Unboxing- Sephora & Etsy

Hello all!

I recently got some stuff in the mail, and I thought I would share it with you!

First off, I made Dean's List at my university this past semester! For those of you who don't know what that is, it just means that I got straight As!  As a present, my parents got me a pendant to hold my Fitbit.  A Fitbit is one of the many calorie/exercise/sleep trackers out there, and it usually comes with a variety of brightly colored plastic bracelets to choose from.

However, these bracelets are not the prettiest.  This generally means that one either has to suck it up and wear the ugly plastic things out on the town, or one has to forgo recording all of the calories burned on the dance floor!

It seems I am not the only one who has noticed this particular discrepancy in design.  Fitbit recently partnered up with Tory Burch to design a line of chic gold/rose gold/silver jewelry to fix this issue.  However, I wasn't really a big enough fan of any of the designs to drop $175 on one.

Enter Etsy!  It was my mother's idea to look there, and I found a plethora of gorgeous designs! I picked a sterling silver pendant from the fitjewelsSF shop.  I love it!

 The other box that I got was from Sephora.  Yes, I know I have a problem.  In my defense, I was replacing two items that I had just run out of!  However, the best part about Sephora, is the free samples that I can get!  I think I got more samples than paid items!

 I got two fragrance samples that I'm super excited about! I like to change my fragrance a LOT, but I don't necessarily like dropping the big bucks on a full-sized bottle.  I got the Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet, which I am so in love with! I just might be getting the full-sized version for the springtime!  It has notes of peony and rose with white musk.  The other is lovely as well, the Elizabeth and James Nirvana Black by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.  I have had a sample of this before, and I loved it.  It is an oriental fragrance, with vanilla, sandalwood, and violet. The other sample pictured below is the Josie Maran Argan Matchmaker Serum Foundation.

 I just finished off my Origins Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask, so I was in the market for a new evening moisturizer.  I have loved everything that I have ever tried from First Aid Beauty, so I decided to try their Facial Radiance Overnight Mask.  Maybe you will see it in a favorites post soon!

I am nearly out of my lovely Touche Éclat Radiant Touch, so I replaced it.  I have the color 1 Luminous Radiance.  I have used the 2.5 Luminous Vanilla in the past.

My rewards points got me these lovely deluxe samples!  I am most excited to try the First Aid Beauty Skin Rescue Deep Cleanser with red clay.  I have heard rave reviews about it!  I also got the Boscia Tsubaki Cleansing Oil-Gel, and a Sephora brand waterproof eyeliner in the color 29 My boyfriend's jeans.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! Have you recently gone and made any exciting purchases? Let me know in the comments!

-Fly high, little birds!

What I got for Christmas!

If you are not particularly partial to seeing what other people got for the holidays, then look away now!  However, if you are as nosy as I am about what other people have gotten, then this is the perfect post for you! Here is what I got for Christmas.

My sister got me a fantastic selection of products from one of my favorite stores, LUSH!  At college, I don't have a bath tub, so while I'm home, I'm practically taking a bath every night, and the selection she bought me is amazing!

The "Golden Wonder" bath bomb- sweet orange, lime and cognac oils.  The best part is, there is a surprise in the center!

This bath bomb is named "Christmas Eve," and is scented with jasmine and ylang ylang... perfect for an evening soak!

This ADORABLE "Chrismas Hedghog" is almost too cute to use!  However, smells of lavender, rose and ylang ylang were too enticing to resist!

 My family friends gifted me this BEAUTIFUL vintage 60s silk scarf.  I feel like Jackie O. when I wear it!  They also gave me an adorable scrabble piece pendant that reads, "Keep Calm and Drink Tea."

Just add over-sized sunglasses!

Appropriate for any avid tea drinker!

 My best friend knows me so well.  She managed to score a tub of my favorite candy, salted black licorice, a lip scrub, lavender oil, and anise mints!  She knows my love of socks knows no bounds, so she got me a pair that are seriously more comfortable than anything I've worn in a long while!  To top it off, she gave me a lacrosse ball, which is perfect for rolling out sore muscles, and some great nail polish! Boy, do I love her.

YUM

Is it bad I don't want to take them off?

