NAILS | The First of Fall #CBBxManiMonday

Happy first official Fall #CBBxManiMonday! After doing this manicure, I remembered why I don't often do vampy nails - the bloody-looking cuticles. Maybe it works out because Halloween is coming, but I don't think you will see this colour again on my nails... 

Essie = Press Sample and Chanel = Self Purchase

Originally, I wanted to show off this pretty Chanel purple glitter in the shade Spectaculaire 429 from their Summer collection, but it was pretty sheer so I thought layering it with a vampy purple would really bring out the glitter! 

SHEET MASK | The Pure Lotus Leaf Masks: Soothing and Brightening and Wrinkle Treatment

Press samples. Affiliate links.

Here we are officially into Fall! I swear that the temperature dropped sharply right on September 22nd and has only continued! This morning, we hit single digits and soon they will be negative single digits (hopefully not negative double digits)! I know I keep saying this, but I am so freakin' behind on my reviews for pretty much everything, especially my beloved sheet masks and today's reviews for The Pure Leaf Lotus Masks are part of that group. Slowly, but surely right? I know I sound like a broken record, but I am getting older and I don't have that 30 year old stamina anymore. I am hoping that I get a second wind in my 60s and 70s!

BODY | L'Occitane Cédrat Deodorant Stick

I admit that I really put my deodorant through the ringer as it needs to start working the night before my workday! I take my showers at night and I read a tip a few years ago to apply both my deodorant and dry shampoo the night before and it has actually worked wonders! I wake up feeling more fresh and anything that cuts down on my morning "get-ready" time is one I am totally onboard with!

 

Gifted by Butterly

While this is not a new product, the L'Occitane Cédrat Deodorant Stick deodorant has gotten a makeover in brand new packaging that to me, looks less masculine and more soothing to the eye. The old packaging felt like it was part of a completely different brand! 

NAILS | Limited Edition Dior #628 Lucky Swatch #CBBxManiMonday

I honestly do not know what is happening to my nails, but they were constantly breaking in Montreal and then started looking super dry. I have a feeling living in AC conditions contributed to both my sore throat and my dry nails that week and I am still recovering - on both fronts!

Purchased by me

LIFESTYLE | First Montreal Visit Since 2018!

The last time I visited Montreal was all the way back in 2018 if you can believe it! I skipped 2019 and then of course there was 2020 where the whole world came to a halt and then air travel just looked overly complicated until around 2022. As someone who does not fly well already, routine is really what makes me feel better and having not flown for a few years at this point, I did not feel like doing it anymore. I had to fly to Paris in 2023 for work so that kind of got the juices flowing again, but since then I haven't flown - until last week and all in all everything was fine other than the usual air travel discomforts like Premium Economy being the same leg room as regular economy, delays at take-off and just weird people who treat the plane like its their own.

This visit was all about seeing family, especially our new nephew! We saw him our first full day in Montreal and he is a cutie! We stayed with my mother-in-law so we were well-housed and well-fed and from there it was just catching up with everyone, lots of socializing and lots of eating!

SHEET MASK | Anua Niacinamide TXA Serum Mask (K-Pop Demon Hunters Edition)

Purchased by me

As I write this, I have been back from Montreal two days and I am still struggling with the jet lag. I was up at 5:17am PST and could not fall back asleep so I went with the flow and just decided to get up. If I had been working, I would have stayed in bed as I am still feeling tired, but not tired enough to sleep as I just want to hit the ground running with catching up at both work and in the house! I made sure to do as many household tasks as I could before leaving so that we didn't come home to a messy apartment. We had a cat sitter come in once/day for the cats and she left everything really neat and clean so we were truly able to relax right when we got home.

EMPTIES | August 2026

Holy hell it's September! We are now basically welcoming Fall (I see red tips on the leaves outside) and officially closer to the end of the year than the beginning! Why is it that summer goes so fast? August went by pretty quickly as I was gone for the last bit of it and though I did use up a few little things here and there while I was on vacation, I had no plans on carrying back beauty garbage on the plane!

 

I used up FIVE skincare products last month including this entire tub of Anua Brightening Pads! I have always found these hard to use, but I really liked how nice these felt on my skin as they were kind of spongy (photo and review). I did it on days where I would wash my hair and didn't want to use a whole sheet mask so these were the next best thing! 

