Get your Sephora carts ready to go, because the 2023 holiday savings event is imminent…as in, it begins tomorrow for Rouge members! I feel like this sale is arriving earlier than usual, but I could be wrong. I’ve been adding things to my cart like mad and will whittle it down once I figure out what I actually want to buy.
1. Ghost Face Lives Palette x Glamlite: I had heard of Glamlite before but had never ordered from this indie brand until I heard that they were releasing a Ghost Face palette. Scream was the first horror movie I saw in the theater, back in my freshman year of college, and I loved it! So I had to get my hands on this palette. It costs $32 and contains 15 cool-toned eyeshadows in a variety of finishes. These shades are SO up my alley. I haven’t even tried them yet because I don’t want to ruin their perfection!
As promised, I’m sharing more about the skin care products that I bought while on vacation in France! I included these items in my vacation haul post, but I also wanted to do a deeper dive on my beauty goodies.
Now that I’ve recapped our entire vacation (see parts one, two, and three), I’m doing a show and tell of everything I bought! Somehow, it didn’t occur to me prior to our trip that it would be a great opportunity to shop for skin care. Once we arrived in Paris I realized that I needed to hit up some pharmacies!
French pharmacies are different from those in the US in that they carry a mix of mass market and luxury skin care brands; I’m talking CeraVe alongside Caudalie and Skinceuticals. We do have many of the brands here, but they also had some that I hadn’t heard of. Also, the EU allows some ingredients in sunscreen that the FDA doesn’t allow in the US, so they have SPFs that aren’t available here.
Time for the third and final recap of our vacation in France! To close out our trip we stayed four nights in Chamonix and two nights in Geneva, Switzerland. So I’m including Geneva here as well.
After three nights in Paris and three nights in Megève, we drove to Chamonix. This Alpine ski resort is located at the foot of Mont Blanc, which sits on the border of France and Italy. Fun Fact 1: at 15,774 feet high, Mont Blanc stands as the tallest mountain in the Alps. Fun Fact 2: Chamonix hosted the first-ever Winter Olympics in 1924!
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Happy October! My favorite month! Time to show off my beauty empties from September.
A quick note before I get into the empties: I’ll be doing my NINTH annual 31 Days of Horror this year. I have a bit of travel this month so it might be a little tricky to get a movie in every day, but I’ll see what I can do.
After three nights in Paris, it was time to say au revoir to the city of light. On our final morning in Paris, we Ubered to the Gare de Lyon for our train to Geneva, Switzerland. Unfortunately we had to check out of the hotel too early for their breakfast. Instead, we grabbed food in the train station to eat onboard.
In my most recent post I teased an upcoming vacation. Well, that vacation has come and gone, and now it’s time to recap it!
John and I went to Paris, then two different towns in the French Alps, and ended with two days in Geneva, Switzerland. Because our trip was nearly two weeks long, I’ll split my recap into a few parts. These recaps will still be long, but I’ll attempt to keep them as brief as possible. 😛
First up: Paris.
Hello, September! Pumpkin spice and Halloween shopping season is officially underway, which I’m eternally pumped about. Also exciting is the fact that John and I are going on a big vacation soon! I’ll be sure to post about that when we return.
I haven’t blogged lately because I had a website issue and was unable to log in. But I’m back to discuss my August 2023 beauty empties…I finished up quite a few products:
Time for my final post about San Diego Comic-Con 2023! It always take a little time to come down from the SDCC vibes and re-acclimate to normal life after we return. But at least I have some fun souvenirs to remember our trip by. Here’s my full SDCC 2023 haul:
