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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Currently loving | Beauty ♡

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well. Today I'm here to talk about what beauty products I'm currently loving.

Maybelline Baby skin instant pore eraser | A great cheap drugstore alternative to high end, can't say it's comparable to high end, but it's still great, and does it's job!

Benefit High Beam | A classic. One of my favorite highlighter - can't go wrong with it. Gives a great healthy glow. I love the color of it.

Too Faced Milk Chocolate Soleil | This matte, no shimmer bronzer is great. And the smell? Even greater. A bronzer that smells like chocolate!? Uhm, yes please!

Rimmel Scandaleyes in Nude | A great eyeliner for the waterline, easy to work with and very smooth.

Kate Von D Esperanza eyeshadow palette | Don't let the color selection fool you. It was actually on special at Sephora when I bought it, the color didn't look that much like something I would wear but I actually love it and wear it on a daily basis. I actually use all the color in this a lot, even the colourful ones sometimes. I love the shades galore and dog roses, and placebo (a coral) looks amazing in the crease, almost looks like a sunset haha! Anyways, amazing palette, and packaging! hehe

Wet n' Wild lipstick in Cherry picking | I believe that Wet n' Wild can do no wrong. This lipstick is so amazing and all the colours are beautiful (want mooore!) So pigmented, has great lasting power.

Rimmel Apocalips in Celestial | Love Apocalips. This color is so gorgeous. I really need to try more from this line.

Too Faced Chocolate Bar | This palette is amazing. Comes with 16 eyeshadows with matte & shimmer and shades of neutral/plums/pinks. And like the Milk Chocolate Soleil - it smells like chocolate! Yum.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Empties #5

Hi everyone! I haven't realized I haven't blogged for the past 7 days! Time seems to go by so quickly that I just don't realize!

Today, I'll be doing an empties post!

1. Rimmel Stay Matte Powder in Sandstorm.

This is one powder that I constantly go back to, it's not expensive and it works pretty well. I've been using this since high school and whenever I don't know which powder to buy I go to this one.

2. Physicians Formula Organic Wear Pressed Powder.

Another powder - I wish I could finish my other beauty products as fast as powder ahah! Anyways, this powder was good, but not AMAZING for me to run out and repurchase. The packaging was in like thin carton or something and the cover broke...

3. Bath & Body Works Marshmallow Fluff Hand Sanitizer.

I love those! I'm obsessed with B&BW hand sanitizer. This one smells really good. I love the PocketBac ones but I also like the pump ones. I'm also almost done using another one...

4. The Body Shop Vitamin E Moisture Serum.

This is a pre-moisturiser treatment. It's really great. This has been the product that made me obsessed with serums. I also really want to try more of The Body Shop's vitamin E range.

5. Garnier Nutritioniste Skin Renew Anti-Puff eye roller.

I really like using this! It actually works and really wakes you up in the morning. I will surely repurchase it once I'm done using all my eye creams.

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Friday, March 7, 2014

The five products face

You know when you're running late and you have less than 15 minutes to get ready? Or maybe you just want to have a natural makeup with just 5 products? Then if you have these 5 products or similar ones, you're good to go!

So to start of, for face makeup, if I want a really natural makeup look, I'm not gonna use a foundation. I'll just use a concealer, one that I'm really loving at the moment is my Benefit Erase Paste to hide under eye circle or any other imperfection. For a finishing powder I would use my MAC's Mineralize Skinfinish Natural Powder to even out my skin tone. For blush, I would normally go with a light pink glowy blush like Rimmel's Lasting Finish Soft Colour Blush in Pink Rose.

Now, for the eyes, eyeshadows would be the part we would skip. So I'd only use eyeliner, right now, I'm using L'Oréal Carbon Black Lineur Intense. To finish it off I'd use a voluminous mascara like Rimmel's Scandaleyes Showoff.

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Friday, September 6, 2013

August Favorites 2013 ♡

Hi everyone! I can't believe how fast summer went by. I honestly feel like it's just started and now it's already September! I'm having my first day of class tomorrow at college! Yesterday was more like a welcome day and stuff. Soon, I'll do my Summer Favorites so be on the look out for that.

So let's get started! :)

♡Rimmel Apocalips in Celestial: I'm you've all heard about the Apocalips on all on the blogs and on Youtube. Apocalips feels like a lipgloss, but has the coverage of a lipstick. Super pigmented with a satin smooth shine. It has a different texture, it's like a velvety lip cream. Super creamy and opaque as well. Celestial is a pink mauve which is a great neutral pink(ish) color! If you want to know more on the Apocalips, I have a full review right here.

♡Maybelline Color Tattoo in Bad to the bronze: Color Tattoos are another beauty product that is popular in the beauty world! Bad to the Bronze is a great color to put alone on your eyelid when you're in a hurry and it looks like you've spent time doing your eye makeup! On my eyelid, Bad to the Bronze looks like a neutral shimmery tan with a bronze. Which is gorgeous for a day-to-day eye makeup look or if enhanced with dark colors it can make a gorgeous smokey eye!

♡Bourjois Bronzing Powder: First off, how cool is that it looks like chocolate? But I honestly don't think it actually smell like chocolate just something sweet. It looks quite subtle and natural.

♡Maybelline Fit me! Shine-Free: This is perfect for me as it's something you can ready fast in the early morning. It looks very natural. The packaging makes it super convenient for touch up during the day! If you wanna know more, I have a full review about this right here.

