L'Occitane is L'Awesome.

The trip Alan and I took to New York last weekend was very exciting and eventful! First we entered the rush lottery for Wicked (the theater for which was literally about a minute's walk from our hotel) and BOTH got our names drawn!! Alan's name was second and mine was around eighth out of about thirteen names that were drawn out of a pool of probably over a hundred entries. I was so excited when Alan's name got called that I was totally dumbstruck when MY name was called as well.... I just kind of stood there for a second, then awkwardly popped out of the lottery-entry group towards the lottery-winner line and yelled "I'm....with him....." while gesturing flailingly towards Alan, since each of us entered for two tickets and I therefore didn't need the ones I had just won. A bunch of people from the entry crowd yelled "TAKE THEM! TAKE THEM!!" but....I did not, lol. And the show was really fantastic! I heart Galinda (with a "GA") aka Glinda (the "Ga" is silent) so much, she made me cackle like a crazy person.

I also spent like a billion dollars at Kinokuniya and saw this badass building:

I also saw a rat in the subway and a dude peeing in broad daylight on the sidewalk of a busy street. Gross.

BUT! Getting back to the topic of this post, I also went to L'Occitane! I kept seeing them ERRYWHERE and then remembered this post on TheGloss and, being a lip balm addict, began bugging Alan to let us go to a L'Occitane store. Lo and behold, the nearest location to our hotel was in the exact same building as the jazz show we went to on Saturday, so I GOT ME SOME LIP BALLLLLLLM. And it is totally awesome. Sooo, naturally, I ordered more stuff from the L'Occitane website once I got home. Lol. They gave me a coupon to get a free Best of L'Occitane sampler pack with a $25 purchase, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DOOOOOOO. Just NOT spend more money on expensive soap and lip balm!? That is crazy talk.

I got the Desert Rose balm in the store, but while I was there I also tried the Hibiscus Flower tester and........it smelled awesome. So I ordered it. Lawl.

And the free sampler pack included a bar of their Milk soap, yayyyyyyyy I was gonna order it anyway!! I am a sucker for milk-scented bath products. And honey-scented bath products. HOLY CRAP MILK AND HONEY IS EVEN BETTERRR omgeezie. Okay. That was an amazingly profound and sagacious blog post and I don't think anybody can handle any more of my mind-blowing insights so I am gonna go now.  (ノ￣ー￣)ノ

Probably the best lipgloss ever.

Do you like lip gloss? If not, are you a boy? If you also answered no to that, then we are probably not friends. Just kidding, I don't choose my friends based on how fabulous their lips are. Although maybe I should.

In any case, I have discovered what may quite possibly the the best lip gloss/balm/product OF ALL TIME. At least, of all my time. And that lip product is Pixi Beauty's Rose Lip Treat - especially in Petal (a soft pink shade) and Peach (a.....peach-colored shade).  I was first drawn to it when I was wandering around Target and saw a section of make-up that was all very prettily packaged in pale sage greens and dusty pinks. And I am a sucker for nice packaging. And also for lip products. AND also for pink. The tube containing this tinted balm as well as the box it comes in are both pink, holy shit.

Look how pretty it is, damn.

But more importantly!! The balm itself is really great. The colors are very pretty and flattering. While they mostly act to just boost your natural lip color, they are still rather pigmented, so you aren't wasting money on a nothing-colored lip product. The formula is really creamy and smooth and moisturizing. (However, I still usually apply some chapstick, rub it in and wipe the excess off before applying this balm, since it is quite pigmented and will therefore settle in cracks and look weird if your lips are not nice and smooth.) I also like its shape/format (??? I don't know makeup vocab words...), as it is narrow enough that I don't accidentally get it outside the edge my lips (herp a derp) and....stuff. Okay, I am really bad at reviewing things.

The balms cost $12 each. Is that expensive for lip balm? Maybe, if you are a cheap-ass like me. Also, maybe, if you already own hundreds of lip products like me. It also gets expensive if you can't decide between two colors and just buy both. Yeah that's right, I spent $24 on two lip balms, I don't care. I do what I want. Just like honey badger.