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Makeup Monday | My wedding makeup 

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wedding-day-makeupI was honoured to marry my best friend on July 31st, 2016…

🙄 blegh too much sap…

I’m not very “romantic” and roll my eyes at the ends of Disney princess movies BUT in all seriousness, I did marry someone amazing & it was one of the best days of my life.

If you’re interested in that whole story CLICK HERE (link to come)

Now, let’s get to the real reason why you are here… my makeup!!

I got my hair done by a hairdresser on my wedding day but I did do my own makeup.
I wanted something soft and simple. I already knew most of the colours and shades I was going for but had the most difficult time finding a foundation.

I went to Sephora 3x and each time it was a nightmare. I wanted a full coverage foundation to hide my acne scars and redness. I didn’t care so much about the texture, if you have acne & scarring you understand, no amount of makeup can smooth it out. The last time I went to Sephora the sales person helping me decided no other foundation would work and would not accept otherwise.
Instead she used the CoverFX cream concealer only in the lightest of shades possible. I was with one of my Husbands Aunts and we both knew I needed to give up on Sephora and go elsewhere. We thanked the salesperson for her time and left.
Luckily there was a MAC two stores over and we went immideatly inside. Looking at me like I was some crazy person inept at makeup they kindly asked “how can we help you today” immediatly without pause I blurted “please help me, Sephora just this this to me…”
With a sigh of relief from the MAC Salesperson, He took me to a chair and listened to me. We tried out two diffirent types of foundation and settled on the MAC Pro Longwear Foundation in NC20 which seemed to be almost 3 shades darker than the Cover FX one.
Theres no doubt the CoverFX has its use and Im certainly not bashing it but it was not used correctly on me. I really loved my experience at the MAC store in Calgary and would highly reccomend the staff there.

After that mild rant here is everything I used on my face:

Face

Primer
– Smashbox photo ready primer

Foundation
–MAC Pro Longwear Foundation in NC20
–Mineralize Skinfinish pressed powder in Medium plus

Contour & Highlighter
–Kat Von D Shade + Light Countour Palette

Shimmer 
–Mary-Lou Manizer 

Blush
–Rimmel Lasting Finish Colour Blush in 90 Coral 

Eyes

Lash extensions
-Apex New Westminster BC

Shadow
-Naked Basics Palette 

Liner
-e.l.f Precision liquid liner

Brows
-e.l.f Eyebrow kit

Lips
-NARS Satin Lip Pencil in Rikugien

Take all of that mix it all together and you have this… click the picture to send you off to the Video tutorial.
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HALLOWEEN | Masquerade

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My second favourite time of year is upon us – Halloween!
I love dressing up and going all out. Since I started youtube I have done a few halloween looks every year. I put together a playlist of all the looks I’ve done over the years in this fancy playlist for you. to watch them all you have to do it —>Click Me<—
For my first look of 2015 I came up with this witch like masquerade mask. As promised in the video, this is the place for a list of the exact products I used. Most of these are staples and you’ll see me use them often in my videos. [Read more…]

Taylor Swift Inspired Hair Routine + Bad Salon experience

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Taylor and Sarah
For my birthday I decided to treat myself for a haircut. I originally went to this new place by my house. Price was good and it was so convenient for me so I went in. I’m a trained hairdresser and have not had the ‘real’ salon experience in over 7 years. Going in I decided not to share this detail about myself in case it made her nervous. [Read more…]

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix & Peppermint Marshmallows

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I absolutely love making things from scratch. When My boyfriend, Matt, and I were living our year without plastic (single use disposables & packaging) we had to make a lot of things from scratch. It’s such an adventure trying to figure out ways to do things. Sometimes you’d be surprised at how easy most things are to do from scratch.
That being said, Matt and I had to create all these christmas gifts for our family and friends sans plastic. This hot chocolate & Marshmallow duo quickly became popular as it was fairly easy and very impressive.

Hot Chocolate Mix
by Alton Brown
Click here for the original recipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Ik_rnrcu0
Peppermint Marshmallows
by Martha Stewart
Click here for original  recipe

Just Peachy!

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Summer! I love summer. The heat, the sun, the colours…I love it all.
Sitting in the park behind our apartment one day I was thinking of what videos I should do over the summer. All I could think of was the usual makeup looks or DIY projects but I wanted to put together a cohesive collection so to speak. As I’m eating my freshly cut homemade fruit salad it dawned on me…Fruit Salad!! AH!
My summer series will be inspired by fruit salad! At this point thoughts and ideas came rushing to me. I decided to narrow it down to my favorite fruits. (just) Peachy, Strawberry (fields), Grape (gorgeous), and to throw a spin-Pink Lemonade.

Ive already filmed and uploaded my Just Peachy portion of my fruit salad summer series. It was fun coming up with different looks and tutorials inspired by peaches.
My first video was DIY Kool-Aid lip gloss. I had seen this on pinterest a number of times and thought the idea was so cool. unfortunately I could not find peach kool-aid brand so I used the generic walmart brand. I found it worked very well 🙂
Check out the video to see for yourself…

The next video was my makeup tutorial. I pulled out my BH Cosmetics palette and went to town swatching and choosing. I really love  this palette and I find I can always rely on it for any colour I could possibly want.Click here to read more about it:120 Color Eyeshadow Palette 2nd Edition
As for the Peachy make up look check out the video. I used peach, brown and yellow to bring the look together and emulate all the colours on a perfectly ripe peach

With this series I decided to challenge myself with easy nail art. I’m not the best with nails but really wanted to test out some ideas I had floating in my brain. With this nail tutorial I tried a duo colour ombre technique with orange and yellow. I then used a sharpie, again I’m a lazy newbie, to try and emulate the shape that a peach gets. I found it was a stretch, what do you think?

So I have left only enough vidspace for 3 videos per fruit so the nail + OOTD was my last Just Peachy! inspired.
I am in the process of working on my Strawberry fields and Grape Gorgeous videos now. I’ll keep you posted on all of that fun once I get it all uploaded.

What are your favorite summer fruits?

Golden Neutral Date Night Makeup Tutorial

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photoMatt (My Boyfriend) and I decided to have a date night on Friday night. One of my birthday presents was a gift certificate to Earls so we decided to go a little fancier and try it out. It was a really nice night. I had the chicken brie sandwich with fig jam and Matt had the kung pow chicken rice bowl.
Since it was a little bit fancier than we usually go I decided to try out a golden neutral eye using my fave BH cosmetics palette.
Here is my tutorial on how to do it 🙂 I’m proud I got it all in in under 5 minutes.

Click The picture for more information on the products used in the video

DIY Painted Wall Art

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My Pinterest vision turned reality when I found these two blank canvasses in the apartment. I used tape and three colours to make a geometrical pattern. I posted on instagram (@SimplySarahxoxo) and everyone loved it and wanted to know how. I decided to add two small canvasses to make the ‘L’ shaped canvas into a square and film a DIY how to video.
Here it is 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYDM7iXOVps&feature=youtu.be

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