the end of summer

well, summer is coming to an end. for most people this is a sad thing, but for me it's kind of exciting. fall and winter are my personal favourites.  it may have something to do with me being a red head but summer is just not my season. it does nothing for me. i physically can't tan, i sweat super easily and hate being hot (and my current home doesn't have a/c - lord have mercy) and i'm no longer living the easy life of a kid and have my summers off to play and have fun, i've gotta work the days away. this summer has been rather uneventful for me as well so theres nothing that has made me want it to go on any longer than it already has. so, as you can tell, i'm totally pumped for fall to come around!

as much as the summer has been for the most part uneventful, i did manage to have a little bit off fun. you can't go without it for too long or you'll start to go nuts! so i thought i'd give you all a little glimpse of what i did to stay sane on my limited but, relaxing and fun, days off!

 i got manicure ...or two...or 4.. (OPI roadhouse blues)

i got acquainted to the new house

i explored the new town (this is the town's annual buskerfest) 

 made some new friends

 saw some beautiful sunsets

 spent some time in the great outdoors

 caught up on a couple shows

 celebrated a birthday

 started taking music lessons again! (this is my mom making up some songs)

 took advantage of the new pool

 help a little birdie find his momma again

 hiked with some friends

 caught up with friends

went to a local farm to play with animals

 spent lovely summer evenings with family

and stopped by the CNE!

hope everyone had a safe and happy summer. :)

stay cheeky!

Favourite Summer Nail Polishes!

when i first started this blog i said that most of my posts would be on beauty, but i haven't actually talked about beauty at all! whoopsies...anyways i thought i would talk a bit about beauty by talking about some of the nail polishes i like to wear during the summer months and some that i have gotten this year and plan on wearing this summer.

so i have a confession to make...i am a nail polish-aholic. i have more nail polishes than i know what to do with. i have about 10 different shades of all the colours of the rainbow. i know that may sound a little nuts but i know there are many of us nail polish-aholics out there! right? i hope there are...anyways i think that nail polish is a lot like a mood ring! personally i wear colours that match my emotions BUT i also wear nail polish that goes with a certain outfit i'm wearing or perhaps the season it is. so, yeah, i guess that's why i have so many? haha let's get back to the nail polishes that i'm loving this summer though!

1. copper penny 932 - REVLON

i know everyone has this idea that revlon is a crappy nail polish but, it's well priced and it works well for me! it stays on long if i put a good base and top coat on (i recommend OPI) and it applies nicely. this nail polish looks amazing on tanned summer skin, i'm a redhead so i don't tan but i still think it's a fabulous summer colour. i'm not usually a fan of metallic nail polishes but i wear this one all the time during the summer and i love it!

2. jaded 320 - REVLON

if you are looking for a nice subtle pastel colour for the summer this nail polish is great. it goes nicely with almost any outfit and the green tone also looks nice with tanned skin!

3. lilacism - ESSIE

this nail polish is like a calmer version of bikini so teeny also by essie. i was given this nail polish by my best friend for my birthday and i'm obsessed with it. i love pastels, especially during the summer and much like jaded by revlon this polish also goes nicely with almost every summer outfit. it's like wearing the summer sky on your nails!

4. wicked - ESSIE

i wouldn't usually wear such a dark colour during the summer months but i almost always wear a dark colour on my toes, i think it looks nicer to have a dark colour on them! i pretty much always have this colour on my toes and it looks absolutely beautiful on both tanned and pale skin (i like it a bit better on pale skin but maybe i'm just biased ;) haha)

5. tropical guava 100 - CERAMIC GLAZE

i actually just got this nail polish this month and haven't tried it out yet because i've been giving my nails a breather from the polish. i don't know about you guys but i love neon colours for the summer. again, they look great with tanned skin and they just look so much better in the bright summer sun! i used to have neon pink by china glaze but it dried up :( so i bought this to sort of replace it.

6. fearless 640 - REVLON

i'm not a big fan of red because it makes the pink tones in my skin come out and i don't like that too much but i think red looks fab with sun kissed skin. this colour is the red i wear when i'm feeling like i need to wear a red polish. it has a bit of an orangey pink tone which i like, it makes it look a tad bit more fresh. As well as some of the other colours i mentioned i like this one because its easy to match with outfits.

7. muchi muchi - ESSIE

if you're looking for more of a subtle neutral colour for the summer i suggest this nail polish. it's really subtle but so pretty. if you're looking to have the pink tones in this polish pop a little more all that you have to do is add another layer. i wear this one all year long and its always been one of my favs!

let me know of some of the nail polishes you guys like to wear during the summer, i'd love to hear!

stay cheeky! ox

Plans

Hey CC Readers!

This week hasn't been super exciting or anything but I was lucky enough to get this week off work! So yay for that! haha. My older sister and her fiance have been waiting for their new house to be built for about 2 years now and this week it was finally supposed to be done so I took off work to help them move all their stuff in. Unfortunately, their builders kept pushing the date that they were supposed to be done, even though they had pushed the date back a year already! But, my sister wouldn't take their "we're not finished yet" as an answer and made them work their butts off to finally finish it. Last night they got everything done so today is MOVING DAY. I'm happy to have my sister living so close to me again, it's been a while since our family has all lived this close to each other, with my sister and her fiance living in a different city, and me living away at school we were always sort of far from each other. On top of that, it's my sister's fiance's birthday tomorrow as well so she wants to throw a freaking birthday party for him whilst still moving in. I guess it'll be a party amongst boxes but that's all good.  

