No, not contest winners, lol. We went to Winners for its summer sale and had an awesome time. I meant to go there for clothes, surprisingly (maybe not, lol), I ended up at the cosmetics/ bath & body section first. The real surprise was I found some great makeup that I haven't seen IRL before. So let me show you what I got.
First up, the big boxes. I like the concept of being able to do different (and totally opposite) looks with one palette, and the Too Faced Naughty or Nice set might give me just that.
The Too Faced "Lights, Camera, Glamour" Make-Up Collection box could give me even more options, considering the amount of makeup it holds. Never thought I would find Too Faced around here. I don't have a Sephora store, remember?
The Sun Kissed bronzing powder, bulky packaging but has cute little prints on the packaging and on the product which sucked me in. The brand is all new to me though.
Close up pic inside the Naughty or Nice palette: 6 shadows x 1gr, and 6 lip glosses x 0.65gr. The pull out little tray has a dual ended brush (lip brush on one end and applicator on the other). This set is retailed on Too Faced website for $29.50, and I paid CAD 12.99. Appreciated the low price - something Winners is known of, for sure. For price comparison purpose for you guys in the US, Beauty Crunch has this set for $11.80. They don't ship outside US, so Canadians can't get makeup for cheap. And this is not the only site that does that. I can't tell you how many times I filled up my cart just to get turned down at check out for not being from the US.
The Makeup Collection box has a clasp on the outside, a mirror underneath the lid with 4 little bulbs that can light up (has battery compartment). 
So fancy. It unfolds into 3 small palettes with:
- 8 shadows x 0.94gr: 2 shades named Hollywood Ho Downs and 2 shades named Cocoa Lillys (according to the box), Fantasy Island, George&Weezie, Skinny Dip, Suzy Ho Maker
- 6 glosses x 0.9gr: Candy Apple, Cocoa Kiss, Pink Taffy (Candy Lips); Trust Fund Baby, Private Jet (Status Gloss) and an Exclusive Lip Gloss
- 2 blushes x 2.8gr: Who's Your Daddy, Lust to Love
- 1 bronzer x 2.8gr: Sun Bunny
- 1 face powder x 2.8gr
- 1 shimmer powder x 2.8gr: Snow Bunny
- 1 brow powder, 1 eyeliner powder x 1.4gr.
This box is no longer available on Too Faced or Sephora website. Beauty Crunch used to have it for $16, I paid CAD19.99.
The Sun Kissed bronzing powder was $9.99, retailed CAD20 (according to the price tag), so I guess it was half price. There is no specific brand on the package, but the company is J A Cosmetics, same one that owns Elf. I picked up this bronzer for the leopard print with pink and bronze colours. Isn't it cute? I'm skeptical about the brush, as brushes that come with products don't normally perform very well. I also question the excessive packaging just to house a regular size bronzer. I wonder whether this product line has similar quality as elf's. I might have to come back to take a closer look, as there were different palettes from J A Cosmetics on the shelf with similar packaging patterns.
Yay, Urban Decay Midnight Cowboy Rides Again set! I found it at the clearance section actually, for CAD7 (regular $32). Crazy right? 
I was so happy to spot this set, as it basically has "the best of Urban" - Midnight Cowboy shadow, Shadow Primer Potion (sample size), 24/7 Glide-on Eye pencil in Bourbon and Midnight Cowboy heavy metal glitter eyeliner.
Lip Fusion Micro-injected Collagen Lip Plump in Belle is gorgeous. It was the only there, but was in the shade that I really liked, so to home with me it went. I paid CAD6.99 for it vs. the $38 retail price. This is the second time I spotted Lip Fusion products, as I scored the Be Kissed Mini Lip Fusion set for CAD20 before.
Last but not least, the Best of Korres set! This brand is a mystery to me until last time I saw this set at Winners (for CAD20). Obviously, lots of loggers raved about it. This time, it was in clearance for CAD10 and I certainly couldn't pass it up. Imagine all the goodness: Guava Body Butter 50ml, Basil Lemon Showergel 50ml, Vanilla Cinnamon Showergel 50ml, Wild Rose Moisturizer SPF6 10ml, Evening Primrose Eye Cream SPF6 5ml and Yoghurt Cooling Gel sachet 9ml.
Note: According to Best Things in Beauty, Korres US website was just launched in July. I am disappointed again that they don't ship internationally.
