Previous Haul From Once Upon A time

[Edited July 22nd, 2015: I didn't realize that I had not published this yet. It was in the drafts folder]

Hey all, 

This is my sad attempt to post a little more regularly for the year of 2015! I took these photos quite some time ago, and I haven't had the chance to blog about them. 

After being in school for the past 7 months, I've been in another make up rut. I don't want to experiment with anything, and quite frankly, I don't have time for it in the mornings. Sleep is more important than make up these days. I've actually gone to class with nothing on my face. 

I'm here to share with you today, a haul I did in February! As I said, I hadn't been wearing much makeup, and so I was looking for things to inspire me again. I made an order through beautylish.com and makeupgeek. I also had the chance to go to sephora after i saw that YSL came out with a Chinese New Year set. Keep on reading if you want to see what I acquired this time around! 

The Loot

Belated IMATS Haul

Hello Friends!

I haven't been motivated enough to keep up with my blog posts. I genuinely hope that all of you are enjoying the new year of 2015. I started my second semester here, at NAIT, and it's just as stressful as it was in September. I'm not sure how to go about keeping up with everything. I suppose reading my textbooks during this break will help. ;P

I don't have any new photos to put up of my face, but I do have a very belated IMATS/Vancouver haul I can share. I have also made a mini order on makeup geek and beautylish. Hopefully those will come in the next two weeks, and I'll be able to share them with you.

IMATS was held on August 9 - 10th, 2014. I attended it with my cousin, Felicia. We had a blast walking around Vancouver and sampling all of the awesome (and cheap!) restaurants in the area we stayed in. The overall convention was underwhelming to say the least... we wished that larger vendors, such as NYX, MAC, and all of the other fun ones came to Vancouver. Alas, we did get our Hakuhodo brushes that we had lusted over previously. I hope you enjoy the small sampling of photos I have of my cosmetics!

The wrist bands

We sat and watched a competition

My Whole Vancouver Haul!! 

Birthday Cosmetics Haul!

I really don't know if I could ever post anything other than hauls on my blog.  They're just so addicting. I love looking at what other people buy, and showing people what I bought.

I also haven't posted any selfies of myself recently, so I thought I should (Haha, yeah, right). My skin has gone from horrible to worse though. Where are the days that I had perfect skin? Long gone as it seems. Ah well...

Since blackout season is soon approaching, I guess stores are trying to make up for their sales for the rest of the year. Kiehl's had their first ever friends and family sale open to anyone that walked into the store. The Rihanna hearts Mac collection came out for fall, and Shopper's was having their employee discount and 20x the points at the same time! Talk about sales.

Anyways, here's a nice picture of my little haul from the past couple of weeks:

Haul and Mini Reviews #1

HELLO everyone!!

WOWOWOW. I cannot believe it's already summer. I seriously would LOVE to know where the time goes, because it seems like it's moving at light speed in comparison to my sloth-like ways.

UPDATES on my life? WELL...
Yesterday, I went for a nice long walk on the north side with my girl, Jlieu. I loved it. The weather was perfect. Hot, but not too hot. I can't wait for more walks during the summer.

I am officially graduating on June 5th from my Arts degree. What am I doing next, you ask? WELL, probably going back to school. I'm not mature enough to go out into the real world yet. My mom's okay with me living at home until I'm 40. Don't worry, I asked. :D (My mom is so awesome)

UPCOMING EVENTS?

I'll be going to Asia in July! We hope to be hitting Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.
I also have an interview with RBC in June. FINGERS CROSSED. I'd like to have a larger income than I currently do.

That's pretty much up to par with what I've been up to recently, besides the fact that I was in Vancouver two weeks ago! Oh man, I wish I was rich enough to be living there. It's so beautiful. Alas, I am stuck in Edmonton. I am also quite envious of my friend, Jess H, for being able to leave everything and create a new adventurous life in Vancouver.

BUT THAT is not the point of this post. The reason for my update is because I did *some* make up shopping whilst away on vacation. :) It was great. I wish I could have stayed longer.

