A Beauty & Style Blog
Today's post is Part Two of the Dior Skyline Collection for Fall 2016 - which will focus on the concealing, illuminating, strobing and contouring products in the collection. For a review and swatches of Part One: Eyes, Lips & Nails - click here. Very much like the Eiffel Tower, our complexion can soar to magical heights when ...
Today's post is all about Dior's Skyline Collection for Fall 2016. Well, actually just half of it. The collection is quite large so I decided to divide it into 2 separate posts - one for eyes, lips & nails and the other for face products including concealer, contour and highlight. For a review and swatches of the Face Collection ...
Sephora (aka my happy place) opened its first-ever Beauty TIP Workshop store at the newly expanded Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto last week. The leading beauty retailer has always been cutting edge and already offers one of the most inviting shopping experiences in the beauty industry. Now, the Yorkdale store joins 3 others in North America ...
Are you in the market for a new hair appliance? Well, Trade Secrets/Glamour Secrets is hosting their 10th annual "Give & Take" trade-in event until September 23rd 2016, which benefits local women’s charities and shelters. To take advantage of this great deal and help those in need, just bring in your gently used blow dryer, curling iron ...
I know a lot of women. Some of them like me, are obsessed with beauty products while others don't wear an ounce of makeup. Actually that's not true. While, not every woman is into learning the latest contour technique or as obsessed with collecting lippies as I am, many still wear mascara. These days, many woman ...
Chanel's Fall 2016 beauty collection - Le Rouge Collection N°1 - is all about the colour red. "Red is intense. It is vulnerable, sexual and eternal", says Lucia Pica, Chanel's Global Creative Makeup and Colour Designer. "When you think of the colour red, you usually think of love and desire, innocence & experience, life and death". ...
L’Oréal Paris recently came out with a new hair care range that combines 3 refined mineral clays. The re-balancing range that claims to reveal perfectly balanced hair is called Extraordinary Clay and includes a breakthrough ingredient that "breaks the cycle of oily roots and dry ends". Clay's ability to cleanse, purify and energize is unrivalled. It combats excessive oil production ...
With "back to school" just around the corner I was inspired to try out a palette that I've had in my collection for a while but hadn't yet reached for. NYX's Beauty School Dropout - Graduate Edition ($35 USD/$38 CAD) is a budget-friendly assortment eye shadows, blush, illuminating and contour powders housed in a sturdy, book ...
The mineral-rich thermal springs of the French Pyrenees mountains have been called the “fountain of youth” for thousands of years. The healing waters, filled with pure thermal planktons (micro-organisms with skin superpowers!!) were said to heal and invigorate anyone who bathed in them. After years of research and development, Biotherm biologists were able to isolate thermal plankton (the key to these ...
This Summer, L'Oreal Paris introduced its first oil-infused nail colour called Le Vernis a L'Huile by Colour Riche. The new range (which is kind of a big deal!) took 10 years to create and boasts a patented "oil-in-colour technology", a new brush design and get this.... a fragrance!! While the new polish has graced store ...
Sunscreens help to shield us from the Suns damaging UV rays. If you typically burn in the sun after 10 minutes, a product with an Sun Protection Factor of 20 will give you approximately 200 minutes in the Sun before burning. This is meant to be a guide but what many consumers don't realize is ...
The new Clarins Sunkissed Collection for Summer is all about achieving the perfect Summer look with just a few products. Simplicity is what this collection is all about. And that's exactly what summer makeup should be! Effortless. The collection includes a gorgeous limited edition Bronzing Powder & Blush ($36 USD/$42 CAD), four Waterproof Eyeshadows ($22 USD/$24 CAD), ...