It's all about purple

urple is one of my favourite colours. It's so feminine without being so overly girly like pink. I find that a lot of people don't know how to wear pink in a classy way. It can look too princess-y or tacky. What do you guys think? Whenever I do incorporate pink in my outfit I try to only wear one thing that is pink. And it's always a coral pink or a more saturated pink- never baby pink!

I find purple looks great with neutrals. I do love my dark purples, but since it's Spring I've been wearing a lot of lighter purples.

I'm wearing Essie's To Buy Or Not To Buy and Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday
on my ring and middle finger.

I love how this combination looks on my fingers.

Gotta love my Balenciaga City in Jacinthe with regular hardware. Yes, it's a purple bag, but I
find it goes so well with a lot neutral items in my wardrobe. Sorry about the plain outfit
here. I was out shopping and I always try to wear comfy outfits that I can get in/out of easily.

I picked up a beautiful light lavender top from Forever 21. It was $21.80CAD.

Here is a change room OOTD of myself wearing the top. I absolutely love this top. It's
semi-sheer so I have to wear something under it. It looks more expensive than it really is.
I tried it on with a pair of cobalt blue skinny jeans from Forever 21, but I didn't end up
getting it. I wish I did though… 

Essie x 3

found a great little beauty supply shop near me that sells cheap Essie polishes. Usually I see Essie polishes for around $8.99 all the way up to $11 here in Canada. The place I found sells them for $6.99CAD. I have a little list of polishes on my wishlist so I decided to pick up 3 to add to my collection.

The first one I got is a creamy white polish called Marshmallow.
I've been wanting a white polish for a long time now. I think it looks really good on the
whole nail instead of being used for a french tip.

The second is a beautiful jade green polish called First Timer. It's from the 2013
Resorts Collection. I've been searching for a jade green polish for a long time now.
I'm so happy that I got my hands on this.

I wore this today with a gold dot as an accent on the nail bed. The gold is Orly's Rage.

The last polish is To Buy or Not to Buy. It's a pale lavender with blue/purple duochrome
and tons of micro glitter that you can see if you look at the bottle closely.
It looks gray in this photo, but in real life it looks more purple. I'm excited to try this.

Manicure Monday- peachy pink edition

s I'm writing this I'm feeling extremely congested and dizzy. It looks like I've come down with a cold yet again. For a girl that never gets sick I'm surprised how this winter has affected me health-wise. I've had 3 colds so far and they were just awful! The last cold I had, I was sick for almost 3 weeks! This time around I feel like there is a huge lump in my throat and I'm having a hard time swallowing because my throat is so swollen. My nose has been running all day and I wake up with my eyes sealed shut with eye crusties. I know it sounds gross, but I've never experienced this before. Even though I was feeling like crap I wanted to paint my nails to make myself feel a bit better.

All the nails except the ring finger is Essie's Van D'Go. 

The accent nail (the ring finger) is Sephora by OPI's Traffic Stopper Copper. I talked
about this in my last beauty haul.

Although the colour of this Essie polish is quite beautiful- a peachy pink, it is extremely
hard to apply. I find the formulation thick and streaky. I used 3 coats to get this opaqueness.

In hindsight I should have applied Essie's Van D'Go as a base before applying the Sephora
by OPI polish on the ring finger. I had to apply several coats of the Sephora OPI to get
the glitter to show. Because this polish is more of a top coat and the rose gold glitter
is on a clear base it's not really meant to be worn on its own. However, I LOVE this
polish. It's so beautiful.

Beauty Haul

eauty hauls are one of my favourite things to read from other bloggers. I wanted to share with you what I got in the past week. Hopefully these photos and initial thoughts on these items will be helpful to you. I know I love reading what products people love/dislike as it is really helpful in determining if I purchase them or not.

Victoria's Secret Candy, Baby body lotion in Spun Sugar and Warm Vanilla. VS had a promotion going on
where you could mix and match 3 body products for $25. I went with my mother-in-law and I
decided to buy her, my sister-in-law, and myself the body lotions. My mother-in-law chose the Spun Sugar
and Warm Vanilla scent and although all the other scents were amazing I also got it in the same scent. It
literally smells like sweet sugar. I usually don't like sweet scents, especially when they make me smell like a
dessert, but for some unknown reason I really liked this smell. I have worn this body lotion for a week
now and I have really been enjoying it. I've also gotten compliments on it at work. The best part is
that the scent lasts. I would get a whiff of the smell throughout the day and it made me smile.

