Eyes, Lips, Face Articles

Full Coverage Concealer Technique: Cooking Your Makeup

Summer holidays may be approaching, but beauty school is now in session! Today, I want to discuss a technique for achieving full coverage concealer that stays all day. 

In my long term quest for long lasting full coverage makeup routines, I've been watching an inappropriate amount of drag queen themed makeup tutorials. Seriously, it's becoming a problem. In my defence, it...

5 Ways To Switch Up Your Beauty Routine for Summer

With summer (hopefully) right around the corner, it is time to adjust your beauty routine. When the warm weather, bright sun and of course, humidity hits, we should shake it up and go with some lighter, simpler beauty products. Embrace your natural beauty this season and let your features, not your makeup stand out.


1. Switch it up from powder blush to cream blush 

Heavy blush can look garish...

Summer Beauty Trend Alert: 5 Ways To Wear Brights

If the spring runways and summer beauty collections are anything to go by, we're in for a bright summer! Bold shades of blue, pink, teal and purple are some of the hottest beauty trends to jump on for the upcoming season.

Understandably, most people shy away from brights. It's easy to get shadow-happy and go a bit too far, making you look like you've just stepped out of a time machine...

Wedding Wednesday: 3 Simple DIY Hair and Makeup Tutorials for Brides

For those brides who are looking to stay on budget, skipping the pro makeup application and hair styling can be a great idea. Well, at first. Until the big day comes and you've suddenly remembered that when it comes to doing hair, you have the motor skills of a toddler.  

Well, never fear. We found three deceptively simple hair styles and beauty looks that you can totally DIY without...

Review of the Week: Lip Gloss (May 6-12)

In the immortal words of Lil' Mama, "My lip gloss is cool, my lip gloss be poppin’, I’m standin’ at my locker and all the boys keep stoppin’". Oh Lil' Mama, how right you were. In case you've forgotten these wise words or perhaps you need to be introduced to them, here you go: 

 
So obviously, lip glossin' is a big deal. Which is why we made this week's...

Staff Picks: Alexandra's 5 Spring Beauty Favourites

Maybe it's that Mr. Sun has finally started showing his face around here or that I've finally gotten my skin issues under control. Or maybe it's just that I've been in a really good mood lately, but I am absolutely loving my current beauty routine. I've been testing out a few new things recently and either I've had a streak of good luck or these products are darn good...

Contests and Prizes: April 29 - May 5

Guess what today is? Monday! Which means that we've got our contests up right now! 

As per usual, we have two prize packs valued at C$40.00 each up for grabs. You can win one of these prize packs by entering in our weekly contests (linked below): 

Yay or Nay: This week, Gwen P is showing off some major side butt. Yup, it's a thing now. 

Review of the Week: Review a product in...

12 Stand Out Beauty Products for Summer 2013

As I mentioned in the recent round up of 6 must-have oh-so-incredible summer beauty collections, summer is clearly the best season for beauty. Winter fashion and products tend to be heavier and darker. Thankfully, right around this time colour comes back in full force! It's a breath of fresh air after a long, dreary season of black and grey. 

Not only do we have more colour, but...

5 Surprising Beauty Myths Busted

Not too long ago, we discussed a few common beauty mistakes. I will shamefully admit that I was guilty of committing more than one of them. This got me thinking about what else I might be doing wrong when it comes to beauty. 

Perhaps the beauty advice my mother gave me as a young teen wasn't actually as accurate as I thought? With this in mind, I set out to do some beauty detective...

Review of the Week: Foundation (April 22-28)

You may remember from previous articles that my skin and I haven't exactly been on great terms lately. She's (my skin is a lady, afterall) been rebelling hardcore and I'm not happy. While I've been treating and cleansing, I'm still not quite ready to venture out into the world without some extra coverage. 

That's where our Review of the Week comes in! This...