Jane products clearance

I went to the local Fortinos grocery store yesterday to grab some chicken dinner special they had for $10 (full chicken + potato wedges + salad). It was a good deal to split between 3 or 4 people and you'll end up really full.

I went to the cosmetic section to check it out and realized that the section for Jane products were going on clearance. When I went to check out what products were left, there were only like 3 things, two types of mascara and a blush. The costs were slash down to $1.50-$2.00ish from the usual $5-$10. I guess it really is being discontinued and the local grocery stores that carry them are starting to clear it out.
If only there were more fortinos near me i'd check out to buy some more. Maybe other people are more lucky at this... I know Zellers carry it too. I wish I was back home where I have a car to go to places... Hamilton is kinda empty ... I really wanted to try the gel liner they had. Oh well I was too late. Should have grocery shopped earlier!

I also stumbbled upon a Milani runaway pallete that had three eyeshadow circles with different colours. It costed $9.99. I found it randomly on one of hte shelves. Is Milani coming to Canada? If so, that's AWESOME! Gotta keep my eye out. Maybe the Jane section that's clearing up now on the shelf is going to turn in to a Milaini shelf! WOOT!

Lisa's Cosmetic/Fragrance Warehouse Sale Fall 2009

So I realized that i haven't blogged in a while. Work right after summer was hectic. I had to finish up this major project I was working on that needed to be finished before I left. They didn't want the project to still lie around when I'm gone and have someone up follow up and worl on it. I didn't get to finish on time by my last day of work, so they asked me to stay an extra week to finish it. I got paid, so why not! I finished on that Thursday and took Friday to pack. Then, on Saturday morning I was on my trip to Orlando with my friends!
There were six of us that went and we had an AWESOME TIME!
It was the best deal ever, the package included hotel at disneyworld, tickets to the parks for 3 days, meals included. We added our own airfare from buffalo to orlando and we megabus to buffalo. We also went to Universal Studios Orlando and Island of Adventures.
I'll definitely update with some pictures later... I think when I have time and want to procrastinate from doing school work :)

School is getting hectic and I am just not in the mood to write and type after finishing up with all my reports and assignments! I realized youtube and blogspot is where I go when I want to procrastinate, which is quite often.

Enough on the rambling, so....

Just found out the Lisa's Cosmetic Fragrance Warehouse Sale this Fall 2009 days are out!
I've never been to any of them before. From looking at what everyone always gets from these, it seems pretty awesome for some deals. I think it'd be a great place to get some Christmas presents for my friends. I really want to go this year but I guess I'll have to see how my schedule goes! I really wonder how big a difference it is if you go the first few days vs. the last few days. Do they restock over the few weeks with stuff or put everything out all at once? that might determine when I should go...

http://www.lisascosmetics.com/flyer2009w.pdf

I'm also on my search for my next co-op job which is for Term 2, which is this coming Jan. It seems like a lot of the job interviews I'm getting are either in Calgary or Ottawa. Maybe I'll have to do some travelling this year... but Calgary is snowing already! not a big fan of snow...

Bored at work..

so im' ni the office right now... i think i'm the only person left. i guess i understand cause its a friday and everyone just leaves early or leaves at 1 cause we have summer hours... but i haveto stay techncialyl till 6. hahaha. cause i come in later at like 8:45ish... i think i will leave a bit earlier than that.. just bored. alone in a big office...
i realised i haven't updated ina while. that's probably cause the times i usually write stuff on this blog is at work when i am bored . lol. and the past few weeks has been hecktic with work cause I have been having a lot of trouble doing this project im' working on.. and it has to be completed before i finish my summer term here. ekks.
my last day is 21st. then i have a week to rest up. and going on my trip to orlando!!!
I am super excited! I am going with 5 of my friends to orlando for a week. We'll be living in one of the disney hotels. We are going to go to animal kingdomd, mgm/hollywood studios, magic kingdom, universal studios and of course shopping..
too bad just two girls going.. so its going to be werid when the boys are going shopping with us. I don't like it when alot of guys are tehre. They seem to get impatient and it is annoying. I like to take my time to go shopping! Its hard to decide what I want to buy sometimes..
So I saved up for thist rip and can't wait.
The sad part is when the trip is over that's also when school starts! ekks. this summer flew by... just like every summer...

