Clothing Haul

Ross

Cotton On

American Eagle
Zak Body Care

Beauty Haul

Hello friends!! It has been literally forever since I last wrote on here and even longer since I've done a fashion/beauty post, which honestly I've been wearing some very cute outfits lately but my husband works all the time so I don't have anyone to take pictures for me. I'll have to convince my neighbor to do it I guess.

Anyways I figured with this move new state new makeup! So I went out and bought some awesome makeup items and I've been using them for the past week and I absolutely love them so I wanted to share them with you!

I bought all of these at Walmart, because navigating San Antonio streets is like my worst nightmare and I only know how to get to Walmart. But I learned Target is very close and living in Logan I missed Target so I'm super happy I have one again! I actually bought some clothes from Target. If you want a post on what I bought leave a comment and let me know!

On to my recent beauty purchases!

First on my list is Maybelline New York Dream Wonder Powder in shade 20 Classic Ivory. As you'll see in this post I pretty much only buy Maybelline products. I just love the way they work with my skin and I'm pretty much obsessed with Maybelline! I absolutely love the coverage that this powder gives me! It makes my skin look flawless which is always a plus. The only problem is that I think I got a shade too dark. I always thought I had tanner skin but whenever I buy foundation products I learn that I don't. My first application of this product it made my face look much too much darker than the rest of me but I think I've got a good system down now to even out the coverage and make it blend. 

If you are curious about my other favorite foundation products you can read all about my makeup essentials HERE (and again, they are mostly Maybelline products, ha ha). 

I have never been much of a perfume person. When I was little I had a perfume that made me break out in hives so I've always been wary about buying perfumes and just stuck to lotions and stuff. But I decided to try out the Taylor Swift Enchanted Wonderstruck Perfume Pencil because it was something different and I felt it would last longer than most perfumes. First of all, this smells INCREDIBLE!! I'm like addicted! Secondly I love that this isn't a liquid that I have to keep safe in my bathroom cabinet. No! I've been keeping this in my purse. Every morning I put some on my wrists and then on the side of my neck (pulse points) but I love that I can carry this with me and put on a little more if I feel the need. I totally want to go back and buy the other scents as well as stock up on this one, because I'm literally addicted.

I have been scraping out every last bit of my last liquid liner for almost a month! I was in desperate need of a new one (technically this was the only thing I actually needed, ha ha). So, of course, I turned to Maybelline. I had read a review online about the Maybelline New York Line Stiletto Ultimate Precision Liquid Eyeliner  and decided to try it out and I'm so glad I did! Even though I have ridiculous shaky hands all the time, it is so easy for me to just glide on this liner perfectly. I love the effect that it has and it lasts which is something really important to me. My only complaint is that it doesn't work well on the lower lash line, so I need to find something better for that. 

This is the last Maybelline one I swear! I'm in love with and will only buy Maybelline mascaras. I just feel like all the other brands don't have the same effect or irritate my eyes. It's their mascaras that made me obsessed with Maybelline in the first place! Every time I need mascara I try out a new Maybelline one. This time I picked the Maybelline New York Volum' Express One By One Washable Mascara and I only picked it because I liked the color of the bottle. I've been liking this one. It keeps my eyelashes feeling soft and looking natural. I hate when mascaras make my eyelashes too hard and fake. I don't know if this is my favorite of the Maybelline mascaras or mascaras in general. I just don't feel like it give quite as much volume or flare as I usually get. But you win some, you lose some. 

No more Maybelline! So I feel like I'm the last person in the world to get on the EOS trend and this is my very first EOS Lip Balm Sphere I've bought or used ever. This one is in "Summer Fruit" and it smells like those delicious peach ring candy things that my best friend and I would always have at sleepovers, it's pretty much amazing. But I've always been obsessed with keeping my lips moisturized, which is why I coat my lips with a huge amount of Vaseline every night before I go to bed and my husband makes fun of me for it. I think this is an absolutely fabulous lip balm, it keeps my lips soft, it smells amazing, and it's more fun than your typical chapstick. 

So the only reason I purchased Clean & Clear Advantage Acne Spot Treatment as opposed to another acne treatment product was price. I looked around and this one was the cheapest. Ever since moving to San Antonio I feel like I'm getting more acne, which doesn't make sense to me because I thought the Utah dry air would give me more than the humid air... maybe I'm completely backwards on that. Regardless, I've been wanting an acne spot treatment for a long time so I finally got one. I think this product is working really well for me and it has a good smell and it hasn't dried out my skin at all. Because I haven't used an acne spot treatment since like middle school I don't really have anything to compare this to. So it's been working for me but perhaps a different brand would work better, I really don't know. If you have a favorite acne spot treatment, let me know in the comments below!

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Well that's my current beauty haul! So here's the deal, I am raising money to buy myself a new laptop this summer with a camera and editing software and I'm hoping to start making Youtube videos!! So then my beauty or fashion hauls wouldn't be so laboriously written out like this one, it would be more like THIS or THIS. I would still put it up in a post though so you wouldn't have to visit my Youtube page, it would still be on here.  

As always you can find all my fashion and beauty posts if you click on the top tab that says FASHION. 

Fashion Friday: Beauty Haul

Again, this Fashion Friday post is about makeup and hair, not fashion. I apologize, but for me these are all grouped together.

So for Labor Day after splashing through puddles, my husband and I did a little shopping and I got some beauty buys done! On Youtube, a lot of my favorite Youtube-ers do Beauty Hauls where they have lame superficial videos where they talk about all the things they can buy because they're apparent rich. It's kind of annoying. This is a similar thing except a) it's not a video, b) I'm not rich and c) I don't have a ton of things to show you so I don't think I'm being very superficial (but let me know if you think I am, I'll work on that).

