Review: ULTA'S Gift with Purchase

Happy Day to you all! It sure is a happy day for me! Yesterday I got a mailer from Ulta. It featured a promotion where after you purchase $17.50 of Ulta Brand cosmetics, you receive this cute little bag stocked with goodies ($88 value) for FREE!! Gotta love that. So shopping I went...

I have never actually purchased Ulta's brand before. I have shopped at the store but never dived into what their brand had to offer. Um...I wasn't too impressed either. I have been wanting to stock up on tinted moisturizer or foundation so I figured this would be a good item to try of Ulta's. First of all, in this particular store, they had no shades that would match my skin tone! BUMMER! If you are darker than Halle Berry, you are out of luck. That put me in a mood. I decided to purchase a lipstick, lip liner and eyeliner. The lipstick is nice..featured in the pic below. I will, however, never buy liners (eye or lip) in the Ulta collection again. They barely leave a mark. Still with this wonderful bag of goodies, my disappointment with what I had actually purchased quickly faded away.

 In the goodie bag, I choose the "mystic" color you receive the following:

• 1 Trail-size moisturizer
• 1 full-size mascara
• 1 travel-size nail polish
• 1 travel-size blush
• 2 4-pod eyeshadows
• 1 trial-size lip gloss
• 1 full-size lipstick
• 1 dual eyeliner
• 1 set of travel-size brushes

The quality of the products is awesome. I don't know why there is such a difference in these gift items compared to the ones I actually purchased.  I used the products yesterday and today. Below are the results!! Thanks for reading and lookout for the next Ulta promotion!

 xoxo
Ashley