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Friday, 13 September 2013

l'oreal true match foundation review and life update

hello my cheeky chatters!

my, it feels as though it has been forever and a day since i have made a post. i wish i could say it was because i'm too busy with stuff in my life lately but i really don't have any excuse as to why i haven't posted in so long. anyways i've missed y'all!

now that i am finished with university and supposed to be starting my "grown up" life i feel overwhelmed by the pressure to get myself a good paying full time job, get a boyfriend/husband, and start a family. maybe i'm getting a little ahead of my self but i'm not one to stay relaxed and let all the pieces fall where they may. i am also being pestered by a mother who got married at 19, had her first baby at 22 and had two more by 26, to get my life going. most 21 year olds aren't thinking about having babies just yet but i've always wanted kids in my early twenties as well so that i'm not too much older than my children haha. i'm a tad nuts aren't i? i digress. yesterday i dropped off a few resumes at some local restaurants as i am looking for a waitressing job and while doing so i had the pleasure of meeting one of the restaurants manager's. he was very nice but leave it to awkward me to make an otherwise normal conversation into an uncomfortable one. when he first came over to me he had his one hand out, as if he was going to shake my hand, but i had my resume in my shaking hand. so as i went to put my resume into my other hand, it looked like he was going for my resume so then i got flustered and went to hand him it but then he went in for a handshake again! ugh. it was just awkward, but i guess that was on both our parts haha. i hope i hear back from them in the next couple of days, but if i don't, i'll know why! *hangs head in awkward shame*

let's get to the l'oreal true match foundation review shall we?

I hardly ever wear loads of make up and i was always a little hesitant to buy a foundation because i was fearful of it being too heavy and giving me the dreaded cake face. but i was watching one of BeyondBeautyStar's youtube videos called Watch Me Get Ready (video below) and she used l'oreal's true match foundation. it looked like it went on really nicely, it looked light and most importantly it looked natural!

so after watching this and seeing how good it looked on Claudia i went out and bought it, in a much lighter shade though because i'm as white as a piece of paper. my first impression of it was "wow, this looks too dark for me" (i got it in porcelain W1). but, surprisingly it went on very light in colour, light in weight, and made my skin look absolutely perfect. it stays on all day and you can't feel it on your skin at all. overall, i was very impressed with it and would encourage anyone looking for a light, natural looking foundation to try it!

stay cheeky!

Sunday, 1 September 2013

small charlotte russe haul

while i was in las vegas my mom and her boyfriend's daughters, my sister and i decided to do a little shopping. we went to a store called charlotte russe which i had never heard of before. maybe i just live under a rock, but they don't have them where i am from. it reminded me very much of a forever 21, lots of styles, clothes, colours and all for reasonable prices.

i only picked up three things but here they are!

(from left to right)

taupe coloured knitted hat - $7.99 US

black and white crop top - $9.99 US

neon orangey pink tank - $17.99 US

stay cheeky!

past travels part 3!

i'm back everyone!

although i have called this post "past travel part 3," the trips that i would be talking about in this post, i have already talked about with you guys (exuma and las vegas) as well as Spain but i thought i'd spare you from the boredom. so i thought that i would use this post to tell you guys why i'm boring you all with these stories of the trips i've taken in the past.

my intention with these posts was not to brag or tell you about all the things you are missing out on, but instead i was hoping to encourage you to travel. you will never find anything more exillerating and satisfying than trying new things in new places, seeing new faces and living a different way of life - even for just a little bit!

the world you live in is so much more amazing than you can even imagine, why not explore it? i just got home from arizona last night, after staying in las vegas for a week prior to that and during the drive home from the airport i looked around at the city i have been living in for my whole life and i realized just how, well, boring it is! of course there is no place like home, but i've come to realize that there are so many interesting places surrounding me that need to be explored!

my family and i stayed in sedona, arizona for the past week and i can honestly say that i have never visited such a beautiful place before in my life. everywhere you look there are these amazing burnt red mountains encircling you. whilst in arizona, we visited a place near our rental home called the devil's bridge. i thought this was just an interesting name for a trail, but i later found out why it was named so. this "hike" was much longer than we had anticipated and you could say we were a tad ill-prepared. with no water, no sunscreen and blistering heat, i'm pretty sure we all thought we were going to pass out and fry up under the sun. but after about 2 hours of walking (yes 2 hours!) we reached the end of the hike and made it to the devil's bridge, which a number of fellow hikers who passed us by had told us we "had to see!" i then realized why this trail was named devil's bridge.

