This post is sponsored by DAVIDsTEA.

So, I’m a tea drinker (well, and a coffee drinker – but that’s more of a morning thing), and I always, *always* have a cup around noon just after I’ve finished my lunch. I think it was my mom that got me hooked on DAVIDsTEA a few years ago and I really haven’t looked back ever since! While they do have stores in the US now, I love that DAVIDsTEA is Canadian and that they opened their very first store here in Toronto on Queen Street. It gives me the warm fuzzies to know that I’m celebrating something local with my daily cuppa.

DAVIDsTEA already makes some of my favourite teas (although RIP Red Velvet Cake, I loved you so much!), so nothing could make me happier than them also releasing a Halloween collection! (Cuz you know how I feel about Halloween!)

The Haunted Mansion Survival Kit has some of the cutest packaging I’ve ever seen for a tea set! Six teas are served up in a spoopy little cardboard haunted mansion.

For $14 CAD, you get to try out six of DAVIDsTEA‘s favourite sweet teas. They’ve even gone so far as to rename some of them for this set!

The set includes:

• Pumpkin Die (aka Pumpkin Chai): a seasonal favourite of mine, this black tea has caramel, cinnamon, cloves and tiny little pumpkin candies!
• Cardamummy French Toast (aka Cardamom French Toast): black tea with cardamom, cane sugar and cinnamon (a new favourite!).
• Glittering Ghost (aka Glitter & Gold): this one has become a staple for me over the last year. It’s a sweet, spiced black tea with sugar crystals and gold stars.
• Haunted Kombucha (aka Happy Kombucha): a blend of oolong, mango, pineapple and powdered kombucha.
• Magic Potion (no name change here): this one will change colour if you add lemon! It’s a mix of berries and flowers.
• Stormy Night (aka Organic Stormy night): a limited edition chocolate-coconut black tea.

Since this IS a beauty blog and my love of tea may be a bit of a strange thing to bring up, I wanted to keep this post consistent with my content. I’ve posted in the past about finding inspiration for makeup in odd places (like my boss’ socks from this post in 2016), and I thought that doing makeup looks inspired by the loose leaf teas in this set would be a neat challenge for myself.

So here you have it, three eye looks based on my three favourite teas from the DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit!

Glittering Ghost was the first one that struck me because it’s just so beautiful. Not only are the little stars such an attention grabber, but there’s also tiny translucent shards of sugar dispersed throughout the black tea leaves.

Here’s my Glittering Ghost eye look. I love, love, LOVE how this came out! Drawing stars on my face was a new experience (holy precision, Batman!), but they add a fun touch to the otherwise typical smokey eye. I translated the translucent sugar crystals into my inner corner highlight and then took inspiration from the colour of the black tea to create the black smokey eye that fades into brown.

And how could I not do a look centered around Pumpkin Die??

I changed it up a bit for this one and opted to use those bright orange pumpkin candies as inspiration for the colour of the winged liner. I layered that wing on top of a dark black eye that fades out to orange in the crease. I’ve never done something like this before and I ended up really loving the contrast between the super bright liner on top of a black eye.

And lastly, I decided I wanted to try something with the colours that called out to me from Cardamummy French Toast. While it is a black tea that is littered with brown sugar that glitters back at me, what I also loved about it are those yellow-green cardamom pods. I thought it’d make for an interesting colour combo.

And I was right! This look is such a different one for me and it was so much fun to create. I used that yellow-green cardamom colour and put that in my crease and made it fade down into a dark brown eye. Overtop of the brown lid shade I layered on a holographic brown glitter that, to me, reflected the sugar crystals in the actual tea.

So there we have it – you can absolutely get inspired to create makeup looks from very unconventional places! I do highly recommend the DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit – either for yourself, or for a tea lover as a gift.