THE new addition to my make up drawers... hehe 

Pre-Christmas Haul! (Pic Heavy)

I'm so sorry that this is late, but better late than never... right?

Haha! I have neglected this blog for a while, and decided to change the name of it!

Lol I'm not completely satisfied with the name, so if you have any suggestions, I am completely open!

I took these pictures a while back, so I thought I should post them since I put the effort in taking them.

PLEASE NOTE, these pics were taken during finals in December.

The overall haul 

School Has Commenced!

Ey ey ey,

Hey ya'll. I've been gone for MONTHS. Lol, I just got really lazy with up keeping this blog.
I've worked all summer, took spring and summer classes as well. I'm determined to graduate by the end of this year!

I'm so sick of school, yet I'm not all that ready for real life yet. We'll see where life takes me by the end of it. It's kind of exciting not knowing what's going to happen next.

Anyways, I went to Chicago for 12 days before classes started up again, so I thought I should do a mini haul post. I'm kind of broke now. Funny thing is... I kept buying things even after I came back home. :( It's so addicting. Anyways, this is a picture of the things I bought in Chicago! This was from the day after I came back.

I got Neutrogena cleansing wipes, China glaze polishes, an OPI, ardell lash glue, lashes, butter london polishes, dry shampoo, lipbalm, and self tanner! 

Haul Withdrawl

:( I buy too many unnecessary things. I have a midterm on Tuesday, and I don't know why I can't bring myself to crack open this damn book! I wish it was warm and sunny outside...

I have a lot of pictures that I should show here... I take them for the blog, but I never blog anymore. : (

Anyways, since it's spring, there were a lot of make up schools that I was able to go to, so I might as well show you everything I've accumulated in the past couple of weeks. :)

Starting off with... my skin! LOL It's so clear in this picture, 

I'm not wearing any make up what so ever. 

This is an old picture I took... but I like my hair. It's so pink! 

Right now, it's gradient-ed with purple and blue

Break from Studying

Haha, as my title says, I thought I should take a break from studying... all these Linga pictures are making me dizzy. Don't google it. :P

I'm studying for my art history midterm this tuesday. I'm scared, because I want to do well! I'm currently just taking a break to refresh my brain. I worked until midnight the past two days, and I woke up at noon today... and went to Northgate! haha I was going to go to Castledowns Library, but I went into Starbucks to see if my friend was working. AND SHE WAS. lol We're in the same art history class, so she bribed me to stay and study with her. It was an.. okay day. LOL not as productive as I imagined it to be, but fun none the less.

I thought I should show you yet, another haul I did... yes... my wants are pretty much insatiable.


First thing's first... I got St. Tropez Mousse Self tanner

It's HUGE, but it's a nice product. Very natural, and I wouldn't mind using it every few days. Minimal streaking, and the scent is bearable.

These are the other things that I got! :D

Naruko Oil Out Cleanser, serum and night cream, 

a teasing comb, 

Nose packs, and a facial sponge! 

August/Sept Haul

WOWOWOW, I've been away for too long, and I promised too many of you PICTURES. I should be doing research right now, but I'm taking a break. A pregnant break, but by all means, much needed. LOL

This is the first time I'm using the new blog interface for blogspot. It's interesting... but teeny tiny on my 24" wide screen monitor.

I've been really lazy with this blog. School started up, and now Im trying to be as caught up as possible. I hope to be ahead sometime soon. My sketching skills haven't been the best though. :( I drew a tank on Ran Yu's paper for an assignment. She was like, "Wtf?" But that's okay, cuz she doesn't know it was me. :)

So people were asking me to put a picture up of a recent haul I did at work (Shoppers drug mart) ... Most of it was my brother's stuff.. like shiseido for me, and the clinique for men, and the cologne. haha

I bought two of the flake aways because they went from $9.99 to $18.99! 

WTF? I had to stock up while they were still $10. :( 

JULY? THERES ONLY ONE MORE MONTH?

Yes, just a friendly reminder that I will be seeing y'all in a month and a week! YIPEEE!


