Small Fall Haul ft. Ebay & Forever 21

Products mentioned :
 Plaid Scarf  | Heel Inserts | Hair Brush | Pencil Skirt | Peter Pan Top 

What kinds of items do you purchase for the fall season?

Julep September 2014 Box

School and general procrastination means I suck at updating :(

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My Boho Glam box with the Bare Face Cleansing Oil & Konjac Sponge.

The super convenient swatch stickers !

My current nails in Natalia :)

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Covet Fashion App

So continuing with my app recommendations & reviews, I discovered  an app called Covet Fashion.

I really enjoy this app because it allows me to play dress up with real clothing.  The app collaborates with many different designers such as Rebecca Midkiff, BCBG, French Connection, House of Harlow, and many more.

Within this app you're able to participate in events with specific themes and restrictions. and while you create the outfit you can customize the hair colour, skin colour, makeup style and the way you want a style a shirt (whether or not you want to tuck in the shirt). In order to submit your entry into the event you need accumulate and submit a certain numbers of tickets (15 or 25). You can earn tickets through in app purchases or voting for your favorite outfit in recent events. There are several events each day.

So as you accumulate more items in your closet you will unlock new hairstyles and makeup styles. You can also earn clothing items by getting 4 stars are above in the event.

I think that this app is a great way to play around with different types of clothing and fulfil my needs to dress up and experiment with different styles. I also enjoy the fact that I can played this app for over 6 months and not have the urge to spend a single penny on the app. You accumulate in-game cash for each event that you participate in.

This app is available on both Android and iOS devices. You can sync your information and progress on both your Android and iOS devices. Also you can link your account to Facebook and gain access to the closet of your fellow Facebook friends.

This review is not sponsored. I am just very interested in this app and I would like more people to play this app.

How do you like this game is it worth your time or do you have another similar fashion game to recommend me?

Forever 21 Haul @!

I'm wrong for a small haul, the video was fairly long :P Sorry about the glasses and poor editting D:

Top - Converse
Glasses - Rayban
Products mentioned:
Ruffled Floral Drawstring Shorts
*pockets too small to hold iphone

Watercolor Floral Y Back Romper

Classic Cardigan

Buckled Wedge Sandals

How often do you shop at forever 21?

June 2014 Favourites

Products mentioned:
MIZON Collagenic Essence BB Cream (SPF32,PA++)
Skindinavia Bridal Makeup Finish (similar to the all-night spray, made by the same company)
L'Oreal Paris Lineur Intense Felt Tip Liquid Eyeliner  - in Carbon Black
Garnier Moisture Rescue Refreshing Gel-Cream
The Body Shop Body Butter, Blueberry
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Nail Coat
*Bahemian escape mentioned in this post

Non-beauty favorites :

This is the jacket I showed in the video, but it is no longer available at forever 21.

Kashi Chewy Granola Bar, Honey Almond Flax
Kashi, Chewy Granola Bars, Trail Mix

What are your June favorites?

Summer Nail Polish Picks 2014

Welcome to my second seasonal nail polish post. I did post a winter nail polish recommendations that you can find here.
Since it is summer I decided to provide so many options because summer is the time for you to break out the colorful bright neon polishes and refrain from using the safe polishes even though I did include one that I enjoy all year round.

Peachy Keen | Tart Deco | Shrimply Devine | Purple Panic | Dulce De Leche

There are some weird cuts and we are jumps in the video but that's because this is literally my second video and I still have no clue what I'm doing so please forgive my awkwardness and there are a lot of bad takes like that this video.

Lemon Fizz | Re-fresh Mint | Wednesday | Barracuda | Bahamian Escape 

I have tried my best to take pictures of the mail polishes that accurately represent the color of the nail polish. You can also refer to the font color that may be a even closer representation. But I have included some swatches and you can see that the neon polish is a matte finish. In case you were wondering the background is a body shop logo because the colors were not showing up the way I want them to when I put it against the white background.

Anyways please leave a comment below this post or in my YouTube video on which one of these are your favorite colors.

Updated What's in my Bag ft. Rebecca Minkoff Mini M.A.C.

So I've decided to make videos again and not knowing what to post I decided to make an update on my review and included a more detailed "What is in my Bag". If you take a look in my previous post you may have noticed that I have changed up my wallet, excluded my keys and essentially changed my opinion on this bag.

Product mentioned:
Rebecca Minkoff Mini Mac 
Lovely born Navy zipper wallet
Blistex raspberry lemonade blast lip balm

In my previous post I was using a coach wallet that I received as a gift from my friends. I decided to temporarily replaced his wallet with this synthetic wallet that I got from a eBay seller. Initially I was contemplating on purchasing a Tory Burch zip wallet/coin purse similar in size. 

But I couldn't justify spending over $100 on a wallet that is essentially a coin purse.  This option allows me to try out this wall size and decide on whether I like the smaller wallet. Currently I am struggling with the fact that because I have so many cards and cash in the wallet there's no space for any of my coins.

So what size wallet do you carry and why?

Pocket Trains Walkthrough, Tips & Hints

I usually don't do this, but since this game is consuming so much of my time. I thought why not share with you guys or whoever is actually paying attention.

This game is called the Pocket Trains and it is made by the same creator that made tiny towers & pocket planes. I love this game! It doesn't require me to have Wi-Fi at all times and I love the little graphics of the people that remind me of Tiny Towers.

So my friend thinks that this game is kind of confusing and as you can see in my map it does get a tad messy. Basically you are the person that's organizing these various trains and you control their routes. you can expand your network by purchasing more stations and more paths. 

