IT'S FALL! And by that I mean... technically it's still summer and we're having a little bit of a summer weather resurge at the moment, but I've fully transitioned into fall brain. The cozy sweaters and boots are on standby, but the saturated makeup shades and the spicy hot beverages have come out full force. Also, because the weather is in the all-over-the-place zone, I'm also starting to transition into my fall beauty routine, with more of a focus on keeping my skin and hair moisturized and happy as the weather gets colder and it gets a little more finicky. To help make the transition a little bit easier, I'm super excited to host this giveaway for a Live Clean Cleansing Moisture Prize Pack* featuring hand soaps and body washes to keep your skin happy and hydrated this fall!

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Hey guys! If you saw my post last month about The Case Full Of Seoul*, you may remember just how excited I was to really get into using the 9wishes Rice Foaming Cleanser that was included in the set. The fact I'm a complete and total cleanser junkie - seriously, you should see my bathroom - combined with the recommendations of some skin care influencers that I genuinely trust really had me super excited to get this onto my skin. 

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Happy Monday! For this week's #CBBxManiMonday Colour Combination Theme, I really, really knew exactly what shades I wanted to pair - and had no idea how to do it. So... I took inspiration from one of my own recently mani's that I really, really loved - my Abstract Dry Brush Nails from last month. And by "took inspiration from", I basically mean that I created the exact same mani with different shades, but I'm really, really happy with how it turned out. And I really, really love the combination of fall neutral shades that makeup the look!

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As a beauty blogger, I have a lot of people in my life asking me for advice when it comes to makeup and skin care, detailing their issues and skin type and what they're looking for. I can tell you with 100% honesty that when it comes to recommendations, CeraVe is probably the brand I recommend the most to the people in my life outside of this blog. There are several reasons for this, which I'll get into a little bit later in this post, but thus far friends and family members have taken my advice and had great results with the products. So, with that being said, I felt like really digging into the cleansers (which are probably my most recommended from the CeraVe range) and making really specific recommendations seemed like a really good idea. 

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So... I did it again. Honestly, I resisted picking up the Color Club Aura Energy Collection at first because I wasn't sure that it would really be my thing, but ultimately there was one shade in the collection that I just absolutely couldn't resist and I had to have it. Ever have that happen to you? It's probably not the best practice, but in this case... it kind of turned out amazing, because this collection is really surprising to me in the very best way! 

I feel like makeup fatigue is going around these days. For several years now, the excitement over new new new has led so many of us to having huge collections of makeup that we could never hope to actually use up and I think a lot of us are just feeling a little bit overwhelmed. So, in the interest of trying to overcome my own makeup fatigue, I decided to start doing some Shop My Stash posts here on the blog. Not only will this force me to resist picking up new releases and get excited again about what I have, but I hope it will inspire you to maybe dig around in your own collection and find some things to get excited about again as well. 

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Happy Monday! I have to admit, I was a little bit uninspired to do this week's #CBBxManiMonday until I had a kind of weird idea that I wasn't sure was going to work. In the end, it absolutely did... but I feel like capturing it in photos was really, really difficult. You'll have to take my word that in person... this look turned out so super cool that I can't really get over it. Of course, for the month of September our Mani Monday theme is Color Combinations... and for this one I sort of blended golden fall shades with a grounding black. It counts, right?

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Anyone who follows my nail art or really just my social media knows I've been on a huge Color Club kick recently and their polishes have become a staple for me in recent months, mostly thanks to being able to find their collections locally here at Winners locations. Of course, when I saw the brand new Color Club Matte-ified Metallics Collection and how gorgeous and fall perfect the polishes looked in the bottles I absolutely had to pick it up and try it out. I don't do a lot of full collection swatches here on the blog, but I really want to start doing more and this seemed like an amazing place to start. 

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Happy Monday, all! I have to admit, that every year as soon as the calendar says September (and I celebrate my birthday, as I am today - hence the slightly late post) I put away summer things and transition firmly into fall things, regardless of the weather. Gone are the pastels and icy beverages, replaced with saturated fall colours and spicy hot drinks. I am a creature of habit and fall is my favorite season. So while I have to wait for it to be cool enough for sweaters and boots, I'm happily transitioning my nails into fall. For this month, our #CBBxManiMonday theme is Color Combinations, and today I paired two of my absolute favorites - Berry & Olive!

Hey guys! I'll admit that I struggled to figure out how to achieve what I wanted to achieve with this week's #CBBxManiMonday inspired by the #summernails hashtag on Instagram. I had been seeing a lot of these multi-coloured pastel baby boomer nails and I kind of fell in love with them, but all of the mani's I saw were done by nail techs and I couldn't figure out how to get the technique right. In all honesty, I ended up trying a few different techniques that just absolutely didn't work and ended up being taken off right away (my poor cuticles!) before I started again. BUT in the end, I got exactly the look I wanted and I'm kind of in love with it. Seriously, can't stop looking down at my nails. 

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