GOSH Lumi Drops - for a lit from within glow!

GOSH Lumi Drops - 15ml - $17 - in Vanilla, Peach and Bronze - brighten up with a liquid highlighter that dresses the skin in an illuminating veil of beautiful radiance and enhances the complexion with a shimmery finish from reflecting pearl pigments - as if light is  coming from within. 

They brighten up any look and highlight your most beautiful features easily - use for strobing with a few drops where the sun would naturally hit your face - including the bridge of the nose, tip of the chin, center of the forehead, cupid’s bow, brow bones and cheekbones or use alone for a radiant all-over finish. I find it hard to use all over because you need such a small amount that it was hard to evenly spread it so I mix a tiny bit of Vanilla (because I'm pale, if you're darker go with the Bronze) with my moisturizer or bb cream and it really does add a great glow!

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Eye Love Wednesday - eyebrow gels from Elizabeth Arden, GOSH and Annabelle

Elizabeth Arden Statement Brow - $32 - in Blonde, Honey, Brown and Dark Brown - an all-in-one tinted gel that grooms, conditions, fills and shapes, making it easy to create a defined, smudge-proof look with up to 12 hours wear.

Featuring a unique, precision bristled brush and enhanced formula containing beeswax and carnauba - helps to define and hold brows in place for long-lasting wear; kaolin - a natural clay that provides texture to give brows shape and a fuller appearance; mineral pigments and pearls - to naturally fill brows and reflect light to create subtle shine and dimension; shea butter and rapeseed oil - provide moisturizing and conditioning properties, as well as antioxidant protection; and silk and panthnol - rich with vitamin B5 and amino acids to help nourish and condition the brow hair - allowing for effortless application to hold brows in place all day.

Available now at Hudson's Bay, London Drugs and Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

GOSH Brow Sculpting Fibre Gel - $17 - in Nutmeg and Chestnut - with a long-lasting gel formula to tame brows and hold them in place all day while easily adding volume with fibres that build up the brow, colour to fill in bare spots while nourishing with bladderwrack seaweed which contains ultra-high levels of antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins and minerals - applied with a tapered brush for precise application.

Available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

Annabelle Brow Show Shaping Gel - $8.95 - in 2 universal shades: Light/Medium and Medium/Dark - to define and fix brows in one easy step for natural and uniform hold.

Available at drugstores across Canada and online at annabelle.com.

- Lisamarie -

Easy summer lips with GOSH and Sun Bum!

GOSH Velvet Touch Lip Liner - $10 - in 14 shades: Nougat Crisp, Cardinal Red, Flirty Orange, Antique Rose, Pink Pleasure, Angel Kiss, Simply Red, Chocolate Kiss, Cocoa Plum, Rose, Raspberry Dream, Smoothie, Raisin - with a unique waterproof wax formula that prevents lipstick from bleeding into the small lines around the lips along with vitamin E and jojoba oil to keep it from being too drying.

Great for wearing under lipstick but it's my go-to summer product for a melt-proof lip colour that is long-wearing and fuss-free. Rather then draw it on and have it look very precise, all I do is apply a bit to both lips, and then smudge it around with my finger - for a stained look - and then top it with my favourite lip balm:

Sun Bum Lip Balm SPF 30 - $5.99 - in coconut, key lime, mango, pink guava, pomegranate and my fave, banana - protects lips from the sun with a water resistant formula, along with cocoa butter, aloe and vitamin E to moisturize.

The colour lasts all day, I just reapply the balm on a regular basis to keep lips moisturized and protected from the sun!

Available now at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Mascara Monday - GOSH Lash Sculpting Fibre Mascara

GOSH Lash Sculpting Fibre Mascara - $17 - builds visibly longer and fuller lashes.

With a fibre rich formula containing Bladderwrack seaweed which is chock full of ultra-high levels of antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins and acids to protect, and add nutrients and moisture to each lash.

And a round tynex brush that is optimally shaped to create volume and length.

Creates feathery, clump-free lashes with minimal effort - I wouldn't call it super lengthening or thickening but lashes are noticeably longer and fuller.

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Revitalize skin overnight with Korres, GOSH and Foreo!

Korres Castanea Arcadia Wrinkle Rewind Night Cream - 40ml - $80 - with a light, velvety texture containing lupeol, taken from the leaves of the Arcadian chestnut tree, a powerful natural ingredient that contains incredible antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and skin-regenerative properties that fight wrinkles and visible signs of aging.

