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Tips & Reviews Archive
PRODUCT REVIEW | Get to Know Joe Fresh Beauty
Awww Joe Fresh! I’ve blogged a few times about my love for this great Canadian brand. Joe Fresh is all about making beauty easy + accessible. We’re talking great value at an affordable pricepoint, easy-to-work with formulas and colours that are on trend! Pretty great, no? Or, eh?! Well, it gets even better as you can find Joe Fresh beauty + clothing items at your local Loblaws (yes, buying actual food with the ‘grocery’ allowance is significantly hampered when I go grocery shopping where Joe Fresh products are sold!).
While working with the Diet Coke Beauty Boost team, I was fortunate to try a full bag of goodies from Joe Fresh and get even more exposure to this amazing brand. Here’s the lowdown of my faves from Joe Fresh Beauty…just in time for Canada Day!
Posted in Product Review
Tagged artistrhi, diet coke, joe fresh, rhia amio, toronto make-up artist
PRODUCT REVIEW | Five Face Faves
Posted in Artist Tip, Kit Essential, Product Review
Tagged artistrhi, joe fresh cosmetics, kit essential, mac cosmetics, product review, rhia amio, too faced, toronto make-up artist, vasanti
GET THE LOOK | (I finally attempt) Summer Bright Lips!
camera phone pic of MAC's Impassioned. Much brighter in person!
Anyone that knows me knows I never ever ever have my lips as the focal point for my make-up. I attribute my initial dislike for bright coloured lipsticks to a combination of the following:
1. I feel my features are in better ‘proportion’ when I focus make-up on my eyes.
2. True story: My first ever lipstick years/decades(?!) ago was a now likely discontinued bright magenta – Maybelline’s Wild Berries. (Side note: How bad-ass was my Mom buying me my first lipstick at 10, and letting me wear it to school?! Yep, my Mom still is bad-ass!) Although I would like to consider myself as being ages ahead of today’s popular trend, at that time, who are we kidding?! Being a novice in application, I was drawing outside the lipline and likely wearing a pink mustache half the time, not being able to apply it properly. Needless to say, pictures of such pink mustaches were enough to instill a message of avoiding brights for the years onward.
3. I find my eye make-up generally stays put, whereas in comparison, I need to touch up my lipstick/gloss more often. Overall, it’s much easier to touch-up with muted lipsticks/glosses than worrying about the precision of re-doing a bright, matte lip!
4. I usually like to play up my eyes, and I always find that as a better feature to emphasize when selling my ‘skills’ as a make-up artist.
So now, in an attempt to practice what I preach (i.e. lightening your make-up routine for summer!), I wore bright lips in public for the first time ever this weekend…well, ‘ever’ being since my grade 5 stint with Maybelline’s Wild Berries.
Here are some quick tips I employed to (help feel like I) pull(ed) it off!
Posted in Get the Look
ARTISTRHI UPDATES | Schwarzkopf’s BC Hairtherapy Contest Winner
Congrats to Jen G – the winner of the Schwarzkopf BC Hairtherapy Mega Prize Package (retail valued at $350)!! I expect some before and after pics + updates on better hair days ahead, Jen! Enjoy :)
Posted in artistrhi Updates, Product Review
PRODUCT REVIEW | Schwarzkopf’s BC Hairtherapy + Contest Alert!
Schwarzkopf has long been known (we’re talking 100+ years!) as a trusted go-to brand for salon professionals for their quality products for hair care, colouring and styling.
I’ll admit that I mainly buy brands available at the drugstore when it comes to hair care and styling for myself and only quality salon products for my kit (hey, my money gets spent on make-up! Guilty as charged.)….so when I had the chance to test run a few products from Schwarzkopf’s BC Hairtherapy hair care line, I jumped at the opportunity to treat my over-processed and over-heated hair (and my locks rejoiced in agreement!).
Schwarzkopf’s BC Hairtherapy line offers an extensive range of hair care products specifically tailored to your hair’s needs – my ‘needs’ tend to be adding moisture back to my dry and lacklustre locks (likely due to a serious dependency on heat-styling tools).
I have become a huge fan of the BC Hairtherapy Moisture Kick line of products (for normal to dry hair) over the past couple of months I’ve been using it. Bonacure’s Moisture Kick has restored a healthy and soft feeling to my hair, making it much easier to manage with minimal detangling. Moisture Kick has also revived a noticeable shine to my hair, which I didn’t realize it was seriously lacking until it came back (I blame heat-styling yes, but also the past season’s dry winter weather doing a number on my hair)! I am particularly addicted to the Moisture Kick Re-charger leave-in conditioner, as I’m clearly going through that product twice as fast as I’m going through the Moisture Kick Shampoo and Conditioner. The light citrus smell is pleasant too – just smells fresh and clean (always important!).
Here’s the science behind the active ingredients according to the Schwarzkopf website:
HYALURONIC ACID DERIVATIVE: a vital ingredient commonly used in body moisturisers. Its molecule is able to balance the water content. Its outstanding hydrating properties result in increased smoothing, softening and combating dryness.
PANTHENOL: penetrates the hair shaft to inject hydration and balances the natural moisture level.
AMINO CELL REBUILD TECHNOLOGY: penetrates deeply into the hair to repair the inner cell structure.
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Ok, so you want great hair too?!
The team at Schwarzkopf and Karen Cleveland PR are offering one lucky artistrhi reader a HUGE Schwarzkopf BC Hairtherapy Prize Package. Did I mention HUGE? We’re talking a retail value of $350. The BC Hairtherapy Prize Package includes:
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Tagged artistrhi, bc hairtherapy, bonacure, rhia amio, schwarzkopf, toronto make-up artist
