Beauty Products Haul

 Hi, everyone! How was your weekend?

Here's everything I bought, was gifted, or was sent for review recently!

Redken Blondage Color Depositing Purple Shampoo

I received a gift card to Ulta for my birthday, so I ordered this since I was in need of a new purple shampoo. I've never tried this one before so hopefully it's good!

The Creme Shop x Hello Kitty Ready To Glow! Printed Essence Sheet Mask

I ordered this from Ulta as well. I love Hello Kitty and this was too cute to pass up.

Lancome Advanced Genifique Night Cream sample

This was the free birthday gift from Ulta this year. I feel like June always gets small gifts compared to other months? I've seen people who have birthdays in other months post their free gifts and sometimes they're full size products! This is tiny! I suspected this year's gift was going to be small again, but this is smaller than I was expecting. And then they charged me for it! $9.50 for this dinky thing! It literally said "free birthday gift" but they charged me for it for some reason? I had to contact their customer support for a refund. What a letdown!

Verb Feeling Fine Hydrate & Shine Kit

I also received a gift card to Sephora for my birthday, and when I saw this kit I knew I had to add it to my basket. I really like this line of shampoo and conditioner. This set also includes their Ghost Oil which I've never used before.

Ouai Birthday Gift

Sephora always has a few different birthday gifts to choose from, and this year I chose the gift from Ouai. It contains their Detox Shampoo mini, Leave-In Travel Conditioner mini, St. Bart's Body Cleanser mini, and the Melrose Place eau de parfum mini. I've used the leave-in conditioner before and it's nice, but the scent isn't the greatest. It's not bad necessarily, but it's not great either.

Concealer Sample Set

This was offered as a free gift with any order over $35 (I believe) and I'm currently in the market for a new concealer so this was perfect timing! It includes 10 different concealer samples as well as a mini Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray and mini Laura Mercier setting powder.

ILNP Nail Polish in Evermore

I really love this brand of nail polish, and was given this as one of my birthday presents. Their holographic polishes are insane! This shade is stunning.

Revlon Dry & Shine Hair Dryer

My current hair dryer has been on the fritz lately, so I got this one to replace it. It works pretty well. I really want to get the Dyson hair dryer, but those are so expensive! I'll make do with this for now until I save up some extra money to buy the Dyson.

That's everything I got this time! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a great week!

Minion Themed 4th Birthday Party

 Hello, everyone! How was your weekend?

I know its been a while since my last post. We've been crazy busy around here with work, getting everything ready for our son's birthday, spring cleaning/decluttering, doctor/worker's comp appointments for my husband (it's looking like he's going to need another surgery), a bunch of other birthdays this month, and we recently found out that my husband's step-grandmother will be passing soon. It has been a very hectic and emotional month.

I know its been almost a month already, but I wanted to share everything I did/made for my son's 4th birthday party. He's very much into the minions from Despicable Me right now, so that's what we went with for this year's party theme. I didn't do a lot because it was going to be a very small gathering this year, but here's what I did do!

Minion cake

He insisted on having a cake that was half yellow minion and half purple minion. Trying to get an even, straight line down the middle was such a pain! It isn't perfect, but he loved it so that's all that matters. He told me he wants me to make this again...lol noooo, thank you, child.

Minion balloons

I purchased these off of Amazon. It also came with 3 other small circle balloons and 2 star shaped balloons.

Silly signage

I came across this party rules sign on Pinterest and thought it was perfect, so I printed one out for our party.

Food table

I didn't do too much here within the theme aside from obviously the cake, the yellow and blue plates and napkins etc., the "cookie robots", and the pineapple and blueberry "minion" platter.

That's everything I did this year. Like I said, it was a small party, so I didn't want to do too much this time. We also spent most of the time out in the backyard since it was nice out. Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a great week!

 

My Son's Mickey Mouse 3rd Birthday Party!

 Hi, everyone! How was your weekend?

