My Makeup Collection

Hi everyone, hope you are doing well! It has been a long time since I got on here and wrote a blog post. As you can tell from the title this is my makeup collection blog post. You will soon be able to tell that I have a lot of makeup. This collection has been growing over the past few years. This is an accumulation of gifts and my own personal purchases. Hope you enjoy looking through my stash, comment down below if you have any post requests. 

The clear stacked drawers are from Costco and the wider ones on the bottom are from Home Sense. These work perfectly to fit all the thing I want to use for everyday. 

I found this rotating brush/pencil holder at Home Sense. The get a lot of great things there, but you have to be willing to hunt around a little.

Ikea Helmer Drawer Unit

These drawers are perfect for me! It fits so well right between my desk and the wall. And they are deep enough to hold small trays and organizers. 

A surprisingly good mascara is the Great Lash Waterproof Mascara, I was able to get in on sale at Walmart with a coupon for $3.00. Which I personally think is a fantastic deal for a mascara. It works great to separate the lashes and lengthen.

I love my Naked Basics Palette, it is a great neutral eyeshadow palette but I use the darker brown to fill in my brows everyday.

As you can see I love Nars blush, I have been able to score a tiny sample size, receive one as a gift, and find another at Winners. They are expensive but these are some of the best!

Benefits Hoola Matte Bronzer is still one of my favourites! It is such a great colour for my fair skin tone. 

The Maybelline Fit Me Concealer is my favourite concealer. If you like the Nars creamy concealer I am sure you will like this one as well. It is a great concealer and I find it does not crease on my dry skin.

This drawer is filled with my favourite lipsticks. I have to say that one of my favourite lipsticks is one from Dollar Tree. It is the lipstick in the white packaging L.A. Colours it smells like a MAC lipstick (they smell like vanilla). The lipstick is very pigmented and are very creamy, I would highly recommend. 

Lorac Pro Palette would have to be my favourite ten in this drawer it is such a versatile palette. It has a shimmer row and a matte row and the shadows are very smooth. 

This is my random lipstick drawer, Starting from the left I have nude lipstick, other colours, and then glosses. These containers are from the Dollar Tree and they are perfect for these drawers. I still could fit two more in the back. 

I love the Vitamin E Face Mist from The Body Shop. I have quite dry skin and this is perfect for setting my makeup. It is really hydrating and gives my skin so much glow. I do have to say my skin is dry but I do need to blot with a blotting tissue on my forehead, nose, and chin after using this spray. So I would not recommend this for all skin types but it is a nice spray just to have on hand as a quick moisturizer. 

This is a random drawer where I just keep so miscellaneous items that I do not use on a daily basis. 

This is a truly random drawer I keep random things that are not necessarily makeup related.

These are some spare reusable clothes I use to wipe my hands, brushes, and dry my Beauty Blender. They are great to have on hand and better than uses Kleenex all the time. 

And here is a final overview of my set up. Hope you enjoyed reading and seeing what I have in my collection. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog! 

-Ashley

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @makeupcuisine.

All photos taken with my Canon T5i.

Business enquiries email me at makeupcuisine@hotmail.com.

My Last Birch Box - Canada

Hi everyone, long time no post. Hope you are doing well! School has been crazy that is why this post is so late. I am sad to say this is my last Birchbox, read to the end to see why. 

Temple Spa La La Lagoon Aromatic Bath & Shower Gel
This smells really good, it is quite a medicinal scent, which I love for a bath.

CLEAN White Woods – 2.14 oz
This smells really nice, but I find it wears off way to quickly, and I hate the packaging of these samples. I ended dumping this sample all over my desk. 

Arrow Boost Colour Enhancing Lip Balm
This is a good lip balm, I love the fact that it adds a little bit of colour to my lips. You can kind of see in my swatch the pick hue it adds. 

Naobay Oxygenating Cream Moisturizer
This moisturizer is average to me, I find it does not do anything special for my skin. 

Obliphica Professional Seaberry Serum – Fine to Medium
This is really nice for my hair, it adds volume to my hair. I put it in my damp hair then blow-dry and it gives a lot of volume and texture to my hair. 

I am very sad to say this is my last Birchbox because the Birchbox Canada website is shutting down. I am disappointed that I was only able to receive two Birchboxes. This Birchbox site is closing because of the exchange rate and the cost of shipping. It sounds as though it may be a possibility if that they will re-open if the dollar improves, I hope this is true. Until then it was fun Brichbox, and I am sorry to see you go! 

Thanks for reading! 

-Ashley 

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @makeupcuisine.

All photos taken with my Canon T5i.

Business enquiries email me at makeupcuisine@hotmail.com.

Beauty Haul

Hello everyone, hope your weekend was well! I have a small beauty haul for you, these are some products I have picked up in the past couple of weeks. 