when we got there i was totally blown away, all that walking and thinking that i was about to die was completely off my mind and worth it after seeing the view. i turned around to my mom and said 'isn't it amazing that we could've gone on living our lives at home, never have come on this trip and had no idea that this place was even here?" it was breath-taking.

all in all, you'll never know what's out there if you don't go out and look for it! travelling is truly eye opening.

hope everyone had a wonderful last two weeks and is ready for the month of september!

stay cheeky :)

Friday, 16 August 2013

past travels part 2!

so let's pick up where i left off.

when i was in grade 10 (around 15 years old) i had the opportunity to go to europe with a few friends of mine. it was organized through our school but it wasn't like a normal school trip. the teachers that came along didn't really chaperone us, they just came along to be there in case any of us needed an adult. we had lots of freedom to go and do what we wanted which was great. this was the first time i was going on a trip without my parents and it was to a crazy and far away place, excited doesn't even begin to explain what i was feeling before i left. i was so young that i was almost too daft to be scared about it. i mean i was going to friggen FRANCE AND SPAIN! the flight to Paris was 9 hours and felt like an eternity. i tried to sleep but failed miserably. it was sort of a disaster when we got there because of the time difference and everything our tour guide decided it would be best it we just stayed up for the whole day and went on our first few excersions. if i remember correctly i was up a total of 40 something hours, you could say we were dead. i actually started to go a little bit insane during that day, i felt as though i had been drugged and still to this day believe that haha. but i was told it was exhaustion which i guess makes a bit more sense. i don't know why it affects me more than most people, but it does. we visited so many places in Paris, like Versailles, Museum de Rodan, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triumph and of course the Eiffel Tower. we went to a few other places in France, like orange (pronounced or-rawn-sh) and nice (pronounced like niece).

my friends and i went a little wild and tried to do and see everything we could in between going to the museums and such, that we actually got lost in France at one point! we had an hour break to do whatever we wanted and we separated from our group (the group of students from our school, our chaperones, and tour guide). we had absolutely no. freaking. idea. where we were, and to top it off none of us to speak french. just the odd word here and there is all that we could speak. luckily my one friend had a map and knew where our group was headed to after our break was finished. but, unfortunately we were in a very quiet part of what ever town we were in, there were no people to try and ask directions to! we found a woman after about half an hour of wandering around and tried saying how do we get here? to her in french and then attempted to piece together the few french words we knew that were coming flying out of her mouth a million miles a minute. we thought we were doomed. my one friend knew that she told us to take a right at the end of the street we were on and to turn left after passing a certain shop. so we tried doing just that. but our group was no where to be found. at this point we had a serious conversation as to what we were going to do, seeing as we were lost at large. i was starting to get that nervous tummy ache because it was getting kind of scary, it had been two or more hours and we had no idea where we were or how to find our way back to our group seeing as they were constantly moving from place to place and potentially moving farther and farther away from where we were. this is when the luckiest moment of my life happened, our group appeared out of seemingly no where across the street from us. so, of course, we ran over as happy as can be screaming OH MY GOD WHERE WERE YOU GUYS!? OH MY GOD! this is also the moment we realized they had no clue we were even missing! all three chaperones started to laugh saying that they had done numerous head count and some how managed to miss count FOUR MISSING HEADS everytime. how does that even happen? real reassuring eh? anyways once we were with our group again we stayed pretty close for the rest of the day, until the next day when we went crazy and wandered again, we didn't get lost on the trip ever again though! haha. but a few days later we went for a night walk up this chapel in Paris, it was gorgeous and especially beautiful at night! after the walk we went in to this little town and walked around there and got some mcflurries (we were so surprised they had mcdonald's in france but i guess there's no reason there wouldn't be since they're everywhere) and then we walked through the town and watched people on the merry-go-rounds and all the passers by. this is when i almost got kidnapped. i was approached by a sort of scary man who asked me directions to somewhere, which is when i told him i didn't speak french and couldn't help him and began walking away. as i started to walk away he grabbed the strap of my backpack and pulled me back to him, i screamed and my friend ran over to my rescue, karate chopped his arm, and then we both ran. it scared the beegeebies out of me! but other than getting lost and almost getting kidnapped, France was an absolute blast. i'm going back there for sure.

stay tuned for part 3 where i talk about Espana!

stay cheeky!

