Heather Gay’s Square Chain Sunglasses and Watercolor Cover Up in San Diego

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 3 Episode 10 Fashion

Heather Gay’s gold square sunglasses that she wears on the yacht in San Diego on last week’s / this week’s episode of RHOSLC are super fab. And thanks to their super visible logo hanging off the chain, they definitely weren’t too much of a champagne for us to find. 

Fashionably,

Faryn

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You’ve probably heard me go on and on about my oily skin (sorry not sorry). It just means I’m always on the lookout for products that prevent me from shining like a disco ball. One recent find, the $5 TikTok-viral Brighten Up! Banana Powder from essence, has been an absolute favorite—but now, the video-sharing platform has helped me discover yet another mattifying product that’s available on Amazon.

Everything beauty guru Mikayla Nogueira touches turns to gold, or in shopping terms, sells out. So when there’s a product she’s endorsed that hasn’t been swept off the shelves yet (and also so happens to be on sale for 15 percent off on Amazon, it’s a good day. Grab your own while it’s discounted from $40 to $34, and be sure to sign up for a Prime membership or a free 30-day trial if you haven’t already.

Mikayla recently got Mally Beauty’s Poreless Face Defender trending, with her TikTok try-on amassing a very impressive 12 million views.

@mikaylanogueira

But honestly I’d prob just use a blotting sheet or roller if I needed! 😀 @TheBeautyRadar #makeup #beauty

♬ original sound – Mikayla Nogueira

The TikToker explains how she doesn’t like using face powders because she has dry skin (which can be more prone to a cakey look post-powder). Even as someone who has oily skin, I can relate. When in doubt and regardless of your skin type, reach for the Poreless Face Defender, a balm that provides a long-lasting matte finish on the complexion. Blush and bronzer balms are having a moment, which convinces me that this formula might be worth a try.

This mattifying balm is the perfect alternative to primer and powder, as you can dab it on before your makeup to prep your skin or after your makeup to lock it in place. If you’re going for more of an au naturale look, simply apply it over your bare skin to vanish any oiliness. We love a good multitasking moment!

Mally Beauty’s Poreless Face Defender is no joke and neither are the results shown in Mikayla’s TikTok that has shoppers beelining straight to Amazon. Shop the magical balm for 15 percent off and let your oily skin worries fade away.

RELATED: TikTokers Say This $5 Mattifying Powder Makes Their Skin Look Like ‘Facetune in Real Life’ & It’s Selling Out 

Photo: Mally Beauty.

The Poreless Face Defender is sheer and weightless and gives you that blurred, airbrushed effect. Your pores that are looking a bit larger than desired? Gone. The layer of a not-so-ideal shine coating your face after a couple of hours? Also gone. This product keeps your skin fresh and flawless rather than cakey and dry.

Gently pat the lightweight, translucent formula all over your face, making sure to avoid swiping and rubbing the product on, since that’ll only move around the existing oils and makeup on your skin’s surface. Here’s a pro tip from the brand: Pat the balm around the edges of your lip to stop your lipstick from budging, or apply it over your lipstick to mattify. 

Of course, anything Mikayla loves, shoppers are also going to adore.

“I use it on my T-Zone and it makes my makeup shine-free all day! Seriously! When I get home my makeup still looks pretty darn good after a 10-hour work day,” raved one five-star reviewer. “I haven’t even used my compact powder or loose powder since I started using this.”

“This has seriously changed my life! I have such oily skin no matter how much mattifying primer, powder and spray I use,” wrote another shopper. “With this, I put it lightly under my makeup and lightly over and it stays matte all day! If I do get oily, I just pat a little over my face and I’m good to go. It’s completely sheer, it doesn’t cake, it doesn’t dry you out.”

Mikayla’s try-on mixed with the glowing shopper reviews are all you need to add Mally Beauty’s Poreless Face Defender to your Amazon cart. Apply it whenever you do your makeup and throw it in your bag for quick touch-ups throughout the day. Before you know it, you won’t be able to leave the house without it.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, STYLECASTER may receive an affiliate commission.

