Baby Lips Bargains

I haven't been couponing much lately but I kinda went to town this week at CVS. My favorite drugstore. It's been months since I've been to Wags or Righty's

I partook in 3 different deals over 3 different stores. I'm going to write it up as if I bought it all in one transaction so if you see more than one $10/$50 thats why. Though apparently CVS's new coupon policy allows you to stack $/$$ coupons.

4x Nivea Lip Balms @$2.50 each Sale Price =$10
10x Maybelline Baby Lips @$4.29 Reg Price B1G150% = $32.17
2 x Maybelline Color Tattoo @$7.29 Reg Price B1G150% = $10.93
1x Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Foundation Reg Price $12.99
3x Maybelline Mascaras $5.99 Reg Price B1G150% = $11.97 (2 were 1/2 price because of the foundation)
2x Maybelline Lipsticks $8.49 Reg Price B1G150% = $12.73
1x Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer Reg Price $10.99 ( Had the first store had the color I need I could have saved more buying it with the foundation)
3x Got2B Hair Styling Products @$3.99 each Sale Price = $11.97

Subtotal $113.97

Minus 2x CVS Coupon $10/$50
$20 CVS Coupons

Subtotal $93.97

Minus Manufacturers Coupons

12 x $2/1 Maybelline Lip Coupons =$24
3x $3/1 Got2B Styling Product Coupons =$9
2x $2 Maybelline Foundation Coupons =$4
2x $3/2 Nivea Coupons = $6
3x $1/1 Maybelline Mascara Coupon =$3
2 x $1/1 Maybelline Eyeshadow Coupon = $2

$48 Manufacturers Coupons

Subtotal $45.75

Minus ECB Received

$3 ECB for Nivea

Subtotal $42.75

Minus CVS Cash Cards Received

3x $10 =$30

Subtotal $12.75

Beauty Bucks Earned $10

Subtotal $2.75

Actually I received $15 in ECB 2 days after this transaction so really came to $0 for $173 retail value. I used ECB and CVS cash cards to pay for most of the transactions so I only paid tax out of pocket. Could have paid even less if I had started my trip at the most well stocked CVS makeup wise because I could have used more $10/50 coupons AND gotten the 50% off of the concealer.

Makeup Haul 2011

I really did plan to break this down into several post explaining the deals I got on everything but never got round to it so this is most of the makeup I got in my couponing adventures in the last 4 months of 2011. ¡Enjoy!

Most everything was either free or a money maker. If not then under $1

Lip Palettes

I'll admit it. I'm OBSESSED with lip palette and eye palettes. I think I wanted to be a painter once upon a time since anything that looks like an art supply I love. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Whats more fun than using palettes? Making them. When you buy a premade lip palette your stuck with just the lipstick that company makes and their ideas of what colors work. What better way to get something with all the lipsticks you like to wear and some forgotten ones to make a lip palette.

This is a small one I made from lip stick samples. I love it except for one thing. The lipstick formulations has mint in it so it makes your lips tingle. The palette is from Japonesque and they make lots of great lipstick palettes.

This time I'm trying to go a little bit more professional. I order some metal eyeshadow pans from eBay. They were about $5 for 20 pans (as you can see I really need 21) I'm using an empty Mac Eyeshadow Palette which I've removed the divider for. But that's because thats what I had you can make one from any hinged container you like. What would be super cute is a pencil tin. You could probably fit 2 rows of shadow with room for a lipstick brush like my palette above. The eBay store also had round pans which would just fit into the Mac palettes without removing the divider.

Here's how to make a Hello Kitty palette.

And heres the video that inspired me to make the palette I'm going to make