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Gain x Wicked: For Good Fantabulous Floral Flings Laundry Detergent Review

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In 2025, the laundry detergent brand Gain, as well as many other brands, released collaboration collections to promote the movie, Wicked: For Good. The collection Gain released included a detergent and two in-wash scent boosters.

During a shopping trip to my favorite Walmart, I found the Gain collection for sale. It had the detergent and one of the two scent boosters. I debated if I wanted to buy them, but after shopping around the store some more, I decided to buy the detergent and scent boosters.

I originally planed on using the detergent and scent boosters and then write a review on this blog before the end of 2025. Unfortunately, things got in my way, causing me to delay using both the detergent and scent booster for my wash. Even though it is 2026, I wanted to talk about my experience using them in posts. As of the publishing of this post, the only product I was able to finish using is the detergent. Because of this, I want to talk about the detergent first.

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Favorite Pieces from The Devil Wears Prada 2 x Scoop Collection at Walmart

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The world premiere of the movie, The Devil Wears Prada 2, was on Monday, April 20, 2026. Due to the popularity of the first movie and the amount of time it took for the sequel to come to fruition, it looks like The Devil Wears Prada 2 will be a popular movie. Also, it looks like there will be merchandise inspired by the movie for fans to buy.

One of the tie-in collections and merchandise with The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie is with Walmart’s in-house clothing brand, Scoop. The collection includes clothing, shoes, jewelry, and accessories. The clothing has a business casual style and would be great for the office and going out after work.

After looking through the collection, I decided to pick my favorite pieces from the collection and show them in a post. As of the publishing of this post, some of the sizes and colors of the clothing are sold out. Keep this in mind before shopping for the pieces in this collection!

All product photographs used in this post are from the product listings on Walmart’s website. The photographs have been edited by me for this post. This post is not sponsored and all opinions are my own.

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Book Review: Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstron Courage

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Last year, I purchased a novel called Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstron Courage. It is a cozy mystery inspired by the TV series Golden Girls. I am not a big fan of Golden Girls, but I know many people love the show. One of my friends is a fan of the show. They were really excited when they found out there would be a cozy mystery novel inspired by the show. I was happy for my friend, but I didn’t really think the book would be right for me. (After all, I’m not a big Golden Girls fan!)

After my friend read the book, they began to encourage me to buy the book and read it too. After listening to them describe the book, I began like the idea of the book, how it was written, and other parts of it. So, I decided to buy myself a copy of the novel and read it myself.

Before I read the whole book, I decided to try the cheesecake recipe in the book. I talked about it and if I liked it in a previous post. (You can read it here) Aside from talking about the cheesecake recipe, I didn’t talk about the actual novel. I have since read the book and decided to write a review post about it!

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Bath and Body Works’ 2026 Disney Princess Scents and Scent Notes

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Over a week ago, Bath and Body Works released their 2026 Disney Princess Collection. This collection is the second collection in their Disney Princess line. The line, which was originally released in 2025, is a limited edition collection of scents and products inspired by Disney’s Princesses. Each line has six fragrances in it, with each scent inspired by a different princess.

This year, Bath and Body Works released a new collection inspired by the Disney Princesses. There are two returning scents from the 2025 collection and four new fragrances inspired by the Princesses. The four new Princesses in this collection are Aurora, Rapunzel, Mulan, and Snow White while the returning Princesses are Bell and Tiana. The four new Princess inspirations are different than the ones featured in the 2025 collection. There is also a seventh new scent in the collection called Life’s a Fairytale.

I’m late to the social media bandwagon for this collection (And a lot of other things as well) but I decided to write two posts about the collection: One that talks about the scents in the collection and one that talks about my favorite products in the collection. I think the scents are more important to talk about when deciding what to buy in the collection, so I’m going to start with that.

All the product photographs in this post are from Bath and Body Works’ official listings for the fine fragrance mists. The information about the fragrances are from the official listings for the fine fragrance mists. All the scents mentioned in this post are available as fine fragrance mists, diamond shimmer mist, body wash, ultimate hydration body cream, foaming hand soap, wallflower fragrance refill, 3-wick candle, single wick candle, PocketBac hand sanitizer, and lip gloss.

