Farewell 2011!

OMG! I can't believe it's the last day of the year! 2011, like so many years, has had its ups, and its downs, but it has been a great year all around!

For the past 5 months I have had a wonderul time blogging, making wonderful friends, and learning new things from reading your wonderful beauty blogs! My good friend Ariel was the one who got me into blogging, and I am soo happy that I made a blog! Thanks Ariel! ♥

I would like to give a shout out to some bloggers that I have felt that these lovely girls have become good friends!

Ariel (chiclookxo.blogspot.com)
Chloe (http://www.thebeautycorner.co.uk/)
Jenn (imperfection-isbeauty.com )
Kim (sassyuptownchic.blogspot.com )
Gabby ( littlemisshopoholic.blogspot.com)

It was great to get to know you girls, and if you havnt before, check out their blogs! I love reading them :)

I would like to quickly show you my nails for tonight, and the top that I am planning on wearing:

Polish is Godess my L.A. Colors...my current fav color!

This shirt is crazzzyyy sparkly! Here is an up close view for you girls to see:

I want to wish you a happy happy happy new year! I hope it will be filled with love, health and happiness!

I love you all and have an amazing night!!

What I Got For Christmas!

Hey Girls!

Sorry for the lack of posts so far this Christmas break! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas! I had a a great Christmas filled with lots of love and laughs with my family and friends.

I thought, since alot of other beauty bloggers posted about what they got for Christmas, I would do the same. So in this post I will show what I got for Christmas! :)

 

I thought that I would just post pictures about what I got instead of describing everything. If anyone has questions on what brand something is, or would like me to review or describe something, just comment below and I would be more than happy to do it! :)

 

From my Parents:

My Stocking that my Mom made
 for me when I was little!

From my Grandma:

 

My favorite shirt!

 

 

 

From my Aunt, Uncle, && Cousins:

The complete second season!

From my friend Kylie:

 

Lastly, From my manager at work:

 

 

So there you go! That is everything I got this Christmas! I'm SOOOO thankful to everyone for everything I got this Christmas, I hope you've all had a fantastic Christmas time!

Christmas is just about here!

Hey ladies!
Today is Christmas Eve, I cant believe it! I dont know about you, but for me it still doesnt feel like Christmas! :( It could be the fact that this year Canada has hardly any snow. It is really wierd seeing grass and not wearing a winter coat when usually it is almost 30 below!
Since Christmas is tomorrow, tonight I did my nails (after triming most of them...), and for a Christmas theme, I added Santa to my art! I made cute Santa faces on all of my nails.

Do you think they are cute??

I just want to wish a Merry Christmas to all my wonderful followers! Your comments and love means sooo much to me! Have a wonderful day tomorrow, and Happy Holidays! ♥

Versatile Blogger award

Hey Girls!

Ariel from http://chiclookxo.blogspot.com/ and Gazzy from http://missbeautylicious101.blogspot.com/ awarded me with the Versatile Blogger Award! Thank you so much girls, it means a lot! :) If you do not follow these great beauty blog, make sure to check them out!

So here are the rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and give them a shout out on your blog with a link to their blog.

2. Share 7 random facts about yourself.

3. Send on the award to bloggers whose blogs that you appreciate and then let them know that they have won the award.

7 random facts:

• My favorite music artist is Michael Jackson.
• One of my favourite T.V. show is Glee.
• I have a younger sister, who is 2 years younger than me, and a brother who is 6 and 1/2 years younger.
• During this Easter break, I am going to France & Italy for 10 days!
• I have been a vegetarian for almost a year now.
• I love to stay out late, but I hate being tired the next day! Haha.
• I can’t believe that Christmas is tomorrow!!

Here are the lovelies I awarded this to:

Chloe (thebeautycorner.co.uk/)

Ariel (chiclookxo.blogspot.com)

Hannah (life-sparkles.blogspot.com/)

Jenn (imperfection-isbeauty.com)

Kim (sassyuptownchic.blogspot.com)

Gaby  (http://www.modacapitalblog.com/ )

Gabby (littlemisshopoholic.blogspot.com)

Thanks again girls! :)

DIY: Hot Cocoa

Hey everyone, and a early Merry Christmas!
It is crazy how fast Christmas is coming! I am super happy that I was able to get the last of my families Christmas presents today :)


Lately I have been making this Hot Cocoa instead of Hot Chocolate, and I have to say that I am loving it! It isnt as sweet as Hot Chocolate, but it is a great recipe and is less than 100 calories!

