The Exclusive Beauty Swag Bag From The Bay

So who else is digging this swag bag from The Bay? Until this Thursday, spend $60 or more (thats just two of the new dior cream blushes. Just sayin.....) and you get a SEVENTEEN PIECE gift with purchase. I am not quite sure if its automatic, as it doesn't seem to have a coupon code attached to it.

Cleaning & Purging The Stash - The Lipbalms, Chapsticks And Treatments

So I previously showed my eyeshadow stash and believe it or not - that was AFTER cleaning and purging the stash! Being stuck at home seems to be the best time to clean the stash. I am actually quite proud of how much I purged and cleaned. So I will start with the chapsticks. I have no idea HOW they disappear as fast as they do, but I SWEAR they have feet and runaway on me! So as many chapsticks and lipbalms as I have been sent/bought/given this is all I have! Not bad! (I did throw out some VERY old ones and gross ones and almost gone ones!). 

And I am NOT a fan of lipbalms that come in jars. I just dont like the idea of having to stick your fingers in the product. But I picked up the Korres one in NYC last time I was there and LOVE it! And believe it or not, Tokyo Milk is the first lipbalm in a jar I have ever finished. So I bought a second! And then I have one old MOR lipgloss (I had three, one was almost gone and the other was gross so I purged them) and a new tin one I picked up at Holt Renfrew in the past few months.

And here are the old MOR lipbalms vs the new ones. Maybe they are two different lines? I am not sure, but I like them both! 

And I am pretty sure that EVERY beauty junkie out there has these two! The mini set that was the Sephora Birthday Gift this year! I loved last years bubble bath from philosophy. I can't wait to see what this coming years gift is going to be! 

I recently got this at Winners. I am so thrilled with the quality and consistency of this. I just have to remember to keep using it! It is the best lip scrub that I have used in a long time. I used to really like a scrub from the Body Shop (that was more than ten years ago!) and this one seems to be as good as I remember the other one to be (is it just me or do things tend to seem better in our recollection than they ever end up being when we go back to a product/food/place of our youth?).

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You can see the texture difference between the Korres (on top) and the Sugar (on the bottom). 

And some random lip treatments!

My Stash - The Shadows!!!

So while I was working on my Inglot post, someone asked me to post my eyeshadow stash. I was not aware of quite how INSANE it was until doing this. I hereby solemnly swear to stick by my self imposed eyeshadow NO BUY from now through the end of 2013. 

All my shadows are kept on top of my tall dresser. (the majority of my makeup is on my shorter wider dresser). The shadow is housed in four of the 6 plastic drawers as well as three palettes that are too large which sit between the drawers. On the top of my shadows are all my perfumes. I am quite happy to say that I am working my way through the perfumes and just finished off a bottle last week! Yay for USING up what I already have!

Here are my too big to fit in the drawers palettes as well as a metro card? I have no idea why I keep it there, but I always end up with a balance on it since they did away with the unlimited DAILY fee. Why oh why did they get rid of that?!! Anyways, I'm getting WAY off topic. Here are my Le Metier De Beaute Roopal Patel Runway Palette, my Naked Palette and my nude tude palette. All have been previously reviewed on my blog.

In the drawers, only four of the six are eyeshadow. One of them is lip glosses and balms, and the other is my hair accessories and apparently my Hakuhodo travel brush set (not sure why thats in there!).

Now on to the actual eyeshadow stash. The top drawer on the right houses my Urban Decay 15 year anniversary palette, two Too Faced creme shadows and a Tarantino eyeshadow single.

The bottom drawer on the left hand side contains my By Terry shadows, my kaleidescope, Lancome, Estee Lauder, Laura Mercier, Elizabeth Arden, Bobbi Brown, Clarins and Korres shadows. 

The middle drawer on the left houses my Chanel, Dior and Charlotte Ronson shadows. 

And the last drawer houses my Inglot, Chantecaille, Stilla and Quo. I have not ever used the Quo shadows before. They were on clearance for a ridiculous price and I succumbed. I shouldnt have, but all I can say is lesson learned. 

 

And here is the insanity all together. See what I mean? I DEFINITELY need to stick to my no buy!! And start wearing eyeshadow more than just on the weekends!