Showing posts with label haul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haul. Show all posts
I discovered Honey Soda Co about 2 years ago. We connected on IG and I was drawn to their Disney inspired scents. It's always so interesting and fun to see how you relate with people on a social media app, especially when it comes to things you're passionate about. In my case it's candles/wax melts and Disney.
So for the last 3 holidays my apartment has been filled with Honey Soda Co wax melt scents and it's quickly become one of my favorite holiday traditions! Move over Bath & Body Works, foreal.
Honey Soda Co features seasonal scents in fun holiday shapes as well as in classic clamshells and more recently added jar candles to their product list.
This year these are the scents I picked up; I already melted through one of my Peppermint Mocha candy cane melts and I'm half way done with the Peppermint Mocha clamshell (it's clearly my favorite holiday scent from their line).
I'm excited to try the gingerbread scents next; I've been on a bit of a gingerbread kick this year. I love how festive these look! I just wish I had a better way to display and store shaped wax melts. I love that these are much easier to break, I've come across some that I literally need to take a butter knife to in order to get them to break lol.
Honey Soda Co is currently closed for December but they're planning on opening back up in January. I suggest following their Instagram for updates!
These wax melts will not disappoint!
What's your favorite indie wax melt company?
2021 is the year of the Ox; my year. So I might had gone a bit crazy trying to find a ton of year of the Ox products. Hey, it doesn't happen every year okay? lol
Colourpop released a more extensive collection this Lunar New Year than the one they released last year. I love the packaging for this! All the reds and golds just call me like the horizon calls Moana. Well, okay it doesn't call me that intensely, but you get the point.
And while the palette case is really cute the thing that bothers me is that it's not an actual palette it's just pressed shadows in a palette. I didn't bother to check if these were shades in their permanent collection -- please don't tell me if they are lol.
In the collection was also a lip kit, a lip mask and a few blushes. I don't wear blush so I never really reach for those. I haven't swatched the lip kit just yet either.
I recently posted a review of the other lip mask I had tried from Colourpop and wasn't too much a fan of. I still want to try this one and see if it's the same.
I'm glad I managed to snag a few products from this collection!
What's your Chinese Zodiac?
I know, social distancing and all that. But I ventured into one of the only stores I’ve gone into since Covid and they take super serious precautions with social distancing. But this might be my one and only SAS haul for Spring 2020. There wasn’t much I was interested in and online even didn’t have a big selection this time around.
One thing I was excited about was the Aromatherapy I picked up, kinda wish I had picked up two! And also the lemon lip balm. Years ago they had a black cherry one I was in love with but for some reason it’s been discontinued.
A fall candle is a fall candle, but for some reason I’m not digging this annual scent. It’s heavy on the cinnamon/spice scent rather than the crisp air type. So definitely going to exchange that. SPC however, I’m not. I don’t remember if I finished my last one or not but never hurts to have more than one!
I’m excited the 2020 fall stuff is starting to hit stores, I’m starting fall this year later than I usually do. But as soon as we hit the end of July I’ll be going into full on fall mode!
Until then, I'm holding on to summer a little longer. At least this year I am! I've got a few more B&BW hauls I've done before this one. Not sure if I should post those or if I should just do reviews on the products from those hauls.
Did you do a semi annual sale haul this season? Did you come across anything good?
Bubba has been spoiling craaaaaap out of me when it comes to Lush the last few trips. There's a bunch of great things he got me!
The first set of things he got me was a bit of skincare-y stuff. He got me the two solid soap bars at the top; I wish I could remember what they were called but when we were in store it was on sale buy one get one free the green one smells like limes and the orange one smells like oranges and it easily splits in half. He also got me the two shower bombs at the bottom: Sleepy and Not Sleepy. These things are so interesting.
I've tried the Sleepy Shower Bomb so far. These things are so interesting!
The thing that's missing is the Sleepy Shower Gel and Scrubee!
This was one of the biggest reason why we went into Lush. Bubba got me the Sleepy body lotion last year and I wasn't that big of a fan, I don't like how it makes your skin feel chalky after it dries down but I love how there's glitter in the pot. Would be super cool if the shower gel had glitter in it too!
I use this as a bubble bath actually and it works out so great! I love using this as a bubble bath! If they ever make this as a bath bomb or bubble bar that would be AWESOME.
I ended up picking myself up two products; the Goddess bath bomb and the Milky Bar soap.
The Milk Bath bubble bar is one of my fav bubble bars so the fact they made it into a solid soap bar is amazing! I haven't used either yet but I'm planning on splitting the Goddess bath bomb in half.
