Snow White E.L.F Collection Available On line at Walgreens!!!!!

I saw this new LE collection Musings of a Muse about a week ago and have been watching online ever since! You can find this in stores (if you have a walgreens...) but if you don't you're in luck! Just like the LE Ariel Collection the Snow White collection is available online too with free shipping on orders over $25! It might also be available on drugstore.com which is where I had to get my Ariel set because Walgreens sold out so fast, so if you want this set, jump on it! Here's a direct link to the collection. Prices start at $4.99 and go up to $9.99
I'm in for the Lip Collection gift set (4.99) the Eye Shadow gift set (4.99) and the beauty book (9.99) and I have to say the packaging art wort looks just as gorgeous as the Ariel beauty book. They also have a brush set and a blush/bronzer looking set (9.99 and 4.99)

Snow White is my favorite princess so I'm pretty pumped! But next may I suggest Jasmine? She's my second favorite...actually just keep these princess collections coming (online!) I'd like them all ;)

*Not affiliated at all. You know the deal*
Are you picking anything up?
What princess would you like next?
Thanks for reading!

-Ashley

Super Cheap Revlon Lippies at Rite Aid (Next Week, Print Coupons Now!)

   You might wanna get on this! Coupons.com just released a high value $2/1 ANY Revlon lip product, and you get two prints per computer. Then Rite Aid Video Values for the month of July has a $4/2 Revlon lip product coupon which you can stack with the Coupons.com coupons for $8/2 lip products! Then, if that wasn't enough savings for you...next week Rite Aid has 40% off all Revlon Cosmetics!
So...if your stores pricing is close(ish) to mine your deals could look like this...

Buy 2 Lip Butters for $7.99 each
$15.98
Minus 40%
$9.58
Use 2 $2/1 and stack the Rite Aid VV $4/2
For $1.58 Total!
So 79 cents each!

That beats clearance (and you get your pick of the litter!)

Or you could get their lipglosses (which are also great) and I think they retail for $8.99
Or their infamous chubby stick balms (which are shocker, also great) for also $8.99 each. So after sales and coupons those would turn out to be $2.78 total (or $1.39 each!)
OR you could get their new moisture stains that retail for $9.99 for $3.98 for both ($1.99 each!) Which I also like...they do have a really cool texture and I suggest India Intrigue for a gorgeous dark(er) berry...I've been loving it...I also have Parisian Passion (which comes off as almost a purple/black...it's very dark but very beautiful). I also have LA Exclusive and I have to say all of them come out a few shades deeper than they look in the tube, which kind of shocked me, but I'm very pleased with them. *What a ramble* I haven''t been able to blog about them yet but for 80% off I had to tell you ;)

But anywho, get those coupons printed, they can be taken down any time!
I'm not sure what I'll pick up yet, maybe some lip butters because my collection is a little lacking there...or maybe a gloss too...I only have one but that formula really is wonderful...hmmm

What are you gonna pick up?
Any suggestions?

Thanks for reading!
-Ashley

*As usual I'm not payed, sponsered, affiliated ect.*

June 2014 Birchbox

    It's been forever since I blogged...errrm sorry about that. I have all sorts of excuses for it...but the main one is my camera (which you'll notice in this post). For some reason I can't get my computer to "recognize" my camera. So I haven't been able to upload decent pictures...so these are Ipod pictures lol. I just really wanted to start sharing my thoughts again so I tried to make it work. So sorry for the crumby pictures but thanks for reading :o)
  *Disclaimer I bought this box myself and at the end of the post I will have my referral link* Well, I haven't got a birchbox in like...six months? Maybe more. Once I got with Ipsy I dropped it because for the longest time I wasn't impressed with what I was getting...it just wasn't worth it and I had sample overload. So I canceled, but I've been seeing decent boxes on blogs so I figured I'd press my luck and get the June box, and I'm finally figuring out the points system. So here's what I got...

   Color Club Gala's Gems Collection- In Breakfast At... I really like this shade! It's a pearly green shade, it looks similar to one of the new LE New York Color nail polishes that I wanted and now I don't need it. So pretty happy there!
 Davines- Love Smoothing Shampoo, Conditioner, and Ol All in One Milk... For once I wasn't too bumbed out about getting hair stuff! That is until I realized there is enough shampoo (which smells delish btw) for 4-5 uses and enough conditioner for two uses (if I fold over the packet thing) and one with the milk (leave in conditioner...) So I'm not sure how well thought out that was but okay. By the way, those packets in the far right corner are the conditioners.
English Laundry For Her... For once I'm not too pissed off about the perfume sample either! I haven't smelled it yet but I'm shockingly not too upset about it...maybe because it's not another Juicy Conture variety and maybe because I haven't gotten perfume once with Ipsy. So I'm kinda lukewarm.
Evologie Stay Clear Cleanser It's a big enough sample to really get a feel for it and I generally welcome cleansers and masks ect. I'll be honest, I really, really love facial care samples for when I need to go buy more of my go to's but just don't want to (it happens) or when I want to switch it up.
And finally Cynthia Rowley Beauty Silver Eyeliner 

 Here's a picture of the color...

 Here's a swatch...

Here's the swatch after I tried to rub it off...Seems like good stuff to me! (The after swatch looked much stronger in person, thanks Ipod) But it's really pigmented and creamy. The packaging is pretty beautiful which made me question the quality to a degree, but nope. It's pretty great! I kinda wanted the lip gloss (the other CR option) but I'm trilled I got this instead.

  So overall I'm pretty happy with Birchbox this month! My expectations were pretty low (I didn't used to call it bitchbox without my reasons) but curiosity got the best of me and I'm pretty happy! I got two "pretty" cosmetic items and some other things I'll use, but honestly the eyeliner and nail polish made the box. Worth $10? Well...yes, no, maybe so...but in the end? Probably not. I'll get the July box and see what happens. Thanks to the lovely ladies at Makeup Talk I'm starting to understand the review/points program which I guess is the only thing they have on Ipsy. You get 10 points per review and I think 10 points is the equivalent of a dollar in there online store *From my understanding, please don't take my word just yet* So if I review everything I'll have 70 points (if they count shampoo/condition/milk thing as 3) which would be $7 in there store (or $5 if they count the bundle as 1). So for a $10 box shipped to my door that's not a bad deal, considering everything will get used. But if they start sending me foundations that don't anywhere near match the "pale as hell" on my profile, then it'll be a bad deal (You don't know how many great samples I've got through my first birchbox sub that I had to pass on because they didn't anywhere near match me). Oh and with the points you can cash out for Birchbox gift cards so they won't expire! That's another good feature, I hate expiring points.

Well thanks for reading! If you want to sign up to birchbox you can use my link here, and thank you :) But truthfully if you don't want to subscribe I don't blame you. I probably won't keep the sub myself, depending on July, or maybe I'll get an occasional box...what can I say? I'm a sucker for surprises :)

Thanks again for reading!
What's your favorite subscription service? Any you recommend? Any you wanna try? Let me know!

-Ashley

Heads Up! Killer Rite Aid Sale...

This is quick and short I know...I've just been swamped but I wanted to let you know about a Rite Aid sale starting this Sunday (9/22/13) on Maybelline products which can net you the Maybelline Fall collection lip glosses and or lipsticks on the super cheap!

Here's one scenario:
Buy 4 Maybelline Color Sensational Lip glosses at roughly $7-$8 each (It varies store to store, I think mine has them $7.99 so I'll use $8 to make all math easier and so you don't get thrown off by a higher price.)
After a buy one get one 50% off sale the total is $24
Then use 4 $2/1 Maybelline lip product coupons from the 9/8 Red plum insert
Then use $1.50/1 Maybelline Color Sensational gloss coupon here
Pay $14.50
Get back a $5 +up reward
Final Cost is $9.50
So $2.37 each! Basically you'll get four for basically a little over the price of one!

If you've been eyeing up the fall collection of LE lippies it's a great time to get them! Obliviously you can mix and match the new lipsticks and glosses as long as you buy one of the glosses you'll be able to use the facebook coupon. I think my store has the lipsticks at $7 or $7.50 but I'm not sure.

To plot  I mean plan your purchase even more over at Eating Lipstick she has swatches of the entire collection! Which I'll link you to that right here.

Another thing to think about...
Buy 4 Maybelline Color Sensational Lip glosses $8   $24 after sale
Buy 2 Maybelline Nail Polishes from perhaps the fall line *cough cough* G has those swatches here
$5.98 after sale
The kicker is you'll have to spend 2 more cents to get a $5+up reward, so maybe another polish or babylips...for the sake of the math I'll say polish but you can wing it on your own. Then you might as well get another item to get the bogo50% off sale...
Buy 2 more polishes $5.98
Total before coupons $35.96
Use 4 $2/1 Maybelline lip product coupons
Use the facebook coupon for gloss linked above $1.50/1
Also use the facebook coupon from the same link above for $1/1 maybelline polish *You can use the FB coupons only once each. Just scroll over at the bottom to find this polish coupon.
Pay $25.46 (After coupons)
Get back $10+ups rewards
Final cost $15.46
So $1.93 for each product! That's a really good savings, especially if you've been eyeing up the new LE collections! <---Did I stress that enough? Yes I've been waiting for this sale for those LE's :)

*I'm not paid to write anything I just wanted to let you know about these impending deals because I'll be talking about the hauled soon and don't want you to miss out...or pay retail O_o

*Disclaimer: I said this would be a quick post...nothing about this post was quick.

*Thanks Hip2Save for the coupon info!

Thank you for reading!
Ashley

Wet n' Wild Tough Girl Swatches

I picked these up at K-Mart a few days ago and am finally getting my swatches up! So apparently there are two different Soldiers in Charms palettes. One in a green theme and then the black/silver/white that I have. I heard from G over at Nouveau Cheap that Walgreens has the green palette and she also has great swatches of the entire collection including the blue, which I also didn't see at K-Mart.

 This is Soldiers in Charms (The alternate version?) Sorry I had to take the pictures of the palettes sideways, I couldn't get my camera to focus otherwise.

 They are smoshed together...I tried to keep them closer.

 Enlisting For Beauty

 My camera's a little like me...it won't focus! I'm still learning bad photography 101. But I LOVE this palette, nice quality (as usual from wnw). It will make a great nude eye look and I love taupe colors...I'm a little biased I suppose. 

 Zero Dark Flirty

I also have a thing for purples and this fits the bill well! The violet (the top in my swatches, I flipped them) needed a little build up but I think it's worth it. 

*Everything was purchased by myself.

**Unflattering photos also taken by myself

These retail for $2.99 each and depending where you buy comes with a mascara (Mega Protein in the green tube) which is okay if you ask me. It's a "natural" looking mascara, no drama but nice (isn't no drama nice?) The only downer is it's a very wet formula. It will on enhance your lashes a little...my lashes are long(ish) but they go blond about halfway up so it really just gives me what I have it just...helps? Eh lets be honest it's hard to review mascara since every one has different lashes...the only consistent is the wet formula.

Which one's your favorite? Do you have them? Do you know why there's two different Soldiers in Charms? Let me know!

Thanks for reading!

Ashley

If Today Was A Test Of My Self Control...

