I got goodies from Sephora! (Wow, it has been a long time since I've said that.)
Tatcha The Deep Cleanse and The Rice Wash
Fresh Umbrian Clay Purifying Face Exfoliant
Between birthday gifts from Ying, Chelsea, and myself, I got a nice little cosmetics haul! (I love that the Sephora VIB sale is always in November. I can always use my birthday as an excuse to buy overpriced cosmetics that I would never buy at full price.) Ying had asked me if I was going to get anything during the VIB sale, so I told her I was eyeing two Tatcha cleansers — The Deep Cleanse and The Rice Wash — and she just straight-up told me not to buy them because she was going to get them for me as a birthday gift. (She wanted to get me BTS merch originally, but she said I screwed up her plan because I always end up ordering everything I want from every new launch and there was nothing left for her to get me. Whoops.)
Between birthday gifts from Ying, Chelsea, and myself, I got a nice little cosmetics haul! (I love that the Sephora VIB sale is always in November. I can always use my birthday as an excuse to buy overpriced cosmetics that I would never buy at full price.) Ying had asked me if I was going to get anything during the VIB sale, so I told her I was eyeing two Tatcha cleansers — The Deep Cleanse and The Rice Wash — and she just straight-up told me not to buy them because she was going to get them for me as a birthday gift. (She wanted to get me BTS merch originally, but she said I screwed up her plan because I always end up ordering everything I want from every new launch and there was nothing left for her to get me. Whoops.)
She also got me a tube of Fresh's Umbrian Clay Pore Purifying Face Exfoliator because she had asked for exfoliator recommendations, and I said this has been one of my favourite for years and that I would be returning to it once I finish my Ole Henriksen Transforming Walnut Scrub (it's okay, but it's honestly just a glorified, extremely overpriced version of St. Ives Apricot Scrub, which retails for $5 at Walmart). So she beat me to the punch and got me a new tube first.
Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask in Grapefruit
Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve
Sol de Janeiro Coco Cabana Cream and Brazilian Bum Bum Cream
Verb Blow Dry Brush
Chelsea got me a new full-size tube of Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve and a new jar of Laneige's Lip Sleeping Mask in Grapefruit — my go-to ride-or-die favourites, especially for winter. And for myself, I took advantage of the 20% discount to splurge on two items I would never normally buy: Sol de Janeiro's Coco Cabana Body Cream and Brazilian Bum Bum Cream. I tried a couple samples a while ago and surprised myself by actually loving their scents (coconut praline and pistachio vanilla, respectively), but the main reason I got them is because I'm not allergic to them (!!!). I'm always trying to find a good scented body cream that is actually moisturizing and won't break me out into rash or eczema, but unfortunately, my favourite scents are usually citrus-based, and I'm allergic to almost all of those fragrance mixes. I guess I just had to look for warm scents. Who knew I would ever like vanilla again?
Chelsea got me a new full-size tube of Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve and a new jar of Laneige's Lip Sleeping Mask in Grapefruit — my go-to ride-or-die favourites, especially for winter. And for myself, I took advantage of the 20% discount to splurge on two items I would never normally buy: Sol de Janeiro's Coco Cabana Body Cream and Brazilian Bum Bum Cream. I tried a couple samples a while ago and surprised myself by actually loving their scents (coconut praline and pistachio vanilla, respectively), but the main reason I got them is because I'm not allergic to them (!!!). I'm always trying to find a good scented body cream that is actually moisturizing and won't break me out into rash or eczema, but unfortunately, my favourite scents are usually citrus-based, and I'm allergic to almost all of those fragrance mixes. I guess I just had to look for warm scents. Who knew I would ever like vanilla again?
Oh, and I also got a new Verb Blow Dry Brush. I have to replace mine every year because it starts to get warped and the bristles get mangled from blow drying every day. (My old one was honestly starting to look deformed. Frankly, I was just waiting for the VIB sale to get a new one.) But there's nothing else that makes hair drying faster, which is especially important to me because I wash my hair everyday and drying hair is tedious AF. (Seriously, this brush cuts my hair drying time so much that I can dry all of my coarse, medium-to-long length hair in less than 5 minutes.) And that's it. I won't be shopping at Sephora for another six months (at least), but I'm thankful my friends spoiled me this year!
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