Collective Haul!

Tis the season to be spending~

Since there were quite a number of deals the past couple of months, I've been stopping by Rexall to pick up a few items, and doing just a bit of online shopping. ;)

I picked up a new foundation, Marcelle Matte finish in the colour Almond. Rexall was having a 50% off all face cosmetics sale, and I was rather eager to try a new foundation out.

I haven't tried it yet, but I have to say not fond of the packaging. I totally thought there was going to be a pump, but alas as soon as I opened it was I disappointed. Guess I'll have to wait to see how the formula is!

Parfum1 had a 20% off code, so I used that to pick up my favourite perfume

Came with a sample~

Once again Rexall had a buy one get one free on the Revlon lip butters! I originally bought the colour "Pink Truffle" at work, and this time I wanted Berry Smoothie and Creme Brulee or Peach Parfait. Sadly both colours were out of stock, so I ended up with Berry Smoothie and Raspberry Pie. Reviews to come soon!

Also the Christmas cards (SUPER CUTE NO?), hair mousse and spin pins I picked up at London drugs. The mousse was 1.99 each, so I snatched up the remaining 6, the spin pins were 25% off and came to around $5 (originally 7ish!).

My yesasia.com haul! I waited FOREVER for this! I originally ordered a Rilakkuma cosmetic bag that wasn't in stock, I waited a couple of weeks while they searched through warehouses until I got a email saying it was out of stock. I cancelled the item and wanted the rest shipped out asap!

The cat is pencil case, and it's actually a Christmas present for my friend! She loves cats so when I saw this I immediately put it in my cart! It's super adorable and kinda makes me want one too...

I got a iphone/ipod/ipad home button sticker, and a headphone cover thing (that's also a strap holder), and Tablo's album - Fever's End.

I LOVE Tablo's album, I was most excited for this to reach me more than anything! After listening to "Bad", "Home" and "No tomorrow" I knew I HAD to order it. 

Inside it came with a YG family card, I'm not too sure how to register it but god knows I will figure that out! I've been a fan of Tablo and Epik High for so long, ever since I heard "Anyband", I fell in love with Tablo, which then led to Epik High. 

I'm so happy that he finally released an amazing album, after all the hard times he's been through, I'm so proud and happy for him!!

Left: Commander in Chic, Right: Barracuda

Lastly Sally Hansen polishes!

Nail products are buy one get one 50% till Dec 24 at Rexall, and the last time I was there picking up the lip butters I saw Barracuda! Ever since seeing it in missglamorazzi's youtube videos back in the summer, I've been on the hunt! It's been sold out everywhere (I've found it at one SDM but it was all crusty as someone had used it in the store), and when I saw i knew I had to have it!

I've been lemming Commander in Chic for SO long! It reminds me a lot of Rimmel's Steel Grey, but I couldn't compare the two colours at the store so I bought it anyway! I hope it's a bit different, because I loveee Steel Grey, and don't want something extremely similar. :\

On another note! Revlon lip butter review, picture, swatches (of some) to come soon!

I've been on a blog block because I've been working everyday, and coming home for a couple of hours just to go out and catch up with some old friends!

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everything is going well for everyone!! :)

Miss Erica Online's giveaway!

kk it's been a while since I've done these!

Miss Erica is back, and I'm super excited to see that she is! 

I've been a quiet lurker for a while, so when I saw her blog post I immediately went: HELL YEAH!

Actually because of her money sense series, I started keeping track of the money I spent! I kept it up pretty well on an excel spreadsheet for a good 4 months till life took over and I didn't remember what I had spent during the day. 

But I changed phones, downloaded an app and I am back on track! I just need to input my data back into excel (which will take a while).

BUT onto the main point!

Check out her giveaway here: Miss Erica Online! 

It's going to be a assortment of goodies (so excited! haha).

Good luck to everyone! :)

Perfume Hunting: L'air by Nina Ricci

My first series on this blog: Perfume Hunting

Because of the perfume sampler I bought at shoppers, I finally decided to try the first sampler and decided on L'air by Nina Ricci.

Bottle

What drew me to try this first was one, the bottle. Look how gorgeous that is! The other item that drew me in was the campaign pictures.

At first glance, I thought it was Emma Watson, but the model is Noreen Carmondy, and she is stunning! I was in love with the pictures, commercial and how beautiful she was! 

The whole concept of the perfume seemed to be exactly what I wanted, to look for a mature, feminine scent.

STYLE: L'air, is inspired by the iconic fragrance L'air du Temps, it's a fragrance for the new generation. L'air reveals a new absolute and modern femininity with a new twist, more luxurious and modern. L'air offers liberty and rebelliousness, the breath of love, the miracle of peace, and a song of freedom.

Doesn't that sound amazing?! I was extremely curious after reading the description.

