Sephora Haul March 2019

Hey guys,

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I did a little shopping at Sephora while I was at Disney this past weekend and I just wanted to share with you what I bought! I only bought 5 things but boy did I spend enough! I have been trying to watch what I spend lately so I can put my money towards things that I either really need or towards paying off debt. I'm trying to be responsible and you know do this whole adult thing! But anyways, it has been quite a while since I've like really shopping at Sephora and I had been craving to go there and buy some stuff!

Two of the items I purchased were foundations from Makeup Forever that I used to use all of the time and that work really well for my skin. The two that I bought were the Matte Velvet Skin Full Coverage Foundation and the Ultra HD Invisible Cover Foundation. I have been using drug store foundation for about 2 years now and I wanted to treat myself to the good stuff! The other items were items I had never purchased before but have heard good things about them. The first thing was the beauty blender solid cleanser. My sister actually bought this before I did and she said it worked really well so I figured I would give it a try. I've watched a few YouTube reviews on it and they all say it works really well. 

The next thing was the Makeup Easer which I have heard pretty good things about as well. I honestly thought I would never buy one because it's $20 and I honestly just remove my makeup when I wash my face. But when I was looking around I saw this super cute bag with pineapples on it and had to check it out. I think this is just the cutest thing and it was such a good deal. It comes with a bag, a free sleeping eye mask and the actual towel and they all have the adorable pineapple print on them rather than just the plan pink print. And I only paid $20 for this so I thought it was a super good deal and couldn't pass it up.

The last item is something I'm probably going to lose or forget I bought before I need it again, which is the Evian Water Facial Spray. Whenever I go on long plane rides I always end up getting really died out and have a hard time breathing out of my nose and even my mouth sometimes. I basically have to constantly drink water and not think about how dried out I am. When we flew back from Paris a few years ago I almost had a panic attack because I had such a hard time breathing on the plane. I also thought I was going to get a nose bleed which just created more anxiety. Anyways I've read a few reviews and watched a few YouTube videos and people say to bring this on a plane ride to help with getting dried out. However, the last couple times I've remembered this before getting on a plane I searched all over and none of my local stores had it soooo when I saw it in the checkout line, my sister told me to buy to for the next time and at least I will be prepared now! But like I said hopefully I don't lose it before then!

Talk to you soon!

XO, Steph

Shoes I Want to Buy July 2018

Hey guys,

So here is a list of shoes that I currently want at my store! In case you can't tell I like the color pink a lot! And the sad thing is that this isn't even half the amount of shoes that I really want. I may need to go to therapy or like an AA meeting for shoes! I plan on doing two more posts about cute shoes that I want! One will be sandals and one will be work shoes that I want to buy for whenever I get a new job!

1) Nike Coral/Pink Tennis Shoes

2) Green Vans

3) Black Sperry Sneakers

4) Roxy Bayshore Slip-ons

5) Grey Sperry Laceless Sneakers

6) Pink Flamingo Toms

7) Pink Skip-on Converse

8) Light Pink Driving Shoes

9) Navy and Pink New Balance Tennis Shoes

I love all of the shoes a lot, I already have quite a few pairs of Sperry's and I abolsutley love wearing them and I also have a few pairs of Vans and they have become a recent obsession of mine. I have slip-on Vans and lace-up Vans. They're pretty comfortable which is one of the main reasons I keep buying them. Some styles are more comfortable than others but I also like to buy them because of how cute they are and I really enjoy styling outfits around my shoes sometimes!

I know I have two pairs of tennis shoes on there and no I don't run but I do go on walks sometimes and I just love the color of the Nikes plus I also have a couple workout outfits that will match them perfectly! The New Balance I picked because I love the blue and pink combo and I'm also really into tennis shoes/sneakers that don't have to be tied and you can just slip them on!

The rest of the shoes I picked because I don't really have anything like them in my closet and I like adding new styles to my closet because I enjoy having a lot of options when it comes to shoes. I take pretty good care of my shoes and I don't like to wear them down so in order to do that I make sure I have a wide variety to choose from so I don't constantly wear the same pair over and over again.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this post and make sure to check back for my two other shoe posts!

Thanks for stopping by!

XO, Steph

Black Friday 2016

Hey guys,

Happy First day of December! I know this post is going up late but it's been a semi-rough week for me. And the reason I say semi is because I've had worse and I know other people have had much worse as well. I definitely don't want to over-react haha. But I first wanted to say that I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got to spend time with their family. I spent some time with both my moms family and my dads family. We had lunch with my moms family as usual and then we drove to Lakeland where my grandparents live (on my dads side) and spent some time with them.

So the reason I had a rough week and why I haven't posted anything in a while is because I was super busy with going out of town on Thanksgiving and then I closed on Black Friday and then the weekend flew by, I honestly can't even remember what we did haha but then on Monday night after I got home from work, my family and I decided to go pick out my parents Christmas Tree and grab Olive Garden To Go and then a couple of hours later I ended up getting sick with either food poisoning or a stomach bug. We're not entirely sure, I've had a stomach bug before and this wasn't as bad so I'm guessing it was only food poisoning. However, my sister has had food poisoning before and her's was just as bad as my stomach bug. So what the person goes through may just depend on how bad the food is and the person.

