Bath & Body Works Candles

I love when Bath & Body Works put their mini candles on sale 3 for $10. Add in the 20% off coupons, and the free product when you spend $10 and it's a total steal! This time I got the three pictured to the right. Raspberry Peach Macaroon. Watermelon Lemonade. Cinnamon Sugared Doughnut. They smell exactly like they describe. I had honestly totally forgot I had bought some around fall and rediscovered those too. They are pictured to the left. Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Pumpkin Cupcake & Fireside Marshmallow. As you can tell I tend to go for the foodie scents.  I also LOVE their Scentportables for my car. Same scents, and only $3.50 each, but they usually always have buy 4 get 2 free and you can stack your coupons with these as well.  I REALLY wish they would hurry up and make wax melts in these scents. Then it would all be complete.

Tone Body Wash

I received this new Tone body wash to try thanks to bzzagent.  The scent is Petal Soft which is a light floral of pink peonies mixed with rose oil. I can not tell you how much I'm in love with this body wash. I have even been using it in the hand soap dispenser. My skin feels soft, well hydrated, and looks radiant. The lather is rich and luxurious.  Tone makes eight different  varieties of body wash, all with different spa like qualities from moisturizing to detoxifying to peeling to soothing and more.  They contain ingredients like cocoa & shea butters, vitamin e,  white clay, and alpha-hydroxy fruit acids to name a few that help keep your skin moisturized and nourished each and every day. The scents are great to chose from, and not too over powering. Just a subtle hint left on the skin. They also make foaming hand soaps and bath bars. Retails for $4.99 per bottle, and is available at most retailers. Do yourself a favor and pick up a bottle so you can you can feel properly pampered each and every time you take a shower or bath.

Tarte Mascara

Tarte Lights, Camera, Flashes mascara. I'm in LOVE! This mascara is absolutely amazing as you can tell from the picture. Not only does it lengthen my lashes, but it helps plump them up to make them fuller. I got it as part of Sephora's lash stash kit, and it was the last one I tried. If it would have been the first, I probably wouldn't have gone any  further and gave the others away. I seriously look like I have falsies on. Luxurious, thick, long, full lashes and it's all me! No flaking, no clumping, and it's easily removed with regular face wash. Retails for $23 and worth every penny!

Redken

Somewhere I must have signed up for this free trial kit, but for the life of me I do not remember when. It was a nice surprise when I opened the mail and saw this. It contains All Soft shampoo & conditioners,  Satin Wear, Outshine & Control Addict in trial/travel sizes.
All Soft is one of my favorite shampoos/conditioners. It contains argan oil to help transform dry, brittle hair into soft, smooth strands. Retails for $15.95 for normal sizes. You can always find deals on liters, especially at Ulta. You will want liters. It's that amazing!
Satin Wear is a must have for blow drying. I use this on EVERY single  client that sits in my chair before I even think of picking up my blow dryer. It's your basic thermal protecting lotion. It's light weight, able to be layered with other products, and helps aid in a friction free fast blow dry. Retails for $17.95.
Outshine I have a love hate relationship with. If you're not familiar with Redken's number system 01 means that it's 1 time stronger than water. Outshine is a polishing milk. It gives the shine it boasts about, but I don't think it does more than that and there are other products that are better than this for that. Some people like it for fly aways, but I think it's still just too light for that. It claims it controls frizz, but again, no. If you have it, use it, but I wouldn't buy this particular product. Redken has better options than this. Shine Flash spray for one. Retails for $18.95.
Control Addict. This is the HIGHEST level of hold that Redken carries at a 28. What I love about their hairsprays are they give that superior hold factor, but you can still maintain brushability without residue and flaking. Plus their hairsprays are all humidity resistant. I've used this for the everyday hold, to upstyles for weddings. My all time FAVORITE hairspray by Redken. Retails for $18.95.

So thanks again Redken for the kit to help recreate the perfect blow out! Since I blow dry this naturally curly mop on a daily basis and love your products this is much appreciated!

Dyson Animal

Well you know you're an adult when you get excited over spending a portion of your tax refund on something like this ( the other part went to pay off the remaining credit card balance on our washer/dryer/stove ). Yeah for the year of appliances I suppose.  We picked up this lil gem on clearance at Target for under $500! They normally retail for about $650/700. I had a Dyson awhile back and it died on my just a little over the 5 year warranty time frame. I got pissy, vowed to never buy their overpriced pos customer service vacuums again ( yeah I may have over reacted ). Well in the 5 years since owning that we've gone through at least 3 cheaper vacuums. So not worth it! Any brand.. Hoover, Bissell, Eureka. Didn't matter. Got their top of the line, made for pets and something would always break. They don't have any type of warranty, and parts/labor aren't even worth it ( other than maybe a belt or brush ). So back to Dyson it is. At least while I was using that, I had no issue, and it lasted way longer than a couple months to a year. We are definitely registering this, and fingers crossed we have no issues cause that would suck, and obviously not in the good way!

Speed Stick Deodorant

You have to love a good deal. My mom sent me 4 coupons for buy one get one  free on any Speed Stick deodorant because she doesn't care for the brand. Let me tell you this must be a popular brand/sale because I had to go to 3 stores to even find any in stock. Ironically the place I thought wouldn't have it ( local grocery store ) had the most of it, and it was on sale for $0.99 a stick. So I paid $3.96 for 8 deodorants. I got some for the husband, and some for my daughters and myself. Normally they retail for $2.19. The scents available were pretty picked over ( I got Fresh for him, and powder or shower for us ). I hope it works well. It boasts no white marks, and effective against sweat while working out for up to 24 hours. That's all I need from it and I'm good!