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[PaleOleander]

Quote: Originally Posted by lovepink /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  My beauty.com order.  Was so excited the UD palettes were only $10 each!  I checked last night and they are sold out /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />


That is an awesome deal, those palettes just came out a little over a year ago and were $36 each. I didn't buy any, but only because I have the UD shades already, or dupes.

No pics ( I need to get in the habit of taking haul pics) but I went to the freestanding Sephora near my house (three minute drive, a mixed blessing) on Monday. And Tuesday.

Monday I got:

• A couple clearanced Hello Kitty things to add to a gift package.
• Sugar Lip Trio, with three mini lip treatments, Honey, Cherry, and Petal. I wished I'd looked online beforehand, because there are several more kits with better value. I'd have much preferred to pay eight dollars more and received an additional mini lip treatment, plus their lip scrub, not to mention all of the lip treatments would have been more muted colors. The Cherry one is bright.
• A set of five eye brushes in a little black metal travel tube. I'm a big fan of Sephora's angled eyeliner brush that comes with most of their brush kits, I couldn't help myself.
• This year's Give Me Some Lip kit, which contains six glosses/pencils/lip treatments. I love it.
• Soap & Glory's Great Kisser lip balm. It might not be a full-size, it was near the checkout (that area is my downfall) and only $10.
• A mini glass nail file with travel case, Sephora brand.
• Mini pair of Tweezerman tweezers, I'm forever misplacing tweezers, so another pair was a good idea. Of course, I found two pairs I hadn't seen for a while almost as soon as I got home.

While I was waiting in the checkout line, I spied the Tokyo Milk Dark Tainted Love mini rollerball and handcreme set. I sampled the rollerball on my wrist and thought "Ehhhh, it's nice but I don't need it." During the rest of the evening, I kept catching the scent and going "Ohhhh, what smells so good? Oh, right." I did some research on Tokyo Milk, and Tokyo Milk Dark, and ended up at Sephora again the next day to sample everything Tokyo Milk Dark they carried.

I ended up getting:

• The Tainted Love travel duo
• Full sized perfume in Crushed
• Full sized handcreme in Everything & Nothing
• Rollerball in Chance

I very much wanted the Everything and Nothing perfume, but it was out of stock, as was Excess, which I also wanted. Luckily, I loved over half of the available scents. Plus the handcreme and rollerball were cheaper, allowing me to get more scents for my money.


I also got the VIce II palette recently, and while I love some of the shades, others are definitely 'meh.'
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[Lisabette]

Quote: Originally Posted by JC327 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I don't have cable over here so I just go to this website I stream all my shows for free. I am actually the biggest scaredy cat ever but I love American Horror Story! Horray for the early pay check and shopping spree. Let me know how the advent calendar is. I am thinking of getting one from Douglas (its kinda like Sephora) I read last year was a great one.
I love American Horror Story! Also The Walking Dead - Yay! they're back tonight, also tonight is The Witches of East End it's on Lifetime so I don't know if you can get it at the website you use, but if you can it's really good - it's based on a series of books by that title. I read them all and highly recommend /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[meaganola]

I love American Horror Story! Also The Walking Dead - Yay! they're back tonight, also tonight is The Witches of East End it's on Lifetime so I don't know if you can get it at the website you use, but if you can it's really good - it's based on a series of books by that title. I read them all and highly recommend /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

_The Witches of East End_? How similar is that to _The Witches of Eastwick_? I remember loving that book (I read it more than twenty-five years ago as a teenager, so my memory is a bit fuzzy on that. Thanks, college!), being eh on the movie, and hoping the tv series went somewhere because I do like Paul Gross (I don't think it wrapped up one single storyline before it got canceled). I expected to buy a lot more stuff this weekend than I actually did. I just got bored with shopping and stuck with just groceries. B&BW has practically no Halloween stuff! I specifically went there for new Wallflower warmers because mine have stopped working, and I didn't like *any* of the designs. I didn't feel like so much as setting foot in *Ulta*. Ulta! I walked right by! Because it sounded *boring*! And I didn't want one single thing from the new essence trend edition display! (Then again, everything in that stand is in the permanent collection, so the buy-it-now-or-miss-it-forever impulse isn't there.) I'm taking advantage of this right now, though, because I know I will go off the deep end when Sephora releases the next round of holiday stuff. And Black Friday is right around the corner, too.

