Up & Up Sport Sunscreen Stick

My mom brought me three of these a few years back. I really like them for travel or for touch ups on a day out. I first heard about it when my friend Melissa blogged about it. I really love them, unfortunately they expired on me, so what is left is going into my recycling pile.

I got a set of Saje oils a long time ago. This has been a long time coming in the using it up department. I recently got a diffuser for my office and since I started online classes, I managed to use this up in the first few days. I liked it a lot but I have a lot of oils to use up. Plus, they stopped selling this scent.

It has The Eczema Association Seal of Acceptance, is soap free and has ingredients like Cotton and Rice Extracts to moisturize and soothe skin.
Burt's Bees Hydrating Facial Cleanser Towelettes and Makeup Remover Wipes for All Skin Types with Watermelon

water, glycerin, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, phenoxyethanol, polyglyceryl-4 caprate, sodium benzoate, fragrance*, disodium cocoyl glutamate, citric acid, potassium sorbate, tocopherol, sodium cocoyl glutamate, citrullus lanatus (watermelon) seed extract, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, geraniol, limonene *natural fragrance

These wipes are made with at least 60% repurposed cotton. I's leftover from making t-shirts, which I understand the scraps from textile cutting make up a huge part of fashion waste, but we just don't hear about it as much (picture all those scraps they cut off for every item being tossed). Beyond that, they contain Aloe, Watermelon seed extract, and sunflower seed oil.

I have been seriously curbing my use of wipes, but these ones sounded much more environmental but also like they would work really well, and they do! I mainly wear waterproof makeup and wipes usually don't do a great job of removing it, but these do a really good job. I've used them at work when I've needed to just take everything off (sometimes my makeup gets in my eyes and the only thing to do is take it all off). They are both really effective and convenient.
Burt's Bees 100% Natural Origin Squeezy Tinted Lip Balm

This is a tinted lip balm, but in a tube, which honestly I have never seen before. It is 100% natural in origin and comes in a plastic squeeze tube that looks metallic. I have it in the shade/scent Summer Mellon. It squeezes out of a flat tube top (so you need to use your finger to apply) in a redy-pink tone. It smells just like melons. There are three other shade/scent choices and some have shimmer in the, but this one does not.

The balm is smooth and slippery on the lips. It stays put for a long time and the balm is actually quite pigmented while still letting your own lip shade shine through.
Burt's Bees 100% Natural Origin Moisturizing Lip Balm, Tropical Pineapple with Beeswax

I think we all know Burt's Bees is known for its lip balms, it is their go to for a lot of people and there is a good reason, they are really good at what they do. This baby here is a new flavour, Pineapple. I love pineapples so I am all about that. It happens to also have Shea Butter, Vitamin E and Coconut Oil, it is hydrating and soothing for dry lips.
I have definitely been using this one a lot lately, the warmer weather gets me craving things like pineapple and coconut, and the scent/taste just brings that tropical feeling.
Burt's Bees 100% Natural Origin Advanced Relief Lip Balm with Beeswax and Antioxidant-Rich Elderberry Clear

If you suffer from chronically dry chap lips (this is me all fall, winter and spring btw), This may be the lip balm for you. Loaded with antioxidants like Elderberry and hydrators like Jojoba Oil and Cocao Seed Butter, it is meant for lips that are in bad shape.

There is very little scent to this balm, so it isn't one of their tasty balms, but it is meant to be restorative for your lips. The formula is stiffer and a bit more waxy then some of the other, but it coats your lips real nice. I experience a minor amount of tingling, not menthol feeling or anything like that, just a mild feeling.
Burt's Bees The Luminizer Nourishing Highlighter, Star Light or Golden Hour

These are some stunning liquid highlighters or luminizers that are 98.8% natural in origin. They are loaded with good for you things like Green Tea Complex, Vitamins and Antioxidants.

These luminizers come in two shades, Golden Hour, a golden toned shade and Star Light, a pinky-silver shade. The tubes have a pointed tip so you don't squeeze too much out.
The formula is meant to be applied alone or with makeup as a highlighter or mixed with moisturizer as an all over luminator. I personally like to dab small amounts and use it as a highlighter.

Very little is needed to get a strong shimmery result, I very much like them and how they can boost your look with a pretty glow.

These are tinted lip balms with mango butter and coconut oil and olive oil in them to help boost hydration the lips. They are light scented with a floral scent and are 100% natural in origin.
They come in slim plastic tubes that are made of 17% post consumed plastic.

