On one hand, I bought yet more eyeliner pencils today. On the other hand, it was a set that I specifically had on my exceptions list when it was $35, but I took it off because I didn't feel like throwing down $35 for it. Then I discovered that Ulta had it for $15 today (this weekend? This week?), so I drove out to see if it was that price in-store so I didn't have to pay for shipping or add a few items to get free shipping. It was in fact $15 in-store, so I went for it and picked up two $1 packs of mini nail files (these will go in my car. Nail files are second only to lip balm in the need-close-at-hand-at-all-times category, although I don't have anywhere near as many nail files as lip balm).
Before today, I made two loose pigment orders last weekend (Black Friday from Geek Chic Cosmetics and Cyber Monday from Glamour Doll Eyes), but I paid for those with money in my PayPal account from a perfume oil sale, so at least I didn't drain my bank account with those orders, and I had promised myself a little Black Friday/Cyber Monday shopping spree, *plus* I had a $70 Sephora BF budget and only spent $40 (I've already got the Sephora BF change jar going. I might be a little more aggressive about it to have even more to spend and just have it include *all* BF/CM makeup stuff. I'm actually contemplating going no-buy-except-for-essentials-and-subs next year until Black Friday, and then concentrate on the indies), so I didn't really overspend there.
But! No more eyeshadow or eyeliner for the rest of the month! Really and truly! I might even end up not using my VIBR discount. I actually walked away from the Pacifica palettes (nine bucks each! The Solar palettes were $20 each!) at their warehouse sale today. I have those two pigment orders (and the December GDE OTM) on the way, plus my Secret Santa sent me a BH Cosmetics Galaxy Chic palette (SO GORGEOUS!), *plus* I have a couple palettes I picked up during shopping for my own Secret Santa (Fred Meyer had buy-one-get-one-50%-off, *and* there were $1 off coupons, and how I can I pass up Wet'n'Wild palettes for one or two bucks a pop? And then there's the part where I packed up all of my Santee's stuff and had *just* enough room for a card, and then I came home after sending it off to discover that one of the palettes didn't make it into the box. I would kick myself for leaving it out if it wasn't for the fact that there was just no more room left!). I'm really tempted to get the Cynthia Rowley palette from Birchbox with points, but thanks to forumites, I know the pigmentation is not good, so I am able to refuse that temptation. I'm going to need to order something from Birchbox pretty soon solely so I don't lose points. I'm thinking about tweezers. Or maybe that Tweezerman 15x lighted mirror since I do have mini slanted tip Tweezerman tweezers.
(I *did* buy two packs of Pacifica lotion wipes -- I could justify three bucks a pack right now to try them out -- and eight reed diffusers at the warehouse sale. *All* of the holiday reed diffusers were two for a buck. Eight of them for four bucks! The cats are banned from the bedroom until further notice, and my B&BW Wallflower has died, so these are a good alternative, especially given the price. I had actually been planning on buying a new Wallflower today, and the diffusers are much, *much* cheaper than a Wallflower, so this was probably actually a good move.)
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