Black Friday and Cyber Monday Madness (Haul)

I was out of control..lol!

aahh! But now I'm done with makeup hauls for awhile.

As most already know we don't have Black Friday here in Canada but lately most of our merchants have been jumping on the Black Friday and Cyber Monday USA band wagon, which has been great for my fellow Canucks.  

That been said, I joined the United States this Thanksgiving and did a little purchasing (online) myself on some deals that I I've had my eye on and just couldMidLife Beautyn't pass over because they were just that sweet of a deal.  Most of the merchants had pretty good shipping to Canada but one or two was a little out there but did that stop me, No way Jose!  Except for one vendor “The Balm Cosmetics” who was also having a 40% off sale on Cyber Monday but I didn't purchase from them cause the international shipping for one item would have been 40$, outrageous you say, I would say so! This is a company with good products but are taking advantage of their international customers.. I don’t like that but I'll leave this ranting for another time.

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MUA -Makeup Academy UK: 

MUA an United Kingdom (UK) drugstore brand was celebrating 35,000 likes on Facebook just around the time of the US Thanksgiving and had an offer of 35% off orders of £10+ and free international shipping. 

All of the items I purchased ranged from £1.00 - £3.00 not including the 35% off.

Lipstick X 6
Lip Boom X 2

Love Heart Lip Balms

Liquid Eyeliner X 2

Lip Liner X 2 

Blusher

Eyebrow Pencil

Pearl Eye shadow

I really like MUA products, this is my second order from them. The products are a great value and amazingly well pigmented.

Coastal Scents: 

During Coastal Scents Black Friday's 50% off site wide sale, I picked up some Shea butter and a few more brushes.  All were great prices except the shipping in my opinion was very high.  I don't order from them often and really wanted the Shea butter. I'm trying to validate the high shipping in my mind but it still festers there every time I look at the Shea butter... oh well... upward and onward... 

Pro Blending Fluff

Fan Brush Black

Classic Blender Pointed Synthetic

Classic Buffer Large Synthetic

Unrefined Shea Butter - 2 X 1lb

Sedona Lace: 
I picked up the Midnight lace Synthetic brush set (reg. 49.95) and two of the universal blending brushes EB 09 (reg.8.48) during their black Friday 50% off site wide sale. Shipping was pretty good, 5.75$ for the entire order. haven't received them yet so here is a stock pictures of the items.

Makeup Mania: 

I first heard of the La Femme blushes from well know You Tuber Gossmakeupartist.  

La Femme cosmetics was originally made exclusively for professionals such as makeup artist, TV, and Theater but I'm glad they are available to the public because these babies are super pigmented and the cost is AMAZING 2.87$/blush.  I never thought in my wildest dreams that the price could get any lower. So when Makeup Mania had their Thanksgiving Pink Saturday sale I had to pick up a few more of these blushes that I've had my eye on for a while but were always out of stock due to their popularity and to boot they took 1.00$ off each blush.

"If it's good enough for professionals, then it good enough for me".

I bought them in the pan only (no casing) reg. 2.87$ and place them in my DIY Z-palette.  Shipping for 7 blushes was only 3.99$. The blushes come in a large range of colors and are also sold with a casing for about 3.50$.

Here are the colors from this purchase;

Orange: Matte Neutral Orange (Pumpkin)

Misty Plum: Matte Medium Deep Rose

Cinnabar: Shimmery Cool Brick Tone

Indian Rose: Matte Warm Berry

*Sienna: Matte Deep Brown with a rosy tone

Coral: Red Tone Coral

Mocha: Matte Mauve

*Sienna: Nice blush for brown skin tones, makes a great bronzer for all skin tones, nice eye-shadow for the crease or contour.

Here's what the blushes look like on my skin tone;

Have you tried any La Femme blushes?

E.l.F (Eyes Lips and Face): 
I don't what it is with ELF and me this year but I just can't stay away from that site and it doesn't help that Cyber Monday they were having another 50% site-wide sale again with orders 25$+.  So, Yup.. it's another ELF Haul.. In all seriousness, I really do like the ELF products. This time I picked up stuff from the Mineral and Essential line or stuff that has been out of stock that I've wanted to try.

Essential - Wet Gloss Lash - Brow Clear Mascara
Essential Nail Polish - Desert Haze
Essential - Eyebrow Stencil Kit
Studio Lip Color - Praline

Studio Makeup Remover Pen

Studio Lip Exfoliator

Mineral - Lip Gloss - Bare

 Mineral - lipstick - Bare Brown

Mineral - Eye Shadow - Partier (Matte)

Mineral - Blush - Peachy

Beautjoint: I've taken a liking to the Wet n Wild cosmetic line and even though I can find this cosmetic line locally at Walmart or Maxie Cie Grocery, they both never seem to have anything in stock or the products I’m interest in.  Of course the eye shadow icon palettes I really like have been discontinued and are hard to find these days.

I found this vendor on YouTube and have purchased from them before getting a 5% discount for placing a first order. However, this Black Friday they had 20% discount so I jumped on that and picked up a few Wet n Wild items to last me a while.

Do you like Wet n Wild icon eye shadow palettes and have you seen these discontinued item around the Montreal area?