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Adventures with Accutane: A Follow-Up
Wow. Today is officially the first day that my skin has been clear enough for me to go without makeup. I spent a good 5 minutes this morning debating whether I should put a little makeup on or not. It was a bit of a surreal experience. I’ve written before on how my skin has…
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Hydrating Treatment for your Scalp?
Help! To all my beauty-junky readers, I need your assistance! I am on Accutane. The main side effect of this drug is intense dryness of everything. I can deal with dry lips, skin, nails, eyes… but I can’t seem to win the battle against dryness on the scalp. My scalp is so itchy now, when…
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Adventures With Accutane
Well, I’ve taken the plunge and after trying everything under the sun for my skin, the derm has finally put me on Accutane.For those of you who are unfamiliar with this drug, Accutane is essentially a highly-concentrated form of vitamin A. Taking this drug causes your oil glands to dry up a bit and also…
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Herbal Essences Hydralicious Winners
Hey y’all! I am happy to announce that I’ve got 3 winners for the Hydralicious give-away. Random.org selected comment numbers 1, 2 and 5: AmyFlirty*almost*30Michelle These lovely ladies will be receiving two full-value coupons for the Hydralicious product of their choice! Thanks to everyone who participated! I hope you all stick around because I am…
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ChickAdvisor Shopaholic Event
I’m a member of the Toronto edition of ChickAdvisor.com; which is a really great review site for my area (and now across North America, too!). I love going there to scope out reviews on restaraunts, spas, salons, products, you name it! I also contribute by writing some reviews of my own. (Check it out! My…
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Trying a new lotion
I’m running low on moisturizer and had a chance to stop by Wally World this weekend, so I thought I’d give that Olay Quench lotion a shot. FB seems to really dig it, and I like the idea behind it so I bought a small bottle of it. So far I like the smell (smells…
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OPI Overload
I’ve recently come into a large number of oh-so-lovely OPI nail polishes. My neighbour (whom I normally dislike somewhat) seems to work for Trade Secrets or some sort of cosmetics distributor (otherwise how to explain the sheer quantities of OPI???) and had some extras she was going to get rid of. Luckily my trusty sidekick…
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My Face Is Worth…
Rae at theNotice did an interesting article on how much her face costs in terms of makeup. I thought it would be kind of cool to tally up all of my regular products and find out just how much my face is worth. She did it based on what she was wearing at the moment,…
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Product Review: Maybelline Lash Stiletto Mascara
I received this as part of the Chick Advisor product review panel. First off, I thought the packaging was rather nice, I like how the style of the tube played into the name of the product, it really did look like a stiletto heel! I gave this a shot after reviewing the Lancome Oscillation and…
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More Mascara!
Sheesh, it seems like all I do these days is try new mascara! What’s up with that? Any companies out there want to send me some other stuff to try out? Maybe a car? lol I’ve just been invited to another mascara promotional campaign, this time for L’Oreal’s new Beauty Tubes mascara. It’s not out…