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Splurge vs Steal by Meg O. on the Go

You have got to go check out Meg O. on the Go She has so many great posts!  I especially love this one about Splurge vs Steal.  I am a huge fan of a great deal, so if I can get away with a steal over a splurge, I will take the money saver every time!  She also has another great dupes post you should visit by clicking HERE.  Who doesn’t love a great dupe?!

Some other Meg O. posts you might enjoy …

The Best Best Cheap Makeup
Rockstar Drugstore Makeup Under $5
The Best Cheap Makeup Brushes 
A List of all her Drugstore/Dupes Posts

She also has a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/megoonthego

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Check out Meg O on the Go!
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Splurge vs Steal! Check out Meg O on the Go!
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Target Beauty box

Every once in a while (although it has been more frequently lately) Target has been offering their own version of a beauty box.  These boxes are usually awesome!  Generally they are $5, but this one has 10 items in it and costs $10.  The box is available now, they always sell out quickly, so you have to order it fast!  I just ordered mine.  If you want one too click HERE to order.  Shipping is free and if you use your RedCard you can also get $0.50 off with the usual 5% discount.

Here is what you can expect to get in this box…

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Details from the Target Website…

Try the latest trends with our newest Target Beauty Box. We’ve put together 10 (10!) of our faves—all in one convenient box for you to sample for yourself. With a $49.95 value, this handpicked set of beauty products helps you keep your look fresh and fabulous from head to toe. Test them out and tell us what you think. If you love them as much as we do, find the full-size versions at Target.com/beautybox.

Skinfix Ultra Rich Body Butter
Luxuriate in a super-rich formula that quenches dry skin.

Hello Mojito Mint Toothpaste
This dye-free, sugar-free paste safely polishes your teeth and freshens your breath.

Olly Beauty Vitamins
An expert blend of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and collagen that promotes healthy eyes, skin & hair.

Expressionist Mascara Traveler
This natural mascara formula creates length and volume for luscious lashes.

ACURE Moroccan Argan Oil + Stem Cell Triple Repair Shampoo & Conditioner
Restore your hair with the help of organic argan oil, which provides moisture to even the most damaged hair leaving it soft and manageable.

Goody Ouchless Silicone Lined Elastics
These must-have elastics are made without metal for reduced snags and pulls.

Covergirl Intensify Me Eyeliner 300
Create instant drama with this intense black formula that glides on smoothly and dries quickly.

Revlon ColorStay Ultimate Suede Lipstick
Its velvety-soft formula moisturizes with shea butter and aloe for color that lasts.

Roc Retinol Correction Eye Cream
This non-greasy eye cream is especially formulated to help even out dark circles and reduce puffiness.

S.W. Basics Certified Organic Body Scrub
Get gentle exfoliation & deep hydration made from 3 simple ingredients: sugar, coconut oil and shredded coconut.

  • Number of Pieces: 10
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Love With Food October 2015 Box

Snack smart. Do good!  Love Food!

I love God, I love my family, and I LOVE food. So, that being said, it is only natural for me to order a box called “Love with Food“. If you’d like to try it out for yourself,  I have a referral code you can use to get your first box for 40% off.  That’s a great deal!  Here is the code  http://lovewithfood.com/invite?m=e&ref=2ReL

What is “Love With Food” you ask?  It “helps you discover new organic or all-natural snacks delivered to your door every month. Our subscription membership starts as low as $7.99/month. Every month, Love With Food members will receive a curated box of unique, hard-to-find tasty snacks which varies based on seasonal themes.”

For every box sold, they donate a meal to several food banks such as the Feeding America Network and Share Our Strength – No Kid Hungry. Help end child hunger one meal at a time!  Click Here to LEARN MORE

My kids get very excited about the box every month and we enjoy each trying a bit of everything in the box.  The Luna Protein Chocolate Salted Caramel bar and the Original Crackers by Beecher’s Handmade Cheese were the favorites in this months box.

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Walmart Beauty Box Fall 2015

Did you know that Walmart has it’s own a subscription beauty box?  Yup, they do!  It is a quarterly box and only costs $5 a season.  Generally the box will have around 5 samples, with 1 or 2 of them being full sized products.  Also in your Walmart Beauty Box, you’ll find smaller sample beauty products, coupons, and tips on how to use them.  Your order will include a wide selection of trusted Beauty brands.

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen the picture that I posted the other day of my fall beauty box.  I am loving the Neutrogena mascara! The Dove deodorant smells so wonderful. If you don’t follow me on Instagram, you should 😉 https://instagram.com/lookingjoligood/

Walmart technically calls it a “sample box” and says that the box itself is free and the $5 is a flat rate for shipping and handling.  Either way the box costs $5 each season.

