Gigantic disco ball at Luminato

As Summer approaches, there are more and more things happening in Toronto.  Last last weekend, I went and checked out a few events that were happening locally, including Luminato and the Much Music Video Award Turn It Up Beauty Bar.

Line up for L'Oreal Paris Nail Bar

Nail polishes galore... I want them ALL... So beautiful!

L'Oreal Paris set up their Nail Bar at the TIFF Lightbox over the Luminato opening weekend.  It was a huge hit.  There's always a line.  People are really curious what nail polishes option they have with the L'Oreal Paris Color Genius App.

For those of you who don't know, the color genius app will give you suggestions on what makeup/nail to wear.  You simply take a picture of yourself with the app (or use what's in your photo library), and it'll give you three combinations for you to "blend it", "match it", or "clash it".  After event goer has picked their nail polish, they'll get a mani and also receive a bottle of nail polish from L'Oreal Paris.  What a neat idea!

This year's Father's Day, I did not have any plans with my family because they're 7000 miles away.  So I went to the Garnier pop-up tent at Luminato.  It's not the first year that Garnier had participated in the Luminato festival.  This year, they were offering hair colour diagnostics, skincare analysis, and hair styling!

Hair Colour Diagnostics Station

Skincare Analysis Station

Hair Styling Station

Nathalia from Garnier showed me around the tent.  My first stop was the Hair Colour Diagnotisc station.  Everyone who visited the tent was given a pamphlet to help them take notes and see what Garnier products would suit them.


The hair colour specialist used the hair colour diagnostic tool that you can also find on the Garnier website to help you identify which colour would go with your skin tone and eye colour.  For me, my natural hair colour is Level 200, and the lady told me I can go up one or two level (that's level 300 or 400) if I want to see result with semi-permanent hair dye.  Of course, if I was looking into permanent hair dye, I could go a little higher too.  However, I would like less damage done to my hair, so she recommended me to try the HerbaShine ones.

Hair colour diagnostic tool!  You can try it out here

Garnier hair dyes are my go-to when I used to dye my hair every 6 months.  I need to try their semi-permanent ones!

If you live in the GTA, it's very likely that you have heard of or been to Luminato.  Luminato is a Festival of Arts and Creativity that happens every year in June for 10 days in Toronto, Ontario.  This year is their 6th anniversary and it is happening right now (June 8 to June 18)

Maybelline Pop Up Tent at Luminato

This year, Maybelline has set up a tent offering touch ups, an instant photo booth, and a free lipstick for everyone who stopped by!

Waiting lounge

Pretty editorial!

Another one!  Look! It's Doraemon =D

A free lipstick and a coupon for everyone who stopped by

The beauty blogger in me told me I should swatch all the colours!

Kiss N Tell Wall

Maybelline MUA in action!

That's the kind of vanity I want lol

I headed down there on Thursday after work to catch the Maybelline Summer Trend workshop by the one and only Grace Lee!  Grace is the Maybelline Lead Makeup Artist in Canada.  She did two demos on two beautiful girls form ROI relations.  First, Grace created, as one of the beauty editors there like to call it, the mermaid look...