nolw (notd) - blackheart midnight galaxy

hi guys! so i finally painted my nails with something 'new' last week. and it chipped like in less than a day, as per usual..... anyway, i bring you the super pretty blackheart nail polish in midnight galaxy! ~Lindsay ^.~

october hauls - planner and makeup

hi guys! here's all the things i got in october!! thankfully i prewrote 90% of this post! w00t. there's a few things i ordered toward the end of october and didn't arrive til november, so they'll be in the november post. ~Lindsay

i wanted to put these early in the post so they're clear and visible -- my ulta packages contained  coupon codes for 30% off soap and glory products (excluding gift sets) through 12/31/17, code: glory30 and 25% off sleek makeup (excluding gift sets) through 12/31/17, code: sleek25. you're welcome!

sephora -- i got sephora collection cream lip stain set to try one or two of these shades, and the others are going into christmas gifts. and i also got the l'occitane holiday crackers set for the same reason because i love their amande and cherry blossom scents. for 100 points i redeemed for a mini of makeup forever's new blush in S214 and urban decay naked skin highlighting fluid in sin. and for the coupon code, i got urban decay's new troublemaker mascara.

S214, blackberry sorbet, blush nude, sin

blackberry sorbet

blush nude

ulta -- i saw that they had revlon's new holochrome nail polish collection, so i picked up hologasm and fairy dust (blue). they also had benefit's hoola bronzers on sale, so i went ahead and got both the original and lite. and they had maybelline bogo half off, so i got the master precise ink liquid liners in galactic metal and stellar sand. annnd a gift with purchase - garnier moisture bomb.

• update: those polishes are not holo. well the blue one's not a true holo at least. so i returned them both because i was pretty indifferent about them. sorry for not including swatches!

walmart -- got another of the maybelline liners in violet nova, loreal infallible paints metallics eyeshadows in rose chrome, and a biore baking soda acne scrub

violet nova, galactic metal, stellar sand, rose chrome

ulta -- so, uhm, someone caved. i'm not going to bother swatching this out since there's like a gazillion photos and videos of this palette, but morphe is now carried at ulta and i ordered the jaclyn hill palette because discount code.

shoes! got a pair of feelgoodz slimz in cloud, heard about this brand in one of my college classes because my professor taught the founder/owner of the company. and these are super comfortable and i do recommend them! i also got two pairs of shoes from payless, a pair of dexflex bow wedges and christian siriano flats.

planner stuffs -- here's the link to my etsy list of purchased planner stuff
went a lil washi crazy at hobby lobby, and grabbed some metallic gel pens. also, i got this plaid washi at the target dollar spot in september, but it didn't fit in with any of the photos i took for that post, so i didn't mention it.

so. i made a few pbc orders. and i got a lotsa freebies in the process. >w<
WontonInAMillion

MyNewestAddiction

TheCoffeeMonsterzCO -- i'm not actually trying to say anything by buying this sticker book, i will eventually use all of the stickers in it, but it was a good deal and so i decided to get it early.

OnceMoreWithLove 

october empties, hit pan, & makeup graveyard

heyyyy! so. october empties...because i photographed most of them before we moved! also, blanket photo! ain't nobody got time for empties in a new house! so anyway here they are. i apologize first for this being late, but new house and stuff... and second, for not remembering my thoughts on some items. ~Lindsay ^.~

1. clinique ddm gel
2. clinique clarifying lotion 3
3. volumedic shampoo
4. tree hut sugar scrub in coconut lime
5. caress body wash in endless kiss
6. maybelline fit me matte + poreless in 120
7. tarte maracuja eye cream
8. simple cleansing wipes
9. benefit porefessional primer
10. the body shop tea tree oil
11. makeup geek eyeshadow in baby face -- i'm super sad that this is no longer available. i really liked using this as a brow highlight, sort of..? this is matte... anyway, it's a nice skintone shade that they discontinued.
12. kenra platinum silkening gloss -- this was really good. smelled like watermelon jolly ranchers to me.
    repurchase? maybe
13. jack black lip balm in shea butter -- i wasn't as big of a fan of this one. i like the mint one better.
    repurchase? nah
14. freeman manuka honey and tea tree oil clay mask -- i really can't remember how i felt about this. i think i liked it?
    repurchase? have to to figure out if it was good or not, lol!
15. yes to 2 step nose kit -- the cotton swab just to apply the gel cleanser. the gel cleanser exfoliates your skin more so when you're washing it off. the nose strip was awful to pull off and only got teeny tiny hairs, and actual 'nose gunk' not so much. i was able to squeeze at my nose and get stuff out still.
    repurchase? hells no!
16. han za bath bombs -- for $20? these were super tiny. toward the end, started using 2 at a time because they're so small. scents were nice but not super strong or long lasting.
    repurchase? no
17. tarte frixxxion stick -- this is a pretty good scrub, but my face didn't feel clean afterward. so i think this is a pass.
    repurchase? no

not pictured

1. aveeno positively smooth shave gel
2. sonia kashuk eye makeup remover
3. secret ph balanced deodorant in shower fresh
4. tresemme thermal creations heat protectant spray

hit pans

1. makeup geek havoc -- did i put this in the september post?? i feel like i did........
• edit - it was august.
2. benefit hoola lite -- this is #2, already!