♡Kat Von D Everlasting Face Shaper Blush in Por Vida: This is the latest blush to enter my collection and I love it! The color, pigmentation, staying power and texture makes it great. This blush is described as a warm pink, it's accurate, but I would say that there's hint of corals while adding a bit of a glow! It's super pigmented as well! I also have a full review on this blush right here.

From left to right: Bourjois Bronzing Powder, Kat Von D Blush in por Vida, Maybelline Color Tattoo Bad to the Bronze and Rimmel Apocalips in Celestial.

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Friday, August 9, 2013

Random Walmart Haul

You're probably suprised right now. With the fact that I DO buy other things other than makeup/beauty related things. Although they're probably all considered 'beauty' except the CD's/DVD! Aha omg.. Makeup addict probs. But you get what I mean.

For the past few months I've been trying to save because I'm leaving for College in September. I've tried going less to the stores where I can spend too much (like Walmart). But I don't think it was a good idea, because, since I've been going less to the stores, I've been reading alot of blog posts and adding stuff to my 'to-buy list', so the things I want have just increased way moreee! So I don't think it's a good idea to stop buying stop to try to save money. I'm a shopaholic and I don't think there's a cure!!

As you can see, I've bought alot of things! I don't think that you want to hear about everything that isn't beauty related and it would be too much of a long post anyway. So I'll just do a resume about everything.

From left to right, The first thing is Calgon Moisturizing Shower & Foam Bath, which I have no idea why I bought, because I just bought Soap & Glory Foam Call (think I forgot or something), the smell is so wonderful anyways! I bought Listerine Fresh Burst Pocketpacks, those things are like a rectangle of something minty (?) that you put in your mouth and it just melts away and your mouth will feel so refreshed ahah! I used to buy those all the time when I was younger. :) I bought the Scunci Value Pack that comes with 28 elastics and 5 headbands, I bought this cause I needed some simple black headbands and elastics. I've been wanting to see Life of Pi for the longest time, seems like such a wonderful film!

I bought Almay color + care liquid lip balm in Pink Pout. I've seen this Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigments in Never Fade Jade in an add in a magazine and it looked SO beautiful. I think it will be a great addition to my collection for the summertime and also a great way to colors to my everyday neutral look. :) I've been wanting this CD for quite a while now, I absolutely ADORE Mumford & Sons, this is Babel. Can't wait to listen it! Without thinking, I bought Robin Thicke's album, although I adore Blurred Lines and think it's the song of the summer, I usually never buy a CD to add it to my collection unless I LOVE the band/musician. I haven't heard much about Robin Thicke but I hope his CD won't dissapoint me. Last but not least, I've bought Rimmel Exaggerate Undercover shadow primer which I'm super stocked about because it's pretty rare to find cheap drugstore alternative to high end primer, so hope it's worth it!

Here's a close up of the beauty products I bought. If you want any review on the products I bought please leave in the comments below.

I hope you enjoyed this post that featured more than beauty. Altough I'm obsessed with beauty, I like other things! :) Other than that, I hope you're all having/had a lovely day... here it's been raining all day which is kinda annoying (specially when it's on your day off!) but atleast I did a lil shopping to cheer me up! :) Xx

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Rimmel Apocalips: Celestial and Big Bang // Review

Hi lovelies! They are FINALLY available in Canada. I bought products I've been waiting forever to put my hands on the Rimmel Apocalips. I bought two but I want more!! The two I bought are Celestial and Big Bang.

I would describe the Rimmel Apocalips as melted lipstick (feels like a lipgloss, but has the coverage of a lipstick), but Rimmel claims it's the rich colour of a lipstick enhanced by a satin smooth shine & that it's neither a gloss or lipstick. The texture is like a velvety lip cream. The consistency of these products is great, it's super creamy and opaque. Super pigmented and creamy. The application is amazing. No problem at all with stickiness.

The packaging, name, formula and color selection is what made me buy the product! Never judge a book by the cover, they say, but I was pleasantly happy with these product! The smell remind me of cucumbers, it's an okay smell in my opinion.

The lasting power/color payoff of the Apocalips is amazing! It last a long time. Altough the glossy finish fades away throughout the day the color will last for a while. What you see in the tube is what you will get on your lips, maybe even a bit more pigmented!!

In my collection of Apocalips at the moment I have two:

Celestial-
A pink mauve which a great neutral/every day/wearable color.

Big Bang-
The perfect classic bright red with blue undertones. SUPER pigmented.

Overall, I can say that I am truly obsessed with Rimmel's Apocalips and that I actually want the whole collection of 8 shades. (wishful thinking) They we're so worth the long wait! I'm super stocked on these little gems!

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Currently loving

Hi beauties! Hope your week has started right. I have a busy week! Ah :( Anyways, today I will be doing a post about things that I have been loving using.

Recently I've been loving natural makeup, using my Revlon Lash Potion mascara, it's a great mascara that gives volume and lenght, I haven't been wearing that much eyeshadow, but instead of using my using my usual black eyeliner I've switched to brown, using Revlon Colorstay Creme Gel Eyeliner in Brown, to be honest it's not the best gel eyeliner I've used. It's not easy to work with and the color won't stick that well. Anyways, I love the look brown gel eyeliner, if you guys have any recommendation please do let me know, cause I really like it! To complete the natural eye look, I've been using Rimmel Scandaleyes in Nude on my waterline. Looks way more natural than white! I just love the look of it. With the same eye look, I've been loving using Revlon Pink In The Afternoon (warm pink shade with a hint of coral) and Revlon Lip Butter in Pink Lemonade (mixture between baby pink and coral/peach shade).

Which beauty products are you currently loving?

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