Happy Hump Day!!!!! Kudos
to me for posting twice in one week!!!!
Well this past weekend I
did some shopping, I’m grateful that I have a fulltime job that allows me to
shop. What I do to try and control the amount I spend, is give myself a
shopping allowance every paycheck. Once I exhaust those funds I’m done. From
this allowance I buy things that are NOT necessities (makeup, my craft
supplies, purses, books, you get the idea). This helps me stay on budge with
the household expenses and bills that I’m responsible for. I also feel less
guilty about spending when I know everything else is taken care of.
Well enough about that
--- let’s get to the good stuff. These items were purchased either at Walmart,
Kmart, or Walgreens. I use coupons whenever possible, every bit helps my funds.
At Kmart I was able to
get this L.A. COLORS Chunky Lip pencil set. For $4.99 you get 6 lippies, not a
bad deal it averages out $0.84 cents a lippie (not including tax). I did swatch
them – they felt creamy on my arm but when I applied to my bare lips –sort of
dry. I’m thinking it’s because they are suppose to be matte colors?? For me
won’t be too much of an issue since I usually put on lip balm when I start my
makeup routine. Sadly not all of the colors work well with my skin tone – (I
did not swatch all of them on my lips only on my arm) I want to give the ones
that I know don’t work well with my skin tone (well at least for my liking-
some people can rock this) away. Of course I will be cleaning and sterilizing
the lippies that I swatched on my arm. Do I have any takers?
I also picked up some
Jordana lipsticks – I don’t think these are new – but I can tell you my
favorite of the lot is called Grape. Then I picked up some NYC lip lacquers –
very pigmented and inexpensive. They have a sticker that says “new” and I
haven’t seen them anywhere else. So I’m gonna go out on a limb and say they are
new.
At Walmart I was able to
find a new Real Technique brush – sculpting brush. I believe Ipsy had a special
for like $13.00 you got the set that includes this sculpting brush and a
concealer brush. I missed out on that one – so I was happy to find it at
Walmart – the price was $9.49 or something like that.
I bought two different
foundations – the Cover Girl CC cream from the Queen collection – I’m going to
see how this works for me. I’m hoping it doesn’t turn orange on me. I must say
it does smell really nice. The fragrance is like flowery perfume, don’t know
how that will wear on the face but I will let you know.
Alright, that about sums
it up. AS you can see I bought a ton of lipsticks, would anyone want to see
swatches on those? I’m sure plenty of others have already done the swatches but
just in case your interested.
Remember let me know if
you are all interested in a little giveaway for the L.A. COLORS Lip pencils
(not all of the colors just maybe two or three).
