Skin Food Haul!

Hi all!

I was working on this other post but I thought since time is usually of the essence I should write about this first! If you live in NYC; specifically in the Flushing, Queens area, a Skin Food store opened up on Friday 9/5! So right now is their grand opening!

There’s not too much to add so let’s get on with the post!

Late Clio Haul!

Clio is this really fun make up line in South Korea. If you know who Dara from 2NE1 is, she’s basically the face of Clio at the moment. Previously it used to be Lee Hyori, the queen. FYI: I want to be her because she is basically an amazing person. But this is from a while ago and I totally forgot that I had this on my camera.

Clio is not by any means a cheap store. It is pricey however they did have several deals But I did get a bunch of stuff

LUSH Haul

Happy 2014! I hope this year is good to all of us (: 2013 was a pretty stressful year for me, especially towards the end, so I’m hoping I will have the opportunity to get myself and my life all sorted out. There’s just something so refreshing and motivating about the beginning of January!

But the best part about the holiday season is the Buy One, Get One sale at LUSH. true story. My friend and I decided to go to their Upper West Side location because it is the furthest away from the more popular areas of Manhattan, and we figured it would therefore be less crowded and have more stock. Unfortunately, it seemed that several other people had the same idea and it was crowded anyway haha. But we managed, and left the store with the overwhelming urge to bathe. I have to wait until my visiting family leaves though, since our water won’t heat up quickly enough with all these people in the house. ;_______;

blah blah blah jessica what did you buy already geez

Singapore Beauty Haul

I’m back in the US! To be honest, I’ve actually been back for over a month now but life got in the way of posting this! Also I wanted to upload some of my post backlog without needing to edit everything to be in past tense 😛 Anyway, minus one or two things I’ve already used up/had been using and thus forgot to put in the photo, here is the embarrassing amount of stuff I bought in Singapore (and Malaysia)! There’s a whole bunch here I bought for others/split with friends/I guess my mom can have some too (hence the duplicates), but I’d be lying if I said I exercised my impressive self-control skills >_____> I have a face mask buying problem. Especially when I’m sharing my hauls with other mask-obsessed friends. half this photo is masks wtf

Also I went to Etude House so often during the Great Singapore Sale that I got all the free things >___> yes, that is an owl blanket-cape-thing. With a hood. i regret nothing

–Jessica

Disney Villans & Ardell!

This has to be my favorite purchase so far! So, news is that Walgreens has a bunch of Disney Villans collections by Ardell, SOHO, Scrunchi and e.l.f. that came to the stores. Now I have kept my eye out and my local Walgreens did not get anything that I wanted (Ardell lashes and Scrunchi hair ties) until just this weekend!

I was so excited when Jessica told me about it on Saturday! So when I got off at work and went home later that night, my first stop was Walgreens before it closed at midnight. Like… my local Walgreens gets sold out of these things really fast so I wanted to make sure that everything I wanted was there!

Excuse the blurriness of the following picture. I was too excited to take a good one. Lmao and then I threw out the packaging for the hair ties. Yikes, but oh well! I couldn’t decide on which eyelash kit to buy so I got them all. I tried them on but ah…. at least one of them makes me look a bit extra… like super extra! But the packaging on these lashes are just so on point, I just want to hang them up and never use them. ;_____; They’re so pretty I can’t help it.

Now the hair ties are a bit of an after thought for me because I was soo focused on the lashes. But looking at them I picked up the one that represented Ursala and the Evil Queen (Snow White). Of the four patterns that were available (Ursala, Evil Queen, Cruella de Ville, and Maleficent) I liked the ones for Ursala and the Evil Queen the best.

Did you manage to find these?? 🙂 🙂

Crazy Cosmetics Consumer

Did I mention that I have a problem? I hope I did, because this is going to be an intense haul post.

First of all…. let me show you the picture.

It’s hilarious. I got so much stuff that I forgot one and gave up on this after retaking the picture. oy! Ok I should go down the list of what I got (The Etude House stuff is actually from Jessica, as you know she spent some time in Singapore. While she was there I had given/transferred her money and asked me to buy me a few things.)

Hard Candyyy!!!!

Okay this may be super late but I bought all the things!!!! Okay not a lot. But I visited a friend in Connecticut and visiting Walmart is a MUST. Ex ecially since there is none in NYC. :(( This is my mini shopping spree. Hehe…. I really dont need any of these though…… Shopping is a problem wih me…..

Etude House and Sasa

I went to VivoCity, Singapore’s largest shopping mall, the other day. oh maaaaan this place is huge. I wish I had taken a few pictures, but it’s the weekend, so it was pretty crowded. Plus I was only given an hour to run around before I had to meet up with my family, since they have no way of reaching me. (one hour in the country’s largest retail center are you kidding meeeeeee) I wasn’t too interested in brands and stores that can easily be found in the States, but it’s the middle of The Great Singapore Sale (like two months of Black Friday, but without the trampling and the waking up at 3am and the long lines), and I am finding it difficult to just walk past all these 70% off signs 😛 I stopped by the Etude House booth, as well as the Sasa store, and left feeling extremely glad the Singaporean dollar is worth a little less than the US one at the moment, hahahah.

Post-No-Buy Haul!

I am not religious, but I decided to try going on a no-buy for the duration of Lent. I didn’t buy anything except food (and uh, booze)! It was pretty easy at first, since it’s not like I shop every day or anything. Plus I had made a couple online purchases before Lent started, so I still had a few things to look forward to getting, haha. It was so hard to pass up all the sales though! But it really forced me take a step back and evaluate what would have been an impulse purchase, rather than something I’d actually use regularly.

It also made me realize how much stuff I already have! Seriously. I have a lot of stuff. Especially makeup! I have so many eye shadow samples that I honestly think I won’t need to buy any for the rest of my life. My new goal is to finish at least ten of them before I let myself even consider getting any more.

ANYWAY when my no-buy ended I went on a bit of a spree x: I did mostly stick to picking up basics/essentials, like socks and underwear haha. But I did convince myself I deserved a reward 😛 So this is the slightly more interesting stuff!