Skincare #SephoraHaul and Sephora Tough as Nails Manicure Kit - Review

Hey guys!

This winter is much milder than last years, and though I am not complaining, but it makes me realize how we are slowly becoming part of climate change. I realized that the small samples, that I love to get with my order, add significantly to the landfills, as most are single use items, or are too small to be kept and often gets spoiled lying around in the drawers for years. They fill up my recycle bin with the excess paper packaging and the small plastic containers - well they are just landfill material. I am trying to buy bigger sizes of the products I like but I also love to get the more convenient 50ml size, which I can use for travel as well. It's a tough situation to be in and how I have become entitled to products that serve me, just because I can afford them. It is a time for change in lifestyle and something I will look forward to in 2020.

For now, let's talk about my recent skincare haul. I got these from Sephora as a bare minimum of what I need now, as compared to future. Don't we all buy more, cuz we think we might need it and often forget about using them. So I got the exfoliant, the face washes and the manicure kit that I needed and have started using! Yayy!! Using my purchases is so pleasure-full!!! LOL

Reviews in today's blog!

VITRY Nail Repair Care in Sensitive - Review and Swatches

I shovelled 25 cm of snow off my driveway yesterday and my hands looked quite beat up after I removed my weatherproof gloves. Surprisingly none of my nails had chipped/broken, which I expect to break every day or two in winters and I though to myself, that this nail treatment is truly working it magic on me! Sometimes, even opening the car door would break my nails, or while putting on my winter coat. My hands hate winters. They look wrinkled, dry and flaky and I know that I can totally fix that with my Shea hand balm, but broken nails are hard to file/clip. They can certainly be painful too. 

Today I am sharing with you a nail repair treatment that has truly helped me in maintaining the strength of my nails and I haven't experienced spilt or broken nails since I started using this. Its the Vitry Nail Repair Care in sensitive. I just pick everything for sensitive nails/skin/hair because I can always be sure it will not irritate me in anyway. 

More on this in todays blog along with hand swatches... 

I tried the #CANADA150 Manicure..

I am not good at nail art and I try to never do it myself BUT since its Canada's 150th birthday, I wanted to try out the maple leaf vinyl stencils sent to me for free by Nail Polish Canada. I think I did a pretty terrible job but well. The base coat is OPI's Berlin There Done That and the maple leaves are Burberry Oxblood.

BURBERRY Nail Polish in Oxblood No. 303 Review and Swatches

This hot weather, dryness and fasting are really taking their toll on me. Somedays I feel like I haven't accomplished as much as I could have. I am such a morning person, its hard for me to stay up till 10pm, let alone eat iftaar! The lack of sleep has started to show on my face but the worst is dryness! My hands are so dry, it is unreal. I take baths to exfoliate as much as I could and hope things will return to normal once the fasting period is over. 

Anyways, so I went for a little Eid shopping on the weekend and picked up this shade from Burberry. I really liked the Military Red from Burberry Nail Polishes and thought I could try something a bit deeper. Surprisingly, I do not own any nail polish that is this shade. OPI's Casino Royal is close but Burberry Oxblood is more red than brown making it more wearable at all times of the year. 

My Eid outfit is quite bright and has hints of this oxblood color in embroidery, so I felt that this shade will be nice. 

Its a gorgeous shade that can be built up to a really dark oxblood/burgundy shade. In the swatches I am wearing 2 coats. Keep reading for more.. 

OPI’s Fall and Winter 2016 Collection

Indulge in OPI’s gorgeous Fall/Winter Collection and match your nails to your outfits, wearing your favourite look up to your nails whether you want to make it full colors or texturized for a total match!

OPI presents you 10 must have shades of this season that will make you travel to the Fashion Weeks:
Starting with Malaga Wine, a rich wine red, the Hawaiian Orchid tropical pink with hints of purple,
Eurso Euro, a deep blue continental cream, In the Cable Car Pool Lane to be the burgundy that will takeyou away, Your Sucha Budapest for a periwinkle-purple, Dulce de Leche the taste of sweet creamy nude, a warm red Color So Hot Berns, Alpine Snow will bring you a crisp white, the trendy taupe You Don’t Know Jacques and Up front and Personal to give your nails a golden glitter you’ll really “spark”le to!

Michael Kors Nail Polishes in Sensation and Blush

Happy New Year you all!

I just wanted to take some time and say hello to everyone of you. Its been a heck of a year for me and ever since 2016 started I am just running around, doing weird stuff, eating a lot and not really thinking much about my goals and what I'd want to accomplish this year. So I thought, may be, it would be nice to start planning for my blog first.
I feel that I should blog more regularly and include more drugstore, budget friendly products and also more natural beauty products, particularly those that are good for vegans as well. I have previously shared a lot of those and you can read my reviews on Vegan Beauty products here. My only issue is that natural products often come in simple packaging and sometimes they are so poorly packaged that the product looses its benefits very soon. Will talk about that in another post, and since I mentioned packaging -- I am sharing these gorgeous bottles of Michael Kors nail polishes, only for your viewing pleasure. The quality is worst than $7 nail polish at the drugstore, but those bottles.. OMG!

Michael Kors Nail Polishes in Sensation and Blush 

BURBERRY Limited Edition Holiday Nail Polish in Military Red 300 Review and Swatch

There is something magical about holiday products and I love collecting them. So, I had my eyes on Burberry beauty ever since I saw them on Sephora.ca and also on thebay.com and two weeks ago, The Bay had 10% off on beauty and that included Burberry as well!! 

I'm so excited to share this luxurious nail polish in the gold plaid from Burberry. They launched two shades in the holiday collection: one is a golden glittery shade called 'Gold Snow 449' and this is the second one in a creamy red called 'Military Red 300'. 

TRIND Keratin Treatment for Nails Review

Having used Trind Keratin Treatment for over 3 weeks, I wanted to share my thoughts on this duo with you guys. This treatment is designed for fragile, thin or damaged nails and since I have thin nails, I wanted to see how this could give them the strength so that they would not break when I grow them longer. Did you know, my nails break even when I try to button up my jacket!! Thats crazy, right? So did this help me in any way? Lets find out next!