It uses a liquid crystal emulsion delivery system that helps to reflect light, mimicking skin’s natural moisture to deeply hydrate. Formulated with active ingredients including betaglucan, black oat extract and lecithin at clinical efficiency, the cream reinforces skin’s natural moisture retention and bolster skin’s structure, resulting in a youthful and resilient complexion.

Love the night cream and want more? You'll be happy to know the Castanea Arcadia line also includes a day and eye cream!

Available now at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada and online at beautyBOUTIQUE.ca.

GOSH Overnight Primer Oil Essence - 30ml - $22 - a luxurious facial oil packed with antioxidants, fatty acids and nourishing oils including: French lavender oil, blackcurrant seed oil, argan oil and jojoba oil - to help prep, prime and revitalize skin overnight. The dropper makes it easy to dispense the perfect amount, which is just a few drops, and can be used alone or under your usual night cream.

Available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

Foreo Celestial Melting Gel Night Cleanser - 100ml - $43 - a silken gel infused with ultra-fine meteorite particles that removes impurities, makeup and pollutants to leave skin bright and restored. Contains anti-pollutant moringa extract and almond oil to soften and nourish the skin.

It's meant to be used with your Luna device to transform it from a silken gel consistency into a velvety milk, but it seems it will do that with anything, including your fingers!

Available at Murale, Hudson's Bay and Sephora stores across Canada and online at sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Mascara Monday - GOSH Rebel Eyes Long Wear Volume Mascara

GOSH Rebel Eyes Long Wear Volume Mascara - $17 - adds curl, length and volume in a single coat.

Features a curved flexible rubber brush with unique wedge-shaped discs and a bristled tip for an extra push-up effect

along with a long-lasting, perfume free formula containing sea buckthorn seed oil to protect lashes.

You are supposed to be able to achieve volume with just one coat, but you really do need two and the trick to the second coat is to add it while the first coat is wet. I applied the second coat when the first coat was dry on the left eye and as you can see it looks flaky and clumpy - on the right eye I applied the second coat while the first was still wet and it looks much better!

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -

Eye Love Wednesday - go nude with a shadow palette from Joe Fresh, GOSH and Quo!

Joe Fresh Eye Shadow Palette in Neutrals - $14 - a neutral palette of 12 velvety soft shadows with a light sheen finish that look great on their own as a colour wash or blended together to create everything from a natural look to a smokey eye.

GOSH 9 Shades Shadow Collection in To Be Cool In Copenhagen - $20 - with 9 highly pigmented matte shades inspired by the coolness and colours of the Nordic Lights with easy to mix and match shades that range from soft nude and brown to stormy grey and dramatic black tones.

Quo True Hues Eye Shadow Palette in Romance Novel - $24 - containing 6 soft, luminous neutral shades that are easily blendable with an airy matte finish.

All palettes are available now at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Strobe like a pro with GOSH, mark., Hard Candy and Sephora!

Not looking for the complexity or drama of contouring but still want a way to bring out your best features? Give strobing a try! Strobing is a technique of using layers of highlight to bring out the high points on your face - like the cheekbones - and by doing that, you de-emphasize other aspects like the hollows of the cheeks to create a balanced look. And to make it easy, there are several kits to help you out:

GOSH Contour N' Strobe Kit - $32 - in Light and Medium - a must have basic kit with everything you need for contouring, strobing and highlighting composed of two essential bronzers, a semi-matte blush and a highlighter - to define and highlight facial features. All four shades have an ultra-light, soft and creamy texture, are easy to apply and blend together.

Available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

mark. Touch & Glow Shimmer Cream Bars - $20 - in Natural Glow - a palette of neutrals that can be swirled together for the ultimate strobing glow or used individually over face and eyes for soft, naturally stunning highlights.

Available from your Avon rep - 1-800-265-AVON or online at www.avon.ca.

Hard Candy Look Pro! Ultimate Strobing Kit - $9.98 - offers a complete collection of products with a tutorial guide that contains everything you need for an effortlessly brighter, more radiant and illuminated complexion including: lumizing cream, bronzer, blush, highlighter and a brush inside a compact tin.

Available exclusively at Walmart stores across Canada.

Sephora Get Glowing Highlighting Brush Set - $56 - a 100% synthetic fiber, cruelty-free brush set to create intense highlighting for a youthful, angelic effect designed for strobing or creating glowing highlights including: sculpting complexion brush - to layer product onto the skin with flexibility and movement.; small highlighting brush - with a tapered tip to help place highlighting products precisely without any harsh lines and works well with both liquids and creams; and blending brush - which makes it easy to buff and sweep product onto the skin for a seamless application with round, soft bristles that create a line-free transition - all tucked inside a compact brush travel case with instructions on best usage.

