Lippie and car magnet

Well I got both of my packages today and I am very excited to report back. I'll start with the lippie.

It arrived in a cute little box and when I took it out it looked almost exactly like an oversized orange crayon with a cap. *gasp* Orange- what?! Yeah, I ordered joy with looked like a light peach on the site, but when I opened it I was looking at this crazy orange crayon.

Well I decided to give it a chance and it's actually ok. On the skin, it's not nearly as scary orange as it looks:

On my lips it ads some color and really makes them pop while at the same time avoiding the clown look. Now, as for the stain and "6000% moisture" claims... I can't say much about that yet. It did feel a lot more moisturizing when I applied it, but it was a little remniscent of a lipstick. The moisture stayed and was fairly good for awhile, but I applied it about 45 minutes ago, and while my lips aren't dry-dry, they do feel a little dusty, so a gloss is going to be necessary when using this. All in all, I like it and will order more- maybe their light pink next.

Ok! Now the magnet! I am super, super excited about this! I got it today and am really impressed. It came in a pretty large box and when I opened it up, the magnet was carefully wrapped in saranwrap and then taped to the inside of the box to keep it from bouncing around and possibly damaging the corners. Once I (finally) got it free of it's wrappings, I was shocked. For the price I paid, I was kind of expecting a piece of paper that had been printed on, cut out, and then glued to a magnet. That is sooooo NOT what I got, and I'm really grateful. Instead, I got a wonderfully durable feeling and heavy duty magnet that appears to have had the images printed directly onto it's surface. While I am mildly dissapointed with the pixelation of the picture on it, I'm not surprised. I gave them a small picture- blowing it up that big it was bound to pixel some. Anywho- the magnet is pretty sturdy and attaches well to my truck(and fridge-lol) I'm not concerned about loosing it on the freeway or in the city.

Yeah.... I am really impressed with this magnet, and excited about using it come blizzcon. And I totally refer anyone who is interested in their very own magnet to go check out the folks at http://www.buildasign.com/ They have a pretty awesome customization process that is incredibly user friendly, and shipping options for everyone.

More sunscreen... and a lippie

So I had to order some more of my sunscreen cause the current bottle seems to be getting a little bit low. Seeing as it's not exactly something I can go to my local store for I ordered it through sephora, and while I was there, I decided to grab a Tarte lip stain as well. I don't normally go for stains because they're really drying on my lips, and considering that I live in the desert it would be even worse, but this one claims to be uber moisturizing. I also read a few reviews that back up it's claims of being moisturizing. So I grabbed one of those in the color "Joy".

Those two items should be here sometime next week and I'm super excited to try out the new lippie. I think I'll be pairing it with a gloss, just to cover the hydration issue. There are a couple at MAC that I want to try it with, but I guess MAC changed their system or something, because they no longer deliver out to where I am, so I have to go to the store. BUT! Luckily I'm going to be down in the area of the closest MAC store next weekend, so I'm gonna stop in and grab the glosses I wanna try out. They might even have the firecracker eyeshadow, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up about that.

Anywho- I'll post a review on the lip stain as soon as I get it and try it a couple times.

Aromaleigh

Wow. I saw a review on one of their products and tottered on over to the website. Best thing about it? You can order JUST SAMPLES. That's right- you can go through EVERYTHING in their inventory, and order just a sample of whatever you want. I ordered some eyeshadow samples, and am pretty impressed.

They individually package your samples, put all of them in a nice little baggie, then wrap it in some cute tissue paper and sent it to you. Even better was the personalized touch on the order form with my samples- handwritten "Thank you katherine!". Not that much seemingly, but it shows me that they take their time with their products and treat each person as an individual, instead of just turning all their customers into "the Borg"

Shipping was incredibly fast as well, even without any special shipping picked. I got my samples in three business days.

But wait! there's more! The samples are pretty decent sized. When you consider the miniscule amount of eyeshadow it takes to do a lid, and compare it to the one dollar sample, you're getting quite a bit of product. My estimation, if I used only one sample to do both my lids, I could do my eyes for two weeks to a month based on the sample size.

