look at what i got! Sephora & ULTA haul

you're probably rolling your eyes at me, right? no more buying makeup? yeah, right! LOL

i bought these items when Ebates was giving 8% cash back. i just can't help myself! i have a problem! hi, i'm Kathleen and i'm a makeup addict! LOL i really can't wait to use these BUXOM cream eye shadows. they are so pretty! i swear all my money, what i have left, is going to Bare Escentuals and their awesome products. xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! QVC NewBeauty testtube (spring-summer 2012)

in case you missed it, or if i never said it before, this is the only beauty subscription service that i have. i don't sub to any of the monthly ones because they just don't appeal to me. i like deluxe samples and not the teeny weeny ones that those other monthly ones give. you can not go wrong with the QVC NewBeauty test tube as you will like at least half the items and it'll be way more than the $30 you pay quarterly.

one of my friends on YT (MissLoveBE) has told me that she uses the Wen cleansing conditioner after she shampoos as her second cleanse. i think i'll try that as i'm still working through my current shampoo and i have another shampoo bottle to go through. i think i'll start that after my current conditioner is done. when i watch Chaz Dean on QVC, he says that you need this many pumps for your first cleanse and then this many pumps for your second cleanse... you would go through a small bottle in like 2-3 uses! that's not very efficient to me since i have such long hair... so i think i'll just use 1/2 the recommended pumps so i can make these bottles last a bit longer. also, i plan on getting my hair cut this week for sure! it's getting so long and unruly. i think the novelty of getting it thinned this much has finally worn off.

one more note... i met up with Yun/beautybijouxfashion and Sandra/makeuploverusa again today! we had a blast chatting and eating and drinking! LOL we met up at Starbucks in Uptown and then had lunch on the patio at a Thai/Vietnamese place. we went to a gelato place afterwards, then window shopped at a few stores, and finished off the afternoon with Starbucks (i had an iced chai latte this time). Sandra even gave us roasted seaweed! it's totally been my favorite snack for the past couple of months. i honestly can't wait to see these two lovely ladies again. i hope we can continue to make this a monthly meetup. xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! Sephora VIB 15% haul (bareMinerals, tarte, Laura Mercier)

i was finally able to upload this video (i still have a couple older videos) after teasing you all with the products in previous videos...

i don't have much to say today except that i'm finally watching Downton Abbey... it seems like it's a 1912 soap opera... kind of like Days of Our Lives. it's okay so far... there are only 7 episodes in season 1. hope you had a nice Cinco de Mayo... we had Mexican food for lunch. we should've gone to our regular Tex-Mex place and not this new one. we weren't very impressed with the service or the food. oh, well! xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! new BUXOM choreography color eyeshadow 5-shade palettes

i wanted to rip into the Sephora package i got yesterday but i waited patiently and opened it on camera today!

i was really excited to get this package because Bare Escentuals' other makeup line, BUXOM, released their pressed eyeshadows as well! the list of ingredients in these shadows are not as natural as the READY pressed eyeshadows that BE released in their bareMinerals line, but it really didn't matter to me. i just wanted them and i'm glad i did!

they are really pretty shadows and pretty pigmented, too. they felt smooth under my fingertips and swatched pretty good, too. i was so excited to try them on, i used the Swing palette in my Thursday's FOTD show & tell video... which came up next! xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! tarte's The Miracle of Maracuja Skin Smart Collection from QVC

another pre-recorded video, but it, too, was over a month old. i can finally use this kit! LOL

just kidding... i could've used this kit already, but i completely forgot about it! oh the woes of having too much makeup. geez Louise! i really need to pare down my collection. i found a bunch of gel eyeliners that i got from Coastal Scents that have completely dried up. i didn't even use them! i think it was because the cap was plastic and even while i thought the caps were tightly screwed on, air still managed to leak inside. it doesn't matter to me anyway... i have lots of eyeliner pencils and potted eyeliners that i like to use more. the ones from CS are probably not salvageable anyway so i'll just toss them when i remember to do it.

