Jessica Kinnari

Happy May! One of the gift guides I am always searching for is one for last minute Mother's Day Gifts. I always seem to think I have "one more week" before the date, but never the case! Anyone else?  I've rounded up some of my fave gifts to give! Some may deliver after Mother's Day, but it's the thought that counts.  Parkdale Butter:  I can confirm that my Mum LOVES these products! She uses the Espresso Face Balm and the Avocado Hand Balm daily. A Toronto based company, all products from The Parkdale Butter Company are organic, vegan and made with love (it's seriously an ingredient in all their products).  Recommendations:  Avocado Hand Cream  Espresso Face Balm Cocoanut Body Butter  Sweet Orange Lip Butter You can use the code PBJESS for 15% off of your order.  You can find their website: here . Arbonne:  Vegan, cruelty free and vegan my Mom loves this mascara! It doesn't smudge, conditions you

Welcome to Spring! My fave time of year, and one of my fave sales of the year.... The Sephora Spring VIB Sale.  During the Sephora Sale their rewards members receive discounts on all of their products. The dates for the sale and savings are based on your rewards tier:  ROUGE: 20% off from April 17th-May 1st VIB: 15% off from April 21st- April 29th INSIDER: 10% off from April 23rd-April 27th I always use this sale to stock up on gifts for all my friends with May-September birthdays. It's a great way to treat them, but also get a big discount on products that never usually go onsale.  For the simplest navigation, I've broken this guide down into multiple categories and only listed my fave products that I've repurchased, and use consistently.  Face Products:  Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation, $52 If you're looking to invest in a good foundation, then I highly recommend this one. It's full coverage, long wearing and blendable.

The Naked 2 palette. First palette I ever panned, and first palette I ever repurchased. ⁣⁣I bought it after I saw Anna Saccone using it back in 2012!  ⁣⁣ I plan on using it up by the end of 2020, as I transition to all vegan and cruelty free products, and I know it will be a sad day once this gorgeous palette is gone! ⁣⁣ These eyeshadows go on incredibly smooth, opaque and blend like a dream! The black shade does have quite a bit of fallout, so when I use it I always make sure to do my face makeup after I apply my eyeshadow. The cool toned shades intensify my brown eyes, which I always find is difficult to do with warm toned eyeshadows. I know that warm tones are more popular, but I’ll always be a cool toned loving gal through and through! ⁣⁣ ⁣ My fave shades are: YDK, Tease, Bootycall, Suspect, and Verve 😍⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ What was your first eyeshadow palette? 

What is self care? Is it face masks every Sunday night? Bath bombs and wine?  For me, self care is investing in yourself. Buying quality skincare & haircare products, fuelling my body with better food choices, having big goals and believing I can achieve them; that's my kind of self care.  During this period of isolation, it's hard to remember to do things for yourself, since you are at home all the time and uncertain when you'll be able to leave again. I've been living out of a suitcase for over a month now, and sometimes it does take its toll.  Yes, I know that I am a lucky one. I am at my parents house, I have a job, food to eat and a place to sleep, but I still found myself not take care of my mental health and letting the dreariness of the unknown affect me deeply.  So I’ve decided to use this time to focus on some small goals to give me something to look forward to and work towards, and all of those goals revolve around self care.  ⁣ I’m

Tarte Clay Play Face Shaping Palette Does anyone else forget how good palettes are? And then when you finally get back to them it’s like an awakening? That’s my relationship with the Tarte Clay Play Palette! ⁣ ⁣ I rediscovered it this weekend while getting ready for a date. I wanted to do a simple, classic, matte look so broke out this palette again and immediately made it my face palette for this month’s project pan. ⁣ It’s made up of all matte eye shadow shades with three mattes bronzers. I have a particular love of matte, cool toned shades and could honestly use this palette forever and never get bored of it! ⁣ ⁣ Each shade is very pigmented, and blends like a dream. I love to use the bronzer shade desert as my contour and then blend it out with terracotta for a perfectly sculpted contour.  Tarte has come out with a Clay Play Palette Volume II which includes shimmer eyeshadows, a blush and a highlighter. If you like Tarte formulas and prefer some colour, warm t

Ooh la la! Luxury beauty products have always been a passion of mine (or addiction, depends who you ask), so I've decided to round up some of my faves and share them with you. All of these products are 1) ones I've used up and repurchased 2) products that I truly believe are worth your hard earned money. Most of them are base products, because those are the products I think you should invest in the most but I promise that I will put up some posts luxury eyes and lippie products too!  Laura Mercier Flawless Fusion Ultra-Longwear Foundation Ultra matte, ultra long wearing, ultra amazing! This is my go to foundation in the summer. It is full coverage, blends well and lasts all day. It's so matte that sometimes I skip the setting powder just wear foundation.  $63 at Sephora.  Link to buy: here  (this is an affiliate link) Lancome Effacernes Waterproof Concealer  I don't have words to describe how much I love this concealer. I've purchased it count