Food Delivery: February Macarons from The Social Blend

You know who always gets me the best Valentine's presents? Myself.

The Social Blend February Macarons
The Social Blend February Macarons

Like Christmas, I don't really celebrate this holiday, but a holiday is always an excuse to treat myself to something I wouldn't normally. It's practicing self-love, but like, within reason. As expected planned, I did not ration my Lunar New Year's macarons, so I obviously had to get another box from The Social Blend. (Listen, it's not my fault that Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day fall so close to each other this year. So this is still within reason, okay?) The actual Valentine's Day Box didn't excite me as much as their February exclusive flavours (denoted with an *), so I got a custom box of nine: 

Strawberry Crunch
Double Raspberry
Blueberry Cheesecake
Cherry Blossom*
Chocolate Salted Caramel*
Strawberry Lamington*
Mandarin*
Mixed Berry Pistachio*
White Chocolate Mango*

I just realized Family Day is coming up next Monday and these will definitely get stale by then, so unfortunately, I won't be able to ration these, either...

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Photolog 2021: Day 45 of 365

What started as trying to make an origami smeraldo flower bouquet somehow turned into making tea roses. But they actually turned out cuter than I expected. So it's now a Valentine's gift to myself. And the best part is, they won't die.

Photolog 2019: Day 45 of 365

My Valentine's gift to myself (the very best kind of gift, really) arrived just in time today! I had an $8 coupon from Sephora's Chinese New Year promotion plus cash back from Ebates, so I decided to get three shades of the Kaja Heart Melter Lip Gloss Stick in Sweet Talk, Crazy 4U, and Hunny Bun. Because what better gift to get myself for Valentine's Day than the most adorable heart-shaped glossy lipsticks?

Prihtee Paintz Nail Polish in Love Taco

A couple days ago, my friend, Fran, introduced me to her friend who owns an indie polish company called Prihtee Paintz. She had a box of her polishes with her, so I obviously had to take a look, and I bought two then and there (at $10.50 a pop, I could not resist... and, hey, I love supporting indie companies). I mean, come on, showing me nail polish is like showing an alcoholic a double shot of vodka. Anyway, she had some shades from her Valentine's collection with her, and when I saw Love Taco, I knew I had to have it. (I would also have bought the polish based on the name alone.) I'm not really celebrating Valentine's Day this year, but my nails sure are.

Love Taco (worn on top of Julep's Joan and Chanel's Rouge Noir)

Love Taco is a clear light pink base with neon pink large heart and hexagonal glitter, light pink pearl medium hexagonal glitter, red square glitter, and red holographic micro-glitter. Due to the intense amount of glitter, it does go on quite chunky and thick, and it does require some work to place the glitter pieces evenly. Because of the clear base and different sizes of glitter, it does not really reach opacity and should be used more so as a top coat (in the photo, I have used Julep's Joan on my index and ring fingers and Chanel's Rouge Noir on my middle and pinky fingers). I can't find an exact dupe; this has a lot more glitter than Nicole by OPI's Have a Heart. I used two coats on top of a cream polish, which seemed to yield a good amount of glitter per nail. This is one of those polishes that can be time-consuming to use because the glitter doesn't apply very evenly on the nail, so you might have to shift some here and there... But, hey, this has got to be one of the most fun polishes I've ever seen for Valentine's. It's like Cupid exploded all over my nails.

Happy Valentine's Day to those who are celebrating; Happy Thursday to those who aren't!

Valentine's Day

I got a really nice surprise from Shawn delivered to me this morning:

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day

For the first time in my life, I celebrated Valentine's Day, and it was pretty awesome.