 

[jessilynn]

You guys, seriously. I gotta stop. lol. Not too much makeup though. I had tp exchange my Kat Von D concealer since "light" was extremely dark and yellow-y on me. Exchanged it for something I hope is good...Cover FX...anyone ever used? I compared a bunch and liked the consistency and what not...guess we'll see how it wears! pretty please tell me what smells like chocolate /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> is it the kat vond d or the makeup forever? And what product is it? Thank you! One of the pics is a close-up of the Kat Von D powder foundation and the makeup forever (IT FREAKING SMELLS LIKE CHOCOLATE!)...cause I think the packaging is cute, lol. Oh, and did I mention I have a Bath and Body Works addiction? The sweet sales girl saw how badly I wanted the candles (although I only said I was waiting to buy when they go on sale...cause $22 for a candle is RIDICULOUS!) and she totally gave me the 2 for $22 just because! How sweet of her...it was like a welcome to Utah gift lol.Oh...and fangs. Because yes I'm going to wear them outside of Halloween lol. (And I had to get the newest NIN album...found it used! and a replacement for an old Marilyn Manson CD which got ruined in my recent move across states!)

 

[kprentice]

Just bought some of the soap and glory sexy mother pucker lipgloss stick thingies. Loving raplumzel!

 

[sparklegirl]

Just used my 700 birchbox points on a few items I've been lusting over, plus got the free hair dryer and mystery pack, and only paid $4!

  Quantity Price Total NUXE Reve de Miel® Ultra Nourishing Lip Balm 1 $19.00 $19.00 Macadamia Natural Oilâ„¢ Healing Oil Treatment 1 $39.95 $39.95 Gift With Purchase: Exclusive amika Mini Mod Blowdryer 1 $36.00 $36.00 Mystery Sample Pack (free with $35+ order) 1 $10.00 $10.00 Shea Terra Organics Rose Hips Black Soap Deep Pore Facial Cleanser 1 $16.00 $16.00 amika Obliphica Nourishing Mask - 60 ml 1 $12.00 $12.00 Subtotal $132.95 Discount (15% off for Glam Latina Readers, GLAMLATINA15, Free amika Blowdryer with Purchase, Free Sample Pack with Purchase) -$59.04 Shipping & Handling (Standard Shipping - Flat Rate) $0.00
 700 reward points -$70.00 Grand Total $3.91

 

[slinka]

Quote: Originally Posted by jessilynn /img/forum/go_quote.gif


 pretty please tell me what smells like chocolate

is it the kat vond d or the makeup forever? And what product is it? Thank you!
The Too Faced Milk Chocolate Soleil powder smells like chocolate /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> There are too shades- I'm ultra pale, so I use that one as a contour. It isn't cheap, but you get a lot of product...plus it smells and looks pretty lol.

 

[GoDawgs]

I'm hoping that my Urban Decay order comes tomorrow!  I got Vice 2 and lipsticks in Fiend and F-bomb.

 

[Lisabette]

Quote: Originally Posted by meaganola /img/forum/go_quote.gif


_The Witches of East End_? How similar is that to _The Witches of Eastwick_? I remember loving that book (I read it more than twenty-five years ago as a teenager, so my memory is a bit fuzzy on that. Thanks, college!), being eh on the movie, and hoping the tv series went somewhere because I do like Paul Gross (I don't think it wrapped up one single storyline before it got canceled).

I expected to buy a lot more stuff this weekend than I actually did. I just got bored with shopping and stuck with just groceries. B&BW has practically no Halloween stuff! I specifically went there for new Wallflower warmers because mine have stopped working, and I didn't like *any* of the designs. I didn't feel like so much as setting foot in *Ulta*. Ulta! I walked right by! Because it sounded *boring*! And I didn't want one single thing from the new essence trend edition display! (Then again, everything in that stand is in the permanent collection, so the buy-it-now-or-miss-it-forever impulse isn't there.)

I'm taking advantage of this right now, though, because I know I will go off the deep end when Sephora releases the next round of holiday stuff. And Black Friday is right around the corner, too.
My bad, it's Witches of East End no "The". Very different from The Witches of Eastwick, I remember loving that book too way, way back & meh on the movie, I would've liked to have seen the series last longer before it was canceled at least to wrap up the storylines, I had liked 666 Park Avenue and was disappointed in it being canceled but at least they took a break & rewrote it so it made some sense when it ended .

