Happy almost-weekend, friends! Let’s kick off this weekend with an awesome giveaway!
Since I’ve been working with the Too Faced brand for a while, I asked if I could host a giveaway for you guys too, instead of just reviewing product for you and you not having the chance to play with it either. Since I’m Canadian living in the USA I am keeping the giveaway open to both USA + Canadian residents. Heck, it’s almost Christmas, why not open it internationally? I’m the one shipping it out to you guys!
Whether you want to keep all the mini’s for your clutch to re-apply during those Christmas parties you’ll be attending, or divide it up to share amongst friends, that’s for you to decide once you win.
The package contains Too Faced’s bestselling Melted shades: Chihuahua and Fig. They also added the Melted Chocolate in Honey and a mini Melted Matte in Lady Balls (lol).
Today I’m going to be reviewing and trying on the Too Faced Melted Liquid Lipsticks. I obviously have 2 sets of these, I’m not going to give you my used ones hehe!
Here is what they look like on the back of my arm.
Melted Chocolate Honey| Satin Medium brown with peachy tones
Melted Chihuahua| Dusty Mauve
Melted Fig| Rosy Orchid
Melted Matte Lady Balls| Matte True Red. I did want to mention that this feathers after about 3 hours of wear. So make sure you apply lipliner before applying this shade.
I think I love the red one the most! Can you tell? ha! The colours are insanely pigmented so you don’t need to ton. Each of them feels comfortable and not trying on my lips and the applicator is so easy to work with since it doesn’t tug on the lips at all — it literally glides right on.
I want to get a few things out of the way before discussing my running shoes.
I’m not a hardcore runner who pumps out 20-50km’s within days. I don’t sign up for running races because they make me too nervous. I run on my own, or with my husband and Alfie. I’ve been running on-and-off for close to ten years, I’ve had a casual running coach when I lived in Ontario (Canada) for a few months which was pretty awesome.
I do know that I’m a neutral runner and my strike is … I guess you could say neutral too. I’m not a heel-striker, nor a toe hopper. Did I make that term up? Probably. But I do know which running shoes I prefer, and I can tell you what I personally think of them.
Over the past few years I’ve tried to run in Saucony shoes, Nike Free’s, and Mizuno. To be honest I do prefer my Mizuno’s the most, and have reached out to them while I lived in Canada for collaborations. Then it took me three years to get in touch with the USA crowd. I’m pretty happy to be working with them again.
A few months ago I was sent two pairs of running sneakers to try out. Mizuno Wave Rider 19 and Mizuno Sayonara.
I already know how the Mizuno Wave Rider’s felt like, because I had already owned and loved a pair. I must say, working with them came at the perfect time. I was in the process of placing an online order of Mizuno Wave Rider’s that very week they reached back out to me.
B’ys got some perfect timing hey?
Since I’ve never tried the Sayonara’s before I definitely wanted to give them a run for their money before properly reviewing them. Ya know? So, it’s been a while.
Mizuno Wave Rider 19 -vs- Mizuno Sayonara:
Wave Rider 19| (shown above)
Feels familiar and comfortable (I’ve ran in Wave Rider’s for 3+ years).
The new Wave Rider’s feel so bouncy, cushiony and a little higher off the ground.
Although a neutral runner, I don’t get shin-pain when running in Wave Rider’s (I do in other shoes!).
An excellent shoe for high-mileage.
You know it’s a fantastic series when they make 20 versions of it!
Nothing negative to say about it, it’s my favourite running shoe.
Sayonara’s|Â (shown above)
First impressions: it’s a light shoe!
Has a roomier toe-box than the Wave Rider but narrower overall.
Feels a little flatter and more of a minimal shoe (although it’s not – it’s just less cushiony than Wave Rider’s).
I prefer the look of this shoe, more. It’s not as bulky.
Hard to decide on which one I prefer, but I do reach for the Wave Rider’s more when I run! But I’ve actually received more compliments on the Sayonara’s (the blue one’s).
Generation Beauty by Ipsy San Francisco has come and gone, and whoa what a whirlwind. To be honest I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. All I knew was that people told me how busy and fun it would be.
Days before the invite-only cocktail party for Ipsy (GenBeauty) Creators, I too received an invite and accepted immediately since (well, let’s be honest….) the swag bags would be incredible. This was the first Generation Beauty held in San Francisco, so I wasn’t sure how busy it would be. After all, the LA and NYC one’s have been known to be so jam-packed. The invite-only cocktail party was held at the Terra Gallery, a gorgeous spot!