I used up SO MANY pimple patches because I got the worst cystic pimple on my chin back in July that took a week to stop spewing stuff. Now, I'm still scarred from it and you can easily see it in all of my mask photos. Granted, I have had these pimple patches for at least 5 years because I don't get a chance to use them very often, but they DO work at drawing stuff out and at least protecting the area overnight and encouraging healing. The Peace Out Skincare ones were by far the most effective!

Don't judge me on the makeup wipes. I have not purchased ANY makeup wipes in almost 10 years because I used to receive a lot of them in PR, but now I rarely use them and don't want to encourage waste. I am just trying to use up what I have and I still have probably 12 months worth of wipes left!

This might not look significant, but trust me, it is! This is a full size of the Smashbox Photo Finish Eye Primer where you only use a minuscule amount each time because a little goes a very long way! I even cut it up and was using product from every crevice to make sure this was REALLY empty! Pretty good product, but I have so many priming products to get through that I do not need to repurchase this at the moment.

I used 15 sheet masks last month is not bad for me now with my masking schedule not being quite as consistent as before. Compared to the sad two masks I used last month, this is a marked improvement!

If I were to include my travel empties, the number should be SEVEN, but honestly as these are samples I'm not too fussed. The sleeping masks actually come in packs of 30 so will see these again! 

Another month of skincare as makeup is truly SO HARD to use up in full! Why do we buy so much of it?

SHEET MASK | Anua Vita C Porestrix Brightening Serum Mask (K-Pop Demon Hunters Edition)

Purchased by me

I don't think I could ever get sick of the K-Pop Demon Hunters theme and now that Anua has partnered up with them on some of their most popular products, I will enjoy the gimmicky packaging and the ongoing song "Golden" in my head every time I use a KDH-themed product (and there are a lot)! 

SKINCARE | Solara Suncare Good Karma Dry Oil Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

Press sample

Summer is almost over and I wanted to squeak in one last sunscreen review, which honestly, I was ready to do last summer, but just never got a chance to feature on the blog though I have mentioned Solara Suncare on my IG Stories quite a few times due to my love for it!

SHEET MASK | ElishaCoy Calming, Hydra and Lift Up Mushroom Mask Sheet Collection

Press samples

I am officially on vacation for the next two weeks! I will have one week at home and then the next we will be travelling to Montreal to visit family! My brother-in-law and his partner just had a baby boy so we will be meeting him for the first time! I also have not been to Montreal since 2018 so almost 10 years! This is mainly due to the pandemic and us not having someone to watch the cats while we are gone, but we are trying out a cat-sitting service this time around so let's see how things go!

BEAUTY | June 2026 Ipsy Original Bag

Purchased by me

I cannot believe that summer is winding down and already the Back to School advertising and mayhem has begun! It has been decades since I have gone back to school, but there is something about September that instills a slight sense of anxiety, excitement for sweaters and pumpkins and then before you know it, it's Christmas and the end of the year! I think the latter half of the calendar year just flies by because of how much happens in a short few months before getting the breather we all need in January. I am hoping to get a few more blog posts in before we go on vacation next week starting with this one for my June Ipsy Original Bag! I feel like the theme for June was "Prom/Graduation" with the taffeta bow inspired makeup bag which was cute, but not one of their nicer bags as I feel like the fabric would be hard to clean.

BEAUTY | May 2026 Ipsy Original Bag

 

Purchased by me

Here we are well into the second week of August and I cannot believe we are already this far into summer and I am still reviewing my May Ipsy Original Bag LOL!

NAILS | Manucurist Active Blur - Makeup for Your Nails?

Press sample

Sadness! I had another nail break which was significant enough that I chopped down my nails to give them all a restart which gave me a chance to dig into my archives and review a product I have been using over the last few weeks - the Manucurist Active Blur!

FRAGRANCE | Pacifica Strawberry Cream Body Mist and Eau de Parfum

Press samples

My husband said I smelled good and it was because of Pacifica's Strawberry Cream! This is high praise coming from a man who sneezes at most scents and tells me when our Dyson air filter is upset with something I have sprayed! I have been on a bit of a Pacifica kick ever since discovering that their Glow Baby Serum is now one of my most favourite vitamin C serums! Even though I have reviewed their sheet masks in the past, I have become a full convert to their other products this year. I have also reignited my passion for fragrances so when Pacifica announced that they had released new body mists and EDPs, I was totally in! 

