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Low-Maintenance Luxury...face, body and lifestyle love💗🍷
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items I'm a low maintenance Ontario gal in her early-almost-mid-thirties who loves to take care of her body and skin without making things too complicated. I like every day to feel special and don't wait to use the fancy stuff! I've spent my 20s and early thirties figuring out what works for me, what makes me feel confident and happy <3 These are my go tos!
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Eyes
Makeup
Skin
Hands
Shower
Perfume
Eyes
My daily eye care routine <3
I keep this handy little tub in my fridge and use the eye patches for 30 minutes at a time. It feels amazing and makes my eyes look awake and alive even when I've had little sleep…you can also use it on your forehead lines which makes me a happy lady...
Abib Collagen Eye Patch
This gel cream feels so good under my eyes and keeps them looking fresh. I use it at night!
Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Gel-Creme
Will be adding this into my routine soon as an eye retinol <3
Revive Eye Serum: Ginseng + Retinal | Beauty of Joseon Official Store
Makeup
This is the low maintenance glowy makeup routine I have been using for YEARS and it has never failed me…I barely make any modifications when I have a special event and always feel pretty and confident to take on my day.
This is a gorgeous foundation that looks and feels like skin and lasts until the end of the day…it's full of ingredients that are good for you and is glowy and gorgeous.
Tinted Cover Liquid Foundation | Nude 4
I love keeping this in my purse and using it to touch up throughout the day. It's compact, and can be used as a concealer as well as a foundation. I do find it runs out quite fast if you use it as an all over face foundation regularly, so I prefer it...
Tinted Blur Foundation Stick | Medium 5
Morphe always makes a lovely holiday eyeshadow palette that has TONS of colours and lasts me literally years (I wear eyeshadow everyday). The colours go well together and you can make a ton of different looks with one palette. I think I paid 30 dolla...
Shop Eyeshadow & Pressed Pigment Palettes
Velvet teddy is my perfect mauve nude. I've been wearing it every day for years. I'll wear lip balm at night but during the day this keeps me hydrated and feeling like there's some colour in my face. I also use it as a blush!!!
M·A·Cximal Silky Matte Lipstick | Including Velvet Teddy, Taupe, Mehr & ...
I never used to wear mascara, then I got laser eye surgery and wanted my eyes to pop. I got this in a free gift with purchase and will definitely be repurchasing it! I have gotten so many compliments on my lashes since I've started wearing it and I g...
Sumptuous Extreme Lash Multiplying Volume Mascara
I brush my lashes before I put on my mascara and sometimes right after to avoid clumps and it has made ALL the difference. I will never go back. My lashes also just look better without mascara since I've started doing this!
Eyelash & Brow Wand | Spoolie Brush
I soak it in hot water, put my foundation on the back of my hand, and then dab it into my face. It makes blending easy and is better than using a brush or my fingers in terms of wasting product!
Quo Beauty Blender
This is such a game changer for me. It makes my skin look absolutely impeccable, especially with the Embryolisse cream underneath. AND it has SPF and anti anging serum built into the colour correcting cream so it is doing wonderful things for my skin...
CC+ Cream with SPF 50+ - Color Correcting Cream - IT Cosmetics
Skin
These are the products I use on my face and body every day and they make me so happy. I discovered French pharmacie skincare when I went to Paris last year and have been diving into it ever since…
The only thing I hate is that I wish I bought ten more. I got this from Paris and can't find it in Canada…it's super lightweight, makes my makeup look wonderful and is so easy to apply. I find applying suncare on my face so high maintanence but I kno...
Very High Protection Sun Water SPF50+ Vinosun Protect | CAUDALIE®
Took me so long to find an spf spray in north america. Perfect for reapplying and gives you a gorgeous glow! It smells like coconut and is a good size to throw in a tote bag in the summer if you are worried about needing to reapply SPF.
Mists – Naked Sundays USA
Amazing for a neck cream, and also for décollage and arms/booty. I notice my neck feels firmer instantly which sounds fake but is fabulous…it's a big tub so if you are using it just for the neck it'll last you a long time.
Vinosculpt Lift & Firm Body Cream | CAUDALIE®
This gives me glass skin when I use it as a mask and let it change to clear…and makes a fabulous makeup base. My skin looks and feels hydrated and fresh and it SMELLS DIVINE. This makes me feel fancy and special but is also affordable enough to keep ...