Let it be known I have none. But to my defense this was a very, very, VERY premeditated purchase. Seriously. I've been stalking Rite Aid for the Wet n' Wild Pop Art collection. Seriously like two weeks ago (before I accepted that I won't get my hands this collection) I went to Rite Aid three times in one week and the one in the next town over twice. So today I went into K-Mart in hopes of those delectable orange slice gummy candies (that I've oddly been craving) and took a spin around the cosmetic section because I can't be in any store and not end up in the cosmetic section. So I actually kept enough cash in my wallet to buy the collection because I told myself if I see this collection I won't think twice, I'm getting it all. I told you I planned this since I first found out about it. Oh and all Wet n' Wild is buy two get one free...

From left to right: Your 15 Minutes Aren't Up! (I was actually the most excited about this one...it's so cool!)

To Muse and Carouse (Probably the most wearable of the bunch...I like this one a lot too)

Three's A Party (This a cool one too)

 A Regular at the Factory

I'm Seeing Triples

Hard Being the It Girl

These are just really unique, like nothing I have and they will be fun to play with :-)

 Oh. I didn't mention these huh? I was pretty pumped to find these too! These are perfect for everyday wear. These are in the new Army themed collection...there's also a blue pallet but K-Mart didn't have it. 

Soldiers in Charms

Zero Dark Flirty

Enlisting For Beauty

 I was pumped to find these too! These were $1.99 but keep an eye out for a $1 off coupon on the display (a tear pad booklet) to get them for 99 cents!

-Rimmel Metal Rush collection-

Pearly Queen

Gold Save the Queen (You know the names great)

Bronze Princess

And finally the culprit behind this whole haul...I wasn't gonna post this but for comedic relief purposes I thought I should.

I'll swatch the beauty army collection first (since it's just hitting stores) but if you want to see anything else first let me know! :)

Oh and by the way at K-Mart the Wet n' Wild sale didn't come off at the register so watch your receipt...I had to go back and explain to CS that it's on sale. I almost didn't bother because I was told it was probably an old sign (seriously?) then I said it's in the sale circular...surprise surprise it was on the first page he opened :p But I mean come on I'll badger someone over a dollar. I'll tear you a new one for nine ;) And is it just me but are the people that shop at K-Mart generally angrier than the rest of the population? I understand it's too hot and there's two registers open but I waited my turn y'all can stop anytime now with rolling your eyes and loud breaths. Yes girl three people behind me in line with two arms full of clothes, you probably should have gotten a cart. And personal space is another massive issue. At Walmart I never feel like people are breathing down my neck (not that I like Walmart but still) maybe it's how crammed together all the aisles and the candy are and the people are packed in like sardines. I don't know...

Where do you stand? (As long as it's roughly three feet away from me we won't have a problem)

Well thanks for reading!

Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see first, I'll have the beauty army up asap!

Ashley 

It's Mardi Gras Somewhere...

Well probably not. BUT New Orleans is a place I've always wanted to go and I was feelin' this glitter bomb manicure since I got my paws on the Wet n' Wild glitters from I think the Glitter Rocks or Hot Rocks (?) collection....either way it's the last glitter collection they came out with and it's still floating around the drugstores :)

 From one angle...I know how unprofessional my photos look...I just try to get decent lighting for the moment...just look at the glitter and smile...

 This manicure was bright....so bright when I was showing it to my family they had a hard time seeing it...so I tried my hand with a matte top coat...

 Matted! I actually liked this mani matte better than shiny...you could actually see the colors. Not just a bright light kinda deal. But with three different glitters and two layers of topcoat (before that matte coat) believe me it was bright.

The culprits from left to right:

Revlon in All Fired Up (core line)

Wet n' Wild in Quartz of Course (Limited Edition, but still available)

Wet n' Wild in 18k Gold (LE, but still available)

Wet n Wild in Emerald the Crown Jewel (LE but still available)

NYC Matte top coat (core line)

FYI there was a red glitter in this collection that I missed out on but if you can find it (or another red glitter) it would look great with all the glitters above over black. That was my first idea until I forgot I don't have a red glitter, so I improvised. 

Lemme know if you try this out!

Thanks for reading!

-Ashley