SHEET MASK | Mediheal x BTS NMF and Tea Tree Sheet Masks

Purchased by me

I am cheating a little bit here because I have reviewed one of these Mediheal sheet masks in the past, but because today's masks had limited edition BTS packaging, I wanted to give them their own review! It has been about 7 years since the Mediheal x BTS collaboration was announced, so I think I picked up these masks between 2018-2020 and have been sitting on the reviews since. These two masks were the last ones in the boxes of 10 I purchased so it seemed fitting to give them a sendoff review worthy of how much I enjoyed them!

NAILS | Neon Flower Nail Art for Summer #CBBxManiMonday

 

Press sample

I swear I bring this nail polish out every summer because it truly is a perfect neon to wear when the sun is out and the temperature is well into the mid-20s! It has also been about a month since I have even painted my nails so it felt like a good way to start the month!

EMPTIES | July 2026 (So many skincare empties!)

Let's soft launch August as I realize that I only managed to blog 8x last month! Usually if I do less than 10 blog posts it is because I am sick, away or dealing with some sort of mental anguish. For July, I was just so sleepy on a lot of my time off and just wanted to get house things done instead of sit down and type. We have also been using my days off to enjoy the summer weather and enjoy some quality time so truthfully, taking a bit of a summer break has been welcome!

My empties bucket was overflowing last month because of these SEVEN skincare products that I managed to finish! Most of them were at sort of the 3/4 or 1/2 mark so I committed to using them the last couple of months and it paid off! I really loved the Kiehl's Herbal Cleanser, but it's a shame it has been discontinued. I also enjoyed the Naked Sundays sunscreen though it looks like this exact product no longer exists, but they seem to have many other options that I might try later on in the year.

The JOWAE Hydrating Water Mist lasted probably 6 months and though the cherry blossom scent was a bit overpowering in the end, I love waking up in the morning to a refreshingly cold mist like this one! I was sent two in PR so I will start my second bottle as soon as I am done with my current toner. 

NAILS | Into the Vault with Revlon Unicornicopia #CBBxManiMonday

Press sample

Seeing as how Revlon Unicornicopia was released back in 2017, I think I was given this nail polish at one of the London Drugs events and am only getting around to trying it now! The summer feels like a time to be nostalgic so I will diving into my box of untrieds from way back which will be fun especially for any of you who have been nail polish fans for the last 15 years!

BEAUTY | April 2026 Ipsy Original Bag

Purchased by me

This review I have definitely been sitting on because I realized by entire Instagram feed was nails, sheet masks, Ipsy Original bags and repeat! It was getting a bit samesy to me and it also made me realized that I have been beauty blogging without a real plan for the month. I used to LOVE planning out themes and such, but the last two years have been rough. Once I have two days off, I feel like I can think and feel excited about content creation, but then I create my plan and it all goes to shambles once I work 1-2 days. I definitely do not have the same stamina as when I was in my 30s! My goal with these Ipsy reviews is to catch up for the summer because I find summer products really are more specific to summer and it will let me get back on track!

SHEET MASK | Augustinus Bader Hydrogel Face Mask with TFC8

Purchased by me

I just wrapped up my one week of vacation and what I love about how I tend to structure my time off is that I leave mid-week and I come back on a Friday because while it is still a weekday, you cannot really follow up on anything because everyone is already packing up for the weekend! Then I work Saturday where I can have more time to catch up and then come Monday, I am ready for the week!

SKINCARE | Sunscreen 2026 Edition

Some PR marked with *

It's that time again! I used to use a ton of different sunscreens throughout summer, but in the spirit of reducing unnecessary spending "for the sake of the blog", I have stopped doing this as I have actually had to throw quite a few out because sunscreens expire. Some, I have continued to use as primers like the ones from Supergoop, but generally I try to use them all up before reviewing new ones and I think I've been doing alright! In fact, one of the sunscreens featured today has now been used up!

NAILS | We Love Purple #CBBxManiMonday

One purchased by me

As I type this, I am nestled in a blanket as I watch a live replay of Stage 3 of the Tour de France. What a vacation life right? For the last two years, we have done a one month subscription to Flo Bikes as they are the only place in Canada that shows TDF. Before, you had to subscribe for the whole year for something like $150, but now you can pay $49.99 CDN for one month which is perfect! I have tried to keep up with the other Grand Tours during the year, but TDF is truly the most exciting!

SHEET MASK | Miniso Comic Style Facial Sheet Mask Collection

Purchased by me

With a Miniso location a block away from my work, I go from time to time to pick up Asian snacks and check out Asian skincare and makeup. Miniso has a number of house brand sheet masks and a few months ago, I came across these very attractively packaged sheet masks that looked cute and had some fun-smelling scents.

