Last Haul of 2012

 

Happy New Year to all of my beautiful readers, I sincerely hope that 2013 holds great things for all of you! I thought I would make my first post for the year a haul post, showing you the things I picked up during the few days after Christmas, my final purchases for 2012.

 

Chris and I spent NYE AM at Chadstone looking at handbag options for my birthday, and he treated me to a Burberry shadow I’d been interested in for a while. Rosewood is such a stunning colour, I’ll be sure to have a full post on this along with swatches of Pale Barley as well. The Burberry SA was also nice enough to apply Rosewood in store for me, and popped a sample of the concealer in with the eyeshadow. The Covergirl palette was a sneaky supermarket basket treat, and Maybelline’s Sparkling Wine was a cosmetic warehouse bargain.

I hardly ever buy from Lush, but when their 50% off sale rolls around I make it my mission to try some of their products. I needed a new lip scrub so Sweet Lips is now mine, and I also grabbed two bath melts as I’ve never tried a bath melt before! You’ve Been Mangoed and Melting Snowman were my picks.

Even though the last thing I need is more polish, these were $2 each and I couldn’t resist. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color in 480 The Real Teal and 460 Wet Cement, K.K polish in 30 and 21.

I’ve always wanted to try the Maybelline palette in Designer Chocolates, and the lipstick in Juicy Bubblegum. Okay, I’ll admit the awesome lipstick packaging drew me right in! 50% off at Chemist Warehouse, sounds good to me! Rimmel Match Perfection Cream Gel Foundation in Ivory is something I’ve used up once before, and was elated to see it on the discount shelf at my local factory outlet.

The last things I purchased in 2012 were some new cheap baubles to dress up my plain clothes. I want to start wearing more costume jewellery this year, I tend to just stick to my regular old diamonds but I’d like to start changing it up a bit! These were heavily discounted from Equip.

What was the last thing you purchased in 2012?

 

 

iHerb: Shopping for Real Techniques

I’d been looking through my brush collection and felt that it was lacking, and I had my eyes on the Real Techniques by Samantha Chapman range. After looking around online I decided to order them from iHerb.  Sadly not every brush from the range was available, but I ended up choosing the Stippling Brush and the Base/Flawless Core Collection.

The brushes I am most excited to try would have to be the Stippling Brush, Buffing Brush and the Contour brush.

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Of course, I wouldn’t be a true beauty blogger if I didn’t throw other items into my cart, and so I chose some lip balms and the Queen Helene Mint Julep mask. I chose a Crazy Rumours balm in Freshly Squeezed Pink Grapefruit Juice as I have been on a pink grapefruit hunt at the moment, and the Soda Pop Root Beer flavour is for my best friend Candice. I also threw in a Hurraw balm in Blue Chamomile Vanilla.

I decided to load up on the Queen Helene masks as they were only $3.84 each, and I had seen so many rave reviews about them. I’m happy to say that first impressions are looking promising, I have only used the mask once but feel I may be falling in love.

I will be reviewing all of these in detail once I’ve tried them out properly, but do let me know what you are most excited to hear about!

The total order came to $47.23 which I thought was really reasonable for the amount of products I received. Shipping to Australia was $4 and I received $5 off as this was my first iHerb order.  Everything came safely packaged and came within 2 weeks, which I was really happy with. If you are interested in purchasing something from iHerb be sure to use the code BEJ649 to receive $5 off your first order. To be clear, I receive some sort of iHerb reward points if you use this code (not sure of exact details) but all who make an iHerb purchase get this opportunity and the code is not blog-related. Happy shopping!

*I was not sponsored for this post and am not affiliated with iHerb in any way, I'm just obsessed with shopping!