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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 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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Universal Pictures’ Wicked Part 1 Movie Merchandise- Books, Toys, and More

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In late November 2024, Universal Pictures will release a movie version of the beloved musical Wicked in theaters. The movie will be release in two parts: The first in November 2024 and the second in 2025.

I am really excited about the movie, but I am also really excited to see the tie in merchandise relating to the movie. Even though it is August, the merchandise is already available for preorder or is available right now.

In anticipation of the movie, I compiled a post featuring all the tie-in merchandise I was able to find available for purchase or preorder. All the merchandise featured in this post is from Amazon. Also, all the release dates for the merchandise is also from Amazon and all the pictures of the products are from Amazon as well. Finally, this is not a sponsored post, there are no affiliate links or links to the products, and if there is a separate release date for a product, I will mention it as well.

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5 Romantic Musical Movies to Watch on Valentine’s Day

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Watching movies are great way to spend a holiday. Sometimes, watching certain genres of movies are more fun to watch on certain holidays than others. For me, musicals is that genre. Even though there are many musical movies that I can add to a list, I decided to focus on five movies in this post. I hope the movies I talk about in this list will give anyone who reads this post inspiration for their Valentine’s Day movie marathon! Continue reading “5 Romantic Musical Movies to Watch on Valentine’s Day” →

A Few Broadway Soundtracks I Want To Purchase

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Lately, I’ve been doing some major clean outs and organizing in my home. I found a lot of things I want to keep and others I want to get rid of. Even though I’m trying to decide what I want to keep and what I don’t want to, there are a few things I found missing from my collection. Some of them are music albums I never purchased!

Despite the holes in my music collection, there is one genre of music I’m the most upset about: Broadway musicals. I have always been a fan of Broadway musicals, but over the years I focused my interest in other things. Despite this, there are many soundtracks I wanted to own and believed I did, yet I didn’t. So, here are the musical soundtracks I want to own the most, yet don’t. Also, I want to own all the following soundtracks on CD. Not digitally. Yes, owning CDs will take up more room in my home, but I still like to own them in that format.

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Camelot- Original Cast Recording Vinyl Record- What It Looks Like and Thoughts About Owning It

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This Sunday is the 75th annual Tony’s and I’m excited about it! I’m a theater fan most of my life and, after the pandemic closed Broadway and all theaters worldwide, I’m super excited about this year’s Tony’s. In order to celebrate (And release my theater fan side of me on the internet), I wanted to spend a week talking about musicals and other musical related topics. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make a post every day this week, but all the posts I will make will be musical or Broadway themed. For today’s post, I wanted to talk about the vinyl record version of the musical Camelot from 1961.

I found this record during a trip to Goodwill. The record still appears to be in playable condition, but as of the publishing of this post I have not tried to play it. I’m very happy to own it. I wanted to add vinyl records of musicals to my vinyl record collection, but all the ones I could find are too expensive or weren’t in good shape. When I found a copy of Camelot for sale at Goodwill, I happily purchased it. Despite not playing the record, I wanted to show what the original 1961 record looks like and talk about my thoughts about owning it. Continue reading “Camelot- Original Cast Recording Vinyl Record- What It Looks Like and Thoughts About Owning It” →

Book Review: Wicked: The Grimmerie, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway Musical

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Many years ago, I was a huge fan of musicals. One of the musicals I was a huge fan of was Wicked. Back then Wicked was new and the only merchandise available where I lived was the soundtrack featuring the original Broadway cast and a book called Wicked: The Grimmerie, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway Musical.

Since Halloween is coming later on this month, I wanted to write some posts that are more Halloween themed. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to all the Halloween themed possessions. Instead, I decided to write a review about Wicked, The Grimmerie. After all, the musical is about witches, magic, and premiered on Broadway on October 30, 2003.
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Movies I’m Excited to See- Fall/Winter 2021

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After a year of the pandemic, movies I really wanted to watch are now coming out in movie theaters! Right now I’m trying to be picky about the places I go, when I go, where I go, and why I want to go. This decision is due to worries about the pandemic, as well as my attempt to not stay out late because of my day job. Going to see movies is one of the places I feel comfortable to go to.

After looking at the movie theater listings for new movies, I found four movies I want to see in the movie theater. I might change my mind about seeing the movies in the theater, but right now I’m pretty sure I want to see these four movies when they are available to watch in the movie theater. Continue reading “Movies I’m Excited to See- Fall/Winter 2021” →

5 Arizona Events I’m Looking Forward to in 2022 (Or Fall 2021)

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For the past few weeks, I learned events I wanted to go to in 2020 will be held in the fall of 2021 or in 2022. I’m very excited about this and, after looking at my list of events I wanted to go to in 2020, I made a list of events I would like to go to in the fall of this year or in 2022. I’m not sure I will be able to go to everything I want to (Work schedule and things happening in my life are the main causes for my uncertainty), but there are five events that top my list.

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Movie Review: Holiday Inn (Broadway 2016 Pro Shot Version)

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In a previous Blogmas post, I reviewed the 1942 movie Holiday Inn. In 2016, a theater musical version of the movie premiered on Broadway. In the 75th Anniversary edition DVD set I purchased of Holiday Inn, a pro shot version of the Broadway musical production was included as well as the 1942 movie.

Since it was included in the DVD set, I decided to watch the Broadway musical version and review it as well. Continue reading “Movie Review: Holiday Inn (Broadway 2016 Pro Shot Version)” →