question, though... i can't remember if i mentioned this in the video, but what can you do with the maracuja oil other than use it as a moisturizer on your face? can you use it in your hair? i really liked using the Josie Maran argan oil in my hair. i guess i can just Google it. it does smell good! xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! Clarks Bendables sandals haul from QVC

i uploaded this video on Saturday because i wanted to spend time with my sweet hubby...

first, we had lunch at one of our new favorite Japanese restaurants. we both got an "eki don" type dish where it's a variety of fish or meat in a bowl (over rice) and other pickled veggies and the bowl is one where it has a handle on one end. Japanese people ate these types of dishes when they rode on the train because the bowl was easy to hold and you don't have to hang onto too many little things (without spilling or dropping it all over the floor or yourself). i wasn't too thrilled with the dish i got (ginger pork) because it had too much meat and i wasn't too keen on the pickled veggies. i liked some, but not all. i enjoyed my favorite "Washington roll" and my miso soup, and they gave us a little dish of frozen yogurt in my favorite original tarte flavor.

after that, we went to our favorite Asian grocery store and STOCKED UP on roasted seaweed! OMG i love this stuff! ever since i saw Benji/BenjimanTV snack on this on his & Judy's daily vlogs (itsjudyslife), i had to try it. and it's so addicting! i love the salt! LOL i know that sounds funny, but it really makes a difference when you eat the roasted seaweed. i've tried the ones that are less or not salty and they are just no good. you have to get the ones that are salted. it was just trial and error because i can't read Korean... but i think we've found our favorites and they're so cheap to buy in bulk. now i'm craving it again! xoxo Kathleen

bareMinerals FOTD show & tell Bare Luxury A-D #2 kit Inspiration is Everywhere

i got this kit 2 days ago and i finally got to tear right into it! i was MOST excited about the Marvelous Moxie lip glosses... i call them the tamer plumping version of the BUXOM lip glosses. i can't believe i'm still going to get 4 more glosses with this series of kits!

right when i opened the kit, i almost thought this was the Return to Radiance kit that comes with the READY blush and the foundation primer... but i was still pleasantly pleased because it came with the glosses... and the round the clock waterproof eyeliners with the new cap! hearing that "pop" when you take off the cap is music to my ears! i've mentioned this before either in a blog post or in a video that 3 of my 6 round the clock waterproof eyeliners dried out and that they were going to fix the cap issue and i was really happy that they did! i hate wasting products! i wonder if i sharpen the dried out liners enough to get to product that wasn't dried out... like the product towards the middle of the container? i'm curious enough to try!

i just checked my auto-delivery shipments from QVC and the next one is in May and it's the Mally Defend Your Beauty collection. then i get another tarte kit -and- the 3rd bareMinerals Bare Luxury kit in July and the next bareMinerals Return to Radiance in August. that means i don't get another READY blush until August! oh, man! LOL so i have plenty of kits coming my way over the next few months... and so why do i still shop for makeup? your guess is as good as mine! LOL i hope you enjoyed this look! i recorded about 29 minutes of footage and had to whittle it down to 17. xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! tarte Puttin' on the Glitz collection

due to the bad weather today, i was able to upload a video i pre-recorded on March 3rd.

the video was able to finish uploading and processing before i headed downstairs to a safer place. i didn't go downstairs all the way to the first floor (i live in a townhouse)... but i was glued to the TV as we were watching all the tornado footage here in North Texas. i'm glad we escaped all the tornadoes (well, the city where i live). other neighboring cities got some damage, lost power, and baseball-sized hail.

i didn't think i would be uploading a pre-recorded video so early this month! LOL but i'm glad i had stockpiled a few... i have a few more tags to record to add to my growing reservoir of videos so i think i'll have plenty on hand before i go on vacation later on this month. tags and hauls are just easier to film! i hope you are all well (and safe) wherever you live... xoxo Kathleen

look at what i got! bareMinerals Return to Radiance kit

i finally received my kit from QVC! i am so happy to finally own a pressed blush from Bare Escentuals! it's so pretty... it kind of reminds me of Orgasm from NARS but i don't own any NARS blushes... i'm just going by the many swatches and appearances it has made in so many beauty videos.

