Too Faced Peaches & Cream – Peach Lip Balm & Scrub Review

Too Faced Peaches & Cream - Peach Lip Balm & Scrub

Any addition to Too Faced‘s Peaches & Cream range gets me super excited.

Wait, let me rephrase…

ANY addition to Too Faced‘s range gets me super excited, but I’m always intrigued to see even more being added to the Peaches & Cream lineup!

Too Faced Peaches & Cream - Peach Lip Balm & Scrub
Too Faced Peaches & Cream – Peach Lip Balm & Scrub

Too Faced recently added seven new lipstick shades to their Peach Kiss lineup (see my video on them here), and with that launch they threw in some lip care saviours: a peach lip balm and a scrub!

Too Faced Peaches & Cream - Peach Lip Balm & Scrub
Too Faced Peaches & Cream – Peach Lip Balm & Scrub
Too Faced Peaches & Cream - Peach Lip Scrub
Too Faced Peaches & Cream – Peach Lip Scrub

The Peach Lip Scrub is as you would expect: a sugar scrub with a peach scent. What I didn’t expect was how much oil is in this base. There’s plenty of granules of sugar in the scrub, but it’s also jam packed with oil which means you need a lot less product than you may initially think. I made the mistake of grabbing one big heckin’ scoop with my finger the first time I used this, and quickly realized while spreading it over my lips that I had grabbed wayyyyy too much. This is quite a blessing with lip scrubs though – I don’t like to feel like I’m using glob after glob and potentially wasting the product (and your money). So use a little, because it goes a LONG way.

I was left with soft lips that had quite an oily feeling afterwards. Not oily in a bad way either – in the way where you kind of wonder if you even need to apply lip balm because there’s already so much moisture on your lips! Interestingly, I found the smell was not similar to their Peaches & Cream range, but more in line with the Sweet Peach scent (although not as strong).

Too Faced Peaches & Cream - Peach Lip Balm
Too Faced Peaches & Cream – Peach Lip Balm

If you’re not satisfied with the moisture from the Peach Lip Scrub, then you can follow it up with the equally deliciously scented Peach Mega Moisture Lip Balm. This has more of your traditional artificial peach lip balm scent – you know the one, we all had a lip balm like this at one point or another! The texture is quite smooth and glides on the lip easily without being a goopy mess, but you have to break the top layer seal first. There’s like a thicker coating on the top of the product, and once you break through that you’re left with soft, supple balm that’s easy to apply.

In practice, this is more of a daytime lip balm for me as I prefer something much, much heavier at night. The texture of this is thick enough to be grippy on the lips for a little bit of longevity, but fundamentally it’s too thin to be a lip mask used overnight. I have used it multiple times overnight however – and I was left with soft lips in the morning, but I found that it sank in completely every time. While some people may like that, I like a much thicker balm for overnight and prefer when there’s still a little bit lingering on my lips when I wake up the next morning. For me, this is a “keep at my desk” lip balm for easy application throughout the day.

The Too Faced Peaches & Cream Peach Lip Balm and Scrub can be purchased individually at sephora.ca for $21 CAD or on sephora.com for $17 USD.

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IMATS Toronto Haul Video with Samantha Jane!

Hi everyone! Many of you have asked for Sam and I to film together, but honestly it’s hard to lock down our schedules in order to film a video for each of our channels. We had a bit of downtime between IMATS Toronto this past weekend, so we filmed our IMATS haul at Sam’s place for her channel. So if you ever wanted to see us in a video together… well… here you go!

I’ll have a vlog of IMATS Toronto up tomorrow (Tuesday) and then my monthly haul up on Thursday (which… some of the products will be repeated from the video above).

Enjoy!

Mary Kay Precision Brow Liners (Review & Swatches)

Mary Kay Precision Brow liners in Blonde and Dark Blonde

Mary Kay continues to be one of those brands that people don’t think much about (especially if you’re under the age of 50), but I assure you they put out some quality products (for example, they make my absolute favourite nail polish formula. Hands down, that is the best stuff I have ever tried.) So when I was sent some brow products to try out, I was keen to give them a go.

Mary Kay Precision Brow liners in Blonde and Dark Blonde
Mary Kay Precision Brow liners in Blonde and Dark Blonde

Mary Kay has just launched their Precision Brow Liners in 5 shades, two of which fit into the blonde category (Blonde and Dark Blonde) which I’ve been trying out for the last two weeks. Each retractable pencil comes with 0.085 grams of products which is on par with the ABH Brow Wiz, and a little bit short (0.005 grams to be precise) in comparison to the NYX Micro Brow. The pencils retail for $16 CAD or $14 USD. (Interestingly, the American Mary Kay site seems to have only four shades available – they’re missing Black-Brown.)

Mary Kay Precision Brow liners in Blonde and Dark Blonde - swatches
Mary Kay Precision Brow liners in Blonde and Dark Blonde – swatches

The blonde shades are much less ashy than I was expecting. Traditional blonde eyebrow pencils tend to lean more cool than warm, although I’d say that these seem neutral with a touch of warmth.

Naked brows versus filled in brows
Naked brows versus filled in brows

As you can see, I don’t have much brow to begin with, so I have to fill in a lot of areas and create an entire tail out of nothing.

Naked brows versus filled in brow
Naked brows versus filled in brow

I found that the pencils were quite soft, which made for easy application, but it could sometimes mean you didn’t get the sharpest point you wanted. I also found that the nib is slightly larger than your average micro-brow pencils, so this wouldn’t be quite as precise for creating individual hair strokes. Personally, I don’t have the patience to create individual strokes as I’m really just trying to block out a brow as quickly as possible because I’ve got so much ground to cover and fill in. So the fact that I can’t create individual hair lines with this pencil is irrelevant to me.

Final Thoughts

If you’re looking for a softer eyebrow pencil, you may want to look into the Mary Kay Precision Brow Liners. I love my NYX Micro Brow, but it does feel a bit sharp and hard on my brows, so I completely understand if people are wanting something a little bit softer. The longevity of the product was excellent too – they last through full workdays without any issue.

I was also pleasantly surprised with the colours. I didn’t think they would work that well because they weren’t grey enough, but that turned out not to be the case. I used the Dark Blonde shade to fill in the bottom of my brow, and the Blonde shade for the top half. I feel the two shades worked well together, although I definitely preferred the Dark Blonde for filling in larger gaps of missing hair.

The only thing I feel the pencils are missing is a spoolie. Almost all brow pencils now provide a spoolie at the other end, so I feel like it’s a necessary component in a brow pencil now.

The Mary Kay Brow Precision Liners can be purchased on marykay.ca for $16 CAD each or on marykay.com for $14 USD each.

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