What you will need:
1 Tablespoons of Unsweetened Cocoa
1 Tablespoons of White Sugar
1 Tablespoons of Milk (and percentage: Skim, 1%, ect..)
1 Cup (250 mL) Boiling Water (or heated milk)

How to make it:

1. Blend 1 tablespoon (15mL) of Unsweetened Cocoa with 1 tablespoon (or more, depending on how sweet you would like it) of White Sugar. While you are doing this, start boiling 1.5 cups of water. (I always like to boil more water than needed just in case ^.^ )
2. Mix in 1 tablespoon of cold milk, and mix until smooth. This may take a few minutes.
3. Once your water has boilied, pour in 1 cup of boiling water. You can also use milk, I just perfer to use water
4. If you would like, go ahead and add some marshmellows, whipped cream, and cherries! (I usually dont, but hey maybe you do! :) )

 This is a great winter treat! Especially for cold days!


Nutrition Info:
1 Tablespoons of Unsweetened Cocoa: ~10 calories
1 Tablespoons of White Sugar: ~ 30 calories
1 Tablespoons of Milk (Skim): ~ 5-10 calories
1 Cup (250 mL) Boiling Water: 0 calories
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                                                        ~ 50 calories


Wow! Only 50 calories for Hot Cocoa! Not only is this fun to make yourself, but it has way less calories than packaged hot chocolate :)
If you do uses 1 cup of milk, or more sugar, the calories will increase.

If you try out this recipe, let me know if you like it!!
Have a wonderful week, and Happy Holidays! ♡

ELF Haul!

Hey girls!

If you follow me on twitter, you will have seen that late last week the items my friend and I ordered from ELF came in the mail! The shipping to Canada did take awhile - about 4 weeks I think. I wasnt very impressed with the speed of the shipping, but I am glad that the makeup finally came in!

As many of you probably know, ELF items are very cheap! The most expensive thing I got was an eye shadow palette with 100 colors for only $10! That is a super cheap price!

Items Purchased:

☃  Studio Cream Eyeliner : Black

☃  Studio Angled Eyeliner Brush

☃  Essential Eyelid Primer

☃  Essential All Over Cover Stick : Toasted, Pink Lemonade

☃  Essential Brightening Eye Color: Ocean Dreams, Silver Lining

☃  Studio Pigment Eyeshadow : Tropical Teal, Golden Goddess

☃  Studio Endless Eyes Pro Eyeshadow Palette (100 colors)

☃  Studio Shimmer Palette

☃  Essential Nail Polishes: Blush, Purple Dream, Red Velvet, Dessert Haze, Berry Pink

What do you think of ELF products? Are they on your hit list?

Candy Canes To Christmas!

Hey Girls! Christmas is soon approaching, and I am getting into the Christmas season more and more every day! Tonight I did candy canes and snowmen on my nails for this week's NOTW! I think they are so cute :)

What do you think?...

I filed all my nails down! :(

How cute is this snowman!?

I don't have all the nail polish colors with me right now, but I used a red color by Maybelline New York, and applied Red Velvet by E.L.F. over that. I used my nail art brush with some white polish to draw on the candy cane lines and the snowman! I used a black to detail the snowman. Once I finish that I used Sassy Sparkle by L.A. Colors to add sparkle to the snoman nail. After that I applied my top coat and thats it!

Have a great week! xox,

OOTN ~ Winter Formal ♡

Hey girls! I have a really exciting post tonight! On monday night, our senior class  at my school had our Winter Formal dinner and dance. I've been planning on doing this post to show you girls my makeup, nails, dress, and especially my heels!
I will also include some pics of the fun and memorable night with all of my friends! :) ♡

Makeup
The dress that I wore was black with silver gems on it, so I chose to do my makeup as a silver smokey eye.

I used a white cream base and applied it all over my lid. After I applied Rimmel London's shadow in Silver Moonlight all over my lid. For the outer "v" I packed on Chocolate by Joe Fresh. After blending the two colors together, I applied NYC's Liquid Eyeliner on the top of my lid as well as on my bottom lashes. I also used Annabelle's Kohl eyeliner to make the look even more dramatic.  After the eyeliner, I applied a generous amount of mascara.

Nails

I decided to do something simple but very pretty for my nails. I used Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails in Ice and used Simply Strawberry also by Sally Hansen to side swipe the pink on my nails and used Sassy Sparkle by L.A. Colors to add sparkle to the side swipe. I used L.A. Colors Silver Glitter Striper to add a sparkled stripe. 

Dress:
This dress is a hard one to explain the detailing on it, but one thing that is easy to say about it is that it is black lol. Here are some pics:

Heels

The heels that I wore are absolutely amazing! I know when I saw them that they were the ones for me. However, they were 5.5 inches and by then end of the night my feel hurt so much and the next day my calf's also hurt so much from them!

For some more pictures from this night...