Tag: makeup
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me natter on about my struggle to pack light. I’ve gotten pretty good, if I may say so myself — a mere carry-on for a week in the French Riviera last month! That’s major for a shopper and shoe-crazy traveler like me.
So a new discovery frequent travelers and beauty lovers alike (and I’m both!) will love? Mai Couture. These are blotting papers, oh pardon me, blotting papier, but with benefits.
Yes, they’ll absorb excess oil, but there are different versions: blush papier to pretty up your cheeks with a soft pink; one with salicylic acid to help your skin if you’re blemish-prone; and one with vitamin C and E to help refresh your skin.
Sleek in a slim gold package, they’re just perfect when packing light. Gives your carry-on a little more room for purchases 
From $15. Available at Murale.
June 19, 2013
Good news for you beauty addicts: Amazon.ca has added beauty and health stores to their site. Now, you can peruse more than 80,000 beauty and health products while you’re putting in your order for books or DVDs.
With a $100 Amazon gift card in my wallet (a gift from Amazon.ca — thanks!) I checked out the new shops…and while I planned on sticking to practical staples such as vitamin D and calcium supplements, I’m mighty tempted by all of the fantastic beauty brands in the store: Bobbi Brown, YSL, Dermalogica, Burt’s Bees, Aveda, Clarisonic, Shu Uemura, and too many more to name. These four items here are on my not-so-short list:
What’s on the top of your beauty and health shopping list?
May 17, 2013
I’m fresh home from an incredible trip to Mexico (check my Instagram for some pics from the trip — I also wrote up the three hotels in the Metro newspaper earlier this week. Missed the article? I’ll be sure to link to my next article on the trip, too, once it’s published). One week in that sunny, warm slice of heaven and I’m still high off of all that swellness.
I’m also pretty pale. Not much of a tan, thanks to liberal applications of SPF 60 all week.
Helping in both respects — keeping the happy vibe going and giving me a bit o’ colour: the new Glow & Mood-Boosting Baked Bronzer and Illuminating Bronzing Veil from Physicians Formula ($20 each). I mean, seriously, the cute packaging and format is enough on its own to make you smile, right?
But that’s not all. The two bronzers are part of the Physicians Formula Happy Booster line, so it’s infused with goodness to boost your mood, such as violet and citrus fragrance notes, an omega-3 to trigger dopamine production, and an Arctic rose derivative that mimics the effects of feel-good endorphins.
I like to think of them as a Mexican getaway in a compact.
Happy “travels”!
March 1, 2013
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