Monday, 12 August 2013

past travels part 1!

hey everyone!

i promised that i would make a post about my past travels a few days ago, and to be honest, i forgot to post the first part, so my apologies! i've just been a little busy the past couple of days, so here you have it.

as you all know, i have a habit of rambling on and on and making my posts much longer than they possibly could've been, so i am going to try my hardest to keep this post short and sweet.

i thought since i have talked a bit about my past travels and travels to come that i would talk about all my past travels. i have been very lucky and have travelled to a number of awesome places. travelling is awesome and i love it, but i must admit i am a horrible traveller. the whole process of getting to the place we're travelling too, the waiting in the airports, flights, adjusting to the time changes, all that jazz, turns me into an extremely grumpy bunny. i don't do it on purpose i swear! i just don't function very well on lack of sleep, and that seems to be a thing you have to be able to deal with while travelling. but, aside from that, once i have adjusted to everything, i am extremely excited and ready for adventure!

so, let's start from the beginning shall we?

my very first travelling experience was in the 6th grade (age 11 or 12) and it was to New York. i was unbelievably excited as i had never really been anywhere other than up to Muskoka to visit my cottage. since we live pretty close, my parents decided it was probably easiest to just drive there. if i remember correctly it felt like the longest drive ever. my sisters and i were on the verge of killing each other from being in such close vicinity for so long and my parents wanted to kill us for being so annoying. once we got to our hotel, which was actually in New Jersey we were quick to throw our bags in our room and jump on the ferry that would bring us over to New York City. it was like nothing i had ever seen before, people were so...well...crazy! everyone was so themselves! that is the only way i can describe it, they weren't like the "cookie cutter" people i would describe where i come from. nobody there cared what anyone thought. i loved that about it, it was so free. also the shopping there, absolutely unreal. the stores were huge and sold everything you could ever imagine. i was so young that i only bought stupid things like stuffed animals but it was still an awesome experience just walking through the stores and feeling the atmosphere. we visited time square, the place where John Lennon was shot (sad i know), and spent one day in central park. sadly i can't find one single picture from the trip to show you guys!! i'm always the photographer on trips but i wasn't really into taking pictures back then so whatever few pictures that were taken are m.i.a. right now.

the second trip i ever went on was to Florida when i was 13, we drove there also. yeah, that trip to New York which felt like the longest drive ever didn't even come close to the length of the drive it took to get to Florida. that was by far THE LONGEST i have ever been stuck in a car with my family, i mean i love them and all but i hope i never have to be trapped in a car that long with them or anyone for that matter ever again haha. it was the first trip to a warm place i had ever been though and i loved it. except that it made my freckles come out like they never had before haha! our next couple of family trips were to Florida as well. i've been there a total of 3 times (2007, 08 and 09). all were great but the last time i went, we got to go to DisneyWorld and i felt as though my life was complete after that.

Tampa, Florida 2007

Orlando, Florida 2008

Orlando, Florida 2009 pictures i cannot find :$

in 2008 i also went to Cuba for the first time with my cousins, and thankfully this time we flew. we went to Cayo Coco, Cuba and the resort was awesome. the beach was close and there were plenty of places to just sit and relax. this was the first tropical place i had ever travelled to and i thought it was pretty cool being on an island. i'm really close with my cousins, they're basically my siblings we all grew up together and even lived together for a little when we were younger, so it was especially fun to have them on the trip with us.

me and two of my cousins

as much as i loved cuba, i got the worst sunburn there and was a lobster most of the trip.

lobster me

after travelling to all these wonderful places i was bitten by a bug...the travel bug muahaha. i got urges to go to places that i never really thought about before, places much further than New York, Florida or Cuba. but you'll have to wait until part 2 to hear about that!

thanks for reading

and

stay cheeky!

Friday, 9 August 2013

food times

happy friday everyone!

so, last night my family and i went to an awesome little place near my house called Fazari's. it's an italian restaurant and although they are small size-speaking, they have so many foods on their menu it's insane. i went the non-adventurous route and just got a calzone with double cheese, green olives and pepperoni. IT WAS UNREAL. by far the best calzone i've ever had. it was the size of my head (maybe bigger) and surprisingly only $10!

the restaurant itself is small, as i mentioned before, so they call it a "take-out restaurant" where you can only get the food to go. no sit-in eating because honestly there was just no space! this was no problemo for us though, there was a beautiful park near by and it was a nice evening so we decided to grab a picnic bench and feast there.

back to the restaurant's location though. it's right in the middle of this residential area which i thought was a little odd, but since the homes in that area are neat old houses it didn't look too out of place! the houses surrounding all had their original stone walls, they're were sick. i love old houses, they have so much character.