A Very Much Needed CCO Haul

And I spent a little over $100 too.  It felt great.  I was in heaven.  I love my CCO (Jersey Shore)!  I did hear that the CCO in Phili has a great CCO too.  I may take a day trip down with my family for a day to check it out.  Maybe after my Rocky run I can swing by there.

I was too happy when I found that they  had Bright Future available!  I mixed that eyeshadow from the Style Warrior Collection when it had came out because it had been on my must have list for a while now.  I’m so glad that I have it now.  So that was the highlight of my CCO shopping experience.

I picked up a bottle of Prep & Prime (which I like better than Matte so far), a tube of MAC Matte (sorry I threw the box out because I can’t return it), two MAC blushes in Raizin (love love) and Well Dressed (which I’m taking back because it doesn’t show up on NC50 skin tone), two MAC eyeshadows in Bright Future (from Style Warrior collection) and Star by Night (from Starflash collection) and two MAC kohl power eye pencils which I cannot remember the name off (I’ll update later)… and a MAC 227 large eye brush.

Swatches!!

From top to bottom:  ??? and the bottom swatch is ??? (will update this later)

From left to right:  Star by Night eyeshadow, Well Dressed blush, Raizin blush and Bright Future Eyeshadow

My Labor Day Haul

I apologize for getting this out late, but I’ve been lazy so please forgive me. I went to the mall on Labor Day to get some last minute things for my oldest daughter. She’s in high school now…oh how time flies!

Since I was in the mall I decided to go ahead and stop by MAC. I needed MAC Matte primer anyway because I forgot to pick it up at my CCO (shoot me). I picked up MAC Matte and that Naked Honey Skin Salve multi-use creme.

I also stopped by the Bare Escentuals Boutique and picked up foundation (in Golden Deep – that is my shade) because I am currently running out of foundation and that’s the only foundation I use. I was going to go ahead and try a MAC foundation, but I got nervous about it and went back to Bare Minerals. Maybe when I run out of product I’ll be up for a MAC foundation…we’ll see. The rep gave me a free sample mascara called BareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara and I have yet to try it out. I will post a review about it with my BareMinerals Matte Foundation review – it’s not a good one.

When I got home I examined my products are usual. The skin salve smells like DAX hair grease. LOL! If you don’t know what that is then Google It. I’m sure you will find some info. I looked up the ingredients and it has beeswax in it so that’s where that smell comes from. The good thing about the salve is that it doesn’t go on greasy and it doesn’t cake. All you need is a little bit to put on dry area any place on your body. I like it. I wish the product was bigger. I think I paid $20 for a small tin. Oh well. I am happy with my purchase anyway.

The BareMinerals mascara has a plastic brush which reminds me of my Rimmel mascara I hate, but I will give it a go and see what happens. I know that Buxom Lash is awesome so I wish they had some samples of that. Ha!

I am done typing so that means pics are next. Here are some pics of my small, Labor Day haul.

A mini Cosmetics Company Store Haul

This past Saturday I made my first ever visit to our State’s Cosmetics Company Store and it was a very nice experience. I was helped the entire time by a salesperson named Amy and she was super helpful, nice, funny and answered every questions I had. The manager (I didn’t ask for his name) was nice too. and was very pleasant. Here are my pictures of my first EVER visit to the CCO here in New Jersey!

Now I’m going to tell you what MAC products were there. There were lots of Heatherette compacts and eye shadow trios. There were also a lof of Dame Edna compacts and eyeshadow trios. I saw a lot of Tempting quads too. I didn’t see too many lipglasses. They had a lot of Ungaro compacts. They didn’t have the Style Warrior compacts, but they did thave lot of Scatterays Solar Bits. Let me tell you all about what I didn’t know. I didn’t know that there is a limit of three eyeshadows per purchase. Yikes! There were lots of eyeshadows to choose from too – they didn’t have any of the colors I had on my list but that was OK. There were also lots of MSFs to choose from as well – no naturals – lots of shimmery ones and duos. All of the Fafi dolls were there, but I got the last brown one (had to have it). There was also a Fafi shopping bag for sale too. No MAC brushes for sale except for the short travel ones and I believe those were from the Christmas collection ???. Pigments were in abundance as well. Lots of MAC stuff, just not the stuff I really wanted like the foundation in my shade and there were no concealers.

My hubby spotted a Bobbi Brown makeup case that was gorgeous, but I didn’t get it. Maybe next time. It retailed at $225, but it was stunning. The name of the outlet center I went to is called The Jersey Shore Premium Outlets located in Tinton Fall, New Jersey and it is the only NJ outlet center that has a CCO. **OT (off topic) – there is no Coach store here! What the…? I will go back to the Jersey Shore CCO, but next time I’m going to visit the CCO out in Long Island to see what they have and they are called The Tanger Outlet of Riverhead New York.

Anyway, here are my CCO pictures!

Tinton Falls, NJ Cosmetics Company Store!

My first CCO visit on July 12, 2009

MAC Cosmetics Display

Shopping shopping shopping!

And more MAC stuffs...

A view of the Tinton Falls, NY Cosmetics Company Store!

My first CCO experience is now over!

And now for my CCO mini haul…

My mini CCO Haul...

I picked up my Monoka Fafi Doll!

“Monoka is mad about Tokyo and loves to sing 50 cent tracks in Shibuya’s karaokes…” Source Too funny!

My Heatherette Beauty Powder Compact...

MAC Matte Primer

Fascinating Ruby 6 Smokey Eyeshadow Palette

Fascinating Ruby 6 Smokey Eyeshadow Palette *left to right ...Scant, Gorgeous, Satin Taupe, Ambience, Dark Devotion and Carbon

I sent my husband to look for the Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel so I’m thinking he was only able to locate the lotion version of it so I went with that. I’m all out of Neutrogena Moisturizing Lotion so I thought I’d give Clinique a try. So far, so good…review coming up for it soon!

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion

Oh, I almost forgot something! I also hit the Fragrance Discount Store at my outlet center which had a big NYX Makeup display so I mini hauled there too. I spotted the display from afar, across the courtyard actually. LOL! I bought four nail polishes and two shade sticks…one in brown and the other in black.  What I forgot to add to the picture was the Ice Princess Lipgloss I also purchased – am I liking NYX lipglosses? I’ll tell you what I think about it later.

My NYX Cosmetics mini haul!

Before I end this post I just wanted to say, again, that I had a very pleasant CCO shopping experience.  What I was most excited about seeing was the Heatherette Beauty Powder compacts.  I really wanted one of those and didn’t want to have to go through Ebay to get one.  If any of you want to know how much I spent on these items shoot me an email and I’ll get back to you.

Thanks for reading…adios!!!