Walmart Beauty Box | lookingjoligood.wordpress.comHow does it work?

  • You sign up at https://beautybox.walmart.com/
  • Create and account
  • Add your payment and shipping info
  • Wait for you confirmation email
  • Enjoy your beauty box when it arrives

If you are first time subscribers: Your subscription will be processed when you sign up and your credit card will be charged $5 and you will receive the current season’s box.  Once you are subscribed, you won’t have to resign up, you will receive a shipping confirmation email and then your box will arrive.  You’ll only be charged when your Beauty Box is shipped.

The Walmart beauty box website says “Each seasonal Beauty Box is a “limited edition” and may sell out.  Note: Beauty products vary by box.  Only one beauty box per email address.”

Shipping Schedule

Winter Starting the last week of November
Spring Starting the second week of March (I didn’t get my spring box until mid May)
Summer Starting the second week of June (I got my summer mid August)
Fall Starting the second week of September (I just got mine mid October)

Fashion/Style · Make up

Sunshine Blogger Award

I have been nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by Becca-anne Beauty, thank you so much! Go check her out, she has such a lovely blog!sunshine-blogger | lookingjoligood.wordpress.com

The Rules:

  • Thank the person/people who nominated you.
  • Answer the questions from your nominators.
  • Nominate eleven other bloggers and give them eleven questions.
  • This is to spread the love and I’m doing these awards so that we’ll meet interesting bloggers. Please do check out all of the blogs I nominated and follow them if you like.

Here are my nominees  Definitely check out all of their blogs, they are absolutely lovely!

A Modest Fashion Blog
Make Up with Lauren
Beauty by the Bunny
Beauty by Tye
Kats Cover Up
Daily Makeover
Ordinary Adventures
Strand On Beauty
lizzielovesbeauty

Becca-anne Beauty’s questions for me:

  1. How long have you been blogging for? I have been blogging for 3 months, it seems as if it has been a lot longer.
  2. Why do you blog?  I blog because I feel like it is a fun way to be creative.
  3. What would you consider to be your biggest achievement?  My biggest achieved is the one thing that I have really wanted to do and that is become a wife and mother. But good marriages and good mothers don’t happen accidentally, so it is something that I have to work at every day.
  4. What is you dream job?  I actually just stared my dream job and I LOVE it!  I am a Registered Nurse and just started working in an Out Patient Infusion Unit.  We give chemo and blood and IV medications.  It is such a great job and I love all the gals that I work with.
  5. What is your favourite perfume?  I am very “scent-sitive” meaning I can’t really wear a lot of perfume without getting headaches.  I do love the smell of Pleasures from Estee Lauder I actually wore it for years and suffered through the headaches it gave me.
  6. Your current go-to product.  Hmmm, I think I would have to say my cake flavored Chapstick.  It is so simple, yet I cannot live without it.
  7. Where is your favourite place to be and why? I love to be at home with my family
  8. A current song that you are loving.  I love music and I love to sing, not sure if those listening to me are enjoying themselves, haha. Rather Be by Clean Bandit, I could listen to this song on repeat over and over…and over.  I love Jess Glynne’s voice.  I also love her song Right Here.  So lovely!
  9. Summer or winter?  No question, Summer!!!! I HATE winter!
  10. What are you looking forward to this season? I am looking forward to gaining an extra hour of sleep when we turn the clocks back for Day Light Savings.
  11. What will you be doing for christmas this year?  We spend Christmas with family every year.  I love Christmas even more now that I have kids to enjoy it with.

My questions for the bloggers:

  1. What makeup tools do you use on a daily basis?
  2. Where would you like to travel to if you had an endless amount of time and money?
  3. Even if you don’t post daily, do you write/research for your blog everyday?
  4. What is the number one best makeup purchase you have ever made and why?
  5. Favorite TV show?
  6. What was your very first job?
  7. Do you a save or a splurge?
  8. Sweet or Salty? Coffee or tea?
  9. What do you use to remove eye makeup and mascara?
  10. Who is your favorite beauty blog and  YouTube beauty Guru? (I am always looking for new people to follow and watch)
  11. Lipstick, Gloss, Lip Stain, Balm, or Lip Liner?
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Ipsy Customer Service Is Awesome!