For clothes, I did find some nice shirts for me and a really cute dress for Squirt. She wanted to be the flower girl in my sister's wedding, so we were looking around for a fancy dress. It wasn't in the range I normally pay for kids' clothes, but for special occasion, I guess we can splurge. I always rant that kids clothes are even more expensive than aldults'.
The whole experience at Winners took 3 hours - picking out the makeup and clothes, trying the clothes on and deciding what stayed in the cart and what went back to the racks, lol. That wasn't even the biggest Winners in town yet, lol. The damage to my credit card is pretty bad, but I'm happy with what I got.
Have a nice weekend, ladies.
Saturday is usually my shopping day, running from store to store, as my shopping list never has deals from only one single place :-) I'm all about bargains, you know, and am lucky to have an understanding bf to drive me around for all the deals I want to get. I normally go to the gym in the morning (Squirt stays in the playroom at the gym), then meet up with him to get some groceries (as the gym is right above the grocery store). After that, the fun (i.e. real shopping) begins.
Last night my mom asked me to get her one of those root touchup pens to use between her trips to the salon for colour treatment. I never died my hair before and had no idea about products in that department, so I told her I would try to search around. Today I went to Sally for a return, and browsed around while waiting for the staff. And I found Claudia Stevens Cover That Grey Temporary Touch-up Stick. There were a few colour options, but I only needed black. It set me back for CAD6.20 with Sally's Card. I was hoping to find more China Glaze, but this store just opened up beginning of April and didn't even have any new collections in yet - Summer Day, Kicks, etc. So sad!
It was $1 flipflops day at Old Navy today, lots of people were there. I was able to grab the last pair in white for me and yellow for Squirt. What left in those sad bins on the floor were black in big sizes. People were buying them in bunch. If there wasn't the limit of 5 per person, I bet you the flipflops would be gone way before I could get there. The lineup was long.
I had a great find at Winners. Until a few weeks ago when I saw a Canadian Youtuber mentioned finding Elf at Winners, I thought this store only sells clothes, silly huh?. 
The bath & body section today was pretty sad as always, lots of packages were torn or opened, a few pieces missing, ... not pretty. I found this little box lying lonely on and one look at the price, I was sold! This Be Kissed Mini Lip Fusion set is USD40 on BeatyChoice.com and I paid CAD20 for it. So awesome! I was looking at it at Chritmas time, as suggested by Pursebuzz but didn't end up getting it. Oh, I also got myself a pair of aloe vera-infused socks and gloves. My hands and feet haven't been doing very well lately, and I really need to take better care of them. Whether this stuff works or not, time will tell, but I figured it wasn't a bad deal to get, so I did.
Another great find was Pretika's SonicDermabrasion Facial Care System that Vanessa found as a cheaper replacement of Clarisonic $195 price tag. And even better, Winners offered it for CAD13. So ladies, now you have a chance to try it out without breaking the bank. I also saw The Best of Korres box on for CAD20, but I never used this brand before, thought I should go back and check reviews before spending the money. Winners' return period is only 10 days, so I didn't want just buy it and forget to return it (if the review is bad).
Sale alert!!! Shoppers has 40% most of the Physician Formula items. 
And there were $6 rebate stickers on certain packaging, and a stack of $5 rebate forms right next to the shelf (good for any item, but 1 rebate per household only). As I just bought 4 Shimmer Strips (2 smokey, 2 regular) and a Concealer Stick at Zellers a few weeks back when they had 40% off, I didn't haul much today (only get the Concealer 101 Perfecting Concealer Duo) - I will probably do a review on it after I try it out. If there's something from Physician Formula that you want, make sure to get it this week with the rebate form. It was x20 Optimum points today, but I didn't feel like spending $50 (and there wasn't much to get anyway).
Another sale alert! Lawton seemed to be clearing out its Sally Hansens Lip products, as I saw lots of stuff with red stickers on (like half off). Talking about Lawton, there have been some changes in the lines they carry recently. They got rid of NYC (50% off everything a few weeks back) and embraced Milani instead. I was so excited to see the brand coming to Canada but the price is not that great (Runway Eye shadows are CAD8-9 and the nail polishes are like CAD5). I'm hoping they would go on sale some day :-)
That was it for my shopping runs today. Thanks for stopping by.