Bare face/Acne update

If you've followed me, when I transferred over to this blog, you know all about my acne updates. But if you're new here,

I do acne updates every couple of weeks/every month.

From 13 to 16 I NEVER had acne. I always had clear skin. Then I turned 17, and BAM, I got severe, cystic acne.

It was all along my jaw lines, and where I would contour my cheeks. And it was so painful, I couldn't lay on my side to sleep at night.

So I talked to my family doctor, and went to a dermatologist and I was put on Tactupump Forte! Which is a powerful topical acne cream, and I was also put on antibiotics for a few months. Which 100% cleared up my skin.

Now, I'm just working on clearing up dark spots/acne scars. I am lucky that none of my cystic acne left ice pick scars. Just dark brown spots.

Every night I; wash my makeup off, wash my face, pat a liquid/chemical exfoliant onto my whole face, apply my tactupump forte all over my face, apply a pump of a hydrating serum, and then I pat on a facial oil!

And I can honestly say, my skin has never been better or healthier!!

This is my face just after washing. I have no makeup on at all!!

My cheeks are lighter than my forehead/chin, and I get redness in my cheeks, but that's really my only skin "woes" right now!!

Thank you for reading!!

My most used/favourite highlights!

It's no secret, I'm a highlight hoe! I love to pack it on my cheek bones. And I own way too many highlights.

From top to bottom we have:

The balms Mary lou-manizor (Super intense metallic Champagne)
Sephora Brand Micro smooth luminizor in 02 Light Beam (Peachy/Pink. Very fairy esk!)
Sephora Brand Micro smooth Luminizor in 01 Star Dust (Intense Yellow Gold shimmer)
QUO Prismatic Face Pallet (White shimmer, very intense!!)

My all time favourite, hit pan on highlights are Mary Lou, and Star Dust. I'v fully finished and repurchased Star dust, and I'v hit MAJOR pan on Mary Lou!!

My favourite Fall/Winter blushes!

I love a good berry, plummy, red blush in the fall/winter! But I get that naturally just stepping outside my front door, as we're in freezing cold Canada! So it's a balancing act trying to find blushes that mimic this look without being super over the top!!

I'm also super heavy handed with blush, so I need a blush that isn't so pigmented I shake in my boots looking at it!!

I like medium coverage, luminous and buildable!

These are my favourite fall/winter blushes, and highlights!

We have starting from the top left:

The Balms Mary Lou-Manizor (Champagne Highlight)
Physicians formula Argan wear Blush in Rose (Light berry)
Clinique Cheek Pop blush in Plum Pop (cool slightly plummy, pink)
Makeup Geek Blush in Soul Mate (Plummy pink)
Sephora brand Baked Luminizor in 01. (Yellow gold)

Starting from top left:

Smashbox Halo blush in Warm glow (Mauvey brown)
Physicians formula Argan wear Bronzer in Light bronze. (Golden shade. this is a highlight on me)
Annabelle Blush in 52 (Light Cranberry shade.)
MAC eye shadow in Cranberry (I hated this as a eye shadow, it was too sheer. So I multipurposed it!)
Clinique Cheek Pop in Cola Pop.



I think only two of these are Matte. And that's because I personally don't like matte blushes, I find them hard to spread out and blend and buff. So I tend to reach for Shimmery/highlighting blushes!!

Purple Smokey Eye FOTD

I'm going to visit my oral surgeon today to check up on my tumor. And because he'll be poking around my mouth I can't wear lipstick.

So I decided to go ham on my eyes!!!

This is the look i'm going with today!!

Base: I started off with Hard Candy green tinted primer on my cheeks and forehead, then MUFE Mattifying primer on my T zone. I then buffed MUFE Mat Velvet+ foundation all over my face. I then patted a pink tinted sheer concealer to brighten my under eye area. Then I patted Hard Candy Glamoflauge under my eyes. I took a fluffy brush and patted Rimmel Clear skin powder all over my skin. Then I buffed Sephora Brand Matte perfection powder foundation all over. Lastly I spritzed MUFE Mist and Fix all over to lock everything in!

