The Courtney MacDonald

Your makeup base is probably not the problem… but your skin prep might be!

Because if your foundation is clinging, looking textured, sitting in pores or just refusing to give you that smooth, glassy finish — adding MORE makeup isn’t necessarily the answer.

Sometimes you need to ace the skin underneath the base first.

And this is my dark horse product for doing exactly that: Tropic’s Fruit Smooth Serum🍋‍🟩✨

We were taught for YEARS that exfoliating meant attacking our faces with gritty scrubs until they felt squeaky clean (and raw 🤦‍♀️).

But those harsh, abrasive particles can be way too aggressive - especially if you’re scrubbing hard or using them frequently (me using daily scrubs in 2011 - completely clueless!). They can irritate the skin and disrupt your skin barrier, leaving you with exactly what you don’t want:

Dryness
Sensitivity
Inflammation
More visible texture
Redness & stinging

Fruit Smooth takes a completely different approach.

Instead of physically scrubbing away at your skin, it uses gentle exfoliating acids and fruit-derived ingredients to loosen and lift away dull surface skin, while helping skin look brighter and smoother.

And THIS is why I love it the night before a makeup day.

It gives you that ridiculously soft, polished, glassy feeling without needing to scrub your face into submission 😂

The result?

✨ Smoother-looking texture
✨ Brighter, fresher skin
✨ Makeup that glides on rather than clings
✨ A much more flawless-looking base
✨ All without that stripped, tight feeling afterwards

I genuinely think Fruit Smooth is one of Tropic’s dark horse products because everyone talks about what foundation or primer they’re using…

…but sometimes the secret to better makeup is actually better skin underneath it.

Ace your skin → ace your base 🤌🏼

If your makeup has been looking cakey, textured or just meh lately, message me BASE and I’ll help you work out what your skin actually needs🤍

I don’t think most of us are actually dreaming about becoming millionaires.

I think we’re dreaming about the options, choices and freedom the money will give us.

The ability to take our kids for lunch without checking the bank account first.

To book the Pilates class

Pay the cleaner

Work when it fits around our family

Take a random day off because the sun’s out

To stop living for weekends, annual leave and the occasional holiday where we finally get to feel like our life belongs to us.

Since becoming a mum, my definition of success has completely changed.

I’m still wildly ambitious

I just don’t want the reward for that ambition to be less time with the people I’m doing it all for.

So I’m building differently

More time
More income
More freedom
More CHOICE

Not ‘someday’

On a completely unremarkable Tuesday

I call it The Tuesday Dream.

And if you’re a mum thinking ‘wait… THAT’S what I want’!

you’ve found your people.

Welcome to The Tuesday Club 🌿

Follow along while I build mine — and maybe start building yours too

I don’t think most of us are actually dreaming about becoming millionaires.

I think we’re dreaming about the choices and options money will give us.

The ability to take our kids for lunch without checking the bank account first.

To book the Pilates class

Pay the cleaner

Work when it fits around our family

Take a random day off because the sun’s out

To stop living for weekends, annual leave and the occasional holiday where we finally get to feel like our life belongs to us.

Since becoming a mum, my definition of success has completely changed.

I’m still wildly ambitious

I just don’t want the reward for that ambition to be less time with the people I’m doing it all for.

So I’m building differently

More time
More income
More freedom
More CHOICE

Not someday

On a completely unremarkable Tuesday

I call it The Tuesday Dream

And if you’re a mum thinking ‘wait… THAT’S what I want’!

you’ve found your people.

Welcome to The Tuesday Club. 🤍

Follow along while I build mine, and maybe start building yours too

I don’t think most of us are actually dreaming about becoming millionaires.

I don’t think we’re really dreaming about ‘money’ at all. I think it’s more the choices and opportunities money will give us.

The ability to take our kids for lunch without checking the bank account first.

To book the Pilates class.

Pay the cleaner.

Work when it fits around our family.

Take a random day off because the sun’s out.

To stop living for weekends, annual leave and the occasional holiday where we finally get to feel like our life belongs to us.

