July 2016 Beauty Favourites!!

I know that my June favourites were late, but this one is on time. Kind of. More on time than last month's favourites at least.....

Since I went out of town a lot for the month of July, I honestly didn't bring a lot of makeup with me. I went out of town for my boyfriend's son's travel baseball. Which means I was out in the sun watching 13 year olds play a sport. I wasn't really looking forward to putting on a full face of makeup just to have it melt off my face in a matter of minutes. So I concentrated more on skincare and sun protection.

And for that, I started with cleansing my face. And I only brought my trusty Purity by Philosophy. I used this in the morning and at night. There's honestly nothing like it. It's gentle enough for my sensitive skin, but it cleanses and clears everything out that I need it to while washing my face, especially the sunscreen. This cleanser not only applied to my trips, but every single day of the month. And then some :) 

For my daytime moisturizer, it was and is always pertinent to have a moisturizer with SPF in it to protect from the sun, and I switched back and forth during the month from my Pharmagel Derma Brite SPF 35 to my Arbonne FC5 SPF 20. For my 'no makeup' days (brows and mascara, usually), I used my Derma Brite. For my makeup days, I used my FC5. Some of my foundations or BB Creams I use also have SPF in them, so that's extra in my mind. For the record, I also applied SPF 60 on the rest of my exposed skin (2 or 3 times) as I was out in the sun while watching baseball for a minimum of 6 hours each day.

For makeup, I mostly kept it minimal. Mainly because I didn't want to have half of my face melt off by lunch time and have to go through the rest of the day worrying what kind of monster I looked like. I do my makeup in the morning, and I go to work for noon until about 830pm, so my makeup either needs to last the ENTIRE day, or it needs to be not so noticeable when it starts breaking up on my face. Considering how hot it is, I opted for the not so noticeable route. 

And for those days that I wore makeup, I chose lightweight items like my E.L.F. BB Cream in Fair, and my Garnier Skin Renew rollerball concealer for my face, and basically just mascara and lip gloss. I don't necessarily have favourites of those, but the Benefit Roller Lash mascara and my Essence XXXL gloss are the ones I've been reaching for. 

I don't know about where you live, but where I live it gets FUCKING HOT AND HUMID in the summer time, so the least amount of products on my face, the better.

And that's it!! Thanks for reading!!

Byeeeeee :):)

July 2016 Boxycharm!!

Boxycharm is now shipping to Canada!!

If you don't know what Boxycharm is, you should check it out! It's a monthly subscription service that offers 4 or 5 full sized products worth more than $100 for $31CAD!!

I'm very happy it is now shipping to Canada so I can start enjoying some of the joys my fellow Americans have the liberty to indulge in.

This month's box included some awesome products :) The theme was 'Modern Merbabe'.

1. Mally Beauty Blending Brush - MSRP $15USD
2. PYT Argan Oil - MSRP $30USD
3. Noyah Lip Gloss - MSRP $16USD
4. Ofra Pro Palette & Shadows - MSRP $59USD

That's a value of $120USD!! And at today's exchange rate, that's a whopping $156CAD!!

Granted, I wouldn't necessarily purchase ALL of these items, but for the amount I paid versus the amount they're all worth, I'm certainly not angry about it.

The eyeshadows are quite pigmented. I did have to scrape at one of the shadows in order for the top layer to give me anything to work with, but once I did that, it was fine. The blending brush will definitely come in handy; no doubt about that. I've already used the argan oil in my hair. I only used it once, and I'm not too huge a fan of the scent, but will continue to use it until it's gone. Argan oil has some very awesome properties to it that help with hair and skin, so that will go to good use. The lip gloss isn't something I would necessarily choose on my own, but if I decide to not use it, then I will pass it on.

I signed up for a 3 month subscription. It saved me a couple dollars per month, and it automatically renews itself and charges my account, so I'm going to let it happen strictly based on this month's box.

All in all, I highly recommend this, and I hope it continues to be this good.

That's all!!

Thanks so much!!