Vacation shopping at Ulta

Stopped in to Ulta with my mom yesterday.  It was raining and a little dreary yesterday, so not a great day for the beach.  I really wanted to find an inexpensive eyeshadow since I was not happy with the palette that I brought with me.  I was also looking for the Benefit limited edition London primer, which this store did not have.

I ended up getting just a few things.
Excuse the quality of these photos, I didn't plan to blog here so I only brought my iPad.

I have been wanting this particular Cover Girl eyeshadow trio.  It's called Major Distraction.  I liked the combo of colors the first time I saw it, but have been unable to find it again until yesterday.

Cover Girl products were buy one, get one 50% off.  I also bought a really nice neutral trio called Cafe Au Lait.  I bought it for the middle color, but I actually like all three colors and used all three in my eye shadow look today. The colors are all pretty light, so I think you need a darker crease color (like the one in the Major Distraction trio). 

I have been wanting to try the NYX lipgloss, so I decided to buy two since they were buy one, get one 50% off.  I got a light sparkly pink gloss called Perfect, and a bright sparkly Barbie pink called Gold Pink. They are both shimmery, and they feel smooth on your lips.  Not sticky at all.  Plus, they smell like bubblegum which is always good. 

On the lips they are both pretty sheer colors, so I might use them over another lip color. 

Finally I was sucked in once again by the allure of the mini-size beauty product.  It never fails.  They were selling a mini size Benefit Girl Meets Pearl, which is a shimmery highlighter.  Since I love trying new things, and I love Benefit, I bought it.  The sad part is that it was supposed to be $8, but they charged me $10.  I didn't notice that until I got home.  Also, the product is really MINI.  Smaller than I expected, but you only need to use a tiny bit so I guess it's ok.  

On my hand the product looked very shimmery.  It gives a pretty glow, but I was worried about how this would look on my skin.  I didn't know if it would be wearable for daytime, since it looked so shimmery.  It turns out on my skin, I couldn't really see the product at all.  It looked a little shiny when I put it on, but once it settled I didn't notice the product very much.  Not something that I will purchase the full-size version of in the future.  I might try it instead as an eyeshadow color, and brow bone highlighter.

Here is a photo with the Girl Meets Pearl on the left side of my face, and not the right.  I don't see much difference between the two sides.  

That's all for my vacation makeup shopping.  Thanks for reading!!