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Ulta Haul!



   Most of the posts on this blog are all about the products I receive to review.. Well, not today! This post is all about what I bought on beautylish.com and at Ulta. For anyone that doesn't know, Ulta is a huge makeup/beauty store. Like Sephora, but it also carries 'drugstore' brands, like Maybelline or L'Oreal. It's got brands such as Too Faced and Urban Decay and NYX as well. Beautylish.com is a website that has TooFaced, Sugarpill and several other wonderful makeup brands.  I paid with Affirm, which lets you pay off your bill in 3, 6 or 12 months.
I'm slowly getting into the 'higher end' of makeup, after being a strict buyer of only 'drugstore' makeup. My first palette of the 'high end' variety was Boudoir Eyes by Too Faced (bought on beautylish.com). It's my go-to palette now and I love it, even though I've never been one for neutral colored eye shadows, but the colors are so pigmented and pretty, I just can't help it.  I'm pale so the lighter colors don't show up as well =(
I also bought a palette by Sugarpill (beautylish.com) called the Heartbreaker palette. 



Colors from left to right on swatch pic are: Acidberry, Velocity, 2am, Mochi 
 
Now onto the Ulta haul...
Urban Decay Ammo palette, Too Faced Beauty Darlings set, Butter London Lippy, NYX Butter Gloss, EOS lip balm and EOS lotion.
 Usually when I go to Ulta, it's only for a couple of things. The last time I was there was Christmas Eve because I was trying to find the last gift for my super picky mother. I only bought one thing and spent a whole $8.
This time however, I was on the hunt for the Urban Decay Ammo palette. I've had my eye on it for awhile, but before my purchase on Beautylish, I had never spent more than maybe $20 on makeup at one time. The Ammo palette was on sale at Ulta for $16 and were sold out pretty much everywhere.
I was told by the first associate that I talked to that a woman had come in and bought the last two. So since I had already decided to make a purchase I decided to look around anyway, which was a bad idea..

The first thing I found was this Butter London Lippy liquid lipstick in the color 'Ruby Murray'. It's a dark, vampy purple color. I've started getting into wearing darker color lip colors. I'm limited to the pinks that I can wear and I can't wear nudes. 


Butter London Lippy in the color Ruby Murray
Color is a dark purple swatched





NYX Butter Gloss in the color Taffy
Bright Barbie pink


 


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