Sometimes there are products that I try out from the drugstore that I really want to feature here on the blog, but they just don't seem to warrant their own review post. SO, I decided that I want to start doing some round ups of these one off products that I've been trying out because I definitely do feel like they're worth giving my review on. If this is something you're interested in seeing more of in the future, please do let me know in the comments!

Without further ado, let's look at some Lips, Lashes, and Brow products from the drugstore that I've been trying out recently, shall we?

I have to say, I'm just so completely in love with all of the mani's I've put together for #12NailsOfHalloween, but today's mani has a bit of a special place for me. I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but there are a few polishes in my collection that I absolutely love but really only bring out for special occasions. Sometimes they're polishes that were limited edition or have been discontinued that I want to have around for as long as possible, and other times they're polishes that are just so specifically perfect for a certain time of year that I don't even think to use them any other time. The base for today's mani actually falls into both of those categories and I just love to bring it out every Halloween for some grungy nail art. 

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Hey guys! For today's #12NailsOfHalloween mani, I decided to try out something that... just isn't my forte. When I was looking for inspiration for all of my nail art for this month, I kept seeing these beautiful looks created by professional nail techs of these ghost face mask nails, and I loved them enough to force myself out of my comfort zone and do some hand painted nail art. Trust me, reaching for nail art brushes and doing freehand designs is definitely not my forte... but I think it turned out pretty well, which just underscores that pretty much anyone can recreate this design!

For a closer look and to see how I got this look, keep reading!

When I was younger, I wanted to smell like cake pretty much all day every day. I was constantly in search of the intense vanilla frosting scented body products and layered them on like it was my full time job. As I've gotten older, my taste in scents has definitely changed and, dare I say, matured. Still, there is something about the delicious scent of dessert on my skin that can still get me. Recently, I had the opportunity to try out the J.R. Watkins Lemon Cream Body Oil Mist* and I find myself back on the smelling like dessert train. 

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I have to admit that when it comes to Halloween nail art, I tend to be really, really drawn to the pairing of purple and green - if you haven't already noticed that from the nail art that I've already done. I think there's just something super bang on about that colour combination for this time of year, so for today's #12NailsOfHalloween mani, I went full stop with it and paired neon purple and green with some multichrome flakes and some grungy stamping. 

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Something that I tend to forget when I get in my head and have ALL of the ideas that I want to throw at my nails is that sometimes keeping it simple can make for a real impactful mani. After trying out a few overly ambitious things that just weren't working, I found myself needing a little bit of a palette cleanser and this idea came to me like a bit of a lightbulb. I've never personally been much of a glitter gradient kind of girl (probably because I'm not much of a glitter kind of girl) but I've been all about flakies lately and I love them applied in a gradient and I felt like this could really work for a Halloween mani that isn't... quite so focused on graphics and more on just being pretty.

Whether it's shades like orange, purple and green (which all scream Halloween to me) or the deeper, vampier shades, it can be pretty easy to default into a pretty specific colour palette for this time of year. I found myself sort of wanting to turn that on its head this year and put together at least one mani that stood pretty far outside what I normally think of for Halloween... Obviously, that means reaching for pastel neons, right? For today's #12NOH offering, I was actually inspired by one of my summer mani's to put together these Cute & Creepy Pastel Tie Dye nails!

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In the beauty world, it feels like the holiday season is starting earlier and earlier every year. I remember back in the day when it wasn't until after Halloween that we started seeing holiday sets popping up at Sephora, but these days it seems like we start seeing them released even before Labour Day hits. I have to be honest... it takes a little bit of the magic out of it for me and I actually thought I was going to be pretty disenchanted with this year's holiday beauty releases... but so far, there are actually quite a few that have gotten me excited. Of course, there's also quite a few that I'm just... not at all interested in, so I figured I'd share both the hits and misses for me and why I would or wouldn't pick them up for myself. 

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For this year's 12 Nails Of Halloween, I'm really trying to stick to my personal style when it comes to putting together the nail art. I'm definitely looking around at other people's manis for inspiration, but I don't want to step outside of what I personally like to both create and to wear. So for today's #12NOH offering, I went with something fairly simple and graphic in a matte finish. While I know that sometimes I can be a little bit of a lot with what I'll throw at my nails, a lot of my favorite mani's are the simple, really graphic ones. 

So without further ado, keep reading to check out my Grungy Freddie Krueger Nails!

I don't know about you, but for me summer is a time when I can be a little bit more devil-may-care about my skin care because the warmer weather and the higher humidity tends to be great for my skin type. However, as the seasons change and we find the temperatures dropping and the weather getting a little bit more unpredictable, I know that my skin tends to go through a bit of a period of chaos, especially the skin on my body that has been a little bit neglected and left to its own devices all summer. I like to think I'm pretty good at caring for the skin everywhere other than my face than I used to be, but I started noticing that I use both lotion and cream in different ways at different times, so I thought now was a good time to get into the difference between lotion and cream and how to choose the right product for your needs. 

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