July Favourites

Hey all!

Here is my first {hopefully of many} monthly favourites video. And boy, did I have a lot of favourites. I had a hard time narrowing it down, so there's a few items here to sort through. But they are all worthy of love. 

I picked up this St. Ives lotion at my local Dollarama for, you guessed it, a dollar. And then I promptly went back and bought four more. It has a great consistency, moisturizes well, and doesn't leave skin sticky. Plus it smells like nutty deliciousness. 

These Claire's sunglasses I picked up on a sale rack for a buck. And they're floral, yes, but vintage enough to be cute, not uber-girly. I can't find them online, but here are some similar adorable ones.

Okay. I cannot say enough good things about this shave cream. It has a great, thick consistency, moisturizes well enough that I don't have to use lotion after shaving {which I normally do}, but, best of all, it smells absolutely divine. Like, I want to eat my legs afterwards divine. In a non-creepy, non-canabalistic kind of way. 

This dragon ear cuff might be my favourite piece of jewellery ever. I got it from a friend whose ear it didn't fit. Lucky for me it fits mine and I just love it. It puts me in touch with my fantasy character self, and, ya know, the more time I spend with that person the better.

BABYLIPS! What can I say other than I love these, they are awesome, and probably the start of a new addiction. Buy them. Buy them all.

This Claire's nail polish doesn't have a name as far as I know. And it was on the sale rack for $1. {I'm a bargain hunter, unashamedly} But my friend and I renamed it Coastal Shelf and it is a gorgeous greeny-blue colour {looks different on the nails}. I was rocking it in my outfit of the day post found HERE. Though I think it's discontinued, here's the most similar colour I could find in the Claire's line online. 

Mason jars. Versatile, funky, vintage, useful ... and the list goes on! These things are great for everything. This one is happily holding some of my pens and pencils in my room. It was the victim of a tinting-experiment-gone-wrong, or rather, not really gone at all. It has a very faint purplish sheen, but really, not much to speak of. Doesn't really matter though, they're pretty all by themselves. 

Candles. Any kind, really, but this Betty Crocker Blueberry Pie candle smells, well, like blueberries. And that is enough to make it a definite favourite. I can't find these for sale anywhere, so I have to assume they don't make them anymore or sell them online. But if you can find one, buy it, and smell it all. day. long.

Confession. I only watched Grease a few days ago, with my brother. And I'm fifteen. So, that's pretty shameful. But it was pretty good. Very cheesy, kinda scary with the thirty-year-old-high-school-students, but overall? It made me laugh a lot. And so it's a win.

This book is amazing. It's got a good plot, good characters, and a fantastical romance. So buy it. Buy it now, read it, fall in love with Azriel, and ignore the fact that the book is actually missing from this picture because I lent it to my neighbour. Because it's that good. 

On a completely different reading note, Quiet was another different, but equally as good read. I am an unabashed introvert, and I found it comforting, interesting, and stimulating to read about introverts and how society deals with them, and sometimes how we deal with ourselves. If you're an introvert or interested about introverts, or, heck, just interested about society and personalities, you won't regret buying or reading this.

Sock buns. {How-to HERE} These are so easy to do, work on bad-hair days, and look classy. I'm not a hair person, I barely do or know how to do anything with my hair. But I can and do do this. And no, that is not me in the picture. But it is a sock bun. Which are my favourite. Obviously.

I'm running out of things to say and adjectives to describe my liking for things. But that does conclude my first favourites post {there's nowhere to go from here but up} and I hope you enjoyed at least a little, or maybe even share some of the same loves as I do!

Angel

Feather #2

I know that I said something about Feather #2 being something to do with something. Wow, so descriptive. But that fact is, I can't even remember what that something was going to be. Let alone what that something even was about. So, enough with the somethings and on to new things! I've decided what Feather #2 is going to be.

Cleaning. And by that, I don't really mean vacuuming, washing, etc. I mean what you do when your mom says: "Go clean your room!" {and by that I mean, when you actually do clean your room}. I have a few problems with cleaning, and I'm not sure where any of them really originate, but here they are.