Haha. Yeah, okay... I'm not THAT excited. I've been thinking of.... quitting my job to actually concentrate on school now. I've loved make up and anything to do with beauty, but I think I'm done... I've gotten my fill of it since starting to work here, at Shoppers Drug Mart.  Who knows, maybe I will come back to this industry, and create some awesome looking packaging! LOL We'll see once I complete this year... Blah.


I have promised a blog post to a few of you... I was in Los Angeles for two weeks.


Anyways, the main reason I'm posting today... is so show you my collective haul from the past month! I have converted into a nail girl... my nails change colors every 2 or so days. I bought so many polishes in LA... and I just want to try them all! all in due time though.

My nails of the moment! 

Essie's Tart Deco with Sephora by OPI Blasted Gold (my fave crackle)

My Weekend, mini face, and SPRING HAUL!

DISCLAIMER: I know that some of you don't know that your pictures are going on here... if you mind, please email me or message me and I'll have it down asap. 

    Hahaha! I know most of you girls love seeing what I haul in. It's kind of embarrassing.
I actually buy a whole lot of other stuff in between the hauls as well... I might do some reviews if anyone is interested!

    You're welcome to skip this part by scrolling through the pictures and figuring out which are the haul pictures.


    SO this past Friday, I got to chill with 3 of my girls! It was really fun and exciting, because we haven't done this in a while. It really brought back memories of the past summers we've had together. I had to work from 8am to 4pm, so I was really exhausted. While I took a nap at home, Tiffany and Adelaide were shopping. They texted me to wake up at 7pm to go eat! First, we had to pick up Jessica from work though, so we headed there. It was funny, because Adelaide and Tiffany bought vitamins there. DID YOU KNOW they sell Rock and Republic jeans? I laughed really hard.


    We made our way to the South side Tropika. It's supposedly authentic Malaysian Cuisine. More like americanized. We ordered pineapple fried rice, Laksa, and pad thai that tasted like ketchup. I think the most enjoyable part of the meal was just being together. hehe.

Holiday Hauling...

HELLO EVERYONE, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 

Hope that the break is doing you all some good. :) I know I've eaten too much turkey myself. lol 

Recapping what happened this holiday so far: Work, Dinner at the Melting pot, work, work, Family dinners, working some more, and shopping! LOL I might do more shopping tomorrow... scratch that, I WILL be doing more shopping tomorrow. I hope I don't get anything... 

I have been holding off this post for way too long. I'm sorry to you guys who's been patiently waiting (*cough*Amie, Teresa, Rachel, Somarly, IVANHO *cough*). HAHA. After much contemplation, I decided to cut out a lot of pictures that I didn't think were necessary for this post, so that it's... shorter.

BY THE WAY, I “lol” when people tell me that I should be the next make up guru on YT, because I’m NOT a guru. I just like playing with make up. I don’t have any tips or tricks that haven’t already been said by Michelle Phan. I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to make up. People ask me, “What colors should I be wearing? What make up is going to make my eyes pop?” AND I say… “I dunno. Whatever you like? LOL Colors that make your eyes pop would be the colors on the other side of the color spectrum.” *Shrugs*.

… AND that is why I am a BEAUTY EXPERT… *Points at name tag from work*. I’m not a beauty master, I have to work at Murale for that. Then theres the Gurus that live in YT. J

This is mostly a LUSH haul, because they had a buy one get one free sale ! (yay!)  It was a pretty good month for me to receive things, because I love getting things (especially when it’s free… everyone at work knows that. LOL!). It’s kind of bad… but I blame it on my asianess.

MINI Make Up Haul & FACE.

I know I said that I wouldn't be doing another haul for a while, but I couldn't help myself and go shopping. Sephora gave me a $20 GC.. and I had to make use of it!

I apologize for not updating as frequently as I have in November, but finals and final projects have been suffocating me... as I'm sure it is doing to most of you. Haha. I didn't sleep very much from Sunday night to Wednesday night. I had maybe about 6 hours in total... including my naps while I study. Oh caffeine, where would I be without you? Probably... a bum, because I'd fail school.
Thank god I'm done 3 out of 4 classes! I'm going to have to go hardcore for a longer period of time though... next exam is on the 21st!

