Ulta Christmas Haul

Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season :)

For one of my Christmas gifts, I received a gift card for Ulta since my boyfriend is pretty much clueless when it comes to makeup hahah! I gladly went online and did some shopping. It was hard for me to narrow down what I wanted, but here is what I ended up with!

Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer in Medium - I am running low on my L.A. Girl concealer- and I really do love it, but I have heard great things about this one and I'm curious to try it out. 

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Spotlights - I have mentioned this before, but I love highlighters. I own the Becca Pressed Shimmer Powder in Opal and I'm obsessed! I've never tried the liquid ones before, and since these are the travel sized liquid version, I decided to give it a go. The three shades in order from left to right are Pearl, Champagne Gold, and Opal.

Tartelette Amazonian Clay Matte Palette - This is part of Tarte's spring collection. All of the shades are matte and seem pretty easy to dupe, but I don't have some shades in my collection.

Real Techniques Bold Metals Collection #301 Contour Brush - I own some of the regular Real Techniques brushes, and I find them to be of great quality. Sam and Nic have released a luxury line of Real Technique brushes, and since the regular version has never disappointed, I wanted to try out the high end version. These brushes are weighted, metallic, and sleek looking. I don't have a flat contouring brush so I went ahead and got this one.  That concludes this little Ulta haul. I was debating on making this a "What I got for Christmas" post, but decided on just focusing on what I got at Ulta, although I will mention the other goodies - I received a 5 drawer Alex storage from Ikea, since the one I currently own had no more space in it. I also got a Diva Ring Light (you can see the reflection of it on the RT brush!) I am so excited about that!  Is there anything from this haul that you would like to see me review in the next few weeks? Let me know! 

Mini Ulta/Sephora Haul

Hello beauties! 

All these holiday sales are driving me nuts! I promised myself that I would't go crazy and buy a bunch of things, but of course I had to get myself a thing or two. I was pretty selective as you can see, and may be a bit on the boring side, but whatever haha! Here's a look at what I purchased...

Sephora Haul (minus the Lime Crime Velvetine in Salem)

For the purchases I made at Sephora, I took advantage of the VIB sale and also their Black Friday sale. For the VIB sale I purchased the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Dark Brown, since I needed another one. I got the Bite Beauty Mix N' Mingle Lip Minis in the colors Nude Rose/Light Brown Nude. NOT pictured is the Lime Crime Velvetine in Salem (because I completely forgot to include it in the picture and only realized it as I was typing #KeepingItReal). You are probably thinking "since when does Sephora sell Lime Crime?!" They did have Lime Crime items available on their website for about a day, and I don't know why they decided to not restock. On Black Friday I purchased the Bite Beauty Best Bite Remix and the Bite Beauty Lush Lip Trio - which they had available for $10! As you can see, I'm on a Bite kick :)

Ulta Haul

For the Ulta Cyber Monday sale, I got the Real Techniques Nic's Picks 2014 brush set with the intention of saving this for my kit. I love the quality of Real Techniques, they never disappoint and I highly recommend their line to anyone. I also got the Lorac Champagne Dreams palette that was only available online on Cyber Monday for $15! I couldn't pass that up. 

Samples!

And of course what Sephora/Ulta order wouldn't be complete without some samples? 

What did you purchase during VIB sale/Black Friday/Cyber Monday?!