EMPTIES | June 2026 (The month I finished an entire eyeshadow stick!)

I officially started my "birthday vacation" yesterday and I launched it all fairly hard with going downtown and having dinner at Miku amongst the FIFA and Canada Day festivities so my husband and I were completely "peopled-out" by the time we got home. And on top of that, I was anxious driving home because Evelyn's (the name of my 2004 Honda Civic) engine light came on. I felt the car shudder a bit before it came on so I think it might be a spark plug issue, but I was just praying she would make it home in one piece and I wouldn't have to call a tow truck on a holiday!

 

PR marked with *

I feel like I did really well with my empties last month, but when I look at these photos they seem so unimpressive despite my intense focus on finishing products I've had for awhile! Nonetheless, I am still very proud of myself LOL! Firstly, finishing this Dior Star Foundation* that I kid you not is probably 10 years old was a huge accomplishment! I scooped and scraped as much as I could before finally giving up and cleaning out the bottle which took probably 20 minutes! The other product that I used up was the Rare Beauty Eyeshadow Stick in the shade Contentment which I already had a backup of because I use it almost everyday for work! I was also scraping it out of the tube with a little metal tool so I was proud that I got the absolute max value out of it!

NAILS | Going neon with Essie Throw in the Towel #CBBxManiMonday

Press sample

I have been so exhausted the last few days as I have not been sleeping well with the heat wave so my husband and I decided to have a solid sleep-in until 9am yesterday. I think everyone must have been tired because even the cats didn't even wake me up for food until then! I also start vacation this Wednesday on July 1st for one week because it's ma birthdayyyyy and I cannot wait to both have some time off at home and celebrate! I have three days booked with husband and friends and then I want to spend the rest of my time cleaning the apartment, which has been sorely neglected for the last month and a half while I have been busy with working in two locations during the week.

SHEET MASK | Garnier Cryo Jelly Anti-Fatigue Sheet Mask Review

Purchased by me

It's summer now so when I see a mask with snowflakes on the packaging and a "-7 degrees" in the description, I am IMMEDIATELY interested! Garnier caught my attention yet again with their Cryo Jelly cooling effect sheet mask and I just had to know "how cooling was it?"

MAKEUP | L'Oreal BlurFiller Lip Contour Lip Liner

Press samples

I know that lip liners are back in a BIG way and I have tried a few times to get onboard, but this is one product that I cannot get to work for me. I feel like no matter how much I blend, I always end up with a ring around my lips after a few hours. I have worn lip liners as lipsticks with a bit of gloss on top and of course, once the gloss wears off, I am left with my lip ring once again so when it comes to lip liners, I actually have only two that I have legitimately purchased on my own. I probably have 10 from PR that are in nude shades that I am convinced I will "need at some point", but I think I should just declutter them the next time I do a purge. 

NAILS | Pixyls Rainbow Nail Art #CBBxManiMonday

It was another beautiful weekend in Vancouver at 20 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and a cool breeze from the water. If everyday in summer were this, I would be in heaven! When it starts creeping closer to 30 degrees, that's where you lose me! My husband and I decided to spend our Sunday afternoon at Uniqlo as we had a number of summer basics we wanted to stock up on. I have gained 10lbs since last summer so none of my work summer clothes fit anymore and I was tired of feeling "stuffed" into everything especially as the weather gets hotter!

SHEET MASK | Garnier Pro-Retinol Smoothing Serum Mask

Purchased by me

I have been doing a few split shifts at Chaumet at Oakridge Park for the last month and I think I underestimated how tired I would be training at one location and then trying to get everything I want to get done at my home store as I basically work 3 days/week at my own store. While I feel like that would be enough time for most managers, with people taking vacation, wanting to merchandise and organize stock and having a larger client base than before that I like to manage "the type A Jayne way", it has left me working more than 40 hours to week to keep up. Amazingly, I have managed to keep up with sheet masking every day so at least one small aspect of my life feels put together!

NAILS | Dioriviera Summer 2026 #CBBxManiMonday

Purchased by me

Oh my goodness, I am so late with posting ANY nails! ManiMondays used to be the one thing I felt I could make time for because I always had my nail painted, but then my nails started breaking big time a few months ago and the inspiration for nail art has been lacking as well. I feel like I have sort of done everything, but at the same time there is nothing wrong with old favourites, right? Everyone loves a bit of nostalgia? 