Canada One Outlet Haul

What a great weekend!

So last Friday I was off work cause of flex day. My bf, friend and me went to Niagara falls. So we went on the casino buses that were free cause we had the Fallsview casino membership card. The ride was good only 1 1/2 hour. :) They were playing Hancock on the ride. but it was like fake dvd versions of it. lol.

When we got there it was raining so that wasn't nice. We wanted to go to Canada One Outlet to check out the coach store and shop around. We took the Niagara transit bus and got a day pass for $6 unlimited ride all day.

We were kinda unlucky we got out of the casino and the bus they we needed to go on just left!! saw it go by too. We took the next one which were 15 mins apart.
The Canada One outlet was surprisingly small for an "outlet" lol. They had nike, coach, urban behavior, guess, body shop outlet, urban planet, mexx, etc. It just was very bad that the weather was so terrible. it was literally pouring rain. :(

Coach had a lot of people. There were lots of 20% , 30% and 50% off items. However, obviously things that were 50% where like original price of $500. lol.
We spent so long in there. My bf wanted to get me a coach purse for my birthday so I was trying hard to find something I liked and also something of reasonable price. I was debating between just getting a wrislet, clutch or a mini purse. In the end we got a mini signature purse w/ a white band around it. It was only like $10 more than getting a clutch. So speaking of practicality, it was worth it. I also had an additional 20% off coupon so we used that. The purse came to around $60ish including tax. It retails for $130.
I love big purses.. have lots of stuff I like carrying around, this is going to be a challenge to pick what I really need to put in this small bag.

My friend got the same size bag but in a total white colour. She also got two small coin purses one for herself and one for her sister. They were around $38 each.

I also went to the body shop outlet and got another one of the gift sets. They pretty much had all the clearance stuff that was in stores last month all in this outlet now. The stuff I had gotten last month was now even cheaper. I felt jipped. The gift boxes I had gotten last time for $5 are now $4 there and there was this gift set for $10 before now $6. So I decided to get it since it was the last one there. Great deal . Retail $25; Sale price at store $10; Sale price at outlet $6. It included:

• 2.0 fl oz Satsuma Shower Gel
• 1.7 oz Satsuma Body Butter
• 2.5 oz Satsuma Body Polish
• Orange Bath Lily

They were also giving samples out too at the cashier. But for some reason the cashier didn't give me one but the ladies in front of me got... I was not happy when I left... like why would she not give me one when clearly I saw other people in front of me getting some and I saw that she still had samples left. weird customer service I don't get it... what did i do to her to not deserve one. oh well. just free stuff anyways.

Attractions Ontario Coupons

As there's only close to 1 1/2 month left of summer, I started getting my act together to look for places to go and spend my time. Have to make good use of my summer! Now I realize that almost everything has a coupon, so I need to go search hard for some!

I know a lot of people alread go on redflagdeals to get coupons and stuff to different attractions and events.
Well here is another site wth alot of e-coupons to print off and use.

Attractions Ontario
Go click on the E-coupon tab and there are a bunch!
For example, they have stuff for:
Safari Niagara, Ontario Place, Wonderland, Casa Loma, etc.

I am planning to go to Niagara Falls tomorrow. I will be taking the casino coaches to Fallsview Casino. They have a promotion now that if you have the member card, it is free !! (which I have from last year!) Even if you don't, its only $25 and sometimes they give you money back to use at the casino, but you can just cash it back :)

I will be going to go to the Canada One outlet and maybe one of those haunted house things or the ferris wheel! There is a new Coach outlet at Canada One which I will stop by to see. I heard there are really great sales of 20-50% off. I don't buy any expensive bags, but I will check it out to see anyways! There is a rfd coupon out for an additional 20% off. Hopefully there won't be lineups tomorrow since its a Friday. I will go check it out.

Harry Potter is out! Going to watch that on Saturday. :)
not looking forward to Ginny and Harry getting together... booo.. her character was poorly cast. if only they knew earlier what her impact would be.