I will post some pictures in a later blog about the project I did in school. :) Took up a lot of time... but it's fun to make things with your own hands.

Hmm... I didnt take that many photos, because I basically got home, changed, and went to work. haha. I'll post swatches tomorrow... when my lips aren't dead.

Edit: Yeah, it's now Dec. 12/10. I'm going to add more pictures! I couldn't wait to do this post, that why I posted it so early without much content. Tomorrow is my work's Christmas party. My friend/coworker is going to let me drive her car! MUAHAHA. :) I'm excited. Jojo made me coffee at work today.. so my brain is kind of scattered. I just took a shower, and did my make up for fun! I have pictures after my haul! I also have some swatches of the lippies I bought recently. I do my make up at night so that I get more practice, and I see what works for me. I have a lot of make up, so I'm not worried about "wasting" it, as my mom says. Hahaha. I'm going to add a bit more narrative to some of the pictures... :D

So I went shopping on Thurday, Dec. 9th, 2010...
Hehe, I met Jessica up on our usual bus to school.. and we took the bus to West  Edmonton mall from there.
We had a yummy lunch of Pho at Pho Hoa in T&T. 

 

It's that time again... HAUL!!!

  YO, my peepz. I'm feeling a little under the weather, so I'm going to keep this post a little shorter than usual, without all that crap I usually write. I have to finish up this powerpoint presentation that is suppose to be presented tomorrow night. Haha... I suck, I know. 

  Anyways, I wanted to show you my last haul for a very long time, because I know I have everything I will ever need and more. I know you guys are going to be very sad about this, but I will try to keep up my blog with more interesting things. If you like reading my blog, please follow me! :) I will update every now and then.

  I calculated how much I've spent on myself since November 10th, and it came to almost a whopping $900. I splurged on (almost) everything that I have wanted  for a while and I have close to no spending money left. lol This is the first time I've ever done such damage! I'm a student and I work 14 hours a week... and managed to blow my spending savings in a few days. xD 

Okay, so here's pictures of my latest haul: 

 I went to Holt Renfrew when they had their Manulife Dollars (Where you get 10% back in this type of play money), and I picked up a couple of things I had my eyes on for a while. 

These are the Shu Uemura Cleansing Oils. 

I got the 150ml of the Antioxidant ($40), and 150ml of the classic one ($38). I couldn't pass up the classic, because it has the cutest limited edition packaging. I am a sucker for pink...

Another Haul?

I had the entire day off today, so my mother and I went to do a little shopping. It's my brother, Vincent's, birthday on the 17th. He's turning 22. What an old man. We went to look for a new backpack for him, since his is getting really dirty and old. Gross.

I suggested that we go to West Edmonton Mall, because it does have every store imaginable. We all know that I was secretly wanting to go to sephora though...

Turns out... we couldn't find a suitable backpack at either Atmosphere or SportChek. Meh. I bought more make up with my VIB discount, and I finally redeemed 500 points for the beauty point perk! It comes with a full size of the BUXOM lash! They didn't have this set on Wednesday, the last time I went. I might just go return the Buxom lash I bought, because I don't need two. I really don't know when I'm going to be able to use up all of these mascaras. Maybe if I blog more, I'll do a fun make up look for each post. lol! That's a fun way to use up my make up...

After buying a couple pairs of practical boots for the cold winter climate, my mom and I stopped at costco for gas. I've never seen such bad drivers on the road. It was rush hour by this time, so we stopped inside to shop for a bit. I ended up getting a gel memory foam matteress topper! Yay! Haha, I was so excited that I put all my sheets and blankets to wash because I don't want it to get dirty. xD

Yay for clean sheets and fluffy blankets!

We also found a decent looking backpack! Score! Mission complete. lol.

I spent the rest of the night cleaning my room, because I haven't had the chance to since school started... needless to say, it was a nightmare. I finally have some walking space in here!

Anyways, I'll get to the pictures! Hehe, pictures are always the best part.

Collective view of the cosmetics I purchased today

Close up of the lipfusion infatuation christmas set. It's such an excellent deal! $31 for 2.5ml x 4! That's 10ml worth of glosses for the cost of one 5.5ml full size!

