31 Days of Beauty -- Day 11

31 Days of Beauty Day 11

Favourite Eyeliner

Welcome to day 11 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

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Day 11 is Eyeliner day and we are going to talk about 3 different eyeliners. My favourite black, my favourite brown and my favourite colour. Each of these are from different brands too!

Too Faced Perfect Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner in Perfect Black

For my favourite black eyeliner I would have to say it is my Too Faced Perfect Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner in Perfect Black. This is the most pigmented black eyeliner that I have ever encountered and it sticks to my waterline like nothing else ever has. It is the blackest most intense liner I have found, and thank goodness that it's waterproof.

Pacifica natural minerals in Fringe

As for my favourite brown liner it would have to be the Pacifica natural minerals in Fringe. Now admittedly I haven't tried a tonne in the way of brown liners but I really do enjoy this one and it lasts all day on my waterline without smudging or bleeding down. It's a nice light brown and it's lovely for a neutral look.

Urban Decay 24/7 Velvet Glide-On Eye Pencil in Plushie

My favourite colour liner is Urban Decay's 24/7 Velvet Glide-On Eye Pencil in Plushie. It's a nice soft purple on the waterline but on the lid it is buildable and it is quite vibrant. I find myself reaching for this quite a bit and I actually tend to keep it in my every day makeup drawer. I use it both in neutral looks and when I am looking for a little extra oompf.

Remember that if you want a full review on any item I talk about in the 31 days of Beauty tag here feel free to ask and you shall receive. I intend to do some more reviews when I get back to my normal posting schedule next month.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 10

31 Days of Beauty Day 10

Favourite Mascara

Welcome to day 10 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

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We've hit the double digits! We did it! And today we are going to be talking mascara. Specifically my favourite mascara!

So I am weird and I have a different favourite for my top and bottom lashes, because there are different things I am looking for out of my bottom and top lashes.

Lash Accelerator

For my bottom lashes I just want a little bit of definition and darkening and for that I have been using the same product for years Rimmel London's Lash Accelerator Mascara in 003 Extreme Black. It does the job and the wand is perfect for my lower lashes and that's all it takes to be my favourite apparently.

Lights, Camera, Lashes

Perversion

Now for the top lashes it's kind of a toss up between Urban Decay's Perversion and Tarte's Lights, Camera, Lashes. Really it's a combination between the two, one coat of lights, camera, lashes and then another of perversion and then my lashes are lovely and I almost feel like no falsies are required. And let's be honest, I really don't wear lashes on the daily.

Hopefully you guys are still enjoying reading these!

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 9

31 Days of Beauty Day 9

Favourite Eyeshadow

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Welcome to day 9 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

Today we are going to be talking about my favourite Palette.

This one for me was a no brainer, while some others come close, there can only be one, (10 points if you catch that reference) and that one is the Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette.

There are so many looks that I can create with this and it has the nicest pops of colours. I am really looking forward to getting my hands on the semi sweet palette as well. I love the highlight shades and I absolutely love the shade Salted Caramel for in the crease, I could go on forever about this palette but I do plan on doing a full review on it, as well as a comparison on it and the semi sweet when I get my hands on that one too. Safe to say this palette gets reached for all the time and it has earned it's place as my favourite.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 8

31 Days of Beauty Day 8

Favourite Eye Shadow

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Welcome to day 8 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

Today we are going to be talking about my favourite eye shadow.

This was a really hard one for me. I love all of my shadows I really do, so I went through most of my palettes excluding the one we will be talking about tomorrow and narrowed my favourites down to two colours both from the same palette. This doesn't mean I like any of my other shadows any less and it was a seriously hard decision, thank goodness they didn't ask me to pick a favourite lipstick, hehe. So in no particular order here we go.

Last Call by Urban Decay (Ammo Palette). This is such a perfect plum-y burgundy with just the right amount of shimmer. I just love it. When I bought the Ammo palette I actually didn't see myself loving it but the first time I swatched it I knew it would be perfect and it actually sparked my love for a purple/red eye.

Sin by Urban Decay (Ammo Palette). I just, ugh, this colour is perfect. I use it in my crease and also as a highlight, I actually think that with light enough of a hand it could be used on the cheeks as a highlighter and it would be lovely.

