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On Trend Sneakers For Summer

July 26, 2016 1 Comment

One thing I love about living in California, is how laid-back the style is here. I feel like I could rock wearing sneakers to any sort of event I attend.Â On a regular basis you’ll probably see me wearing my black, or white faux vans on an everyday basis. Either that or I’m wearing fake keds. Notice a trend here? I don’t tend to buy the real deal because I’m cheap. I shouldn’t be! Considering it’s my feet and I’m usually complaining about them hurting if I’m headed to the City for a day.

Here are 5 of my current favourites for for all budgets â€“ enjoy!

For the most part I wear sneakers 90% of the time, whether they’re slip on or street-style.Â Here are some of my favourite sneakers for summer.

BrooksÂ Women’s Chariot Heritage $99.Â 80s babies rejoice! The 80s sneakers are making a huge comeback and I’m all about hopping on that train. I LOVE these BrooksÂ Women’s Chariot Heritage $99. They come in a huge array of colour combos to choose from (and not just suede, either). Who digs them as much as me?

Converse Shoreline sneaker $55-75. Woah, did you know you could customize your own chucks? I’ve been eyeing the lowtop shoreline white converse shoe for months. But it was only when I visited their site that I realized you could customize the colour, print, and even stripe on the shoe! These are such a classic. I remember having a pair of Converse high tops as a kid.

Vans Perf Leather Slip-On $60. Perforated vans in black, or white. These are my everyday shoe (except mine are from Target, hee hee). I think they’re so classic, and they’ve been going with everything I’ve been wearing for the past year or more. I love the suede perf too that I pinn’ed here.

Superga Cotu Classic $33-65. These are quite similar to the converse shoes I love, but have a touch of “hey what are those?” to them. I know that Target now has a collaboration with them and I think they’re under $30!

Nike Air Max Thea $90. I spotted these at the mall with a black tongue and laces, and they look way better than the all red listed on their site. I took so many photos of them, I might have to go back and grab them up!

Honourable mentions of Sneaker Love that are probably not available anymore but I found them on Pinterest. Grey suede reeboks! Nude suede nikes with gold swish. Grey on grey nike sneakers.Â Pink suede sneakers by a brand I’ve never heard of. Maybe I just like suede sneakers?

Now, if I only had all the money to buy every shoe I listed, I’d be set.

What kind of shoes do you gravitate towards? Flats, sandals, heels, sneakers?

Beauty

Rituals Duo Eyeshadow

July 25, 2016 No Comments

I know! I had no idea Rituals made makeup, either!

I love the Rituals philosophy and it’s so simple – happiness can be found in the smallest of things. Their passion is to transform our everyday routines into meaningful rituals.Â Rituals is enriched with pulverised gemstones and pure minerals. That way their makeup is richly pigmented and so mild on your skin. They are an all-natural company who uses organic ingredients (or safe alternatives). They’re not tested on animals.

I was pumped when I received my parcel in the mail from them, thinking I was getting a few body and skin care items to try out. I have two eyeshadow duos but this one is going to be about the #13 (I’ll save the other one, for another post!).Â Unfortunately I have no idea what colours to show you that I received since the back of the eyeshadow says #13, but on their websiteÂ it’s sorted by the colours. This one might be the creamy pink and taupe.

The packaging of the eyeshadows are nice and sleek, not overly heavy but definitely well-made. And want to know something neat? They’re made in Italy! The eyeshadows were super easy to blend and had little to no fall-out. I applied the shadows without a primer underneath and look how pigmented it still was. I even used that little spongey applicator it came with. Awesome.

Out of the two duo eyeshadows I have for review, this one is definitely the favourite one I have. It brings out my blue eyes, using neutrals like that. You can use these eyeshadows wet too, but I haven’t tried since whenever I tend to do that on an eyeshadow palette, the shadows get this weird coating over-top and it’s more difficult to use. If anyone else has tried, let me know!

Nice and soft, and easy to blend out as I mentioned. Definitely a really nice creamy-like powdered eyeshadow and so nice to work with considering I don’t wear eyeshadow regularly.

Rituals Eyeshadow Duos $25USD
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Beauty

Farmacy Skincare

July 22, 2016 1 Comment

If you aren’t familiar with Farmacy skincare, let me introduce you!

To be honest, I didn’t find out about this brand on my own. A few months back when Lauren and I were browsing Sephora in Santana Row, she took me to the skincare section and showed me these items! I didn’t end up picking anything out at the time, because I was currently using my favourite products (you know the drill: philosophy hope in a jar, and bobbi brown extra eye repair cream).

A PR palÂ that I’ve worked with in the past started representing Farmacy and allowed me to get familiar with the brand, too. So she sent over the Faramcy Perennial Picks for me to try out.

Farmacy Perennial Picks is a four piece skincare kit that comes with:

New Day Gentle Exfoliating Grains (1.4 oz)
Invincible Root Cell Anti-Aging Serum (0.27 oz)
Sleep Tight Firming Night Balm (0.5 oz)
Rise N’ Shine Daily Moisture Lock (0.5 oz)

This set is perfect for anyone who has dry, normal, combination or sensitive skin. The brand is formulated without parabens, sulfates or phthalates nor do they test on animals. All their products are free of formaldehyde and artificial colouring.

Although trivial because we all want to know how the product preforms on the skin, I think the packaging is great, with the wooden screw-top lids and each product is pretty enough to keep out on the bathroom counter tops.

FarmacyÂ Rise N’ Shine Daily Moisture Lock. I have to admit, I am partial to my favourite face cream, but this one is pretty nice too as it adds hydration to my dry skin and makes my skin look radiant.

Farmacy Sleep Tight Firming Night Balm. This is more of a lightweight balm (re: balm = thicker). I’m happy it’sÂ notÂ tooÂ heavy Â feeling, but just enough moisture for my dry skin to soak up during the night, and feeling smooth in the a.m. I love the fresh scent of the night balm, it has a natural clean scent to it which I tend to gravitate towards (I dislike anything vanilla scented, or candy/food smelling!).

Farmacy Invincible Root Cell Anti-Aging Serum. I’m a huge fan of serums, but I seem to never finish them up. I love the way they make my skin feel, and I usually only apply them at night time because I don’t want to layer too much on my face in the morning with my SPF, moisturizer, and makeup. I love to save the pampering of my skin, for my nighttime routine. I haven’t been using these products all that long, so I can’t fully report on how well the serum is doing for my skin. But it’s definitely better than applying none at all!

Farmacy New Day Gentle Exfoliating Grains. This is my first powder exfoliator, and what I mean by that is just what you think it means. Pour the white powder into the palm of your hand, add a little bit of water and it turns into a gentle exfoliating cream. It’s gentle on my skin and doesn’t feel abrasive at all.