January Favorites

These are some of my favorite items from January that I fell in love with, so I thought I'd share them with you. PS. If you have a favorites post this month leave a link to your post in the comments!

1. My Michael Kors Rose Gold Glitz Chronograph watch. My sweet boyfriend got me this for Christmas this year. I had been lusting after this watch for almost a year and I am so grateful for it. It's my first "Nice" watch, and I'm in love with it. I wear it almost every second of the day.
2. Benefit Some Kind-A Gorgeous Foundation Faker. this was a mid January buy, but it's on it's way to becoming a holy grail product. By far the most amazing cream foundation I've ever tried.
3. Bath And Body Works Anti Bacterial moisturizing hand soap in "Sparkling Snow" I really wish this wasn't a holiday edition soap because the smell is amazing! It smells like soft berries with tiny hints of jasmine. Truly a scent I'd love all year round. I scored this in there boxing day sale and I really wish I'd gotten a few more. oh well. Now I know what to stock up on next year. oh my gosh! they better bring this back next year!!
4. Jay Ashers novel "13 Reasons Why". I'm just about finished this book and I can't believe how attached I am. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a long time. Enjoy might not be the right word, it's actually a sad story but it's written so well and the characters are very believable. Although I'm not quite finished, I still say I highly recommend this book.
5. NYX jumbo eye pencil in "milk". I love Nyx jumbo pencils but this month I've rediscovered why I love "milk" so much. It's the perfect base for most eye shadows to enhance their color without changing it.
6. My leopard scarf from Dynamite .  I love animal print, but I always feel hesitant to wear it because of how easily it can come off as tacky, but when I saw this scarf I fell head over heels. I find it more classy than trashy.

-StayFabulous

Benefit - Some Kind-A Gorgeous -The Foundation Faker

Benefit Some Kind-A Gorgeous

9.5 g / o.34 oz
$36 CDN

Last night I caved. I went and bought the full size Some Kind-A Gorgeous Foundation Faker by Benefit. I got a sample just over a week ago and I've been loving it so much I had..no NEEDED to get the full size container. It's been a long time since I've fallen in love with a sample so much, but this foundation faker is magical.

Some Kind-A gorgeous is cream to powder foundation. I'd like to say it's a new layer of perfect skin.
It's incredibly lightweight (feels like a naked face), evens out my skin color (goodbye acne scars) and yet still somehow lets my natural skin show through (like the freckles around my nose I love)
This is the product I've been waiting for my whole life for, what I've dreamed and hoped that every liquid foundation I've ever tried would be but wasn't.

The formula is oil free which is great because I have "wonderful oily skin". hah.  The most magical part though is the finish and lasting power.  I wouldn't say it's matte, nor would I say glowy. It just looks like skin. Beautiful healthy skin. And it stays all day.  How awesome is that? I worked an 8 hour day
and my face looked the same as it did in the morning when I applied it. Wow. The same goes for every day I've worn it. It just lasts and lasts and lasts.

The one thing that you must know before buying this product is that the shades are a lot lighter than they appear to be. I would say I have a light/medium skin tone and I use the medium shade. I swatched the light but I think that may be for skin tones that are close to an alabaster color. Girls who are pretty  light like me might be a medium as well. Girls with medium skin tones may be a medium, maybe even deep. And deep skin toned girls might work for the deep shade, and some it may be too light for them. So I highly recommend swatching first.

Starting to get ready
Loreal studio secrets primer
Benfit Some Kind-A Gorgeous
De-Slick setting spray
Dusting of MAC Studio Fix Powder
MAC Dame blush

This may be a new Holy Grail product, who knows. The odds are looking good.

-Stay Fabulous

Benefit Tan About Town

I love benefits beauty minis...like LOVE LOVE them! It's so cool that you can try out their full size products before actually having to pay the full sized price ..which makes my wallet..a happy wallet.
I got this set for $15 CDN at sephora.

Sooo while I was waiting in line to pay at my Sephora, a new boxed minis set caught my eye that I had never seen before. And not only that. THEY HAD A MINI BOXED HOOLA BRONZER!
I tried so hard not to embarrass myself from being overly excited in public, but I just couldn't contain myself. I have wanted to try out Benefits Hoola bronzer for ages, but just never got around to it.

I'm overjoyed to try this to say the least :)

any who...

The Benefit Tan About Town mini box set has 3 products including their oh so famous BadGal Lash mascara, Hoola Bronzer, ans Some Kind-A Gorgeous cream foundation.

BadGal Lash
4.0 g/ 0.14 oz.

Some Kind-A Gorgeous in Medium
1.8 g/ 0.06 oz.

Hoola
3.0 g/ 0.1 oz.

 The only one that I've tried before was BadGal Lash, and it was one of the best mascaras I've ever used. Definitely not disappointed to have that again ;)

Has anyone else tried any of these products? Thoughts?

-StayFabulous

Breakfast Of The Stars

 The first time I got to go to a television studio, I was talking to the set workers at the catering station when someone came up and said that the producers or someone important had just flown in and was starving and wanted a peanut banana honey sandwhich. Now, i've had peanut butter banana sandwhiches before...but never with honey.  I instantly thought yuck. But an hour later the entire cast came in and had seen these things and all wanted some. I had to try this out... but in breakfast form.

My Sweet Sunshine Bagels

ingredients:
whole wheat bagel
small banana
Any nut butter ( I prefer peanut)
Honey

This is so easy and healthy!

Toast bagel

Smear on desired amount of nut butter

*Trickest part*

but not really....

Drizzle on the skinnest strand of honey

Think angel hair pasta size

The honey will spread itself out nicely

and give you a nice even layer that wont be overpowering

slice the banana to a *not too thin* bite size piece

Then place on top of bagel

Pair it with a glass of milk or juice

And be ready to start your day like the stars..

Enjoy!

Stay Fabulous-