Here’s How I Met My Soulmate And What I Love In Beauty Right Now (Yes, I Still Love Beauty)

Friends! How are you? I miss you so much! And I’m sorry I’ve been MIA but I’ve been busy with life, the universe, and everything. I’m trying to slow down and come back! Life has been busy lately. I’ve been traveling, enjoying summer events, and being busy being silly here! Yes, I still love beauty but now it’s taken too seriously. Sometimes you need to take a break from the things you love the most to see how much you miss them!

I heard that the ELF Jelly Pop Primer is making a comeback and immediately rushed here to write about it. Because it’s a Jelly Pop Primer and it needs to be shouted about. Maybelline Grippy Serum Primer is my current new favorite but I will always be a Jelly Pop girl. I love how subtle it is, I love how makeup sticks to it like magic, and I think it makes things look flawless. It returns this Friday with the new Jelly Pop Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm and Jelly Pop Luscious Lip Mask and the return of the Jelly Pop Glow Reviver Lip Oil. I am very happy with this and will absolutely buy a few more tubes when it drops! Are you a fan of the formula?

For the past two weeks I have been spending time with my soulmate aka my best friend who has become a real life best friend. Visualize it. It’s 2020, we’re deep into lockdown mode. I download Tiktok and spend a lot of time scrolling doom because during the shutdown, all we had was the right time? I laugh and comment on Tiktok and suddenly I’m on a fast track going 100 miles an hour to become super fast friends with the guy who posted it. Suddenly we talk every day, we learn to cook delicious food together because I heat boiling water and that’s it! We end up taking the online Jamie Oliver Masterclass together (but we’re still a little desperate)! I mean how cool are we now? Once, we almost burned down my house and his apartment as we tried to make a good mushroom risotto the way we did it in the microwave because we found a “quick recipe” online to do so. Don’t worry, it’s not Jamie who approved that approach. We end up doing dramas together, we play together, and I even met her boyfriend last summer when he came to New York on a business trip. We laughed a lot, shared a lot, texted, video called, and behaved like two middle girls together for the next few years of our lives. We exchange gifts on our birthdays, holidays, and just because. Here we are living the best moments of our online lives together.

And suddenly the years flew by and I’m not sure how that happened because it seems like yesterday I laughed at his Tiktok. He lives a million kilometers away but last week we finally saw each other. We went to Mexico together, saw Jeff Satur in concert, went to a Heart Killers meetup (like, the four of them, together, in the same room!) and screamed so hard we both had sore throats the next day. How is my health right now? It was special considering that Jeff rarely comes to this side of the world. This week, we ended up eating everything. He wanted to go to Olive Garden, he wanted to go to Wendy’s, etc…etc….the list of crazy restaurants and food he wanted to try was endless. I can’t believe I had to sit with him on salad and breadsticks but I did haha! He weighs about 140lbs soaking wet, not sure where the food is going. At one point he asked me where the nearest Buc-ee was and I had to break my heart and tell him it was going to be Texas.

Here’s the thing though…! I was nervous when it was time to meet him for the first time. The hand trembled, the knees hit each other, they almost cried because of fear. We had spent a lot of time together online but I was really afraid that he wouldn’t like my real life. What if the magic we had online doesn’t work the same way offline? My boyfriend kept telling me I was overthinking it and I had no reason to feel the way I did but I was just scared! I mean, I met up with my Whovian Reddit group recently and that wasn’t easy at all.

So, what happens next?

It worked. Everything just clicked. When I met him at the airport he ran to me screaming and crying and we completely melted in front of God and everyone. Like you’re out of breath with tears! There was no doubt in him. I thought that maybe in that first time we will be shy, greet each other silently, and slowly get used to our real life. But no, it was him at the same time crying BELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I was happy to finally see her, hold her hand, hug her, and laugh together but I thought it would take time to do all that. It didn’t happen. It just happened in an instant. We hugged, walked out of that airport waving and doing this before a hundred times. And the laughter came immediately! When we got into the car we started giggling. Everything unfolded. I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly and I’m glad it did.

Sometimes you meet friends in unexpected places. These past few days our online life has entered into real life and it’s pretty amazing. It turns out that the real challenge is not in the first meeting but in the meeting when the time comes. I just know it’s going to be hard. And unfortunately, it’s not like it’s not easy for both of us to just fly to see each other more often since we live a million miles away from each other.

I hope you enjoyed reading this. I hope you will meet friends in unexpected places. I wanted to share it because the world has been in chaos lately and this is what brought me joy this month. I hope it made you smile a little by reading it. I miss you all! I’m doing my best to come back.