So far there are three books in  Witches of East End series, I just finished the most recent a few weeks ago and the TV series is following the first book pretty closely but with a few added storylines I don't remember, but I read the first book over a year ago

I'm surprised B&BW had almost no Halloween stuff! Must of been a run on all the Halloween things this weekend

How long do the Wallflower warmers usually last? I'm tempted to buy some, I like the Fall scents but haven't ever tried the Wallflowers, I have a tart burner I use and candles.

I usually can't walk by an Ulta without going in, sounds like you're in a non buying mood. I get like that sometimes and no matter what I look at I just have zero interest. I'm trying not to buy right now because as you said Sephora with their next round of holiday stuff & Black Friday coming up soon, not sure if I'll last that long lol

I did a recent buy at Ulta, UD Naked Basics - been wanting it forever & very happy I have it now. NYX Matte eyeshadow in Confession (olive-brown) NYX Butter Glosses in Eclair & Vanilla Cream Pie, Revlon Lip Butters in Red Velvet & Sugar Plum and a Revlon Lipstick in Mauvy Night - Love this color! I haven't bought a Revlon lipstick in a very long time with the exception for their lip butters but since they were on sale I figured why not, so happy I did but now I'm sorry I didn't get the other two I was looking at, I also got Big Sexy Hair Spray & Play which was an unexpected item I fell in love with from an ipsy bag.

I should of bought a nail hardener for this stupid thumbnail that keeps breaking, I thought it had stopped but no it broke again. I have to do some research on nail hardeners, I take Vitamin D & have plenty of calcium in my diet, all my other nails are hard & don't break, just this one thumbnail.

 

[lioness90]

I brought two B&BW candles - Sweet Pumpkin something and Autumn. 

And I brought some basic stuff from Ulta. I brought my first NYX pencil in Milk.

 

[Tiffany27la]

I brought two B&BW candles - Sweet Pumpkin something and Autumn.  And I brought some basic stuff from Ulta. I brought my first NYX pencil in Milk.

Can someone please explain the milk pencil hysteria to me? Because I am truly at a loss on this one..I bought it expecting to fall in love but EVERY single way I try to use it (shadow primer, water line, etc.) just looks chalky and uneven on me..what am I doing wrong??

 

[meaganola]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisabette /img/forum/go_quote.gif
<snip> I'm surprised B&BW had almost no Halloween stuff! Must of been a run on all the Halloween things this weekend

How long do the Wallflower warmers usually last? I'm tempted to buy some, I like the Fall scents but haven't ever tried the Wallflowers, I have a tart burner I use and candles.

I usually can't walk by an Ulta without going in, sounds like you're in a non buying mood. I get like that sometimes and no matter what I look at I just have zero interest. I'm trying not to buy right now because as you said Sephora with their next round of holiday stuff & Black Friday coming up soon, not sure if I'll last that long lol

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There was actually a blog post the other day about B&BW's lack of Halloween stuff this year.  It just doesn't exist. 

Yeah, I'm in a non-buying mood.  Sephora isn't even appealing!  Not even Birchbox, and I don't have to spend money there because of my points!  I'm taking this lack of buying interest while I can and going on an accidental no-buy (it was supposed to be a low-buy just because keeping pressure on the urge to get *something* new and fun is Bad News for me, but I'm not even interested in buying my allowed items), though, because I know there will be plenty of things I want shortly.  RHI that Sephora is getting a bunch of cool new things -- new holiday goodies *and* new awesome point awards -- so I'll just keep my money where it is and wait until those things convince me that they *need* to come live with me.

ETA:  Wallflowers!  Almost forgot!  The bulbs usually last a month or so for me, except my warmers (the part where you plug the bulb into and the part that plugs into the wall) are only intermittently warming nowadays, so the bulbs are lasting *much* longer.  I seem to recall being told that the warmers are supposed to last a year or so, which is why mine are only intermittently working now:  I've had them for longer than that.  I just keep forgetting to pick up new warmers.

 

[CheshireCookie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tiffany27la /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Can someone please explain the milk pencil hysteria to me? Because I am truly at a loss on this one..I bought it expecting to fall in love but EVERY single way I try to use it (shadow primer, water line, etc.) just looks chalky and uneven on me..what am I doing wrong??

Aw, I'm sorry you're having trouble with it!

