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What I Bought This Month – April 2014 Haul

This month is definitely way less exciting than last month’s haul, but there’s a few goodies in here regardless.

OPI – The Glittering Night ($4 CAD)
OPI – The Glittering Night ($4 CAD)

Snatched this up at Winners for an incredibly low price. I’m getting low on the glitter polish I use for my toe nails and thought I’d give this one a shot. Although I normally use rainbow disco glitter polish for my toes, I thought I’d give OPI‘s The Glittering Night a shot just to change it up a bit.

CoverGirl Clump Crusher water resistant ($4.99 CAD)
CoverGirl Clump Crusher water resistant ($4.99 CAD)

Another score from Winners (it can really be hit or miss there sometimes) – CoverGirl‘s Clump Crusher is a favourite of mine and the current mascara I’m using is starting to get a bit old.


Sephora’s 15% sale coupon is pretty much what spurred me to pick up anything at all of significance. It’s a terrible mentality to get in, but the whole “well I’m going to buy it eventually anyway, I might as well save money” idea does creep in.

Lavanila – Vanilla Grapefruit ($70 CAD)
Lavanila – Vanilla Grapefruit ($70 CAD)

Perfume is always an expensive purchase, and it can be very risky when buying a new scent you’re not overly familiar or comfortable with. I had heard plenty about Lavanila‘s perfumes but had never wanted to dump the money on them. I’m also almost exclusively an aquatic perfume person so I wasn’t sure how well this one was going to sit with me.  All this to say… despite my skepticism, after trying a few of their scents, I settled on the Vanilla Grapefruit one. There’s a slight kick to the vanilla scent that makes it really, really beautiful. And I have to say I have become absolutely obsessed with this fragrance despite it being something I would not normally go for. Lavanila claims their fragrances are all natural and there must be something true to that because this is the only perfume I have ever worn where I didn’t have to “adapt” to it. And by adapt, I mean I usually go through a headache phase with every new perfume I try – it usually lasts about a week before my sniffer gets used to the scent and the headaches go away. This perfume didn’t cause me any of that grief and I find myself slightly intoxicated by the scent of it. The wear time is better than anything else I currently own too – it’ll last through the entire workday and into the evening as well. I love this so much that I’m definitely going to look into their other scents at some point.

Bite Beauty lipstick in Fig ($28 CAD)
Bite Beauty lipstick in Fig ($28 CAD)

This is another splurge item and I was really happy to use that 15% off. Bite Beauty is much raved about so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Massive points for packaging, the bullet and tube are just beautiful. I did, unfortunately, manage to break the bullet the first time I used it, so I returned it and got a replacement for the shade Fig. I’m curious to see if I break this replacement. At $28, this lipstick should be able to stay intact!

Estee Lauder – Sumptuous Infinite mascara (free)
Estee Lauder – Sumptuous Infinite mascara (free)

The sales person at Sephora gave me a deluxe sample size of Estee Lauder‘s Sumptuous Infinite mascara with the rest of my Sephora order. I’m happy for the freebie, but I wish they’d give out something other than mascaras all the time!