You’ve probably heard me go on and on about my oily skin (sorry not sorry). It just means I’m always on the lookout for products that prevent me from shining like a disco ball. One recent find, the $5 TikTok-viral Brighten Up! Banana Powder from essence, has been an absolute favorite—but now, the video-sharing platform has helped me discover yet another mattifying product that’s available on Amazon.

Everything beauty guru Mikayla Nogueira touches turns to gold, or in shopping terms, sells out. So when there’s a product she’s endorsed that hasn’t been swept off the shelves yet (and also so happens to be on sale for 15 percent off on Amazon, it’s a good day. Grab your own while it’s discounted from $40 to $34, and be sure to sign up for a Prime membership or a free 30-day trial if you haven’t already.

Mikayla recently got Mally Beauty’s Poreless Face Defender trending, with her TikTok try-on amassing a very impressive 12 million views.

@mikaylanogueira

But honestly I’d prob just use a blotting sheet or roller if I needed! 😀 @TheBeautyRadar #makeup #beauty

♬ original sound – Mikayla Nogueira

The TikToker explains how she doesn’t like using face powders because she has dry skin (which can be more prone to a cakey look post-powder). Even as someone who has oily skin, I can relate. When in doubt and regardless of your skin type, reach for the Poreless Face Defender, a balm that provides a long-lasting matte finish on the complexion. Blush and bronzer balms are having a moment, which convinces me that this formula might be worth a try.

This mattifying balm is the perfect alternative to primer and powder, as you can dab it on before your makeup to prep your skin or after your makeup to lock it in place. If you’re going for more of an au naturale look, simply apply it over your bare skin to vanish any oiliness. We love a good multitasking moment!

Mally Beauty’s Poreless Face Defender is no joke and neither are the results shown in Mikayla’s TikTok that has shoppers beelining straight to Amazon. Shop the magical balm for 15 percent off and let your oily skin worries fade away.

RELATED: TikTokers Say This $5 Mattifying Powder Makes Their Skin Look Like ‘Facetune in Real Life’ & It’s Selling Out 

Photo: Mally Beauty.

The Poreless Face Defender is sheer and weightless and gives you that blurred, airbrushed effect. Your pores that are looking a bit larger than desired? Gone. The layer of a not-so-ideal shine coating your face after a couple of hours? Also gone. This product keeps your skin fresh and flawless rather than cakey and dry.

Gently pat the lightweight, translucent formula all over your face, making sure to avoid swiping and rubbing the product on, since that’ll only move around the existing oils and makeup on your skin’s surface. Here’s a pro tip from the brand: Pat the balm around the edges of your lip to stop your lipstick from budging, or apply it over your lipstick to mattify. 

Of course, anything Mikayla loves, shoppers are also going to adore.

“I use it on my T-Zone and it makes my makeup shine-free all day! Seriously! When I get home my makeup still looks pretty darn good after a 10-hour work day,” raved one five-star reviewer. “I haven’t even used my compact powder or loose powder since I started using this.”

“This has seriously changed my life! I have such oily skin no matter how much mattifying primer, powder and spray I use,” wrote another shopper. “With this, I put it lightly under my makeup and lightly over and it stays matte all day! If I do get oily, I just pat a little over my face and I’m good to go. It’s completely sheer, it doesn’t cake, it doesn’t dry you out.”

Mikayla’s try-on mixed with the glowing shopper reviews are all you need to add Mally Beauty’s Poreless Face Defender to your Amazon cart. Apply it whenever you do your makeup and throw it in your bag for quick touch-ups throughout the day. Before you know it, you won’t be able to leave the house without it.

When it came to researching my family history, I was lucky. My aunt had done much of the groundwork for me. She spent her retirement years travelling between Australia and England investigating our ancestry going back to the 16^th century. Moreover, she was a meticulous researcher, as I was to discover.

The beginnings of colonial Australia were extraordinary. In 1787 a fleet of ships containing around 1,000 convicts and 400 or so crew, officials and marines sailed from England across the world to a continent no one knew much about, with the aim of establishing it as a penal colony and, incidentally, claiming it as British.