TONES: It combines an airy and crystalline top note of honeysuckle and freesia with a radiant and feminine middle note accentuating magnolia, rose absolute, and jasmine sambac all held together by a sensual and woody base note of palisander wood and patchouli. 

THOUGHTS: Truthfully the first time I tried it, I HATED it. The smell was not sweet (compared to say, DKNY green apple), it had this weird lychee woody smell, and when I put it on I thought it smelled so... bad on me. Almost borderline BO with my body chemistry.

I wore this for around a week in a row, no other perfumes. The perfume lingers around, it's not extreme that if someone was to stand right beside me, they wouldn't be able to smell it. If I got really close to someone though they would be able to tell. It also doesn't last long on me, around 4 hours max, which isn't bad, but I would definitely love to see a longer lasting power. 

After day 3, I really began to like this. It definitely grew on my senses, the more I smelled it the more I fell in love. Even now a part of me wishes I hadn't run out to keep wearing it, it's a unique fragrance, and mature, just as I wanted when I bought this sampler.

FINAL DECISION: I might buy a sample, or small bottle. I don't know about a full bottle just because who knows how long a bottle might last me, and I'm sure that wearing this more than a couple of weeks in a row might begin to annoy me. It's a unique smell, but I know I'll get annoyed of it quickly. I also don't like how long the lasting power is, even at the 3 hour mark it's very faint on me, by 4 hours it's pretty much gone. 

For those interested, definitely ask for a sample beforehand. Unless you know you love fragrances like this, then go ahead and get it! However I know that if I smelled this in a store, I would've never thought of asking for a sample, or even buying it. The thought of this scent on my body absolutely disgusted me when I first smelled it. But I've definitely grown to like it, and heck I'm still sniffing at the tiny leftovers in the sampler right now!! I really did grow to enjoy this scent!

Next sample to try: Lady Million by Pacco Rabanne

I'm excited for all the fragrances though! Gosh I'm so glad to have bought this sampler! :D

Ridiculous - I hate group projects

Long story short, one of my classes has a group project, we were doing fairly well up until we got together to do group interviews (this is a human resources class, our project is to make a position, and interview other classmates), there was a clash of personal opinions between two of our members (a girl and a guy), which led to an argument, and we ended it because we had other things to do.

Two weeks ago in a small group meeting, a (different) girl in our group passively brought up that topic - thinking that we were all adults and had gotten over the fact - which led to another huge fight.
Honestly this fight was the crashing point for our group. When you put two head strong people together, fighting over the difference of opinions, add in the fact that they are both unwilling to budge unless the other person does, it turns ugly, FAST. It didn't help that it was only us three Asians - who are quiet and really had no opinion on the matter - sitting there watching this unfold.
It got to a point where things became on a personal level, name calling happened and just all hell broke loose. We have two weeks left of school, and NOW is when our group "falls apart"?!

Today we had a group meeting to finish up the final report, we were told in advance that the girl wasn't going to come, fine, whatever, she was going to edit the whole thing. Works for us. What we didn't know was that the guy wasn't showing up. Clock turns 12:40PM and we decide, fuck it, we're not waiting for him. All of us were extremely disappointed in the fact that he didn't even make the effort to contact any of us, but we moved on. A couple of hours later the girl gets a text from the guy saying he was sick, and if he could send all his information to her to read.
... But WE were working on the final report, it'd make more sense to send it to us. He didn't even bother to look up our numbers to find out and contact any of us! What the hell.
Regardless she sent us a text telling us what he said, and we were like oh what the hell, he didn't even tell us.
THEN she called us and asked if we should essentially kick him out of the group. He was extremely irresponsible, worked on barely anything, didn't bother to contact us and just showed up when it was an important date. So in a way there was a bit of truth in what she was saying, but at the same time, this project is worth 21%, to kick him out of the group now when there's two weeks left in school is quite harsh, he could honestly fail this course because of us. I don't know about you guys, but that felt like a burden to me, I don't think I could live with the guilt of possibly failing someone...

Anyway the main point of this rant was to say that I text him saying to send us his stuff because we needed some ideas, and the stuff he wrote pissed me off.
He said that writing the job description and analysis was "tedious, dull, and repetitive". UHH, from what I remember, HE never helped out at all. The first time we got together as a group he wasn't present. When we decided to type up the final copy he "went to his car" and disappeared making us type up all of the information. He also said that because of some heated debates, it left members angry and upset.
Truthfully if either of them dropped the topic, this whole problem never would've happened.

The fact that neither of them got that point is annoying, and it really put the rest of us in a difficult position because we're trying to appeal to both sides, but it's hard because of the tension.

Rant over, it's late and I really should get my 5/6 hours of sleep before cramming in more.... school.

Posts of a haul coming in probably about 2 weeks.