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Free For Haul Friday, Volume #002
Welcome to Free For Haul Fridays!
A play on Oh No They Didn’t’s “Free For All Fridays,” every Friday is Free For Haul Fridays! Friday is a day for fun — whether you’re already off enjoying your weekend or if you just need a way to get through til the end of the work day, FFH is here for you!
Share your latest beauty hauls! Once you’ve done that… say anything you’d like. Recommend your favorite book, or tell us what you just started reading; share a great dessert recipe or a photo of your pet (which is sure to be the cutest, yeah?).
Now… have at it!
lol! im currently participating in ONTDs ffaf 😀 but! i havnt hauled yet but i will when i get my money like tomorrow. i heard that sephora has ole henriksens 7 piece kit for 35! which is insannnee. ive been using one of the creams in sample size for a few days and can already see the difference! my skin seems firmer and these tiny lines i had on my forehead are not visible anymore!
i will drop by mac too when i get paid, and maybe pick up some lippies because they have so many diff nice ones right now!
i havnt read a book in a while so i hope someone suggests one!
Haha, great 😀
Wow, at that prize, I might have to get it, too! That is a pretty good deal!
What lippies are you eying?
i like all of the ones (except for Our Pick) from the trend f/w 09! i dont have anything like them right now, i mostly have light pinks and neutrals, so i def want to try those out!
Nice! I like Hipster – it’s a shade I’d actually wear!
Hmm, recently:
1. MAC’s technakohl liner in Full of Fuschia and liquid liner in Aqualine.
2. Sephora Haul – Urban Decay’s Nail Apocalypse kit & 24/7 liners in Flipside & Ransom
3. Spell Cosmetics – porcelin foundation, goddess glow blush, haley’s bite lip gloss, mintallic and covet eye shadow
4. Etsy hair fascinator
5. Fyrinnae Otherworld eye shadow, velvet-gel silica primer, samples of bite me eye shadow, illlicit passion eye shadow and dazzling darkness ink eyeliner, and diabolic mascquerade lip lustre
How do you like Urban Decay’s nail polish? I haven’t tried it yet.
What are your favorite Etsy sellers?!
I’m DESPERATELY waiting for my Sephora order to get here (I paid for the 3 day shipping), so I’ll be able to tell you once I get it. However, the reviews I’ve seen on other sites (Vampy Varnish, Scrangie, etc) have shown that the colors are beautiful.
I love bigdoggybling, colormutts, helixelemental, aurella27, kvodesign, lovechildboudoir, surferjen, aromaleighminerals, mtcoffinzunderground, and hoydenscollars.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on them 🙂
Thank you for the Etsy shop recommendations!
You’re quite welcome! I was able to create an awesome pair of earrings with helixelemental, as they do nice custom orders. I did a custom collar with hoydenscollars and bigdoggybling. I’m working on another collar with hoydenscollars, too. These are all in the martingale style for my standard poodle, as I prefer martingales for her 🙂
I just love etsy and the people that make such pretty things and do custom items.
Etsy is so overwhelming sometimes! It’s hard to know where to look, so I’m always on the lookout for recs 🙂
I know what you mean! Sometimes I get frustrated and give up when I do searches, other times I just throw in a term and see what all comes up.
Haha! I tend to look at the showcase or that thing where they pull different shops up in each category!
For makeup I bought Full of Fuchsia Techakohl liner and I have worn it as a lip liner twice to make my lipsticks more matte. I will probably try it as an eye liner one of these days when I have time to experiment. I bought some colour contact lens (something I actually need in order to see clearly! So it is not all cosmetic!). I recently finished reading Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup and Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella. Now I am reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
Hey Christine, if you enjoyed Marley and Me, I think you would enjoy The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. The book is written in the POV of a Golden Lab and his life with is owner and family. Have you read that one before?
I love that you’re wearing it as a lip liner!! That’s so great 😉
Have you seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire? How would compare the two?
