august/september favorites

alrighty! so eternity and a half ago (aka. earlier this year), i made my first what i'm loving post..with basically everything i loved at the time. i still love a lot of those products, but we're going to venture off onto "favorites" now and hopefully make this a bi-monthly (edit: maybe quarterly?) thing, seeing as though i don't change up what i'm using very often. ~Lindsay-chan ^.~

benefit hervana (tl) & dandelion (tc) -- applied to apples; theBalm sexy mama (tr) -- used as a setting powder;
boi-ing shade 1 (br); too faced pink leopard (bl) -- used for contour.
i'm definitely buying a full sized dandelion when this runs out, i like the (very) light pinkness it adds to my cheeks

l'oreal voluminous full definition mascara, urban decay eyeliner in rockstar, sigma F40 & posh angled blush brushes
my only complaint about the voluminous full definition mascara is that it's very wet. rockstar is a slightly shimmery, dark eggplant
i like sigma brushes a lot, the only problem is the shipping cost. posh brushes are easier to find and buy, good alternative but are a lower quality than sigma's.
sigma's are from http://www.sigmabeauty.com/, and posh brushes can be found at kmart and bed bath & beyond

unii/z palettes (see haul/review post here)

tiffanyd soap & candle from candles by victoria & cbv bath and body (website has been moved to cbv)
these candles don't burn dirty as long as you trim the wicks regularly, and extinguish them normally rather than closing the lid (which is what we've been doing...)

saturday's haul!

hey! so saturday i went shopping at a bunch of different places, but i wanted to share what i got a big lots, dollar general, and bed bath and beyond. in metairie there's a big lots and dollar general right next to each other, so why not go to both places while you're there? so i got four notebooks for school and two covergirl mascaras for $4! the mascaras were $1.50 each, and the notebooks were marked 24¢ but actually rang up as 17¢ each! ever since i was in middle school and/or big lots/mac frugals existed, i've always gotten a lot of school supplies and discounted makeup from them. i don't advise getting pens or mechanical pencils from them, as they sometimes work 50-50, brand new. but i like getting post-its, notebooks, filler paper, notecards, etc. from them because it's crazy cheap. so if you've got a big lots near you and you need to buy school supplies, they're the way to go! (office depot too, but big lots usually has these school prices year-round vs seasonally.) i've been wanting to try olay's pore minimizing cleanser & scrub, which i found at dollar general for about $7. then, since bed bath and beyond has cosmetics/drug store products, i got almay's get up and grow mascara (~$6) and posh angled blush brush (not pictured, ~$7). i've been wanting another angled blush brush, in addition to my two sigma ones--but cheaper and locally. they had these on display for you to feel them, so i decided to give it a try. we returned so many wedding gifts (and still have a few to return) and have mucho dinero's worth of credit with bbb, so i'll be buying what i can from them, rather than going to ulta or cvs. hope you guys had an awesome weekend and fun at school--if it starts this week! we start next week. ~Lin-chan ^.~