1) I am an all-or-nothing person, or a perfectionist. I feel depressed when things are less-than-perfect and, above all, I find it hard to start. Once I've started, I'm usually okay. But it's just hard for me to get of my rear and do it. Something I'm working on.

2) I HATE putting away laundry. Okay, I amend this statement. I HATE {passionately, and with every fiber of my being} the thought of putting laundry away. The look of a giant pile of laundry to hang up depresses me more than my whole floor being covered in random junk. I will literally put clean clothes in the laundry just because I don't want to hang them up. Don't tell my mother. I'm not sure why I have this aversion {it's clean laundry, not like cleaning up vomit} but I do. That's another thing that will have to be conquered.

3) I think, sometimes, I'm just lazy. Especially in regards to not knowing exactly down to the minute detail how to do something, then I just won't even try to figure it out. 

So in a bid to conquer my depressed, laundry-phobic and lazy self, here is feather #2.

Feather #2: Spend 10 minutes every day tidying my room

I've tried this out already, spending ten minutes or so putting away laundry {gasp!} and doing a quick little tidy. I put some Passenger on and actually had a decent time. So that goes to show you. Sometimes all it takes is getting up off your rear and doing something to make you feel better. And 10 minutes? Really? As many excuses as I make, if I can find time to check my facebook, look at funny animal pictures {don't judge}, or read entire novels, I can find time to tidy for 10 minutes. 

Now, this isn't hard and fast either. If my room happens to be spotless, I'm not going to FIND something to mess up or re-fold my underwear. And if it only takes me five minutes, great. That's fine. It's more that, if my room is a god-awful mess, I'll spend ten minutes, and no longer if I don't want to, tidying. 

As for feather #1, I've completed my goal for the first week, and we'll see how this week goes. I am excited at the prospect of another writing session and possibly might upload my story onto Wattpad. I'll keep you posted if I do.

My July favourites post should be up before the end of July and I've got some other ideas in the works. So keep reading, those of you who are. 

Angel

DIY Chalkboard Vases

Hey everyone!
I was reading HGTV magazine, which I picked up as an impulse purchase at Safeway {totally recommend this magazine, by the way. It is full of colour, ideas, and awesomeness} and I came across an article about repurposing all manner of kitchen things as vases. What really struck me was how they used salt and pepper shakers. 

So pretty, right? 

I picked up some s&p shakers at my local thrift store and had them sitting around my room for a while.

But, I also had just bought some chalkboard spray paint at my local hardware store, and thus, an idea was born. {Link here to the spray paint on amazon.ca, I used the one in black}

After much shaking, newspaper, and two coats of spray paint, and some weeds from our backyard, this is the end result:

They are cute. And I love them. Possibly more than I should. I'm going to have to figure out where to put them as currently my mother has commandeered them for the mantle downstairs.

I have not actually tried writing on these to see if the chalkboard paint is actually, well, chalkboard. But I just like the matte black look of them and my brain is already thinking of other things I could spray paint and write on. Because everything looks better with a coat of spray paint. Everything.

<3 Angel

Outfit of the Day

Top: Garage

Skirt: Target

Earrings: Target {sale rack}

Nails: Claire's nail color {sale rack}

Bracelets: All from Local Festivals or handmade

Drugstore Makeup Haul

I have to preface this by saying I am not a huge makeup person. I don't have a giant collection of makeup, rather, I have hardly a collection at all. But I do admit that I enjoy it. I like the little containers, tubes, pots, and jars makeup comes in and I like the vibrant colours spread out on my bathroom counter. But I'm not an expert by any means and I also don't usually wear it. I probably wear mascara once every two weeks or so, for special occasions, and same with foundation, eyeliner, etc. The only makeup product I use regularly is chapstick and tinted chapstick. That's about it. I enjoy the novelty of makeup, and for me, wearing it every day would not only take away that specialness, I would also be scared I would become dependent. I never want to have so little self-confidence {or heavy reliance} that I can't walk out the door without makeup. That's not the point, I don't think. So by no means am I advocating reliance on makeup, or that you should always wear it {or even that you should wear it at all!} That's my preface. I felt like it had to be said. But without further ado, here is my Summer Makeup Haul!