I will definitely look into The Art of Racing in the Rain — sounds up my alley! Thank you! 🙂
The plot of the book and movie is the same, but the characters, settings and events that drive the plot are quite different.
Which are you liking more?
Okay, I was bad recently, haha.
The Stila Precious Pearl palette was on sale for $20 at Sephora, so I decided it was time to make my first online purchase there. Man is it GORGEOUS. But while I was ordering, I figured I’d also get their sampler of moisturizers, since I’ve been trying to find the right one for me w/o spending too much money (it includes 1/3 to 1/2 oz. samples of moisturizers from Korres, Fresh, Philosophy, Bliss, Caudalie, and Murad).
Then I figured I might as well try to make the order reach $50 for the free shipping! But I tried very hard not to go over, so I picked up a Smashbox shadow duo in “Glow/Getter” (a warm shimmery brown and a peachy-champagne) that was only $5, and a set of 3 mini Stila lip glazes for $8.
I’m really not sure I love the lip glazes, or at least, the click-pen mechanism for them…the smell is awfully nice though 🙂 But they are a bit thick for the pen/brush thing. Overall, though, a very fun and not too extravangtly priced haul…:)
Very nice haul, Daphne! I always try to get free shipping — I’m so loathe to pay shipping, I can’t even tell you!
Which moisturizer will you be trying first?
Stila’s Precious Pearl palette is definitely one of my favorites from this year 🙂 Good pick!
recently….
mac mineralisze skinfinish in -refined
studio moisture tint spf 15
i can not wait to get my forever 21 package XD
Ohh! Did you get lots of cute stuff from Forever 21? I swore not to shop there any more, because nothing ever looks right on me 🙁
I ordered a bunch of things on Ebay. I got MAC Select foundation, MAC Warmed MSF and MAC Totally Fab Dazzleglass creme from one seller. From another seller, I got the Stila Barbie palette and Kitten and Wheat eyeshadow singles. From a 3rd seller, I ordered MAC Hot Contrast MES and Bubbles lipstick. Then next week is Style Black and more Dazzleglass! That’s going to be nuts on my wallet.
Great eBay haul, Christy! 😉 How much did you end up paying for the Stila palette on eBay?
$45, not too bad really because most retailers selling Stila quads in Canada are around $50. Plus no one is selling them here. However I just checked Sephora online and they must’ve just put the Stila quad up today. Oh well, perhaps I’ll get a back up. 😉
Oops and I forgot to add a picture of my buddy Booker. Below are pics of when I went on a road trip to see family and he came along. He was so good on the 14 hr long journey, he got dried venison liver and lots of stops to stay happy along the way. He’s a 9 years old golden retriever mix that still acts like a puppy. Enjoy 🙂
http://picasaweb.google.ca/carlachristyr98/Booker?authkey=Gv1sRgCKrNw87U8v29Sg#5383016652980809618
http://picasaweb.google.ca/carlachristyr98/Booker?authkey=Gv1sRgCKrNw87U8v29Sg#5383016660388093890
AWW!! So cute!!
haha I love ontd, so funny that you did this =p!
🙂
Yesterday I got
MAC photo realism quad. It was greens so I had to buy it!
MAC natural msf. Love it-love any msf.
MAC bare slimshine (B2M)- It’s pretty cute, I put elborate lipgloss over it and it was really pretty.
Nice, Ashlee! I’ll have to try Bare with Elaborate!
I got a clearance Stila eyeshadow from the Sephora in JC Pennys for FOUR dollars that looks exactly like smoke and diamonds.
Wow! That’s a total score!!
From the MAC warehouse sale – the old traincase, HK medium and small bags, Too Dolly palette, Mutiny, Deep Blue Green, Reflects Antique Gold pigments, A Rose is a Rose quad, B-Babe l/s, and holiday mini lipglasses in Totally It & Magnetique.
Oooh! I’ve always wanted to go one of those!