There are four shades, I have three of them, Winning in Pink, Eat, Drink & Be Cherry and Wine Wednesday. 

Wine Wednesday is a dark pink-wine shade. 

Eat, Drink & Be Cherry is a deep pink-cherry red. Finally Winning in Pink is pretty much colourless on the skin but has a shimmer in it.

All of them pack more colour punch the more you apply but never get too deep. They give me Clinique Almost Lipstick vibes in the way they are coloured, look dark in the tube, but go on lighter and let your lips own shade still shine through. They glide on the lips and feel super slippery on. Absolutely fabulous product.

Overall, I am very impressed with these items. I love the skin care and would easily purchase any of those items once I run out. The lotion and cleanser have become a daily staples. The Gloss & Glows and Squeezy are fabulous to add a pop of colour while helping my lips stay their healthiest. The lip balks are great across the board. Finally the luminators are a great way to ad some glow to your skin. I really love them all and have really enjoyed using them on a regular bases.

Did you know Burt's Bees has a recycling program? It is true, Terracycle and Burt's Bees are working together to get all their packaging recycled. Just save up a bunch of their empties and fill out a form over here and you will get a prepaid shipping label to get the items sent off to be recycled. It includes pretty much all of their containers so it is a great way to help keep plastics out of the landfills and waterways.

You can pick up Burt's Bees products at your local drug store, mass retailer, grocery store or amazon.ca

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Spring is here, and hopefully soon we will be having the weather to reflect that (it is currently still gloomy in Toronto). Until then, Mary Kay has a whole bunch of new items for the Spring season, some limited edition and some permanent, so let's take a look.

First off we have two new additions to the Mary Kay Clinical Solutions line. These are essentially super awesome actives in serum format. These these two new ones join the line up that already has C Resveratrol Line-Reducer and HA Ceramide Hydrator in its lineup.
Mary Kay Clinical Solutions Ferulic + Niacinamide Brightener is a concentration meant to help with hyperpigmentation, skin tone and texture. It's loaded with antioxidants to help with free radical damage.

It is safe to use with Mary Kay Clinical Solutions Retinol 0.5 program, once you've completed the retinization process. It can also layered with the Clinical Solutions HA Ceramide Hydrator to boost it.

I really liked using this serum the last few weeks. My skin reacted really well to it, my darker spots cleared up faster while using it. My skin also got smoother, which was an issue I was having.
Mary Kay Clinical Solutions PHA+AHA Resurfacer is a hydroxy acid blend that helps exfoliate the skin and with skin cell turnover. It's best to use at night.

I personally have issues with my skin cell turnover, I end up with very clogged pores on both my face and body if I don't use an acid often. I found this one to be really effective and gentle. I used it at night after washing and toning and before my other serums and lotions. I had no tingle reaction to it, and I would definitely go get another bottle when this one runs out.
Next up are new limited edition Duo Sticks. Previously there were blush and bronzer sticks just like this that where limited edition, this time we get 2 bronzer duo sticks as well as 1 Highlight Duo stick. Each bronzer features a cream shade on one side and shimmer on the other, while the highlight stick has two different shimmery highlights it.
Pearl & Gold is the highlight stick. One side is a Pearl white shade and the other Gold (seems obvious I know). The Pearl's shimmer has a pink-peach duo-chrome to it, while Gold has a light old-gold/taupe shade to its shimmer. While both sides are quite shimmery, the Pearl side definitely has a bit more chunk to its shimmer/glitter. When blended out the Pearl shades chunky glitters disperse nicely but that is really all that you are left seeing. I really think this side would be best used on the body as a highlight. The Gold ends up being much more even when spread out. While I really love this stick, I just don't wear that shimmery of highlights anymore, and probably wont be wearing it any time soon.
Bronze & Shimmer is the darker of the two Cream Bronzer Duos. The contour side/Bronze is a relatively deep shade that is has no shimmer in it at all. While the Shimmer side is a beautiful metallic bronzer shade that runs a bit copper with more red leaning tones in it. It also has copper toned shimmer in it. They pair together really well and are very easy to blend out.
Honey & Luster is the lighter of the two Cream Bronzer Duos. It is the one I will most likely be using since I am a paler person. The contour/Honey is just like the other one, it is without any shimmer. Luster is beautiful light bronze tone. It has gold reflecting shimmer in it. They go together very well as they are about the same depth in shade and not too different in colour.
All three of these sticks blend out well, don't feel greasy at all and look fantastic on the skin. As someone who learned to bronze and contour with cream instead of powder I really enjoy using them.
Mary Kay has always had some pretty nice hand products in its lineup, I personally cannot live without Satin Hands Pampering Kit, which is why whenever they do a limited edition of hand creams I get excited. These purse friendly hand reams come in three options, Mandarin & Rose , Mango & Orange Flower  and Wild Berry & Passionflower. All three smell amazing! I love how fresh and uplifting they are this time of year. They are 73 ml, so not too tiny but the right size to keep in your purse and not feel like you're going to run out after a day or two.

