Miscellaneous Specials

Looking at the website and in stores I've noticed that there are a few specials on things that aren't advertised very loudly as being on sale so here's a (small) list for the record, and your benefit!

Online:

Mason Jar Handsoaps: $6

Mason Jar Candles: $9

Ocean Men's Shave Cream: $5.50 (this may be offered in stores as well, haven't looked)

Signature Collection Hair Care: $4

In store:

Malibu Beach Pedicure Foot Cream: $5

Select Travel Size Aromatherapy: 50% off (don't expect to find matching items except in shampoo/conditioner)

Select Lip Gloss/Wands: 50% off

These are all I've found for now, if I see more I'll add them as I find them. 

I noticed again that some prices have gone up whilst looking online, such as the retiring Aromatherapy and returning for SAS ones are $6.50 when they WERE $6 and probably ARE still $6 in stores. 

Still ongoing specials:

B3G2 Signature Collection 

B2G1 Free True Blue Spa

B2G1 Free Aromatherapy (doesn't include clearanced items)

B2G1 Free C.O. Bigelow

25% off select gift sets

Tuesday is ... face mask day!

Since being a shift worker, it's hard to develop a regular routine for anything, sleep included! Now, I have issues with my face, specifically acne and I try products, and I try products and sometimes I get results and sometimes I don't. Or sometimes, my schedule just throws me for a loop. 

Tuesdays, I generally have off work, or if I DO work, it's usually later in the day so I can take the morning to do this. 

This pair is my miracle worker. My face isn't flawless, and I do still get zits but I assure you it's worlds better since I started these. 

Why the heck are you using a Mentha bar on your face right?! I told a couple of the SAs that I'm close to about using it and they thought I was nuts. But seriously, it works quite well. What I do is shower, wait until I'm completely done washing up, conditioning my hair and all that fun stuff, and take the mentha bar directly to my face. I don't use a lot of pressure otherwise it might hurt. Avoiding eyes and mouth, I just scrub away, rinse hot, then pat my face dry. Then I apply the Blackberry peel mask. The directions on the back say to leave on for 20 minutes, but I find it's almost never completely dry by that point and if I leave it 10 or 20 more minutes it works better than if I simply just pick it off once dry. I peel this sucker away (reminiscent of peeling glue off yourself in primary school ...) and tada, soft skin! I'll use a hot cloth to remove anything that didn't come off and luckily because this mask goes on black, you can see exactly what you missed. Even if you do look a little ridiculous!

I used to use the mask after washing with regular soap and it did alright, but I tried the Mentha bar more out of morbid curiosity, or let's see how bad my face breaks out after this and it turned out to be heavensent. If my face starts feeling particularly greasy towards the end of the week, I'll add another dose of mask. To be fair, I work in food service so I wouldn't recommend super frequent use for everyone unless your skin's really oily or you work around oil all day.

Sadly, I don't have a before/after picture set because I didn't think to take a photo when my face was still all bluh disgusting.

PS - I'd like to add that I did try the TBS Apricot Face scrub. It broke me out horribly. 

Last minute

This evening, we had some chicken drumsticks that I roasted, with some veggies and pasta on the side. What do you want to do tonight? Oh, I don't know. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe the mall? Oh yeah, we were gonna go this week. So we went. This other mall is a lot further out than our usual and our not as usual. 

I went to my playground of course, B&BW and I started digging the 75% off bins. Immediately an SA walked up to me and started asking me if she could help me. I kindly replied, "No thanks, I'm just looking." I picked up a SBW lotion and FFM and walked to a different able. SA #1 picked up the TS SBW and tried to get me to buy them. I have plenty but thank you. Another SA wheeled out this cart with boxes and opened some, emptying their contents into the bins for all to grab. I looked up to see a box that read Dark Kiss on the side. All at once I went over to the table and SA #2 just smiled and I asked if she had the shower gels too. She said yes. Oh now I was in heaven! 

I've only just discovered Dark Kiss recently and thought I was doing well to have found my TS lotion and shower gel, meanwhile I looked at stuff that other folks were hauling from their stores and saw full sizes. Why couldn't I get that lucky? I went online, tried to order another full size set and the shower gel was sold out. To my great joy in this store, I grabbed as many as I could with one survey and sauntered away so that the crowd that closed in once they saw could take their pickings.

Savings were 109.00, paid $25.

I know it isn't really so much a rarity as it is a pain in the backside because of shipping and one of the items constantly being sold out. Now I'll just wait for B3G3 since $6 online exclusive will not be happening until  SAS is over and get 6 of the FFM and be done with it.

Stopped by McDonald's on the way home to get a Dulce de Leche shake. Holy mother of sweetness batman. Good but so sickingly sweet! Hmm. Movie time I suppose.

Buy 2, Get 1 Adventures!

Figuring out how to get a good deal that I can't get any other day was hard! Not gonna lie! Originally I thought about getting a candle, then another $10 or more item and something free but I went back again to that bloody hair mist. I can't get over it! The SA and I talked a little bit about the sale, and how most folks purchase stuff like normal (they'll buy 2, get 1 of sig or something). To be fair this was a little hard to navigate to get it to $30.

