Lazy Saturdays

Helloooo,

Today I bought housewarming gifts for my boyfriend and his roommate. He lives in Paris, I am going to visit him next Thursday for a few days.
For my boyfriend, I bought him a picture frame like this:
I'll probably put one photo of us in it, but leave the rest blank. It's a little hard to tell what is what, but it's basically a black modern frame and those cardboard pieces are where the pictures go.



For his roommate, who is a girl (I've never met her before, she was on vacation the last time I was there), I bought this candle set:


And then some cute rose shaped tea lights in case she liked those better.
I'm not sure how I feel about the rose shaped ones though, I just took one out of the box and they have a funny smell....kind of like an old lady flowery smell. So who knows.
I'll probably pick them both up something from my stepdad's kitchen store later this week.

About an hour ago I set up another closet in the garage for my summer clothes...I'm running out of room in my closet/drawers so hopefully this will free up a bit of space. It was the worst thing to put together EVER though, and doesn't seem very sturdy but I'll take a picture of it when I put my clothes in it.

As promised, here is a review of a gift bag of Clinique stuff I got last time I bought skin products. A word of warning....I am not a very good photographer and do not have a great camera, for future reference. Tonight's photos were especially bad since the lighting in my room sucks right now.

The set came in a cute pink zip up thing that is clutch sized, I will probably use this for a night out sometime.


It contains Deep Comfort Body Butter, Youth Surge Cream, Take the Day Off Eye makeup remover, Blushwear Cream Stick in Shy Blush, and Full Potential Lips in Sugar Plump.

First, the Youth Surge:

I don't love it. This is probably because this product isn't really meant for me (it's an age decelerator), I'll probably give it to my mom. It has SPF 15, which is always good, but it just seems to make my face a little oily. It has no scent, and a nice, thick texture.

Blushwear:

Swatched:

Here's the thing about blush. I don't really wear it because my face has a tendancy to get red. It is a really nice colour though, and I have used it as a lip colour a few times.

Take the Day Off Makeup Remover:

This is nice but I always prefer towelettes for makeup removing. If I was wearing a lot of eye makeup after a night out, I might use this and a towelette. Slight alcohol-y smell.

Deep Comfort Body Butter:

This has a really nice buttery, rich texture. It is a great moisturizer BUT I like my lotions to smell good and this is fragrance free. So great if you're allergic to fragrance, not great if you addicted to things that smell good.

Full Potential Lips Gloss in Sugar Plump:

I LOVE this. I think it's a new shade or something because I haven't seen the Sugar Plump shade around, wasn't on Sephora. It is a very versatile, neutral shade. I don't wear a lot of lip colour but I will definitely be using this a lot, especially on days when I have a pretty subtle eye. It looked good on my mom, my sister, and I. Also, I attached it to my key chain so I can take it everwhere!


Bottom line: gift sets are always nice because I love discovering new products. But there was only one thing in here that I was like OMG LOVE about, and that was the lip gloss. The body butter and makeup remover I will probably use ever so often, the other things are going to my mom. Next time I'm wearing the lip gloss, I'll take a picture.

Hope everyone is having a fun weekend.
XOXO

Stuff I like today:
-Blogspot's autosave feature...my Firefox crashed while I was in the middle of writing
-Shopping for house stuff
-White orchids

Stuff I dislike today:
-Candles that look cute in the box and then you open the box and they smell like an old fussy lady
-Rain