They contain Shea Butter, Sunflower Seed Oil, Safflower Oil, and Apricot Kernel Oil. All these ingredients make for a great feeling hand cream. I find the cream a bit thicker than the average hand creams, but not so thick that they become a problem to absorb into the skin. It is in my opinion, the perfect consistency for a hand cream.
They all smell fruity, but definitely not overwhelming. They all have a wonderful balance of fruity and floral, in fact they have full Top, Middle and Bottom notes for each one, making them far more complex then I would usually find in a lotion like this. Personally the Wildberry & Passion Flower is my favourite (and currently residing in my purse).

Fragrance Notes:

Mandarin & Rose

Top Notes: Juicy Cassis, Juicy Kumquat, Sparkling Mandarin

Middle Notes: Lush Orchid, Pink Honeysuckle, Jasmine Sambac, Turkish Rose

Bottom Notes: Smooth Sandalwood, Musk, Creamy Vanilla

Wild Berry & Passionflower

Top Notes: Sparkling Wild Berry, Fuzzy Peach Nectar, White Pineapple

Middle Notes: Water Lily, Pink Passionflower, Bright Pink Plumeria

Bottom Notes: Amber Crystals, Creamy Musk, Vanilla Orchid

Mango & Orange Flower

Top Notes: Pulpy Mango, Dragon Fruit, Sparkling Red Currant

Middle Notes: Orange Flower Water, White Orchid, Watery Cantaloupe

Bottom Notes: Coconut Husk, Vanilla, Solar Musk

Mary Kay's Supreme Hydrating Lipstick is one of my favourite lipstick lines. They are rich in colour and silky on the lips all while keeping my lips hydrated. They literally feel like lip balms when they go on the lips, which is probably due to the Sunflower Oil and Vitamin E in it. I personally consider it a tinted lip balm because that is what they feel like.
Mary Kay has added two new shades to the line up Think of Pink and Very Raspberry. Both are very pretty shades that I think are easy to wear.
Think of Pink is a nice soft pink shade that is very sheer. While it show up very well (but still sheer) on my arm swatch, not much pops through on my lips, and that's ok. My one friend commented how pink it looked in the stick but how light it looked on my lips. I actually really like that, it lets your own lip shade shine though while adding the tone of pink to it. It makes pink very wearable for just about anyone.
Very Raspberry has more oomph to its colour. It is a great pinky-raspberry shade that can go on darker but can also be applied more sheer if you go lightly or blot your lips.

Overall, I adore everything in this Spring launch. If I were to suggest three things to get it would be, one of the hand creams for a Mother's Day gift, The Very Raspberry Lipstick because I think it looks good on everyone, and a Cream Bronzer Duo stick in your best shade because they are great.

I honestly can't believe what a great line up this is.

You can find Mary Kay products at MaryKay.ca

Mary Kay's Satin Hands set is a must have for me, I haven't been without one in probably a decade. This holiday season their Citrus Rose scent is back for limited time. The limited edition set has 3 steps, Protecting Softener, Refining Scrub, and Nourishing Shea Cream as well as cotton gloves. While I love the Citrus Rose scent, the set is also available during the holiday season in White Citrus and Fragrance-Free. 

After my hands, my feet are my most important thing for me to take care of in the winter, Mary Kay's Mint Bliss lotion is just great for them. I've been using it since last holiday season and it leaves my feet so soft. It is a light but nourishing lotion that has a light minty scent that feels and smells amazing. This holiday season they've bundled up with a free cozy pair socks. I like to lotion up my feet and legs right  before putting them on, in the morning my feet feel so much softer.

I really like this scent, it plays well on my skin. In addition to that I really love how the oil feels on my skin post shower or bath. It is just so soft and lightweight, all the while being hydrating.