Sephora mini haul

So in the craziness of my life (moving, living with my mother-in-law, working, and trying to spend some quality time with my family), I have been less than in the Christmas spirit.  Typically I really enjoy the holiday season.  As a family we decorate the tree, put up Christmas lights all over the house (my sons favorite), make gingerbread houses and Christmas cookies.  This year, even with all of these activities, I just wasn't feeling it.  I think being displaced and the stress of living with my mother-in-law really put me through the ringer.  A few days before Christmas I decided to take the kids to the mall, walk around, and attempt to get into the sprit of things. Of course I just could not resist going into Sephora (much to my sons dislike).  After walking around for a bit I grabbed the Disney Kiss the Girl perfume.  I am finding that with age I am getting very picky with my perfumes.  Some really irritate me and give me a headache.  This perfume did bother my head and I really liked the smell so I grabbed this deal.  The perfume retailed for $58 but was marked down to $41.

I then have saw that some of the Pantone line holiday line was marked down.  The Radiant Cut Shadow Palette was the first thing that I grabbed.  A set of eight jewel-toned shadows that looked so prettying in the display case but unfortunately they didn't have a sample to swatch.  I grabbed this set but then was very disappointed to find that a shadow was broken and had made a mess ALL over the inside of the palette.  I don't have a picture so show since I then returned the set for a refund.  I am pretty relieved that I returned this set since there were some pretty mixed reviews on the Sephora website.

I then got the Pantone eyeshadow Palette.  I really like that the lid completely lifts off of this palette and that the magnets are strong enough to hold the lid in place for travel, plus there is a mirror in the lid. Overall I really like the shadow collection.  Nice color pay-off and selection but I wish that there were a few more matte shadows to complement this selection.

I then grabbed the Precious Metal Mousse Shadow on sale from $18 down to $12.  This item was available in either gold (which I got) or silver.  After swatching this item on my hand I knew that I had a have it.  Great color pay off and I have now used this as not only as shadow base but also as a liner on my top lid (on top of my black liner).   This is really a great product and I am really happy I grabbed this product.

When I went to return the Radiant Cut Shadows and a brush set that I had bought and had a little buyers remorse.  I then saw that they had in stock the Tarte of Giving Collectors Set and Travel Bag.   I have not been able to find this set online exempt for Amazon who had it for about $100 (this item retailed for $59).  I have seen the awesome reviews for this set, not to mention I am quickly becoming Tarte obsessed!  The travel bag is a beautiful purple satin quilted fabric, flip open, and has a removable (with snaps) pouch, two zippered pockets, and a hanger to hang this bag while traveling. With the many back and forth trips to my parents house, I thought this bag would be great for holding some of my makeup necessities.  In the removable pouch there is a small maracuja oil, eye treatment, Amazonian clay blush in Memorable, cheek stain, and mascara.  There are 20- limited edition eyeshadows and 8 deluxe maracuja lip glosses.

12- Hour blush in Memorable and Flush check stain

Lip glosses: sully, john, kam, finn, lizzy, spence, viv, ro

Starting in the upper left hand corner (clockwise): Kim's porcelain doll, Jen's jump rope, Nuria's boom box, Staci's charm bracelet, Scott's skateboard

Leigh's locket, Candace's tap shoes, Claire's cashmere gloves,  Maureen's soccer ball, Ali's bicycle

Steph's pearls, Jess' storybook, Sam's ice skates, Meredith's hula hoop, Erica's dollhouse 

Bianca's coloring book, Anna's tea set, Kate's puppy, Tom's stuffed tiger, Daniel's teddy bear

CVS Haul! (Again)

Thanks again to Nouveau Cheap for posting the CVS clearance list!  I, like every other time I head over there for the clearance end up leaving with a whole bunch of goodies.

It is amazing to me how every clearance can be so different from season to season.  You just never know what companies are going to get rid and add to their line.  Last time I felt like I ended up with a ton of lip colors and mascaras while this time I got a ton of foundations, bronzers and cheek colors!

Just a little overview of my haul!

When I saw that the Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 Hour foundation was 75% off, I knew that I had to get a bunch...or how about all of their colors.   Hello!  $2 per foundation...I am in! With doing other people makeup now and then it is great to have a variety of colors to mix and match to other skin tones.  

I absolutely LOVE Sally Hansen's Salon Effects nail strips.  I typically get about 4 or 5 days out of these nail polish strips before they start to chip or peel off of my nails.  I love the variety of colors and patterns and again, these were down to about $2 a piece.  

I wasn't impressed with the items that Revlon had on clearance but figured I would try the Color Stay eyeshadow sticks and the lip gloss.  

I don't know that I have ever owned a Coty product.  They totally bring me back to watching my grandmother put on her makeup, but since the loose powders were down to about $2 I figured it would be good to have

I currently don't own anything from the Physicans Formula line so when I saw a few items 75% off (bringing them down to about $3 a piece) I figured I would grab them.  I picked up a blush and bronzer that were supposed to gauge the ph level of your skin and match your skin tone.  I then picked up three other bronzer- the top center is the shimmer strip bronzer which can be used not only as a bronzer but as an eye color.  The two bronzers in the center are from the happy booster line.  Finally I picked up the concealer 101 duo- green cream concealer to cover up any imperfections and a cream skin-toned concealer to place on top of the green concealer.  

I was so excited to see the Nicole By OPI nail polishes (the Modern Family and Selena Gomez lines only)75% off!  I grabbed a bunch, as you can see, figuring these would be great stocking stuffers or gifts for some of my daughters friends!