Five on Friday - December 17, 2021 ~ The Marrow Thieves & Hunting By Stars Book Review, Cookies I Have Loved Cookbook, Owlcrate Special Edition Books, Palettes of the Week, and Hurraw! Lip Balms

Happy Friday everyone ! I hope you all had a great - I've been using this week to finalize all my Christmas prep and will hopefully finish my wrapping this weekend! Are you guys all ready to go? 

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I purchased all the products in this post - this post contains affiliate links 

I'm a big fan of Cherie Dimaline - she is an Indigenous Canadian author and I've really enjoyed her writing style. She wrote The Marrow Thieves in 2017 - it is a young adult dystopian novel and it is set in a future where the world has been ravaged by global warming and people have lost the ability to dream - the only people left with the ability to dream are Indigenous people and the cure potentially lies in their bone marrow, but this means death for the unwilling donor, so Indigenous people are being hunted and we follow a young man, and a group of people who are on the run and trying to find their loved ones. 

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!)

The Hard Candy primer was received as a PR sample - this post contains affiliate links

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! 

Sydney Grace x Temptalia Quintessence Light Eye Palette

I feel like it's been a minute since I've posted about an eyeshadow palette, but honestly, I think I'm at the point where I am trying to be a little more thoughtful about what I'm bringing in to my collection (my Monthly Haul post coming might call me a liar for that; but I'm certainly trying). I just did a huge declutter and really want to bring makeup in that offers something different that I will use! 

I purchased this palette on my own

When I saw that Temptalia was teaming up with Sydney Grace, I was very excited - I mean Temptalia is the OG of Beauty Bloggers, she literally grades every single beauty product out there, so you know if she is partnering on an eye shadow palette, it's going to be amazing! 

Monthly Beauty Favourites - September 2021

Here's a look at Top 5 Favourite products for September:

The Paula's Choice was received as a PR sample - this post contains affiliate links

I didn't try too many new products this month, and honestly I took September too regroup and relax, so I was mainly using old beloved products; but, there was enough to share some new beloved products! 

Monthly Beauty Haul - June 2021

I always love these haul posts - it's a way to keep track of everything that I picked up every month. I don't always blog about everything I pick up (I try to), but if you ever spot anything in here that you really want me to talk about, let me know! 

Last year, I got a little crazy about trying to stick to a crazy budget and this year I'm just going to buy what I want and try and be reasonable about my purchases! 

I purchased everything in this post

Cheekbone Beauty ~ $1.45 CAN. I had a gift card for Cheekbone, so when they released this stunning new red lipstick shade, I knew I had to pick it up! I love the Sustain lipsticks and I also picked up the matching lip liner, which is great too! You can see these both on me in my most recent Shop My Stash post, as well as the lipstick just made my June Favourites! Love!