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Holiday 2017: DAVIDsTEA Advent Calendar + Inspired Makeup

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DAVIDsTEA Holiday 2017

This post is sponsored by DAVIDsTEA.

One of the things my mom got me hooked on a few years ago was DAVIDsTEA and their cute holiday sets!

DAVIDsTEA Holiday 2017 - 24 Days of Tea & Holly Berries Nordic Mug
DAVIDsTEA Holiday 2017 – 24 Days of Tea & Holly Berries Nordic Mug

Not only are they great for gift giving because it gives you the opportunity to give someone a wide variety of tea options so they can find something they like, but let’s get real, I also like buying these for myself for that very same reason! And it doesn’t hurt that every season they release tea sampler sets alongside beautifully themed and decorated accessories like tea mugs that really gives me this “I want it ALL” feeling!

Nemo's perusing DAVIDsTEA holiday teas!
Nemo’s perusing DAVIDsTEA holiday teas!

DAVIDsTEA‘s Holiday 2017 release, the 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar, gives you the opportunity to try out their seasonal teas (I was super into trying out Candy Cane Crush, and Sleigh Ride is a seasonal favourite of mine that I always stock up on) as well as a huge assortment of teas from their regular lineup. On the very last day (the 25th), you get a cute star ornament, alongside a coupon for $5 off your next DAVIDsTEA purchase of $20 or more in store! At a $45 price point with (essentially) a $5 rebate for more product, I think this is a decent deal because the variety is really unparalleled.

DAVIDsTEA 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar
DAVIDsTEA 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar
DAVIDsTEA 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar comes with a small star ornament!
DAVIDsTEA 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar comes with a small star ornament!

As you finish up the teas, you can flip the little containers over to reveal a snow landscape with a wolf on the backside. I imagine you’d likely end up junking the packaging, but it’s a cute touch regardless.

My favourite item? This Holly Berries Nordic Mug!
My favourite item? This Holly Berries Nordic Mug!

For me though, the highlight of this holiday launch is this STUNNING Nordic Mug that comes with a lid and tea strainer on the inside. I’ve even had some coworkers commenting on how dang pretty it is since I started using that as my “work mug”.  I had originally intended to do a tea leaf inspired post (like my Halloween one), but I was so taken by this Holly Branches Nordic Mug that I decided I’d try to create a look that was inspired by it instead!

DAVIDsTEA Holly Berries Inspired Makeup Look
DAVIDsTEA Holly Berries Inspired Makeup Look

It makes me laugh though… inspiration comes in weird places, and a mug was definitely the last place I was looking for it to come from!

I kept the look seasonally appropriate with some red lips (Too Faced’s Melted Ruby) and some red blush (Tarte’s Natural Beauty), but the really fun part were the eyelids.

DAVIDsTEA Holly Berries Inspired Makeup Look
DAVIDsTEA Holly Berries Inspired Makeup Look

I’ve mentioned before that I’m not usually that great with tiny details on my eyes (not like some creators that’s for sure!), but this was a relatively easy look to do. I grabbed a white liquid liner (Kat Von D’s Ink Liner in Neruda) and drew out a long, thick wing. I then grabbed some shades from my MAKE UP FOR EVER Flash palette, mixed them with Inglot’s Duraline, and started drawing green lines outwards to represent leaves and red dots for the berries. I tried to keep it sporadic, so that it didn’t look like there was any real pattern. And of course, I’m a glitter girl, so I popped up on some Stila Liquid Glitter in Diamond Dust on the inner corner of my eye.

DAVIDsTEA Holly Berries Inspired Makeup Look
DAVIDsTEA Holly Berries Inspired Makeup Look

I personally like to wear looks that seek inspiration outside conventional lines of thinking, but I know the added details on the liner may not be for everyone (plus, they are a bit time consuming after all). For something a bit simpler, do the white wing and pop a shimmery pale green shadow on the inner corner of your eye and call it a day!

DAVIDsTEA holiday items sell out FAST, and the 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar seems to have disappeared from their site literally yesterday. If you’re really excited for it, try giving your local shop a call to find out if they still have it! That Nordic Mug though? You can still get your hands on it online right here. Of course, DAVIDsTEA has plenty to offer in the holiday department, so spend some time scrolling through their holiday offerings… you won’t regret it!

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Halloween: Getting Creative with DAVIDsTEA!

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DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit

This post is sponsored by DAVIDsTEA.

