Beauty, Holiday Gift Guide 2013, Photos, Reviews

I broke my Sigma brush and I won’t replace it

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I have absolutely nothing against Sigma brushes, in fact I’ve been using the F82 round top kabuki for over three years without swapping out for any other brush.

But for some silly and strange reason, I had in my head I wanted to change my routine in cleansing my makeup brushes. This is where it all became my fault and I needed new brushes within 24 hours after making this terrible mistake.

Rather than swirling the makeup brush with cleanser in my hands to wash it, I let that favorite makeup brush of mine soak in a cup full of makeup remover. I noticed that I got the barrel of the brush submerged. Problem #1 right there. I didn’t realize it would loosen up the glue and make the bristles fall out immediately after I rinsed it out. I squeezed out the excess water and whoops, there goes the bristles with it. I am so remorseful. My poor brush. At least it wasn’t super expensive, and I mean it did last me three years. I have fond memories of this brush, since it was the first thing I ever reviewed on my YouTube channel.

real techniques core collection brushesI guess things happen for a reason, because I’ve been meaning to try out the Real Techniques brushes since they’ve come out.

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Beauty, Holiday Gift Guide 2013, Photos, Reviews

Stila Color Me Glossy Lip Glaze Set

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The Stila Color Me Glossy lip glaze set is another fantastic gift idea for those on your Christmas to-buy list this year. You can see in the photo below that it comes in a fun box with nine shades of glosses to choose from. However they’re packaged in three trio’s, so you can potentially separate them and give them as three individual gifts to your friends.

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I foresee these glosses being popular with a younger crowd just getting introduced to makeup. I’ve tried a couple of them out and they weren’t my favorite glosses in the world. They tend to be more sticky on the lips and the colour payoff was much left to be desired. But that doesn’t mean to say others wouldn’t like them. Some would rather have a subtle wash of colour on their lips and I’ve heard so many people enjoy the Stila glosses. I’d just want to wear these with my hair pulled back off my face.

However I can vouch for the longevity of the product, and they glide on so easily. You know how some glosses just goop on and hard to smear around on the lips? Not these. The glosses love to stay on for a few hours, which is really nice especially due to the fact that they’re shiny on your lips and you’d expect them to last no longer than an hour.

The colours in the collection are beautiful. My favorite one’s are the soft pink nudes on the far right. It just adds a little extra somethin-somethin’ to your lips, know what I mean?

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Colours in the set: Cranberry, Persimmon, Melon, Dazzleberry, Wildberry, Strawberry Cream, Passion Fruit, Kaleidoscope, Amaretto.Color-Me-Glossy

And for the price? You can’t beat it. Especially if you’re going to separate them and give them as gifts. The set of nine lip glosses is sold at Sephora and retails for $28 USD ($124 value) / $36 CAD ($161 value).

Have you ever tried the Stila lip glosses?

What brand of lip gloss is your favorite?

p.s. I received the Stila lip glosses as a PR sample. Opinions are my own.

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Holiday Gift Guide 2013, Photos, Reviews

Get your house ready for the Holidays

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Holiday Gift Guide RUBBERMAID-POWER-SCRUBBERMany people dread deep cleaning their kitchens, or bathrooms. But I actually really enjoy doing it and if I can do it even faster, hey that’s even better in my opinion. I blame my years of housekeeping at the Hospital for me “like” of cleaning. I’d rather not say I love cleaning, because who honestly LOVES to clean?

I usually take a day out of the week and really deep clean those two places in our apartment, and sometimes it takes a lot of time and effort if I’ve slacked off with really doing a good job.

My go-to cleaning products and now I’ve added a spinning brush to the combo. Meet the Rubbermaid Power Scrubber. It claims it cleans 2 times faster than manual scrubbing since the oscillation head scrubs 60x per second. But look how tiny the head of that scrubber is. I’m not going to be cleaning my shower with that thing. I’d only reserve that for around the sink in the bathroom, or on the stove top in those sneaky hard to get places. Power scrubber by Rubbermaid

I’ll tell you  a little trick stupid thing I used to do, before using the handy scrubber. I sometimes cleaned the gunk out, from either the stove or sink–with toothpicks and qtips. That was tedious. Especially when they broke. Not to mention the size of them, trying to scrape everything off.

Plus, any tool that can aid in helping me do chores faster, and you’ve got my attention. Rubbermaid comes out with all sorts of neat mechanisms for helping you around the house, doesn’t it?

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