Betseyville Cosmetics Travel Bag via TJ Maxx

I was able to get my first Betsey Johnson anything and it is a Betseyville cosmetics travel bag.  It’s all sequins if you can’t see it in the picture…the entire bag is sequins and is totally me – flashy.  Ha!  Loved it when I laid eyes on it so I had to get it.  Retail price was about $40. and I got it for $12.99 at TJ Maxx.   Plaids are in and if they weren’t I wouldn’t care anyway, but I had to say that they are in.  The zipper is gold.  The bag is not small, it’s the size of any medium sized cosmetics bag and is roomy inside.  This baby will be with me on our next romantic vacation to Vegas next year.  I loves it a lot…

Inside…

Sunday’s Target Bath/Body, Makeup Storage & Lamp Haul

And when this post goes up it will be a week from last Sunday when I did this haul, but here is all I bought on my visit to Target (again – because I love Target) and let me explain it all below…

First off, I picked up this funky black pearl beaded lamp (I made that up ha!) for my vanity and I picked it up because it is SO me.  It’s dark, it’s unusual, kind of vampy, out there and it’s different…that’s me.  The beads are all different sizes, are all black and they shake when you move it because they all live on these black strings which are stuck onto the frame of the lamp shade. I’m working on getting a desk to match this lamp…I’m looking for a whole new setup actually and a brand new makeup and beauty storage system (complicated).

I love it and when I saw it my mouth dropped.  Hubby didn’t even see me, but saw the lamp first, picked it up and put it in the cart…he said, “this is all you.”  I had to laugh because it’s true.  I don’t know what it looks like lit up because I don’t have a light bulb for it…heh.  Here is the lamp itself and the beads up close…

Next, I picked up this shaving kit by Schick which is great for Summer because I’m a beacher and I was happy to see a few cents off of it since I ran out of shaving cream the other night.

The kit comes with three products and the first one is a Quattro for Women Trimstyle Razor and Bikini Trimmer (yay), a good size bottle of Skintimate Moisturizing Cream Shave for Dry Skin (which I’ve never used before – I have only used Gilette Satin Care for Women) and a lotion called Hawaiian Tropic Sheer Touch Creme Lotion which has SPF50 in it – nice!   I have yet to try out this lotion since this is the first time I’ve seen it.  I hope I like it both the shaving cream and the creme lotion.  I paid $7.64 for the kit.

And then I needed some lip maintenance stuff because my little one destroyed my Yes to Carrots Lip Butter that I got on clearance a while ago at Target.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  Target no longer carries that brand which sucks so I can’t get another one right now.    So I picked up some beeswax from Burt’s Bees called Beeswax Lip Balm ($5.07 for 2) and since the Blistex Lip Massage was on clearance and cheap ($1.81 – a few cents off) I picked up a bunch of those – one for me and a few for hubby.  The Beeswax doesn’t go on as buttery like the Yes to Carrots, but it will do because it moisturizes well – plus the SublimeAgent from Youtube says that beeswax is better to ingest than petroleum jelly – Hi Michael!).  It also lasts longer on my lips than the Lip Butter so that’s a good thing.

And here is a pick of my demolished Yes to Carrots Lip Butter in Berry…grrrrrrrrrrrr…

Lastly, I picked up these flat storage containers with compartments in them from the Target laundry storage aisle in the red world section, I believe.  I got the big one for $4.99 and the small ones for $2.99 each.  I’ve bought these before and found I needed some extras for my  makeup box (my Snap On Tool chest hubby got me) and they fit perfectly in the drawers.  This storage solution works for me and may not work for everyone else.  They stand about 2 inches tall and are about 12 inches long (correct me if I’m wrong).  Here are some up close pics and how I store some of my makeup in them…

And that’s all folks!!!!

My “Aromaleigh Closing Shop” Mineralized Eyeshadow Sample Haul

One day two or three weeks ago I was reading the Shades of U beauty blog and the owner wrote a post saying how Aromaleigh had decided to close down their business.  I don’t know why, but I don’t care to know the drama behind it.

Anyway, I think I got 40% off my purchase using a coupon code.  So I basically got 33 sample eyeshadows that were $1.00 each for $25.00 which included shipping.  I mostly chose mattes and metallics…the metallics are very nice.  The shadows are milled very fine so I have to be careful as to how much I go to pick up with my brush.  The samples are very small, but I  can’t see myself using these all up since I have so many eyeshadows and pigments to play around with.

The eyeshadows can in small baggies like these and I save t he bags because there is still alot of product left stuck to the baggies which I don’t want to waste…

I bought one of those “jewelry beading storage container kits” from Michaels for $9.99 (which I love) and I was able to fit 24 eyeshadows in this kit (thanks to hubby for helping me un-bag and peel off labels).

If a mess should occur it won’t mess up my storage unit and will stay in the case – fabulous.  I have to go back and get some stackables for the 9 eyeshadows I have to left to un-bag.

I took the labels off the bags and put them on the bottoms of each container so I can know the names of what I’m using at any given moment.  And here is how it looks…

I have yet to try these shadows out and when I do I probably will not do any reviews on it because Aromaleigh will probably be gone altogether by then.  I’m just glad I was able to get a chance to get a few products before they were all gone.  It’s nice to have some loose mineralized shadows on hand to play with and I got them cheap.  Other than these I just own one loose mineralized eyeshadow from Bare Escentuals called Denim (a shimmery royal blue) which I love.  I hope Aromaleigh is as good as my BE eyeshadow. 

For Our Upcoming Trip – Too Cute!

It’s a Minnie Mouse multi-use bag I picked up the Disney Store recently where I’m going to store my makeup in while on vacation.  We’re going to Disney World so the bag fits the theme.  It’s plastic and I paid about $7.99 for it.  It’s pretty roomy.