early september hauls

 

buy all the blushes!!! uhm, anyway. so i'm putting this up here now because there's an awesome deal for the lorac pro 2 palette. see below. ~Lin-chan ^.~

makeup geek: blush pans in honeymoon, spellbound, & romance, eyeshadow in cosmopolitan

romance, spellbound, honeymoon; cosmopolitan (swatched dry)

mug romance vs. nars orgasm. these are sorta dupes..not really. the swatch photo doesn't fully do them justice, but orgasm has more golden shimmer and leans pink, while romance has gold reflective sheen and leans coral, similar but not exactly to how they look in the pans

hsn: lorac pro palette 2, mini shadow primer, pro mascara (all for $22! see how on nouveau cheap's blog). just like the original, omg at the bottom row. if that's all i use out of this palette, the $22 was well worth it.

swatched over milani eye primer. jade isn't getting quite the justice it deserves in this photo. it's an amazing deep forest green shade to me, with golden shimmer. it looks similar urban decay cobra but it's more pigmented and not quite as black...if that makes sense.

• hautelook*: mally liquid face defender
• zpalette.com: large sky blue
• sephora: hourglass opaque rouge liquid lipstick mini in canvas, tony moly bbo bbo lip balm in honey, sephora dry clean solid brush cleanser
• the solid brush cleanser's interesting. it's a bar like the beautyblender solid, but it has a different scent and it comes with an agitator
• omg at the tony moly lip balm. i'm in love after the first try. 
• i think i'm going to return the hourglass lipstick.. the color's not me, like i like it in certain lighting (left photo) or at a distance, but up close it's ack, barbie! on me (right photos). along with looking super matte, it feels weird on the lips. like a dry lipstick with a slight tackiness to it. i dun like it. i do think that it probably is a relatively long lasting lipstick, as it took makeup remover to get it off. 
• additionally, about the packaging: the applicator is slightly too big for the wiper part. i'm practically fighting it to pull the wand out. it's kinda dumb. and not only that, it doesn't pull out enough product making you have to redip it a few times to get full coverage.

hourglass opaque rouge liquid lipstick in canvas

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• bbw: wallflower refills in lemon mint leaf, wild madagascar vanilla perfume mini, pumpkin pecan waffles 3-wick candle (was on sale for $10!), shower gel in secret wonderland (free after $10 purchase)
• hsn part 2: they sent me a $10 off coupon with my lorac pro 2.. >.< so i got a benefit fakeup concealer in light
• sephora.com x2: got a few replacements of my usual skincare items; and used coupon codes for a tory burch perfume sample & a mini benefit they're real push-up liner.

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update: apparently the world is against me because this is the second time i tried getting a sample of the benefit they're real push-up liner and failed. the first time, the sample card didn't have the pen in it, and sephora gave me 100 points for my troubles. this time, ups damaged my package in transit somehow, and i got a refund email from sephora. >.> so apparently, in order for me to try this liner, i must take the $24 plunge. and that ain't happ'nin.