A main attraction

Main-attrctinGuys, I love playing with makeup. It’s so fun using bold colours on the lips, and neutrals on the eyes – or vice versa. Usually if I’m experimenting with makeup I don’t often leave the house, because for the most part it comes out terrible (especially the eyeshadow). Now that I’ve watched endless hours of YouTube, I have become a little more comfortable with blending the eyeshadow so it doesn’t look like I have two black eyes (or brown, in my case – since I will never use black eyeshadow. It’s a little daunting!). Luckily bareMinerals have come out with a Main Attraction set where all you need to get ready for a holiday party is some foundation, concealer and this shoe box of goodies.

Here’s what it looks like on me:BM-Main-Attract

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Main-AttractionHoliday make up kits make a great gift to someone for Christmas, or even as a hostess gift during the Holidays. Thanks to Sephora’s 20% off sale a few weeks ago, I picked up a number of holiday gift sets for friends this year. This one, however, was sent by bareMinerals for my review.

bareMinerals-xmas2014A main attraction is a 7 piece full-face collection for a center stage look, according to bareMinerals. The little shoe box of makeup has a mirror built inside too!

Not only is the packaging excellent, the collection includes a ton of makeup for $54USD / $68CDN. Inside the kit:

  1. bareMinerals READY® eyeshadow 2.0, The Curtain Call featuring Matinee and Opening Night
  2. Lasting Lineâ„¢ long-wearing eyeliner in Absolute Black
  3. Lash Dominationâ„¢ 10-in-1 volumizing mascara in Intense Black
  4. Mini Marvelous Moxieâ„¢ lipstick in Make Your Move
  5. Marvelous Moxie lipgloss in Leading Lady
  6. Fair blush
  7. Tapered blush brush
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What’s inside my desk?

White-desk-White-chairIt’s almost like a what’s in my purse blog post, but we’re getting to the nitty gritty and showing you what’s really in my desk. For the most part I try to keep it as clean and organized as I can. But usually I have notebooks, vitamins, pens, receipts, everything dumped out on top of the desk and it usually gets shoved into one of the many drawers in the desk when I want it cleared off asap.

I will always continue to have at least one junk drawer, because who can really keep that organized, all the time? Definitely not me.

whats-in-my-deskSo let’s take a peek shall we?

There’s five drawers to my Ikea alex drawer unit that I bought while we were living in Canada. I’m pleased with the amount of stuff it holds, and how convent it is.

drawer-1Top drawer is for quick access. Hand creams, notebooks I use on the daily, scissors, post it notes, everything else you see.

drawer-2Alright, this is the junk drawer I was referring to. Miscellaneous cables (mainly for charging my phone on the go), coin purses, business cards from networking, our mailing address stamp that I got on Etsy. Newfoundland Screech Coffee!

drawer-3Ah, one of my favourites. The nail drawer. The clear boxes I purchased from Daiso. One box is reserved solely for Dior nail polishes and they’re right up front. Second one is for the one’s I use on the regular (neutral nails, pinks and top coats). The one in the back has colours I rarely wear. Then I have my business cards buttons, nail polish remover, nail tools, more notebooks and a couple of bubble wrap envelopes.

drawer-4I store my cameras in here, along with cords and chargers. A few miscellaneous boxes, and wooden cutlery too.

drawer-5Last but not least, my stationary drawer! I’m a pen lover and stationary collector, and I love having options. I have a couple of pencil cases filled with markers, fine point gel pens, pencils, erasers. The rest is filled up with cards we received on our wedding day or wedding reception day along with my Fitbit box, and some fun coloured staples.

Do you have a desk with drawers? What do you keep in it?

How organized/cluttered is your work space?

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POM Friday . 5

It’s Friday and you know what that means! Alfie makes his weekly appearance for Pomeranian Friday.

Here’s a flashback to Summer 2013 when I took Alfie to a course to get our dogs comfortable in the water. He’s hangin’ out on a surf board! Going to keep this short and sweet as always, and let the photos of Alfie do the talking. Enjoy your weekend folks!Alfie and 2 dogs

Me and Alfie surf

Dogs on surf board

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