SHEET MASK | The Face Shop Character Masks: Puppy, Pig and Monkey

We have just experienced our first FIFA weekend! The last time I saw Vancouver host something on such a large scale was the 2010 Olympics and for a city that is so small, I do not know how we manage to fit so many people inside it! Last weekend, while I was driving into work, I saw this MASSIVE line that wrapped all around Waterfront station and onto West Cordova. Easily 1000 people and what was the line for? Compass "cards" in the shape of soccer ball keychains! Cute, but you will NEVER catch me wasting my Saturday morning (or any morning really) waiting in the rain for something like that! It was pouring rain too!

Press samples

Not gonna lie. These Face Shop sheet masks are old AF, but I honestly barely noticed a difference between using them now and like 8 years ago (I had extras from before). I know a lot of people get scared about using expired skincare products, but I have never had anything bad happen with my skin or noticed anything "off". I think there is something about sheet masks because they are sealed and the packaging is usually lined with foil which seems to preserve all masks in a way that I have never seen with any other type of skincare.

EMPTIES | May 2026 (The Month of Skincare!)

Today has been a REAL effort to do anything useful despite getting up early. I have been on my work email all day for client things, which I don't mind doing since 99% of my clients are super nice. I like being able to give them each proper attention as I don't often get a chance to do that at work since it's more about getting things done as they come up as well as answering people's questions on the go. I rarely get a chance to do something completely on my own for more than 30 minutes so that's the only reason I work with clients at home - just to be able to get from Point A to B in straight line within the hour instead zigzagging with hours in between!

I finished a whopping SEVEN skincare products which was kind of crazy, but many of them were at the halfway points when I started with them or products I had started using earlier in the year that all happened to get used up last month! Notable standouts include the Omorovicza Magic Moisture Mist, which is sadly discontinued, the Pacifica Glow Baby Serum and the FirstBase Skincare Cleanser which were all AMAZING to use. I also realized that my husband really liked the FirstBase Cleanser for his beard so I will be purchasing more whenever they have a promotion since I have BINS of cleanser to get through!

SHEET MASK | Vitamasques Repair Vegan Collagen and Gold Metallic Face Sheet Mask

Purchased by me

This is my first Vitamasques review and I do not think it will be my last! I have now seen this brand at London Drugs so once I make a bit more of a dent in my sheet mask collection, I will pick up more to try! 

EVENT | A Day with Dior Beauty: Facials and Matcha

 

It's not very often that I do back to back events with Dior in one day mainly due to my lack of energy and not wanting to stay downtown and dealing with traffic on the way home. With how busy and chaotic the last few weeks have been, I was willing to make the drive downtown and get an amazing facial as well as do a little bit of shopping!

NAILS | ORLY Hot Tropics Swatch #CBBxManiMonday

Purchased by me

This past week has been an absolute whirlwind of activity! I have been helping out with opening the new Chaumet Oakridge location and since Oakridge as a mall has been undergoing construction since 2020, it has been very complicated trying setup a new store while the mall itself is also undergoing construction! The team is new so I have also been training them a little bit and advising on how best to setup their store for half the day and then coming back to my own store. Needless to say, I have been tired, but glad to see that I was able to assist effectively as the store seems to be as ready as it will ever be! 

BEAUTY | March 2026 Ipsy Original Bag

Purchased by me

Here we are at March and I have April and May ready to go as well! I actually really liked March's bag in terms of the variety of products as it included both makeup and skincare that were actually products I would use! That's always the case with these subscriptions, but generally Ipsy has been pretty fun for me!

BEAUTY | Sephora Collection Outrageous Plump Lip Gloss x Tabasco

Purchased by me

How many of you are Hot Ones fans? If you haven't heard of the show, it's where host Sean Evans ask "hot questions with even hotter wings" and the hot sauces they use change every season with the exception of Da Bomb which is known to be just pure pepper extract and meant to annihilate. I love the show and while I am not normally a spice lover when it comes food, but I AM a spice lover with my lip products so can you imagine my delight when the Sephora Collection Plump Lip Gloss x Tabasco Collaboration popped up as a suggestion while I was browsing the Sephora app?!

NAILS | Hermes Iris Violetta #CBBxManiMonday

Purchased by me

It has been over a month since I last painted my nails as I waited patiently for them to grow back...and then break again. My index nail still isn't back to what it was before and I am eating really well and feeling good so who knows what is happening. Sometimes nails are just what they are no matter how much biotin or good food you ingest.

