Month: April 2020

Welcome to My Beauty Pharm! This blog is a long time coming! For many years now I’ve loved sharing all of my favorite things all over social media and I wanted to create a space where I could share all aspects of my life in one place!

So, let’s get started! If you’re new around here, welcome! My name is Jen, I’m a pharmacist at a local retail pharmacy, but as you’ll quickly get to know, my passion lives here. I live in Vermont (I know, random.) with my boyfriend, two bengal cats (Leo & Neo) and our Golden Retriever pup, Brixton! I am definitely NOT your average pharmacist. Okay, there might be a small nerdy side of me, but I live and breathe for all things fashion, beauty, girly and FUN! I don’t know about you, but when I think of that person behind the counter in a white coat, I think ‘NERD ALERT!’ lol (sorry, but it’s true.)

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In 2015, when I graduated pharmacy school from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (#PantherPride) I knew I needed some sort of creative outlet and I began an online beauty business! I would spend countless hours after work and on my days off connecting with women all over the country teaching them how to apply makeup through Facebook tutorials and helping them feel confident in their own skin! I poured about 4 years of my life into this business and through this I began sharing a lot of my personal life on the internet to inspire the ladies I was working with that if I could do this, anyone could. In 2019, I started an Instagram account and started sharing primarily affordable fashion finds, style tips and how to look and feel your best without breaking the bank. I have loved sharing snip bits of my life on social media, but I’ve always wanted more control over what I can share. Unfortunately, social media platforms controls pretty much everything about your account including: who sees what, how long your videos can be, what your caption can include etc.

So here I am- My Beauty Pharm’s blog was born! A space where I can share everything from affordable, girly fashion, my favorite concealer, the best all inclusive resorts, how to get the perfect smokey eye, my favorite home decor, the easiest way to get a perfectly sparkling clean shower, the best margarita recipe, quick one pan dinners and more!

I don’t know everything, but I promise I’ll help you find the answer to it! You’ll quickly see that I’m an open book and if you don’t already see the answer to it here, don’t be afraid to reach out to me on any of my social channels or via email! I’m excited to let you all into my crazy life!

Xoxo,

Jen

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Hi friends! Time to meet the fam! You’re going to be seeing a lot of these faces around here, so I thought they deserved a formal introduction on the blog!

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So let me introduce you to my 4 boys! Leo (brown) & Neo (silver) are my two bengal cats! They are from the same litter and just turned 5 years old on May 9th! I adopted Leo in 2015 right when I graduated pharmacy school (he was my graduation gift to myself), but when I went to pick him out Neo actually was the one who was super cuddly with me, and they always say your pets pick you, however I went home with little 8 week old Leo! Side note- when I picked Leo out of the litter, the breeder actually told me he was a GIRL! Which is another reason why I chose “him” at the time I had really wanted a little girl kitten…so really I was bringing “Luna” home LOL Spoiler alert- she’s a boy! Anyway, it obviously worked out, he was my first little love, my first pet (I don’t even like calling him a pet because they’re definitely family!) and he literally did everything with me as a kitten! About a year later, I received a call from the breeder that Neo (that was already his name!) needed a new home because his owners were splitting up and couldn’t keep him- I didn’t even think twice about it and said yes! On National Cat Day of 2016, I brought my second fur baby home! It took them about a week to learn how to co-habitat, and realize that neither of them were going anywhere, but I definitely think that they know they’re brothers because as you can see above, they’re real life besties. They are so much fun, and one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! I had NO idea what I was getting myself into with Bengal cats, and had no idea how much attention they required, how much energy they had, how talkative they were and I still learn things everyday, but I do know they are the most lovable creatures and they taught me a love that I didn’t know existed!

Then comes Kyle! We met June 11th, 2018, and wait for it… we met on a DATING APP! People honestly don’t believe me when I tell them this story! Kyle is also a pharmacist, and as I’m sure you can guess, Vermont is not very big and the pharmacy world is even smaller, so it’s so crazy that we had never met prior. I’ll save our entire meeting/dating story for another post, but long story short we met on Bumble! I saw his picture pop up, swiped right, and when we matched I messaged him in about 0.2 seconds. He actually screen shotted my first message and sent it to his friends of course and we still joke about it to this day. We talked for a few days, he was flying home to Ohio for a wedding and then we met the following Monday! It was such a fun first date, we met The Farmhouse, which is a local restaurant/bar in Burlington, we were just talking and getting to know each other, and before we knew it, they were closing the place down! It went pretty much as good as a first date could possibly go! We actually weren’t super serious initially though, he had also just gotten out of a serious relationship as well and it took us a couple of months to decide what we wanted out of this (basically we wanted to make sure we were both ready to dive into something serious). Finally, near the end of the summer, I was the one to be like “okay, we need to figure out what we are and where we’re going to go from here.” We knew we had already started caring so much for each other, we had so much fun together and decided that we did not want to picture going our separate ways. We went all in, and the rest is history! He moved in with me (I had built a condo and moved into it about a week before we met!) last Fall and that’s where my next son comes into play!

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Meet Brixton! Kyle adopted him when he first moved to Vermont in 2015, just a day before he started his job here! He just turned 5 on March 25th, and is the sweetest Golden Retriever you’ll ever met! It was so easy to accept that Kyle and Brixton were a package deal, because he’s honestly the most loving dog on the planet! I never imagined I’d meet a guy with a big dog, and that we’d all be living in my condo that I envisioned just as my little Bach pad, but here we are- one big happy family!

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Thanks for reading! Until next time!

Xoxo,
Jen

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