BEAUTY | October 2024 Ipsy Glam Bag

Purchased by me

I am well aware that it is June, but hear me out! With the Canada Post strike at the beginning of November, this bag actually arrived AFTER my November Ipsy! Now, with Tariff War 2025 happening, I have slowed down my Ipsy subscription (they only let you skip every other month) in order to avoid the exchange rate and focusing less on American goods. When I did start using the October Ipsy bag I did notice that almost every product felt more suited to NOW than October so it all worked out!

NAILS | Mermaid Scales #CBBxManiMonday

 

Press samples

I am very excited to share today's mani with you because it is the first time I get to try BKIND's nail polishes! BKIND is a Quebec-based, woman-owned, vegan and plant-based beauty brand and in today's economy and trade war sitch, I am all about supporting Canadian brands! While I will have a separate post for BKIND's hair products and skincare, the nail polishes were the first products I literally GRABBED!

NAILS | Dior Coral Pop with Butterflies #CBBxManiMonday

 

Purchased by me

June is here and we are officially halfway through 2025! How crazy is that? The last 6 months has absolutely flown by both at work and in my personal life and I am looking forward to summer! My birthday is in a month which means vacation and annual birthday shopping spree is coming up so lots to look forward to. It has also been 6 month at work where for the first time in YEARS, I am actually enjoying the "managing people" part of my job in terms of educating the staff by putting together what I think are fun features and benefits emails, but for jewelry! It is the first time I have ever seen anyone do this in our location and I can only hope that the staff find this information useful. We have almost the perfect team and I say that in the sense that we have half a team of people who are keen to learn and care and the other half who are riding this job out until retirement so it is extremely hard to get ANYTHING from them. They make mistake and they don't really care to improve or apologize, BUT they are the most senior members of the team and currently the most knowledgeable since everyone else is so new. This situation is definitely loads better than the having the awful and toxic employee we used to have (thank God she left in December!), but still leaves us with questions on how to move forward.

SHEET MASK | Jumiso HelloSkin Chewy Elasticity Mask

Press sample

I wasn't feeling well almost all of last week. I had a headache for a week and even today I am still feeling it in bits and pieces. My guess is that it was mainly due to weather pressure as the humidity in Vancouver has been on the higher side, but waking and going to be with a sinus/pressure headache has sucked! We had a really intense work day last Sunday when we all came in while the store was closed to do a massive visual merchandising project that had us opening hundreds of boxes and disposing of them. It was a lot of physical work that left us all exhausted the next Monday morning. I was SUPER grumpy and pretty much kept to myself the next day just doing more paperwork than people things. I think it's time for a much needed vacation! 

SHEET MASK | Peace Out Overnight Bio-Collagen Recovery Mask

Purchased by me. Affiliate links. 

It seems like the most viral sheet masks right now are the ones that become clear while you wear them overnight and though I have the famous Biodance ones to review, I picked up the Peace Out Overnight Bio-Collagen Recovery Mask during the Sephora VIB event because I always love trying new sheet masks and now that Sephora does not carry as many, I definitely jump at the chance when I see one!

MAKEUP | L'Oreal Paradise Big Deal Mascara (Definitely NOT a Big Deal For Me!)

Press sample. Affiliate links.

I very rarely discuss mascara on here because even though it is a product I use daily, there are very few that manage to make my little lashes look substantial and today is no different. If anything, this is the first mascara I have tried in a long time that had such a minimal result that I wanted to talk about it! A little backwards when you think about how most beauty reviews work, but I was indeed amazed just in the opposite direction!