August Haul Roundup

After my splurge of $36.91 last month, I decided to really crack down on myself this month. Let's see how I did, shall we?

First up, I got my brushes and dotting tools which *gasp* I still haven't used yet, aside from clean up. I saved $10 on these with a gift card I got from I-say.com. Stupid Amazon.com messed up my order so I ended up having to pay shipping on it so my total came to $9.97 which I suppose isn't terrible.

My last big polish related buy of the month was at the Born Pretty Store, where I bought CH Nail #2. I saved 10% so I spent $4.49.

 Actually there's one more "buy" I almost forgot to sneak in here - Copious credit which was a gift to me from the most awesome Narmai. For just 60 cents, I got the Kleancolor What Girls Really Talk About Glitter Nail Lacquer Mini Collection.

That brings my total spending for the month to $15.06... but since I bought the brushes in July it was really only $5.09. Plus another 1 cent at Copious for the corduroy pants I bought... because I was good and bought something with my credit that I actually needed and not just polish :D

So that's my buys for this month.. I did good! My boyfriend can't complain about $5. There was a T-tapp special this month which I had to take advantage of because I got 3 new DVDs for like $65 which is a GREAT price for T-tapp. I had to agree not to buy anything else for a month though, so we'll see how this next (now less than a month!) goes.

Let's see how much I saved.
- I-say gift card $10, got for free
- applied the gift card, so that's like another $10 free
- CH Nail polish, saved 50 cents
- the Kleancolor polishes are hard to price.. seems to vary quite a bit but since I used $10 credit on them I'll go with that :b
- and I saved $9.53 on my pants.

so, basically I saved $40.03 and got $55.10 worth of stuff. yay!

Now, let's see what all I've won this month, shall we? :)

I normally do this by date but since I already posted the picture of China Glaze Marry a Millionaire above with my Kleancolor minis, I guess I'll start there. On August 8, I won Cool Polish, Bro's giveaway winning me this little pretty! My first China Glaze and I am now in love with this brand! Marry a Millionaire is gorgeous but I discovered it doesn't photograph well at least not with my camera. I'm definitely going to try it again and hopefully get some better pictures.

On July 31 I won Nail Polish Adventure's first giveaway and a TON of stuff:

• Revlon Top Speed in Cloud
• Revlon Top Speed in Guava
• Kiss Nail Dress
• Sally Hansen Salon Effects
• Caviar/Fish Egg Beads
• Ulta Lust in Lace mini set

Same day, I also won Me and My Nail Polish's Giveaway, winning me my first Indie polish! My prize was Custom Nail Art's Blue Diamonds.






I did my Julep review and got Eva, Renee, the Pedicreme and separators.

On August 15 I won Polish Hideout's giveaway, which meant I won Swedish nail polish not found in the US! Woohoo! I won Viva la Diva #48 and #112.

Lastly, I mentioned to Angel at Mega Nailattude that I was sad Julep did not send me a tote with my polishes for review when they seemed to be sending it to everyone else this month. She was sweet enough to give me hers, but what's even more awesome is she also gave me my first Color Club polish! The bottle isn't labeled so we weren't sure which polish it was but I posted on Color Club's Facebook wall and they agreed with me that it's definitely Gingerbread!

I also had the Noxicare review, and I won some other goodies at my local store's monopoly game including free pizza, coffee, pop tarts and rice. I also won Sabrina Supernova's Fabulous Summer Giveaway but I haven't gotten the prizes yet.. it's shipping from Austria so it could take awhile. Lastly, I won third place in Polish Etc.'s 100 Follower Giveaway! I should be getting the Sally Hansen HD Collection in the mail this Wednesday :) I'm also still expecting my polishes for review, hopefully soon!

So it's been a pretty awesome month of firsts for me... almost everything I got this month is a new brand. Lots of awesome stuff to try out soon, and I can't wait :)

I believe I ended July with 100 polishes in hand, and ended August with 121 polishes in hand and expecting 13 more, yay! How did you all do this month?