Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you all know about a giveaway going on by A Little Bit of Everything! She is celebrating her 50 subscribers with this great giveaway. Most of it seems to be surprise, but there will definitely be a full sized Essie nail polish in the mix! Congrats to Stephanie on her 50 sub mark and go check her out!
See ya,
-Rianne
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
T.J. Maxx Haul Part 2- Makeup, Nails, and Hair
Hey everyone!
If you haven't checked out part one of this haul the link is here. It's the clothes and accessories part of my haul and an explanation as to why this is in two parts to begin with.
Alright, so the whole reason I went into T.J. Maxx was to see if I could find any products from theBalm. I had seen so many people who had gotten AMAZING deals on sets there and I just had to see if I was lucky enough to find one too. And guess what?? I DID! It was hidden away in a sad corner, but I found it and immediately put it in my cart. It needed a good home and I was just the person to give it that. This set is the Black Tie Kit and is amazing! So well rounded to create an awesome look and comes with SEVEN full sized products! I'll go one by one on the breakdown.
First thing is their Hot Mama! blush. It is a beautiful peach-pink hue and has a bit of shimmer to it. The packaging says this can be used as an eyeshadow as well and I might just take them up on that claim. It is just so pretty and reminds me of NARS' Orgasm blush. Price wise, this blush alone would cost me $19.
Next products are two of their Shady Lady pressed powder shadow/liners. These retail for $16 each and I received the colors Caught in the Act Courtney and Shameless Shana. The Courtney shade is a deep chocolate brown with a bronze shimmer in it. I love brown and neutral shadows, so this one is a HUGE hit as a crease color for me. The Shana color is a dark bronze color and is equally as gorgeous as the other color included. This is also one of the shades that MyGlam had sent out in their January bag, but I didn't get a shadow that month. These shadows are ones I can see myself reaching for all the time and I am so thrilled to have them!
Next product included is a product called Overshadow and it is designed to do just that. It is a super fine milled mineral shimmer that you put over your shadows as a highlight and boost. This is in the color No Money, No Honey. The color is fantastic. It is extremely shimmery as to be expected and is in a light golden honey color. It swatched so smoothly and I am interested in how this will make my shadows POP like it claims. Also, this product is $15.
Next product is a nail polish from their Hot Ticket line. This was the product that I received in my January MyGlam bag from theBalm, only in a different color. I loved the formula of these polishes, but the $10 price tag is a little steep for my taste. I am so happy to have another one of these polishes though and in the color Better Off Red, which is a true pin-up girl red. And believe it or not, I don't have a single red polish in my collection.
The last two products are the Cheater! Volumizing Mascara in Black and the Balm Shelter tinted lip gloss in Pin Up Girl. These retail for $18 and $19 respectively. The mascara seems extremely promising. It has a great big brush and the formula seems just about perfect. I love mascara. It is the one beauty product I could never live without, so I am more than happy to give this product a try. The lip gloss is in beautiful red tint and when applied is not sticky like regular glosses either. The color is super sheer, but build-able and looks really great with my fair skin! Very happy! So if we're keeping track that total came to $113 retail and I got this set for $12!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked at the price tag!
Now onto the non-Balm products, the next purchase that I made was also hidden away in that same sad corner. I found two color cubes from Essie in their summer and wedding collections for 2011. I love sets like these since I never use a full bottle of polish anyways. The colors in these two boxes are awesome and I can't wait to try them out. In the wedding collection, the four colors were Maid of Honor (Light Nude Cream), First Dance (Red-ish Pink), Borrowed & Blue (Light Baby Blue Cream), and Better Together (Light Pink Cream). My favorite just from looks in the bottle is probably Borrowed & Blue. In the summer collection, the colors were Meet Me at Sunset (Bright Tangerine Orange), Smooth Sailing (Periwinkle with blue and pink shimmer), Braziliant (Traffic Cone Orange with Pink Shimmer), and Super Bossa Nova (Bright Fuschia Pink with pink shimmer). I love all of these ones, but my favorite was Super Bossa Nova. Gorgeous summer color! I snagged these cuties for $9 each when they are regularly $17. Best way for me to add to my polish stash and try out new colors all in one!