I shopped at CCO in South Carolina, as well as ULTA. I got Soft Ochre Paint Pot (which I had never used but is turning out so great as a base!), Perfect Topping MSF (backup and one for my mom), Petticoat MSF, the 187 brush, Little Black Dress and Purple Pumps smudgepots from Stila, the Barbie palette, the Essie Matte about you Top coat.
I’m also starting to read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, the sequel to Hunger Games.
I love, love Soft Ochre! One of my favorite bases 😀
I got Chanel Mat Lumiere foundation 2 days ago. I had Pro Lumiere already and like it a lot but its too dewy for my combo/oily skin on long office days, so that one will be saved for special events.
The only drugstore in my area that carries Gosh, Rimmel and Essence is closing so I stopped by and stocked on a few items like Essence brow powder and brow gel (about 2€ each and work wonders!).
My wishlist is as long as my arm but I am going to go on a no buy because I feel like I dont use half of my collection and that makes me sad.
For this week-end I plan on getting my hands on GossipGirl season 2 and marathon-watch it 🙂
How are you liking the Mat? I haven’t tried any Chanel foundations. Dewy foundations tend to look terrible on me, and I’m normal-to-dry!
I havent been too bad this week, although I bought a few things including Pink Opal and Pink Bronze pigments (really loved the Pink Opal swatch in your purple lip post and just had to have Pink Bronze too, lol), a couple of Stila palettes (Kitten and Confection) Nars Orgasm blush (been meaning to get it for ages) on eBay, some more pigments (by GOSH) and Mac Little Madame mineralize eyeshadow (again from eBay). Thats my weekly haul when Im being good. 😉
Off to the theatre with hubby and kids to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang later, and then out for a meal with hubby as it was our 12th anniversary yesterday. 🙂
Pink Bronze is so pretty! I love MAC pigments 🙂 So full of dimension! How are you liking them so far?
I went to the Estee Lauder/MAC warehouse sale last Friday – yes, it was everything I thought it would be and more! I purchased sooo much for myself and others but mainly me 🙂 There was a lot of LE items like brushes, blushes and e/s which was amazing for items I missed.
Prices were awesome (in Canada $$)- $9 per e/s (got 14 in total and I kept 9 like sunset b, alum, ricepaper,warming trend,pink mink, illegal cargo to name a few), $15 for 2 quads (tempting and rose is a rose), $20 to $15 for moisturizers (light and regular moisturizers and strobe cream, fix+ rose water), $3 to $8 mascaras & cleans off oils, $12 blushes (pretty baby hello kitty for my friend) msf and sculpting duos powder, $30 to $20 for brush kits, $20 for 182 LE brush, $20 for 165.
I still find myself saying ‘damn, I should have got this…’ lol
I saw so many people I knew there which surprised me as the sale was invitation only (I got a ticket through some random nice ppl online). The funniest thing was I saw my MUA there and she said ‘well, well, well look who it is!’ hahaha.
I would recommend the sale to anybody who can get their hands on some tickets 🙂
thats such a great deal
i wish i was there o_o
I’m so jealous!
Argh, I’d LOVE to go to one of those,haha.
Very, very nice haul! 🙂
My last hauls were MAC Photo Realism quad and Colour Matters liner, and Orly Enchanted Forest and Mirror Mirror nail polishes. Love all of them!
Also highly jealous of the Lauder warehouse sale attendees! Must be quite dangerous going to one lol.
Great hauls, Stacey!! I hope you’re well!
I got my latest purchases today at the mall while getting my make up done by Chanel.
Mousse Exfoliante Purete – Exfoliating Cleasing Foam: my first Chanel face wash I have ever used.
Quadra Eye Shadow – Spices
Glossimer – Spark
and what I have been waiting for since late August! Luminous Satin Lip Lacquer – Santal
I tried out the Eye Gloss but too much creasing the SAs did not recommend it.
🙂
OH! How are you liking the Cleansing foam?!?!