionate though, and overall I found everyone to be really resilient and die-hard about their home town. However, any plans to build a Park always turned into building a Parking Lot, and it looked like the dream of a Better Brooklyn might never happen…
The exact same streets are now some of my most beloved and favorite to walk. I feel a unique kinship with a place that I was willing to travel in every day because I had hope and vision of what it could become, along with it’s residents. So many parts of it have far surpassed that little vision I carried, or any hope I ever discussed with anyone. I love all the little neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and the unique, quaint, one of a kind atmosphere. I love walking around aimlessly, I love strolling around with friends, I love watching the landscape change and finding little hidden greenery in the alleyways and abandoned buildings. I love the graffiti and the ultimate personality of the place so, so much.
I will miss my little haven and my home town.
But, believe it or not, the West Coast has really stolen my heart…
But I’ll be on the East Coast again before I even know it (or can catch my breath!) I missed Raels and my family here a lot though… but I really want to be in LA for my birthday, which is in 6 days!!!!
!!!!
I used to dread getting older, but I have some super beautiful things planned and I’m really, really excited for it, actually! I’m so grateful I get to be in LA for my birthday (I mean, who can deny that being one of the most beautiful views ever?^^). This is where I’ve been my planning to be for years and years now, for this birthday specifically! Feels good to be where you’re meant to be!
Like I touched on here, my trip back was so inspiring and amazing, based mostly on my outlook on the situation. It’s absolutely amazing what your point of view can do positively for your entire life if you are absolutely bent on Positivity!
New York definitely gave me the inspiration and drive to finish My Kickstarter Project, which I am SO happy and excited about!! If you haven’t gotten a chance to take a look yet, please do! I’ve gotten a lot of support about it already and I’m so grateful!!
I’ve made my rewards REALLY affordable – just $1 gets you the digital download of my newest single sent straight to your personal e-mail with a big thank you! Up to $50 gets you The Wake Up EP, personalized art, a bonus track, a video thank you message, and a cover tune!!
xoxo
I appreciate all of your love and support!
Thank you very much.
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by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Health, My Organic Life, Recipes
Red Bell Peppers
These anti-oxidant veggies are rich in Vitamins A, C, B6, folic acid and fiber. They also contain Lycopene, a known cancer-preventitive. Best raw, however, Lycopene, unlike other carotenes, does not diminish in effectiveness when cooked. Great in salads, on skewers, as a snack or on sandwiches. 🙂
Garlic
One of my favorite veggies, and perfect as a pest-control in the garden, I prefer garlic as a tea, but you can add it to just about anything in moderation! Garlic helps prevent plaque, lowers cholesterol and reduces inflammation.
Buy it fresh, bottled, minced or powdered, and add it to meat, vegetable or salad dishes.
Cranberries
A handful of Cranberries a day can save you a lot of agony! These tangy, tasty berries are known to protect against bladder infections by preventing bacteria from sticking to the bladder wall. In a similar way, cranberries also protect the stomach from ulcer-causing bacteria and protect the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, promoting GI health. Cranberries have also been shown to protect against cancer and heart disease.
Blueberries
Even if you have advanced kidney disease, blueberries are one of the few fruits that you can eat without worry. While blueberries may be relatively low in nutrients, they are very high in anti-oxidants, with 6,520 mcg of anti-oxidant compounds in a 100-g serving. By way of comparison, cooked broccoli has only 1,552 mcg in a 100-g serving. Anti-oxidant-rich foods don’t harm your kidneys. Rather, they help prevent cancer and other chronic diseases.
Olive Oil
One of my favorite super foods over all, Olives & Olive Oil are a great source of oleic acid, an anti-inflammatory fatty acid, and the monounsaturated fat in olive oil protects against oxidation. Olive oil is rich in ployphenols and antioxidant compounds that prevent inflammation and oxidation.
Studies show that populations that use large amounts of olive oil instead of other oils have lower rates of heart disease and cancer.
Buy virgin or extra virgin olive oil because they are higher in antioxidants. Use olive oil as a base in cooking, for dipping bread or for marinating veggies.
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