This is a sample package so I'm not sure what the real packaging would look like.

My co-worker knew that I was really into BB Creams and she just got the Boscia BB Creams in.

She asked me to try it to see if I liked it.

The product comes out pretty thick and it's quite hard to blend. I've noticed that most

BB Creams have a thicker consistency than foundations, but this one feels really thick.

I have actually worn this BB Cream for 2 days now. I do like it as it absorbs quickly and feels like 

I'm not wearing any makeup. It also has fine shimmer so once you blend it all out it gives

your face a luminosity.

See it blended out. You can see it covers my blemish that you can see in the previous photo
nicely.

This is Quo's (a Shopper's Drug Mart brand) blush/bronzer duo. Isn't the packaging gorgeous?
I normally don't like Quo products, but this one I LOVE. The colour I have is in You're A Peach
and it looks so natural on my face. I haven't found a bronzer that looks natural on me yet, but I think
I've found it. It doesn't have too much of a shimmer and blends so nicely.

The colour may seem ruddy and not that interesting, but it's actually quite nice on my face. I think I'm
about an NC 25?

Here is the back of the package.

A quick swatch. It was hard to capture the colour on camera because it didn't really show, but on
the left is the blush and on the right is the bronzer.

I was using Seche Vite's base coat for a while now, but I wasn't blown away. I went to my local
beauty supply store and bought Essie's Protein Base Coat. I originally wanted to try Essie's First Base
Base Coat after hearing about it from SparkleMissA's YouTube video, but the sales associate told me that
this one was better. We shall see. It's interesting because the formula is white.

I then got Essie's Good To Go! Top Coat. Again I heard about this from SparkleMissA's YouTube video
so I wanted to try it. I was using everyone's favourite- Seche Vite for a while now, but I hated how
it got all thick and goopy when I didn't use it all that much. Plus, I heard the chemicals in that top coat
was pretty scary stuff.

Now for my favourite- MAC!

My brushes were becoming insanely dirty and although I deep clean it every week I still felt that it
wasn't clean enough. I saw Tiffany D's video on what she uses to clean her brush- Mac's Brush Cleaner.
I rushed out to get it. It was only $15 so totally affordable. I used it yesterday and it did an amazing
job. I'm so happy with it.

I picked up 2 things from Mac's Fall Colour Collection. The first thing I picked up the collection was the
MSF in Porcelain Pink (re-promote). In the store the sample had beautiful gold veining throughout.
It's a light pink with gold shimmer. The one I got looked just pink, but I think once I keep using it
I will be seeing the gold veining underneath. I've been using this for a few days now and I like it.
I use it as a highlighter and it gives me a beautiful finish. I try to use highlighters sparingly as I can
get pretty oily throughout the day.

Here's a swatch.

My second item from the collection was the eyeshadow quad in Parlor Smoke. I wanted it because of the
eyeshadow Parlor Smoke (it's the top left one). It's a grayish purple and it reminded me a lot of
my favourite Mac eyeshadow- Shale (permanent). Parlor Smoke is a frost finish. It's not as pigmented
as I would like, but it's a beautiful inner lid colour. The next 3 shades are Cross Cultural (matte) which is
a neutral brown; Indigo Noir (Matte) which is a purple-y navy colour; and Steel (Veluxe Pearl) which
is a steely gray.

Here it is swatched. I wish they were more pigmented, but they do feel silky and there is hardly any
fall-out. I hate eyeshadows that are pigmented, but have crazy fall-out.

I picked up 2 things from the Styledriven Collection. I didn't realize that they were going to be
permanent. I picked up Styledriven (I think this is what the girl in the promo is wearing on her lids). It's
a beautiful sky blue and it swatches gorgeously. Everything in this collection is in the Pro Longwear
formula so the eyeshadows are supposed to last for 8 hours. The eyeshadows are a bit bigger than
the regulareyeshadows. I think this was 0.11oz compared to the usual 0.05oz. It was also a little
more expensive at $24CAD a pop.

This is Fresh Flare. This too swatches beautifully. The sales associate commended me for not being
afraid of colour. I got these 2 colours because it's hard finding these shades that are silky
smooth and so pigmented.

Here it is swatched. Styledriven is to the left and Fresh Flare is beside it.

Here is is swatched. I haven't tried Styledriven and Fresh Flare yet, but I'm excited to try them soon.
I need something special to go to so I can bust out these shades!