Nail of the Day: Mosaic Accent Nail

Sometime in my little break from blogging I did this mosaic manicure! It was a technique I had never tried before but I really liked how it came out. I used some striping tape I bought on eBay to make the lines, and then I used a dotting tool dipped in different colours of nail polish to fill in the different sections!

The polishes I used were: OPI My Vampire Is Buff as the base, with Eurso Euro, You're Such A Budapest, and If You Moust, You Moust for the accent colours!

Have you ever tried an accent manicure? What other nail art should I try with my striping tape?

Sephora Pastel Pop Palette (Swatches + Review)

I'm back everyone! Sorry for taking the month-long hiatus. But I start school again tomorrow so I'll feel like now I'll have a more regular schedule and will hopefully make the time to get back into posting regularly on my blog! Today I will be sharing my thoughts a palette I recently picked up at Sephora!

I recently found this palette at my local Sephora in their little sale section and picked it up! It's the Pastel Pop Palette by Sephora. This palette was released spring 2013 and was sold for $34 CAD, but I got mine on sale for $19!

The packaging of this palette is quite nice and simple. It has black plastic casing with the Sephora "S" on the top of it. It's a good size for travel as well.

This palette consists of 4 sparkling topcoat shadows, and 4 matte shadows. I'm a big fan of both glitter and matte shadows so I got pretty excited about seeing both in this palette!

The glittering topcoats apply quite sheer, but they're meant for layering on top of other non-glittery shadows. These will add a hint of colour and beautiful glitter to any eyeshadow look you wear. My favourite way of wearing these is using the white or beige glitter on top of my inner corner highlight to add some beautiful glitter without making it too outrageous looking.

The matte shades are beautifully smooth and pigmented (swatched above with no primer/base). There's a deep purple/slate shade, a very light pink, a taupe, and a light ivory shade. The taupe shadow does have a slight sheen to it, and even though it's supposed to be matte I find the sheen to make the colour even more gorgeous. These shadows can be combined to create very subtle, natural looks to deeper smokey looks when incorporating the deeper shade! These shadows last all day on my eyes as well with a primer and don't fade or crease!

Overall I love this palette. I've been using the 4 matte shadows quite a bit in my day-to-day looks, and I'm having fun experimenting with the glitter as well!

Nail of the Day: Neon Rainbow Ombre

Hello everyone! It's been quite a while since I've posted anything but I've been working this summer so I've been pretty busy. Anyways this is the manicure I have right now and I absolutely love it! I used the makeup sponge technique to create this bright rainbow ombre manicure!

Products Used:

• OPI Nail Envy (base coat)

• Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear "White On"

• China Glaze "That's Shore Bright"

• Forever 21 Love & Beauty "Think Pink"

• Forever 21 Love & Beauty "Neon Orange"

• China Glaze "Celtic Sun"

• KleanColor "Bikini Green"

• Essie "In The Cab-ana"

• Orly Glosser (top coat)

• Makeup sponges

Nail of the Day: Think Pink

Today's NOTD is one of the polishes I recently ordered from Forever 21. It's Love & Beauty nail polish in Think Pink. This nail polish is $3.80 CAD which I think is a fantastic price for a good nail polish.

Think Pink is a gorgeous creamy hot bubblegum pink nail polish. This took 2-3 coats which is pretty good for a neon. I got this since I've been eye-ing Essie's Boom Boom Room and I thought this would be a good substitution since it's half the price of Essie polishes.

On the bottle they say the polish is just called "Neon Pink" but when I ordered it online they called it "Think Pink" so I'm not sure why they did that. I noticed the names on the bottles often describe the colour of the polish, whereas online the polishes usually have a name.

Overall I'm really impressed with the quality of this polish and can't wait to try the others I ordered!

Collective Haul (Forever 21 + H&M)!

I've done a little bit of shopping over the past couple of weeks and thought I'd put together a little collective haul! It consists of things I ordered online from Forever 21 on Canada Day when they did free shipping, and a couple things I picked up yesterday at H&M! Here's what I got!

The first thing I got from Forever 21 is this cat print makeup bag! I've needed a new makeup bag for quite a while now and I couldn't pass this one up. So cute!

Next I got this compact mirror. It's always nice to have a mirror to keep in your purse and the print on this one is absolutely adorable. And it was on sale for $0.99!

I also got some nail polishes! I only had 1 Forever 21 nail polish before this which I haven't even tried yet, but they had so many gorgeous colours available and for only $3.80 each I had to get some! The colours I got are: Neon Orange, Think Pink, Pot of Gold, Pink Icing, and Babyface!

And the last thing I got from Forever 21 is this polka dot paddle brush. This was on sale for $0.99 too!

Onto the things I picked up yesterday at H&M now! First I got this adorable cat iPhone case. I was so happy to see that they were selling cases for the iPhone 4, since it's so hard to find them in stores since the iPhone 5 came out! And this was only $6.95 too which is a great deal!

I also got this khaki coloured crop tee! I've been wearing crop tops with skater skirts all summer, and at $6.95 I couldn't pass this one up. It's so comfy and cute!

And last, but most definitely not least, I got this cat print dress at H&M! This dress cost $29.95 which is a fair price for sure! I absolutely love the print on this. I'm obsessed with it. And the dress is a bit of a thicker material so it'll be a dress I'll definitely wear into the fall and winter with tights as well!

So those are all the things I've picked up in the past couple of weeks! I've gone quite cat crazy, haven't I? I just can't help myself!

Nail of the Day: Neon Ombre

I finally got around to buying some makeup sponges so I can now do ombre/gradient nails! I can't believe I waited so long to get some! So the first manicure I did with them when I bought them was this neon ombre manicure!

I've been loving neon polishes this summer so I love how this manicure turned out. I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On as a base, and then used China Glaze Celtic Sun, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Sun Kissed, and China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy to create this ombre look.

I'll definitely be doing some more ombre manicures in the future! They're so pretty and super easy to do!

Mini TopShop Clearance Sale Haul!

Last time I was in Toronto I went into TopShop only to find out that they were having their semi-annual clearance sale! I was in the city to shoot a concert that night so I couldn't buy much since I'd have to carry it in my bag, but I did pick up 2 things!

The first thing I got is this polka dot crop top tee! It's very baggy and so comfortable. In the past I haven't been very comfortable wearing crop tops but this year I've been loving them to wear with skater skirts! Above is an outfit of the day I posted on my instagram of how I wore it one day!

The other thing I bought is one of their lipsticks! I've been wanting to try out TopShop's makeup line for a while so I picked this up on sale when I had the chance!

The shade of lipstick I got is Pillow Talk. It's a light creamy nude-pink that is a really pretty subtle lip colour!

The formula of this lipstick is super creamy and moisturizing on the lips! I also love the tube it came it, it's gorgeous. I definitely will be picking up more of these lipsticks in the future!