Beauty/Cosmetic Acronym List

too many acronyms to know, that i started making a list.. this is like work cause when i first started work, my company had like their own acronyms for everything and I had to learn it all in like a week or so ! haha. so now i have lots of acronym lists! update more in the future or something if i add more to it :)

Acronym List
Cosmetics/Community Related Acronyms

AHA - Alpha Hydroxy Acid (fruit or lactic acids)
BB - Bobbi Brown
BCP - Birth Control Pill
BHA - Beta Hydroxy Acid (salicylic acid)
BN - Brand New
BNIB - Brand New In Box
BNWT - Brand New With Tags
BP - Benzoyl Peroxide
CG - Cover Girl
CCO (or CCS) - Cosmetics Company Outlet (Cosmetics Company Store)
CP - Custom Purchase
DC (D/C, DC'ed) - Discontinued
D/S (DS) - Drugstore
E/L - Eyeliner
E/S - Eyeshadow
EOTD - Eye Of The Day
EOTN - Eye Of The Night
FOTD - Face Of The Day
FOTN - Face Of The Night
GC - Gift Certificate (gift card)
GWP - Gift With Purchase
HE - Higher End
HG - Holy Grail
LE - Limited Edition
L/L - Lipliner
L/G - Lipgloss
L/S - Lipstick
LNIB - Like New In Box
MA - Makeup Artist
MF - Max Factor
MLBB - My Lips But Better
MSF - MAC Mineralize Skinfinish
MUA - Makeupalley.com
NIB - New In Box
NWOT - New With Out Tag
NWT - New With Tags
PF - Physician's Formula
RIS - Received In Swap
RO (ROP) - Read On (Read On Please)
SA - Sales Associate or Salicylic Acid
SFF - MAC Studio Fix Fluid foundation
SIB - Still In Box
S/S - MAC Shadestick
TBS - The Body Shop
TLC – MAC Tinted Lip Conditioner
TM – Tinted Moisturizer
T/M - Tinted Moisturizer
TNX - Thanks
WP - Waterproof
UD - Urban Decay
UDPP - Urban Decay Primer Potion
YLBB - Your Lips But Better

Yorkdale Shopping + Free Stuff

I had a great birthday weekend this year. I had work on my actual birthday but after work I had dinner with my family and went ot bbt with my friends at night. My bf came back out from Hamilton to celebrate and got me a cake. We had a great time at bbt with all my friends. :) I got a CD and a calendar organizer that's also used as a mouse pad. 2 in 1~

Then on Sat I went aldo shopping as i said in my haul below. The next day on Sunday I woke up early and went over to my bf for lunch. He made me food. Then we went with a few friends to Yorkdale shopping. I didn't really get anything.
First I went to Sephora to get my birthday gift from the beautyinsider member card. :) I had to get it within 7 days or so I think so I had to make sure I rmb to get it. So I got a set of three small sample size lip glosses. They are really cute and easy to carry around. Great for travelling. So I'm glad I picked it up.

I also went to COACH to look around at the new collection. I don't have any designer bags cause I don't really think I'm at the point in life where I need to splurge on something like that and it snot like I'm earning loads. The earnings to purse cost ratio isn't there yet for me to afford a high end bag. I'm good with my cheap and convenient bags :)
They have the new collection called POPPY and I had signed up and printed the online promoting that they had. I went in with my paper copy of the site and my information and I got a free gift. It was a box of pencils with a really cool design for the box. It was free so why not get it? The sales lady said there wasn't a lot left ! I think this will just be sitting in my room for display. its cute. :)


I did go to body shop again and this time i got a mirror for $3. I decided to invest in this. Every time I buy the plastic kinds they break.. I might as well get this fabric one and it'll last me longer in the long run. The stuff there are getting CHEAPER! i was so scared the stuff I brought before were going to be cheaper.. I would have been so mad. haha. the manager at the store was selling so hard core. talking about the body shop member card and giving ppl samples and talks. Someone even tried to like make bargains with her. If she brought more of this and that she get a discount on other stuff. lol. It was funny. I think they are desperately in need of selling all the sale items. This one had different stuff but none of the gift sets so I didn't get anything. I think the things that are worth the most are the gift sets cause you get multiple items for a reletavely cheap price.
My friend got a sample of the body butter. cause the manager was trying to get him to buy it. lol. it was funny.

After that I went to summerlicious dinner... more on that next....