Various European explorers, in particular James Cook, had come across the vast continent in the southern hemisphere some years earlier. Cook had mapped the east coast 18 years earlier, but he spent very little time there.

Needless to say, those First Fleet travellers had a very hard time of it. They had provisions to last them two years, but those two years went by without a word from the old country and the new colony very nearly starved to death. It would take another decade or two before it even began to be considered a country fit to live in and free settlers could be persuaded to go to live there voluntarily.

Into This Den of Iniquity Sailed My Four Times Great Grandmother

Her name was Mary Pitt, she was a widow in her 50s, and she travelled with five children. The family had lived in the tiny village of Fiddleford in Dorset all their lives, so what on earth led to her abandoning her home and everything she knew to go to live in a penal colony the opposite side of the globe, knowing she would never see her homeland again?

I discovered, or rather my aunt discovered before me, the instigator was Mary’s cousin George, who happened to be married to Admiral Nelson’s sister, which was significant. Mary arrived with no money but with influential connections, which stood her in good stead.

In the new colony, she was able to reinvent herself over time from a yeoman’s wife of good background but with no resources to a woman of some stature.

Family History Is a Very Big Deal in Australia

To begin with, the colony is less than 250 years old, which makes the research manageable. Everyone wants to know if they are descended from convicts or free settlers, when their Australian ancestors first arrived, and why, and whether or not there is any Aboriginal blood in the family.

There is a wonderful building in Sydney called the Mitchell Library that you can join for free. The records are pretty comprehensive, and there are knowledgeable and helpful assistants to guide the newcomer. Some of the earlier stuff is a tad ramshackle: scribbled notes on index cards, blurred documents on micro-fiche, all of which is being gradually scanned and digitised.

Every Country Town Has Its Own Library and a Family History Society

I travelled throughout New South Wales in the trail of my ancestors. I found boxes of old letters and diaries from pioneer settlers. And, of course, old newspapers. Australia is ahead of the game when it comes to computerising its newspaper collections, and they are now freely available online on a site called Trove.

You need to know how to run a search. Bad handwriting and rough scanning means that names can get garbled, so Pitt manifests itself as Pit or even Fitt, and the name of another ancestor called Robert Aull showed up as All or Orl or even Ail.

It’s little wonder it took me seven years and countless trips from my home in London to Australia, to the National Archives here in Kew – where I was able to lay my hands on the original indictments of my convict ancestors – and the records office in Dorset, before I felt I had a proper understanding of my family’s past and their struggle to make it in their new home.

It Is Difficult to Describe the Thrill of Discovering Original Letters Written by My Ancestress in 1801

Before she sailed on her major voyage to her new life in Australia, Mary Pitt wrote many letters. Family historians down the years had transcribed the letters, added punctuation and even bowdlerised them by expurgating the mention of the ship’s pregnant wife.

You very quickly learn the importance of primary sources and how, especially when it comes to family history, accounts can be distorted, and repeated, and moreover that not everything you read in the newspapers is true.

How to Go About Researching Your Family History

It depends where you live of course, and I only have knowledge of the UK and Australia, both of which have a Society of Genealogy (known as SAG in Australia) you can join. They have a wealth of literature, and experts on hand to guide you.

In London there are the National Archives, free to visit on registering, and the spectacular British Library, which contains virtually every book ever written, also free for registered users. There are family history groups and forums online, and websites such as Ancestry, FindMyPast and myheritage.com, which charge a membership fee.

The information on those sites is only as accurate as the people who put it up there however, and unless you can check it against original sources it should be treated with caution.

If you know where your ancestor was born, there will be parish records of their birth in the relevant local records office. Other certificates of marriage and death are often available online, and of course there are countless books that can set you on your way.

A Word of Warning

Family history can become addictive. There is always something new to discover, or a new way to go about it. The joy of learning about your ancestors and how they adapted to – or helped to mould – their adopted country is deeply satisfying.

My adventures introduced me not just to Australia’s controversial colonial history but to other family members scattered across the world, many of whom I never met but who not just added to my own knowledge but became companions in our expeditions into the past.