I use to haul the hell out of ELF back when I started getting into makeup in 2007; back then you could only order their products online and they only had their $1 line. There's still some stuff from the $1 that I swear by or always keep on hand to this day.
Then they released their Studio Line where everything was $3 and their brushes in that line are still some of my favs. Then after that released another line I don't remember the name of but I LOVED that line! They had pigments (the pink one was a holy grail and I'm so sad I lost mine or it's still back home in CA) that I loved and they had this all natural brush set to go with it. I still have the travel set floating around somewhere. I wish they'd bring that back!
Since then they've created so many more products and collections; some I've LOVED and others I could live without.
I haven't made a full ELF haul from their website since 2015 so I was due for one! I picked up a few things I've been wanting to get/try!
ELF has certainly upped their prices over the years and I don't blame them! But what use to get me a good amount of products just get me a few now a days lol!
I've seen the Modern Metal's floating around Instagram and was super curious about it. There's also a lip set that I skipped on since I just got a ton of lippies for Christmas. The ELF Perfect Blend Concealer is a repurchase over the years — it's not the best concealer ever but it does what it needs to do!
My purchase came with a free gift that included the Face Primer which I think I've tried once when I didn't understand the concept of Primers and Sugar Lip Exfoliater which I also think I tried once and didn't really dig.
I also got this beanie because it was up for $4 and to show my love for ELF cosmetics. Not just that but I've been trying to get a hold of more pom beanies and I'm so picky with the ones I like!
The main reason for my purchase?
The Heart highlighter duo!
I've been following Heart for years; since she lived in that apartment way before her and Arnold got married or engaged I think. And she's always been a Filipino influencer to look up to! I used this in a look I made a blog post about on hazearella recently and it was the first time in 10 years I decided to put highlighter on my face again. And you know, I didn't hate it! Bubba even noticed and complimented me on my glow. Safe to say I'll be reaching for this more often!
Most of my beauty posts can be found on hazearella but I am trying to add some here as well since makeup and beauty is a huge part of a my life!
After making this purchase however I saw ELF recently came out with a new skincare line! I love that they're coming out with so much skincare at such an affordable price and I'm itching to try some as I'm trying to build a skincare routine myself this year!
Then they released their Studio Line where everything was $3 and their brushes in that line are still some of my favs. Then after that released another line I don't remember the name of but I LOVED that line! They had pigments (the pink one was a holy grail and I'm so sad I lost mine or it's still back home in CA) that I loved and they had this all natural brush set to go with it. I still have the travel set floating around somewhere. I wish they'd bring that back!
Since then they've created so many more products and collections; some I've LOVED and others I could live without.
I haven't made a full ELF haul from their website since 2015 so I was due for one! I picked up a few things I've been wanting to get/try!
ELF has certainly upped their prices over the years and I don't blame them! But what use to get me a good amount of products just get me a few now a days lol!
I've seen the Modern Metal's floating around Instagram and was super curious about it. There's also a lip set that I skipped on since I just got a ton of lippies for Christmas. The ELF Perfect Blend Concealer is a repurchase over the years — it's not the best concealer ever but it does what it needs to do!
My purchase came with a free gift that included the Face Primer which I think I've tried once when I didn't understand the concept of Primers and Sugar Lip Exfoliater which I also think I tried once and didn't really dig.
I also got this beanie because it was up for $4 and to show my love for ELF cosmetics. Not just that but I've been trying to get a hold of more pom beanies and I'm so picky with the ones I like!
The main reason for my purchase?
The Heart highlighter duo!
I've been following Heart for years; since she lived in that apartment way before her and Arnold got married or engaged I think. And she's always been a Filipino influencer to look up to! I used this in a look I made a blog post about on hazearella recently and it was the first time in 10 years I decided to put highlighter on my face again. And you know, I didn't hate it! Bubba even noticed and complimented me on my glow. Safe to say I'll be reaching for this more often!
Most of my beauty posts can be found on hazearella but I am trying to add some here as well since makeup and beauty is a huge part of a my life!
After making this purchase however I saw ELF recently came out with a new skincare line! I love that they're coming out with so much skincare at such an affordable price and I'm itching to try some as I'm trying to build a skincare routine myself this year!
Do you have any favorite ELF products?
I discovered ColourPop on Instagram randomly.
One of those you follow a person and it leads to another person to another... and another... and eventually I ended up on someone's account dedicated to swatching various different types of products. One look at the pigmentation and quality of ColourPop and I was hooked! All that shimmer! All that glitter! Their lippies swatched pretty nicely too. I was in love. In utter complete love.
