It's pretty hard to keep this up along with work and school and terrible weather, which is especially uninspiring in the city. What is incredibly and dangerously easy, though, is shopping. End of season sales (which is generous since it's still in the negative double digits and the snow only just melted) and extra employee discounts at work lately have made it nearly impossible to suppress my spending urges.
I've been spending a lot more in general because I have money from working (which is just kind of how things work), mostly concert tickets in excess because I insist on buying for my friends as well as myself, hoping that one day they will pay me back... So far this year I have tickets for Sufjan Stevens, Field Trip (Purity Ring), Bestival Toronto (Florence + the Machine, Shamir, Owen Pallett, Wavves), and Nicki Minaj! Osheaga tickets go on sale tomorrow morning along with the final lineup, so I'll probably be going to that as well...
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| Cremesheen Glass in Pagoda, lipstick in Creme Cup, and MAC x Nasty Gal in Runner |
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| MAC "Bao Bao's Jewels" pallette |
I originally stepped into MAC to see if they had the Cinderella and Toledo collections in, because I am a sucker limited edition packaging. The Toledo collection had arrived a couple days early and was already half sold out, but the girl set my friend and I up for appointments for the next week to try out the new stuff. My appointment was with an amazing MUA who was super fun to talk to and she set me up with exactly what I wanted. The Cinderella lipstick that I wanted to try had sold out on the first day, but luckily this gorgeous Bao Bao Wan pallette was still in stock. I had seen it earlier with swatches on The Makeup Box but assumed it would be out of my price range, and I would stick with the pretty affordable MAC lipsticks. Buuut, Esther was just too enthusiastic about how great I looked with all the products she used on me, so I ended up getting them all!
The products she used on me were the Cremesheen lipstick in Cremecup with Viva Glam Rihanna lipglass on top, Bao Bao Wan pallette and brown eyeliner, mascara and concealer.
The Smashbox eyeliner and UD primer are from my first visit to Ulta this weekend. I didn't know there were physical stores of Ulta and just kind of stumbled upon one, and I scored the primer potion for $10, which is a fraction of the Canadian cost!
And finally my Real Techniques brushes. I have been looking for these at a decent price for a while, never coming across them in a store until two weeks ago at the Asian mall. I got a travel set for $18, but then I found the same set at my own store for less, so I bought that as well. Then I found individual brushes which I used my employee discount for, and a set that was incomplete because someone had stolen two, so I got a discount on those as well. In the end I now have 10 Real Techniques brushes and absolutely no money :)
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| Some other drugstore lipsticks I've been using |
One thing I can be guilt-free about is my new camera, compliments of my grandpa who just bought himself the 7D Mark II. All the photos above were taken with it and I'm in love.
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| *heart eyes emoji* |
