Lush Halloween 2017 Gift Guide

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Few celebrate Halloween quite like Lush so today I want to share with you what's new in store from the Halloween 2017 Collection. Whether or not you celebrate this festive occasion, there's bound to be an item or two that you'll want to incorporate into your bathing routine. To read on, click......

Make Up For Ever Flash Palette: Review and Swatches

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For Halloween 2016, Make Up For Ever has partnered up with Sephora for a pretty spectacular Glam or Ghoul campaign showcasing several Halloween makeup looks you can create using MUFE products. I recreated the "Darling Deer" look on my Instagram account and Make Up For Ever sent over their famous Flash Palette ($110 CAD) to help me create even more looks. This product has actually been on my wish list for years before I started blogging so I am finally able to delve into and play with all the colors.......

Lush Halloween 2016 | Gift Guide

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Whether or not you still celebrate Halloween, Lush's ghoulish offerings around this time of the year are always super fun and charming. Today I have a trio of adorable bath pals to share with you. To read on, click.......

Halloween Marionette Doll Makeup with Clarins: Tutorial

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My favorite holiday, Halloween, is only weeks away and this year I have teamed up with Clarins to create a fun Halloween makeup look using some awesome Clarins products. I decided to re-create a marionette doll look I did years ago and today I want to share with you some quick tips on how I achieved the look.........

My Halloween Costume + MIB Awards!

Hey guys, I wanted to do a quick post to share with y'all some pictures of my Halloween costume. Last year I dressed up as a marionette, which I thought would be pretty hard to top this year but with a half an hour of googling and searching on Pinterest, I found some pretty awesome couple's costume idea and we decided to go with the pinata and birthday girl idea.

For my part as the birthday girl, I just went to the dollar store and found a bunch of birthday gear (do you like my tiara-birthday hat hybrid) and for the pinata, I spent about ten hours (with some help from the pinata himself) gluing strips of party streamers onto some shirt and pants. It was quite an endeavour but it was totally worth it in the end. I'm not sure if I would attempt a costume of this magnitude again though, haha, too many hours were spent bent over gluing pesky streamers on a pair of pants.

Lastly, I just wanted to ask you guys to VOTE FOR ME in the 2nd annual Made In Blog's Best Canadian Beauty Blog Award if you enjoy reading my reviews and seeing my swatches. I'd really appreciate it if you headed on over to give me a vote!




P.S. Thanks to your votes, my Halloween manicure won the Nail Polish Canada Halloween Contest!
Photo Credit: Jonathan N.

NYC New York Color Snow White Halloween Makeup: #NYCBeautyPro October Challenge

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The theme for the October #NYCBeautyPro challenge was Black Magic & Voodoo Witchcraft and honestly, a vampy and stylish witch was what I was going for but I somehow ended up looking more like a Disney princess.... So I'm going to call this the New York Color Snow White Halloween Makeup. To see some more pictures and the NYC products I used, click.......

Halloween imPRESS Press-On Manicure By Broadway Nails: Review and Swatches

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A wicked manicure helps complete any Halloween Costume and this year imPRESS Press-On Manicure ($8 CAD each) released a collection of Halloween-themed designs to help your finger tips shine on Halloween night. Each imPress kit comes with 24 nails in 11 sizes and these Halloween designs are medium-lengthed so they will fit most nails. To see how they look on the nails, click.......

Sally Hansen Limited Edition Special Effects Fuzzy Coat Halloween Collection: Review and Swatches

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Halloween would not be complete without some festive and spooky nail polishes so today I wanted to share with you a couple of fun bar glitter top coats from Sally Hansen. The limited edition Halloween Fuzzy Coat ($7.95 CAD) nail polishes can be used alone or over a base color, check out some close-ups, click......

Lush Halloween 2014 Collection: Review

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Halloween is almost here and like every year, Lush has unleashed an assortment of bath time darlings that will turn your bath tub into a cauldron of  awesomeness. To see what this year's offering include, click......

