Hello all! I am so glad that 2017 is over with. Political hailstorms, hypocrisy, stress at work and well, an endless supply of existential crises made for a crap year!

I've had time to reflect and now am ready to share a few things from the past year. To keep this short, here are seven significant things that impacted my life, during 2017:

1.  Goal setting. Small, and big: I set goals for myself-- and completed them.  I started keeping a bullet journal to track daily tasks and found myself incorporating a habit tracker, making sure that I ate, took vitamins and did other basic tasks (that would otherwise be overlooked in the course of my day/days off), while teaching myself better time management skills, prioritization and not to be overwhelmed.

Here's just a few things that Sephora and Ulta should really be doing:

Cut the Asian beauty inspired crap.

I'm pointing the finger at Sephora more or less, with it's "K-beauty skincare", and "Asian Beauty" routines which just seems like a new angle to market mediocre, mid-performance prestige products to consumers.  

Instead, both stores should stock actual products from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China and other areas, and market it as "beauty from abroad".  It could be products are known but maybe harder to come across online (L'herboflore masks); well known products that might able to be sold in Sephora and Ulta (Etude House, Holika Holika, Peripera, etc) or a mixture. Just a thought: since princes themed brand Too Faced does pretty well, why not add Etude House to the mix?