H&M Beauty Haul

HM-Beauty-HaulGuys. I’m a huge sucker for packaging. I placed two sets of H&M Beauty orders since I’ve been back in California. Can’t stop!

I’m going to have to try everything out this week, and see how I like it, and if I recommend it or not. I’m excited to try out all the goodies. While my neighbour from Canada (Zach) was here, I put some of the new H&M body items in his bathroom to try out. He liked it so much, I told him to take it back to Newfoundland with him. He was happy enough with it!

There was only one minor issue with my orders, one cream blush I ordered came sealed in a box, and said it was the colour I ordered. But when I opened it, it ended up being a different colour. Rather than exchange and send back the product and have it be costly to mail back, I kept it.

Onto the haul!HM-Beauty-hand-creamH&M Conscious hand creams: white tea and peppermint, and sweet lemon.

HM-goodiesH&M way to glow bronzing powder (limited edition, no longer online), eye makeup remover pads, brush cleanser spray and detangling comb.

HM-MascaraH&M high and mighty mascara (limited edition, buy it now if you want it!)

HM-Haul-beautyMicellar water, pure definition mascara, best curlfriend mascara, nail colour remover pads, cream blush, revelation body lotion, intuition shower cream

HM-BB-creamH&M BB cream beauty balm. Let’s hope the shades matches me!

HM-Body-scrub-and-creamH&M intuition body scrub and intuition body cream

HM-HandwashLast bits from H&M: White tea and peppermint hand wash x2, Intuition shower cream, revelation body lotion, intuition body lotion.

Any of the items I picked up interest you? The only things I’ve tried this weekend was the shower creams so far. They smell amazing, and unisex too, given the fact my male friend liked it too.

By the way, unfortunately these items aren’t available to my Canadian pals, since you can’t shop at all on the H&M Canada website which defeats the entire purpose of having an online ‘store’. Though the first time I heard of H&M beauty launched, was back in Canada. So I know they are in certain H&M stores across Canada, good luck!

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Valentine’s Day at Santana Row

I’m choosing to keep it short, sweet + simple for this Valentine’s Day. A mini gift guide on what to get your Valentine! Everything shown, you can grab at the stores in Santana Row, and the links for the ten items are below!

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BUY:
Anthropologie Boho pillows
  ..  Urban Outfitters Herschel Duffel  ..  Kate Spade Battery Bank
Anthropologie Body + Hair Oil  ..  Urban Outfitters Herbivore Mask
Best Buy Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones  ..  Free People Vegan Tote
Sephora Blue Sea Kelp Scrub  ..  Ted Baker sweater  ..  Ted Baker dress

Gosh, it’s been ages since I’ve stepped foot on Santana Row’s property. Last time I went was in early December, right when they put the Christmas lights up! I think I’m going to head there this week, especially over to Anthropologie and pick up the Posies & Co. body + hair oil. I want to smell it, and drop the thirty bucks on it.

What are your plans for Valentine’s Day? We aren’t huge on giving gifts for Valentine’s Day, but if you’ve been a reader for a long time you know that Mr. Spiffykerms + I enjoy going to McDonald’s on Valentine’s Day, because it’s our tradition! If you hunt back on the archives of this blog, you’ll know why. I think we might’ve missed one or two years of not going on the famous February 14, but I’m sure this year we will go. Especially because we have gift cards (tee hee!). Maybe after our meal there, we can hop on our bikes around the city to burn off all the high calories we ate.

P.s. Are you diggin’ the new gift guide layout? I thought I would put my Graphic Design skills to work again, and come up with something different that I normally would do. I kinda like how it all turned out though, what are your thoughts? 

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Objects of Desire: 100% pure palettes

3-100pure-palettesFruit dyed makeup? Vegan and cruelty free? A palette that has eyeshadows, highligher and blush?! All that sound right up your alley? These three little objects of desire would make ideal stocking stuffers this Christmas, or buy them all individually to give to your girlfriends.

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Object-of-desireWhen you buy one of these palettes, you’ll be getting two free brushes with it too. I assume one fluffy, and one eyeshadow one as shown in the photos, but don’t quote me on it.

Three new palettes, tons of fun colours to play around with. All available on 100% Pure’s website (they have free shipping!). All palettes I think would suit anyone as they are pretty much all netural-safe colours with a hint of fun thrown in, in each palette. Plus I’m pretty stoked to see they added a blush to each one of them too. Basically an all-in-one go to look.

Sex-Kitten-paletteThis is the Sex Kitten palette, probably my favourite one as I love soft pinks on my eyes, and that highlight shade on the far left is gorgeous, the pink is the perfect caught-in-the-snow rosy pink.

Punk-palettePunk Princess also has some great colours in it. I’m fairly certain I want to depot and take the fourth colour with me everywhere. It’s like a plum bronze shade, really unique and beautiful on the eyelids. Darken it up a tad with a little bit of black on the outer corner and you have an instant smoky eye.

Mermaid-paletteMermaid palette has some fun greens to play around with. The peach highlighter colour at the bottom doesn’t show up incredibly well on my skin, but if I was lighter or darker, it would make a nice highlighter. I just had my self-tanner on that day, so it didn’t show up well.

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3-eyeshadow-palettesWhich one is your favourite?

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