So I thought I had done really well this month! It got to be the end of the month and I had only purchased three items (that were actually essentials) and I was like “Wow! Look at how much money I saved this month!” Then I remembered that IMATS was on October 1st and I had bought a crapton of products there. So uhhhh… yeahhhhh.
Here’s my IMATS haul in case you hadn’t seen it yet:
As for the items I picked up outside of IMATS, here they are:
I need to accept that nothing else is going to work on my heel cracks other than Dermal Therapy‘s Heel Care. I’ve been using this for years, but could only ever find it at Walmart (which I’m nowhere close to in Toronto) and I had run out long ago, so my mom brought me back a huge bottle of it from Costco. At one point I had thought that The Body Shop’s Hemp Rescue Balm was working for me, but it was a bandaid fix and wasn’t really healing my heels. I’m not trying anymore products anymore now – Dermal Therapy is IT for me!
I needed some kind of bloody stuff for my work’s Halloween costume this year, so I went to Malabar in Toronto and picked up some Ben Nye Scab Blood. I’ve been using this stuff for YEARS to do blood dripping from my eyes (I got it from Dark Angel’s “Red” episode!) because for whatever reason I’ve always been attracted to that look.
That shot above is Dorothy (university friend and roommate!) and I back in 2004 for Halloween! Anyway, Scab Blood works well as a stay in place kind of congealed blood. It doesn’t move around and it looks realistic so long as you add a black or grey liner behind the product to deepen it. At $10 a pop, Scab Blood is not only cheap, but it’ll also last you a really long time! (My first pot lasted about five years before I had to chuck it.)
In the end, you can’t really tell I’ve got bloody eyes in this group shot we took of our Halloween costumes at work. (We were going as camp counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake – I opted to be a dead one as if Jason had killed me.)
I picked up the Maybelline Lash Sensational Luscious Full Fan Effect mascara (longest name EVER) at Walmart when we were in Niagara Falls for my half marathon last weekend because I’m planning on doing a drugstore favourites video. I LOVE this mascara, but had used it all up so I decided to grab a fresh tube for the video. I’m currently in the midst of using up another mascara, so I won’t be opening this one yet, but this stuff is phenomenal!
And that’s it for the month! With the Sephora VIB sale looming over my head I’m sure I’ll have plenty of goodies to share next month!
Repurchased mascara! It must be good, I’ve got a tube I think….
Well it was one of those things where I was going to buy the MUFE Smoky Stretch (cuz I love it) and I was like… this is damn near identical, just get the cheaper option ffs! (SEE??? NOT A SNOB! HAHAHA)