NOTD: April 9th

As promised on the Ulta Haul post, here's a NOTD with Butter London polish.

The dark purple cremè is two coats of Orly's Wild Wisteria, which I mentioned in a drugstore haul post that you can find here. This gorgeous dark purple color looks black indoors, but you can definitely tell it's a dark purple outdoors.

 The glitter on the "tips" is Butter LONDON's Lovely Jubbly.

As usual, Seche Vite as the top coat.

I was trying to do a glitter gradient that clearly failed, I don't hate it though :)

Ulta Haul

 When in NY, I sadly don't have an Ulta near me. And there's a lot of brands sold at Ulta that I really like(OPI, NYX, Essence). I'd really love it if there was one, but there's always online shopping and luckily Ulta sells OPI online now. So I did some polish shopping, yay!

 This came in two orders, as usual.

I got these during the 21 days of beauty at Ulta and they were $9 each.

Butter LONDON: The Black Knight

Butter LONDON: Slapper

Butter LONDON: Lovely Jubbly

I literally looked up swatches of all the BL that Ulta has online and picked these three. I think they are all just gorgeous!

 Essence - Nail Art Stampy Set: I wanted to try my luck out with stamping. I know this is not Konad or anything like that, but I wanted to see if I would like it, and I actually do! Will definitely looking into getting an actual stamping set. 

 Real Techniques - Core Collection: People rave a lot about these brushes and well, I had to try them. I love Pixiwoo, they are both great, so I was sure Samantha Chapman wouldn't just slap her name on a mediocre product that she didn't believe in. Not to mention, they do use the same brushes in their own videos.

OPI - Disney's Oz The Great and Powerful Mini Nail Set: I love nail polish minis. I'm sure I'll never go through a full bottle of polish. They are super cute! This kit is not available at Ulta anymore though. (Sorry about the Amazon link, only place I could find it)

 OPI - Gargantuan Green Grape: Lovely shade, used it in my Easter nail look.

OPI - Black Cherry Chutney

Essence - XXXL Shine Lipgloss in Nude Candy(19): TheBeautyVaultxo used this in her February Favorites and I just loved the shade! Not only that, but it's also a dupe for Nars Turkish Delight.

NYX - Slim Lip Pencil in Cabaret(804): I saw this shade and immediately knew I was going to love it, it's such a gorgeous vampy shade!

NYX - Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk: I needed a cream base for bold eye looks and this one had gotten great reviews.

 Hope you enjoyed my little haul, I know it's nothing exciting, but I really love the products I got!

March Sample Society review+swatch

  If you don't know what Sample Society is, it's a monthly subscription service from Beauty Bar in collaboration with Allure magazine, that sends you five deluxe-sized high end product samples to your door for $15 a month.  With the subscription you'll get a $15 Gift Code to redeem on a $50 purchase when you include any of the products from the brands you've sampled that month. You also get a one year subscription to Allure magazine, as a bonus, which has a $12 value.

Sample Society was a bit later than usual this month, but it's totally forgivable. They announced it would be late, way before it was even late. I was super excited, because I knew we were getting a full size Butter LONDON nail polish. I have a bunch of polish, but no Butter London, until now!
  
  I was anxiously awaiting the UPS guy all day, until he finally got here carrying my box of goodies!! I cracked it open as soon as I got it.

Love the fact that the look on the model is super close to what my makeup looks like today!

The sizes look really good! I'm sure I can get a bunch of uses out of everything here!

LashFood Nano-Peptide Natural Eyebrow Conditioner:$16.88 1.5ml/0.05floz full size is 8ml/.27fl oz and goes for $90. Sadly, I won't try this product and can't give you a review on it, because I have full eyebrows that need no help to get bigger! Either way this type of products take a while to give results, so wouldn't be able to tell after one use.

Butter LONDON - 3 Free Nail Lacquer in The Old Bill: Full size $15. OMG this color is just gorgeous, it dried super fast and  it was opaque with 2 coats. Gorgeous! I love it, it's not my usual color of choice, but that's the point, stepping out of my comfort zone and I love it!

Swatches:

Murad - Essential-C Day Moisture SPF 30: $12 0.33floz/10ml full size is 1.7oz/50ml and goes for $60. I tried this out today, it did what it should do, it moisturized without leaving a greasy feeling. It got absorbed into my skin easily and it has a nice and slight citrus scent to it, it's so slight that I don't mind it, I actually liked it. A moisturizer is never a bad thing to get, because I know I will use it up. I will always need a moisturizer anyways and adding SPF to it always comes in handy. Will I buy a full size? Hell no, too pricey, there are other more affordable alternatives that will do just the same. Either way, it's nice to have!

 Hollywood - Fashion Tape: $4.495 18 strips, full size comes with 36 strips and goes for $8.99. This will come in handy at some point, specially with my bra straps that just HATE being on my shoulders and run away all the time! Nothing exciting, but useful to have I guess!

Ouidad - Moisture Lock Leave In Conditioner: $6.9 2.5floz/75ml, full size is 8.5floz/250ml and goes for $23. I can't wait to try this out. I haven't, because it's not hair washing day, but it smells nice and it has really good reviews on the Sephora site.

Value and overall review: 

 The value of my box this month is: $55.28, wow that's crazy high value! Usual Sample Society value though!

 I was really pleased and satisfied with my products this month, the only product I won't use- I'm trading for one I will. Getting the eyelash product instead of the eyebrow one.  Everything else I will use for sure.

 I love Sample Society and I'm glad I didn't cancel when I said I would, at this rate, I don't see myself canceling anytime soon. Their customer service is amazing, the price is decent, the shipping is great, the products are definitely high end, I love this subscription!!

 Oh I just noticed something, no anti aging products this month! Wooot! Awesome, though from now on, if I get anti aging stuff, I might use it, it's never too early to start using anti aging products! 

 I definitely recommend Sample Society, it's a fun subscription service! You won't be disappointed! 

If you want to subscribe to Sample Society, you can click here. Or copy and paste this link in your navigation bar: http://www.beautybar.com/SampleSociety/LandingPage.qs

  What was your favorite product in this month's Sample Society? Mine was by far the Butter LONDON, of course!

 Disclaimer: I purchased this with my own money, and this is my own personal opinion :)