November 2011 ~ Mellie's Beauty blog

Hey everyone,
I know I haven't posted anything in a while, but i've been busy shopping for peoples gifts. I was wondering if I should put out a video for these products, but I've decided not to. These items that I am going to list down in this blog entry are all things I bought for myself. Majority of these products are clothing items. I bought most of my gifts from some of my favorite stores, mostly the ones I have in my videos constantly ;)
The Items on the list are:

A sweater.
A jacket.
Victoria Secrets underwear.
Pink perfume.
Bath bombs from LUSH.
Nail polish/ Nail kit.
A candle
Free products from The Body Shop.

While trying to figure out what to buy everyone else, I ended up getting myself a couple of things. Most of which, I count as winter apparel. I got a new jacket from victoria secret. I tried looking on the website countless times, and every time I went in and looked, they were always sold out on the jacket I wanted. It seems like they never restock it, so I decided that it would be best if I just went in to the store. I wanted the lime green jacket, but the one in the style I wanted hand sold out as well. All they had was smalls and extra smalls, which unfortunately I do not fit. However I did find another alternative green jacket, in which I purchased. I ended up buying underwear, from the big sale victorias secret had. Instead of their normal buy 5 for 26, they had buy 7 for 26. I got 7 of them, but ever pair I got after that, would be 3 dollars and something cents. I got about 10 pairs. (7 for the people I shopped for, and 2 for me.)

This is what my JAKCET looks like The orange jacket is a jacket my mom got me, :

After that, I went to American Eagle. I've been meaning to go over to that store for a while. They have beautiful winter clothes, that I love. I ended up getting 2 sweaters. One in the baseball tee type style, and another sweater which is a nice V-neck in blue. They were rather expensive, but it was worth it. I've only worn my baseball tee sweater so far, due to the fact I use it to go to sleep at night. The other one I will wear soon, when the weather gets a little more chilly. These are what they look like:

Going back to Victoria Secrets, I decided to try out some of Pinks perfumes. I've already tried the regular victoria secret perfume. I got the sexy vixen perfume, and I love the smell of the vanilla. They had a sale, in which the perfume was 2 for 30. I got two of the body sprays, in the lime green bottle, which smelt like limes, and the pink bottle which smelt like strawberries. I do like the way they smell, and it is a fairly big bottle with the product inside, to me this was a very splendid buy.:

After that I went to sephora, to see if they had a nail polish I liked. I looked around and saw only a slight similar color. Along with finding that product I found a nail polish remover, specifically made for OPI nail polish. Along with that I found a product that saved my life. Literally! I am the type of person who is very impatient when it comes to painting my nails. I hat having to wait 3 minutes or so for one layer to dry then another 6 minutes for the next layer. Which is why when I found this product, it was like a gift from God. The nail spray basically dries your nail polish faster than letting it air dry. How it works is, after you put on your first coat of nail polish, let it air dry for about 45 seconds, once that is done, you spray your nail with the quick dry spay and it literally hardens your top coat within seconds. I like to let it sit for a couple more seconds before touching my nails, just to make sure. This product has seriously saved me so much time painting my nails, I cannot tell you how happy I am for this product. On the plus side, it doesn't just work for sephora OPI nailpolish, but for the actual OPI brand as well. This is what the products look like, as well as an extra nail polish I got from a nail salon.:

The last place I stopped off at was LUSH, I went in to get a big bath bomb set, for everyones christmas gifts. They sold a big tin full of different variaties of winter bath bombs. I got that as well as some products for myself. I got some soap, as well as 3 presents, which I opened to give away to other people. Along with that I made a new friend at LUSH and got free samples. Thank you, Toby for helping me! Normally Chad is the one that always helps me, but you are just as fun ! :)

Not too long ago I went to the mall and I ended up getting two more things to add to my collection. I ended up getting a candle from bath and body and I got a new paint pot from MAC. I saw the paint pot when I went shopping on black friday, but I didn't get it because my boyfriend plagued my mind with the guilt of not being able to pay for everyone else's gift.

I wanted to go to Bath and Body on black friday also, but the line was so long and they were only letting certain amount of people in the store I decided to wait. Even though the candles were back to their normal price, I wanted to buy one anyways. The candle that I got was one that I saw one of my favorite youtube gurus get in her black friday shopping haul. Lately, I've been obsessed with the smell of gingerbread. I love the cookies, I love the gingerbread latte from starbucks, and I love making my own cookies as well. When I saw the gingerbread candle in her haul, I had to get my own. I decided to buy the little one, being the fact I didn't want to waste 20 dollars if I didn't like the candle after all. This is what it looks like:

The next thing I got was my paint pot. I got a paint pot from MAC that I love, and its the bare study paint pot. I wanted to try out a paint pot the same makeup guru had, which was rubenesq. Its this beautiful bright orange color, that in my opinion would be lovely for this type of weather:

Along with that, I also went shopping for nail polishes. I got three different colors over the course of time. I got a nice brown one, which is named: Over the Taupe.
I got a beautiful, nice light purple named: Do You Lilac It?
The last color I got was a pure black, which I am very happy with, named: Black Onyx.
These are what the colors look like:

The last bit of things that I got were from Aeropostale, Forever21, as well as The Body Shop. The products that I got from the clothing stores, were shirts, a jacket, and a cardigan. From the beauty store, I got free products, due to the bag I bought sometime back in November. So every week leading up to Christmas. Thats 6 free gifts !

