More Victoria’s Secret Beauty Gets
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 | 58 Comments
Oh what to blog about~ I’m beyond stuffed 
with Christmas Party food + dinner + dessert of 6 mini gingerbread men & cocoa. The mini Gingerbread men from Trader Joe’s are FANTASTIC! 
I also bought the “cinnamon broom” there. It’s what it is. A straw broom dipped in cinnamon oil. 
I left it in the plastic bag because it’s extremely potent. I just leave it in the corner of the kitchen as decor and the whole downstairs smells like spice! It’s great and very Christmasy~ 
This week I finally used up all my Victoria’s Gift Cards. 
I bought that foundation with one actually. :good: I’ve used it this week and so far I’m liking it with no ill effects! 
I mix it with my morning moisturizing lotion so it’s not such a thick of a coat. I don’t normally wear foundation. I only wear BB Cream once or twice a week. Other than that I just wear a light shaded face powder. But I’m liking the foundation. I needed something that was thicker than just my powder but not as heavy as bb cream. For those days I don’t get much sleep and look really rough. 
Also I REALLY like Clinique’s Acne Solutions Spot Healing Gel. Before I would use the Acne Solutions Emergency Gel-Lotion. But these deep zits were just not responding to it for some reason. But seems the new gel is healing them a bit faster. Been using their concealer to cover & treat. It’s OK. It gets cakey fast so it’s a little frustrating at times.
Ah, so back to Victoria’s Secrets gift card gets!
These are actually from Bath & Body Works! Got them 75% off with a coupon I had! I’m glad they carry some of the Victoria’s Secret PINK line for coupon purposes
SECRET CHARM - I got this scent in one of the lotion gift sets and ended up really liking it! So I bought a full Secret Charm gift set
GIRLS NIGHT - A peony and waterlily scent
On the left the new scent for the PINK line called “SUNNY AND HAPPY!” This is the “shimmering & shine”
I like both the scent and the name, Sunny & Happy. That’s what I want to be at my best!
Right is their Dry Shampoo spray. I have some dry shampoo powder from Oscar Blandi but wanted to give this a try. So far, it’s too much product. It does relax your hair out of whatever styling you’ve done but it also leaves a sorta dry coating of product in it afterward. I like my Oscar Blandi stuff better~
I bought some pink containers at IKEA and decided to use them to store most (god not even all!) my bath salts & bombs. 
Collagen supplements!
Above are the 2 types of collagen supplements 
I got while in Japan. I’m going to start taking them on New Year’s Day! If I like them and feel they’re actually DOING SOMETHING FOR ME I can easily find collagen supplements in the US! The DHC ones are a pill form supplement while the SHIBUGAL are jelly cup supplements! Peach flavoredddddd
I got this new cape/poncho/wrap Sunday. It was $60, I got it for $14, 
whut whut! I needed something I can wear under my coat to & from work but also something nicer to wear AT WORK for when it gets chilly there. My office gets really hot in the winter so I have to wear layers. If I wear long sleeves I get TOO hot! So layers, layers! Because often it’ll cool down too and get really cold like in the conference rooms.
Some lazy outfits from this week~
Christmas is in less than 10 days! 10 DAAAYS!
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Jenny @ 9:16 pm; Wednesday [url]
tags: clinique, makeup, victoria's secret, outfits, shopping
whilst feeling 
Cheeky
Some New Makeup
Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 | 37 Comments
I got the new Urban Decay “All Nighter” makeup setting spray and Benefit’s High Beam last weekend.
I’ve tried High Beam in a sample and loved it. Finally bought a tube of it because the “to go” version fits in my daily makeup bag better. 
It’s lovely for winter & Christmas I think! Gorgeous shine on my dull winter cheek skin 
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UD’s All Nighter is new to me! So far…
It’s pretty damn good!
Screw using a primer! This works just as good if not better. Last week one night at 10pm I told Mike. Look at my makeup! He said, “wow, it looks like you just put it on, haha!” Well it did. I do think it works better on heavier make or maybe just outdoors? It stood up amazingly last Saturday when I wore BB Cream and was running around the city. At work though I’d say it performs just as well as using a primer does. I still got a tad oily and used a blotting sheet at 2:00. Maybe I should up the sprays from 2 to 4? Or maybe it’s because I’m wearing simpler makeup during the week of just concealer, powder, and blush? Still figuring out the best methods for prime results! And did I mention so far no breakouts from this? I have my suspicions that Smashbox’s Photo Finish Light primer causes me a few pimples sometimes.
I actually wanted to try Dew Me because I’ve got dry winter skin or even the De-Slick oil-control setting spray but Sephora only had the original in stock which is fine. I have a sample size tube of De-Slick I want to try first anyway.
However this week I did have a sorta break out but I know the culprit. I broke out on my chin over Thanksgiving. I was away from any Sephora and just picked up a Maybelline cream concealer cover stick. Well I was loving it but realized this week it was breaking me out. I finally noticed when I got zits on my face where I never get zits AND had happened to have been using the concealer to even out skin tone in that area. *sigh* I have a liquid concealer but it doesn’t work well for covering breakouts. My usual cream concealer doesn’t exist anymore *cries.* So today I bought Clinique’s Acne Solutions Clearing Concealer! I would have bought it a long time ago but I haven’t had a stubborn breakout like this in a long time! I already use nearly ever other product from the Clinique Acne line! no joke! LIKE EVERY PRODUCT. I also bought the Acne Solutions Spot Healing Gel since these zits are being incredibly stubborn. 
I tested out the concealer today but I’ll know better next week how well I like it.
I also bought foundation from Victoria’s Secret today! Why? Because I use their liquid concealer and love it and it doesn’t break me out so I’m hoping the foundation doesn’t either!
Again, just bought it this morning. I tested it out tonight. Gonna mix it with my moisturizer so it’s not such thick coverage. I tried their tinted moisturizers but they didn’t match my skin enough. Looking forward to trying these out. I was able to successfully 100% cover my break out You can still see a bit of the bump of 1 of the zits but it at least blends in color-wise now. I don’t like using my BB Cream over breakouts because it doesn’t help any in clearing it up. It often makes it take longer to clear my skin up. My skin needs to breath~ I didn’t wear makeup all weekend except tonight when I tried out the new stuff.
I received the December issue of SCawaii this weekend from a different seller this time. This seller shipped it quite nicely and it arrived in mint condition
Just wanted to counter-act all the ranting from the last entry with some positivity!
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Jenny @ 8:31 pm; Sunday [url]
tags: victoria's secret, clinique, makeup, review, shopping, mags
whilst feeling 
Stressed
