About

My name is Mikayla! I'm a 22 year old University Graduate with a passion for all things beauty. I stumbled into the online beauty community a year ago and have been obsessed with youtube videos and blogs ever since. After watching hundreds of videos over the past year I figured it was about time I joined the community and posted my own thoughts in my own little space. I'm also recently graduated, unemployed and headed for college in September.

I really enjoy all things beauty, and I really like telling my friends what I think about products so writing them down just felt natural. To me, make up isn't something that you wear to make yourself look prettier, it's something you do on yourself for yourself. It has the power to give you strength to tackle a rough day, the courage to find your inner confidence and sparkle like every girl is meant too.

Other than beauty, I love fashion. Beauty and Fashion are the keys to my heart, along with a great deal. I'm all about a decent deal, and budget shopping is my favourite.

I can't wait to start this journey with the internet and all of you!

Disclaimer

Just a general disclaimer:

I am not a professional makeup artist, I am completely self taught, any posts on beauty products are purely personal opinion and should not be taken as fact.

Beauty items shown on this blog are purchased by myself, or as a gift from family members.

Any and all reviews on products are based on my opinions alone.

Cross Canada Day 7! Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie!

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Today was another really long day, my dad decided that we were going to do a bit more than planned yesterday which actually puts us getting to our new home a day early. So we are going to have 3 days in a row of 6.5-9 hours in a car.

Northern Ontario is beautiful, it's the province where my permanent address has always been, and I've never been where we are (just to highlight how biiig Ontario is).

Day 7 on the road- Are we there yet!?

Labels: bblogger, Canada, cross canada, ontario, road trip, Travel

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Cross Canada Day 6! Brandon to Thunder Bay Ontario

Monday, 6 July 2015

It was our longest day yet today, we left Brandon Manitoba at 7:30 this morning and drove 930 kilometres. We headed for Thunder Bay Ontario, and crossed into the Eastern Standard Time Zone. The day was really long in the car, and the weather wasn't the greatest but I got some pictures anyways!

Labels: Canada, cross canada, manitoba, ontario, road trip, Travel

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Cross Canada Days 1-3

Friday, 3 July 2015

Since July 1st (Happy Belated Birthday Canada!) my parents, my grandpa and I have been trekking across Canada. As I have mentioned before, my dad is in the Air Force, and his newest posting is taking my family's "home base" back to where we sort of call home or "our natural habitat." This move is spanning the beautiful province of British Columbia (Vancouver) to Ontario (Barrie) and we are driving about 4,500 kilometres to get there.

I had planned on blogging every day starting July 1st but I didn't realize how tiring this trip would be, our first day we drove only 4-5 hours, and yesterday it was about 10 hours of driving, and the views are overwhelming, and we get to our hotel and it is pretty much crawl into bed and repeat. So today's post will be showing you some highlights from the first 3 days of my trip, and then I will make a better effort to blog every night starting tomorrow.

Day One! Vancouver to Kelowna

The first day we left Vancouver (in the middle of a heat wave) and headed for Kelowna, we stopped for lunch at a park and continued on our way.

Day Two! Kelowna to Banff Alberta!

We started off leaving Kelowna by visiting a Kangaroo farm (unusual for Canada, I know!) but they have been here for a couple of generations so they are super friendly, you are able to hold baby Joey's (one I held was 7 days out of his mothers pouch and named Victor) and pet the adult kangaroos!

One of our rest stops had goats that walked up a ramp and you could pay a quarter to feed them while they were on the platform!

We also went to Lake Louise as we approached Banff!

It is glacier water, which makes it really cold, but I had to put my feet in!

Day Three! Banff to Red Deer Alberta!

Today we left Banff and headed to Red Deer, on our way we stopped at the Banff Hot Springs Hotel (which looked like a castle!) and then on to the Columbia Ice Fields before heading to Red Deer.

Tonight we spend the night in Red Deer, and tomorrow we are heading for Drumheller for a stop to see the Badlands and then on to Medicine Hat for our last night in Alberta. We are approximately 1,500 kilometres into our trip, averaging about 500 kilometres a day!

The Rockie mountains were absolutely incredible, I cannot believe how beautiful they are, and how abruptly they ended, it was like a wall of mountains and then nothing but hills and farm lands.

Labels: alberta, british columbia, Canada, road trip, Travel

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Bienvenue a Canada: The CN Tower

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Yes everything is bilingual!

In October, this post is a long time coming! I went to Toronto to visit my roommate from University. We lived together for 4 years and this is the first year where I don't see her everyday.. so over my reading week I had to go see her. I've grown up on military bases and small towns and never really experienced Toronto so I was really excited.

On our first adventure after the Mastercard World Fashion Week event, we hit up the CN Tower. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the CN Tower until recently it was the tallest free standing building in the world I've driven by this tower a million times, always admired it from afar but never ever went into it. Naturally the bucket list required I do this.

We were in the clouds!

The sky dome (now known as the Rogers Centre)

The CN Tower has also been known for having a glass floor, on which you can stand, and I've always wanted to stand on it and be all "It's soo hiiiigh" however I approached the floor and couldn't move. Eventually I was able to walk on it with the help of the brave guy who actually does it for a living how I do not know.