Halloween Makeup - Gwen Stacy Ghost Spider Makeup Look

Happy Halloween everyone! If you guys have been around for a few years, you know we take our Halloweens pretty seriously (or at least - I take my Halloween pretty seriously and everyone else in the house puts up with it!)

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I do try and plan my costumes around what my kids want to be and when Elliott said that he wanted to be something from the Spiderverse (it was Spiderman for quite a while), I knew that I wanted to be Gwen Stacy in her Spider costume - Ghost Spider! 

January Shop My Stash - Pantone Colour of the Year Ultimate Grey & Illuminating Makeup Look

I've taken a couple month break from my Shop My Stash looks because I had a ton of makeup to get through, so I'm excited to jump back in and play and create fun looks with my makeup stash! 

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I decided for my first look of the year, that I was going to go out of my comfort zone and do a makeup look inspired by Pantone's Colours of the Year for 2021 - Ultimate Grey and Illuminating! They chose two colours, grey and yellow for "a marriage of color conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting."

July Shop My Stash - Neon Orange Eye Look

I haven't been wearing much makeup at all this month, so it felt really nice to Shop My Stash and come up with a fun makeup look using my collection! These looks are always a monthly reminder to play and enjoy the makeup I have! 

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I was really feeling a bright neon look this month and I absolutely love how this look turned out with the orange makeup and that neon pop! 

January Shop My Stash Makeup Look - Classic Blue and Making My Own Lipstick

I'm keeping up the Shop My Stash makeup looks for 2020 because I've loved using them as a way to play in my makeup collection and create fun and exciting makeup looks! 

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I typically avoid blue makeup - I think it looks so good on some people; but, it's never felt like a colour that I could pull off! But, because Pantone announced the 2020 Colour of the Year as Classic Blue, I really wanted to have fun with the colour! 

Pride Rainbow Eyeshadow Look - August Shop My Stash

The Pride festivities are carrying on here in Calgary - they started on August 23 and go through September 2, with the big parade being on September 1, 2019! And, I'm hoping to be in the parade this year with a friend's work organization, so I was so excited to practice some rainbow eye makeup for Pride while shopping my stash!

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I absolutely LOVE how this rainbow makeup turned out - I had always thought that big, fun, bright eye looks weren't exactly what I could pull off and this ended being easy to do and so so so fun to wear! I will be replicating this look on Pride Parade day! 

My Favourite Canadian Beauty Products Currently In My Collection

For the month of July, the Canadian Beauty Bloggers group is featuring Canadian Brands all month long, and I thought what better way than to share my top 10 products from Canadian beauty brands that I currently have in my collection! 

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I have a good mix of skincare and makeup products from a mixture of large and small brands! I know there is a ton of amazing Canadian brands out there and I can't touch on them all here, which is why I'm focusing on only the products that are currently in my collection! I've used other amazing products from great Canadian brands in the past and they are still loved! 

May 2019 What I Bought - Monthly Haul!

Time for a look at everything I picked up this month - I really love these Monthly Haul posts - they give me a way to share everything I pick up each month as I don't always post about everything I get!

For 2019, I put myself on stricter $100 a month budget , not because I need to; it's actually more to test myself and be more conscious about what I purchase. I also really want to make sure that I'm enjoying and using everything on my collection!

(Let's note before we get in to it, I spent more than I intended on spending; and dipped in to June's budget early - I will save it for next month though) But, I'm happy with the purchases, but I would like to be a little more responsible for next month! 

Iceland Blue Lagoon Mask ~ $50.00 CAN. So, this product was a total extra splurge and I knew that I was allowing myself to purchase this outside of my budget as I love a good mask splurge. I had a friend travelling to Iceland and going to the Blue Lagoon and offered to bring me back a mask! So, this is really cool and I'm very excited to try this out! 

May Shop My Stash - Flower Eyeliner Makeup Look

This month our Canadian Beauty Blogger's theme is Floral and the theme inspired my May Shop My Stash makeup post! 

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I'm loving the "May Flowers" idea and I decided to try something new and went with this flower eyeliner makeup look! I used white, light purple, and dark purple eyeliners to create this fun eye look - I love how it turned out!

My First Beauty Loves

This month the Canadian Beauty Bloggers group picked the theme "First Beauty Loves" and I thought it was so fun! I have some stand out products that made me really fall in love with specific beauty categories and I'm excited to share them! 

