Happy Valentine's Day to everyone

I know this day brings not only lots of love but tons of stress as well. Either you are struggling to find that perfect gift for your special someone or you are tending a broken heart. Either way, Valentine's Day is not just about loving your significant other, but it's about loving yourself as well. I am pretty good at loving myself lol but of course it's always nice to get something on this special day as well.

My DH is a special man. We have been to together for many years and he's my best friend. We laugh, fight, love and best of all, we understand each other.

He understands my recent love for all things beauty related. It just makes me being a woman that much more exciting. I really didn't expect anything from him since we are saving pennies for our move, but a box arrived from fragrancenet.com and I knew it had to be the one perfume that I have been wanting for years now.

I ripped the box open so fast after begging him to let me open it before Valentine's Day and he finally caved!

Here is my Christian Dior J'adore L'eau edition!!!!!!!
It's so floral and fresh, it smells like heaven

Sorry about my awful pics, I was actually rushing to take these before our weekend getaway trip to Gettysburg, PA. Ok, I know it's not the most exciting, but we really went there to see my brother's family and the trip was bittersweet. As wonderful as it was to see them, I was saddened by the fact that it will be the last time or second to last time I saw them. But we had a great time and it was nice to get away with the DH as well.

Overall, I really enjoyed this Valentine's Day.
I'm thankful for my perfume, the weekend with my family, and most of all knowing that tomorrow when I wake up, my DH will be there with me :)

Sending lots of love to everyone on this day!!

Orly Haul - 10 polishes for $8.75 what?!?!?!?!?

Yep ladies, you read right. 10 polishes for $8.75. Ok ok, I cheated a bit, 5 full size and 5 minis, but I had to catch your interest right? :)
Ok, so the last few days, I have been dealing with a scammer on one of my forums, so it's taken a bit out of me. She basically lied about getting her house robbed and a lot of us felt very sorry for her so we gifted her with thousands of dollars of beauty products, only to find out that her house wasn't robbed and that she scammed people on 2 other forums as well. It gets worse, she has a criminal history too! Including shoplifting AND animal cruelty. I won't go any further, because it gets really dark, but it broke my heart because I thought she was cool at first, until I saw her violent history towards animal, so obviously I could no longer befriend her. So she is now banned from one of my favorite forums and out of my life. I gave her a chance actually to explain herself and she continued to lie. I'm sorry but you have to wake up a bit earlier than that to pull a fast on me! SO anyways, rant over lol ...onwards and upwards!!!!!!

Back to my haul.
I went to CVS to pick up a cheap body wash. Been on bit of a budget due to my move to England, so I was just going to pick up a body wash for 99 cents ($1.99 retail and I had a $1 coupon).
So on the way to pick that up and an Ajax dishwashing soap for 88 cents for my mom, I came across these........

I couldn't believe it, it was 1 full size & 1 mini Top 2 Bottom. Each were 75% off and after all was rang up, I paid $8.75. Bargain price!! I got all these for the price of 1 bottle.

The dark blue is called La Playa
The coral reddish orange is called Ole
and the last one is Ballamos

My friends will be getting these in their gift boxes shortly. I just thought it was an excellent deal and I'm actually excited to try the Top 2 bottom and see how that works.
I never thought CVS would have a deal this good, it's even better than any of the sales I've seen at Ulta. I really needed to get a cheap haul like this to forget the awful scammer.

So moral of today is, always go check out your CVS clearance racks AND always google people when you meet them or meet them online, because you never know what you might find on that person!

Be safe everyone! Bye!

Laura Mercier issues & resolution haul package

I have been at battle with Laura Mercier every single time I ever ordered from them. So obviously, I won't anymore. I'll give you ladies a brief run down on why.
2 years ago, I purchased a set from them at a discounted price. They said it was a friends & family deal, so for a small fraction of the retail cost, I bought a set. 4 out of the 10 items were old, crusted, stale, and clearly discontinued items. I fought with them via phone and email for 2 weeks back then about getting my money back. They never gave me my money back, instead they sent me products. So I dropped the complaint and I should have stopped there right????
Well this October, me being the genius that I am, got suckered into another package as well. This time, nothing was wrong with the items but they had stickers on it that said "testers" and "not for resale", basically another word for testers. So I got pissed, called 4 times in a week because the 3 times it sent straight to voice mail (during working hours) and left emails about my concern that the items were testers. So 3 weeks went by and still nothing, so I emailed again...still got ignored. Well last week, I had a free minute, so I called and got an understanding agent, who refunded my money and told me they were sorry about sending testers and told me that they would send me something in the mail. I was content and hung up the phone.

Today after 2 hours of driving in the sleet and snow to go to get my car registered (long story) and was unsuccessful, I came home to a Laura Mercier box and inside were not just samples, but..........

I haven't swatched any of them, because I'm going to be re-gifting them all, but I think that Laura Mercier probably lost out on this deal, because they wanted to be fresh and send testers to their customers instead of adhering to a quality control standard and sending their customers brand new products....what a thought!
anyways, even with this package, I won't be buying from them again, because even though they tried to make it up to me, I still find it very sneaky and shady about what they did.

Thanks Laura Mercier, but just a little something a little too late.

Beauty-ful Gift Haul pictures

I was absolutely floored today to receive a medium box full of goodies. I wasn't expecting this at all, in fact, I thought my online friend was going to just send a couple of skincare and haircare samples. Boy, was I wrong, instead I opened up a box that brought me back to the feeling of being a kid ripping open a present on Christmas morning (not that we had many of those either).

I absolutely loved everything, I got samples, deluxe samples, gwp size items and even full size items. Here is a general picture, you can get the gist of just how much stuff she gave me.

So many samples from Chanel, Cle de peau, Guerlain, etc. etc.
I was actually shocked when I saw this Peter thomas roth lash serum in the box..... at a whopping $125, I couldn't believe she was that generous to give it to me!

On sephora this had 3.5 stars out of 5, so I'm going to give this a try for sure!

And then I had no idea about this Cle de peau cream,

but after doing some research, the full size jar is $1000!!!!! Holy cow, $1000 for face cream, so now I finally got to feel what a $1000 cream feels like on my face and let's just say it was like creamy silk. I'll be very sparing with this one, that's for sure!

I think this took me 2 hours to sort through everything, I had so much fun and this box came at such a good time too since I've been overwhelmed a bit with all the thing I have to do with my move.

Thank you again friend so much!

My very first Beauty Bar Haul

I know I'm banned from shopping until I move across the pond, but when this deal came up online, I had to jump on it.
The original deal was a $50 ecard to beautybar.com for only $25. That caught my eye, but then I sent 10 friends an invite and got an instant $10 credit, so I got a $50 ecard for $15 and I ended up buying polish with it...shocker :)

I just have to say that beautybar processed and shipped my order within 2 days - that is lightening fast in my book.

So drumroll please.......

Lippmann Boom Pow

Lippmann It's Raining Men

And last but not least,
My very first Butter London All hail the queen (the Alexander Mcqueen homage polish)

I love all three and absolutely love the smooth formula. I'll do swatches later, but I have to say that I am very impressed with the slight holographic glitter in All hail the queen. It's definitely an understated beauty, unlike the other two which are in your face, wham bam thank you man polishes.

So not bad for $15 right?