Confidently Beautiful with Ciera
Confidently Beautiful with Ciera
Five of my Current Favorite Things
This episode delves into the importance of self-love and confidence as Ciera shares her current favorite products and announces a Love Yourself Challenge. Particularly in light of Valentine’s Day, she emphasizes thoughtful traditions and simple joys that uplift everyday experiences.
• Valentine’s Day preparations and family traditions
• Announcement of the Love Yourself Challenge starting February 17th
• Highlighting the benefits of 4D mascara for fluttery lashes
• Discussing the stress-relief properties of Body Restore Shower Steamers
• Introducing Libby app for accessing audiobooks and eBooks
• Praising Billy Glow Body Lotion for glow and hydration
• Featuring Kizzix Slip-On Sneakers for practicality and style
• Encouragement to share favorite items with listeners
• Call to action for listeners to engage with the Love Yourself Challenge and the podcast
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you're listening to, confidently beautiful with Ciera a podcast to help you stay confidently beautiful, because we all have confidence inside us. We just need to bring it out and I'm here to show you how body image, dreams, parenting, style, personality and more here we cover it all. Get ready to stay confidently beautiful. Welcome back to the podcast. I am Sierra and I am your host and I'm so happy to have you here, whether you're a new listener or a frequent listener. Thank you for taking some time to join today and I hope that you can find this episode fun and exciting and helpful for you and just a nice little break from your normal everyday today life. We're coming up on Valentine's Day and I am just getting ready for all of that mad rush of everything, with classroom parties and doing some cute little things for my kids and, of course, a valentine for my husband and all of those fun things. I'd love to hear what some of your traditions are For my kids. I usually will always give them a valentine's book of some sort, like a love book, something about love. This year, I found some super cute pajamas for Whitley that I'm really excited for, and then a t-shirt for each of the boys, so I am really excited to give them those little goodies. And then my sister, who lives with us, we are giving her a cute little basket that I put together of just some cute little, you know, things that teenagers would love and need. That is our little fun Valentine's coming up that we are getting ready for.
Ciera:Today I'm going to be sharing my current favorite things. I have five of my current favorite items. There's things that I use regularly, daily, regularly, all the time. I love them and I just wanted to share them with you, and they are beauty must-haves to like a little bit of. I don't know what category would go in it Entertainment. I suppose there's some things that I love, that make my life just fun and that I, like I said, I use them all the time. Before we dive in, I have something really special for you.
Ciera:I have a love yourself challenge that's starting February 17th. This is a seven-day challenge designed to help you love yourself more and build your confidence. So how it's going to work is each day, you'll get a small customizable challenge through your email. So if it's just like I just want to spend five minutes today, or maybe I want to dive deeper and spend like a little bit more time on this specific thing. It's totally customizable to you. You're just going to get the task and then you can decide how much time you want to put towards that task. How you can join is to sign up through the link in the show notes. It's also on my bio on my Instagram. I'm going to be sharing all about the link as well throughout the week, so be following for along for that. And yeah, you want to make sure you are on the list so that you can just get these challenges sent to your email and you are going to have, hopefully, a lot of exciting, fun times as you are growing your love for yourself and boosting your confidence at the same time. This challenge is all about you creating confidence, boosting yourself, love, routine. I can't wait to do it together. I'm going to do it along with you.
Ciera:Okay, my favorite things. Let's get started. So the very first thing I just I can't do a favorite things episode without talking about this. I'm pretty sure I talked about this in my last favorite things episode, but I love my 4D mascara by Younique. I love it. I've actually been using the Quadra mascara for oh, let's see a year and a half maybe, and I've really, really liked that one because it has the serum, the tubing and the primer all in one. But I lately have been going back to my 4D mascara. This is like the OG mascara that I started with when I first started using Unique Products, and I love it. So if you want full fluttery lashes that last all day long, this is the mascara for you. I have found that this mascara works best with a lash primer, and that will be a game changer. Like you can wear it on its own and it's great, but wearing it with a lash primer underneath is serious game changer and it's the only way I can wear 4D now. It has fiber, a fiber formula, and it just makes your lashes look like you have falsies on without having the hassle of falsies. So I've been using it for over eight years and really nothing compares to it. I have a lot of clients that come back and purchase it and they say the same thing. They're like I just can't. I try other brands and I just can't. I keep coming back to this one. So I love my Younique Mascara.
Ciera:My second favorite thing was actually a gift from my husband for Christmas and it is called Body Restore Relief Shower Steamers. So Body Restore is the brand. It's a green package. He just got it on Amazon and it's a eucalyptus scent and it is so good. So anytime I find myself like congested then I throw one of these in the shower with me. Or if I'm having a lot of stress, it's like a good stress reliever. Eucalyptus is really good for that. I love these. They're they're like my go-to for stress relief, congestion relief. It's like you're going to the spa. They smell so good and I just put it in the shower. I'll turn the water on really hot and that eucalyptus scent just fills the air in the shower and it's just perfect and I take in deep breaths and just reset and I love it. It's. It's like the perfect little restore item.
Ciera:My third thing is not really a thing more of an app that you can have on your phone, but this I I don't know how I lived life without this. It was, it's. It is such a game changer. It is the app that I'm sure you have heard of, but maybe you haven't. It is called Libby L-I-B-B-Y. This is basically a library app, so you can get eBooks like Kindle type books, and you can also get audio books, and I am addicted to listening to audio books. Right now it's my favorite thing to use. It's free, which is amazing.
Ciera:You do sometimes have to like be strategic if you're going to be going for a book that is like a new release or something that is really popular. There are wait times just like at your typical library, but I love it and I have found that sometimes the wait times like it will say, oh, you have to wait 10 weeks for this, but then it ends up only being like six, so that is nice too. Sometimes it ends up being a lot faster, but I love it and Whitley, my daughter, we have actually been listening together before she goes to bed and it's been really, really fun and nice little special quiet time right before she goes to sleep. There are a lot of cute kid ones, like literally every book you can think of. Not every book is an audiobook, but there are so many audiobook options. We are reading the Diary of an Ice Princess books right now and they are very cute. We just finished Slush Puppy Love. I actually noticed, I think we. I think that's like the sixth book in the series, so I think we're going out of order, but it's, it's fine. They're perfect for her and we love listening to them together before she goes to bed.
Ciera:My fourth favorite thing right now is the billie glow body lotion. So billie is like a subscription service that you can pay for and they'll mail you like a box. It's like razor blades and razors and shaving products all the things that you might need. But I just threw in the lotion like to my last order, just to try it, and it is so good. It is like the scent is incredible and it makes my skin really soft. It's it's I really actually like it and it's like a glow body lotion, so it has ingredients in it that are supposed to make your skin glowy and beautiful. I don't know if I like super noticed that, but I do love the way it feels and I love the way it smells. So I it's super non greasy, it absorbs quickly and I love it. So I did notice that you can actually get it at Target so you don't have to do the subscription. You can just grab it at Target and it's really great. I really really love it.
Ciera:My fifth favorite thing is called Kiziks. So these are those slip-on shoes that you may have heard of. They may not be the cutest shoes ever, but they are so practical. I literally they're my go-to shoes, so much, just slip them on, I don't have to use any hands, and I love to use them, like when I'm just running errands or if I need to run outside really quick. I also have been wearing them to my yoga class recently. Like I don't ever want to like have to like be hurrying and putting on shoes as I'm. I've actually been wearing them to my yoga class recently.
Ciera:I'm always nervous that, for whatever reason, I'm going to've actually been wearing them to my yoga class recently. I'm always nervous that, for whatever reason, I'm going to get there and the class is going to be canceled or something's going to happen, which actually has happened once. So I was really grateful that I had these. So I don't necessarily want like slip-ons or something that is going to be um, like just as easy to put on, but I want something that I can. If I needed to, I could jump on the treadmill or do something, and so I love the Kiziks, because they're sneakers but they're slip-on and so I can get in and out of them quickly for my yoga class. But if I need to, then I have that option if I decide to get on the treadmill or do something else in the gym.
Ciera:So there you have it, my five favorite things my 4D mascara by Younique, the Body Restore Relief Shower, steamers in the Eucalyptus scent, the Libby app, billie Glow body lotion and my Kiziks. My slip-on sneakers. Those are my five current favorite things that I really probably use all five of them every single day. So send me your favorite things. I love to share them with the rest of the listeners. On what some current favorites are, it's that Galentineentine season, right like everyone's sharing their favorite things and going to favorite things parties, and I think it's really fun to hear all of the favorite things and discover something new that maybe you wouldn't have found without you know hearing it from someone. So, reminder to sign up for this love yourself challenge. I cannot wait to do that. I'm going to be doing it along, right along with you, and it will be a lot of fun. So, yeah, that's in the show notes, it's also on my Instagram and make sure you're signing up for that challenge and thank you so much for listening. Love to invite you to leave a review If you found this podcast to be helpful.
Ciera:If you love this podcast spread the love. This month it's Valentine's month. It's love month. Spread the love. I would be so grateful if you could leave me a positive review. Thank you for listening and I will talk to you next week. Thanks for listening. Connect with me on Instagram at confidently beautiful podcast and share this episode with someone in your life who could use a little reminder of just how amazing they already are. Stay confidently beautiful.