Untamed Garden

It starts as white powder… and then the magic happens. 👀✨

This is one of my favorite parts of creating makeup from scratch — grinding, blending, adjusting, and watching the pigment slowly come to life.

No premade shades over here. Just a cosmetologist with a grinder, a formula, and a slight obsession with getting the color just right. 😂

From raw minerals → to the makeup that ends up on your skin. 🤍

POV: You ask me what I do for a living and suddenly it sounds like I need a lawyer. 😂🌿

For legal purposes, it’s skincare, makeup, herbs & homeschooling.
For entertainment purposes… mind your business. 🤣

Two steps. That’s it. 🌿✨

Your morning skincare routine doesn’t need 12 products to give your skin what it needs.

🌸 Aphrodite Toner — a botanical blend of hydrosols and skin-loving ingredients featuring calendula, tulsi + neroli to refresh, hydrate and prep the skin.

🌿 Morning Dew Serum — organic herbs slowly infused into nourishing botanical oils, featuring calendula, elderflower, rose + yarrow to leave skin soft, supported and GLOWING.

Simple. Botanical. Intentional.

Because skincare should feel less like a chemistry experiment and more like something your skin actually recognizes. 🤎

Aphrodite → Morning Dew → go live your damn life. ✌️

Here’s what I’d tell a brand new homeschool mom if I had no filter… turns out, I don’t. 😅

You’re going to spend an absolutely disrespectful amount of money on curriculum you swear is THE ONE… only to abandon it by October. 😂

Your kid will suddenly forget how to read the second you sit down for a “quick lesson.”

Some days you’ll be crushing fractions, baking sourdough, identifying native plants and thinking, holy s**t, I was MADE for this.

Other days everyone’s feral, somebody’s crying over handwriting, the toddler is naked, and you’re calling a documentary “science.”

You will panic that they’re behind.

Then you’ll hang out with other kids and realize… okay, they’re all just kids. Different strengths, different timelines, all figuring it out in their own way. 😂

You do NOT need to recreate public school at your kitchen table.

You don’t need a color-coded schedule.
You don’t need 47 subjects.
You don’t need to finish every workbook.
And for the love of God, STOP COMPARING YOUR HOMESCHOOL TO HOMESCHOOL INSTAGRAM.

Read the books.
Do the math.
Go outside.
Let them be bored.
Teach them how to cook, clean, grow s**t, talk to adults, solve problems and function like actual humans.

Pivot when something isn’t working.

Take the random Tuesday off.

Go on the field trip.

Throw the curriculum out if everyone fu***ng hates it.

They are learning ALL. THE. TIME.

And somewhere along the way you realize homeschooling isn’t really about perfectly educating your kids.

It’s about getting their childhood back.

And yeah… it’s chaotic as hell.

But I wouldn’t trade it. 🤎🌿

Well… that escalated exactly as expected. 😂

Turns out the girl who questioned everything grew up to question the ingredients, the beauty industry, the way we educate our kids, why we buy things we can make ourselves, and basically every sentence that starts with “because that’s just what people do.”

Now I’m over here homeschooling kids, foraging medicinal herbs, formulating skincare and makeup, making things from scratch and apparently becoming more feral by the year. 🌿😂

Please tell me I’m not the only one whose personality somehow turned into an entire lifestyle.

Somewhere along the way, we were taught that oil = clogged pores, breakouts, and greasy skin. 🌿

So we scrubbed harder. Cleansed more. Reached for products that left our skin feeling squeaky clean… and assumed that tight feeling meant they were working.

But healthy skin isn’t supposed to feel stripped.

The right facial oils can work with your skin—helping support the moisture barrier, replenish lipids, soften the skin, and lock in hydration.

The key is choosing oils intentionally. Different oils have completely different fatty acid profiles, textures, and properties—which is exactly why formulation matters.

Your skin doesn’t need to be stripped into submission.

It needs to be supported. 🤎

— a cosmetologist + herbalist who will forever defend a good facial oil 🌿

✨ Meet Earth Kiss Botanical Cleansing Polish ✨

Not every cleanser needs to foam.

Sometimes, your skin is asking for something gentler.

Earth Kiss is a water-activated botanical cleansing powder handcrafted with nourishing oats, honey, mineral-rich clay, herbs, and a touch of papaya enzyme to softly cleanse and polish without leaving your skin feeling stripped.

As a licensed cosmetologist and herbalist, I’ve always believed healthy skin starts by supporting the skin barrier—not fighting against it. That’s why every ingredient was chosen to help leave your skin feeling clean, soft, and comfortably hydrated while gently buffing away dull skin.

🌿 Colloidal oatmeal comforts and soothes.
🍯 Honey powder helps support a healthy skin barrier.
🌼 Calendula and chamomile calm and nourish.
🌸 Hibiscus adds a natural glow.
🌿 Marshmallow root leaves skin feeling soft and conditioned.
🍃 Papaya enzyme provides gentle exfoliation for a smoother, brighter complexion.

I love using it every few nights after cleansing with Midnight Oil as part of my evening ritual.

Because glowing skin doesn’t have to come from harsh ingredients—it can begin with the plants.

Welcome to the garden. 🤍

Yarrow may look like a simple wildflower, but it’s been treasured in herbal traditions for generations. 🌿

Topically, yarrow is known for helping support the skin’s natural healing process, calming the appearance of redness, and providing gentle antioxidant support. It’s one of my favorite herbs to infuse into oils and skincare because it reminds me that some of nature’s most powerful ingredients are growing right under our feet.

Every herb has a story—and yarrow is definitely one worth learning. 🤍

The easiest way I’ve found to dry herbs at home 🌿

No dehydrator. No fancy setup.

Just good airflow and a hanging mesh drying rack. It keeps herbs separated, helps prevent mold, and lets them dry evenly while taking up almost no space.

I use mine for calendula, yarrow, chamomile, mint, lemon balm, and more.

✨ DM me “DRY” and I’ll send you the link to the drying rack I use!

Meet Calendula 🌼

She may look like a simple garden flower, but calendula has been treasured in herbal skincare for centuries.

I love infusing the whole blossoms into oils because they’re naturally rich in skin-loving compounds that help comfort dry, irritated, and stressed skin. You’ll find calendula in so many of my formulations because it’s one herb I keep coming back to.

Sometimes the most powerful ingredients don’t come from a lab—they start in the garden.

What’s your favorite way to use calendula? 🌿