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Chanel — Rouge Puissant (Le Vernis Longwear) Swatch & Review

Woohoo! It’s National Nail Polish Day, the city of Toronto is on a high, and today is also the Champions League Final—it kicks off in less than two hours in Madrid! I could do nothing else other than swatch a gloriously red nail polish for the blog.

  Rouge Puissant (528) has been in Chanel’s Le Vernis Longwear lineup for a while now, but I only just got around to picking it up (yay SDM points!).…

Happy International Fragrance Day! A roundup of my favorite recent perfumes

It’s been a long time since I last posted, but I didn’t want to pass on International Fragrance Day, because fragrance is what I have been utterly infatuated with over the last year!

Our family only just returned from a mini-vacation in Montréal (well, a holiday with a two year-old and a four year-old is not really a holiday, is it?!) and of course I did pick up a new perfume. Gotta love the…

Crabtree & Evelyn Canada Going Out of Business (Plus: Song de Chine and Lavender & Espresso) @CrabtreeEvelyn #storeclosing

One of the very first perfumes I ever bought for myself was actually a blind-buy (which, if you know me at all, is hardlysurprising!), Crabtree & Evelyn’s Song de Chine. It is long-discontinued, and to be very honest, I don’t even remember why I bought it! The marketing blurb must have sounded very compelling to me, and I have to say that when it arrived in the mail, I was quite excited to give…

New Release: @YardleyLondonUK The Collection, Eaux de Toilette: Daisy Sapphire, Flora Jade, Lilac Amethyst, Poppy Diamond, Rosie Ruby @shopprsdrugmart

Stalwart English brand Yardleyis one of those old-timey drugstore brands that you know about but only in the way that your parents or grandparents used to keep their lavender soaps in the bathroom. I never bothered much with them until this year, when I was looking for something to add to my Shoppers Drug Mart shopping basket. I saw that Yardley’s Contemporary line of scented products were on…

New Release: @JulepBeauty — December 2018 "Festive Delights" #julep #nailpolish #lipstick

Collection: Julep 2018 December “Festive Delights”

Julep’s December 2018 collection consists of six new shades of jewel box-worthy nail colors, plus the return of Light on Your Lips Full-Coverage Crème Lipstick (3.6 g for $22 / $17.60 Maven), three of which are brand new () shades: After Hours, Chit Chat, Strut, Pirouette*, and Muse*.

From Julep:

Like a cool rush of frosty winter air, this…

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Happy #Halloween! More Horror Movies for Wimps, 2nd Edition & a Quickie Review: J. Del Pozo — Halloween EDT @hwnperfumes_en @delpozo

Happy Halloween, everybody! We’re having a dreary, rainy day in Toronto today—I hope the rain lets up so everyone can have a great night trick-or-treating!

I spent most of last night sorting out Halloween loot bags (I got a roll of fruit Mentos for each bag! Man, I’d have loved trick-or-treating at my place when I was a kid.) and attaching a small toy to each bag. So today, I’m hurriedly writing…

Too Cool for School — Glam Rock Double Proof Brow in Ash Brown (02) Review via @TesterKorea #toocoolforschool

Apologies for the delay in reviewing the final Korean beauty product sent to me by one of my favorite Korean beauty online shops, Tester Korea: winter’s coming and the kids and I all got hit with a middlingly-bad bug, causing runny noses and phlegm-y throats. Ugh! We’re finally on the mend, now, and I’m personally thrilled because it means I can smell my perfume again!

So… I have reviewed my…

New Release: Julep — November 2018 “Fall in Line”

Collection: Julep 2018 November “Fall in Line”

The whole family’s down with congestion and runny noses! What hell hath October wrought? Luckily, we have the following to cheer us up in November:

Julep’s November 2018 collection consists of five new and one repromoted shades of deep and rich nail colors, plus four new shades of When Pencil Met Gel Long-Lasting Eyeliner (1.2 g for $16 / $12.80…