So the first place we went was TJ Maxx (see, I look for bargains!) My main goal there was to buy myself a cheap but good umbrella. I ended up getting this one:

It's just black, not too exciting, except it's really small so it will be easy to fit in my crowded purse or backpack and it was only $7.99, which is pretty good. I know I could have probably gotten one at the Dollar Store, but I trust TJ Maxx a bit more.

The other thing I bought at TJ Maxx was an eyeshadow palette by ELF.

I realize a lot of people may be thinking "If you're going to get an eyeshadow palette, do it right and get a really good expensive one". Yes, that would be nice if I had money. There are some things where I look more towards the expensive side because of the quality, but I don't use eyeshadow enough to justify an expensive purchase. And honestly, I love these colors and this quality is good enough for me.

Here's what it looks like outside the package and a close up on the colors:

It's pretty and perfect for me. I got this kit for $5.99. Great price for such beautiful colors!

[I love the colors and they work really well, but the brush that came with it is awful. I just want to throw it out!]

After TJ Maxx, I went over to Ulta. I love Ulta! I have a rewards card there so I got 20% off everything there today. Yay for savings!!

So I've been looking for these curlers forever and I finally found them!

I first wanted these after seeing this video like six months ago:

But Walmart and Kmart didn't have them and I kind of forgot about them for a while, but I finally found them at Ulta, and I am going to test them out and test out this tutorial and let you know if it works for me and my hair! These curlers I got for $7.49 (and then 20% off, yay Ulta!)

[... so I originally wrote this post on Monday, so this little part is the follow up. These are my curls:

 I really really liked them and got compliments! Yay! However, they were really tangled and frizzy because of me sleeping on it (or lack of sleep, considering they prevented me from sleeping) but I have an idea for a different way to use them that will hopefully keep the tangles and frizz away.. and allow me to sleep (next time I'll have my husband take the picture so you can see them better). 

So have you ever seen this:

Well I used one of the curlers I bought as a "Hot Buns" and made myself a lovely bun. It looked like this:

Bad picture, I know. It was incredibly simple!! It doesn't "click" like the Hot Buns, but I just folded it and pinned it down. I only used maybe five bobby pins and some hairspray and this bun didn't move all day. My husband loved it and kept saying how great and fancy I looked (he's a wonderful boost to my self esteem). 

If you want a tutorial on either of the hairstyles I did, just let me know. I'd be happy to do a video and/or post about it.]

The next thing I got I've been wanting for a while as well:

One day a few years ago while up at college I was feeling frustrated and angry and just went to a salon and got the bangs around my face dyed red. It didn't work incredibly well because I didn't want them to bleach my hair first, so they just put it on my dark hair. So it was kind of hard to see. I know I'm going to have the same problem with the hair chalk, but my hair is a bit lighter than it was then and I'm not looking for pure red hair.

I tested this out already and it just kind of puts a red tint to my hair that looks really pretty and unique. And I didn't even use hairspray to keep it in and I know that will help make it stay in better. So I'm excited to use this for real and I will let you know how it works! This was in the Halloween section (because aparently September/Labor Day means it's Halloween time) so that's why it's called "Fright Night" and "Rotten Red", but there are tons of other brands out there. This one cost me $4.99 at Ulta.

[I tried this out and it worked really well with hairspray and showed up great, even on my dark hair. But by the end of the day it looked more pink than red, and the chalk made a mess on my bathroom rug and it was a fairly long and annoying process, so I don't think I'll be doing this often. However, I did this when my hair was curled and I'm like 99.9% sure it would work better and be easier with straightened hair. So I'm going to try it again someday when I straighten my hair and have the time. If you'd like to see a picture or have a tutorial, just let me know!]

The last thing I got I've been looking for after watching a Meghan Rosette video on Youtube. I've been using the Jergens Natural Glow lotions since forever but they recently changed the smell and now the face one smells like my wedding cake... which is weird. Meghan Rosette recommended this one:

She said she likes this one bettter, so I'm counting on her opinion because I wanted a change. So I'll let you know what it's like. This one costs about the same as the Jergens one, however, It's so hard to get all the Jergens one out of the bottle! I'm hoping this one will be easier to get all of it out. This lotion cost me $10.49.

[I started using this as my daily moisturizer, I haven't seen a tanning difference, but I'm in love with the smell!! And it has a really nice feel to it. I'm really liking it so far.]

So this is the end of my beauty haul. I know it's short, but we're poor and I can't go out buying all the beauty stuff I want (and I have a huge list of what I do want... all in good time).

If you use any of the products let me know what you think or if you have even better products similar to these that I should try out, please leave a comment below!

 Thanks for reading! 

I watch "Haul" videos often on Youtube, so that's where I got the idea, leave a comment if you would like me to do more haul videos! I love to hear from my readers! 

Shopping Trip 2/25/2013

So today my mom and I went out shopping! I got some wonderful things, including the shoes for my wedding, I got to try on my wedding dress again and picked out a headpiece and veil to go with it! It was a fabulous shopping trip! As a part of my "In My Closet" segment, I'll be sharing with you what I buy, where and how much it cost.

So at Target I got two cardigans, black and white, and a gray maxi skirt. Everything was $15 each for a total of $48.08 and saved a total of $12.97! 

These will be so perfect for my wedding!!! I got these at DSW in the clearance section for 70% off! I bought them for $19.21 and saved $61.02!! A very successful trip indeed. 

I'd also like to point out that while buying the shoes, the sales clerk asked me if they were for prom. Nope, for my wedding. Last week a sales lady asked me how school was going and if I was excited for summer and spring break. No one believes that I'm 22, they all think I'm like 16 and in high school. Ha ha.