From Aeropostale, I just got a nice gray jacket, with purple print on the front of the jacket running down. On the inside of the jacket there is all fur except for where the arms are, which is just normal jacket material. This is my favorite jacket, it keeps me nice and warm and its nice and simple. This is what it looks like:

From Forever21, I just got simple shirts. Two in purple, and one in gray. I also got a cardigan. This is what they look like:

The last place was at the body shop. I missed out of two weeks worth of my free products, so I got two out of four. The first thing I got for free was a Shower gel. I got a lemon scented one and Last weeks one was a free shampoo. I was lucky because I ran out of ginger shampoo about three weeks ago, and I could pick any shampoo I wanted. It was nice to get a product thats normally eight dollars for free ! This is what they look like:

Those were all my products as part of my big Christmas haul of things I got from November till now ! If you guys have any questions, please comment below ! Thank you ! Have a wonderful time Christmas shopping ! :)

-Mel
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Hey everyone,
I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween ! ^_^ I'm sorry that my video came out so late :X I didn't mean for that to happen. I'm in the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone, therefore everyone in America is basically out "trick-or-treating" while it was still 3 or 4 where i'm located. I'd also like to thank, Andrew, my boyfriend for buying me all my lush goodies, as well as my shoes. Thank you so much for everything, and thank you for helping me out with my family problems i've been going through this past week! You're the best ! :)

Aside from all my thanks, lets get a move on the products, shall we?
I went all out this time when I went to LUSH. I got 3 bubble bars, 5 bath bombs, one face mask, one facial application product, as well as a lotion type product. That was 11 products that almost cost 100 dollars total.

The first LUSH products I will talk about are my "bottled" products, These are basically the products that I don't need to put in the little yellow bags that you see around LUSH. Majority of these bottled products are for you face, which would be the Face mask and the Acne topical gel. The other one is a shower moisturizer. If you are wondering what exactly that is, it is simply a moisturizer that you use in the shower due to the fact you have to wash it off.

Since we are talking about the shower moisturizer, the name of the product is the Almond and Coconut smoothie. I've already used this product, and I really like it. I originally saw it on youtube from one of the other youtube gurus I watch. I decided to try it out, and the new guy in the store did a sample on my skin and it felt amazing ! I'm so happy I got it. This product is a little pricey, but it comes with a lot of the product inside of it. The product looks like so:

The next bottled product I got was called Grease Lightning. Basically what grease lightning is, is a topical gel for acne prone skin. You put it on the area where you have most acne or an active blemish. It is supposed to help calm it down, and well as dry out the pimple and return your skin back to normal ! This is the bottle in comes in, its a bit expensive, I will admit but I like it. It has Witch Hazel as well as tea tree oil, two components that go well with helping out acne prone skin. :

The last bottled product that I got, is one that I always get. I've gone without my cupcake face mask for a while. I'm happy I finally got a chance to buy it again. Like the grease lightning, the cupcake face mask is for what they call "teenage skin". This face mask, mostly made with chocolate, helps dry out the blemishes on your face, as well as leaving your skin nice and soft. How you apply it, is you put a nice application of the product on your face, let it sit and semi-dry up on your face for about 15 minutes, then you wash it off if luke warm water. This is what the product looks like:

The next products I got are either bath bombs or bubble bars. These are what the "bagged" products look like:

The first bath bomb that I talked about in my video was called Calavera. This bath bomb was a special halloween edition bath bomb that comes out every year, I believe. I am completely in love with this product. I tried it out for the very first time in my whole life and I love the way it smelt and how calm I felt after my shower. This bath bomb has little pieces of seeds and leaves still inside the bath bomb itself once you put it in the water it just floats around. I like to leave it in the bathtub with me, but if you don't like that, you can wrap your product up in a nylon sock and wait till the bath bomb dissolves an take the left over parts out without a mess. This is what the beautiful bath bomb looks like:

The next bath bomb that I got is also a special edition product, just like calavera. This bath bomb is a permanent Christmas edition bath bomb called so white. I bought about 5 of these bath bombs last year and I absolutely love it. They are these cute little white bath bombs that smell like apples to me. When you put this in your tub its supposed to make your skin feel nice and soft. I bought 3 this first shopping trip, and I can't wait to go back for more. This is what the product looks like:

The last bath bomb I got was called Dragon's egg, and its this white bath bomb with pink patches on it. I have never tried out this product before. The only time I ever bought it was last year for christmas. I got it for one of my friends as a christmas present. I hope to test mine out soon and tell you guys how I like it. :

The next products I got were bubble bars, I got 3 bubble bars, two that are the same and a different one.

The first bubble bar i'll share with you guys is one a new product I've gotten for the first time. It looks and smells similar to a different bubble bar i've seen in the store, the only difference is this one is 4 dollars cheaper. The bubble bar is called candy mountain. The way this product, as well as any other bubble bath works, is you run it under water for a little while, then you break it up into little pieces. After that you sit and wait for your bubbles to form in your tube and you have a nice bubble bath. This is what Candy Mountain looks like:

The last and final product I got, was one that I'm so thankful to have come back this time again. It is called the Ginger bread house bubble bar. This product first came out last year, as a test run. This year they brought it back, and I couldn't be any happier. I'm so thankful that they brought it back. This product smells like cinnamon and vanilla to me, and it is just the perfect blend of smells. I love this product so much, and cannot wait to use it ! This is what it looks like: