Bronzy lippies, Avon, Sallygirl Hauls

Finally decided to slow down spending *haha* but still managed to pick up a few things thru-out the month. For some odd reason I had a nack for bronzy lippies and I got more than enough as you can see. I think my favorite out of all of them is the Loreal one. And I'm still amazed that I found the zebra print wallet, I've been looking for a animal print wallet for sometime now and was super excited that I found this one, the best part is that it is hot pink on the inside!

Benefit cosmetics was getting rid of their silk lip pencils as of last month, for reasons unknown they decided to discontinue them, not sure why since these lip pencils are amazing! Soft and pigmented with nice neutral colors. My favorite: the color 'Lush'...So upon finding out about the boot I decided to order backups, at the benefit website they offer discounts on all their Buh-Bye's products so I got these for $8 each? I think :/

Avon quad, I needed a great neutral Mocha Latte palette and this one is ah-mazing!

New! Maybelline Stylish Smokes 'Neutrals smokes' quad, colors are nice (they have 3 other color combo's, I got mine at Walgreens)....

Black lipstick by Santee, which is good because I prefer Santee over Nicka K or Jordana anyday, the scent of the lipstick is yummy :P

My new found love, Kat Von D liquid eyeliner in Immortal Love....*anxious to go buy all colors*

I needed this color, and Loooove it

My new MAC Folie because my other Folie was looking like a hot mess, Folie has to be one of my favorite of MAC e/s's I looooove it :)

I looooove 'Minted' and 'Smoothblue' is very pretty, Minted is my favorite though..both by MAC

I found the last piece to the puzzle, a pan of 'Carbon' which is right on the lower right corner. I already want another palette, what is wrong with me?! :D

first palette....

I got 2 defining ELF brushes. I don't know why it took me forever to try these, they are A-Ma-Zing!! I've literally tried almost every ELF product out there and never once did I give the defining a chance,haha. I put in an ELF order a few days ago and ordered 3 more and some other stuff, can't wait!

Inside of the Zebra Print Wallet

Swatches Top row-left 2 right: MAC Minted, MAC Smoothblue, MAC lipstick Diva, Santee lipstick Black, MAC e/s Gesso, MAC e/s Carbon, Kat Von D Immortal Love, Avon quad,

Bottom row-left 2 right: Maybelline quad, Covergirl 'Sugar Maple' lipgloss, Santee lipstick 'Chocolate', NYC Ultra Moist 'Cafe' lipstick, Maybelline lipstick *can't remember name, sorry! :( , Loreal Endless 'Boundless Bronze' lipstick, MAC Diva.

I also got a second Dream Matte powder -Honey Beige- I love this stuff. Looks light in the pan but is actually a good color for me :)

My Clean sample scent which smells interesting :/ I'm not loving it but not hating it either, it smells fresh I guess!

The one & only Grisi Aloe face cream...is like a dream, light and comforting and smells phenomenal, and does not clog pores!

That's it for my haul!

See, and just when I thought it was finished I forget a thing or two! geesh!

I'm running out of my NC40 so had to get more, and honestly I almost bought NC42 knowing that summer is here and I tend to get darker but Nooooo, my skin wants to stay light! So I'm back & forth trying to decide on the 40 or 42 :D

The Loreal Loose shadows I think I did a previous haul post on these? No? I must be losing my mind then :D Anyways, I picked them up at my Dollar Tree for $1 each, these pigments are amazing, they have great pigmentation *are good dupes for MAC pigments* . What I like about them is that they are very soft and easy to work with. Dollar Tree currently has like 10 colors but I got the colors I thought were the prettiest.

Journal Entry

Just learned this afternoon that my niece's baby passed away. I don't mean to be a bad news burden to all of you but like I said you all are like family and I just wanted to share this news about what is going on with my life. I can't imagine what she is going through right now, as a mother I can certainly feel her pain but she has an incredible amount of pain unexplainable.

I'm not sure what she named her baby but for now we'll call him Baby Martinez. May he rest in peace with all the angels in heaven.

*Update: They named the baby Branden, Mass to be held 7/15/09, Thank you for your prayers

Journal Entry/Randomness

• Goodness, it's been so long since I posted a randomness for the week, I clearly stopped doing it because I've been thinking long and hard about my hiatus staus and can't seem to make up my mind but in the future I think it will turn out best. During my time of thinking I make sure to post nessesary entires on my blog anyway. I will continue to do so until I reach a decision. Thank you all for your support!
• I've pretty much been hauling here and there. I recently started getting into dark lipsticks, don't know why :) but I went in my lipstick drawer and pulled out as many dark lipsticks as I could find and just started playing with them to try to see which ones looked awesome, so far I like MAC Hang-up and Media. I'm also getting into dark (almost black) purples and burgundy's and red's so if you know of a really great blackened red lipstick please let me know! Speaking of dark lipsticks I recently stopped by the 99 cents store and picked up a Santee lipstick in Black. Yep, I now own a black lipstick! Which doesn't look bad at all when you apply it well and use lipliner. I also wanted it to mix in with other colors to create unique lip colors. You can pretty much mix in any color you want with the black and it looks amazing. I'll put pics up very soon of what I came up with.
• I've also been fond of brown liquid eyeliners for the top lashline, just this past weekend I was searching all up in my makeup drawers for any sort of brown liquid eyeliner. So I couldn't find one and ended up using my rose water and MAC e/s Folie as a top lashline liner. OMG, it looked Ah-mazing! Later on that day I was browsing in JC Penney with my kids and came across the Kat Von D liquid eyeliner in the Sephora they have in the store and to my surprise looks exactly like the Folie+rose water I used earlier. The color is called Immortal Love and I'm in love with this eyeliner. The color is perfect for brown and taupe + khaki smoky eyes (which I wore on Saturday) and is quite close to the color Folie (which is a great reddish brown e/s). I'm eye-ing the other Kat Von D colors as those looked very tasty :P
• On a very sad note, my niece recently gave birth to her son and it is this big mess of poor judgment of the staff at a nearby hospital (my sister-in-law and niece are contemplating a lawsuit...read on to see why). She went in for a fever a few days ago and they released her to go home. Well 4 days later she complained to them again for contractions and was upset to learn she broke her water 4 days earlier. Basically the fever was a sign of water being broke, so both baby and mommy caught an infection and were under hospital ICU for 4 days. They released my niece but had to keep the baby in ICU. So far in the past 3 days the baby has had problems breathing and has herpes (not sure which type) and is turning normal color to blue and everything in between. They baptized the baby on Saturday and predict baby will pass away within the next day or two. I can't imagine what my niece is going thru right now, and as a mother I can understand her pain. I just wanted to let you all know simply because you are like family. Any prayers to her and her family are welcome, thank you for listening :)
• I hope everyone had a great weekend! I'll post pics of the dark lipsticks in a few days :)