Available now at Sephora and sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Manicure must-haves from Essie, GOSH and Kiss!

Essie Second Shine Around Polish Refresher - 13.5ml - $9.50 - a super glossy polish refresher that helps restore the appearance of polished nails to a salon perfect finish.

It's the perfect manicure pick-me-up for when nails start to look dull and are in danger of chipping days after applying new polish - makes it look like you just got a whole new manicure!

Available at drug stores across Canada.

GOSH Nail & Cuticle Oil - 8ml - $10 - strengthens, nourishes and moisturizes with a non-greasy formula enriched with natural argan, coconut and almond oils along with vitamin E that is absorbed instantly and leaves nails and cuticles looking and feeling healthy.

Available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada.

Kiss Professional Manicure Kit - $12.96 - everything you need to keep your nails looking great in a handy kit great for home, on the go or for having your own products to bring to the spa including: nail scissors; nail brush; nail clippers; cuticle nipper; 4-way buffer; 3 emery boards; cuticle pusher/cleaner; double-sided nail file; double-sided sapphire nail file; 3 manicure sticks; and a convenient travel pouch to keep it all in.

Available at Walmart and London Drugs stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

GOSH #Foundation Drops

GOSH #Foundation Drops - 30ml - $26 - in 5 shades: 002 Ivory, 004 Natural, 006 Tawny, 008 Honey, 010 Tan - a water-free, ultra-light textured foundation that offers a natural nude look for the skin that feels like wearing nothing. Infused with beneficial ingredients such as argan oil and antiderm for their soothing and hydrating properties and you'll love how smoothly it applies thanks to the silicone base.

It just takes a few drops for medium-coverage so it's nice that it comes in the dropper format, making it easier to control how much you apply. The formula is also buildable, for places you need more coverage, and has a silky, flawless finish.

Available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -

GOSH Velvet Touch Matte Lipstick - with swatches!

GOSH Velvet Touch Matte Lipstick - $14 - in 8 shades: 001 Matte Baby Lips, 002 Matte Rose, 003 Matte Antique, 004 Matte Coral, 005 Matte Classic Red, 006 Matte Raspberry, 007 Matte Cherry, 008 Matte Plum - with a soft and creamy, long-lasting, highly pigmented formula containing natural bee, carnauba and candelilla wax to keep lips moist and soothed as well as hyaluronic microspheres that fill in deep wrinkles to add volume and long lasting hydration.

Raspberry

Classic Red

As you can see it's not a dry matte finish - more of a satin really - but they do look and feel great!

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -

Mascara Monday - GOSH Boombastic XXL Swirl Volume Mascara

GOSH Boombastic XXL Swirl Volume Mascara - $15 - offers extreme volume and length with a nourishing formula that leaves lashes stronger, nourished and moisturized.

The formula is infused with argan oil and bamboo extract - to improve lash volume and vitality and help repair structural damage making lashes more resilient and flexible - to strengthen, nourish, moisturize and help regenerate lashes.

The highlight of the product is the giant swirled rubber brush with bristles at the tip to grab even the tiniest lashes for better application and a unique spiral-shaped combination of bristles and discs to create spectacular volume and length.

When they say giant brush, they aren't kidding, it's huge! Which means there is a much better chance of hitting the skin when you use it if you aren't careful. The bristles on the tip are handy for getting outer and bottom lashes but give it a good wipe first before using or it will add too much mascara and make the lashes clumpy.

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -

GOSH Mineral Powder

GOSH Mineral Powder - 8g - $22 - in 3 shades: Ivory, Natural and Honey - with a light and silky texture that makes it easy to apply and blend into the skin, a medium to full coverage with a natural matte finish.

Even though it's a powder foundation, with a light hand and a powder brush, it makes a great finishing power over foundation - or it's great to layer over a liquid for more coverage, just use a flat head brush for more intensity.

I like the packaging which includes a sifter which allows only a limited amount of powder to come out at one time while the inner part turns around so the holes are covered making it easy to travel with no mess.

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -

gives medium to full coverage and a matt flawless look. Description: GOSH Mineral Powder has a very light and silky texture which is easy to blend into the skin. GOSH Mineral Powder provides medium to full coverage and a natural, matt finish. - See more at: http://www.goshcosmetics.com/uk/mineral-powder.html#sthash.CHy3jBwD.dpufwith a

Eye Love Wednesday - Shadow trios that wow from Mary Kay, GOSH and Physicians Formula!