SHEET MASK | Anua x KPop Demon Hunters Eternal and Golden Honmoon Collagen Mask

Purchased by me

I was not immune to the hype of Kpop Demon Hunters both with the movie and the music! My husband and I watched the movie last year and as big Kpop fans in general, had all of our expectations fulfilled and more! I am still not sick of the song "Golden" and I love that EJAE has finally gotten all of the recognition she deserves! A Grammy AND Oscar?! How much better could it get?!

LIFESTYLE | Six on Saturday - Flowers, Watches, Dior and more Flowers!

I have not done one of these in awhile and because I missed Friday, it means I get to do Six on Saturday! What I like about these posts are that it jogs my memory about what the last two weeks have been like as well as teaches me to be appreciative of what has happened in my life because a lot of the time, life moves way too fast!

ONE: Whenever a client says they are thankful for the service I have provided them with, it always makes me smile, but when they add in a little something special like flowers, it's really extra special. These were hand-delivered to the store and I had no idea who would have sent me flowers because it's not like it happens every day and then of course, the pessimist in me thinks it's a stalker! Thankfully, that was not the case and I got to enjoy these beautiful orchids in my office for the next week as my cats would have eaten them had I brought them home!

MAKEUP | LYS Triple Fix Serum Skin Tint Foundation Stick

Purchased by me

Though I don't play around with makeup as much as I used to, foundation is the one thing I am always tempted by even though I feel like there is nothing I haven't tried at this point! I first started seeing LYS Beauty while we were in the midst of the pandemic and looking for more BIPOC brands. 

EMPTIES | April 2026 (Where Finishing a NARS Blush Took 6 Months!)

Coming at this a little bit later than I had wanted, but OMG has it been a busy last 3 weeks! There has just been a lot going on at work with my day job with events and helping with a new store opening so I have been trying to pack as much as I can into my work day and then coming home a total zombie. I have a few vacation days booked this week so I am hoping to recoup some energy and rest as the week AFTER is going to be really hectic again as I will be working out of a the new Chaumet at Oakridge for the week for their opening!

# Skincare = 6

Favourites from this pile were the Beauty of Joseon sunscreen which I had amazingly never tried before and the Pacifica Sea Foam Complete Face Wash which was one of the nicest foaming face washes I have ever used! The Tata Harper Regnerating Cleanser has been a favourite of mine since I worked for the brand in 2015 and I always repurchase it whenever there is a sale on the Tata Harper website since you get waaaay more GWPs there compared to Sephora.

FASHION | Tieks by Gavrieli Leopard Print Edition

Press sample

I only have a handful of fashion reviews on the blog so it does take something fairly interesting for me to share it with you all here and the Tieks Ballet Flats are it!

SHEET MASK | SEPHORA COLLECTION Transformation Glow Face Mask with Vitamin C

Purchased by me

Happy first Sunday of May! At a glorious 22 degrees Celsius, we are well on our way to summer here in Vancouver and I only wish it would stay at this temperature as this is the most I can comfortably handle, but we are apparently in for a hot and dry summer this year so ugh. I am starting off this month with a brand new Sephora Collection mask that I picked up during the Sephora VIB sale and yes, I am still Rouge despite my beauty purchasing cutbacks. Granted, I am basically making the $1000 cut-off always during the November event instead of before where I was pretty much making it twice over by July! 

FRAGRANCE | Dior Addict Peachy, Purple and Rosy Glow EDP

 

Purchased by me (I feel like 90% of things are purchased by me at this point, but I guess for consistency?)

I have been on a total fragrance kick the last two years and though I normally find many of Dior's fragrances to be on the more serious side, when I saw the notes and packaging for the new Dior Addict EDPs, I was delighted to see something lighter and more fruity for the Spring and Summer season!

SHEET MASK | VT Cosmetics 300 Reedle Shot 2 Step Mask

Purchased by me

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! It's shaping up to be a nice, sunny day today so I am looking forward to having a nice long walk with my husband today. Something we try to do every Sunday though I know that when it's raining or I have had a particularly tiring week, I tend to be very grumpy when we do them. I am counting on being a better mood tomorrow as the last few days have been socially draining, but in a positive way. I am just an introvert who needs to recharge so I am hoping to feel ready to go on Monday!

BEAUTY | February 2026 Ipsy Original Bag

Purchased by me

Slowly, but surely I will catch up with my Ipsy bags! I've actually been enjoying using the products right away as there have been some very pleasant discoveries! Let's get into it!