One of the most anticipated yearly event has got to be the one and only Estée Lauder Staff Sale, which I like to call it as the mother of warehouse sale. It is beyond just the massive discount offerings at the sale. To me it is the girly get-together day for me and my friends. It was fun!

I didn’t thought of writing about this year’s sale due to various reasons but since I skipped last year, I thought I might as well note down what went down this year for reference purposes. This may also serve as a ‘guide’ for you if it’s your first time on what to expect and prepare for the sale as I do receive loads of emails, PMs on Facebook on what to expect at the sale. It’s tiring to repeat again and again as I’ve written about it at this link as well.

Without further ado, here’s Estée Lauder Staff Sale for 2015!

Every year I managed to secure a few tickets. I do not ask for a lot, usually just 4 tickets to prevent wastage. I know there are tons of you wondering how to get the ticket and some of you have been bothering or rather stressing and harassing me over emails and PMs on Facebook in giving you tickets. Yes. Not asking IF I have extra BUT demanding for it. First of all, I DO NOT WORK for Estée Lauder Malaysia Sdn Bhd. I too have to ask for tickets myself and I suggest you try it too. How? If you are a regular customers of any brands under the company, I believe you will have one BA (beauty advisor) that is particularly close with you. Ask from him/her! If he/she have extra, he/she will give you. However, no promise. It’s totally up to him/her if they want to give you. I remember my first year tickets was from a BA working in MAC. Anything is impossible if you try to ask. So please stop harassing me

Last year I extended my ticket to ShopGirl who went over at 12am to queue and to queue for me as well. I live quite outskirt from the city so she kindly let me go slightly late. My usual time is always around 5-5.30am. This year, I was blessed with VIP tickets. Thank you to the wonderful person who make the impossible possible for me. You know who you are . Once again ShopGirl went early and queue for me. Thank you babe! I planned to go earlier this year, say around 4.30am but I only fell asleep at 3am and my alarm went off at 3.30am. Then I went to pick up Traclyn and we arrived around 5.40am. Thank goodness Traclyn Whatsapp me just before I was leaving my house lol . I was so happy that Traclyn was able to make it this year. I haven’t seen her for quite some time so it was good to go shopping together. Well, actually we had lunch last Friday 

Last year and this year the sale was held at Berjaya Times Square Hotel. I understand that there was some issues with the guards not letting the early birds in to queue, which was the same case as last year. Last year also the guard didn’t even let my friend have a bite of a piece of bread. While the staff bagged our bags, I checked with him where are the exact location of all the brands. My main concern would be Estée Lauder. I needed to run to get ANR! Anyway, here’s my haul from Estée Lauder Staff Sale 2015.

My main priority this year was Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair II and Micro Essence. As soon as we entered, the first thing we did was to make a beeline to the Estée Lauder section. Everything was properly boxed as usual so identifying ANR was tough. Luckily there wasn’t a lot people so we can still take some sweet time. ShopGirl spotted ANR and we both contemplating either to get the 50ml or the 30ml. In the end I settled with 50ml. I had totally forgotten about Micro Essence. ShopGirl pointed to me where Micro Essence was and I grabbed a bottle. Both ANR and Micro Essence was at a limited quantity.

I walked around for a bit. Went to Bobbi Brown, saw lots of makeup but nothing interest me except for Shimmer Brick. I was directed to the singles but I was looking for the set. It was at the other round of the table and I made a beeline there. Grabbed the set but kept thinking it seems similar to the one sold last year and the manufacturing date sticker was torn off. I kept the set in my bag and walk around. I went to MAC next, saw loads of eyeshadows, pencil liners, lip glosses, nail polishes and lipstick. There are around 10 sets of lipsticks (3 in a bag) and I grabbed the last set that comes with Toledo lipstick. There wasn’t any price tag on it and I ask the staff for the price. She took the set and the lipstick fell off from the plastic and then they refuse to sell me the set. I wasn’t willing to stand there waiting for them to sort it out so I left. Then I came across something familiar. MAC Toledo Blush Ombre! It was the blush that I wanted to get when the Toledo collection was out. Boy am I happy to see it at the sale. As it was still early with no crowd, the BA demonstrate on the back of my hand how to use it and the shade payoff. Kindergarten Red (left) offers better, beautiful peach shade but I had my eyes on the Azalea Blossom (right) from the beginning. I mean how often do you see a pink + purple blush pan? Hardly. It doesn’t goes on the skin purple just in case you’re wondering. It’s a pink blush by all mean. So I took Azalea Blossom.

Estée Lauder cosmetics occupied a large section this time round with lots of product selection. I browsed around and saw a familiar item. That particular section was surrounded with people because everyone was curious. It was the highly raved blush/highlighter Estée Lauder Pure Color Illuminating Powder Gelée Blush! There was only one shade – 04 Crystal Baby. Good enough for me and it’s cheap. I nearly bought this off from an online seller for RM100.

ShopGirl excitedly call out to me while I was browsing at Clinique section with Jessying. She said Cheek Pop is available. What else? I quickly followed ShopGirl. I was kinda surprised that they have Cheek Pop there. There was 3 shades available – Ginger Pop, Peach Pop and Berry Pop. I wanted to buy all 3 but Jessying wanted the last Ginger Pop. It’s fine because I was blush-overloaded. I took both Peach Pop and Berry Pop as it was only RM50 each. Peach Pop was the shade that I wanted to get two weeks ago. This two blush was purely impulse purchase.