Purple Fairy Halloween Makeup: Ardell Bat Your Lashes False Lashes Review

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I never really get the chance to wear false lashes so when Halloween rolls around, I like to go all out. Last year, I dressed up as a marionette so I got to use some big, doll-like lashes. This year, I am thinking of doing a pinata/birthday girl couple's costume so I probably won't be using any crazy lashes. With that said, these gorgeous Ardell Bat Those Lashes false lashes have been calling to me ever since they came in the mail so I needed an excuse to try them on!
Thus, I came up with what I call the "purple fairy" makeup. I originally intended to do a snow queen look because the frosted tip of these lashes reminds me of snow. However, the eye makeup ended up too purple so I decided to scratch the idea.
Anyways, to see more pictures and a couple more pairs of crazy lashes, click......

The Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Manicure: My Nail Polish Canada Halloween Nail Art Contest Entry!

Nail Polish Canada is holding another nail art contest (sign up here and vote here) and the theme this time is Halloween nails! I love Halloween to no end so I obviously had to come up with something. I saw MoYou London create a great stamping version of a Sally (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) manicure and I decided to recreate a free-hand version using some more gloomy colors. So if you like it, vote for me here (choose The Happy Sloths in the ballot). To see more pictures and see what polishes I used, click.......

CLOSED #PrettyOnFrightNight Halloween Giveaway: Enter to Win a Prize Pack worth $80!

Hey hey hey, Halloween is fast approaching and I have a super awesome giveaway for you guys featuring some great beauty products that will help make your costume this year even better!
ACI Beauty is providing one The Happy Sloths winner with a prize pack worth $80 featuring Halloween-themed products from Ardell, Cargo, and Ceramic Glaze. To enter, simply fill out the rafflecopter below (the giveaway is open to Canada only).
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Paisley Nails + My Halloween Costume

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Today I have a simple monochromatic manicure to welcome the upcoming gloomy November Vancouver weather. I used some paisley patterned Born Pretty Store water decals ($1.86 USD, use VGL91 for 10% off) over "Elephant Shoe" from Girly Bits. To see a close up and my Halloween costume this year, click......

The Midnight Cats: Halloween Manicure Design

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Today I have sort of Halloween themed manicure for you all. I wanted to incorporate these cat water decal nail art stickers ($0.99) I purchased from Born Pretty Store, so I did a cat standing against a starry night sky design, the end result wasn't as halloween-ish as I had hoped, but I am still quite happy with it. To see the products I used, click......

All Patched Up: Halloween Nail Art Design

Hi guys! I really wanted to do a few more Halloween themed manicure posts before November comes, so today I have a simple green and purple patchwork manicure for you. I was inspired by the manicure in Julep's halloween promotion photo. To see a close up, click......

Sugar Skull Nails: Manicure Featuring Water Decal Nail Stickers

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Hey guys! Halloween is fast approaching and I have a not too over the top Halloween nails for those of you that don't want to go all out on Halloween. I used a bunch of sugar skull water decal stickers from Born Pretty Store. To see a close up and the products I used, click......

Sticky Nails Spiderwebs & Bats Nail Stencils: Review and Photos

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Today I have a very interesting product. A shop on Etsy called Sticky Nails sells stencils for nails. The creator Iona kindly sent me one of her new Halloween Spiderwebs & Bats designs to test out. To see my full review and some more photos, click......

"A Place at the Table" & "Reflection in Flames" from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics: Review and Swatches

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Hey guys, this will be the last post of Carpe Noctem Cosmetics' Halloween/Samhain Collection swatches. I saved two beautiful layering glitters for last.
"A Place at the Table" consists of red square, hexagon, and hearts with black bar and hexagon glitter suspended in a clear base.
"Reflection in Flames" consists of holographic orange and black hexagons suspended in a clear base.
Both of these colors feel very Halloween, let's tak a look at some swatches......

"Reflect" & "Divination" from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics: Review & Swatches

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Hi guys, today I have a couple of beautiful polishes from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics' Samhain Collection. For those of you that aren't familiar with Samhain, it is a Gaelic celebration much similar to the modern Halloween.
"Reflect" and "Divination" are both duo chrome color shifting polishes, to see some swatches and my review, click.......

"This is Halloween" & "Fright Night: from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics: Review and Swatches

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Hi everyone! Today I have a couple more swatches from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics' Halloween Collection. "This is Halloween" and "Friday Night" are two of the most Halloween-y colors from the collection! They seriously scream "Halloween"!
To see some swatches and my review, click......