This set comes with the colors First Crush, Screen Siren, Angelic, and Lollipop (l/e).

I've been eyeing Screen Siren for a while, an this set is perfect! The glosses have a semi-opaque coverage. They're so gorgeous. :)

I don't know what it is, but I have an obsession with lip glosses/lip products. When I saw this set, I knew I had to have it. It was out of stock on Wednesday, but it came back in stock today! SO HAPPY! There are all full sizes. The lip balms are to DIE for. I love the Jasmine one, although it doesn't really smell/taste like Jasmine. I tried on the lightest pink shade of the gloss, and it's is GORGEOUS. It smells and tastes like cherries to boot! They use cherry oil in the glosses apparently. LOVE IT. All this for $51 CAD, normally $124 CAD. I'm in love.

I also bought the Stila eye kajal in topaz for the waterline yesterday. My friend who does photography said that the white on the waterline looks too unnatural in photos. I tried it on for a coworker, and she pursuaded me to get it because I "look[ed] so cute". I don't really like this particular eyeliner, because it has no staying power on the waterline what so ever! Oh well.

In this picture, there's the Bare Escentuals box set that I got for my beauty insider points. It comes with the pink cosmetic bag, a mini brush, a mini face powder, a mini lipgloss (BEST glosses), and a full sized buxom mascara!

Last, but not least, I picked up the MUFE feather lashes because they looked so fun. The longer I stay in Sephora, the more things I want. I also got a bottle of the DUO lash glue in clear, because it's only $10 for 14ml. The one I get from London drugs is $7 for 7ml.

That pretty much concludes my haul from today (& I guess yesterday as well). I'll put some fun camwhoring pictures now! he he

I love doing make up at night right before I go to wash my face.

This is just a really intense smokey eye I decided to do. :)

Oh! I also bought this faux fur stole from H&M. I love it. hehe

Okay, I hope you all enjoyed this post! It's time for me to go to bed... maybe. lol!

-- xLissa

HAUL!!

Okay, SOOOOO I suck at keeping up with my blog. I just lose track and forget.

School started up and we're almost done the first semester. I'm enjoying my studio courses (esp. the photoshop one), but I hate art history. =[ I have to catch up on studying this long weekend... I need to pass.

Overall, it's been a pretty chill semester. I haven't been hanging out in CAB, because Teresa is never there anymore, and I feel like I don't have time to do anything! My friends get mad at me because I'm either busy doing homework, or else working. It's nice right now, because I work about 15 hours a week. I love working for Shoppers Drug mart... Haha, we'll see if I still love it after the Christmas season.

That reminds me, I got my first customer complaint! ARGH! Haha, but I totally deserved it. I was withholding some limited edition stuff (the last ones!) and I told her that I couldn't sell it to her because I called it. >_> Yeah, stupid greedy me.

ANYHOW, lets get to the main reason why I wanted to blog today: HAUL!!!

I've been in a crazy shopping mood this past week, and basically went berserk.

It doesn't hurt when it's the 20% VIB sale at sephora too... (okay, maybe it hurts my wallet a little bit.)

I just looked at my credit card statement, and it looks like I'm almost at my max!

EEP!

PICTURE TIME!!

Group picture of what I got today (Nov. 10, 2010)

The Naked Pallete ($52 CAD) up close. I bet you've all seen it before! lol

Since I got the last one off the shelf... the plastic was all cracked, and this wasn't put together nicely. :( It made me sad... but at least I have the palette, I guess!

I also got Bare Escentuals' Buxom Lash ($23 CAD), Nars Eyeshadow Primer ($29 CAD), as well as UD Skyscraper Mascara ($26 CAD).

The last thing I got from Sephora is the Phytodefrisant ($28 CAD)! I got a sample of this a long time ago, and I fell in love with it. It makes my hair nice, smooth, shiny, and straight without the use of a flat Iron. I haven't touched my CHI in a month or so.

Next, I went to Lush to get a Seanik Shampoo Bar (not pictured), as well as the BIG shampoo. I'm so excited to try this. It better be good, since it's $23!!