When I got to the event via Uber after parking in a garage about a kilometre away), there was this massive line to get in. When I got to the front door of the Terra Gallery I had my invite on my phone, but my name wasn’t on the invite for some strange reason. I showed them my cell phone, gave them my full name with my married last name, they couldn’t find me. So I gave them my maiden name. Then I said okay search by Nancy, or Spiffykerms. Nada. I didn’t really panic because I mean… I knew I got the invite, so why wasn’t I on their list? Lol. Luckily no one panicked on their end either and simply told me to write my name down on their print-out sheet and that’ll be fine. And so it was.
Since I was there by myself I felt a little nervous, because walking up to strangers and striking up a conversation isn’t one of my strong points. But with everyone involved in the YouTube beauty community, it was easy to chat to anyone and everyone. Here’s a list of all the big names who attended the private party.
I spotted Michelle Phan walk in and I felt like no one batted an eye — I mean, She has 8 million YouTube subscribers. Generation Beauty was founded by Michelle Phan and her company Ipsy.
I wasn’t star-struck, but I thought it was so freaking cool she was there just walking around the event. After a while, some people started lining up (including me towards the end of the evening) to chat to her, and/or take photos with her. I was one of those people too — and after our selfie together I handed her one of my business card buttons and she was totally genuine about how much she thought that was a brilliant idea. She fist-bumped me telling me how cool it was, in her soft-spoken voice. So… that was neat.
But I felt strange walking up to some people being all “heyyyy I’m a subscriber. You don’t know who I am, but I like your videos ok bye!”. I mean, it’s all new to me meeting these YouTubers too. I don’t know if they’re weirded out by it!
I also was excited to meet Sam Schuerman, I’ve been a long time subscriber and we always tweet back and forth to one another. So I finally met her! She was super down to earth, and very easy to chat to. I ended up sitting with her for a good half hour or more talking about everything (and not just beauty stuff, either). It was really nice to have a normal conversation with her.
The next day Lauren and I went together to the GenBeauty convention at Pier 27 in San Francisco. A place to purchase discounted makeup, get samples of makeup, have YouTuber meetups and chat with the PRs from the brands. So many of the booths were insane! So well put-together. I mean, check out the NYX and Benefit one’s below! Because Lauren and I had Creator Badges for the event we were able to be a bit more flexible with the lineups and receive different items.
We both wanted to pop by the ghd booth because we both worked with the brand separately at different times within the last little while. We both were educated on how to do beachy waves in our hair.
I’m gonna have a hard time replicating that when I try again soon.
I clearly loved my hair. So much body, bounce and volume you guys.
As vain as it sounds, I couldn’t stop looking in the mirror, hah!!! (Side note: All these photos were taken on my Google Pixel phone — the quality of the photo above is just so sharp… isn’t it?!)
I filmed a video from the event, so you can see how jam-packed it was! It’ll be live on my YouTube channel tomorrow (the video above is from the cocktail party). It was different at the actual convention on Saturday because when the famous YouTubers walked out, everyone was screaming, which I unfortunately didn’t catch on camera. It was definitely an interesting experience!
GenBeauty was definitely a fun spot to be, and we did as much walking around on the two-floors of beauty brands as much as possible. We stayed for a couple of hours — hopefully GenBeauty SF was successful enough to come back for a yearly event like they have in other major cities.
Also! Stay tuned for some giveaways coming up really soon. Many of the brands not only gifted me in general (and I have a lot of makeup and beauty supplies, I honestly don’t need it all). But one brand in particular gave me TONS of full-sized goodies specifically for a giveaway for you guys. I’m stoked.
Happy almost-weekend, friends! Let’s kick off this weekend with an awesome giveaway!
Whether you want to keep all the mini’s for your clutch to re-apply during those Christmas parties you’ll be attending, or divide it up to share amongst friends, that’s for you to decide once you win.
I’m going to be giving away this four piece of deluxe sizes of the Too Faced Melted Merry Kisssmas | The Ultimate Liquified Lipstick Set!  $25 USD | $32 CDN
Today I’m going to be reviewing and trying on the Too Faced Melted Liquid Lipsticks. I obviously have 2 sets of these, I’m not going to give you my used ones hehe!
Melted Chocolate Honey| Satin Medium brown with peachy tones
Melted Chihuahua| Dusty Mauve
Melted Fig| Rosy Orchid
Melted Matte Lady Balls| Matte True Red. I did want to mention that this feathers after about 3 hours of wear. So make sure you apply lipliner before applying this shade.
I think I love the red one the most! Can you tell? ha! The colours are insanely pigmented so you don’t need to ton. Each of them feels comfortable and not trying on my lips and the applicator is so easy to work with since it doesn’t tug on the lips at all — it literally glides right on.
Wanna win the Too Faced Melted Merry Kisssmas | The Ultimate Liquified Lipstick Set? Enter below:
