Hey there!
Happy Wednesday! There have been so many new products coming out for summer that I’ve been excited to see in store pick up! I also had run out of some staple items, so naturally Megan and I went shopping. We went to Sephora, Bath & Body Works, Lush & Superstore. (Canadian babes you’re going to love this!!) I’m so excited to share with you what I got, so let’s just jump into everything!
Starting off with Sephora, like I said Megan and I have been waiting for two specific products to come into the store, and I’m sure if you love beauty you’ve been looking for them too. (And I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already made it into your beauty stash!) Thankfully both of these items were in stock, I hate it when you wait for something and then go get it and it’s not in stock…
I picked up the Naked Smoky Palette from Urban Decay and it might be my favorite one yet… I’m obsessed! I love the cool toned, wide range of colors and mix of finishes in this palette. I’m going on a small vaycay this weekend, and I think it’s the only palette I’m going to take. I’m obsessed with the UD Naked palettes anyway, and when I heard about this one I knew it had to be mine! Megan did a super in-depth review on it that you can read here.
TOO FACED may win my vote for best packaging… I mean just look at these adorable blushes! These are the Love Flush Long-Lasting Blush and they have been so hyped for months… I’m pretty thrilled that they’re finally mine haha! I knew I wanted to get at least one because I’m a sucker for packaging, but I ended up bringing home three. Typical. I picked up “Your Love is King” a deep plumy rose color, “Justify My Love” a bright pink color with fine gold sparkles in it, and I think this will end up being my most used blush of the three. The last one I picked up was “How Deep is Your Love“ a bright watermelon toned pink, honestly even the names are cute! If you’d like a full review on these with swatches once I’ve used them a bit, leave me a comment or tweet me! 🙂
Everyone loves the B&BW 3 wick candles, they’re basically like a life necessity. They’re a bit pricey so I always wait until they go on sale to pick some up, and when we went in, they were! These were each $12.50, which is so much better than the $22.50 they normally are. I picked up some from the new summer “Poptails” collection, “Banana Kiwi Colada” (I couldn’t find a link 🙁 ) which smells like banana mojo candies (it also smells the way banana runts taste, if that makes sense!) and Watermelon Lemonade which smells pretty much exactly like its name. Fresh like watermelon, with a hint of citrus. I also grabbed Summer Boardwalk which is a re-promote from a few summers ago, and really does smell like a board walk, sweet like ice cream and fresh waffle cones, but with a bit of a salty popcorn/beach smell! I find even if I don’t light these because it’s so hot out, it’s nice to have the fresh summer scents in my room!
I also am a huge fan of B&BW’s foamy hand soap, and I love the scents that come out in the summer! Again, they’re always fresh and fruity. I love that the scent lingers on your hands and that it foams up… I mean who doesn’t like to pretend they’re 6 for a minute! Plus a soap that leaves my hands feeling clean is a soap that does its job in my books. I picked up three from the new summer collection, “Pineapple Sorbet“, “Honeydew Cooler” and “Sparkling Sweet Nectarine“. Again, sucker for packaging and ice cream so not only do these look cute but they’re a great product overall. I definitely recommend going in an sniffing these for yourself, they’re much harder to describe than the candles and they smell different on your skin than they do in the bottle. Kind of like perfume. They all smell fruity and delicious to me, and I can’t wait to completely run out of my current soap (*cough* Christmas cookies…!) and use one of these! P.S. These are on sale right now for $3.50!! Go get some!! 🙂
Speaking of completely running out of things, I completely ran out of my fave shampoo. Thankfully I had a shampoo bar (also from Lush) in my shower, so I wasn’t left with nothing, but I knew I needed to pick up a new bottle of “I Love Juicy” ASAP. I love this shampoo because it smells amazing, like key lime pie. My brother even uses it on occasion. With slightly acidic natural ingredients like mango, kiwi and pineapple, excess sebum (oil) produced by the scalp is gone. Ingredients like sea salt helps to add volume, and seaweed extract soften your strands! I’ve been in love with this shampoo for years and I don’t see that changing any time soon!
Okay, now to the exciting discovery at Superstore of all places… *drum roll please* THEY SELL MILANI. A brand I thought you could only get in the states! We’ve had a hidden gem in Canada all along and I had no idea. Please tell me I’m not the only Canadian excited about this! They have a full range selection, and the Superstore we went too had more products than in the CVS I went to in Phoenix. So, uh ya, this is a pretty big deal. Because I just bought stuff in the states I didn’t pick up much, but I did pick up another baked blush in “08 Corallina“, the multitasker face powder in “02 Light Medium“, and a lip liner in “13 Pretty Pink“. (This color isn’t online) I haven’t used any of these guys yet, but again if you’d like a review let me know!
So those are the few goodies I picked up, I feel like this was a pretty summery haul! I’m not a huge fan of summer (I’m a fall girl!) but I do love fruity, fresh, and colorful which seems to be the theme here! Have you picked up anything that you’ve been loving for summer?? Let me know! 🙂
Love,
Claudia ♥︎