Since becoming a mum, my definition of success has completely changed.

I’m still wildly ambitious.

I just don’t want the reward for that ambition to be less time with the people I’m doing it all for.

So I’m building differently.

More time.
More income.
More freedom.
More CHOICE.

Not someday.

On a completely unremarkable Tuesday.

I call it The Tuesday Dream.

And if you’re a mum thinking ‘wait… THAT’S what I want’!

you’ve found your people.

Welcome to The Tuesday Club. 🤍

Follow along while I build mine, and maybe start building yours too

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Maybe we’ve been sold the wrong version of ‘success’

Because when I picture the life I’m building, I’m not dreaming about never working again or having millions sitting in the bank (although I’m certainly not taking that possibility off the table!)

I’m dreaming about choice.

The cleaner coming on a random Tuesday without it feeling like an extravagance.

Ordering lunch without checking my banking app first.

Buying my boys the ice cream / toy / overpriced babyccino because I want to, without mentally moving money around afterwards.

Deciding we’re having a slow morning because we can.

Working because I have something I’m excited to build, not because somebody else owns my time.

That’s the Tuesday Dream for me.

Not necessarily MORE everything.

Just enough time, income and flexibility that the tiny decisions that make life feel really bloody good don’t require a committee meeting in my head first 😂

And I think that’s why building something around motherhood has become so important to me.

I don’t want success that takes me away from the life I’m trying to create.

I want what I build to PAY for more of it.

More cleaning. More lunches. More spontaneous yeses. More random Tuesdays that belong to US.

That’s my kind of rich as a SAHM of 2 boys.

The internet talks about stay-at-home mums like we’re all softly lit trad wives baking banana bread in matching linen sets all day…. IF ONLY 🤣

Meanwhile most of us are surviving on one income, reheating the same cup of coffee 4 times, carrying the entire mental load of the household and running on an overstimulated nervous system.

Motherhood is beautiful. But let’s stop pretending it isn’t also relentless sometimes.

To be honest, I realised pretty quickly that I didn’t just want to ‘get through’ these years. I wanted motherhood to feel more expansive. More spacious. More supported.

That’s why I started building income from my phone during nap times. Tiny pockets of work that now help create more choice, more breathing room, and little luxuries that make life feel softer without sacrificing being present with my kids.

Not because I want to escape motherhood.
Because I want to enjoy it more (and outsource the washing!) 🌿✨

I think more Mums NEED to hear this about network marketing.

People are quick to judge it… and throw terms like ‘pyramid scheme’ around (which by the way, are illegal!) but when you actually look at the structure of most traditional workplaces, they’re literally built like pyramids too!!

At your workplace is there:
A small number of people at the top
Managers in the middle
Employees at the bottom keeping everything running

So the difference between traditional jobs and network marketing?

In most traditional jobs:

🌿your income is capped
🌿your schedule is generally dictated
🌿progression takes years
🌿you’re often building somebody else’s dream (on a 2% annual pay rise if you’re lucky)
🌿capped annual leave and permission required

What shocked me about network marketing was how supportive it actually was, and that every single person who joins has the same opportunity to succeed.

🌿you don’t need business experience
🌿you can earn whatever you want to
🌿you can work whenever/wherever you want
🌿you don’t need loads of money to start (I started with £66!)
🌿you’re surrounded by people actively WANTING to help you succeed because your growth benefits everyone
🌿there’s no targets or pressure (in my business anyway!)

That by no means makes this easy.

It’s still a business, it still takes consistency, people skills, resilience & time.

But for Mums especially? The flexibility and potential can genuinely change lives - it opened a door for me id been searching for for years.

Being able to work around naps, nursery mornings, school runs and family life instead of trying to squeeze family around work… that matters.

And honestly (THANKFULLY) I think more women are waking up to the fact that there might be another way to build income without burning themselves into the ground.

That’s why I started, at 8 weeks postpartum. Because respectfully, I’m not giving the best of years of my life to build someone else’s dream 🌿✨

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