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Youth to the People Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Mask Review

Youth to the People launched their Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Mask in early 2019, and I had to pick one up right away. It is a sleeping mask, which means you can leave it on overnight, no need to rinse. It works it's magic while you sleep! And trust me, it is pure magic. … Continue reading Youth to the People Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Mask Review →

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Some #FriyayFaves (@the__glow__girl) 💕 What has everyone been loving lately? I’d love to know!! Is there anything you’d like to see a review of? Have a great weekend beauties 💗 *includes gifted items

Isn’t it beautiful!? Featuring the @natashadenona Metropolis Palette today. The creamy matte formula is outstanding and blends like a dream! 🌃

🍌This cream is bananas🍌 I have been LOVING the @glowrecipe Banana Soufflé Moisture Cream. It has a light and creamy texture, just like banana pudding. It has a soft banana scent that dissipates as soon as you rub it in. The star ingredients of this cream are banana (of course), magnesium, centella asiatica, chia seed, turmeric, and squalane. Together, these help to soothe, moisturize, and balance the skin, while maintaining the health of the moisture barrier. I have been using this as my day cream every day since I got it. What I love about it is that it is incredibly moisturizing, while being extremely lightweight. I have been searching for something like this as a day cream. I find I need to add an oil to most of them for my skin to stay hydrated, but I don’t need to with this one. It is also very soothing! So much so that I definitely notice a colour correcting effect as it calms my redness. Safe to say that I’m going bananas for this one! 🍌 Have you tried banana in your skincare? What are some of your favourite fruit extracts? #glowrecipe #bananasouffle

I recently picked up the @Kajabeauty Wink Stamp liner kit and wanted to show a demo of the product! It is an eyeliner kit that allows you to create quick and easy wings that are even every time. It comes with two parts - a stamp that creates the outer tail of the wing and a felt-tip black eyeliner to connect the tail to the lash line. My experience with the product: I absolutely love a good wing, so this product really caught my interest (bringing me back to my Midnight Wink days ;)). After trying it out, I decided I prefer drawing my wings free-hand to using the stamp. I found that the shape of the wing did not flatter my eye shape or my preference. It has a thick and stubby wing, and i prefer more of a slender flick, so personally I won’t be using the stamp very much. The liner that comes in the kit, however, is AMAZING! It gives such an opaque and even black line that is totally budge-proof once it’s dry. The liner is phenomenal! My take: there was absolutely nothing wrong with the wink stamp kit - It does what it promises. For me, this one just comes down to preference. I do think that this would be great for someone who has a difficult time getting even wings, as the stamp will ensure that both sides will be exactly the same shape, every time. That being said, I did find it tricky to get the angle and positioning to look right on both sides. It took me about 5-6 practice applications to nail down the technique and positioning, so there is a bit of a learning curve at the beginning. What I will say is that the felt tip liner is fantastic, so I really hope that Kaja makes this liner available as a stand alone product, without the stamp part. #kajabeauty #winkstamp #eyeliner #wingedliner

✨ Stay gold ✨ I’ve always been such a silver person, but lately I can’t get enough gold! Are you team silver or team gold?

💦 Drop an F-Balm 😅 F-Balm Electrolyte Waterfacial is the newest release from @drunkelephant. It is a supercharged overnight mask that works to boost hydration. It is packed with electrolytes to rehydrate your skin while niacinamide, squalane, ceramides, and fatty acids work to strengthen the acid mantle of the skin and lock in moisture. Drunk Elephant suggests to use this as the last step in your routine. It has a light texture, lighter than I would have expected to be honest, and contains little white capsules of vitamin F that burst when you apply it. It feels very refreshing on application and definitely reminds me of a water cream texture rather than a heavy mask. It has the same great “drink of water” feeling that you’d get from B Hydra. My experience with F-Balm has been really positive! I’ve tried it a number of ways, both over and under moisturizer. I do prefer it over moisturizer as I find it is less sticky this way. It really “seals” in your night routine when used this way as well. I typically use 3-ish pumps. The first time I tried it I was shocked how quickly it absorbed into my skin. I think I was expecting more of an occlusive feeling from F-Balm, as that’s what I’ve grown accustom to with other sleeping masks, but I liked how this didn’t feel tacky at all. My skin still feels super hydrated after it’s absorbed, it doesn’t leave me wanting more or feeling like I need to reapply. When I wake up, my skin still feels hydrated and has a nice plumpness. I think it would be killer layered with B Hydra, but unfortunately my B Hydra ran out just before receiving F-Balm, so I’ve not been able to test them together. F-Balm is DE’s first launch of the year and I’m excited to see what else they have in store! F-Balm retails for $52 USD or $68 CAD This product was kindly gifted by the brand. #fbalm #drunkelephant

