I’m just going to do this the easy way: photo, brief overview, move right along!
The first is from drugstore.com for the things that I wanted to pick up, but decided to order online so we wouldn’t have to search for them.
In the drugstore.com haul?
- Mini slant Tweezermans, (I like a shorter tweezer, I find they’re not as cumbersome) which I am just LOVING!
- Clean & Clear Persa-Gel 10 – you can’t get more than 5% here in Canada! (This is for my sister, not me, so there won’t be a review…sorry!)
- Blistex Clear Advance SPF 30, because I wanted an SPF lip balm that didn’t suck. Haven’t tried this yet, but the reviews on it are great!!
- Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Stick, which I’m using as a lip balm and loving. The awkward, glue-stick size is easily adjusted to.
- Vaseline Gel Oil,which will get its own review eventually. It smells AMAZING.
The next one is from Trade Secret, the American answer to Pure Beauty (formerly Hair Express or something). I think they’re affiliated?
- All that’s here is Redken’s Mint Clean men’s line… in my defence, it doesn’t smell *that* manly!
A mixed haul day…
- Holly Brook, Like Blood Like Honey. I thought she was too generic-pop for me at first, but after listening to the album a few more times, I simply adored her. Zoom forward about six months, and I finally found her album in a store ^^
- Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails, bought based on a rave review on a site that I adore. Erm, I just can’t remember which site. Haven’t tried it yet, but I wanted to use it as a base coat (which it says you CAN do, on the back)
- Aquafresh toothpaste… crazy, I know. But I’ve never seen this here… my uncle has a tube in his bathroom, it is truly ingenious! One day, I’ll post photos…I know you’ll love it too.
- Sephora Bubble Bath/bath gel, a free birthday gift. Smells delish, if not a little overwhelming!
- Clinique Black Honey. I have the review for this open in the next tab and will be working on it shortly!
A moneyless haul, in part.
- Drawer organizer from Storables, the best store ever. More on that in another post, I used it to reorganize my cosmetics drawers.
- A spritzer, also from Storables. 97 cents… so cheap! I plan on either using just plain water to set my MMU, or someday mixing a glycerine fixer.
- Marc Jacobs Pear and Grapefruit Splashes, which I have been hunting high and low for. I had such high hopes for their descriptions, but I’m finding they dry down too heavy for me :( Thank goodness for Sephora samples!!
- BE Blemish Therapy… funny story alert!
I walked into the U Village Sephora in Seattle, and asked for a sample. She says no!!! I asked her why not, and guess what her response was? “It’s a powder!” Um, so? I acknowledged that it was, indeed, quite visibly a powder. And then I asked again, phrasing it differently. She goes, “I can’t make a sample of a powder! I don’t have anywhere to put it!“ I tell her this is fine with me, I don’t need a sifter jar or anything, a regular Sephora sample jar would be just fine.
She offers to put it on me (erm, try on an acne treatment, that is visible, in the middle of the day, over my makeup? I think not!) because she doesn’t know what else to do… I slowly try to explain to her that powders don’t always need a sifter and a puff, but she looks SO scared of doing the unknown that I tell her it’s okay, and ask someone else (who goes right away to make the sample, lol!)
Ah, how nice it would to be THAT slow. Can you imagine the peace and quiet in that girl’s head? Anyhow…
Haul from Daiso, a Japanese store that we don’t have in Edmonton. Most things are $1.50, like a Japenese dollar store-ish. The difference is that there is SO much stuff, even more than in Western dollar stores, and it’s not as crappy quality!
- Lots of pointed cotton swabs!!! I have been looking for these FOREVER. $1.50 for 180 that have a pointed head and a normal head, and $1.50 for each of the others… maybe 80 in each, I think, but with two pointed ends.
- THREE eyelash curlers, two bought after I loved the first so much. $1.50!!! The curve is not nearly as pronounced as it usually is in a curler made for Caucasian eyes. I figured, Japanese people have monolids. I have monolids. Therefore, drugstore Japanese curler = made for my eyes. (I was right.)
Birthday gifts from my mom and sister :)
- The little piggy bank that mom noticed me loving at Storables!! It was made to be decorated, but there’s no way in hell I’m doing that… I loved it because of its simplicity, not in spite of that!
- A zipper pull from SAM, the Seattle Art Museum. (The store part, not the actual artwork part) The whole “thing” around this is that you buy a box and don’t know which zipperpull you’re going to get, sorta like those little machines we put money into as children.
- (Okay, so I never did that. I was like, why would I put $2 in there when there is and ice cream store right next to it?! I made my family so proud, lol!)
- Lastly… a red blood cell from my sister as a partial “get well, Rae!” gift. Such a sweetie! (You can find that line here, at ThinkGeek.) I have been looking at these, they are so cute! And the vote was unanimous: if we ever have kids, they are SO playing with these instead of teddy bears and barbies.
- (She bought her boyfriend Mono, lol!)