This was two separate transactions. The first consisted of the hair mist and Limoncello hand soap (w/Malibu Heat gift set free) which I thought might work out okay for the survey but apparently not. The mentha lip balms also apparently ring up normal price despite being the $2 clearance too. That was unexpected even though I knew that the sales weren't valid today. The SA of course gave me the balm for $2 though! I love my store.

The second transaction was 2 Destinations wallflowers w/1 free and a free item (Up to $12) with a $10 purchase, which the SA commented that she hadn't thought of that, it was clever. I decided the exfoliating glove that the MH set came with wasn't my thing so I tried stuffing all my wallflowers into it. To no avail. Well it was worth a shot. I got a survey for using one and I've accumulated a rather disgusting amount of these SAS flyers for $10 off $40. Absolutely no use for them if you have plenty of surveys.

Bonus: My store did have the 4 ounce London Calling and Rio Glow candles priced at $12.50 in a special box that will not be part of $5 sale when the specials kick back in tomorrow. Most of the boxes were ripped where people had been opening them all day. I almost bought one but decided against it. These candles don't have lids either. They're cute, but I can't justify the price.

London Calling!

This was actually the first haul of the new stuff and my first try of Malibu Heat. This one however, I was dying to get my hands on London Calling. As a fiend of all things British I knew from seeing the candle when I was in store one of the first times shopping for Christmas that I'd love it. Not $20 love it though! I new next to nothing about B&BW then. By the time I figured it out, it was too late, the candle was gone. However I was able to secure two nicely executed phone orders from Johnson City, TN. Those gals are great by the way. If you want test candles, I hear Easton doesn't accept any coupons at all. Johnson City DOES. The only thing they don't take is survey coupons. Also because I placed my two orders close together, they remembered me from the first order and gave me free shipping when I originally only wanted 2 candles but they talked me into taking the last one to make it 3! How could I say no?

I was afraid to burn any of them though! What if it never came back? Gasp! Well luckily it did. I swapped some candles I had picked up and wondered why I got them or were gifted them for these babies and stocked up on the wallflowers. I fell in love with the scent via wallflower from the first time around when I ordered several different ones looking to try them out. I knew it was gonna be fun when I opened the thing, oil got on my hands and it smelled really good. Of course I went to wash them off quite quickly though! The wallflower also fell out of the wall which is a story for another day but no worries - nothing was damaged. How, I don't know. I burned the candle for the first time a few nights ago. Just like the wallflower. Tea and lemon about sums it up. 

Next 2/$22  I am going to clean my store out of them, I wish I was kidding. It's crazy how much I love this scent. It was hinted to me that one might come for Memorial Day. I am thinking May 22nd-26th/27th. It may begin on or near the weekend but we'll see.

Bonus: The watermelon lemonade wallflower is in my spacey second bedroom an it's strong! Thumbs up.

May 13th couldn't have come sooner!

So here is my first post thing. This haul is from a few days ago. I had ordered Wild Citrus Sunflower marking the second time I've ordered a scent that was an online exclusive and HATED it! I learned my lesson from the experience, though I can find things about fragrances I like pretty easily, I don't do well if I can't go product/candle sniffing. LOL! Wild Citrus Sunflower was traded for some of the Malibu Heat pictured above.

I had a Pineapple Orchid candle that had a wick break off mid-burn and the wax turned nasty and smoky and ugh. The SA was grossed out when she saw the candle but not necessarily surprised. So I swapped it for Meet Me In Tahiti. I figured by the description on this candle I'd like it but I wanted to smell it cold first. It kind of reminds me of the beach with a touch of vanilla. It's a good one so far! I can't say much else for it other than I haven't had any wicks breaking on me and it burns even so...

As for the body care, being as I am relatively new to B&BW (think December 2012), I have NEVER tried Malibu Heat at all before this. The fragrance notes sounded like something I'd absolutely love so I was counting down the days til it came to stores and bought it and loved it. Not without trying it first though! None of my stores would sell any of the May 13th floorset stuff early which marks a first for me since I've been able to pick up or at least smell stuff a few days before they hit the floor so I was itching to smell all these new things come last Monday!

It's got all these fruits and tropical scents going for it but a hint of a powdery something, I don't know. Whatever it is, it reminds me of a body spray (probably Avon something) from the nineties that I might've sprayed around in my sister's room. It's familiar. I love it. A lot. The hair mist was something I decided I'd try out - being that I have average thickness in hair but unmanageability (that's not a word but now it is!) that is out of this world with a big splash of frizz, hair products that aren't (and sometimes are!) shampoo and conditioner don't agree with me. However I have had very nice results out of this mist. It is similar to a light hold hair spray that fluffs up my hair a little and gives the otherwise dull appearance of my hair some semblance of style. I picked one up in Pure Paradise too since I liked it so much.

Pure Paradise, now this one is interesting. I find it a very light scent that fades down to my skin smelling like a boat trip I took where we went to all these beaches and looked for sandollars, seashells and the like, made a day of it, got sunburned to the high heavens and had a lot of fun. Not an every day scent for me but it's a nice little once in a while since it isn't a very "loud" scent. I don't really know how to describe it other than it kind of smells like sea water. Not dirty seawater, but just water. Well that sounds weird, what does water smell like, right? I live in Florida so I guess it makes sense to me. Anyway, that's my take on my long anticipated body care haul.