Hello!

I'm Lissete, a plant biologist that decided to become a stay at home mom.
I graduated with a Ph.D. in plant biology in 2012, I had a teaching position in a small, private college and was very happy! But my husband was having a hard time enjoying his job so we decided to take the plunge and move for the sake of his happiness. In the process we became pregnant so we decided that the best thing to do was for me to stay at home with our daughter (we live away from family and didn't have any friends in the area at the time, so it was logical to us for me to stay at home).
After giving birth I developed a very bad case of post-partum depression and the one thing that helped me the most was to start taking care of myself. I started having little "me time" moments here and there and developed an addiction for all things beauty (makeup, skin care, etc). 
I joined the Instagram (IG) beauty community in March 2016 and I have made great friends over there. I also started learning about products and recently something clicked in my head! here I am spending money on products that might or not might work for me just because they have cute packaging or they are hyped online, why don't I use my training (I'm a biologist after all) to figure out if the product is actually worth it? So I decided to call myself The Stay at Home Biologist and start checking onto skin care product's ingredients and test them to see if they are actually good and worth trying.
That's what I hope to achieve with my reviews, I hope I can provide good info for you all! Being the beauty addict I am, of course I'll share from time to time some beautiful, amazing makeup as well.
Please join me and make sure to ask any questions you might have, I'll try to answer them as best as I can (i.e. if you would like to know more about an specific ingredient, the toxicity, regulations, benefits, etc) I'll be happy to help!

Much love,
Lissete

The Stay at Home Biologist.