There comes a time, however, when research has to be put on hold while we get to write the book, or books – three in my case. And that is a different challenge altogether.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

How far have you travelled in your search for your family history? What sources have you used? Which ones were misleading? Which sources were the most trustworthy?

I have evolved over the years in my thinking around gift-giving to children as well as grandchildren. Perhaps you have, too? It’s a blessing that in many situations our grandchildren don’t “need” anything that their parents can’t already provide for them.

Our children are often better off than we were at their age, right? For which we should also be thankful, but it sure makes it harder for Mimi (or whatever grandmother name you use) to come up with gift ideas, doesn’t it!?!

Love of Learning

I am a lifelong learner, and I find many grandparents are as well. We love to learn new things, find it exciting to discover information about various aspects of life, and may even enjoy the opportunity with our grandchildren when teachable moments come along to hopefully instill in them the same love for learning.

So, initially, when grandchildren came along, one of my first thoughts was to find ways to stimulate brain development to help them become confident, capable, and maybe even enthusiastic, lifelong learners.

Colorful and engaging infant toys, the latest learning gadgets for all ages, and the gift of music in many forms were often on my list of gift ideas. Even the nostalgic gifts of basic things like jump ropes, tinker toys, or favorite classic books were common purchases.

I eventually came to cringe at the thought of walking through toy aisles (everything looked so cheaply made even if it wasn’t what I was looking for) or even scrolling online (since I really dislike shopping in general).

Then I remembered how differently my children valued “stuff” when it was their own money they were spending when we gave them cash for gift spending as young children.

The Need for Money

So, I switched to giving cash to the adult children (our grandkids are still a bit young for that, but school age is right around the corner). Let them pick what they want or need themselves and then no one has to deal with returns or polite thank yous was my thinking.

But I rarely learned what the gift purchase ended up being and sometimes feared it all ended up in a pot of money that may have just been lumped in with other bills/expenses. Not the “treat yourself” idea I had in mind, though if that is what they needed, then I guess that served a purpose too.

Financially, if you value and can help with providing a college education with your gift dollars, there are two main ways grandparents can help their children/grandchildren. You can always pay tuition costs directly to a school OR you can contribute to a 529 plan.

Paying a school directly does not count against the $16,000/year gift tax exclusion, it reduces your estate, and it is not taxable to the student. Contributing to a 529 plan has gotten easier and more flexible over the years and can be another “money” gift idea.

To me, a 529 contribution exemplifies my belief in the value of education and directs the monetary gift to that purpose. Electronic deposits via an emailed invitation or website login into an account that the parents set up seems like a win-win-win (for grandparents, parents, and grandchildren).

I still like to have a very small gift for the grandchild to open as another reminder that Mimi and Papa are thinking about them.

Opportunities to Create Memories

There is no right or wrong in gift giving to children or grandchildren as it is a very personal situation decision. We have now evolved to “experience” giving. A gift certificate for a concert, tickets to a local event, or Groupons for a family fun activity would be examples.

A believer in the impact of making memories versus accumulating things, I found sharing experiences to be more reflective of our family values. And now with children and grandchildren strewn across the country, shared vacations that we can help provide are becoming more of a preference for all.

Your Personal Journey

At a basic level, this idea of gift-giving is part of our personal finance journey. Our spending plan, especially as we near or are in retirement, needs to include decisions about our gift plans. We may ride a fine line in retirement between wanting and being able to be generous as we also don’t want to be a financial burden and make sure we don’t run out of money ourselves.

Oh, if we had only known earlier in life some of the personal finance lessons we may have learned the hard way! That lament is exactly what has motivated me to compile some money checklists related to various life events. They are great gift ideas for youth and adults of all ages and stages of life if you are interested in sharing money tips that you wish you coulda, shoulda, woulda known sooner. And the one possibly most helpful for us Mimis, a checklist for retirement, is kicking off the year in January.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

What has been your gift-giving journey? What have you come to find works best for you? Any suggestions or experiences you can share with our community? Let’s have a discussion.