Beauty

Addicted to Face Masks

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Lately, I’ve been super into buying and using face masks, specifically Japanese/Korean ones that are super affordable. I have ones from Tony Moly, Face Shop, InnisFree & more!

I’ve been using them 2-3 times a week and I haven’t experienced any negative side-effects. In fact, there’s a bunch of articles of people who used face masks everyday for a week and had mostly good things to say.I’ve noticed my skin has a natural dewy glow compared to when I don’t use masks. 

I have a wide range of masks from moisturizing to firming and smoothing. I think this makes it easier to use multiple a week.

Do you use any face masks? I want to know your favourites!

NYX Suede Cream Lip Vault

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My sister bought me the Liquid Suede Vault from NYX for my birthday. It features 24 liquid lipsticks in tons of fun colours. There’s one that is a bit more tame, but I was looking for fun colours I didn’t already have.

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Here’s the swatch test! They appear super bright and vivid just like the bottle. It also took a bit of washing to get these off my arm, so they are definitely long wearing.

I wore a vibrant red to a wedding over the weekend and it lasted through coffee and a meal before needing to replay a little bit. I love the purples and I can’t wait to find an excuse to wear it!

Sephora Nude Lip Favourites

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I bought this Sephora Nude Lip favourites kit recently to have lip colours that are more appropriate for everyday/work. I love funky colours, but I think people would think I was weird.

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These all came in an adorable shaped box:

– Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Honeycomb (beige nude)
–  Buxom Full-On Lip Cream in White Russian (nude)
–  Estée Edit The Barest Contour lip Liner in 05 In The Buff (satin nude)
– Marc Jacobs Beauty Le Marc Lip Crème in 246 Slow Burn (creamy nude rose)
– Too Faced Cosmetics Melted Matte Liquified Matte Long Wear Lipstick in Queen B (matte soft mauve)
–  Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in 1993 Comfort Matte (medium brown)

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A few of these are too light and make me look like I’m dying. However, they make a great base colour for using bold eyeshadows as lip sticks (ex purples, greens etc).

My current addiction is lip colours. I used to be afraid of using them up, but now I have so many there’s no excused NOT to use them!

Sephora Birthday Gift 2017

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My birthday is coming up so couldn’t resist ordering some stuff from Sephora so I could get my birthday gift. I thought this year’s choices were pretty cool. I chose the Tarte set that came with a nude lip gloss and blush.

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Guerlain Black Lashdress Mascara

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I compulsively bought this Guerlain mascara because the wand was cute.

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I feel like I can transform into a Sailor Scout if I yelled “Mercury Star Power!” or something.

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The wand itself has a dress-like shape. It makes it easy to get every lash, including the bottom ones. I like that the mascara was not clumpy, it’s super light so I forget I’m wearing it. It’s good for volume and lengthening. It holds my curl too (but I do use a lash curler). It also has a weirdly pleasant smell, which I haven’t really noticed before in a mascara. I would definitely buy this again!

Influenster x Bite

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Influenster recently sent me their Bite Voxbox for review. In it were two lipstick samples and matching lip pencils to go with it.

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The lip stick colours were Honeycomb, a nude and a darker brown called Whiskey. They both went on very smoothly and the pencils were super sharp to create a fine lip line. I was a bit shaky so I had to do it a couple of times. I love the dark one for a goth look.

 

Beauty By Earth Lip Balm

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Winter means my lips can get super dry and that doesn’t make putting on lipstick easy! I have a lot of EOS lip balms but they never really work that well so I wanted to find some Beeswax Lip Balm.

I found this set of 4 Beauty By Earth Peppermint flavoured Beeswax Lip Balms on Amazon for only $10. That’s like half the price of Burts Bees.

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The packaging is very simple and so are the ingredients. Nothing sounded weird and mysterious. The balm itself has a nice tingling mint sensation and keeps my lips moisturized without feeling greasy.

I love discovering new brands with affordable prices online!

Boxing Day Sephora Haul

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For Boxing Day, I ordered two lip sets (Urban Decay’s Vice & Smashbox’s Light It Up) at Sephora and got a bunch of free stuff. I got a sample NARS Lip pencil, BROWFOOD and more.

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Smashbox’s set came with 5 glittery lip glosses and a container that I can use for storage (after I took out the plastic display).

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Urban Decay’s Vice palette came with beautiful bright colours, though I’m not sure when I would ever use a green lipgloss. I think it may be cool to use as a bright eyeshadow!

I’m excited to play around with more lip colours. I only recently got into lip makeup. I always thought that I couldn’t pull of bright colours or I ate too frequently and would have to reapply it often. I want to be the type of person who can be confident wearing any colour.

SHANY Persian Blue

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I’ve always wanted to try a dark coloured lip stick so I picked Shany’s Persian Blue on Amazon. It looked super dark in the tube.

I think my lips are dark and probably require some concealer before bright colours because it turned out more purple. I think I still look beauty goth though!

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Self-Care Sundays

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Self-care may seem like a millennial buzzword that has come up a lot lately but personally, I think it’s important.

I took the idea of self-care Sundays from Estée Lalonde’s book Bloom and created my own version. Essentially, it’s taking some time weekly to perform a routine you personally find relaxing. I like Sundays because it gets you into the right state of mind before starting a new week.

Here is what my Self-care Sunday looks like:

  1. Take a Bath
  2. Use a facial mask
  3. Do my nails
  4. Read a book/watch TV or write in my journal

You can literally do anything you want as your set of tasks as long as it’s relaxing whether it’s make a cup of tea, watch the sunset, whatever. I like my routine because I have so many beauty products, it is fun to have a night to dedicate to actually using them. These are things I often don’t think I have time to do but there’s always time if you allow it to happen. Also, Nash knows to let me have this time to myself!

Do you have a self-care day? What do you do?