My son's third birthday was on Saturday and we had his birthday party yesterday. He LOVES anything and everything Mickey Mouse, so obviously that was the theme for his party this year. I busted out my Cricut machine for the first time since his birthday party last year and made all the decorations myself. I also made his birthday cake from scratch. This was time consuming and a little bit stressful (especially assembling and decorating the cake), but I love baking and crafting and making all these fun decorations. Seeing the pure joy and happiness on my son's face was 100% worth it.

This was my very first multi-tiered, detailed cake. I've never worked with fondant or used a dome cake pan before, but I think it turned out good for my first time! The "red" tier is four layers of cake. I made two layers of chocolate and two layers of vanilla. Then, I filled the dome pan with Rice Krispie's treat and I covered the Rice Krispie's treat with black fondant for "Mickey's" head and I used two pieces of corrugated cardboard for the ears and covered those in black fondant as well. Next, I used small wooden dowels to connect the ears to the head. The shoes are Rice Krispie's treats as well.

As far as decorations go, I decided not to go overboard. My son loved what I did make, but he was mostly interested in the food and playing with his cousins. I made Mickey's head and pants and glued on the phrase "Come Inside It's Fun Inside" on them and taped the two pieces to my front door.

I had two banners and I just realized I forgot to get a picture of the one I made, so I'll have to pull it out again and snap a picture later. I purchased this Mickey Mouse banner. I was going to make one that was similar, but I ran out of time.

For the gift table I used one black plastic tablecloth and one red plastic tablecloth to, again, resemble Mickey Mouse. I purchased Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse headbands for each guest to wear and take home, and added that to the gift table.

For food, I arranged the fruit to resemble Mickey Mouse, I made "Mickey Mouse" Oreo's using red melting chocolate and mini Oreo's, I made Jell-o cups using red Jell-o, whipped cream, and mini Oreo's, I used little puns for some of the food (pictured), and I arranged the black plates and bowls to look like Mickey Mouse as well.

That's everything I did for my son's 3rd birthday party. Have you ever done a Mickey Mouse themed party? What fun things did you make?

 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful week!

 

 

Birthday Beauty Haul!

Hello, everyone!  How has your week been so far?

My birthday was on Tuesday so I thought I would share with you all the makeup/beauty products that I received.  :)

First, I picked up my birthday gift from Ulta...another mascara deluxe sample...just what I need!  Haha!  (I have about 15 mascaras sitting in a drawer that I have yet to try.)  This one is the Monsieur Big mascara from Lancome.

My sister gave me the Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance palette

 
For my birthday my husband lets me pick out what I what from Sephora, so here's what I chose: Tangle Teezer x Hello Kitty compact brush

Tarte Make Believe In Yourself palette

Too Faced x Kat Von D Better Together Eye & Lip Set

First Aid Beauty FAB Delights Set

Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Troublemaker

   
I also received a gift card to Sephora, so I ordered the Sephora Favorites Sunkissed Glow set and a small Cosmo Cube palette.

Since I made this purchase online I decided to add the Tarte duo birthday gift from Sephora, a First Aid Beauty 500 point perk, a Rio de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream 100 point perk, a free Nars Orgasm lipstick mini, and a set of free deluxe samples to my order.

And that's all the beauty/makeup products that I received!  I can't wait to play with everything!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Sephora x Minnie Mouse Brush Set - Brush Up On Glamour/Minnie's Beauty Tools

Hello, everyone!  How has your week been?

I received a Sephora gift card from a friend for my birthday, and I decided to use it towards the brush set from the Sephora and Minnie Mouse collaboration.  *I'm working on buying the entire collection...well, minus the blush because I don't think that's coming back in stock.*

 

I've read mixed reviews on this brush set.  So far, I like the brushes.  Quite a few reviews said the brushes were scratchy, but I don't find that to be true.  (I should mention that I'm not a brush snob, so maybe they're not that good and I just don't know any better! lol)  The brush holder seems sturdy enough and holds the brushes in place very well.  Not to mention, it looks freaking adorable!

What are your thoughts on this brush set?  If nothing else, these brushes are dang cute.  A definite must have for any Minnie Mouse fanatic!

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a nice weekend!