i absolutely love the Marvelous Moxie lip glosses! i love the tingle and they're not over-the-top tingle like with the BUXOMs (and i like those lip glosses as well). i'll be getting 2 more from auto-delivery with this kit and then 4 more with the other auto-delivery kit. so many new BE kits coming my way! yay!

after lunch today, i went to Sephora to try and find the eyebrow pencils from BE but they were no where to be found. i think they may only be available on QVC... not sure. i also looked at the BUXOM True Hue blushes (i only own one at the moment) but i didn't pick up any. also, they have the new lip creams and i really wanted to get one but they were out of the color that i wanted. so i came away from today's shopping trip with nothing. i think that's really good will power, if you ask me. i know that i do not need to buy any of the Marvelous Moxie lip glosses because the colors i'm getting in future QVC kits are part of the permanent line and i don't need doubles. i don't think i would ever finish a lip gloss (or a lipstick) ever in my entire life. well, i take that back... back in the day, when i had like 1/100th of this collection, i actually used up my makeup to the point that the sponge tip applicator was all messed up and the eyeshadows and blushes crumbled. wow. i don't think i could ever do that anymore. xoxo Kathleen

bareMinerals Year of Beauty & Love & Beauty collection

i really need to start using my BE loose eye shadows! OMG my collection is huge... so many shadows still unopened! how embarrassing. i think i will dive head first into my BE collection in March and include the BE shadows in my makeup basket of the month.

in other news, i became an auntie again for the THIRD time! now i have THREE nieces! as i said on Twitter, "more Hello Kitty stuff to buy!" i am so excited and can't wait to see her in a few weeks (at her big sister's birthday party). xoxo Kathleen

Bioderma Crealine H2O Solution Micellaire first impression/review

so i've used my new makeup remover twice now (once more since i created the video) and i'm still very happy. i used one side for both eyes since i only wore mascara and then i flipped it over and put a little bit more of the Bioderma and then used that side for the rest of my face. then i still used a simple makeup wipe to thoroughly take the rest of my make up off, and when i checked the wipe, it was hardly tinted with foundation. i'm so impressed! and the skin around my eyes do not feel dry at all. of course, i will still wash my face with my Murad acne facial wash and Clarisonic, but i feel more comfortable going to bed without doing so (when i'm extremely tired).

both bottles, totaling 1000 ml, will last me forever since i'm going to be using it primarily for removing eye makeup. i'm very happy with this purchase. if there is a similar item that i can find in the states and in the drugstores, i'm up to checking that out. i only waited a few days for this to come in via USPS since this wasn't an Amazon Prime item. xoxo Kathleen

Scentsy haul: warmer & bricks (and a quick FOTD)

i always say that i have enough fragrance stuff to last a lifetime and then i go out and buy more! LOL i am such a sucker for these types of sweet, bakery scents. so i put in an order with my friend's Scentsy store and got 4 bricks (which are being discontinued) and one more warmer. like i said in the video, my house is going to smell like a 3-story bakery.

if you notice in the video, i figured out how to zoom in a bit, while i was editing. my home address was showing on the box and i'm really scared about showing that stuff and so i zoomed in to remove it. there's still so much to iMovie that i haven't even touched yet. i am constantly learning new things about this editing program.

if you have any questions about Scentsy, i'll try my best to answer them for you. i have asked my friend to sub to my channel so she can chime in as well. if you want to place an order, you can do so here (flamefreefragrance.com). for the rest of February, you can get 10% off on most of the products! you will not be disappointed. thanks for watching! xoxo Kathleen

Mally Beauty Fierce Face in Five Minutes FOTD show & tell

so my video is currently exporting and the time remaining is 28 minutes and my iMac clock says 11:24pm. most likely, i won't be able to date/timestamp my video for the 19th... i'm totally bummed because i didn't want to miss a single day. i didn't miss creating a video, i just missed uploading it the same day. it'll probably appear in your subscriptions around 1-2 in the morning because it's a super long video at around 25 minutes... which means it'll take about 1-2 hours to upload. it's a good thing i'm not exporting it in HD because that would be a nightmare to upload and totally suck up all the bandwidth in the house and piss off my husband. LOL

