Glitter Freckles (aka my new favourite thing)

Sometimes there’s just a little thing you come up with in your makeup routine that feels very YOU… and for me – lately – that has been glitter freckles! (Which, in looking into this a bit more, turns out was a trend on runaways in 2016? Guess I’m behind the times!)

The idea of colourful freckles started for me last year when I decided I wanted to do a bunch of rainbow freckles on my face for a Pride look. In hindsight… that’s too many freckles, but that’s basically where this whole idea of glitter freckles blossomed from in my mind.

I’ve always had freckles, even more during the summer when I get some sun damage going on on my skin (wear your sunscreen kids). I love my freckles and never really understood why anyone would want to cover theirs… except now I’m also covering them… this time with glitter so I can highlight them!

I’ve mostly been using the Too Faced Glitter Pop! liners to cover my own freckles (and add more), but you can really use anything you feel comfortable with. I first started out with liquid lipsticks and a small brush to apply them to my face. Then I tried coloured eyeliner pencils (not so easy that way to be honest) and finally I moved on to liquid liners and now glitter liners. I like putting at least two shades together so it gives me a little bit more pizzazz and doesn’t look too one dimensional. (lol as if glitter freckles could ever seem one dimensional)

My favourite mix is probably gold and red – probably because it’s one of the more natural combinations and doesn’t looks quite as obtuse. I live for a good colour contrast on my face, but I do like the idea of subtle glitter freckles!

Mixing together blue and teal – as you can see – is a little bit more of an out-there look, although it does look subtle-ish from afar. Up close you can see how it plays out a little bit more  – almost like a bit of a glitter mask below my eyes!

And I love that different colour combos work with different eyeshadow looks:

 

And while I don’t really opt for glitter freckles at the office (we all have our limits), I’ve been doing them a lot in videos and when I go out at night. It just feels special to me, you know?

So how about you – is there something you’ve tried recently in your makeup routine that you’re really loving? Something more unique, or something that feels a bit more like “you”?

Swatch Sunday: Too Faced Natural Matte

Too Faced Natural Matte

Too Faced has relaunched two of their eyeshadow palettes with their Summer 2018 It Comes Naturally collection, and the Natural Matte is one of them!

Too Faced Natural Matte
Too Faced Natural Matte

The packaging has had an upgrade from the metal tin (this one is plastic based) and the smaller shadows are now in a larger pan.

Too Faced Natural Matte
Too Faced Natural Matte

There’s also a cocoa butter scent wrapped into the shadows as well which I’m always for!

If you’d like to see a try on of the whole collection, you can check out this video on my channel:

Too Faced Natural Matte Swatches

Too Faced - Heaven
Too Faced – Heaven
Too Faced - Less Is More
Too Faced – Less Is More
Too Faced - Sexpert
Too Faced – Sexpert
Too Faced - Nude Goals
Too Faced – Nude Goals
Too Faced - Cleavage
Too Faced – Cleavage
Too Faced - Risky Biz
Too Faced – Risky Biz
Too Faced - Lace Teddy
Too Faced – Lace Teddy
Too Faced - Au Natural
Too Faced – Au Natural
Too Faced - Hookup
Too Faced – Hookup

The Too Faced Natural Matte palette can be purchased on sephora.ca for $48 CAD and on sephora.com for $38 USD.

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Haircare: Moroccanoil’s SMOOTH Range

Morrocanoil SMOOTH Range

I don’t talk about a lot of haircare stuff on here or in my videos. My hair, much like my skin, is fairly undemanding – I get it cut maybe once a year, I can style it without issue, it’ll hold a curl for days on end, and, maybe the most important point to highlight – it’s not dyed either. So for that reason, I tend to find that most haircare products work just fine on me without having to tinker around much with product combinations. For the most part, if a product says it’s going to do X on my hair, then it usually does!

So for this reason I don’t tend to be that interested in haircare products – since not much makes a difference in it. But, there are products out there that appeal to me (for whatever reason) and it can be fun to talk about those, and that’s where this post comes in. I was sent a bunch of items from Morrocanoil‘s SMOOTH range, and I was eager to try them out.

Morrocanoil SMOOTH - Smoothing Mask, Shampoo & Conditioner
Morrocanoil SMOOTH – Smoothing Mask, Shampoo & Conditioner

My initial reaction was that these smelled far too heavily of the argan oil that’s in it (which I tend to despise), but I found that with day to day wear I ended up enjoying the scent because it never clung to my hair too heavily. I hugely appreciate that the shampoo and conditioner come in different coloured bottles which makes it easy to grab the right one! I’m a daily shower/hair-washer and I found that these two worked out just fine for that. I never felt like my hair was heavy or weighed down, and I might even say I had less greasiness by the end of the day.

The Smoothing Mask was a once a week kind of treatment for me. It’s super thick and luxurious, but once again didn’t leave my hair feeling heavy (huge bonus). In combination with the Moroccanoil SMOOTH Shampoo and Conditioner, this worked out really well – but I can’t say that I noticed a difference on top of what the shampoo and conditioner were already doing for me.

Morrocanoil - Molding Cream and Smoothing Lotion
Morrocanoil – Molding Cream and Smoothing Lotion

The Smoothing Lotion is part of the SMOOTH range and was a great leave-in styling aid, but you really don’t need much. The first time I tried it I put a big glob, which wasn’t nearly as effective as distributing a smaller pump throughout my hair. I felt it helped retain a hold  a little bit better than normal, but also helped me comb through the tangles in my hair after a shower without having to use an additional leave-in conditioner.

The Molding Cream is part of their STYLE range and I was really unsure how to use this at first. I have long hair that doesn’t require a ton of tweaking in the front layers since they’ll just slide all around throughout the day. But, I found that this worked out great to tame any flyaways I may have when I put my hair up in a ponytail. I’m not usually after a super polished look for my hair, but taming flyaways does work out really well for some looks, so I found that after I’d yanked my hair back into a ponytail, I could smooth on a little bit of the molding cream along the top and sides of my head and it held everything down. You may need to touch up a bit throughout the day, but it really did help to keep those little punks in place.

Perhaps the most important thing I can say about this collection is that I didn’t realize this was the smoothing range until I sat down to write this post. And when I think back to the last week, I actually opted to wear my hair down every single day for work. This is a rarity for me as I far prefer to put it up every day at the office so I don’t have to deal with staticky hair getting all in my face while I’m at my computer. And I’m realizing now that I never once felt like I had a face full of static-laden hair, which encouraged me to continue wearing my hair down all week. Honestly, it’s a bit of a shock to me to put these pieces together and I can only attribute that to this Moroccanoil SMOOTH range. I don’t think you need all of the pieces from the range though – the shampoo and the conditioner seemed to manage my hair just fine!

You can buy Morrocanoil‘s range of products at sephora.ca or sephora.com.

The products in this post were sent to me for consideration. Post contains affiliate links.