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The Sale of Warner Brothers, The CW, and Panic Buying My Favorite TV Shows on DVD

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The sale of Warner Brothers has been really huge news for quite some time. It isn’t every day a studio as large, well known, and is over 100 years old begins the process to sell it’s assets (Including the actual studios, catalogue, and more) and start to close it’s doors.

When I heard about it, it was just a small rumbling my friends heard about. Now, we know what they heard wasn’t a rumor and it was the truth. Yet, I began to wonder what would happen if Warner Brothers did close. What would happen to a lot of movies and TV shows I love? Will they still exist on DVD still or will they be available via streaming services only?

After thinking about this for months, I finally decided to star buying my favorite TV shows and movies on DVD.

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Favorite Wicked: For Good Beauty & More at Ulta Beauty

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Wicked: For Good, the second and last movie in the movie series inspired by the musical Wicked, will be premiering in theaters this week. Just like with the previous movie, there are plenty of products inspired by the movie. Although there are many brands offering products inspired by the movies, Ulta Beauty has the most Wicked inspired beauty products.

While browsing the collection, I found many interesting products. Yet, there are some that stood out to me more than others. I wanted to share all the products I like the most, so I decided to compile all my favorites into one post with their names and prices. Some of the products in this post have already sold out, so please keep that in mind if you find something to purchase.

 

All the information and product photographs are from Ulta Beauty’s website.

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Peanuts x Ulta Beauty Complete Collection

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Ulta Beauty has been dropping a lot of new products over the past month. Many of the new products are for the holiday season. One of the collections that are not for the holidays is the Ulta Beauty Collection collaboration with Peanuts.

I’m a big fan of the Peanuts comic strip. I used to read it when I was little until it ended publication. Even though it ended 25 years ago, I still love anything Peanuts, especially Snoopy. When I discovered the Ulta Beauty Collection collaboration, I was happy to see what is available.

Even though the collection has been available for weeks, I wanted to show the whole collection in a post. My favorite items from this collection are Crew Caption Snoopy Plushy, Take the Crew With You Lip Balm Set, nail file and case set, tweezer and case, and Friends for Life Makeup Bag Set.

 

All the product photographs are from Ulta Beauty’s website.

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Skylar Salt Air Fragrance Review (With The Summer I Turned Pretty Limited Edition Packaging)

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It’s July and that means it’s time to review another fragrance from Skylar. I love Skylar’s fragrances and how they are hypoallergenic. For summer 2025, I decided to review the three fragrances that were part of a collaboration for season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Like with the previous fragrance I reviewed, Capri Summer, this fragrance is exactly the same as the non limited edition version. The packaging, on the other hand, is part of Skylar’s collaboration with The Summer I Turned Pretty. I decided to use it for reference photos. Also, just for reference, the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty will premiere next week.

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6 Tips Before Buying and Collecting Manga For the First Time

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For many years I collected manga. If you never heard of manga, it is a comic book or graphic novel originally from Japan. The manga I collect are English translations of the original Japanese comics. I started as a teenager in the 2000’s, but over the years I slowed down a lot. This is mostly due to the fact I didn’t like the stories enough to buy new series. As for my old favorite series, most, if not all of them, finished publication over 10 years ago.

Recently, I started watching a lot of YouTube videos about manga collections. This made me realize, if I started my collection all over again, I would establish some new guidelines for picking manga series to own. Collecting manga is expensive, especially if the series is very long. Back in the 2000’s, I didn’t have the ability to do research the way I would’ve like to. So, in honor of my old hobby, I decided to write a post about six tips I would follow today before I buy and collect hard copies of Manga for the first time.

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Skylar x The Summer I Turned Pretty Perfume Trio Feature

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Back in the early 2010’s, I discovered The Summer I Turned Pretty novel series. I read it, like them, and then moved onto other books that were newly released. Many years later, a series based off the series was released on Amazon. Although I was excited to see the series, the books will always be my favorite way to experience the story.

Even though I like the series, I felt conflicted about buying the tie in merchandise. Although they were really pretty and were my style, I felt they were too youthful for me. So, I skipped on purchasing many of the merchandise. The ones I purchased are items I really like and make me happy to this day. Three of the products I purchased were the Skylar x The Summer I Turned Pretty perfume collection.

I love the fragrances a lot, I decided to save reviewing each of the fragrances for future posts. Instead, I will be focusing on the collaboration packaging and if they are truly worth purchasing.

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