Everything here I bought from my local Superstore, and most of it was on sale.

This is Rimmell Scandaleyes Mascara in Black. I got it on sale for $7.99 and it came with a fancy eye pencil which I'll show next.

I've never tried Rimmell mascaras before. I have a L'Oreal telescopic one that I love and a Maybelline Falsies, but this one was, as I said, on sale. I tried it out and I think it might be my new favourite. It has bristles right on the end so it's easy to get lashes that evade the main brush without getting mascara all over your eyes. It had really great definition, length, and volume. This gets a two thumbs up!

The eye pencil that went along with the mascara. It's also by Rimmel, no idea what it costs normally.

I tried it out on my arm, and it does flow really smoothly, and it doesn't stick like other pencils I've tried. Will have to start actually using eyeliner now …

L'Oreal nail color, on sale for $5.99. It looks absolutely divine in the bottle., and I was in love with the colour. But unfortunately …

It's really not as nice as it looks in the picture. It's very translucent and not opaque, and the colour does not look nearly as nice on the nail as in the bottle.

They call it miss pixie, but I'm calling it Ripped Off. Because this was a rip off. Don't buy it, folks. 

The next nail polish I got was a Sally Hansen "Hard as Nails" Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Gunmetal for $2.29 {can't remember if it was on sale, either way a great price}

As you can see, it's this gorgeous metallic, burnished steel colour. And it does look as good on the nail as in the bottle. I would recommend this to anyone. Also, my friend and I renamed it "War Horse", which I think is much more suiting.

This is a Sally Hansen just like the other one, and also $2.29. 

It is a kind of minty-seafoam colour that I love on everything—walls, furniture, clothing, and, yeah, nail polish. So obviously I bought it. This one we re-named "Grocery Bag" as it was the exact shade of our superstore grocery bags. But still a gorgeous colour that looks great on nails and in the bottle. {Hear that Ripped Off??? Here that????}

BABYLIPS!!!!!!! I am mildly in love with these things. This one is 05, Quenched, and it was $3.97. 

I have two others of these and I love them both to pieces. This one doesn't have a colour, but it smells absolutely fantabulous and feels amazing on your lips as well. Buy this. You will not regret it. 

Rimmel Apocalips. {Clever pun, right?} My friend told me to get this, and she described it as a liquid lipstick. I think they're brand new {at least here in Canada} and it was not on sale, but still a reasonable price of $7.97. 

I originally tried on a different shade that was a little more pinky and brighter, but I opted for this one since it's a little more natural. Maybe as I grow more confident I'll be okay with wearing dazzling bright lips proudly. But for now, I'm pretty smitten by this orangey-reddy-pinky-what-the-heck-color-is-this-anyways lip-thing. That sounded bad. But it's a good product. Trust me. 

I got this Revlon Photoready BB Cream in a set of two identical ones for $15.99 {I think regularly they're $15.99 for one, so it's like a two for one deal} and gave the other one to my friend. 

They only had two shades on the sale rack, Pale and Medium.

But the pale isn't super light {it's kind hard to tell in this picture}

And it is my skin tone, so yay! Haven't really used it yet so can't give a full review, but I'm hopeful. Very hopeful.

Apparantly this pressed powder is what all the beauty gurus are talking about. Or so says my friend. But I believed her, so I bought this Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder at the steep, steep price of $6.47

I got the shade transparent as I wanted something just to brush on my face after using BB cream, because sometimes it looks a little oily. 

And the last thing I got was this mini kabookie brush by Joe Fresh {superstore's brand} on sale for $5.94. It's soft. 

And fluffy. and little. and cute. So I'm happy.

Whew, long post! Not very little. Or fluffy. But hopefully a little cute. And if it made you happy, then it's worth it ;) 

Angel