My grandma, whom I love dearly, has been doing a thing recently during our weekly visits where she points out that I'm not losing any weight. At first, it felt hurtful. Actually, I want to amend that. It's always at least a little bit hurtful because I've been so ingrained with the idea that at least part of my value as a person is based on the size of my body that those kinds of critical comments do sting, no matter how much work I've done personally to be okay with my size. The truth is that my grandma will be 90 years old this year and over the past 10 years or so has basically lost whatever internal censors she had - the ones we all have - that helped her to be tactful and I know I can't blame her for it, especially considering the generation she comes from.

You guys, I'm so excited for today's review! As soon as I saw initial swatches of the OPI x HelloKitty 2019 Holiday Collection*, I was really excited and wanted to get so many of the shades on my nails. The last time OPI teamed up with HelloKitty for a collection, back in 2016 I believe, I missed out because I hadn't yet dived fully into the nail polish and nail art obsession in which I currently reside, but even I knew that it was a hugely popular and exciting collab for polish lovers, so this collection seemed extra charged with excitement.

Without further ado, keep reading for my review & swatches of this collection!

Some of the most exciting products from The Case Full Of Seoul that I was most excited to try out were the May Coop Raw Sauce & Raw Moisturizer*. Now, one might speculate that it's because I'm Canadian and it seems impossible not to get excited about any product whose main ingredient is maple tree sap... and they would probably be right. Of course, it's less because I'm a huge fan of maple and more because I was intrigued at the idea of substituting the usual main ingredient of water with tree sap. 

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Okay, everyone, Halloween is officially over and that means IT'S TIME TO GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS. I know, I know, it can be frustrating when the stores start to fill with red and gold as soon as the orange and black gets taken down, the Christmas carols ringing everywhere you go, but as a pretty huge fan of the Christmas season... my body is ready! And one of my favorite things about the holiday season for the past several years has been the Live Clean Holiday Hand Soaps. In fact, last year I stocked up on my favorite scent and literally used it all year, that's how much I love these babies. For 2019, Live Clean has released two new hand soaps in their Foaming Hand Wash formula, an I'm super, super excited to tell you guys all about them!

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Happy Monday, friends! After the madness that was 12 Nails Of Halloween, I definitely needed a little bit of a palette cleanse for this week's #CBBxManiMonday and I got a picture in my head of exactly what I wanted, with exactly what polishes I wanted to use to create it, so I just kind of went for it... And I'm kinda in love! One of the first nail art attempts I ever shared was a drag marble - and I was pretty proud of it - but I feel like my skills and eye for what I like has really evolved over the past couple of years and I'm kinda swoony about this one. 

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Hey guys! It's been way too long since I've written an adult toy review, but trust me... This one was very much worth the weight. Recently, I got the chance to try out the new LELO Soraya 2 Rabbit Vibrator*, which is the second generation of the award winning original Soraya and, I mean, this might be the most beautiful adult version of this type of vibrator that I've ever seen in my life. I really love doing these kinds of reviews because sex positivity is really important to me and sometimes you've just gotta enjoy yourself, whether alone or with a partner, and I think this particular toy is phenomenal for that. 

So without further ado.... let's just get a closer look, shall we?

It's been a while since I've done a foundation review here on the blog, so it's definitely time to remedy that. Foundation is such a subjective thing, really, and with so many options at the drugstore I know that I personally heavily rely on the content of reviews to inform what I really want to try. I've also been finding that this season change (along with some seriously high stress levels) has been really effecting my skin and some of the foundations that I had been loving just aren't getting it done anymore. For the past couple of months I've been trying out the Revlon Photoready Candid Foundation & Concealer* and I'm super excited to share my thoughts on them with you guys!

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Hey, loves! For the last day of 12 Nails Of Halloween, I was a little torn on what I wanted to do, but I kept circling back around to this scary silhouette of a zombie/monster/witch face from the BeautyBigBang XL-091 Stamping Plate that I picked up this year. It wasn't an image that I actually thought I would use, but I was just so drawn to it that I felt like I needed to figure out a mani to use it in. I also really wanted my last mani to be a little bit dark and creepy, since it is Halloween after all, so I kept the colour palette dark (with some white for contrast) and kept the images distinctly grungy. 

Keep reading for a closer look and to see how I put it together!