Mary Kay @ Play Baked Eye Trio - $14 - in three different shade trios to create fun, vibrant looks: Out Of The Blue, Purple Eclipse and Neapolitan - with a lightweight texture that applies smoothly and blends easily.

Available now through your Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant - if you don't have one you can find one at - www.marykay.ca or 1-866-455-5454.

GOSH Eyelight Trio - $16 - in 4 trio choices: Chunky Chocolate, Fairytale, Three Of A Kind and Vanilla Sky - with each set containing three shadow textures: an iridescent highlighter to light up eyes; a glitter shadow for sparkling intensity; and a satin shadow to add depth and texture.

Each trio contains three textures for perfect wow-factor effects: an iridescent highlighter to light up eyes, a glitter shadow for sparkling colour intensity and a satin texture to add depth and contouring to eyes. - See more at: http://www.goshcosmetics.com/uk/gosh-eyelight-trio.html#sthash.NGyAGbKZ.dpuf

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart. 

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Gel Cream Shadow & Liner Trio Extreme Shimmer - $15.79 - in Nude and Smoky - with a hybrid gel cream formula that glides on smoothly, blends easier than a powder and can be layered to create a more intense shadow look or to wear as a liner - use a thin veil of colour for a more natural effect or layer and liner for super-easy, high-impact, metallic foil glamour that blends effortlessly and won't crease or smudge.

Available now at fine drug and mass retailers across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Mascara Monday - GOSH Xtreme Mascara

GOSH Xtreme Mascara - $16 - with an intense black formula that provides lashes with maximum volume, length and definition for an  effortless false lash look!

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

The soft fiber brush and its triangular shape gives lashes a spectacular false lash effect with easy application.

With a rich, thick and wet formula that dries quickly allowing you to benefit from the best of both worlds without smudging or crusting.

I like the thick, wet formula a lot but I don't think it dries that quickly - while applying I ended up with little smears of mascara all over my eyelids - normally I wait for mascara smudges to dry and scrape them off but I have found a much easier and instantly gratifying way to take care of them:

Nudestix Clean-Up Pencil - $28 -  a portable makeup pencil that instantly removes even long-lasting and oil-based makeup blunders with just a swipe and a wipe.

Available now at Sephora and sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

GOSH Forever Lip Shine - with swatches!

GOSH Forever Lip Shine - $15 - in 6 intense shades: Baby Baby, Love Story, Flirty Dreams, Magic Monday, Funky Friday and My Valentine - from the name I expected it to be a gloss but it's actually a lipstick with more of a satin finish. The twist-up pencil format makes it perfect for outlining and colouring the lips and it never needs to be sharpened while the soft and smooth texture makes it easy to apply in a few strokes - and the candy scent is delicious!

Baby Baby

My Valentine

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -

Colour and glow with cream blush sticks from GOSH, Tarte and Clinique!

The best thing you can do for a pale, winter-weary complexion is add a bit of colour with blush, and since your skin is probably missing oil this time of year which would usually give it a bit of natural glow and sheen, go with a cream blush instead of powder, not only will it add colour but it will also add moisture to the skin to help it glow!


GOSH Giant Blush - $18 - in 3 shades: Shy, Passion and Pink Parfait - a cream-to-powder perfume and paraben-free stick blush with a silky, easy to blend texture and an oversized format making it easy to add a soft touch of subtle colour in just one swipe for a natural glowing look.

Available now exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

Tarte Cheek Stain - $36 - in 8 shades: Blissful - warm peach; Tipsy - sheer coral; Natural Beauty - sheer berry rose; Blushing Bride - plummy rose; True Love - sheer watermelon; Fearless - pink coral; Flush - sheer berry; Exposed - nude with pink undertones - with a formula that delivers a radiant, natural-looking, just-pinched flush that's enriched with t5 super fruit complex for a fresh look and antiaging and skin-restorative benefits with every application.

Available at Sephora and sephora.ca.

Clinique Chubby Stick Cheek Colour Balm - $24 - in four shades: Amp'd Up Apple, Robust Rhubarb, Roly Poly Rosy and Plumped Up Peony - with an easy to use, dome-shaped design that glides on smoothly, layers easily to offer looks from a natural flush to a more intense blush, blends flawlessly and lasts without looking cakey or dry thanks to a combination of moisturizing ingredients including a healthy dose of vitamin E.

Available now at Clinique counters across Canada and online at www.clinique.com.

- Lisamarie -