Tips/ Hints:

You can get coins and money if you View the train as it's making its way to it's destination 

If you do run out of quoins you can convert your bills into coins

Participate in the daily events and the prize is one crate with a mysterious chain part and 20 bills (keep in mind that the events may not actually include cities you already have access to but it will be a little" ! "On the city if the event revolves around delivering a particular type of car go to that city. 

Adding an engine will let your trains carry more cargo per trip

Adding a fuel car extend its fuel capacity

If you do run out of fuel I was suggest just waiting or consider building a new engine because it is very expensive to pay for the temp refuel. 

You can also gift components to your friends and your code is found under options on the menu page (it is a four digit/number code)

If you do see a ! In the shop this means that you can click to watch videos and earned two bills per video (it's very similar to what they do for the Tiny Towers game) 

I hope that you guys will try this game and spend as much time as I do. 

Manicure Monday - Feb 10 2014

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I decided to paint my nails pink! I used to think that I didn't buy many pinks because I like non-traditional colours.... until I swatched all of my pink polishes. I had like 15 pink polishes and about 15 blue/green polishes.

My nail polish obsession aside, I love this colour and I am sad because it is getting so clumpy now ):

It is like the perfect coral pink, it is a limited edition colour called Casting Call in the Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure formula. Happy early Valentine's Day :)

Mini Haul - Shopping vs. Buying

According to my boyfriend, all he does is "buying" and I am always "shopping". The difference between the two is I spend too much time walking around looking at stuff with no immediate intention to buy. I think it's fine, I bought one of these items and "shopped" for the rest.

I generally never shop at American Apparel and these riding pants were $82 Canadian. But, I did have a groupon for the value of 80$ so I only paid 7 dollars in tax. (~$47). I was contemplating between the disco pants and riding pants when I was browsing online. Since these are high-waisted, I decided to get them in medium :)

Over the boxing day sale, I went on Chapters and shopped around to find these adorable pug cards. They come in a set of 8 and they were approx 3 dollars for the box. They are also blank cards so they can be customized to suit any occasion. Never send the items to be picked up at store, they took forever to get over there.

Last item I shopped for was this non-caffenated tea blend from DavidsTea. It smells lovely but I haven't tried it yet :)

Strawberry Rhubarb Parfait

I need to stop shopping ><

Manicure Monday - Feb 3 2014

I am on time! I hope this continues. I decided to continue the purple trend. Mostly because this nail polish is almost opaque in 1 coat. Can you guess what brand of polish this is?

In Natural Lighting

You are correct if you guessed Forever 21. Now, I don't think you would expect it but it's true! I actually picked up this polish online... last year? Now before you run out to buy every colour, I also bought a green one but that one will probably need 4 coats.

I love how shiny my nails are when I use seche vite. The name of the polish is Lavender, but they've already discontinued this type of packaging ):

Manicure Monday - Jan 27 2014

A tad late... Well a week. I didn't paint my nails because I had an interview on Tuesday and that just continued onto the rest of the week. But I will be back on track !

Pre-plastic wrap

For this week, I decided to stray away from the usual single color or simply two colours with an accent nail. I decided to use one of the colours mentioned in the winter nail polish post. It was an interesting experience using the plastic wrap method to apply the sparkle polish. I messed up on the initial finger and had stamp over a layer of the purple polish to darken the nail.

My hand looks so chubby ):

I chose the purple because there are not many weeks left of dark polish. I actually don't really enjoy dark polish because of it's staining qualities, but they tend to be more opaque and thus require fewer coats of polish.

Polish used:
Sally Hansen Complete Salon in Plum Luck
Revlon Colourstay in Fall Mood

Manicure Monday - Jan 13 2014

I love glitter and wish I could afford more from this brand of nail polish.  This is the same and one of the two Deborah Lippmanns I own. The other one is not a glitter so I don't wear it much at all =/

I used two coats of Deborah Lippmann's Cleopatra in New York and I layered a Wet' N Wild Black Creme nail polish underneath to help with opacity of the polish. As shown in the swatches of my last post, the black base is not very opaque. I guess it helps the glitters show up against the black. 

As you can tell, I suck at this hand modelling business.

How often do you paint your nails?

Favorite Nail Polish Shades for the Winter && Current Manicure

I wear polish all year around, except for exam time. My polish collection consists of approx 80 polishes? I have stopped directly buying polishes. But there are always some colours that I do not own. Today I was be sharing some of the polishes that I will be and have been reaching for during this winter (at least the types of polishes). 

The two main categories are jewel tones & glitters. I love jewel tones, but I never thought of wearing green polish on my nails. Then again, red and green polishes are essential for the christmas season. I am not telling to you wear both colours together, but that is up to you. The purple polish featured was a gift from my boyfriend two or three years ago. He also got me some other colours, but I like this one the best. I think he deeply regrets buying me nail polish.

Going clockwise from the pink glitter.

• Essie's A Cut Above (part of the Luxeffects collection)
• Deborah Lippmann's Cleopatra in New York
• American Apparel's Rouge
• Sally Hansen's Plum Luck in the  Complete Salon Manicure formula
• China Glaze's Exotic Encounters (part of the On Safari Collection in 2012)
• Essie's Set in Stones (part of the Luxeffects collection)

My current nails:

The base colour is OPI's Dulce De Leche (second row, first polish on the right) & a Asian polish layered on top from Nail Colordium (from The Face Shop) (first row, middle polish)

I will try my best to participate in Manicure Mondays in addition to my other posts!

Do you own any of these nail polishes?