i did have a lot of fun with my friend today. she and her fiance and i went out for hibachi for lunch and then she and i went to the mall to go shopping. i picked up one thing from the mall (and gorged myself on Auntie Annie's pretzel bites - so yummy) and then we went to Target to pick up a few more things. i'll show you what i got tomorrow and talk a little bit more about what we did today. i gave her a makeup trial in the comfort of her own bathroom using her NAKED palette which was UNTOUCHED! OMG i can't believe she hadn't touched it once since she bought it last summer, i believe. that's just crazy! LOL we filmed the makeup application, but i didn't take the footage back home with me. i don't even know if it's watchable because the video camera was on a tripod and i was putting on her makeup and neither of us was checking the camera. so we could've been completely out of frame. DOH! nah, i think i got it all... except towards the end when we were playing with the eyeliner and trying to figure out if she would look best in pencil or liquid. i had only used eyeshadow as a liner... but we settled on pencil for the final look. she is only like the third person i've ever applied makeup to. all i can say is that using neutral eyeshadows is a safe bet. you really can't mess it up... too much.

anyway, that was pretty much my day. my makeup lasted pretty well... i really didn't check myself in the mirror too much. i was clearly shiny when i got home, but i only had to smear away the smudgy eyeliner once while we were out... but that's typical because whenever i put eyeliner on the lower lash line, it always smudges without fail. i should've set the liner with powder or put some powder below my lower lash line to soak up the oil. oh, well... it just doesn't matter that much to me. anyway, it looks like i still have 15 more minutes to go and then i'll start the upload. i'm getting really tired all of a sudden. i'll be back tomorrow. xoxo Kathleen

Hello Kitty Parisienne palette, Buxom True Hue blush, bareMinerals Trend Report collection

so i'm sure you probably think that i cheated on my "no buy 2012" promise, and i guess i did with the BUXOM blush, but for the other items, they were all limited edition, not part of the permanent line, and i did mention that i was going to buy the Hello Kitty one in a past video. i probably should've held off on buying the BUXOM blush, as i have TONS of blushes, loose and pressed alike, but this was the first pressed blush that Bare Escentuals released! i thought they were going to release one under the bareMinerals READY line, but they released one under the BUXOM division instead.

i can't wait to use these products in upcoming "FOTD show & tell" videos. i think i'll also go back in my collection (since i saved all the boxes from my bareMinerals purchases) and use them in those videos as well. there are so many videos using M.A.C or other high end products, but bareMinerals/Bare Escentuals are still so lacking... and they have GREAT products... so if you're interested, you'll be seeing more of these products show up in my videos. i'm actually excited about this! thanks for watching! i'll be back tomorrow! xoxo Kathleen

Mally Beauty Defend Your Beauty #2

i didn't have enough daylight left when i filmed this video (as it got gloomy in the afternoon) and so i had to turn on a few lights. i think i still looked pretty decent in this lighting.

anyway, here's another "look at what i got!" video, where i show you what i got in the mail... this is the second installment of the Mally Beauty Defend Your Beauty collection. i believe there is one or two more left to go.

i have been enjoying Mally's products for a while now, ever since i saw Emily/EmilyNoel83 and Heidi/Jalapena2007 speak about them on their channels. since Mally is a Filipina and so am i, i thought i would try them out. i have only bought the sets and have been happy with what i have received. i am really enjoying the liners and the shadow sticks and her volumizing mascara is one of my favorites. there will be a video showcasing all the Mally products i have purchased. i hope you like this video. thanks for watching. xoxo Kathleen

QVC/NewBeauty testtube Winter-Spring 2012

so here's the 3rd installment of the auto-delivery order from QVC for the NewBeauty testtube. i'm usually pretty happy with the deluxe samples i get in the testtubes. this one was no exception as i got full sizes of the tarte emphasEYES aqua gel eyeliner (in teal) and the famous volumizing mascara from Mally Beauty (my favorite!). those 2 products together cost way more than the $29.95 quarterly fee (as you get a new testtube every quarter). if i end up trying any of the products, you'll see them in an upcoming video.

i hope you have a good Friday! i'll be back again tomorrow! xoxo Kathleen