Nars Dual Intensity Blush: This was a great find at Winners, I was able to pick it up for $20, when it is always sold for $56 CAD at Sephora. I was very excited to find such a great discount. This blush is great because it in two blushes in one, you can also swirl the two together to create a third colour. I love the copper colour the most; both blushes have a nice sheen.

NYX Wonder Stick: I have been looking at purchasing this for awhile, and I am glad I decided to pick it up. I really like the contour colour. The highlighting colour I do not use often, because I find it can emphasize the texture of my skin. I think this would work well for someone who has really clear skin.

E.L.F. Smudge Pot Cream Eyeshadow: These are great for the price, I paid $4 for each of them. They are very pigmented and smooth. I love cream shadows because they are so easy to slap on, they are especially great in the summer.

Thanks for reading! 

-Ashley

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @makeupcuisine.

All photos taken with my Canon T5i.

Business enquiries email me at makeupcuisine@hotmail.com.

Birchbox Canada--January 2016

Hi everyone! Hope you week was well. This is my first  Birchbox unboxing on my blog, there will be one every month. There will now be a lot of text considering I did not get to type a post on Wednesday, sorry if there is an excess amount of information. Here we go!

This was my first Birchbox, I was searching for a beauty subscription service to join. I actually signed up for Ipsy, but I ended up cancelling it before I got my first bag. I watched many Youtube videos comparing Ipsy and Birchbox, and almost every video I watched, Birchbox would be the winner. Another main factor was the fact Ipsy was in USD, I live in Canada and the exchange rate if very poor. So an Ipsy bag would cost me around $20+. I thought it was way too much to pay for samples. Birchbox is great because they have a Canadian site, which is in Canadian dollars. It is $14.95 a month that includes shipping, and you receive 5 samples a month. It is great because you can cancel anytime and you will not be charged for cancelling. 

Just a little bit about Birchbox before we get on with the post. Birchbox is a skincare, haircare, beauty, subscription service. When you sign up you fill out a profile to make sure you are getting products tailored to your hair and skin type. You can also specify that you only want a few perfume samples a year, I know people don't want to have that in their box every month. I am one of those people. 

Birchbox is also great because every month if you review your 5 samples you get 50 points, and once you have earned 100 points it is redeemed for $10. It is great because after two months you have $10 to spend on their site. You can also earn points by purchasing items on their site. Each $1 sent equals 1 point. 

I am excited to continue writing these posts. Let's get into what I got this month!

These stickers are for personalizing the front of you box, saying what you would like 2016 to be. 

This card tells you what is in your box, and extra information. The prices are for the full size product, not the samples in your box, unless you did receive a full size, of course. 

The contents of my box. 

Dr. Jart+ Water Fuse Water-Full Hydrogel Mask

When I opened this box I was excited to see that this mask had a $25 value! I was quite happy, because it is the value of my box and then some. I use this mask the other day when I was sick, and it was quite nice. They recommend you place it in the refrigerator, so I did, and it was awesome! I will start putting all my sheet masks in the fridge. It was so soothing and relaxing. This mask claims to be a hydrating mask, but I found it did not live up to its claims. It was slightly hydrating, but not as much as I expected it to be. I really like the gel texture of it, but I would not say this mask was worth purchasing for $25. 

Number 4™ Super Comb Prep & Protect

This is a leave in conditioner that also protects your hair from UV rays. I used this only once so far and it was nice. It smells really good, and I felt my hair did feel really nice once dry. But I would make note that you do not want to spray this in your roots if your hair is on the oily side like me. I found that my hair got oily quicker than usual. This is a great product for the ends of your hair. 

Whish Three Whishes Body Butter

I received mine in the Lavender scent and it is incredible! It smells so good. This scent is not on the site right now, I'm assuming that it is just sold out, because it was on the site a week ago. It is such  nice scent, but I find the body butter is average. The feel is like many others, so I would have a hard time spending $26 on a body butter. 

Too Cool For School DINOPLATZ HIGHLIGHTER

As you can see from the swatch below this is a beautiful highlight colour. The shade I received is Baby Pink Clam. I love the rose gold tone to it. For a liquid highlighter it lasts a long time on the skin. I probably won't be buying this anytime soon, but maybe in the future when I have used up my other liquid highlighters. 

TONYMOLY Delight Tony Tint

I have been wanting to try a lip stain for a long time. But I could not find one that was affordable. I was very excited to see this in my box. It is a very pigmented lip stain, but I find you can also pat it on with your finger for a lighter stain. The full size is only $6, which I think it fair price for a lip stain. There is quite a bit of product in this sample, so purchasing a full size will not be necessary anytime soon.  

Thanks for reading! Have a good week and I will talk to you Wednesday. 

-Ashley 

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @makeupcuisine.

All photos taken with my Canon T5i.

Business enquiries email me at makeupcuisine@hotmail.com.