Purchased by me I honestly feel like I am going back to my OG days of beauty blogging and purchasing things on my own and then having this incredible freedom to talk about things whenever I want to and HOWever I want to, which means that a lot of what I discuss here are TRULY things that I love and want to rave about. Shortly after recovering from shingles, I felt the urge to bring focus to my eyes as I decided that I would be firmly wearing an N95 at all times at work as shingles was brought on by catching the 'vid at work again in 5 months. You know, the last time I was sick was in 2018? I ..read more

  Purchased by me Where did the last week go? I know it was a short week, but it felt like both nothing and ALL THE THINGS happened. I have been feeling a little grumpy as of late and just wanting to stay at home with my husband and cats while sitting on the patio reading a good book. I want to be a bit of a trophy wife for a bit and take some time off honestly. I would LOVE to take the whole summer off or just go to work like 3 days a week. Ah, that would be the life, but I think I would miss working with clients and of course looking at shiny things all day!  Today's mask is one ..read more

Press samples As I approach turning 40 this July, I feel like suddenly I have officially turned the corner into "mature" skincare, haircare, bodycare, you name it - it needs care now! I still have yet to have major grey hair issues, but I have the few that pop up from time to time that I gracefully yank out and no more do NOT grow back in their place! While I have been using "mature skincare" aka very hydrating products for a few years now, I haven't really thought about mature haircare. I generally use products for dry and colour-treated hair, so I thought the newly revamped BC Bonacure Tim ..read more

Press samples I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend! Alas, I did not have one, but my days off are coming up later in the week and I will make sure to enjoy them! I love flowers, but I am not the best at drawing actual petals and much prefer dotting. After awhile though, my flowers start to feel repetitive so over the weekend, I started looking for non-flower alternatives and stumbled upon this lovely manicure, by one of the OG nail bloggers, Sarah of Chalkboard Nails!   I probably went a bit dense on the lavender blossoms, but I sort of like how "bushy" they are! I used a fine n ..read more

Purchased by me Continuing on with the Disney theme, The Creme Shop also has a couple of themed masks mainly focused on Mickey and Minnie Mouse, but there are a few Winnie the Pooh items as well. The Creme Shop has a number of fun collaborations with Sanrio being my favourite, but when I saw these Minnie Mouse masks on sale at Winners, I knew I had to try them for the print alone!   What makes this mask special? The whole mask is printed and PINK so that alone is your skintertainment right there! It also contains collagen and allantoin that work together to soften and plump skin for a ..read more

Press samples Press-on nails have never really been my thing as I am generally able to keep my nails relatively long and decorate them, but recently I had to cut them all down after a very bad break and took it as an opportunity to test out some brand new press-on nails from none other than nail polish great Sally Hansen!  The Salon Effect Perfect Manicure come in four nail shapes and 24 nail art designs so if you have ever wanted to see what your hands would look like with coffin or almond-shaped nails, you don't need to bother with growing them out or going to a salon. You can try th ..read more

Purchased by me I have been looking forward to featuring m'Chel Haircare for a long time! This is a powdered dry shampoo that seemed to work absolute wonders for everyone's hair so I put this brand on my wishlist sometime in 2021, thanks to a glowing recommendation from Jenn Harper of Cheekbone Beauty. I kept hesitating on purchasing because of the US exchange rate AND the $25 international shipping charge which put this dry shampoo in the luxury pricepoint once all was said and done, but now that I have bit the bullet, I cannot see myself using anything else!    Founded by Mic ..read more

Press samples Welcome to the first set of nails that are truly how my nails are currently! A little shorter, but still long enough to do something fun with them although having those super long nails from last week made me realize how NICE even basic nail swatches look so I am now on a mission to grow my nails out long again! It's probably going to take a month, but I think I can manage to be careful until then!   While on the hunt for floral nail designs on shorter nails, I remembered that nail blogger Alice, from One Nail to Rule Them All, had short nails always with the cutest desi ..read more

Purchased by me This October, Disney celebrates its 100 year anniversary which is why we are seeing A LOT of Disney-themed collaborations! I am currently LIVING for all of the LEGO that has come out and from what I have read, there will be more sets released next month! I had no idea that these JM Solution and Disney masks were part of the celebration until I saw them at T&T this past March and as my husband was with me, I could only pick up one box even though there were 10 more types of mask! I feel like my husband would have greatly disapproved of me grabbing 11 boxes of masks at the ..read more

Press samples This was the last manicure with my gloriously long nails until I broke the middle nail so low that the little bit of tissue connecting to the nail was showing...the disparity in lengths was too much for me to tolerate and I ended up chopping all of them down to their nubbins last week. Hopefully, my nails will have grown a sufficient amount of surface area by this weekend to do some fun floral designs, but for now the only floral-theme about this manicure are the names of the polishes! I decided to recreate one of my favourite manicures from last summer, this bright blue dot ..read more