A dancer's best friend

The colors from left to right are; "My Dogsled is a Hybrid," "Do You Have this Color in Stock-holm?," "My Voice is a Little Norse," and finally, "How Great is Your Dane."

My parents have been traveling quite a bit this past year, so most of my presents from them are from around the world!  First, my mother got me a set of ornaments from Finland with the adorable Moomintroll!  She knows how much I love moomin.  In Australia, they got me a Zebra rock pendant, that is about 500 MILLION years old! How cool is that? Anytime my mother travels abroad, she always makes sure to buy me duty-free Burberry Brit, which is my all time favorite fragrance!

 

My main present from my parents, however, was my brand new Oxygen Pillow.  I know, a pillow? For Christmas?  But seriously, this pillow is an absolute dream!  I have had the best nights sleep of my life on this pillow!  It is designed to increase airflow to support deep breathing, and while I won't describe exactly how they do it, let me just say this; IT WORKS!

My aunt got me this lovely bracelet.  The best part about it is that 25% of the proceeds go towards funding breast cancer research, and since the same aunt just recently entered remission for breast cancer, this means a lot!

 Finally, for my stocking stuffers, I received a new book by the ever-brilliant Patrick Rothfuss!  I also got another LUSH item; the wonderful Cupcake face mask!

Every year I am blown away by the thoughtfulness and care that my friends and family put into the gifts they give me each year.  I can only hope that they love the presents I get them as much as I love mine!

What did you get for the holidays?

-Fly high, little birds!

Makeup Look Of The Day: Blogmas Day 7

Just as I said in my post from yesterday, I created a makeup look from my Sephora purchases!  I'm really happy with how it turned out, however I couldn't seem to get a good picture of the eyeshadow.  We'll just have to make do with the full face!

I am wearing NARS Sheer Glow Foundation in the color Deuville.  This foundation is beautiful! I have particularly oily skin, so I've always been a bit cautions about trying anything with the word "glow" in it.  However, with some setting powder, I had absolutely no trouble!  My face looked raidiant without looking like an oil slick.

For my countour/bronzer, I am wearing The Body Shop's bronzing powder in the shade fair matte.  For my blush I am wearing Mac's Poweder Blush in the shade Well Dressed. This is a very pale pink satin blush that I really love wearing when I'm very pale.  The satin finish gives a subtle glow that makes wearing a highlighter completely unneccessary!

For my eyebrows I have used Laura Mercier's Matte Eye Colour in the shade Cafe Au Lait.  This is a great multi-purpose product that I will often use on my lids as well as my eyebrows.

On my eyes I am using the Too-Faced eye primer in the shade Champagne.  This wakes up the eyes wonderfully, and is a great lazy girl cosmetic item! I will often use this on its own when I am rushing out of the house.  However, today I am also using my eyeshadow purchase from yesterday, Sephora's Mirror eyeshadow in the color Lunar Eclipse.  To line my eyes I again took a little bit of the Cafe Au Lait on a thin liner brush.  To finish, I used Dior's Diorshow Iconic Overcurl Mascara (what a mouthful!).

On my lips I used the Sephora lip liner from my purchase yesterday, Real Red, and for my lipstick I used Mac's retro matte lipstick in the shade Ruby Woo.

I hope you have enjoyed this post! Let me know what you think of this look in the comments below.

-Fly high, little birds!

PICNIC

It has been HOT here in California! There have been fires in SoCal, and heat warnings all through the state.  If you live here, please be careful about yourself and your pets!  Drink lots of water!

Okay, I'm done mother-henning.  My roommate and I decided that while we were hungry for dinner, there was no way we were cooking in our apartment!  Luckily enough, there is a farmer's market on Wednesday nights, where we got some great ingredients to picnic with!

We got two types of hummus, broccoli, some rice balls, peaches, and (my favorite) BLUEBERRIES!  There is a vendor that I am always to happy to see, because they are usually the first people who come to the market with blueberries, which means summer can't be too far away! Especially with this wonky weather!  It also helps that the guys working the stand are really cute!

We just spread a towel down on our deck and enjoyed our haul!

What do you do when it's too hot to handle? Leave a comment!

-Fly high, little birds!