Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.... You got me again.

Soooo... Friday was the start of the Nordstrom Anniversary sale. Needless to say, I bought something... some thingsss. Ha! Now let me tell you, I originally just really wanted to pick up the Dior Constellation Quint. I don't have a Nordstrom card so I didn't get early access. Instead, I stayed up till midnight on Thursday/Friday waiting for the sale to become available online so that I could buy the quint online and then pick it up in store. You can imagine my disappointment when I saw this feature was disabled on their website. I decided, "Fine Nordstrom, I'll just go in the morning!!!" (I'm very impatient and didn't want to wait for shipping...my first mistake). 

Now, like most people I have and job and had to be at work Friday morning. I didn't have to be there until 9 and saw that Nordstrom was going to open at 8. Problem solved! (or so I thought). I got up at 7:15 and hit the road by 7:45... Nordstrom is about 30 minutes from my house mind you. About 15 minutes into my drive, I thought well maybe I should call and make sure they have that before I go out of my way to get this palette. I called right at 8 and I was informed it had sold out during presale. At this point, I wanted to punch myself for a) waking up earlier than normal and b) driving without thinking to call! (my second mistake)

I busted a B**** and headed back home so that I could order it online. I got home, put the quint in my card, decided to see what else was in the sale, debated a bit, but ultimately was just going to get the quint, was about to pay and what do you know?,... the quint is gone and it is now completely sold out. (third mistake... thats what happens when I "window"shop) 

In a panic, I call the Nordstrom thats about 45 minutes away from my house and they have 1 (I REPEAT ONE!!!) quint left. I don't understand why the stock for this quint was so small?!!?!?  So the SA on the phone said she could hold it for me for a couple hours. I literally took half my day off of work so that I could go get this dang palette and naturally, I had to make my drive more worth it and bought myself a wallet and phone case in the process. (Fourth mistake.... Lesson for the week: Buy it online, have some patience and just wait for it to come, and save yourself the stress!)

Overall, I'm really happy with my purchases. I've been eyeing a Kate Spade wallet for a minute and this was the perfect opportunity to get one. Had I not gone into the store however, I would have been a good shopper and stuck to my guns about what I wanted. I will have a review of the Dior quint up in the next few days. Which may be pointless seeing as how low the stock was, but I'm sure there are few floating around :)

Did you guys find some amazing steals? Is there something I missed that I need to try and get my hands on? Anyone have a mishap of a story like mine?


xoxo Britt

Currently jamming to: Say Something- Timbaland Ft. Drake. 

Guys... I have a confession. Drake is my absolute favorite <3333 Seeing him in November and I'm beyond excited! 

Kardashian/Khroma Beauty Review

So I had seen sooooooo many beauty bloggers rave over the Kardashian (No longer Khroma due to a lawsuit) joysticks and beauty line in general.

• Let me just put this out there, I am neither obsessed with nor hate the Kardashians. I know a lot of people are very extreme when it comes to their feelings about them, I think they are entertaining and smart business women. I mean just look at the empire they've got going on for goodness sakes. However, I'm not someone who wants to buy everything they put out. This review definitely isn't biased in that sense. 

Anyways, I decided to finally go pick up some of their products. I saw the Kardashian Beauty was buy one, get one half off at Ulta, plus I had a $3.50 off coupon so I thought it was a good time to try some stuff out. After scouring their display, I settled on two products; Babydoll Joystick ($8.99) and Summer Honey Lipgloss ($8.99). The price of these isn't horrible these days. Plus with my coupon, I only ended up paying $10 for both. So let's break these bad boys down:

Scent: The first thing  I did when I got into my car was open these up and smell them. Of all the reviews I read, everyone mentioned the honey scent and I was curious to see if I'd like this...

• Joystick-Yes ... The scent of this was pleasant... it was like a mix of honey and vanilla... not too overpowering... 
•  Lipgloss-NO ...GOOD GRIEF...This scent is EXTREMELY strong... I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I gag a little when I smell this. The scent is just too overpowering for my liking. It smells like honey/chemicals times a million. Just no... not for me. Once it is on my lips, the scent seems to not be as strong. I can still slightly smell it and it drives me crazy. 

Color Payoff: The real reason I bought the Kardashian line was because I heard rave reviews about the color payoff and the colors just looked really pretty in general.

• Joystick Babydoll- The color payoff of this is actually really good. Its very creamy, applies really nicely. I think the color is wrong for my skin tone. I already knew this but I also dream of colors like this working for me... they never do. I'm verryyy olive and warm. Babydoll is a cool-toned pink and will look beautiful on some of you lighter skin ladies. Overall, I liked the Payoff and the color... for someone else =D
• Lipgloss Summer Honey- This is a very sheer lipgloss. It has a nice shimmer to it but doesn't translate all that well onto the lips. The shine also doesn't translate... I'm not really sure what the purpose of this product is... maybe the ultra minimalist look? 

Wear: The make or break for products usually comes down to wear time. I mean honestly, who wants to reapply lip products every 30 minutes.

• Joystick- This wore pretty well on me. I would say it lasted about 2 hours, then another two of very very faint color. It's really creamy so it didn't stay put very long, but I expected that with the creaminess of it. 
• Lipgloss: I don't even know what to say about this product, it just did nothing for me. No shine, was gone in like 15 minutes.... errrr ya, this was a bust. There are wayyyyyyy better lipglosses at the drugstore. 

The last thing I want to touch on is packaging. the packaging was actually appealing when I first saw it. However after only a day of using my joystick, the tip broke. Not to mention, it's a very messy product. As you can see in the picture, it gets all over the edge because of the creaminess. I might be the only one who gets bothered by things like that, but yes... it bothers me lol.

Overall, the joystick was ok, nothing I would repurchase. The lipgloss I will stay miles away from.

Have you all had luck with your Kardashian Beauty? Is there something I need to pickup to try from them?


BTW: Currently jamming to Taking Back Sunday... The Union... really takes me back to high school. If you loved them as much as I did, *high five* through the blogosphere!! "I never made a scene...well they came to me"

Well it's been a year...

Helllllo out there!

So it's been more or a less a year since I last posted. I completely forget about this blog as life got hectic. In all fairness, I never really put much into this. However,  I think it's time I changed that. See, I live in a city where I do not know anyone. I moved here when my significant other got a job and long story short, I travel with my job so I just haven't really made many friends. Plus, the people I work with tend to be quite a bit older than me. Any-who, this blog and Youtube tend to be my outlet, my "girl time" so to speak. I come on here and just write about the things I like, don't like, anything that's going on in my life, etc... the kinds of things I talk about to my girlfriends, mom, etc. Basically this blog is going to turn into a mixture of everything, fashion, beauty, advice... yada yada.... So without rambling anymore, welcome to the blog and my goal is to post at least twice a week! I hope you guys find this somewhat helpful and if not, at the very least it's an outlet for me, my favorite hobbies will come to life on here!


xoxo

Britt