March Favourites

To say the month of March has felt like a never-ending series of curveballs would be a significant understatement. I hope you’re staying healthy, enjoying everything our fave streaming services have to offer and perhaps discovering a new hobby or two! Mine is apparently baking cakes with my mom. 🍰

The extra at-home time is also giving us all more opportunities for closet cleaning, skincare and adding to our playlists and watch lists. Steal some inspo from this month’s Favourites list below.

Fashion

Cheetah Print Cropped Jacket

* Patterned Cropped Jackets *

SIMILAR: Free People, $495 // Princess Polly, $37 *sale* // Princess Polly, $31 *sale* (exact from American Eagle, sold out)

Now that I’ve finally found my new go-to basic white tees from Topshop and Zara, I’m loving cute cropped jackets, especially in a fun style like a cheetah or military print. They’re perfect for spring and you can easily dress them up or down with perfectly-paired accessories and solid colours.

sense of independence boutique
(Photo via Sense of Independence Boutique)

* Shopping Local *

Major props to all the retailers I shop with who made the difficult but necessary decision to help flatten the curve and closed their doors early on. Now more than ever, it’s important to support small, local businesses and ensure they can get back on their feet as quickly as possible once this is all over.

Stay tuned for my separate post to get started with six of my personal faves!

Read here: Quarantine and (Online) Shop With Your Fave Canadian Stores

Beauty/Skincare

Let’s talk WORK FROM HOME GLAM! My skin is majorly thanking me for the toned-down day-to-day makeup routine. My essentials have become a brow pencil, eyeshadow, light swipe of mascara and a tinted primer.

Goof Proof Brow Pencil Easy Shape & Fill

* Goof Proof Brow Pencil Easy Shape & Fill | Benefit Cosmetics *

Sephora, $32

I wear shade 3 (warm light brown).

Mono Pop Eyeshadow Palette

* Mono Pop Eyeshadow Palette *

Avon, $26

UD Troublemaker Mascara

* Troublemaker Mascara *

Urban Decay, $23.25

Clarins Green Primer

* SOS Primer *

Clarins, $39

I wear shade 4 (green).

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Playlist: April finds & faves

April finds & faves playlist cover - Angela McLean

I finished another year of university (one more to go!), baseball season is in full swing and the nice weather is slowly arriving. It might still be spring, but I think I can shamelessly be in full summer mode! Plus, so many artists are already releasing their summer singles and I’m obsessing over every single one of them.

Read on for this month’s ‘finds & faves’ playlist and my most played tracks.

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The 2015 JUNO Awards Slam Into Hamilton

The 2015 JUNO Awards logo

Once a year, The JUNO Awards bring a star-studded spectacle to one lucky Canadian city. This past weekend (March 15), it was Hamilton, Ontario that saw artists such as Shawn Mendes, MAGIC!, The Weeknd and Kiesza take the stage at FirstOntario Centre to crown a new batch of Canadian talent and entertain the crowd with amazing performances. Although many of the awards were handed out in advance at The JUNO Gala Dinner and Awards, the main show was not one to be missed!

Hedley frontman and JUNOs host Jacob Hoggard. (photo via much.ca)
Hedley frontman and JUNOs host Jacob Hoggard. (photo via much.ca)

This year’s JUNO host Jacob Hoggard opened the show with his Hedley bandmates performing their hit single, “Anything”. The performance, complete with pyrotechnics, was so hot it actually set off the venue’s fire alarm!

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