Really, my love of makeup goes back a long way - I can remember taking a "modelling" course in grade 8 and a component of the program including makeup fundamentals and it just made me fall in love with makeup! I was always the person who did their friends makeup throughout high school and I've changed my nails weekly for as long as I can remember - so my love and passion for make up goes back a long way!

February Shop My Stash - Valentine's Day Pink Cut Crease with Glitter Accent

This month's Shop My Stash post is coming just in time for Valentine's Day and it's my inspiration for this look! I wanted to go with a pink date night look! 

I wanted to try play with new techniques and I'm just getting in to cut crease looks, so I wanted to make it pink and add a little fun! 

January Shop My Stash - Teal Turquoise Glittery Eyeshadow Look

I said earlier at the beginning of the year that at least once per month, I wanted to "Shop My Stash" and come up with fun makeup looks with products that can get forgotten about in my collection. This months look was all about the deep teals and a bold eye look! 

I tend to love everything new and shiny and can easily get distracted by wanting to play with everything new and exciting; but, I really love my makeup and don't want to have anything get lost in my collection! 

Halloween Makeup - TNMT Ninja Turtle Donatello Makeup!

Happy Halloween everyone! I have been counting down days until Halloween and I have been so excited for our family Ninja Turtle costume - there is finally 4 of us for the full squad! I'm Donatello and I love purple so this works for me (although, every time I played Ninja Turtles as a kid I was always Raphael!)

I have been thinking about how I wanted to do this TNMT makeup for a while, and I thought a full face of green makeup might not be the best for a night of trick-or-treating with the litter guy, so I decided that a full glitter mask would work the best! I figured with the full Ninja Turtle hoodie, the mask is sufficient! 

Five on Saturday - February 10, 2018

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope you all have had a great week - my week started out busy; but, it slowed down later this week because we are getting slammed with snow here in Calgary! Like slammed - we're talking over 1 foot of snow on top of what has already accumulated here! Ugh - I'm ready for Spring! 

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So, it's almost Valentine's Day and if you guys are looking for a super casual, easy makeup look, then I have an awesome Glitter Lip makeup look from last year that I loved so much! There is something about a full glitter lip that looks so fun and so glam - I absolutely loved doing this! 

The main products in this look are Lit Cosmetics glitter in Firecracker, Too Faced Glitter Glue Shadow primer and Lit Cosmetics glitter base, and the lipstick underneath is ColourPop Lippie Stix in Poppin and NYX Liquid Suede in Kitten Heels! 

Halloween Look - Pretty Glam Glitter Panda Makeup!

Happy Halloween month! I absolutely love doing Halloween makeup looks and this year I really wanted to do a Panda look; but, I had to glam it up a bit!

I just added a hint of glitter and blush to a fairly basic panda look to brighten it up a bit (plus, I usually have a hint of glitter in most of my Halloween looks!) I personally didn't really want a really white base as I find it can be too thick and hard to work over, so the faded white look was purposeful, but of course you pick the level of coverage you want! 

Red Glitter Lips - Valentine's Day Makeup!

Happy February everyone! February brings us Valentine's Day and I will be honest, the only reason I like Valentine's Day is for fun makeup looks! 

Glitter lips have been seen on the runway all of last season and I went to a Beauty Trends presentation a few months ago and red lips and glitter lips were a big focus! 

While glitter lips are not the most practical makeup - I say who cares! If you are going out for date night, why not step it up and do something bold and sexy for the occasion?! (especially if you aren't going somewhere that you are eating right away!)

Halloween Look - Unicorn Makeup!

Happy Halloween! I love this time of year! I will be featuring a few fun makeup looks throughout the month! 

I love Unicorns and thought I could have a lot of fun with a very pink and glittery look!  

Five on Friday - January 1, 2016

Happy New Years everyone!!! Can you believe it is 2016 already?! Where did the time go?! So much has passed since I was her last for Five on Friday! Most importantly - Christmas!! I hope everyone had an amazing holiday, we had a really quiet Christmas and just did small presents and relaxed. We spent Christmas night visiting family out of town! 

Let's try and catch up on the last 2 weeks! 

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New Years Makeup!!! For this look I used:

-Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette for a light Smoky Eye
-Lit Cosmetics gold glitter for a big cat eye 
-Benefit Rollerlash Mascara
-Becca x Jaclyn Hill Champagne Pop for my highlight
-The Balm Meet Matt(e) Hughes on the lips! 

I love some glitter for New Years!!