Black Friday rolls by.
I don't think I have to even continue that sentence or thought.
I spend hours debating on what I want to purchase. Something holiday-ish? Or something I'd actually use? Had I had enough funds I would had just bought it all! But I surprisingly only ended up with two products. I know, I'm still in shock myself!
I decided on the lippie set Kitty. I had another one that I was about to ship home but had second thoughts on it due to a really bright red I would never had dared to wear. This set contained two colors that were similar but still all colors I would happily wear. I was hoping for a more deep purple shade, but I'm sure I can make that one in the middle work! I finally got around to swatching these on myself last night and I'm blown away by not only the feel and pigmentation but the staying power. I was doing dishes and they still wouldn't wash off! Holy crap! Can I finally sip on my Starbucks straw and not have to deal with that icky lipstick lip stain?! We shall find out!
This is where the choice making got tricky.
Monday's in Malibu contain colors I'm normally drawn to and colors I would wear on a daily basis. BUT this isn't a holiday set, which sort of threw me off. But I am happy with the set I did pick. Swatched these last night as well and holy wow, just... wow.
So. Much. Shimmer.
This kitty meme came to mind. No joke. My eyes were wide and everything.
Anyway...
As you can see by the dip in the corner of the pots where I clearly swatched... yes, it bothers me. Just like adding a meme to this post sort of did because it threw off the images, but I'm learning to deal.
The shadows are incredibly SOFT. Like, stick your finger in it with too much pressure and it will sink. Imagine the pots of shadow is like memory foam. Except, it doesn't exactly bounce back. With that said --- your pots won't be perfect the whole time you'll be showing them love. Sorry. And yes, I'm still trying to think of a way around this. But because of it, they have a base to shadow consistency which is really really nice. And buttery. And a little bit cooling. It makes the shimmer and glitter that much more bolder and the base color underneath it doesn't get rubbed away either. It's so hard to explain but so awesome.
I'm incredibly impressed with my first purchase. Not only were the products shipped nice and snug in their designer box but the quality of the products blew me away too. I really feel like I got my money's worth with this order!
The downside?
Now I'm a little obsessed... and I want more.
I apologize in advanced bank account. But you'll get over it.
I've been a huge fan of ELF Cosmetics since 2008. Back when ELF was only sold online and all they had was their $1 line. And that body care line where I tried really hard to like the Coconut scent but couldn't get passed the fact it smelled like RAID. Since then I've watched ELF evolve into the company it is now. Seeing products in stores like Target. Seeing them release an amazing skin care line. But there are some things I miss about the old school ELF. Like my Mineral line for one. The brushes in that line were fab. The ones I have left are my most prized brushes! No joke!
I periodically check the site from time to time. Just to see if anything is new. And besides the skin care line there was!
They released a few more palette colors and renamed them. I picked up two; Mad for Matte and Everyday Smokey. I have one titled Natural when this was first launched and I use it everyday. Have I mentioned I've had it for two years?
I also picked up three shimmer lipglosses (bring back the shimmer studio ones!); Love, Dream, and Inspire. Cute names huh?
I picked up one smudge pot cream base in; Wine Not. I don't have much of an opinion on these. I know when they were first released they dried up super fast. I haven't tried them since then but I couldn't pass on this gorg color! Especially for fall!
And the highlight of this post... the studio moisturizing lipsticks. I love these! Not only do they smell like vanilla cake (I see what you did there) but they ARE moisturizing! They don't dry out my lips and I think I like the stain it leaves behind more than the actual lipstick lol. I picked up 6 of these; Cheeky, Bordeaux Beauty, Black Berry, In the Nude, Southern Bell, and Berry Kiss.
I'm not going to go too into it since I will be writing/filming a review video on these guys. There are a few colors that have been out of stock for awhile that I'm hoping to get my hands on. But I'm loving the dark berry colors and the chestnut browns. Makes me totally miss Fall in Cali! You know... where that's foliage and leaves falling (or as my homie Dre says leafs).
What color are you most interested in?
When it comes to holiday candles, I have a serious problem. I'm a sucker for the wicks that crackle, for the cute lables on the Bath & Body Works candles, and anything that smells like peppermint! Ironically I don't ever go for buttercream scents even though I grab the food scents more than anything else year round.
Curious to know what goodies I picked up this year? Check out the video below! And don't forget to subscribe while you're there!
What are some of your favorite holiday candles? Is there one you must pick up every year? Yankee Candle or Bath & Body Works?
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