Mom Reviews

Summer is here and that means the humidity is here as well. As we all know, humidity is a big negative to moms when they are trying to style their hair. I have natural curly hair, and well most of the time in the Summer, my hair stays curly. The few times that I do straighten my hair, the humidity just turns my hair into a big ole frizz mess.

The time has come with the help of John Frieda International Creative Consultant, Harry Josh, to obtain the perfect Summer hair. The salon-inspired Full Repair collection is the first weightless solution for overworked and overstyled hair.

WIN!

On June 8th at 6:00pm ET, John Frieda will have a live webcast on their Facebook. During this 30 – minute interactive webcast, Harry will reveal how to practice safe styling with Full Repair by not only reversing the look and feel of overworked hair, but also shielding hair from the effects of overstyling. Each person that submits a question will receive a full size product: Those with fine hair will receive Perfect Ends Sheer Mist and participants with thick hair will receive a Perfect Ends Deep Infusion. Click here to go ahead and submit your question before the webcast.

Harry will answer all submitted questions during the half hour live webcast and will provide a special code that participants can use to enter to win the grand prize – a trip to New York and a haircut/style with Harry!

I will “see” you there!

As many of you know, I have been a work at home mom since M was born 8 years ago. I just could not leave her when my maternity leave was over. My boss even gave me another week of leave to think about terms, and I just could not go back. I took a leap of faith and left my great income and we were down to only my husband’s income. I knew, as a month went by that I needed to do something and contribute to the household income. It was eating at me to not be bringing in any income as I am a very independent woman. The mission started and within 2 weeks, I landed my first work at home gig with Hotels.com. My career has grown by leaps and bounds ever since, but it has always been on my heart to help other moms work at home as well. Over the years, I have passed on quality jobs to other moms and today I am getting that chance once again.

Juice in the City is hiring moms and they are hiring moms in and around the Charlotte, NC area as well as cities all across the United States. Juice in the City is a daily deal site founded by a mom who is so passionate about all moms. They are growing by leaps and bounds and are needing other moms to help continue to grow this very successful company.

Answer these three questions:

– Want to work your own hours with a home based career?

– Want to help preserve high quality local businesses in your community?

– Interested in joining a community of smart, fun women?

If you answered yes, then you are just the mom they are looking for. Go ahead and submit your application. They are not just another daily deal site, they are a site that really believes in community, supporting all the ones that are involved in the company and they love moms most importantly!

If you have questions, make sure to join in the Juice in the City Twitter Party on Thursday evening.

Join @juiceinthecity & @aboutone for #JITCjobs Twitter party 5/26 (9pm ET) 2 chat about working at home http://jitc.com/AOblog #AboutOne

Also, always know I am here to answer any questions at all for you as well. Let the work at home begin!

Disclosure: Juice in the City is an advertiser of One Moms World, but I still wanted to spread the word out and help my fellow moms.

The weather is heating up, the pools are open, so that means one thing, time to break out the swimsuits. It is National Swimsuit Confidence Week with Lands End.

I will go ahead and admit, I am not very confident when it comes to trotting through the community pool or public beach with my swimsuit on. I am pretty sure that there are a lot of moms that can shake their head in agreement. That is why Lands End is giving us that self confidence boost that we need to get through these summer months. No need to stress, it is time to just have a fun and stress free summer with your family.

We hit our first 90s today here in NC and so we loaded up the towels, sunscreen, water cooler and all put on our bathing suits and hit the pool. For the first time in a long time, I did feel confident in my swimsuit. I told my hubby I was going to post a picture of myself in my bathing suit but only wanted to do it waist up. As soon as I caught a glimpse of myself in the Lands End Swimsuit, I just got the biggest smile and told hubby let’s do a full body shot. I have lost 15 pounds since our March trip to Disney World and you can actually really tell in the picture. So today, along with 100 other bloggers, I am posting a picture in the swimsuit because I have swimsuit confidence.

I am just smiling. I am wearing the Women’s Regular Beach Living Dot Scoop Tankini Swimsuit. I absolutely love how this swimsuit conforms to my body and it is so comfortable. Also, the swimsuit actually stays in place. I did not have to worry about when I jumped in the pool, that I would come up and be hanging out all over the place. The material is such high quality as well, so you know it is going to last even past one summer. The swimsuit really brings out your best areas too as you will see in the above picture. The skirt is just amazing as I do not like my thighs at all so they can be hidden under the skirt. And… the design? Is it not just the cutest? Even hubby likes the polka dots which is very rare he likes a design that I pick out!

Guess what? You can have swimsuit confidence as well. Join Lands’ End each day May 23 – 27, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. CDST and participate in a series of National Swimsuit Confidence Week events on Twitter. The week long movement created to celebrate women of all shapes and sizes as well as educate and inspire them to embrace their swimsuit beauty and have fun this summer. Each day Lands’ End will give away 10 Lands’ End Swimsuits, 10 Lands’ End Beach Towels and announce exclusive swimsuit promotions!

Date: Each Day – May 23 – 27, 2011
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CDST
Location: #landsend
Follow: @LandsEndPR

Disclosure: Thank you Lands End for providing me the cute polka dot swimsuit so I can have swimsuit confidence all summer!