I actually think that after I run out of these in the palette I am going to have to hunt these down in singles because I just love them that much.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 7

31 Days of Beauty Day 7

Favourite Bronzer

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Welcome to day 7 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

Today we are going to be talking about my favourite bronzer. My current favourite is the Milk Chocolate Soleil by Too Faced.

I love this bronzer because it isn't super orange-y on my skin and also because it is a matte bronzer, I am really not a fan of shimmer in most of my products, I do tend to favour a more matte look and this bronzer definitely delivers. Of course there is also the main selling point that everyone talks about... the smell! This bronzer smells lovely, like chocolate, almost like a better than real life version of chocolate. Thankfully the smell doesn't linger around your face all day though because I could see that getting annoying, and possibly dangerous in the summer (I hate bees). Unlike the smell however the product does last all day and I am impressed with it's staying power. I love this bronzer and am torn between it and the Benefit Hoola bronzer for holy grail status. Can't I just have them both?

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 6

31 Days of Beauty Day 6

Favourite Blush

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Welcome to day 6 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

Today we are going to be talking about my favourite blush which is Magic by Tarte. It's one of their 12-hour Amazonian clay blushes and I absolutely love it. Now unfortunately it isn't their regular collection, it was in a set for either boxing day or black Friday I really don't remember which. I am still on the hunt for a holy grail blush that is part of a regular collection and I can't wait until I find it. Maybe it will be in this Colour Pop order I am waiting on, who knows?

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 5

31 Days of Beauty Day 5

Favourite Concealer

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Welcome to day 5 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea! This one is a shorter one.

I have two favourite concealers, one drugstore and one higher end, the higher end one I currently do not own unfortunately but it is still a favourite.

We will start out with the drugstore concealer. Rimmel Match Perfection 2-in-1 Concealer and Highlighter in 125 Fair. I have had a super hard time finding a shade that fits me perfectly in the drugstore and it took me forever but this one does it. I use this mostly underneath my eyes and on the occasional red spot. I love how it isn't a super heavy consistency and it doesn't crease under my eyes. I do wish however that it was easier to clean as the cap gets real dirty really quickly.

The higher end one I really do love I just don't currently own it. It's the Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla. I've only gotten to try this one a few times, but it made a huge impression on me. I absolutely love it and I can't wait until I can buy it.

I hope you guys are enjoying 31 Days of Beauty as much as I am!

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 4

31 Days of Beauty Day 4

Favourite Primer

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Welcome to day 4 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea!

Today we are going to be talking about primer. I don't have a holy grail perfect primer but I do have one or two that I guess would count as favourites at the moment. I'm going to share two face primers that I reach for regularly and two different eye primers as well.

First let's talk about The Porefessional by Benefit. It is a pore minimizing primer and I do have issues with some larger pores especially around my nose. I don't feel like all foundations necessarily hold onto it though, some of them really kind of slide around on it which is not cute.

My Second facial primer is That Gal by Benefit. I haven't really gotten to play around with a lot of different brands primers other than Benefit but that's okay because the ones I have tried from them have been fairly good. This one is a brightening primer and it has a pink tone to it which evens out my skin quite a bit which makes me love it in the winter. I also find that my foundations tend to apply better over this primer than they do over The Porefessional which makes me love this one just a tiny bit more.

On to eye primers!

Sticking with the Benefit theme the first one I am going to talk about is Stay don't Stray by you guessed it, Benefit. I do really like this primer it's nice and neutralizing on my lids and the shadow sticks to it more or less which is really the most I can ask for out of a primer.

The second eye shadow primer is a cult favourite and it's the original Urban Decay Primer Potion. I'm kinda late to the game on this one, I hadn't tried it until last August when I got my Ammo palette, but I love it. Eye shadow sticks to it, like it is supposed to and it's not super heavy, the only thing I wish, is that it was more pigmented. I'm thinking of picking up a MAC paint pot to try and see if that helps at all.

So that's all I have to say about primers.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 3

31 Days of Beauty Day 3

Favourite Foundation

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Welcome to day 3 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea, it really was an awesome idea.

Today we are going to be talking about my favourite foundation. This is a weird topic for me because I don't currently own my current favourite foundation, and have actually never owned a full size of it.

Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation SPF 15
Available at Sephora

My current favourite foundation is the Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation SPF 15 in the shade 2.5 Warm Sand. This is a light to medium coverage foundation and I know that's going to seem weird seeing that I said I enjoy a full coverage in my every day use, but I really just love how this foundation sits on my skin. I tried it when I had my complementary VIB makeup application at Sephora and I fell in love. I got a sample of it and I have been rationing the sample. I will be purchasing this before spring and summer roll around and I can't wait for this foundation to take it's place in my regular rotation. It is $63.28 CAD after tax and it will be one of my next Sephora purchases I think.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 2

31 Days of Beauty Day 2

Mani Monday

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Welcome to day 2 of 31 days of beauty. Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for coming up with this idea, it really was an awesome idea.


Today is Mani Monday so I am going to share my newest manicure with you guys and see how you like it. 

The pink colour I used on all of my nails is Essie number 144 Eternal Optimist. The gold glitters on my accent nail are by Smith St Beauty co. and the top coat is a mix of Sally Hansen 170 Clear'd for Takeoff and Pro-FX 066 Quick Dry High Gloss Top Coat. 

I had been looking for a nice subtle neutral nail colour for quite a while and then I found Eternal Optimist and it was perfect. It's the only true opaque neutral in my collection and it is new to me. I purchased it at target 30% in  their liquidation sales. 3 coats to a flawless coverage.

I hope you enjoyed this and if you want to see more mani monday posts in the future make sure to let me know, I do my nails about twice a week out of boredom so I could definitely make some good posts for you.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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31 Days of Beauty -- Day 1

31 Days of Beauty Day 1

Daily Makeup Products

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Welcome to the first day of the 31 Days of Beauty tag that I am doing for March. Today we are going to be talking about my daily makeup products, the things that I use pretty much every day that I wear makeup. I think the easiest way to tackle this is going to be by category, so lets just dive right in!

Primer- This one is a tough one because I still haven't found that holy grail primer so I just sort of grab one of my primers at random. But If I had to guess I would say I think I reach for the Porefessional by Benefit the most often. It doesn't meet all of my needs but it does find it's way onto my face quite often.

Foundation- My current daily foundation would be the Kat Von D Tattoo Lock-It Tattoo Foundation in Light 45. It's a pretty full coverage foundation and is quite matte which tends to be the look I go for.

Concealer- I've been using Rimmel Match Perfection in 125 Fair as my daily concealer. There isn't a lot to say about it really, it does what it's supposed to do but it does crease, I am still searching for a concealer that I love more. I actually have my eye on some Nars.

Powder- My daily powder is Rimmel London's Stay Matte Pressed Powder in 001 Transparent. I have been using this for years and I absolutely love it. I have probably bought upwards of 4 of these over the years and I recommend this for everyone from beginners to pros.

Blush- I do try to switch up my blush quite a bit but I do reach for my Tarte blush in magic the most right now. Sadly this shade isn't in the permanent collection so once I run out it's just done, so hopefully I can find a dupe before that happens.

Bronzer- My everyday bronzer is the Too Faced Milk Chocolate Soleil Bronzer. It's holy grail status and I am not going to go too much into it as I am sure you will see it again this month.

Highlight- This is a weird category because my daily highlight is only my daily by virtue of being the only powder highlight that I own, and that would be the Essence Bloom Me Up Shimmer Powder. It's super subtle and it leaves a nice light highlight. I really do need to get more powder highlights to play with though because I don't tend to reach for liquid highlights and those are the majority of what I own.

Eye shadow- I don't have one specific set of shadows I use daily I really do use something different every day. I make a point of not keeping any shadows in my 'daily makeup' drawer of my makeup storage so that I have to look through and decide on something different every day.

Eyebrows- There are two products I use daily for my brows and they are the Sephora Retractable brow pencil in 02 nutmeg brown and the Essence lash and brow gel mascara. The gel isn't ideal but it does it's job. I love the pencil but wish it had a spoolie end instead of the weird hard plastic comb it does have.

Mascara- I currently have two sample size mascara's that I am bouncing back and forth between as my most used daily mascara's the Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes and the Urban Decay Perversion Mascara. I love them both and they both create different looks on me so I use them about equally.

Eyeliner- I don't have a specific eyeliner that I reach for daily, it totally depends on what I am doing with my eyes, and eyeliner is one of those areas where I haven't really played around to find a perfect daily no thinking product.

So there is day1 down! I hope you guys enjoyed this peek into my daily makeup! Thank you again to Priyanka over at Glamour & Giggles for creating this, remember to go check her out.

I'll see you next time!

Alex

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