Lait-Crème Concentré 75ml
This has been a lovely addition to my routine. The biggest thing it does for me is make me feel confident when I wake up because I have less redness in my cheeks, and my skin is smoother and more glowy.
Advanced Night Repair Serum Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex
I got this as part of the holiday promotion in a gift with purchase (full size) and have been using it since December. I love the way it feels on my skin, it is almost gel like, and layer it on top of the advanced night repair serum. I don't know if ...
Revitalizing Supreme+ Moisturizer Youth Power Creme
Will be adding this to my routine soon…stay tuned on how this goes for me!
Redermic Retinol Intensive Anti-Aging Treatment Cream
Will be introducing this into my routine in rotation with the retinol and will update this page when I have more resutls! I have been researching on retinol and acids and have been too nervous to start using it until now! Wish me luck!
Effaclar A.Z. Gel-Cream lightweight moisturizer - LRP
This is super easy to use and cycles automatically through the different coloured lights, but you can also target specific concerns with one at a time if you would prefer!
LED Light Mask | Your solution against wrinkles, acne and dry skin
This is great if I don't want to cleanse in the morning (which is most days). It's perfect before my makeup routine and was really easy to incorporate into my already existing rotation.
Medicube Zero Pore Pads 2.0 Toner
Hands
As a girl who hates going to the salon to get her nails done, who wants her hands to look young and doesn't want to do too much, here are my go to hand care products!
This makes the perfect daily hand cream, and I layer it at night with Paume Renewing Hand Serum. It is hydrating without being greasy and makes my hands SO soft. Even my husband who has notoriously dry hands and hates using cream steals this from me....
Cicaplast Hand Cream - For Dry Hands
I use this at night on the backs of my hands and fingers and wake up with the baby softest hands I've ever felt. I don't need to re apply hand cream during the day even during winter in Ontario (if you know you know). I also love the ingredients list...
Renewing Hand Serum
I'm a low maintanence nail girl so when I saw that this dries in 60 seconds I (skeptical) decided to try it. It really dries in a minute so it's easy to touch up throughout the week while I wait for the mask / serums to dry on my face in the morning ...
quick-dry expressie: vegan colors, dries fast
I used to use these religiously, but now I use them for special occasions if I want a salon quality nail in about 20 minutes. They are affordable and reusable. Once when I was in Paris, I couldn't take my contacts out because these nails were too lon...
Quickies | Press On Nails
Shower
I used to be a bath girl but then I moved into a house with no bathtub! TRAGIC! These are the shower products that make my shower feel luxurious and special even when I desperately wish I could take a bath instead! Ah! They are beautiful for the skin...<3
I bought the litre pump of this and now use no other shower gel. It is super silky smooth but still gives a good lather…makes me so soft (my husband commented on it after I had been using it for a few days) and has a delicate lovely scent (not too st...
TOPIALYSE Huile Lavante
When I need to GLOW and just feel all around gorgeous I will use this all over my body and sometimes on my face! We love her! This is a body scrub but if you really need to renew your hands it makes a fabulous hand scrub.
Original Coffee Scrub
This is the ONE shower gel I have been going back to (from Lush) for over 10 years. The olive oil sits on the top and you shake it up. It's a really thin gel which feels almost liquidy but smells incredible and makes my skin super soft. If I could ge...
The Olive Branch | Sensitive & Softening Shower Gel
Perfume
My love of perfume started in my 20s and has only grown this year…I've been reading books about fragrance, tried a fragrance subscription and have made a few of my own perfumes!
I made my very favourite perfume at this workshop in Paris when I went last Spring! The best part is, you can reorder your special formula when you run out and they ship to Canada! Their ingridients are high quality from Grasse, the perfume capital o...
Candora
When I was in my 20s I thought this was horrible…I have grown up and embraced my feminitiy and love of perfume and now wear this as my every day perfume! I adore it so much and it fades into a lovely floral vanilla on my skin by the end of the day. A...
N°5 - Women - Fragrance
Such a good book if you want to learn more about the perfume industry / how a fragrance comes to be!
The Perfect Scent: Inside Perfume Industry
Hair
These are the products that preserve my weekly salon blowout for 7 full days without looking greasy or losing the wave! <3
I get my hair washed and blown out once a week every Saturday morning and using this while I shower keeps my style intact, shiny and clean. It takes a minute to figure out how to use it but once you do it is a game changer!