makeup graveyard

1. maybelline color tattoo in lavish lavender -- this just got hard and i can no longer use it.
2. tarte smolderEyes pencils in smoke and moss -- these were starting to separate from the pencil...so yeah no good.
3. colourpop ultra matte lips in midi and lumiere 2 -- i don't think i need to explain these, because you can see it in the photo.. ew. but i do have every intention of repurchasing one or both of these again in the future, whenever my lip collection is no longer a collection.
4. american international diamond dry topcoat

fall favorites

hi guys! as promised, i'm slowly chugging through making posts! i actually spent all of tuesday with a migraine, which sucked, but guess who finally started feeling better like 3 hours ago??? lol. so here's some of my recent favorite things. ~Lindsay ^.~

happy belly yogurt trail mix -- i mentioned getting these amazon snacks like free or something with an order a while back. this mix is soo good! super balanced as far as amount of each thing.
lemonheads candy -- one of my coworkers had random candy in a bucket on her desk, and i kept eating all the lemonheads... then i ended up buying a tooon from amazon because no store anywhere near here carries them ever anymore.
mac velvet teddy -- i've been using this lipstick almost non-stop. it's such a great shade!

mac velvet teddy

louisiana shirt -- remember how last time i was like sam's club. Sam's Club. SAM'S CLUB. well this shirt was $10 at sam's. this is a small, but it's oversized and didn't shrink very much in the wash. i don't really go for oversized shirts (and didn't bother to hold it up to myself when buying....), but i do like the cut and that it's loose and flowy.
fan pulls -- suuuper random, i know. but aren't they adorbz and functional at the same time?! this set was $4 at walmart and also came in a bronze version.

erin condren hourly life planner - my october

hi guys! i don't really have much to say about october anymore because it's kind of a blur now... sorry for the delay in posting, but it's been real busy with getting the house settled, cleaned, and moved into. we still have to finish cleaning at the apartment but we've got more than a whole month left to do so.
anyway, here's some photos that i apparently took in a rush and didn't frame super great, and i don't really feel like retaking them since you can see most of the pages anyway. ~Lindsay ^.~

monthly calendar spread: hocus pocus spread from dook plook designs! super cute!

week 1: 

week 2: first house walk through with the inspector!
rant: so i think you guys saw on my instagram..maybe? that walmart sent my email (among apparently only a few others?) into an endless email loop regarding me logging in and ensuring my mailing address for their beauty box was correct. i literally received 200 emails in less than 2 hours, at a rate of 3 emails per minute. my phone was going insane, and it took me about half an hour to find the email settings menu that got buried (in a recent update at the time) to disable the notifications and fetching. but not only am i irritated about the fifty thousand emails (they sent a mass apology email 2 days later. TWO WHOLE DAYS. terrible!), but they did not charge me for the 'ships starting end of september' box until earlier this week. we are freakin in mid november right now, what the hell was the holdup? not only that the a few pictures i've seen online seem like this one'll be lame in comparison to previous boxes--i won't fully complain about comment on the contents until i actually see what i receive--, but don't make promises for something and break them without any indication as to what happened or that there was a delay. i would have been happier about this scheduling if i had known in advance that there would be a delay, over being left hanging for two months. two strikes. ❌❌__

week 3: house closing week!!! did our second walk through with the builder superintendent and took a day off to do closing. one of our friends came over and helped us take our pictures for the change of address / holiday card that we sent out. i got our empty house tour filmed, which i still need to link onto here... and my parents, grandparents, and inlaws came in to see the house and we ended up taping off a tooon of issues around the house that needed fixing.

week 4: ugh i love this kit from my newest addiction! it was actually like an anti-valentines day kit, but i thought it'd be cool for halloween-ish.
that aside, the superintendent guy was cool and had the worker people come through the house and fix all the things we saw. after that i changed the locks in the house, sealed about 2/3 of the grout in the house, cleaned a bit at the house, and started moving stuff over. i say i because teh paul conveniently had to work out of town for most of october and part of november. (for those who don't know - there are a lot of scheduled maintenance outages at plants this time of year and in spring in anticipation for summer/winter electricity usage) thankfully he was home every weekend and was able to help me doing stuff around the house and moving stuff over. i'll probably talk more about the move in next month's post, next week-ish? if i get around to it next weekend? something like that.

notes page: i stuck a few additional deco stickers of the sanderson sisters, a cat, cat pumpkin, and cauldron that came with the monthly kit onto the bottom of the page. otherwise i didn't really use this page. the quote is: be open to whatever comes next