Dreaming of sunny days ahead ☀️ Wishing you all a marvellous new year! As we head into 2020 I’m reflecting on the year that passed and another decade gone by. In the last 10 years, I met and married my best friend. I graduated with a BSc, MSc, and PhD. Bought my first home. Got to travel to old places and new. Landed my dream job. Lost some loved ones, and gained even more. And spent invaluable time with friends and family. I’m keeping all of these things in mind as we head into the roaring 20s. For me it really is a time of new beginnings. After calling Hamilton home for over a decade, we’ll be moving to Seattle and starting a new journey. I’m excited for what’s to come. I’d love to hear your favourite memory from the last year (or ten). Cheers 🥂

Saturday ear stack feat. my @mejuri faves ✨ . . . 🥐Croissant dôme ear cuff 🐞 Scarab gold vermeil hoops Pieces kindly gifted by #mejuri

And the award for my favourite holiday set goes to... @summerfridays Merry and Brighter mask set 🥇 I have been wishing and hoping (and tweeting and commenting) for a set like this from the brand for so long! I am so glad they came out with this one! It includes mini sizes of the R+R and Overtime masks and a full size of the beloved Jet Lag mask. At $64 it’s a great value and a great way to try the brand! I’ll be using Overtime followed by Jet Lag tonight to make sure my skin is glowing brighter than Rudolph’s nose (minus the redness) ☺️ How are you getting ready for the Holidays? The set was generously gifted by the brand. Also major inspo from @skincareglam_ the queen of water shots, however I need to work on my skills 😂

Let’s get situational 💁🏻‍♀️ @holifrog is a new brand for me, but I’ve completely fallen for their line of cleansers. Holifrog’s philosophy is all about Situational Cleansing - choosing the right cleanser for what your skin needs at that moment. There are 4 cleansers in their collection: Superior Omega Gel Wash, Shasta AHA Refining Wash, Tashmoo Milky Wash, and Kissimmee Vitamin F Balmy Wash. 💙 Superior is your classic foaming gel wash. With a pH of 5.5 it’s great for any occasion. It contains probiotics, fatty acids, and vitamins to nourish the skin without stripping. It’s the only cleanser of the bunch that forms a lather! 💛 Shasta is an clarifying cleanser that refines the skin with AHAs. It helps to brighten and soothe. It has a pH of 4 and my skin has been absolutely loving it! 💖 Tashmoo is a milky cleanser that feels like a lotion on the skin. It is SO gentle! I have been loving it as a morning cleanse. It leaves your skin feeling moisturized and calm. 💚 Kissimmee is a cleansing balm packed with fatty acids. It’s texture reminds me of a more liquidy Slaai. It is very gentle and does not bother my eyes at all. It does leave an oily layer to nourish the skin, so I prefer this as a first cleanse, but this would be a great morning cleanser for dry skinned individuals. Have you tried Holifrog? What are your thoughts on situational cleansing? Products kindly gifted by @pokepr

💕A sink full of faves! 💕 My dad came over to do some renos last weekend and I am so happy with how the bathroom turned out! The only sad thing is that we fixed it up so that we can sell our house. I got a big girl job (lol permanent student life) so we’ll be moving to a new country and a new coast in January! I am so excited for the new adventure, but also really nervous! Super stressed about packing up my whole house, especially all my beauty products, since we’ll be living out of a suitcase for the first couple months. This definitely calls for a huge declutter, but you can be sure that all the beauties pictured here will be coming with me. This sink shot was definitely influenced by mega babes like @skincareglam_ @the.skinny.on.skin @clean.real.beauty Some items kindly gifted by the brands.

Sharing some old and new faves on this pink Wednesday 💕 The first one I have to mention is the @indeedlabs Hydraluron Moisturizer. I have been using this twice a day since I received it at the #tofallbeautybrunch. It’s soooo good! It’s so deeply hydrating, it’s affordable, and it passes all the checks on skincarisma. A definite win in my books! I’ve also been trying a couple of @juicycouture fragrances. Viva la Juicy Bowdalicious is like summer in a bottle. It has notes of coconut, vanilla, tiare, melon, and pear. I absolutely love it! Juicy Oui! Is a bright and fresh fragrance with watermelon, pear, amber, and musk, but unfortunately is not my style. I don’t know what it is about pink products, but they’re always extra cute! What pink goodies have you been loving lately? 💕 The products mentioned were gifted.

