Sephora Once Upon a Palette ($36) arrives today for Holiday 2018. Sephora’s Holiday Collection is way weird this year. It’s sort of dribbled in here and there. Typically they do a small soft launch but by this time everything is up, out, reviewed, swatched, and readily available. But they have been doing this sort of slow launch with some of their palettes this year. It’s slightly weird.

I am enjoying their magical winter palace fairy tale theme though! I just wish I can make some sort of reason out of the launch because nothing really fully matches. Some gift sets are one theme, some palettes are another, it’s sort of all over the place. I’m going to say the main theme is a Winter Palace Fairy Tale deal and stick with that as not to confuse myself too much. You can’t see it here but this palette closes up to reveal a cute little palace!

I tend not to write off Sephora’s mega Holiday palettes as they have surprised me in the past. The Once Upon a Palette has 20 eyeshadows, highlighter, blush, bronzer, and one of Sephora’s cult-favorite Cream Lip Stain as well as two tutorials to get the look!

Sephora Once Upon A Palette for Holiday 2018 is limited edition, $36, and available now!

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Sephora

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I have several Lori Greiner Makeup Organizer I’ve purchased over the years and every single one was a great purchase for me simply because they are such elegant, statement pieces. I think makeup storage can occasionally get bulky and dare I say ugly once your stash gets larger in size. I yearn for the days when I was able to stash every single piece of makeup I own into a Caboodle. Those days are long since gone sadly. However, I have still hung on to many of my Lori Greiner Makeup Organizers and I keep many of my daily essentials in them.

If you have a special friend or family member (or yourself) whom you think might like an extra special way to hold her or his makeup this season you might want to check out the Deluxe Cosmetic Box with Mirror by Lori Greiner. I have a very slightly smaller size of this organizer in a light oak shade on my vanity (sadly, it’s not available in that shade anymore) which holds all my daily essentials. Closed it looks like a small cabinet but it swings open to reveal storage for up to 30 lipsticks, as well as six tiers to hold skincare, blushes, eyeshadow compacts, and more as well as a neat little area towards the back for brushes and a mirror too!

It’s actually a piece of furniture of sorts as the unit is very heavy and made very sturdy (yay for not having to struggle to put it together like the Helmer ugh!) It’s a little pricey at $79.98 but truly worth that money due to the craftsman ship of the unit.

Perhaps your mom or a sister or best friend loves makeup and you’d like to gift them with an elegant way to store their makeup! This is most definitely a lovely gift to indulge in! For yourself, or for someone else!

It’s available now at QVC.

Of you own any of Lori’s organizers I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Where to buy

QVC

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QVC is always the perfect spot for snagging great makeup and beauty gift sets at super prices! I do a lot of my bath, body, and skincare set hauls there during the Holidays (for myself mostly….!).

In recent years, I think QVC sort of slowed down their makeup and beauty roll. Some of their sets aren’t as good a deal as they used to be or the sets are fewer and less than in recent years. I’m actually surprised by this considering the beauty industry is on a bubble at the moment. You’d think more brands would start putting together gift sets and turning to the Q to sell them! But that’s actually not the case at all. It’s sort of odd that the situation is reversed as when the industry was doing a lot better, QVC was the spot to head to snag a deal! Now that the industry is doing a little poorer and the market is saturated so heavily with sales happen daily it seems to have become a little harder to snag a good deal on QVC.

But….!

The Holiday season is here (whether you are or aren’t ready for it! I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Fall has just been rushed away completely in stores!) and although not as plentiful as years past, QVC still has a killer deal or two on makeup and beauty gift sets. QVC makes it easy to shop from their site as well due to their easy pay options that will charge you a small amount each month versus paying the full amount in one go. It sort of works out as a little beauty mortgage as I call it!

Here are a few I’m considering hauling or have hauled already (plus many beauty items ship free or for $3 at QVC.com)

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Dunno if you need it as a gift or yourself but the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer is the QVC Today’s Special Value today! This set includes the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer along with the smoothing nozzle, styling concentrator, diffuser, and nonslip mat and a AQUIS Lisse Luxe hair turban!

They also include Perfect Hair Day (PhD) Shampoo and Conditioner (2 oz each), Perfect hair Day (PhD) 5-in-1 Styling Treatment (2 oz), Perfect hair Day (PhD) Body Builder (7.3 oz).

The set ships free and is available for $399 or Easy Pays of $66.50 in your choice of shades. I am actually a air dry kind of girl myself but my sister uses a hairdrier and I was playing with the idea of getting this for her! The Dyson Supersonic is $399 alone without accessories in this set so, it felt like a good deal!

Anyway, I thought hair girls and guys might want to hear about this deal!

Enjoy!

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QVC

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The Body Shop Holiday 2018 has gotten a reboot and a refresh this year with three new fragrances for the Holiday 2018 and I couldn’t be happier. You see, there are times when tradition can be a good thing. For example, when Bath & Body Works failed to bring back Twisted Peppermint last year in a Fragrance Mist I was pissed and so was the rest of the beauty world. You just don’t cut off a much beloved fragrance like that.

Now, the Body Shop, well, they needed a bit of a refresh. They tend to lean on the same style fragrances almost every Holiday! Cranberries and apples and vanilla play an important role in their Holiday seasonal scents.

This year, they did refresh, and I couldn’t be happy. With some sadness I hate to say that their newest Holiday scents are not available in EDTs as they normally are but none the less they sound delicious and well worth hauling anyway!

Here’s the deets!

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