Look of the Day & Pregnancy Update: 22 Weeks
I’m not in the camp that is completely against leggings as pants. Like anything, it depends on the person wearing them. Or maybe I’m just using pregnancy as an excuse not to give a fuck. Either way, here is my look from today (photo taken at Walgreens). Leggings from Target, black tank from Express, Husband’s cardigan, knockoff Jimmy Choo handbag, and my favorite thrifted ($8) cowboy boots.
I am just over 22 weeks pregnant and the second trimester has been easy for the most part. Baby moves all the time, so much so that doctors have had to “chase” him around to find a heartbeat at recent visits. He also kicks hard enough to be felt and sometimes seen from the outside! Now that I am showing enough that strangers are unlikely to mistake my bump for a beer gut, I am very much enjoying being pregnant. I will probably miss it.
It seems like a lot of pregnant women can’t stand their husbands, but I could not be happier with mine. He is truly amazing, running out for random food items and never commenting on slips in my beauty regimen or sanity. Not to mention that the man was born to be a dad.
On the beauty front, I learned an important lesson this week about how much your skin changes during pregnancy. A few days ago I went tanning with a friend (with the fan on full blast). I have olive skin and have previously never really burnt. Sometimes I would come home from a particularly hot tanning bed with a sore bum, but the redness would always transform to a luscious tan within 24 hours. Not this time.
Now several days later, my back is still red and painful enough that I can’t wear a bra. I was scolded by my OB when she squirted Doppler gel onto my bright red belly. Hopefully my experience in the actual sun this spring-summer will be better. I’m glad to have realized how drastically my skin has changed during pregnancy before I decided to do something really stupid, like get a tattoo.
Cuuute boots and bump!
I’m sticking to Mystic…I’m still burnt as well + major peeling.
Mahahahahaha, were you even thinking about getting a new tat while pregnant? I wear leggings all the damn time because jeans are too hot. I wear long tops, tho, so no one can see my crotch.
Janine, don’t fake tan! ay ay ay. By the way, I love the name Sebastian! So cute…perfect.