Topbox | June 2013 “Regular” Edition

It has been such a busy month for me with work that my beauty boxes have been neglected! For June, I once again opted for the regular Topbox as none of the Prive boxes appealed to me and I like the idea of a surprise! Sometimes you might even get a Prive item in your regular edition!

Belvada Cosmetics | Mini Eyelash Curler

Compact and easy to use, this curler will create a natural looking curl.

Thoughts: This is a Canadian brand! I think this is really cute and I love that there is an extra eye lash pad included. I have one already from a past Julep box, but I kind of like this one more! It’s so compact that you really can throw this in your purse!

Full size: ONE/$5.99

I received: *FULL SIZE*

Review | KKCenterHk Audrey Hepburn Water Decals

Now that water decals have made their way into my nail art life, I cannot get enough of them! I love how seamlessly they blend right into your nail unlike other “topical” nail art extras and how quick and easy they are to use! I recently had the opportunity to review the Audrey Hepurn water decals from KKCenterHk and I was very pleased with the results. I love this iconic Audrey Hepburn pose and knew right away that I had to use a certain China Glaze polish for this nail art manicure!

There are 10 water decals on one sheet with some random white decals in the middle. I didn’t know what they were so I just ignored them. They look like clouds…

There were no instructions for these water decals and if I hadn’t used them before in previous nail art, I probably would have had to look up some directions! I just trimmed off the decals I wanted, soaked them in tap water for about 10 seconds and then used tweezers to position them on my nail.

Beauty Box 5 | May 2013

Maybe I just have too many beauty boxes to blog about, but I just cannot stay on top of these posts! So, May’s BB5 had one standout product for me and the rest were somewhat uninteresting…I know I’ve built up the suspense now so read on to see what I received!

Sephora | Sinnage Edition #2

The last Sephora order I placed online was back in January so almost half a year later, I thought I could spoil myself again! I’ve had a shopping cart going since February, but over the last couple of months I’ve been swapping things out and looking for the best beauty deals. When I saw a Buxom lip gloss as a gift with purchase of $35, I knew it was my time to pounce!

Swatch It Up | Pretty & Polished Daddy Daughter Dance

One of the newest collections from Pretty & Polished is the Sweet Sixteen Collection which features three polishes: 16 Candles, To Be a Lady and Daddy Daughter Dance which I am wearing today! This is what I would consider to be a blue-grey crelly polish and took three fairly thick coats for my VNL to disappear. What I love about this polish is the many different types of glitter that I didn’t need to fish for! I adore circle glitter and this is filled with so much! I think the base colour and glitter combo is incredibly unique and received a number of compliments when I wore it!

“Find What You Love” at Metropolis at Metrotown

For anyone who is in the Vancouver area, I will be teaming up with a couple of other local nail bloggers, Lindsay from Nail Art by Lindsay, Winnie from The RAWR Shop and Angela from Do Want Makeup, to lead three nail art workshops at Metrotown Mall in Burnaby over the next month! The workshops are by donation with 100% of the proceeds going towards Beauty Night, an organization that builds self esteem and changes lives of women and youth living in poverty. I’d love to meet some of you and have some fun with nail polish too!

The colours I used have no names, but are the official Metropolis colours for summer and come in a jelly purple, hot pink and an orange cream which will be included in every participants swag bag! There is also a tiny bottle of Seche Vite which I used in this manicure to be true to the workshop, but you can see the SHRINKAGE! This design was made using page reinforcers which are not my favourite as I prefer to freehand and not wait for polish to dry, but again, I wanted to stay true to the workshop as this is how the participants would be creating the design.

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