Basically, I was stuck in the bathroom all night long (I won't go into detail, mostly because I don't want to relive it haha) and then I was so exhausted the next day and half that my phone pretty much stayed above 90% the whole day which says a lot because it normally dies by like 7 pm. Thankfully it was the night before my day off so I was able to stay home and sleep most of the day and then I went to work for a few hours the following day and was able to come home and rest again. I am feeling so much better today and I am so grateful to my mom and sister and who are always there to help me whenever I get sick (which happens a lot, unfortunately)!

A picture of me and my cousin!

So now on to what today's post is really about! It's more of a life update type of thing. I meant to do a post featuring some of my favorite sales that were going to be happening on Black Friday and maybe some items that I had my eye on but I unfortunately didn't get this much this year because I didn't really have time to shop. 

So, normally my mom, my sister and I go out Black Friday shopping sometime after midnight (we're not fans of starting on Thanksgiving, even though we totally did it this year) and we head to our local outlet mall which is Miramar Outlets. The reason we go there is because we love outlet mall shopping and they also host a $100 gift card giveaway! Every hour, I believe starting at midnight, they give away 10, $100 gift cards that can be redeemed at any of the stores in the outlet mall. I believe that they usually go until around 6 a.m. or maybe later. Last year when we went, my sister won $100 and I won $300! Granted that has never happened before expect for the first year we did it, my sister won $100.

However, since we bought a house this year, I wasn't really planning on doing a lot of Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopping unless it was for items for the house or for the blog. There were a few items that I wanted to buy online on Monday but I worked in the morning and then we went Christmas Tree shopping and then I got sick so I didn't really have any time to actually get on the computer and purchase some stuff, sadly. However, I did buy myself a new handbag but that's to be expected for me haha, I am obsessed with handbags!

This year for Thanksgiving we ended up having lunch with my mom's family like we normally do and then we hopped in the cars and drove up to Lakeland to spend the rest of the holiday with my dad's family. Nothing was really planned out and so we spent some time visiting with the newest member of our family which is my cousin's son! Then my mom, my sister, and I decided to head to Target because we had very little time to actually Black Friday shop and we needed to hit up Target because it's where we always buy DVDs for my dad for Christmas haha. 

The day before Thanksgiving and on Thanksgiving day we had talked about possibly driving to Orlando while we were in Lakeland to do some shopping at an outlet mall there but I wasn't too keen on the idea because I had to work the next evening. I'm a kind of a spoiled Princess incase anyone hasn't figured that out yet haha! But I didn't want to have to be too tired for work and I thought that staying up late and driving an extra hour on top of the two we had already driven would make me super tired but thankfully I wasn't tired at all! 

(I totally didn't even realize that I had posted that photo to Snapchat with the bar across my face. This is what happens when it's late and you're tired! haha)

So after leaving Target (at around 10 at night),  I was like "So do we just want to drive to the outlet mall?" and my mom and sister both said yes! So we headed to the outlet mall! Haha (It took almost 20 minutes to find parking which we ended up parking across the street at an Outback haha.)

The stores we checked out were the usual ones we look at such as Kate Spade, Michael Kors, and Coach. We also sometimes check out J. Crew which we did but we didn't buy anything which is normally what happens haha. Some new stores that we checked out include Nike, Adidas, and 7 For All Mankind. We also normally hit up Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic but we all agreed that no one in the family needed clothes unless it was for blogging purposes only. Which even I said I didn't need any clothes for the blog at the moment. I still have a couple outfits left to photograph and a couple other outfit ideas that I can put together using clothes I already own so I didn't really need anything new. We go to other stores as well normally but since we were on a time crunch and none of use were buying clothes, it left us very limited. 

The store we wanted to check out the most was the Tory Burch outlet but unfortunately the line was almost as bad as a ride at Disney (not joking!). My sister asked some people in line how long they had been waiting and they said about an hour a half and the line wasn't as long as it was when they started and they still had about another loop to go through before they could even go in. So we stood in line for about 10-15 minutes, didn't move at all and so we decided that we had to leave because we didn't really have time to be wasting waiting in line. 

I didn't end up buying that much but I am still very happy that I went and was able to enjoy the Black Friday shopping tradition that my mom and sister and I have created over the last few years. Even though it wasn't our normal tradition, it was still fun getting to go shopping with them!

It was definitely a Black Friday I will remember because of how crazy the trip was haha. I hope everyone's Black Friday/Weekend and Cyber Monday shopping trips went well and that they got what they wanted/needed! 

Sorry for such a long post! I hope you guys enjoy it and I hope everyone has a fabulous December! 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

Thanks for stopping by!

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 XO, Steph