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October 2023 Collective Book Haul Part 1

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In my September collective book haul, I mentioned I decided not to buy many books at that time. In October, I went on a shopping spree for books! In fact, I was worried about the mount of books I purchased. Even though I purchased a lot of books, all the books are ones I considered purchasing for months if not over a year.

Since I purchased so many books in October, I decided to split the collective haul into three posts. This post has the most books in any of the posts. It also includes some books that I wanted that are fall or magic themed. I purchased them with the intention of reading them in October. As of this post, I

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September 2023 Collective Book Haul

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Since the Spring of 2023, I went on months book shopping sprees. In September, I decided to cut back on my book shopping. I was willing to go book shopping, but I didn’t like many of the books that were released that month. So, I decided to wait to purchase more books another month. Even though I didn’t like the books released in September, I did do some book shopping. I ended up purchasing four books during the month. Despite the small size of the book haul compared to previous months, I am still happy with the books I purchased that month.

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Collective Book Haul- August 2023

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In August, with the seasons changing, I decided it was time to go book shopping again. Even though I had the best intentions to keep my book buying to a minimum, I still found many books to buy. This time, I purchased more than I thought I would. Way more.

By the end of the month, I had purchased ten new books! Most of the books had been ones I’ve been looking at for years, but never purchased. Others were newly published yet I seriously believed I would enjoy. Out of all the book hauls I wrote posts about, I am the most happiest with this one! All the books are ones I’m looking forward to reading, some of them again! I am happy to own all these books!

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Lottie London x Vampire Diaries Collection at Walmart- In Store Photographs

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Halloween is two weeks away! I’m both excited and nervous. I’m excited to celebrate one of my favorite holidays, but at the same time I’m not ready for it! I don’t have a costume ready or any plans. Still, I think I’ll be spending my Halloween night eating snacks and watching movies.

One of my favorite things about Halloween I have begun to look forward to is the seasonally themed makeup. I started to pay attention to the makeup released around Halloween time a few years ago. Since then, it has become one of my favorite things about Halloween. This year, I found multiple new, limited edition collections released in time for Halloween. All the collections I saw in person were available at Walmart. I took photographs of many of them to write posts about them.

One of my favorite, and Halloween appropriate, collections was the Lottie London x The Vampire Diaries collection. I found the collection available on the end cap at Walmart.

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Collective Book Haul- July 2023

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It has been a few weeks since I wrote a book haul post. Sadly, I was very busy these past few weeks, so I couldn’t write anything for a while! Now, I’m back with a new book haul post!

This haul is a July 2023 collective haul, which means all the books I purchased are from different places and from different times I shopped. In July, I decided to shop for summertime, beach read themed books. Specifically, the kind of books that are popular on TikTok. I found many of them on sale for less than I expected them to cost. I didn’t get to read them all before the end of summer, but I am happy that I own them and don’t need to search for them anymore.

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June 2023 Collective Book Haul

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It’s Wednesday, which means another collective book haul post. Today’s haul is from June 2023.

In June, I purchased a lot of books. My intention was to buy as many books I wanted (As long as they peeked my interest) so I can have something to do indoors during the summer. After looking through all the books I purchased, I didn’t like as many as I thought!

While preparing for this June book haul post, I decided to omit all the books I purchased that I didn’t like or probably won’t be interesting to read about in a post.

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May 2023 Collective Book Haul

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It may be September, but I am still going through and reading all the books I purchased over the past few months. I had originally wanted to write book haul posts about them, but I didn’t get the chance to. Since this it is the very end of summer and the fall/autumn fandom side of social media is talking about reading, I decided to move forward to writing and publishing the old book haul posts I never got around to finishing!

I purchased all the books at Walmart in May. All the books were on sale. I wanted to buy some of the books for a few years, but I never felt the books were in my price range. Since many of the books were on sale, I decided to buy them. Also, the books vary in subject matter.

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Ulta Beauty’s Fall 2023 21 Days of Beauty Favorites- Week 3

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It’s the final week of Ulta Beauty’s 21 Days of Beauty! I hope everyone has had the opportunity to shop the sale and purchase their favorite beauty products at sale price!

This weeks there are many first time steals from well known beauty brands. Some of my favorite first time steal brands include Too Faced, Smashbox, Bobbie Brown, and IT Cosmetics. Other favorite brand names included in the sale this week are Urban Decay, Clinique, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Estée Lauder, and Ralph Lauren,

Just like last week, there are two surprise beauty steals. They will happen on Friday, September 15 and Saturday, September 16. The brands the surprise beauty steals are from have been revealed and are included in this post.

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Ulta Beauty’s Fall 2023 21 Days of Beauty Favorites- Week 2

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It’s already week 2 of Ulta Beauty’s 21 Days of Beauty sale for Fall 2023! I hope everyone found beauty products that they want and need on sale!

For this week’s favorites post, there are a lot of products that caught my eye. Brands include Too Faced, Nars, r.e.m. Beauty, and Clinique. Some of my favorite products, including Urban Decay’s primers and setting powder, are on sale. Also included in the sale is the Smashbox x BECCA pressed powder highlighters.

This week, there will be two surprise beauty steals. These beauty steals will happen on Friday, September 8th and Saturday, September 9th. Ulta Beauty did include the name of the brands the products are from.

I hope everyone finds something they will enjoy this week!

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O.P.I. x Barbie Nail Polish Collection In Store Photographs

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Over a month ago, Barbie: The Movie was released in movie theaters. It is currently up for preorder on Amazon and soon, it will be available to stream online. I know I am really late to post a lot about the Barbie: The Movie merchandise, but after a lot of thought, I decided to write a few posts about my favorite inspired by merchandise!

I loved a lot of the merchandise inspired by the movie, but most of it was impractical for me to wear or use. (Well, at this point of my life at least!) For this reason, I would admire it, then move on with my life. One of the more practical and useful merchandise is the O.P.I. x Barbie: The Movie nail polish collection.

I really liked the colors in the nail polish collection. I’m a fan of sparkly nail polish, pink nail polish, and blue nail polish since I was in elementary school. Today, I don’t have a lot of brightly colored, Barbie worthy pink nail polishes in my nail polish collection. I also don’t wear blue nail polish anymore, but I still enjoy looking at it! When I saw the complete nail polish collection, I really wanted to purchase many of the colors. Unfortunately, due to work and other commitments, I knew I wouldn’t be able to travel to an Ulta Beauty until August at the earliest. That meant I would be able to shop for the nail polishes in person before they sold out.

This is why I was really surprised to see the Walmart closest to me had the whole collection for sale! This Walmart has been really good at stocking the limited edition beauty collections available to purchase at other Walmarts. Yet, it is still a small Walmart, which means the store may be passed over when it comes to stocking limited edition beauty collections. This is why I was so surprised to see the O.P.I. x Barbie: The Movie collection there. I took pictures of the colors available at the store to make sure I purchased the right colors I wanted. Even though the photographs did their job, I still wanted to share some of them in a post. Since collection has been out for a while, I don’t have any reason to post them except to share my excitement over finding the collection in a store I didn’t expect to find it in!

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