Cheeks: I made a custom cheek colour today! I started with Makeup Geek Romance (Shimmery golden coral) and then I blended Makeup Geek Soulmate ontop! (Matte plummy pink) I lastly took The balms Mary Loumanizer, and I blended that along my cheek bones!!

Here's the difficult part.

Eyes: I started with patting in ELF sheer primer from lashline to brow bone. I then took Tarte Whisper (Matte cream shadow) and set the primer. I took a mauvey lilac shadow from a Sonia kashuk quad, and buffed that through the crease and up onto my hood. I patted Colourpop Stero (Black base with purple glitter) onto my mobile lids, then took Tarte BFF (Matte dark purple) and I blended that out into my crease and used that to blend out any harsh lines!! I wanted it to be super deep and dramatic so I took Coastal Scents Cherry Chocolate (Dark dark brown base with purple shimmer through out) and lightly LIGHTLY blended that trough my outer V. I added mascara to my upper lashes, then falsies, and buffed Tarte BFF on my lower lashline, then added mascara to my lower lashes.

Brows: I ran through my brows with Essence make me brow, and then took Annabelle brow to go dark powder on an angled brush and blended that through my brows adding colour, and sharpening the brow shape. I then re applied another coat of Essence make me brow!

Lips: Just Jack Black Lip balm in Mint!


I hope you all enjoyed this look!! I really like it!!

Sephora Haul! Tarte, L'Occitane, MUFE, Sephora brand.

I placed a "Small" order on Sephora last Thursday!! And by Monday morning it was waiting on my porch!!

I payed for three items, and got 13 samples/deluxe samples/one full sized item for free!!

This is everything layed out that I got!!

I bought, Makeup Forever Mist and Fix spray in the travel size, A L'Occitane sampler with two mini hand creams and a tin of solid shea butter, and lastly I'v been PINING after the Tarte Tartlette tease pallet since it came out and I swatched my good friends pallet of it!! It's been out of stock for months. And I finally got my greedy hands on it!!

Free things I got:

4.5 ML of Josie Maran 100% Argan oil.
Lancome Energie De Vie "Smoothing and Glow boosting Liquid care" - 5ML
Sephora brand Colourful Cheek Ink Gel in 01 Peony - 10G
Sephora brand Pearl sleeping mask - Full sized
FRESH Vitamin Nectar Vibrancy Boosting Face mask - Sachet
The Estee Edit Pink Peony Over night Water pack - Sachet
AHAVA Clear, Purifying Mud Mask - Large Sachet
Versace Eros - Perfume sample
Atelier Cologne Bergamote Soleil - Perfume Sample
Victor and Rolf - Spice bomb (I have flower bomb and really like it so I'm super interested!)
Tory Burch - Jolie Fleur Verte - Perfume sample
Tory Burch - Jolie Fleur Bleue - Perfume sample
Tory Burch - Jolie Fleur Rose - Perfume Sample

Also as a toss in, here's me wearing Whisper, Heart Breaker, BFF, and Crush from the Tarte Tartlette tease pallet:

Thank you for reading!!

What's in my travel makeup bag?

I'm going off to Toronto in a few hours, and i'll be there until monday late afternoon. And while I'm there, I'll be doing some public speaking and all that jazz, so this is my "I want to look professional and alive" makeup!!

This is my travel makeup bag!! It's just a basic two story bag!! I like this bag, because it's big enough to fit my Z pallet, and it fits everything I need in it, it also has the top zippered part for my brushes to be safe and not all bent and beaten up!!

These are my face brushes I use every day, From left to right, we have a Buffing Brush for my foundation, a angled cheek brush for bronzer, a small flat foundation brush I use to pat out my under eye concealer, a fluffy blush brush, and a big powder brush!

These are my every day eye brushes!! From left to right: A angled fluffy for setting my eye primer/highlighting my brow bone, a fluffy blending brush, a smaller eye lid brush for the inner corner, a thin pencil brush for work on my hood, a bigger eye lid brush for my outer eye lid, an angled brow brush, and a spoolie!