How are you applying it? I only use it as a shadow base. I apply Urban Decay's Primer Potion first, then I dot on Milk over it and blend it with my fingertips till it smooths out evenly over the lid.

 

[Tiffany27la]

Aw, I'm sorry you're having trouble with it! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> How are you applying it? I only use it as a shadow base. I apply Urban Decay's Primer Potion first, then I dot on Milk over it and blend it with my fingertips till it smooths out evenly over the lid.

Doah! *facepalm* Cookie, I think you just changed my life , lol !! Clearly I had been applying it wrong, SO..from this point forward, I'm going to start integrating your tips and work it in OVER the primer... BRILLIANT /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[ZeeOmega]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tiffany27la /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Doah! *facepalm*

Cookie, I think you just changed my life , lol !!

Clearly I had been applying it wrong, SO..from this point forward, I'm going to start integrating your tips and work it in OVER the primer...

BRILLIANT

Don't beat yourself up over it, Tiff! Like most anything on the eyes, it works differently for different people. Some can use just the Milk (or the LA Colors equivalent, etc.) on their eyes as a base. Others need to use it over a primer. When I do use it, I pretty much do what Cookie does.

 

[CheshireCookie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tiffany27la /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Doah! *facepalm*

Cookie, I think you just changed my life , lol !!

Clearly I had been applying it wrong, SO..from this point forward, I'm going to start integrating your tips and work it in OVER the primer...

BRILLIANT

Hahaha! It's ok! @ZeeOmega is absolutely right, it works differently for some people than it does with others. For some using just the Milk by itself works well as a primer, but for others you might need to use both a primer AND the Milk pencil. Personally, I use Milk not just as a primer, but as a brightener so my eyeshadow color really pops on top.

I'd definitely recommend using the primer first, then the Milk pencil though, since the pencil is so creamy and a primer would help make the Milk Pencil blend easier and stick better to the skin.

Let me know if that helps! I'm a crazy NYX Milk gal! LOL

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

I'm one of those crazy people that uses JUST the Milk Pencil as a base/primer.  

 I dot/draw it all over, then blend it with the unused end of the cosmetic sponge wedge I used to apply foundation.  It is VERY uneven when first applied, so it does need to be smoothed out to an even coat!

And then, add some bright eyeshadow over it and gasp at your own beauty!

 

[yousoldtheworld]

Quote: Originally Posted by magicalmom /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I'm one of those crazy people that uses JUST the Milk Pencil as a base/primer.  

 I dot/draw it all over, then blend it with the unused end of the cosmetic sponge wedge I used to apply foundation.  It is VERY uneven when first applied, so it does need to be smoothed out to an even coat!

And then, add some bright eyeshadow over it and gasp at your own beauty!

I usually don't use a primer when I use a pencil like this, either...I just don't find that it makes a difference on me! BUt yeah, I do find them somewhat patchy or uneven looking alone, but you can never tell once I've applied shadow over them.

 

[elizabethrose]

With the Milk Pencil I do use a primer- but I'm a weirdo like that.. I like to use it on my lid only and then blend it out- put something bright on the middle of my lid, my super light brown naturals toward the inner corner (UD's scratch is my favorite for this)- and then cut crease with a black shadow of your choice (again, I like UD.. but whatever).  It's so pretty!  Definitely not an everyday look, but for going out it's awesome.

Weird question- has anyone used the Milk Pencil on your lips to do a different color lip?  Like not red or something.. I was thinking about using a base and then using the Milk pencil and then foiling a shadow?  This would definitely not be for going out into the world (although in Chicago I don't think anyone would care)- but more for a photoshoot type deal.

 

[CheshireCookie]

Quote: Originally Posted by magicalmom /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I'm one of those crazy people that uses JUST the Milk Pencil as a base/primer.  

 I dot/draw it all over, then blend it with the unused end of the cosmetic sponge wedge I used to apply foundation.  It is VERY uneven when first applied, so it does need to be smoothed out to an even coat!

And then, add some bright eyeshadow over it and gasp at your own beauty!

LOL ::GASP!:: I wonder if doing the Primer/Milk combo is better for people that tend to get oilier eyelids throughout the day? I definitely do, and when I tried just the Milk it didn't have the same staying power as it did with the combo. I'm so jelly using just the Milk works well for ya'll!

Bad oily eyelids, bad, bad, bad!