One of the most important parts of my makeup regime, if not THE most important, is my base. After all, every artist needs the best canvas to create their masterpiece. As someone who has combination skin (oily in places, dry in others) and battles with pimples (yes, even at age 36!)…I’m always looking for foundations that provide the smoothest coverage. Trying the newest innovations in foundation is always…
October 15, 2015
Beauty Brands Devoted to Defeating Breast Cancer
With October and the beginning of fall comes an important month in the year where we acknowledge Breast Cancer Awareness and support education and medical research to help defeat this terrible disease that is the most common cause of cancer in women worldwide, affecting nearly 1.7 million new cases in 2012. How can you help? There are so many ways that you can show your support,…
October 4, 2015
Canadians – Get a free Urban Decay eyeliner!
New and exciting news for my fellow Canadians – UrbanDecay.ca is officially live! Now Canadians can get access to Urban Decay’s insane range of velvety Eyeshadows—including the bestselling (and often-copied) Naked Palettes —, Urban Decay’s award-winning eye liners, budge-proof mascaras and legendary makeup setting sprays from the comfort of their homes! Top reasons to shop online at http://www.urbandecay.ca/: Early access to new launches before they hit stores! Exclusive offers…
September 19, 2015
Benefit They’re Real!
Break all the Rules and Paint your Eyelashes Blue! Though I’m a lover of all things nude when it comes to my eye makeup, this fall, I’m completely obsessed with wearing something totally different – blue eyelashes. Having always wished I was a blue eyed babe, now I can really work with my brown eyes and compliment them with blue eyelashes and eyeliner – made easy…
September 14, 2015
3 Perfect Pieces – Nars Fall 2015 Color Collection
This fall, NARS Cosmetics, one of my favourite cosmetics brands (I think I re-purchased NARS matte velvet lip pencil in “dragon” about five times…) has launched an elegant and sophisticated collection – NARS Fall 2015 Color Collection, perfect for the cooler, darker days. I was lucky enough to get my little hands on three pieces from the NARS Fall Collection that I think really deserve a closer look….
September 13, 2015
3 Eyeshadow Palettes Worth Splurging On
Just when summer is coming to an end, the kids are back at school, the days are getting shorter and we’re starting to feel a little ‘blah’ – leave it to the beauty industry to lift our spirits (or at least mine anyway) with 3 tempting new luxury eyeshadow palettes. Depending on whether you would consider yourself to be ‘A Temptress’, ‘Sophisticated Chic’ or ‘A Modest…
September 5, 2015
BB Cream for the Eyelids? Benefit Air Patrol
What will they think of next beauty babes? We have bb cream for the face, bb cream for the legs, and now Benefit has launched Benefit Air Control BB cream eyelid primer. Before we take a look at Benefit Air Control BB cream eyelid primer, let’s take a look at the definition of a BB cream: BB Cream stands for a blemish balm or beauty…
August 27, 2015
Get Naked and Smoke out with Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette
Urban Decay has done it again with the perfect must have eye shadow palette – Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette. Just when I thought I was fulfilled with the Urban Decay Naked Palette, 1, 2 and 3, word hit the street a few months ago that Urban Decay was launching Naked Palette no 4. Anxiously awaiting news of the new palette, the Urban Decay Naked Smoky…
August 24, 2015
Goodbye Tweezers, Hello Brows
In case you didn’t get the memo, the 1990s thin eyebrow era is long gone. Today we’re trying everything in our beauty regime to make our over-tweezed brows grow back, but unfortunately getting those sought after celebrity brows with natural hair, is easier said than done! Lucky for us, the makeup industry has heard our cries of regret (for tweezing almost every last hair we…
August 16, 2015
P & G Beauty United Back to School Giveaway
I’m lucky enough to be part of P&G’s Beauty United group of beauty bloggers. As part of Beauty United, we get first hand information on new product launches and up and coming trends with P&G Beauty brands. To celebrate the Back to School season, I’ve teamed up with P&G beauty to offer one lucky reader (sorry, Canadian residents only) the chance to enter this giveaway…