Who doesn't love free stuff?

So today I had a few hours to waste before going into work. Starbucks: check. gas station: check. Ulta: CHECK! I went in with barely any intention on buying anything unless it caught my eye. Well cheese, I found something awesome. Ulta had a free gift with a purchase of 17.50 of any of their Ulta brands. Considering I feel that the Ulta brand cosmetics are over priced for their quality, I realized it wouldn't be too hard to buy 18 bucks worth of stuff. But their free gift was so adorable! AND IT WAS FREE! I'm such a sucker for things like this.
So here are the three eye shadows I bought so I could get the free 13 piece gift.

I really like the bright purple and wanted to try some neutral colors for funsies. The color on the far left is a golden olive, the one in the middle is a taupe/gold. and of course, the bright purple!

So here is the free gift!!!

There is quite a bit of awesomness going on here. 2 eye shadow quads, two eye shadow brushes, one contour brush, a blush, mascara, double sided lip gloss, lip stick, 2 double sided eye liners and a nail polish. fwew. That is a lot of stuff. All of it came in this cute green canvas bag. There were two other gifts in either purple or pink but I liked the bright colors of the green one best. They threw in some peachy colors for the lip stick and lip gloss. The quads don't have very good pigmentation but after I swatched it, I had to scrub them off my hand, so at least they have staying power. I am really excited to try and do a one brand look with this as well as incorporate them into my collection. Tutorial and reviews to come!

The last thing I got was the NYX stay matte not flat foundation powder. I was watching emilynoel on youtube when she did a one brand tutorial on nyx and was super impressed with the color and look of the powder. I got number 04 which I guess is the second lightest? I was confused by the numbering system because 01-03 were yellow undertones going from light to dark and then 04 and 05 were pink undertones. 05 was really dark though. I swatched and swatched to make sure I was getting the right color and I like 04 a lot better than 01. And I think it's a lot lighter too. I don't know what kind of coverage it will give me considering I like very heavy coverage. I might try it on it's own first and if it is not enough I'll dust it over a liquid.

 Well I must say that was an awesome way to spend my morning before work. I'll put a look up soon of all the colors I got.

Until next time!