ULTA had a 20% off coupon as well as 10% off any fragrance (plus you get a free robe) and there was also $5 off $10 for non-prestige products so I pretty much had a field day. I had been waiting all year for the Sephora Friends and Family sale and they decided to make it exclusive for only VIB members so I decided to take my business elsewhere lol. Although they did send out a $15 off $50 purchase which I did end up using.
First thing I got was a fragrance. I've been looking for a new fragrance since my Chanel one is almost gone. It's hard for me to pick another fragrance because I love that one so much and my friends have already associated that scent with me. Also that scent seems to stay on me for a long time. I was actually looking for Flowerbomb but they don't carry that at ULTA and the lady recommended this one. She said it smells very similar to Flowerbomb and she was saying so many good things about it. I sprayed the Noir and the regular Viva La Juicy and ran around the store buying all my other stuff before going with the Noir. I would say the Viva La Juicy is more on the floofy side (like light and flowery) whereas the Noir smells a bit warmer? (If you can't tell I'm SUPER good at describing scents ;) lol). I really love the scent of the Noir but I'm a little bit disappointed by the staying power of it :(. I honestly can't smell it on my wrists after a few hours (if you ever see me sniffing my wrists, you now know why lol).
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| viva la juicy noir |
One of my holy grail make up products is the Urban Decay Makeup Setting Sprays. I've used all the different ones and I love that it makes my makeup look less powder-y and makes it stay all day long.
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| urban decay all nighter make up setting spray |
I've heard a lot of good things awhile back about this Elizabeth Arden 8-hr cream from a lot of YouTubers so I decided to pick it up. My skin hasn't been it's best recently (probably because I haven't been diligently using my Clarisonic) and I heard that this stuff clears up acne and really moisturizes the skin as well. Apparently it contains salicylic acid which works a lot better for my skin than benzoyl peroxide. Plus benzoyl peroxide tends to bleach everything insight so I tend to try to only save that for a more massive attack for the more stubborn pimples. I guess we'll have to see how this works.
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| elizabeth arden eight hour cream |
Yet another holy grail product. Seriously, I must have been living under a rock because I don't know why I didn't buy this earlier. It completely masks any large pores you have. I have a lot of large pores on my face especially in my cheek area and under the eyes so this has been amazing for that. The consistency of this stuff is similar to the Smashbox primer but tinted and creamier so it's a lot easier to apply all over. The Smashbox primer works super well but it breaks me out every time so I only use it for super special occasions. Would highly recommend this product.
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| benefit - the pore-fessional |
Anastasia Brow Wiz pencils. Gotta stock up on this sucker because it probably lasts me less than a month. Super convenient because this is the twist up one. I got it in Brunette.
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| anastasia brow wiz skinny brow pencil in brunette |
I've heard so much about this Benefit Hoola bronzer and decided to pick one up to see what it was all about. I haven't started using it yet but I have high hopes!
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| benefit - hoola bronzer |
I also picked up this Urban Decay single eyeshadow in Buck (which is in one of the Naked palettes, I forget which one). I wanted the single eyeshadow because I pretty much use this as a base for my eyes and I don't really want to carry my Naked palette around.
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| urban decay eyeshadow in buck |
And then to get the $5 of $10 on non-prestige item, I bought these Revlon lip glosses which were BOGO 50% off. The one on the left is Super Natural which I've heard a lot of people talk about and the one on the right is Pango Peach. There are a lot of micro sparkles in the Pango Peach and I feel like it's a really cute color for the holidays if you are more conservative and don't want to do red lips or vampy lips.
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| revlon super lustrous lip glosses |
Ever since I went crazy at Walmart and bought a ton of the Real Techniques brushes which I've been loving, I've been wanting more! Went back to get this shading brush. Hopefully this one will be just as good as the other brushes!
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| real techniques shading brush |
Almay eyeliner pencils are my favorite drugstore eyeliner. It goes on fairly dark and isn't as breakable as the Milani liquid eye pencils. I decided to stock up since they were also BOGO 50% off and they were able to apply the $5 of $10 on it.
Last thing I picked up was yet another thing I wanted to try since it looked like it would be a good base color for my lids. It's the Stila eyeshadow in Puppy. Now that I've opened up both Puppy and the Urban Decay Buck, they look so similar that I'm thinking of returning one lol. I didn't realize they were pretty much the same thing.
Hope you enjoyed this haul! I probably won't be posting anything until after the holidays since I work the next couple of days but I wanted to wish you all a Happy Holiday!!