Terracotta Checker Satin Shower Cap
I can't believe I am saying this as a former curly girl who now gets her hair blown out once a week…I actually brush through ALL my hair with this and it still looks gorgeous and keeps the wave / curl. Sometimes I spray a TINY bit of leave in conditi...
THE MERMAID BRUSH - ESSENTIAL BOAR BRISTLE BRUSH
This is my go to leave in conditioner. It smells amazing and a little bit goes a long way! It doesn't make my hair greasy so I can use it as much as I need to throughout the week and it gives me shine and reduces my frizz and flyaways!
Hairitage Light As A Feather Leave-In Conditioner
This lets me put my hair in a bun or pony for ballet class without creasing my blowout. It preserves my style and are comfy to keep on my wrist during the day. Has quickly become one of my must haves!
SILKIE x4 Pure Mulberry Silk Nude Scrunchies
Lips
I have only ever loved one lip balm in my entire 33 years of living and it is this one. I will never go back. It doesn't feel sticky, doesn't stink, doesn't taste bad, makes my lips feel amazing, look amazing and works beautifully overnight or under ...
Cicaplast Levres - Lip Barrier Repairing Balm
Loungewear
There is nothing like luxury loungewear as an investment to make every single day feel like a special occassion!
You need a few different robes…a fuzzy robe, a bathrobe, a silk robe, and a robe that you reach for all the time. This is the robe I reach for all the time. It is luxurious, light, warm, soft and easy to wear while getting ready, lounging around the ...
White Muslin Bathrobe at H&M Home | H&M CA
I have the slip ons. They feel warm without making my feet sweaty at ALL, are incredibly cozy and lightweight. The ultimate luxury slipper imo.
Sheep By The Sea Slippers
Not this specific one, but I have a collection of silk and chiffon slips that I have collected over the years to sleep in / lounge about the house in. Some are from the early 2000s, the 60s, the 50s, etc. I feel fancy, they are comfy and they are GOR...
Women's 100% Silk Nightgowns & Nightshirts
Apps and Subscriptions
I'm a subscription girly through and through. Here are my favourites!
As a vegetarian, this has saved me. I now cook the most delicious and easy weeknight dinners, have a spot to save my favourites, write notes and reviews and also read reviews from others. I love being able to search for recipes with a filter (how lon...
NYT Cooking
I love getting happy mail! This is one of my favourite magazine subscriptions. As a Canadian there are so many good ones we can't get, or that we have to pay a HIGH premium on, and this has brought me so much joy and is affordable!
ELLE Canada Magazine | Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Trends ...
I don't use this AS regularly now but I still have it for when I need it because you get it for free as a teacher! If you are a teacher, definitely take advantage of this! Meditation rewired my brain, and now I'm able to meditate and be more present ...
Headspace
This is my favourite way to pull together my ideas and vision board little areas of my life throughout the year. It connects to your pintrest too which is amazing!
Shuffles
Instead of scrolling socials I will often flip through a french magazine. It's so much fun and helps me practice my French!
Readly | All magazines - one magazine app subscription
Home and Kitchen
Most things in my home are thrifted or from the antique shop but occasionally I'll find a gem that I can link <3
Affordable and gorgeous and I don't worry about my pets breaking them! So easy to get a full set to host guests!
Better Homes and Gardens Red Wine Glasses (Set of 4)
My number one go to tea. There is no other cinnamon tea that will ever compare! This REALLY tastes like cinnamon. Whenever people smell it they always comment on it because it is so fragrant and delightful. I've tried a ton of dupes and this is the b...
Hot Cinnamon Sunset HT Tin 20 Sachets
These converted me from a candle girl to an incense girl. This is the best scent. It makes my house smell like I am in the woods having a fire, all bundled up in a wool sweater with the snow falling.
Canadian Forest Incense Sticks
Feet
This saved my feet in ONE use after I tried EVERYTHING else My feet were SUFFERING in the winter and were so dry and cracked that I thought they were beyond repair. I tried an electric foot filer, a pumice stone, a coffee scrub and so much more. This...
Super Crack Heel Cream 4.4oz
Life
A Louise Carmen dupe...can't wait for mine to arrive. Shipping takes a while but it's completely custom!
Personalized A5 Trifold Vegetable Tanned Leather Journal: Refillable Traveler's Journal-Foil stamping