Lipgloss Heaven!

Happy Thanksgiving! We aren’t having our first American Thanksgiving today, since my husband has a race today. So we’re hosting it at our house tomorrow, with two of our other Canadian friends and their baby. I’m so excited, I’ve been cleaning, decorating and getting the house overall organized. I’ll definitely be blogging about it. However today we’re going to talk about some beauty goodies again.

I know, I usually try to space out reviews with non-sponsored posts, but the bareMinerals and Buxom lip glosses are a must-see and only here for a limited amount of time. Plus, those who are doing Black Friday shopping, or Christmas shopping in general, may want to pick up some of these goodies for a friend, or open the entire package and separate them out for mini gifts to people. These would be so sweet to hand out as party favours if you had a few girlfriends over for a wine night, or a “just because” gift.

Pretty sure I have a lifetime supply of lip glosses right now. Buxom lip glosses are a product I have repurchased a couple of times, mainly in the colours Katie and Bunny. I have found they last longer on my lips than my NYC butter glosses, which are also beautiful but for $1.99 you get what you pay for. They simply don’t last.

So here we go. Let’s dive right into the lip gloss heaven!

bareMinerals KISSING boothâ„¢ ($54 value for $26US / $CDN) 6-Piece Mini Marvelous Moxieâ„¢ Lipgloss Collection

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xes-and-ohsGet it? Kissing booth? Lip glosses set up like X’s for kisses? I thought it was cute, lol.BMMarevelousMoxie

Left to right: Sweet Kisser, Major Flirt, Big Tease, Lucky Lady, Thrill Seeker, Jezebel

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Buxom-Winner-Takes-All2Buxom Winner Takes All ($32US / $40CDN) 6 piece Mini Full-Onâ„¢ Lip Polish & Lip Cream Collection

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Left to right: Chloe, Creamsicle, Sophia, White Russian, Trixie, Berry Blast

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Do you save the best for last? That’s what I usually do. So good. So much happening. A few duplicates (two)  from the Winner Takes All collection, we have the Buxom Lip Gloss Roulette ($59US / $74CDN) Winning Collection of 15 mini Full-Onâ„¢ lip polishes and lip creams.Buxom-Lip-gloss-roulette

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Left to right: Claire, White Russian, Jennifer, Mai Tai, Rebecca, Zoe, Sophia, Katie, Julie, Dominque, Megan, Karen, Mudslide, Isabella, Lavender Cosmo

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What do you think of the whole slew of them? A lot of beautiful shades to choose from, right? Anything stick out to you?

What is your favourite thing about Thanksgiving?

Do you usually travel somewhere for Thanksgiving?

Is anyone hitting up the stores for Black Friday tomorrow?

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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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SinfulColors Holiday 2014

SinfulColors-Holiday2014Guys you know what? I have climber hands, meaning they’re forever dry no matter how much hand cream I put on them. I tried my best to make the nails look decent for these snapshots. So there ya have it.

Get ready to be holi-dazzled with SinfulColors Holiday 2014. I picked out 4 of my favourite polishes out of the 22 polishes that are in the holiday collection and am showing you how they swatch on my nails today. I’ve heard a lot of people not liking how the SinfulColors apply on their nails, saying it goes on streaky. I haven’t had that problem, yet. But I only truly used two solid colours (a white, and a cobalt blue) – the rest have been sparkley top coats.

Let’s get to it!

SinfulColors-Endless-BlueSinfulColors Endless Blue — a deep wave of cobalt.

SinfulColors-Hottie-2SinfulColors Hottie — Clear azure blue twinkling with silver.

SinfulColors-HottieSinfulColors Endless Blue with Hottie on two nails.

SinfulColors-T-twinklesSinfulColors Twilight Twinkle — Brilliant flakes of gold.

SinfulColors-Twilight-TwinkSinfulColors Endless Blue with Twilight Twinkles on top.

SinfulColors-Galax-Sea2SinfulColors Galax-Sea — Magical green flakes with flecks of orangey gold.

SinfulColors-Galax-SeaSinfulColors Galax-Sea pair ontop of a red polish (not SinfulColors)

Dior-dupe-SinfulColorsLook what I found here. A Dior dupe! SinfulColors Twilight Twinkles is the perfect dupe for Dior Diorific Vernis in Golden Shock.

SinfulColors are $1.99/each and is now available exclusively at Walgreens. Follow SinfulColors on Twitter & Facebook.

SinfulColors nail polishes were sent for review.

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