I'm so excited to feature a guest blog from Casey D. Sibley, the maker of the gorgeous travel pouches we carry in the shop. Casey shares her tips for an eco-friendly beauty routine to get you glowing for warmer weather!

Like most women I want to have amazing, glowing skin but the thought of committing to an 11 step process or filling my entire vanity with different products overwhelms me. I have always been interested in finding the most efficient way to do things mostly because I am impatient. This need to problem solve and find a better way has led me to some awesome ideas….like Black Pearl. In the same way that I wanted a luxury, delightful, hassle-free swimsuit design and shopping experience- I want to find or create that for other areas of my life and multi-tasking beauty...

Around this time each year my social media and inbox become inundated with headlines for articles promising they have found the best suit for my body flaws -Hide your tummy! Make your chest seem fuller! Downplay wide hips! Sound familiar? Then there are the articles with the latest diet, workout and beauty routines all aimed at making me into a swimsuit acceptable version of myself - firmer, less bumpy, flat in all the right places and yet also somehow curvy in all the right places… basically flawless. How are we as women supposed to receive this messaging? Should our confidence or...