On Sunday, I picked up the QUO Professional Brush set ($100 CAD). in the Holiday Edition. SUPER cute, and the brushes are SO SOFT. It was on sale for 40% off! :D

I also picked up a few drugstore stuff! Revlon Eyelashes ($6 CAD), Tweezerman lash comb ($10 CAD), 3 L'oreal hip Chrome liners ($7 CAD/each), and a maybelline blush ($5 CAD) !

I also picked up a couple boxes of my favorite My Beauty Diary sheet masks from T&T. ($15 CAD/Box)

OKAY, other than make up I also got a few other things!

I couldn't resist bath and body works. Everything just smells so amazing there. I picked up 2 3-wick candles ($22.50 CAD each).

I dropped by michael's the arts and crafts store to pick up a couple marker pads for drawing/using my copics on. They were $20 and $18.

And then I got this scarf from Bluenotes. Lol! It was 30% off, and I had my SPC card, and got another 15% off... Which made it $6. Haha! Deals FTW. (Sorry for my deathly pale face, Im just about to go to bed).

I honestly might go back to West Edmonton Mall to pick up a few other things that I didn't have time to look at or get... American Apparel has a 20% off sale as well! I forgot to go in there! I also have to check out murale to see if they have the perfume that Sephora doesn't have! I really want the Viktor and Rolf Flower bomb. :/

Ahhh well... I'll keep spending my money. >_<

-- xLissa

SCHOOL'S OUT. He he

SO I finished my exams on Monday, and what have I been doing since then? Shopping of course!

Who in the right mind wouldn't?! Haha!

Right after my friend, Jessica, finished her exam at 4, we raced to LUSH to pick up some things. I'll make a separate post on what I got and how I feel about the products. :) I love LUSH... I got my cousins, Ashley, to come with us as well... and I think she's going to love whatever sh e bought. hehe.

On Tuesday, I accompanied my mom to the grocery stores to buy some stuff... Then we went to Kingsway Garden Mall so that I could return some make up, but ended up getting MUFE face and body foundation in my summer color as well. :) I also made her bring me to Delta Art and Drafting Supplies so that I could buy some copic markers! :D The thing is... the flyer said that the 36 set was $80 WHAT A STEAL, but they said it was a typo, and couldn't give me the price for it. I was whining and pining when I got home and only ended up buying 5 colors.... I decided to play with them, and instantly fell in LOVE with the way they blend! SO I had to go back on Wednesday...

On Wednesday, I woke up nice and late at 12:30pm. I got ready and got to delta by 1:30pm.... I ended up leaving at 3. LOL Then my mom and I decided to check out the mayfield common Winners.... we didn't find much there. So I made her bring me to the Sally's they have over there... I bought 6 nail polishes. Haha! Then I had to work at 6pm... and I bought 2 more polishes. Oh my gosh... lol

Today, I woke up and my friend, Vincent, came to pick me up to go to school to bring home all of my over sized art stuff that I couldn't bring home on my own! Then we went to Tim horton's to grab a nice ice cap. :) After that, I didn't want to go home, so he drove to the south side to look at the pretty lottery show homes! So much fun. :)

I have to play with markers soon! I can't wait... I keep making little color charts of my own so that it'll be easier to look for the perfect shade of color... :)

My Copics haul! Love it! It costs me too much money though...

The nail polishes I bought at work in Peach Smoothie and Gum Drop.

They're scented when dry! Hehe

This is what I have on my nails now: Peach Smoothie.

It's the perfect pale pinky nude.

These are the China Glaze nail polishes I got from Sally's in:

Tree Hugger

Lubu Heels

& Heaven

I was so mad when I read the ingredients for heaven after I got home...

It contains formaldehyde!! I might have to return it since it was $6CAD

Last of all the orly polishes I got. I was so excited to see them because they are hard to come by.

Orly makes really nicely pigmented polishes that are smooth and formaldehyde free!

These colors are: OLE, La Playa, and glitz (gorgeous!)

I'm definitely in love with these polishes!

Hope you enjoyed this post! I'm off to print some stuff for school...

-- xLissa