On Sunday before I go back to work I'm getting together with my best friend and roommate who I haven't seen in a couple weeks. I'm not used to not seeing her every single day, she's basically my sister from another mister not to sound super lame. I was with her every single day from grade 7 to grade 12 and then lived with her through university, so I am honestly having separation anxiety, I don't know what to do without my partner in crime! When she's back at school next year and the year after that and I'm stuck at home working I'll probably get depressed...not for real but I'll definitely be missing her! Anyways, it'll be nice to see her again this weekend, we're going to see Despicable Me 2! What do you mean it's a kids movie.....

literally me and my best friend

What are you guys doing this week or this summer? Leave a comment I'd love to hear what y'all are up to!

Stay Cheeky!

Summer Travels

Hello CC readers!

Every summer my family and I go on a summer trip. Sometimes we just go to one place, but we often go to two just because we can't pick just one place! Last summer I was lucky enough to go to Las Vegas and then Exuma in the Bahamas. Both were awesome! Las Vegas is so weird to me, it is literally a city in the middle of the desert. Flying over the barren land to this lively and exciting place is unreal to say the least. It was easily one of the hottest place I had ever been, it wasn't humid it was dry heat, like that heat that rushes out of a hot oven except it was constant. I didn't mind it at all though, I like it hot!

our house in las vegas

My mom's boyfriend is one of those people who likes to experience everything. If there is something to do, we're doing it. He always does research to find out all the best restaurants, best scenes and places that the locals would go to but not necessarily the tourists. I love that he's like that because I feel like I always get the most out of every trip we ever go on. I never leave a place wishing I had done something. We never miss a thing. 

     

at a little restaurant (I can't for the life of me remember the name of this place!)                                                

It was an amazing place. We were only there for four days but, man, those days were packed with things to see and do. I was lucky enough to visit sin city once, but I'm even more lucky because I am going back there again this summer, and I can't wait! 

driving around red canyon park

Exuma was SO beautiful. In all of my travels I have never seen a place with such perfect, clean, clear, blue water. It was literally incredible how perfect it was. The people there were so nice and happy. Everywhere we went there were people greeting us with a friendly hello and a smile. 

the buildings were so colourful I loved it!

We stayed in Exuma for two weeks. I know it doesn't sound like too long, but I honestly felt like a local  by the time we left. I was an island girl as far as I was concerned, beach hair, freckles everywhere, and bathing suit attire all day. It was ridiculously hot here as well, but much more humid. Luckily the ocean was just a short walk from our house, and we had a nice pool, so we could cool down when the heat got too much.

our house in exuma

We went to a different beach everyday just because we could. All of them were awesome, but, tropic of cancer beach was definitely the best. It had the whitest, softest sand and the swimming/snorkelling was great. There were no rocks, or grossness (is that even a word?) underneath us while we were swimming, just perfect sand. I saw a baby octopus (I made it ink, whoops), a barracuda (scariest s*** ever), and loads of pretty fish.

my mom swimming at tropic of cancer beach

We went to a place called Stocking island which is just a small little island but it had these HUGE stingrays that came and swam around everyone who was swimming at the island. It was an amazing experience but they all still had their barb thingers at the ends of there tails which scared me a bit. You could feed them as well but my mom's boyfriend got bit and I was like "I'll pass." 

as you can see, they were quite large stingrays

They also had this really cool little restaurant/snack shack called Chat n Chill. It was cool, the roof had hundreds of t-shirts all over it and the atmosphere was literally chill. While you are there, they give you permanent markers and they said you can leave your name to let people know you were here. We are a group of 9...and we went a little buckwild. Needless to say the place was covered with our names and Canadian flags after we left haha. 

at the chat n chill

Another day we went to a restaurant called Santana's. Not only was the food ah-mah-zing, but we found out that while filming one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Johnny Depp ate there. Johnny Depp... ate there...*faints.* It also had one of the chillest dogs I've ever met, he was such a cutie. 

one of the many pictures of Johnny Depp just casually having a beer with the owner of Santana's -- she said he was one of the nicest people ever which makes me very happy

the chillest dog ever

We also went to a restaurant called Charlie's which had a great vibe as well, great music and people. But, later on in our trip my mom's boyfriend had researched this boat tour, cruise thing which looked like a lot of fun. It was kind of expensive (I think it was around $300 CA per person but I could be wrong) but it was THE MOST FUN I'VE EVER HAD. It is a full day excursion but you do so much. We got to see huge, live starfish, swam with nerf sharks (they're like babies and harmless), swam with exuma's famous swimming pigs (actually hilarious), lunch at one of the nicer yacht club's restaurants, you get to swim in an under water cave that's not really under water... it's hard to explain but it was unreal, we got to stop at Nicholas Cage's island which is COVERED in iguanas for some reason and got to feed them, and finally we visited the sand bar where Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed.

mom, a starfish and I

horrible picture but I swam with the pigs, you didn't have to but I couldn't pass up the opportunity 

they were giant

mr. iguana

We had so much fun in Exuma and I miss it, I would go back in a heartbeat. This summer my family and I were supposed to be going to Hawaii which I was stoked about but it turns out, not too many flights leave for Hawaii and our group is so large that it would be hard to get 7 seats on the same plane, so the possibilities right now are up in the air! I'm thinking Greece but we'll see ;) Anyways, I'll keep you guys updated with my travels. I'll make some posts while I'm on the trips and afterwards as well. I hope that you guys keep checking in to see what's up! Let me know if you have any suggestions of places we should visit or if you're going on any trips yourself! I'd love to hear what you guys are up too!

Til next time! 

Stay Cheeky :)