✨ Little treasures ✨ Today is the last day to pick up some @mejuri pieces during their only sale of the year. I was so happy when they sent over their croissant dôme cuff! It looks so cute paired with any of my mejuri earrings, but my fave combo is with the scarab hoops. The Croissant collection was definitely my favourite one they did this year! 🥐 I’ve had my eye on the croissant dôme ring since it launched so will definitely be picking that up! It’s 10% off 1 item, 15% off 2, or 20% off 3+ items. It’s the perfect time to pick up some holiday gifts or to treat yourself! *jewelry kindly gifted by the brand What are the best cyber Monday deals you’ve found? Share them below 👇👇

The holidays are in the h(air) 🎄❤️ @functionofbeauty kindly gifted me their newly released limited edition holiday blends, and I’ve been loving them! You can pick up the shampoo and conditioner in a festive red and green duo. My favourite part is definitely the scent called Naughty or (Sp)ice. It is AMAZING! A sweet and spicy blend of cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg, it smells like a freshly baked batch of holiday cookies! It’s definitely my favourite scent of theirs that I’ve tried (with Feelin Fineapple in 2nd, and Nude Peach in 3rd)! I’m so happy that I got it STRONG! One of my favourite cold-weather fragrances is @maisonmargielafragrances By The Fireplace. The combo of this fragrance and Naughty or Spice is 🔥🔥🔥 and will have you looking, smelling, feeling like a snack. 👌 I also tweaked my formula this time around. I chose the formula for fine, wavy, oily hair with the goals of volume, heat protection, colour protection, oil control, and strengthening. The previous formula was a little heavy on my hair, but this one is perfect. 🥰 If you’d like to try Function as a holiday treat for yourself or a personalized gift for a friend, you can use the code SHAMPOO4U (not affiliate) to save 20% until Dec 31st! I’d love to hear what you got up to this weekend! ❤️

These stacked pearl hoops from @mejuri are everything! 🙌 I love that their pieces are elegant, yet playful. I’ve fallen in love with their understated pieces that add a touch of luxury to any outfit... and I’ve fallen hard! The great news is that they are having their Black Friday sale right now until Dec 2nd. It’s their only sale of the year, so if you’ve been eyeing anything, now’s the time! These organic pearl stacked hoops were kindly gifted ✨ #mejuri #finecrew #stackedpearls

Third time’s the charm 🎓

It’s really Monday y’all. Sharing a bright and cheerful shelfie of my ride or dies to give some inspiration for the week. 🙌 What’s inspiring you this week? ✨💫

A @youthtothepeople appreciation post ✨ I absolutely love this brand, not only for their killer products but for their ethos as well. They are committed to sustainable formulas and packaging and they advocate for inclusivity and change in the community through their Good to the People organization. The Kombucha Power Toner is the star of this shot. It is an 11% AHA solution that gently exfoliates to reveal a more even tone and texture. I notice that my skin is visibly calmer the morning after using it. It does have a sticky texture but I find that letting the product sink in and waiting 5 minutes before completing the routine helps with this! My favourite way to use this is at night by applying with a reusable cotton round after cleansing with the Superfood Face Wash, then spritzing the Adaptogen Mist, and following with the Dream Mask. You skin will be seriously soft the next day! Have you tried #youthtothepeople? What’s your favourite product?

Dreaming of Milano ✨ It’s snowing today in Toronto and I’m reminiscing about my time in Italy. It was absolutely gorgeous!! I can’t wait to go back one day. How is everyone’s Monday going?

🖤 Thé Noir 🖤 This fragrance by @lelabofragrances has been my latest obsession. It is very special to me because it was a gift from my husband that we picked up on our honeymoon. Every time I wear it I think of the beautiful memories we made. The fragrance is so mysterious and beautiful. It opens with notes of fig, bergamot, and bay and is rounded off by cedar, tobacco, and musk. The juxtaposition of the notes creates a truly addictive scent because every whiff is different, with the different layers constantly vying for attention. It evolves throughout the day so beautifully! I am so happy to have this in my collection. It is definitely different from my typical scents and is so beautiful for fall and winter especially. #lelabo #thenoir #fragrance

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