Ulta Haul…Breast Cancer Awareness

I really like Ulta. So far, I’ve been to one Ulta and my best friend has been to another and we both agree that they should seriously update and keep their NYX displays stocked. Bleh! I want that silver jumbo eye pencil and everytime I go to Ulta it has been opened and messed with…all of them. It’s really sloppy. Maybe NYX should package their cosmetics different so that they cannot open and provide testers like they do at the Fragrance Outlet. But anyway…moving on.

Here is my haul. I grabbed up that 69 piece Ulta Get Gorgeous makeup traincase. It comes in this plastic/vinyl covered train case. The design on the traincase is nice. There are three colors to choose from black, grey and pink. If you purchase the pink one then some of the proceeds from your purchase will go to Breast Cancer Awareness. I am not a pink person, unfortunately, so I picked up the black on and purchased a couple of things where proceeds will benefit Breast Cancer Awareness so NO WORRIES!

The traincase comes with  32 eyeshadows (a mix of shimmer and mattes, but more shimmers – pretty and pigmented), 4 lipglosses (2 wands, 2 in pots), 12 lip colors (great colors), 4 lipsticks, 2 shimmer powders, 2 eyeshadow quads (one warm and one smokey – 2x smaller than a MAC quad), 4 blushes (powder), 2 concealers, 1 translucent powder, 1 bronzer, 1 Ulta powder brush (flat), 1 dual lip liner pencil, 1 dual eye liner pencil and the traincase comes with no lock (which is OK because I’m not ever taking it anywhere). There is also a mirror built into the traincase and there are also several disposable application brushes if you want to use your kit on someone else other than yourself. Oh and there is a small ulta lip brush and what looks like a compact blush brush…totally useless from the looks of it.

Overall, I love my traincase. It cost me 20 dollars after using a 5 dollar off coupon. I used the warm palette today and it looks great. I added MAC Deep Truth eyeshadow (my favorite MAC eyeshadow) into the outer V and on my waterline because I’m wearing blue today. It came out nice. The shimmer in the Ulta eyeshadows are not much and they go on nice, easy to work with. Such pretty colors.  The traincase is medium sized so it’s easy to find a place to put it.  Again, happy happy with my purchase.

Last but not least, I bought a pink Yankee candle in “Mandarin Cranberry” (smell so good) for $14.99 and a bottle of O.P.I. nail polish (my first O.P.I. nail polish) in “Pink of Hearts 2009″ $8.50.  At Ulta, if you buy three two O.P.I. nail polishes you get the third one free.  I can’t remember when the deal ends, but I know soon.  Both of these purchases will benefit Breast Cancer Awareness.