Last month I had the very lucky fortune of being treated to a gel mani courtesy of the The Ten Spot nestled right in the heart of Yaletown here in Vancouver. This is just one of the latest beauty bar locations opened in the franchise created by Canadian delight Kristen Wood – The Ten Spot…
Posts here on GLG have been a little slim lately, not for lack of ideas (I have SO many great posts coming, I swear!) but for lack of time. It’s that old story of having a day job, and in my case that day job is in retail. If you’ve ever worked in any sort…
A couple of weeks back I was invited to head down to the Vancouver Aveda Institute to check out the facilities and enjoy a wash, cut and blow dry. If you’ve read Girl Loves Gloss for a while you know that I’ve struggled with my hair in the last couple of years, mainly with the…
If you were a teen or older in the 90’s you’ll probably remember the original Hardy Candy Nail Polishes. They came in a slew of candy colours, complete with a very 90’s appropriate plastic/rubber ring on the neck of the bottle that generally corresponded with the shade. In fact, if you read one of my…
Me at 20 years old in 2003 on the left, and me today, March 8th 2015 In honour of International Womens Day 2015, I thought I would post some thoughts I wish I had known as my younger self. Youtube has been promoting it’s #DearMe campaign, asking women to share their thoughts for their younger…
You can classify me as the type that doesn’t ‘do’ resolutions normally, but I was thinking tonight about this last year and some of the same thoughts kept popping into my head which naturally led to some things I want to continue and some things I want to change for 2015. Some lessons I learned…
I mentioned how much I love a bit of #throwbackthursday over on Instagram, and so I took a walk down memory lane to the 90’s, or rather my teen years. It was a rough decade in my opinion for beauty and fashion, but hey, I could catch myself saying that again in 10 years. Here’s…