The last item I picked up, I know this is never ending, but it is a thermal protectant spray by Rusk for when I flat iron my hair. I have been wanting a bottle of this stuff forever and my sister has it and wouldn't let me steal it! ;) I LOVE this stuff, it smells amazing and works even better! My hair always ends up silky smooth and gorgeous after using it! I picked this up for $9 when I could only ever find it for $20 anywhere else! So happy with this one and my sister is jealous of the deal that I got.
This was a great shopping trip for me, even if I ended up spending way more than I anticipated! I definitely suggest anyone to visit their local T.J. Maxx and see if you can get any of these great products for yourself!
Check out Part One!
Until next time,
-Rianne
If you haven't checked out part one of this haul the link is here. It's the clothes and accessories part of my haul and an explanation as to why this is in two parts to begin with.
Next product is a nail polish from their Hot Ticket line. This was the product that I received in my January MyGlam bag from theBalm, only in a different color. I loved the formula of these polishes, but the $10 price tag is a little steep for my taste. I am so happy to have another one of these polishes though and in the color Better Off Red, which is a true pin-up girl red. And believe it or not, I don't have a single red polish in my collection.
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The last two products are the Cheater! Volumizing Mascara in Black and the Balm Shelter tinted lip gloss in Pin Up Girl. These retail for $18 and $19 respectively. The mascara seems extremely promising. It has a great big brush and the formula seems just about perfect. I love mascara. It is the one beauty product I could never live without, so I am more than happy to give this product a try. The lip gloss is in beautiful red tint and when applied is not sticky like regular glosses either. The color is super sheer, but build-able and looks really great with my fair skin! Very happy! So if we're keeping track that total came to $113 retail and I got this set for $12!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked at the price tag!
Now onto the non-Balm products, the next purchase that I made was also hidden away in that same sad corner. I found two color cubes from Essie in their summer and wedding collections for 2011. I love sets like these since I never use a full bottle of polish anyways. The colors in these two boxes are awesome and I can't wait to try them out. In the wedding collection, the four colors were Maid of Honor (Light Nude Cream), First Dance (Red-ish Pink), Borrowed & Blue (Light Baby Blue Cream), and Better Together (Light Pink Cream). My favorite just from looks in the bottle is probably Borrowed & Blue. In the summer collection, the colors were Meet Me at Sunset (Bright Tangerine Orange), Smooth Sailing (Periwinkle with blue and pink shimmer), Braziliant (Traffic Cone Orange with Pink Shimmer), and Super Bossa Nova (Bright Fuschia Pink with pink shimmer). I love all of these ones, but my favorite was Super Bossa Nova. Gorgeous summer color! I snagged these cuties for $9 each when they are regularly $17. Best way for me to add to my polish stash and try out new colors all in one!
The last item I picked up, I know this is never ending, but it is a thermal protectant spray by Rusk for when I flat iron my hair. I have been wanting a bottle of this stuff forever and my sister has it and wouldn't let me steal it! ;) I LOVE this stuff, it smells amazing and works even better! My hair always ends up silky smooth and gorgeous after using it! I picked this up for $9 when I could only ever find it for $20 anywhere else! So happy with this one and my sister is jealous of the deal that I got.
This was a great shopping trip for me, even if I ended up spending way more than I anticipated! I definitely suggest anyone to visit their local T.J. Maxx and see if you can get any of these great products for yourself!
Check out Part One!
Until next time,
-Rianne
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Teen Vogue Birchbox
Alright, I was extra greedy this month and signed up for a second account so I could get both a regular box on my normal account and a Teen Vogue sponsored box on my second. And THANK GOD I did! This box was great and not because I loved everything, but the quality of the products I did love are fantastic! :D There were only five products in this box and they were all brands selected by Teen Vogue's Eva Chen.
The first product in this box was from Annick Goutal and it was their Petite Chérie perfume sample. I didn't particularly hate the scent, but there wasn't much to it. I couldn't really smell anything and that is what put me off by it the most. The card does say that it is an "understated" scent, but I think non-existent takes being understated to a whole new level. All in all, it will just go in a box of my unused samples and maybe I will take it out later down the line and absolutely adore. Who knows?
