Truly Madly Deeply Leopard Cross Tee

Some of you may have seen this shirt floating around on blogs lately and if you have, like myself, then you may have fallen in love with it. It's from Urban Outfitters, $38, and comes in one size. I have stared at this top for some time before finally taking the plunge and purchasing it. I called my local Urban Outfitters and they had one left, so clearly I had to grab it!

The one thing I can say about this shirt is that you can get lost in it. It's a big top but I think if you style it right, anyone can rock it. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to pull it off or not and I'm still not positive, but I knew I had to have it and at least try before ruling it in or out. I feel like trying things on in fitting rooms is all fine and dandy for most things but sometimes you have to bring something home and try it out with different clothes to truly see if it will work for you or not. I haven't actually worn this yet but I plan on playing around with it tomorrow and *fingers crossed* I figure out what it works with. A lot of girls I've seen have worn it with tights or leggings but I'm not personally comfortable enough to do that so yeah... those options are out.

Some photos:

*I was at my boyfriend's house when I took these and there wasn't any way to capture it well so yeah... I tried, lol.

It's got some rocker edge to it and I adore that about it. It's not what I usually go for but it's a style that I've been wanting to explore so I'm excited.

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Shopping the days away...

The past two days I've been a weird mood and the only thing that seems to make me happy is shopping... which sounds terrible but I get in those weird "I want to be alone and do some major damage" moods every once in a while.

And truthfully, I haven't done TOO much shopping but it's still enough for the past 2 days. I think I'm going to do some online shopping tonight too (my poor bank account) because I'm determined to find the perfect flats for me, a foundation that I love, and some funky tops.

Onto what I bought:

(Sorry for the shoddy shot, I took it with my Ipod before I made my bed)

- Twisted Peppermint Candle from Bath & Body Works - on sale for $10.00 (they have a 50% sale on their holiday candles going on, so pop in!)

- Covergirl eyeshadow in Tapestry Taupe - $3 and change

- A pair of 3 earrings from Forever 21. The bottom pair I'm wearing right now are dangly crosses... I've been wanting a pair of cross earrings for SO long and saw them and although I didn't like the other earrings I bought them - $3.80

- NARS Penny Lane cream blush - $26.00

- Black stone ring from Forever 21 - $4.80

- Turquoise ring from Charming Charlie - $4.00

- Black stone ring from Charming Charlie - $7.97 (I'm returning this one because I like the F21 better)

- Red stone ring from F21 - $3.80

- Turquoise ring from F21 - $2.80 (such a steal!)

- Chanel Inimitable Intense Mascara - $30.00

- Sephora glitter liner - $12.00

So I've spent some dough the past two days but I needed to, hah. I had received a sample of the Chanel mascara and loved it but I'm not too sure if I'm going to keep the full sized one. I think I'm going to finish the sample first and decide. I think I was just so wowed by the sample that I jumped the gun and bought the mascara. It does everything it says it will but the brush is a bit rough for my liking. Plus I sort of miss my YSL Faux Cils. So I'll know in a day or two what I'm going to do.

Shopping kills my soul for sure.

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Sephora FF 2010 Part II & October Favorites

I'm beginning to really like posting videos! It's kind of fun but it is scary. Are any of you into the whole youtube thing?

I'll be updating with a real post soon

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Sephora Friends & Family Haul + F21 & H&M

Hope you enjoy :o)

I'm really digging NARS right now!

F21 Haul

So I went shopping on Friday (October 1) and only had 45 minutes so I ran to Forever 21! I tried on a few tops that were a bit blah and ended up wandering over to the jewelery and found GREAT pieces. Let me just say, I adore F21 jewelery! It lasts quite a long time for such a cheap price.

I got two necklaces that I plan on wearing together (the individual picture of the first one shows it a bit darker than it really is, it's like a champagney pink) and a ring.

This first necklace was $5 dollars and change. I want to say $5.80

This was $7 and change. Once again, I believe it was $7.80

Me wearing them together!

This ring was $3.80 and it's AMAZING. I love chunky rings and I've been looking for one with just a black face. It's stretchy too which is SUCH a plus because then I can wear it on either my middle finger or ring finger!


Hope you enjoyed this!!!
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NYX Palettes

So recently I've been on an eyeshadow buying frenzy.

Two of my recent purchases are these NYX palettes.

I was on a hunt for some of their cream blushes and thought, duh, Harmony carries their products. So instead of buying a blush (I recently got one off of CherryCulture.com) I grabbed these two. They're both filled with very soft and blendable colors. I'll try to do swatches soon but for now here are the palettes and pictures of the colors.

The Smokey Eyes Palette

And this Palette is from The Runway Collection in Champagne & Caviar.

(I tried swatching them but the lighting was bad.. hence the fingerprint marks in them, haha)

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AC Haul

So last night we went and did a little shopping in AC!

It was really nice but the mall's hours online were wrong - ugh. It actually closed 2 hours earlier than it said online, so once Zach and I got done with our workshop, we went right to his sister's and then ran there.

I didn't want to spend tons of money so I'm quite proud of myself, haha. So here's what I bought!

First we went to Lush.

Holy jeebus... there was so much stuff there...

It was quite overwhelming, hah.

I had a really hard time picking between things for whatever reason so I ended up with:

I got the cream candy bubble bar, 2 Dreamtime Bathmelts which are going to my mama dukes as a part of her Mother Day's stuff, a piece of the Godmother Soap, and the Bubblegum Lip Scrub.

The only thing I'm not sure I'm in love with is the Bubblegum Lip Scrub. The only reason I'm saying this is because when you smell it in the jar it's like wooooah but when you put it on it's not overwhelming at all. I really wanted the Mint one but it smelt too much like a thin mint cookie for my liking. All of that came to like $40 bucks so not bad! Next time, I'm most def getting the Blondie Shampoo & the Mmm Marshmallow bathmelt thing.

Next I went to the Cos Bar which carries all high-end cosmetics. Such a total tease to say the least, haha. I do not have the mula for that stuff but as I said in my post the other day there was a few things I wanted. I definitely wanted Ondine from NARS but they didn't have it in and Mekong reminded me of the dark color in my Pleasures of Paris palette so I decided it was a no no. In the end I went with the YSL lipstick.

I caved and bought the YSL Rough Volupte in #2 (Sensual Silk).

It's a gorg pinky-nude. I'm thinking it may be a bit too light for me right now but once summer comes and I get a teensy bit of color I think it will look good.

The lipstick was a hefty $36 dollars and change.

I'm going to hopefully NOT be shopping anymore for the next few weeks and that way I won't feel so bad about spending all that money on a lipstick. The packaging is just so pretty damnit, hahaha. We also did a bit of gambling and ate a HUGE meal that was so freaking yummy. Today we have one more workshop and then we're driving home. Merrr.

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