I did do my eyes today with the samples I got, and am pretty impressed with the eyeshadow quality. Beyond quality, they have an incredibly impressive amount of variety. Like, really. It blew my mind. Go to the eyeshadow page, and choose the "pick your free samples" link. The page it takes you two is a list (with pictures!) of all of their eyeshadows. It's not a short list. Speaking of free samples- with every order, you can choose three free eyeshadow samples.

Jeans!

So I got new boots a couple weeks ago and had no jeans to wear with them-it was driving me nuts. After looking online a bit, I decided to go by the old navy place at the local outlet mall and see what I could find. Lucky me, not only did they have what I needed, but they had different washes, *and* a sale! I got three pairs of jeans for less than I had expected to pay for two pairs! I washed them already to make sure therte was no shrinkage and there wasn't! They all fit perfect! So excited!

Got a netbook

I didn't want to, especially since I already had reached my "frivolous spending" limit this month, but with my computer crashing, and needing to get shit done online(and my phone failing miserably for that) I needed to get something. So I went and hit up the PX netbooks section, looked up reviews, and got the best one they had for cheap. There was a couple better, but they were like, 500 bucks.

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-mini-210-hd/4505-3121_7-33939694.html

That's the review for the one I got, and so far it's doing great. A little slow for a couple things (I apparently need to look up and download a couple things) but it's keeping up with everything else just fine. And I like that's it's so tiny and lightweight- I'll be able to take it with me pretty much anywhere.

Forever21 Hobo Purse review

So I got this purse along with some clothes the other day and just love it. It's going to be the Angela Pleather Hobo, currently selling for $24.80. http://www.forever21.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=FOREVER21&category%5Fname=acc%5Fhandbags&product%5Fid=1065588254&Page=all&pgcount=25

When you hear pleather, you immediately think cheap, tacky, stiff. This doesn't fall into those categories. The outside is a soft, then, flexible pleather with fully functional zippers on the top, and on both sides. The side pockets are excellent for holding keys and cellphone- items that you'll need to get without having to dig around. The inside is lined with a olive/forest green color and has a small pocket(for makeup) and another small zippered pocket. The strap is adjustable.

Overall, I love this purse. It's an excellent casual purse, and totally worth the 25 buck you'll spend to buy it.

My face regimen

Open to constructive criticism.

Morning:
Biore blemish fighting ice cleanser
Avalon Organics Vitamin C Balancing Facial Toner
Biore skin preservation dual fusion moisturizer+spf30

Evening:
Biore blemish fighting ice cleanser
Avalon Organics Vitamin C Balancing Facial Toner
Sephora FACE agre prevention moisturizer

I also have a few items that I use every one to two weeks:
Facial peel-off mask in cucumber
Clean&clear morning burst facial scrub
Biore deep cleansing pore strips

So since I started using the toner and moisturizers, my face has been doing good. With the biotin I'm taking, I have been breaking out a bit. But, I've been starting to be *really* careful and consistent with my facecare and that has been helping so much. I never really took great great care of my skin, but with the biotin I've started and I'm totally noticing a difference.  Granted- my skin wasn't *that* bad off, but now it's getting better.

ordered more brushes

I ordered some more brushes. One of them is susposed to be really good for powder foundation. The others are for eyeshadows, and I can never have enough of those. Hmmmm.... I also need to invest in some brushcleaner. Or maybe just a gentle facewash to dedicate to the brushes. I think I'll go with the facewash, because it's cheaper and will work just as well.

I'm also going to be getting another caontainer for my makeup. The display box was just WAY smaller than what I envisioned, and it doesn't hold my makeup very well. I had to stash some somewhere else in order to display my commonly used stuff... Now I can't find the stuff I stashed. That's actually bugging me today, because I wanted to use one of those stashed things today. I just cannot remember where I stashed everything.