I always keep cotton swabs in my travel makeup bag (i'm known to cough or sneeze while my mascara or liner is drying it's TRAGIC) I ALWAYS keep hand sanitizer with me every where, and my makeup bag is no exception! I have long, long hair. I keep 2 hair ties on my wrist every day, and I have at least two in every bag!!

Moving onto makeup! These are my tried and true primers. I use the elf green primer on my cheeks and on the edges of my nose to correct redness, then I pat the Makeup Forever mattifying primer onto my forehead, between the brows, nose, chin, and smile lines. I usually apply my eye primer while I do my face primer. So I'll squeeze out a small amount of Too Face Shadow Insurance and pat that onto my lids!

Here is my base products! I'm testing out the Maybelline Fit Me foundation stick, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I'm bringing my tried and true Makeup Forever Mat Velvet+ Foundation. It oxidizes to a more orangey shade on me, but with blending it down my neck, and the way I keep my hair, its not noticeable. But I always mention that just in case! Then we have my favourite concealers! Maybelline Fit me, which I love for my cheeks. And Hard Candy Glamoflauge, which I use a PIN HEAD amount of to cover BOTH undereyes. Then we have my Sephora brand Matte Perfection Powder foundation, which I use to set my whole face!

This is my Z pallet, I'v recently spoken about this. So I wont get too in depth. But after setting my face, I'd go in with one of the blushes in here, and the highlights. I also go in and do eye shadow after I do my blush and highlighting!!

Next we have my two current mascaras! I'm using the Revlon one on my upper lashes, and the Makeup Forever one on my lower lashes! They both give me the drama I love, and neither smudge or flake!

This isn't anything special, y'all know my brow routine already. But I have my Essence Make me brow, and my Annabelle brow to go kit. Also, just in case because I'm wearing matte lipsticks, I threw in ELF lip exfoliator!

Lastly, we have the lip products i'm bringing!! I'm bringing my mint Jack Black lip balm, MAC Rebel, A Joe Fresh Lip gloss in Wine (It's a sheer tint!! Not super vampy at all!) Maybelline Colour blur in Plum me? I think that's the name. And LUSH's Santa baby which is my all time favourite lipstick!


That's all that's in my travel makeup bag for this weekend!! What do you think?

"What's in my must have everyday Z pallet?"

I finally got my Z pallet all set up and finalized and ready to go for my trip this weekend!!

This is my Z pallet, with the top open!! It has two blushes, three highlights, and everything I need to complete quite a few eye looks!!

For me, for a eye pallet to be ALL IN ONE, not reaching for anything else, I need: A matte white/cream/light pink shadow, a matte warm brown, a darker matte brown, and I would prefer a green and a matte black for eye liner!!

Starting with what I use for my cheeks, I have from top to bottom:

Makeup Geek Soulmate a plummy matte pink.
MAC Cranberry a shimmery cranberry eye shadow.
Makeup Forever ME-512 A Gold shimmery shade.
Makeup Forever I-514 A more peachy shimmery shade.
Makeup Forever I-528 A light shimmery pearl.

Eyeshadows, I have these shades, which make my DREAM pallet!!

I have from top to bottom:

Sephora brand Swan Song, A light matte pink
Lancome Latte a light matte brown (Great transition on my skin!)
Costal Scents Barista a slightly darker/deeper matte warm brown.
Makeup forever ME-644, which is a more intense MAC Woodwinked, it's a super intense golden brown
Makeup Forever D-652 Which is a reddish darn brown with gold glitter through it

Then we have:

MAC Humid, a shimmery green.
Makeup Forever D-562 which is a metallic taupey shade. And it's INTENSE and BEAUTIFUL.
Makeup Forever I-544 a pearly mauvey purple!

LASTLY, We have

Makeup forever S-102 A deep dark mate black (It's perfect for eye liner!!)
MAC Embark a matte dark brown.




This is my Z pallet!! I'm very happy with it! And I'v been using just this every day for cheeks and eyes since I finished it!!