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YSL Couture Palette - #02 Fauves, #08 Avant Garde, #09 Rose Baby Doll
YSL palettes tend to be a dividing line for a lot of makeup junkies. Most of the ones in the past have tended towards the sheerer side of the pigmentation spectrum, which serves those who prefer a...
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Makeup Revolution - Essential Mattes and Shimmers Palettes, Baked Blusher
In case you've missed the social media blitz, Makeup Revolution is a relatively new drugstore brand out of the UK, setting up shop in Superdrug locations (and online) this past March, and combining...
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Cover Girl truBLEND Liquid Makeup - l5 Creamy Natural and m4 Sand Beige
Cover Girl reformulated their truBLEND foundations a few months ago, making the formula lighter and thinner while improving the shade-matching potential. I never tried the original version, so I can't...
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Shu Uemura Ready To Wear Palette (Pink Hues) and Drawing Pencils (M Black 01,...
Shu Uemura recently revamped their eyeliners 9 dubbed Drawing Pencils - and introduced four new eyeshadow palettes, each featuring a monochromatic colour scheme.Side note: As the name of the pencils...
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Tarte Rainforest After Dark Colored Clay Eye and Cheek Palette
Tarte palettes can be a little hit-or-miss for me. Most recently I ordered and returned the Golden Days and Sultry Nights one (which is currently in the sale section at Sephora), but loved my...
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Lorac Pro 2 Palette
The first Lorac Pro Palette was a bit of a slow burn for me. Looking back at my review, it seems a little lukewarm compared to how I feel about it now. It easily makes it on my top 10 lists, especially...
View ArticleDecluttering My Makeup: Part 1
In a long overdue fit of organizational frenzy, I've decided to systematically go through my stash and purge the things that I'm not using or otherwise enjoying. No worries, I'm still a hoarder...
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Shu Uemura Brave Beauty - Green and Orange Eye Palettes
I don't know if Shu Uemura has made better palettes than the Brave Beauty ones. I think sometimes the concepts behind the Shu collection don't always translate to an immediately accessible...
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Sale Score - The Sonia Kashuk 15 Year Anniversary Brush Set
Sometimes the shopping-fu is with me.I was on my way home from physio when I had the sudden and overwhelming urge to check Target for a bath mat I had been thinking of purchasing. As is my usual...
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Shu Uemura Brave Beauty - Vision of Beauty Rouge Unlimited and Satin Radiant...
The lip portion of the Shu Uemura Brave Beauty collection is, much like the palettes, a mash-up of the in-your-face and the very wearable. The packaging has that same bold, almost-floral design that...
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YSL Fall 2014 Cuirs Fétiches - Couture Palette Collector Fétiche, RougePur...
YSL really hit the ground running with the new Couture Palettes. As I mentioned in my previous review, they are truly a cut above previous iterations from the brand, and stack right up there in my top...
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No Fuss Makeup (ft. Clarins Ombre Matte, Bourjois 123 Perfect, YSL TheMats)
I really like the concept of the No Makeup Look. I just can't be bothered to spend all that time on my makeup only to appear the same walking out the door as I did rolling out of bed. If it's a...
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New Essence Palettes: All About Nude, All About Paradise, All about Sunrise
If you're near an Ulta or Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix location that has a little display of Essence Cosmetics, you neeeeeeeed to check out the new 6-pan palettes in their permanent line-up. For...
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Viseart - #05 Sultry Muse and #06 Paris Nude
If you're a hardcore beauty junkie or makeup artist, you probably already know about the wonder of the Viseart palettes. And if you're Canadian, you've probably cursed the heavens for the relative...
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My Apothecary Website
So I don't normally plug my micro-biz here. I generally feel a little weird doing so, though I'm not really sure why - they're tangentially related after all, being about makeup one one hand, and...
View ArticleBeauty Thoughts #1 - Truthiness in Blogging
I've been at this blogging/vlogging thing for a few years now. I actually started under a different name, several years back, when I was more into green beauty, and I've been an avid consumer of beauty...
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Make Up For Ever Artist Palette and Laura Mercier Artist Palette for Eyes and...
I'll be doing a series of quick and dirty swatch-and-mini review posts for the holiday palettes, as there isn't a lot of time left to purchase or put things on wish lists for the holiday gift-giving...
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Urban Decay Naked On The Run Palette
Press sample. Contains affiliate link.Sometimes a product doesn't quite work as intended, but still manages to be all kinds of awesome. Such is the case with the Urban Decay Naked On The Run travel...
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Clarins Spring 2015 - Garden Escape Palette 6-Color Eye Palette
Press sample.As tired as I am of winter, I'm almost more tired of complaining about it. So let's focus on spring, yes?And nothing says "HELLO THERE SPRING" quite like the verdant, pastel confection...
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Pupa Spring 2015 Sporty Chic Collection - Graphic Eyeshadow Palette and...
Purchased items.SPRING IS HERE.No?Well, eff it, let's pretend.I'm diving deep into all the pastels I can find. I ran across the Pupa Spring display at Jean Coutu a few weeks back, and all those...
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