ULTA Haul! ❤

With the last of my Christmas giftcard and cashing in my reward points from ULTA, I placed an order from ULTA's website, and I'm super pumped it finally came in the mail!

I've been using a lot of the same eye shadows for a while now (palette-wise, anyway, since I don't have the money to invest in individual shadows), so I was so distraught when I fell in love with the LORAC Pro Palette, only to find that it was sold out pretty much everywhere.

I got lucky when I finally refreshed my ULTA shopping cart and it was in stock, along with using my points for a massive discount, along with the remnants of my Christmas gift card, meaning I only had to pay for shipping.

I also picked up a Maybelline Color Show nail polish in Go Go Green, and a Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Crush.

Pictures and more after the jump!

CVS Winter Beauty Clearance! (aka YESSS DISCOUNTS!)

I love sales. I love clearance sales especially, because it's even more discounts and savings and I mean, who wouldn't love spending less money?! The fact that I'm also a broke college kid helps with my appreciation of sales as well.

I was a bit tardy to the party with hearing about the CVS winter beauty clearance sale, which happens twice a year when they need to boot out old products to make room for new ones. Of course, this means saying goodbye to some products that become discontinued, but it also means those products are majorly discounted!

Now, this clearance sale started in the beginning of December(ish), and it's about a third of the way through January, so a lot of the products in my CVS weren't obviously marked as being discounted or on clearance, but having the handy guide from Nouveau Cheap pulled up on my iPhone was my ticket to finding the deals (an honorable mention also goes to the in-store price checker, which I abused thoroughly.) Some of the products that Nouveau Cheap had listed as being on clearance weren't discounted anymore, but I only had my own lateness to blame for that one. All of the Milani products that were listed were still on clearance, as well as the majority of the ColorStay line from Revlon, and the Nicole by OPI Kardashian nail polishes were all still marked down. I could take the time to note what was still marked down and what wasn't, but frankly that would take a great deal of time, and it may differ from CVS to CVS.

On to the goods!