All About Bows ❀

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Top: Gift / Leggings: H&M / Flats: Payless / Earrings: Claire's / Bow: Amazon / Jacket: Wilson Leather / Bag: Fossil

Bows! Why do we stop wearing pretty bows post age 5? I love combining a simple outfit with a pretty bow on top of a ponytail or half up-do. It’s just like putting the cherry on top of a sundae - that perfect, extra little touch! My favorite place to buy bows? Amazon! True story: I once bought a 10 pack of bows in every color of the rainbow for a little under $10 - best bargain ever :) Realistically, do I need ever color of the rainbow? No. The bows I use the most tend to be black, white, red, and blue so if you are considering adopting bows into your hair accessory drawer, I’d suggest starting with those colors. 

With bows, I think the best approach is to keep the outfit simple. There have been many occasions where I’ve thrown on a flowery shirt or a patterned dress and found that paired with a bow, the outfit just became too much for me. I try to pick a bow color, a shirt color that matches that, and keep everything else as basic as possible. 

I love how happy and bright this outfit looks thanks to one simple bow! What are your thoughts on bows? Love it or hate it? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Colour Pop Lip Haul & Review!

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Yay Colour Pop! I am so excited to be sharing this post because I am absolutely in love with Colour Pop’s lip products! Kudos to my beautiful friend Raina for introducing me to these products - she gifted me Colour Pop’s Squad kit for Christmas & my lip game hasn’t been the same since! The original kit I received came with two lippie stix and their matching lipliners (Shades: Behr Hug and Jonesing - named after Beth Behr and Rashida Jones). 

Jonesing

Behr Hug

I love the consistency and long wear of all the products but truly fell in love with the Jonesing shade. Given that I love Rashida Jones and share a similar skin tone, this is probably no surprise! After wearing it nearly every day for a week, I was incredibly impressed by how beautiful the color was and how it all just stayed put! I haven’t been this impressed with a makeup product in a long time so of course, I immediately started scouring the internet for what shades to get next! While both of the original shades I had were creme formulas, I prefer matte formulas since I’m always dabbing at shinier formulas to tone them down anyway! After looking at about a million photos & blog posts (love me some beauty bloggers - they’re so helpful!), I finally decided on the 4 shades below:

Lumiere: This shade wins the award for most surprising! I didn’t think I’d love this shade as much as I did because I tend to prefer strong, dark shades, but Lumiere is such a beautiful nude-y pink color.

Grunge: I went gutsy on this one - I’ve never tried a dark brown shade on the lips before!

LBB: I already own quite a bit of purple lipstick but wanted to give this shade a try because it’s closer to a dark reddish purple than any of the other shades I currently own. It did not disappoint! I love that it’s a bright purple but still keeps it classy with behind-the-scenes red tones. 

Bichette: This is a gorgeous rich classic red. Reds with blue undertones tend to go much better with my skin than reds with orange undertones and Bichette is a perfect cool bright red. This is the only shade where I did not get the matching lipliner since I felt that it was a close enough match to Jonesing that I could use the same lipliner.

I’m so so so happy with all of these! They have amazing staying power and the color on all of them is very pigmented and absolutely gorgeous! If you’re thinking about purchasing some Colour Pop products and you’re not sure what colors to get, I would highly recommend checking out the posts of bloggers who have a similar skin tone to your own (that’s what I did!) and if there is a color that you think looks good on them, more than likely it will look good on you as well!

I’ve already started making a lippie stix wish list in preparation for my next Colour Pop purchase! :) Are you as obsessed with Colour Pop lip products as I am?! I’d love to hear from you! 

Thanks for reading ♥

SImple Pops of Color!

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Necklace: 31 Bits / Sweater: Gift / Flats: Target / Lipstick: Colour Pop in LBB 

I love this surprising combo because it’s incredibly simple, yet it’s a combination that I initially never would have put together on a normal day. Sometimes, you just gotta pull our your entire jewelry drawer and stare at it for five minutes before a bolt of style inspiration hits you, you know? 

I love love love love love the color yellow but don’t actually own a ton of it because for most of my life, I’ve been told that yellow doesn’t look good on asians since our skin tone is yellowy. Um…..lies! Yes, maybe I need to find the right shade of yellow (mustard yellow makes me look dull, but bright sunny yellow looks awesome) but there is no such thing as not being able to wear one color or another, you just have to make it work for you! 

What do you think of wearing the color yellow? It’s such a bright, happy color - it makes me smile just looking at it! I’ll definitely be trying to incorporate more yellow pieces into my future wardrobe :) 

Thanks for reading ♥