Sasa.net Haul

I've heard rave rave reviews of Sasa.net, since they carry such a wide variety of Asian cosmetics and beauty products. I've been stalking the website for a couple of months now, adding items to my cart, deleting them, and then looking at the shipping cost and giving up altogether. 

One day it said free shipping if you spend $38, given that my cart was already around then $25 - $30 mark, spending the extra $8 was no big deal. It wasn't until I realized that it was only a sale for 3 days and I caught it on the last day and missed it because I wasn't home to order everything. That and some of the items I wanted were out of stock.

A day or two later I checked again and saw they had another promotion but it was spend over $19USD!! I jumped at that chance and immediately cut down my cart so I spent around $20 total with shipping. That's an amazing deal, and I got everything that I wanted this time as well. 

2 weeks later I go to the post office to pick up my package and I see this behemoth box.

 WOW! Sorry to say I thought this was a little excessive, considering that I didn't order much for $20!

I was shaking it at the post office trying to figure out why the hell they packaged my stuff with this big of a box! Excessive box, but nice packaging! I love the use of the foam peanuts to protect everything in the box.

My packaged up items

Everything I ordered! See how big the box is compared to what I ordered!

First off is this foaming net, this was one of the items which is ALWAYS out of stock. It retails for around $2.60 CAD (at the time I ordered the items). I was really looking forward to this! This does an amazing job of creating tons of foam from one pump of my cleanser. I really do feel it's helped clean my face better because of the foam and how easy it is to massage into my face. Love it! Definitely worth the money.

Next up were cotton layers and cleansing oil. The cotton pads were $3.40 but they are amazing quality! So soft and really nice, and splitting it up into layers makes them last a lot longer.

The cleaning oil was $8.60, extremely cheap, and unfortunately I haven't tried it yet but I am so excited! I got the whitening kind because I want to see if it helps reduce my past acne scars.

Next up cheap blotting papers! I have been running out and didn't want to shell out the $8+ for clean and clear or other brands that I don't find work too well for my oily skin.

I also got a sample of the eye gel cream, which I don't know if it will work too well, given that gel eye creams don't tend to work well with my dry under eye. We'll see.

Last up! A shampoo brush. I know it seems a little weird, but I find that washing my hair with my hands don't really 'massage' my scalp. I know that brushing your hair while it's wet is damaging, but so far nothing horrendous has happened to me yet, so I will continue using it. 

With hair, it's very subjective in the way that what works for me may not work for you. I have lots of hair that is thing, so using this really helps massage my scalp and evenly distribute conditioner that I apply.

I will go into further reviews of everything else later on, as I use them more often, but for now this was my sasa haul!

I just checked the website and saw that there is a promotion of spend over $19USD and get free worldwide shipping! If you band together with friends to spend over $150USD you get cash back too!

Sounds like an amazing deal, and definitely check out these items before this promotion runs out!

It ends August 2 23:59 Hong Kong time! Do be sure to check it out :)

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Daily Makeup Box

I have a small stash compared to others (although my family thinks it's huge and rather wasteful), but I have a small box that carries the makeup that I grab for on a frequent basis.

 The container, as you can see, is a thin cardboard box that I found in a big pocky package holding smaller pocky bags. Hard to explain, but I saw that this box was the perfect size and I decided to keep it. To make it a bit more sturdy, I taped the sides and... well, the whole box to make it sturdy. 

Now onto the products!

Hard Candy glamoflauge, I bought this because of all the rave reviews but it's a little too dark for my undereyes. I still use it for undereyes and spots because the coverage is amazing.

Mascaras, I am using the NYC volumizing show time as a base and then overtop use a sample of Clinique's high impact mascara. I really wish the Clinique mascara was waterproof (or at least hold a curl) because it makes my lashes look amazing. 

I got the Physicians Formula eyeliner and eye booster liquid eyeliner because there was a rebate for it to try it free last year. I decided to jump on that opportunity because free eyeliner, why not! I got it in the colour brown and I absolutely love this eyeliner. Thin felt tip, opaque and made applying eyeliner feel like a breeze! Can't say much for the eyelash booster portion of this, but it already ran out so once I go through my other eyeliners, it's a definite repurchase!

Lorac's behind the scenes eye primer, sadly I bought a set just for this eye primer (since Lorac isn't readily available in Canada), and I was disappointed. Urban Decay primer potion didn't work well for my eyelids, I figured this would be the next best thing. Nope, and not a repurchase from me.

Last is a Clinique pencil liner in 04 black coffee. I received this from a family friend, because it was part of a gift with purchase and they don't want the makeup, just the skincare items. Ah well, it works like any other pencil liner. I do however like the cap it came with, and will reuse that with all of my pencil liners in the future.

And last but not least my tweezerman tweezers, nothing special there, they work just fine.

Eye products next! Sephora eyeshadow that I received free as a birthday gift. I actually don't use this often at all, beside that in the white container is whatever is left of the taupe shade in the Wet and Wild silent treatment trio (it fell on my bathroom floor and only the taupe shade broke). A Rimmel eyeshadow in black, but it is really sheer and applies like a light charcoal so I use it for my brows. Elf cream liner in black, it dried up so I used some eyedrops to revive it but once again, I don't use this often (I prefer pencil, it's faster and easy to draw on). 

Ardell eyelash glue, nothing special but I won't be using this again and would rather try a Japanese brand or maybe the duo brand in the future. 

Last but not least my only cream shadows, Revlon in black magic. I don't use this as often as I want, but my lids are so oily that these crease within an hour without a primer. With a primer, maybe three hours. Definitely going to use whatever I can and then toss it.

NYC loose powder in translucent, for the price you get a lot! I'm going to have a hard time using this up, it works alright, I don't see it making a HUGE difference! L'oreal mineral foundation, I don't really care for it. Same goes for the blush beside it, and then a sample of blush from coastal scents.

NYC blushable cream sticks, I don't use this too often too but will try to because for some reason, I have a backup of this.

Three most commonly used eyeshadow palettes

Left to right, Laura Mercier in sandstone. Estee lauder palette and a Elizabeth Arden palette.
I absolutely love the Laura Mercier shadow, I got this in my luxe box and was extremely happy with the box. Amazing and easy wash of colour that brightens up above my eye easily, lots of product and small packaging.

As you can tell from the picture above, I used up the pink shade in the Estee Lauder palette, not my favourite colour but I managed to use it everyday for a few months. 

The Elizabeth Arden palette is extremely old, I actually found this in my mom's room. She doesn't use eyeshadow, and I fell in love with the browns in the palette, so I took it. The pink is extremely sheer, so I only use the brown colours.

My only lip product, Maybelline baby lips. I received this as a prize from a giveaway, and I must say it smells really nice! It adds a nice bit of colour too, but I can't say I like it very much. Mainly because I am a lip chap junkie, I reapply as much as possible throughout the day. Because of that the pigmentation on this builds up and turns into a really unflattering colour with my skintone. But for a sheer wash, works fine!

Another longer post! I am on a role. 

So what do you use on a daily basis? Around the same - or even more - than my little box of products??