September Ipsy Glam Bag | lookingjoligood.wordpress.comIn my post earlier today I said that when I received my ipsy glam bag it was different than what my “glam bag sneak peak” said I would be getting in my bag this month.  Well, I sent an email to ipsy customer service and within less than an hour I got this reply…

Hi Laura!

Thanks so much for letting us know!

I’m sorry to hear the Glam Bag goodies you received didn’t match what you saw in your online Glam Bag. You should’ve received the following products this month:

NYX Cosmetics; ipsy Eye Shadow Trio
tre’StiQue; Mini Matte Lip Crayon (Nantucket Nude)
Evelyn Iona Cosmetics; Cream Blush (Ash)
Bayberry Naturals; Moisturizer (Rosehip & Hibiscus)
Vasanti Cosmetics; Brighten Up! Exfoliating Cleanser

Don’t worry, I’ve issued a replacement order to your current address for the items you haven’t received. You’ll get a tracking number via email once your package leaves our warehouse (within 5 -7 business days).

Apologies again for the inconvenience!

Let me know if I can help with anything else, and thanks for being part of ipsy!

Best regards,
Mariz

Thank you so much ispy! That is some really good (and really fast) customer service!  If you don’t already subscribe to ipsy, here is just another reason why you should!

If you want to check it out here is my referral link:  https://www.ipsy.com/new?refer=uqdkx

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Walmart Beauty Box

Did you know that Walmart has it’s own a subscription beauty box?  Yup, they do!  It is a quarterly box and only costs $5 a season.  Generally the box will have around 5 samples, with 2 of them being full sized products.  Also in your Walmart Beauty Box, you’ll find smaller sample beauty products, coupons, and tips on how to use them.  Your order will include a wide selection of trusted Beauty brands.

Walmart technically calls it a “sample box” and says that the box itself is free and the $5 is a flat rate for shipping and handling.  Either way the box costs $5 each season.

How does it work?

  • You sign up at https://beautybox.walmart.com/
  • Create and account
  • Add your payment and shipping info
  • Wait for you confirmation email
  • Enjoy your beauty box when it arrives

If you are first time subscribers: Your subscription will be processed when you sign up and your credit card will be charged $5 and you will receive the current season’s box.  Once you are subscribed, you won’t have to resign up, you will receive a shipping confirmation email and then your box will arrive.  You’ll only be charged when your Beauty Box is shipped.

The Walmart beauty box website says “Each seasonal Beauty Box is a “limited edition” and may sell out.  Note: Beauty products vary by box.  Only one beauty box per email address.”

Walmart Beauty Box Subscription|lookingjoligood.wordpress.comIf you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen the picture that I posted the other day of my summer beauty box.  (The Vaseline lotion smells heavenly!)  If you don’t follow me on Instagram, you should 😉  https://instagram.com/joligood/

Shipping Schedule

Winter Starting the last week of November
Spring Starting the second week of March (I didn’t get my spring box until mid May)
Summer Starting the second week of June (I just got my summer on Saturday 8/15)
Fall Starting the second week of September

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What is this ipsy thing you speak of?!

Ipsy glam bag subscriptionAccording to their website… “ipsy” comes from the Latin word ipse, meaning “sense of self.” Celebrating beauty of all forms in the world, ipsy provides a platform for anyone to express both their inner and outer radiance.

For only $10 a month (or $110 for a full year subscription), subscribers will receive a beautiful “Glam Bag” with deluxe and often full-sized beauty products. You won’t be billed until your subscription begins and after that you’ll be billed on the 1st of each month.  Check it out for yourself using my referral link https://www.ipsy.com/new?refer=uqdkx

I have been subscribed to ipsy for a few months now and have really enjoyed trying out new and exciting products from brands that I might never have heard of or tried otherwise.  If you enjoy makeup, you will love ipsy. It is also a great way to be able to try out new and different brands without spending a ton of money.

You don’t choose what you get in your “Glam Bag” each month. You basically take a quiz/survey of the things that you like.  Then based on your likes, they send you samples and some full size products to try. Most of the things are higher end type products. It is a fun way to get to try out new things before buying them.

What to know a little more about what ipsy is?  Here are some answers to ipsy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

Q: When do bags ship?
A: Bags ship the middle of each month. We will send out a confirmation email when your bag ships.

Q: Which bag am I getting?
A. When you subscribe, we tell you which will be your first bag. In general, sign up before the 1st of the month to get that month’s bag.

Q: Do you ship internationally?
A: We currently ship to the U.S. (incl. Territories and Military Locations) and Canada. Please stay tuned, though, as we’d love to serve you all!

If you have more questions, you can find some more answers at the ipsy site