So, I’m a tea drinker (well, and a coffee drinker – but that’s more of a morning thing), and I always, *always* have a cup around noon just after I’ve finished my lunch. I think it was my mom that got me hooked on DAVIDsTEA a few years ago and I really haven’t looked back ever since! While they do have stores in the US now, I love that DAVIDsTEA is Canadian and that they opened their very first store here in Toronto on Queen Street. It gives me the warm fuzzies to know that I’m celebrating something local with my daily cuppa.

DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit
DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit

DAVIDsTEA already makes some of my favourite teas (although RIP Red Velvet Cake, I loved you so much!), so nothing could make me happier than them also releasing a Halloween collection! (Cuz you know how I feel about Halloween!)

DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit
DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit

The Haunted Mansion Survival Kit has some of the cutest packaging I’ve ever seen for a tea set! Six teas are served up in a spoopy little cardboard haunted mansion.

DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit contains six teas to try
DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit contains six teas to try

For $14 CAD, you get to try out six of DAVIDsTEA‘s favourite sweet teas. They’ve even gone so far as to rename some of them for this set!

The set includes:

  • Pumpkin Die (aka Pumpkin Chai): a seasonal favourite of mine, this black tea has caramel, cinnamon, cloves and tiny little pumpkin candies!
  • Cardamummy French Toast (aka Cardamom French Toast): black tea with cardamom, cane sugar and cinnamon (a new favourite!).
  • Glittering Ghost (aka Glitter & Gold): this one has become a staple for me over the last year. It’s a sweet, spiced black tea with sugar crystals and gold stars.
  • Haunted Kombucha (aka Happy Kombucha): a blend of oolong, mango, pineapple and powdered kombucha.
  • Magic Potion (no name change here): this one will change colour if you add lemon! It’s a mix of berries and flowers.
  • Stormy Night (aka Organic Stormy night): a limited edition chocolate-coconut black tea.

Since this IS a beauty blog and my love of tea may be a bit of a strange thing to bring up, I wanted to keep this post consistent with my content. I’ve posted in the past about finding inspiration for makeup in odd places (like my boss’ socks from this post in 2016), and I thought that doing makeup looks inspired by the loose leaf teas in this set would be a neat challenge for myself.

So here you have it, three eye looks based on my three favourite teas from the DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit!

DAVIDsTEA - Glittering Ghost
DAVIDsTEA – Glittering Ghost

Glittering Ghost was the first one that struck me because it’s just so beautiful. Not only are the little stars such an attention grabber, but there’s also tiny translucent shards of sugar dispersed throughout the black tea leaves.

DAVIDsTEA - Glittering Ghost makeup look
DAVIDsTEA – Glittering Ghost makeup look

Here’s my Glittering Ghost eye look. I love, love, LOVE how this came out! Drawing stars on my face was a new experience (holy precision, Batman!), but they add a fun touch to the otherwise typical smokey eye. I translated the translucent sugar crystals into my inner corner highlight and then took inspiration from the colour of the black tea to create the black smokey eye that fades into brown.

DAVIDsTEA - Pumpkin Die
DAVIDsTEA – Pumpkin Die

And how could I not do a look centered around Pumpkin Die??

DAVIDsTEA - Pumpkin Die makeup look
DAVIDsTEA – Pumpkin Die makeup look

I changed it up a bit for this one and opted to use those bright orange pumpkin candies as inspiration for the colour of the winged liner. I layered that wing on top of a dark black eye that fades out to orange in the crease. I’ve never done something like this before and I ended up really loving the contrast between the super bright liner on top of a black eye.

DAVIDsTEA - Cardamummy French Toast
DAVIDsTEA – Cardamummy French Toast

And lastly, I decided I wanted to try something with the colours that called out to me from Cardamummy French Toast. While it is a black tea that is littered with brown sugar that glitters back at me, what I also loved about it are those yellow-green cardamom pods. I thought it’d make for an interesting colour combo.

DAVIDsTEA - Cardamummy French Toast makeup look
DAVIDsTEA – Cardamummy French Toast makeup look

And I was right! This look is such a different one for me and it was so much fun to create. I used that yellow-green cardamom colour and put that in my crease and made it fade down into a dark brown eye. Overtop of the brown lid shade I layered on a holographic brown glitter that, to me, reflected the sugar crystals in the actual tea.

So there we have it – you can absolutely get inspired to create makeup looks from very unconventional places! I do highly recommend the DAVIDsTEA Haunted Mansion Survival Kit – either for yourself, or for a tea lover as a gift.