The next sample I received, which was actually a full size, was a nail polish from Essie's luxeffects collection. The color I got was Set in Stones and it is a silver glitter top coat and it is really pretty. I did attempt to exchange it at my local ULTA for a different polish in the same collection, but not because I didn't like it. I just wanted the multicolored flake topcoat instead since it is something I don't have in my collection at the moment. Unfortunately, ULTA wouldn't let me exchange it because the label was in the wrong place and the computer gave her an alert that it wasn't an ULTA nail polish, so whatever. I kept it and I have used it and do like it quite a bit. So it wasn't the end of the world that the exchange didn't go through.
The third item in the box was the Max Anti-Shine Mattifying Gel by PETER THOMAS ROTH. I haven't used this, but have seen reviews for it online and it seems like it is a pretty solid product. I'm excited and will probably try to use it in the next couple days to gauge it's performance, but until then there isn't much else to say about it.
The fourth item in the box was the BEST item I could have received! I am so happy that I finally get to try this product out without having to dish out the $24 for a full size without knowing if I would like it. This wonderous item is from Tarte and it is one of their LipSurgence lip tints. I orginally got the color Joy, which is a super orange-y color and I knew that would look crazy on my fair skin, but I was luckily able to exchange this one at my ULTA unlike the polish. I tried out a few of the colors and finally settled on Enchanted. It is a berry pink-ish red and I thought it would have been WAY too dark on me in the tube, but it was just a perfect amount of tint on my lips that I couldn't help but choose it. I am MORE than happy about the quality of this product! Super moisturizing and smells minty and looks great with the perfect shine and tint without any stickiness. I will DEFINITELY be buying more of these in the future, but might wait until they have another set of them like they had during Christmas. I am so sad that I waited and questioned buying them a few months back! DUH! Oh well, now I know for sure and can't wait to get more! LOVE!
The last item was something I had received in a past birchbox on my normal account and I didn't love it and I didn't hate it, but was just one of those "Meh" things that I don't care too much about. This was the twistband hair tie. I saw that everyone was getting bright fun colors in their boxes and was excited about that aspect of it since the one I had received in the past box was just a plain black color. But lo and behold, I got another black band...haha just my luck. It didn't really phase me much. I was so happy with the other products that this one flop didn't bug me too much. And I mean, it's still a useable item. Who can't use another hair tie, honestly?
Overall, I am sooooo happy that I spent the extra $10 this month! This box was amazing and I finally got to try out a product that I had been eyeing up for MONTHS! Thanks so much Birchbox for a great March!
The first product in this box was from Annick Goutal and it was their Petite Chérie perfume sample. I didn't particularly hate the scent, but there wasn't much to it. I couldn't really smell anything and that is what put me off by it the most. The card does say that it is an "understated" scent, but I think non-existent takes being understated to a whole new level. All in all, it will just go in a box of my unused samples and maybe I will take it out later down the line and absolutely adore. Who knows? |
| Essie's Set in Stones over Julep Maven's Anne |
The next sample I received, which was actually a full size, was a nail polish from Essie's luxeffects collection. The color I got was Set in Stones and it is a silver glitter top coat and it is really pretty. I did attempt to exchange it at my local ULTA for a different polish in the same collection, but not because I didn't like it. I just wanted the multicolored flake topcoat instead since it is something I don't have in my collection at the moment. Unfortunately, ULTA wouldn't let me exchange it because the label was in the wrong place and the computer gave her an alert that it wasn't an ULTA nail polish, so whatever. I kept it and I have used it and do like it quite a bit. So it wasn't the end of the world that the exchange didn't go through.
The third item in the box was the Max Anti-Shine Mattifying Gel by PETER THOMAS ROTH. I haven't used this, but have seen reviews for it online and it seems like it is a pretty solid product. I'm excited and will probably try to use it in the next couple days to gauge it's performance, but until then there isn't much else to say about it.
Overall, I am sooooo happy that I spent the extra $10 this month! This box was amazing and I finally got to try out a product that I had been eyeing up for MONTHS! Thanks so much Birchbox for a great March!
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