Sunday-paper Sales

CVS: 11/20-11/23 (4-day Sale)
All L'Oreal Lip: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
L'Oreal Voluminous False Fiber Lashes Mascara: $7.99 (Sale)
All Maybelline Cosmetics: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
All Sally Hansen Products: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off

Rite Aid: 11/18-11/24
Covergirl TRUblend Makeup: $6.99 (Sale)
Covergirl Clean Makeup: $4.99 (Sale)
All Mascaras (excludes NYC): Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
All Nail Enamel (excludes Essie): Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
All NYC Cosmetics: 40% off

Walgreens: 11/20-11/26
L'Oreal Cosmetics: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
Maybelline Cosmetics: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
Neutrogena Mineral Sheers or Healthy Skin Foundation, Concealer or Powder: $4 off
Revlon Foundation, Concealer, Powder, Blush and Eye Cosmetics: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off

Sunday-paper Sales

CVS
All Almay Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
All Maybelline Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
All Neutrogena Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
All Revlon Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat - $5.99
Sally Hansen Salon Effects - $7.99

Rite Aid
L'oreal Foundation, Powder, Concealer, Blush, and Bronzer - Buy one, get one 50% off
Maybelline - 40% off regular retail price w/ card
Neutrogena Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
Revlon eye cosmetics- Buy one, get one 50% off
Sally Hansen Cosmetics and Beauty Tools - Buy one, get one 50% off

Walgreens
Covergirl Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
L'oreal Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
Maybelline Cosmetics - Buy one, get one 50% off
Sally Hansen Salon Effects and Crackle Overcoat - Buy one, get one 50% off
Revlon Foundation, Concealer, Powder, Blush, or Eye Cosmetics - 30% off

WTF (that's awesome!) Wednesday, Vol. 003

Work has been pretty tough lately, so I decided to have a twist on my usual "WTF Wednesday" and focus more on stories that make you go "WTF, that's awesome!" Hope these stories help put you in a better mood, too.

1. Slain British marine leaves friends $163,000 to party in Vegas
That's sooo awesome! I mean, of course, it sucks that this soldier passed away in combat. But how awesome that he left a great deal of his money to charity as well as making sure his friends has a good time even if he wasn't able to join them.

2. TBD

3. This isn't a news story, just a personal one. I'm flying to Nicaragua tonight for the long weekend to visit my grandmother and other relatives. It's gonna be a super fast trip -- we come back on Sunday! But it's still a nice way to spend a few days, even if it'll be a short time for a long trip.

Fashion Friday: Missoni for Target Collection

I feel like I must have been living under a rock or something because I didn't know about this until pretty recently. Apparently, fashion-lovers around the world have been anxiously anticipating the arrival of the Missoni for Target Collection. Set to release in-store on September 13th, Missoni has joined forces with Target to debut a 400-piece collection. Seriously. That's not a typo. FOUR HUNDRED. 4-0-0. Anything you can imagine buying at Target will probably have a Missoni Collection version of it. Towels, bedding, women's apparel, socks, notebooks, baby clothes, hats, luggage, and I could go on and on. They're even selling a Missoni bicycle. This is a monster collection! It's like the fashion version of the new MAC collection (<-- will post about that soon).

Anyway, for those of you who don't have $1500 to spend on a legit Missoni dress, definitely check out Target's versions to get your fix. There should be something to accommodate everyone's budget, as prices will range from $3 - $600.

Click here for a slideshow of some of the items. What will you be picking up? I'll leave you with a few of my faves:

MUST HAVE these brushes!

This are too cute and space saving for a small kitchen.

And, Guys, never fear. They didn't forget about you!

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 13! And wear comfortable clothes, I'm getting images of Black-Friday-style rampage in my head.

WTF Wednesday

A few news stories to get you through your Wednesday:

1. Abercrombie & Fitch will pay the Situation NOT to wear their clothes
LOL, that's how you know you've made it in reality TV

2. Tampa student arrested in school bomb plot
Seriously, people? This is so 1999. Can't we all just get along??

3. Swedish house up for sale, complete with skeleton
I guess it's a seller's market over there? Best Halloween party everrrr.

TV Tuesday: Modern Family Update

Well, it's done: "Baby Lily" breezed right past her toddler years and is now "Pre-School Lily." Click here to read the full article.

4-year-old Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (aka "Lily")

We'll have to wait and see before we can judge her acting skills, but I like her. I think she's super cute! Then again, I'm not about to trash-talk a 4-year-old either.
Are you sad to see baby Lily go?

Makeup Monday: Organization

Can I just tell you how much I loooove The Container Store? Who knew that a store full of boxes, bins, trays, and all things organization could be so amazing? One of my favorite things in my bathroom is the Capelli Countertop Organizer that I use for my hair stuff (straightener, curling iron, blow dryer, etc). It's made my life a lot easier (and neater!) now that I'm able to have everything within reach, but out of the way at the same time.

Neatly Organized Hair Tools!

View without the hair dryer

I know I'm not the only one with crazy hair tools taking up the bathroom countertop. I highly recommend this organizer if you're looking to tidy up a bit. The sections are just the right size for holding a regular hair dryer, curling iron, and straightener. If you've got more tools than that, sorry, you've got a whole different level of clutter... but I digress. Two thumbs up! Every girl (and metro-man) should have one!

Anyway, a while back, my sister had been complaining about not having any way to organize/store her makeup and it always ends up scattered all over the bathroom counter. Add that to the fact that she lives nowhere near a Container Store. Luckily, she has a wonderful sister who is willing to make a trip to the store on her behalf to help solve her messy makeup problem.

I went to their website and found this Large Acrylic Makeup Organizer, plus it was on sale! Score! I drove over to my local store after work, and naturally I had to pick up two: 1 for my sis and 1 for me :) Don't judge me; it's only natural that I test it out before giving her a gift, no? So, I went home and set it up right away.

Organized Makeup

Top View

I love it, it's super useful. I can store all the products I use most regularly for easy access.
It has a large slot in the back left corner where I can put the palettes I use most often. The left middle slot is a great size for holding my blushes. As you can see, the front left section has slots for lipsticks - that part is removable, so you can use that big space for something else if you don't have too many lipsticks to store.
Along the right side, the front has a big square-ish space in which I've placed a fragrance bottle, a powder, a foundation bottle, and a paint pot. The back right corner is divided into 2 types of spaces: the far right is a longer rectangular space where I've placed 2 fragrance bottles, and space next to that is divided into 4 smaller square-ish shapes where I've placed a brush, some mascaras, my eyelash curler, and a bottle of foundation.

And, since they were having a sale, I went ahead and grabbed a Tubo Countertop Organizer for my brushes. I used to store them in two purple containers (one for my face brushes and one for my eye brushes), but they were getting pretty crowded, and it was difficult to find the brush I was looking for.

Brushes in their new home

 Ta-da! This is my new brush organizer. With this system, I can group my brushes in a way that makes it easy for me to find what I'm looking for. I have my Sigma eye-brushes separated from my MAC eye-brushes, my blush brushes are all together, my huge powder brush isn't squishing my smaller brushes. It's awesome. Two-thumbs up for this, too.

What the heck, two thumbs up for the entire Container Store!