Not long after I entered into the hall, I saw an auntie holding a cute perfume miniature set. I went over to Estée Lauder to take a look but wasn’t too impressed with the RM80 price tag. I bumped into ShopGirl half way after that and she commented how cute the miniatures are. I was more impressed that it came with a mirror plate stand for the miniatures and the fact that I wanted to get a baby for my Modern Muse at home. So I grabbed a set and that’s why you are seeing this now lol.

The Origins Grapefruit Duo is a last minute grab. The set contains 100ml each of Gloomaway Grapefruit Body Souffle and Gloomaway Grapefruit Body Wash and Bubble Wash. I thought RM40 was a good price and it makes a great gift pack. It might not end up as gift but in my bathroom

I can’t help but to think the huge MAC Toledo Blush Ombre is only RM70 and Clinique Cheek Pop is RM50. MAC Toledo is more worth it. So just when I saw more and more people are coming in through the door, I make a quick dash to MAC again and grabbed Kindergarten Red. It’s too pretty to not grab the other shade. That’s how I ended up with two MAC Toledo Blush Ombre

Overall, this year’s offerings are interesting and good in my opinion. The promotion varies every year. I thought last year was great but this year is even better. The prices are not as low as I expected especially Bobbi Brown. That is why I didn’t grab anything from Bobbi Brown. MAC too are slightly high priced. I didn’t take a look at other perfumes so no comment on that. Estée Lauder prices and promotions are the best of all for me. Their skincare are reasonably discounted and priced. Clinique skincare sets are not bad either.

GST 6% are all inclusive. I’ve been wondering about this for weeks. That might explain why the price are a bit higher than before. Oh and this year, the organizer arranged for a special parking validation for a fixed parking fee of RM11. I didn’t know this until we went back up to the sale floor as I parked my car at the other part of the building. Saw the counter and quickly gave my parking ticket for validation . I thought this is such a good gesture from the organizer.

That’s all for Estée Lauder Staff Sale 2015. See you next year!

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Sponsored by Kamsiah

Winner for Clinique Weekend Flash Giveaway will win the following:
1) Clinique Happy Perfume Spray 0.3ml
2) Clinique Derma White Clarifying Brightening Lotion  (Very Dry to Dry Combination) 15ml
3) Clinique Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss 5ml
4) Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion (Very Dry to Dry Combination) 15ml
5) Clinique Lash Power Curling Mascara (01 Black Onyx) 2.5ml
6) Clinique Derma White City Block Anti-Pollution SPF40/PA+++ 1.5ml X 2 Sachet
7) Clinique Pore Refining Solutions Correcting Serum 1.5ml X 2 Sachet

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2) Contest ends 20th August 2013, 11:59 pm.
4) Winner will be chosen randomly by yours truly and I will announce in this post.
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This giveaway prize is SPONSORED BY A FRIEND OF MINE; KAMSIAH and it’s bought with her own money. You are not allowed to sell it away in any platform at all.
6) Winner will be notified by email and you will need to reply within 48 hours or else the prize will be forfeited and snow ball to the next winner.
7) Klang Valley winners are required to collect the prize from me at Jaya One within 3 days or else the prize will be snow ball as well.

Easy peasy right?

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That’s right. Clinique Chubby Stick Shadow Tint for Eyes finally reached our shore. I received an sms from Clinique last week saying there is an out-post event at Mid Valley so I decided to check it out.

There are 12 shades in total but we only get 8 shades here in Malaysia. It wasn’t odd as I notice the brands here always filter the shades and only bring in the one that they think is sellable. Coincidently I have a RM50 Metrojaya rebate voucher and the out-post event is by Metrojaya so I decided to get one. But getting just one is so tough as all the colors are pretty and wearable. Which shade did I bought? I am very much into blue, purple and green shadow but didn’t have a lot of blue in my collection so I got myself 10 Big Blue.

Kamsiah asked for my help to swatch all shades for her and so I did :). Because the out-post event was empty, I was entertained by 4 BAs. I get very intimidated with 4 people looking at me while doing swatch so I didn’t have the chance to write down all the shade’s name. Please bear with 2 missing shades name. I will update the picture with a new one when I go over Clinique to swatch again.

Not sure if I would want to pick up a few more. I like the colors and long lasting of it. It is really convenient for someone who want a simple do or someone who is in a rush.

What about you? Are you planning to pick up one or a few? It is retailing for RM60 each.

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Blogging about beauty haul is still one of my favorite blog post to do. Maybe because I love reading other blogger’s haul post and I get excited if I encounter one. The reason why I do haul post once in a while mainly because a number of you requested for it. After many months of shopping ban I finally took out my credit card from the fridge freezer, defrost the ice and off I went to KLCC. KLCC is my one and only favorite place to go for weekend beauty rounding. I go Mid Valley a lot during weekday so I’m not so keen to go there on weekend.

I was joking about the credit card in the freezer :). Thanks to the recent 15% cash back campaign from Amex my credit card was credited with RM213. And coincidently Burberry Beauty had an irresistible GWP for RM300 purchase – the mini kabuki brush. I’ve been wanting that for so long and I did said before that I will buy again from Burberry if the kabuki brush GWP is back.

I took my sweet time in the morning and the damage is this. Not so bad. Most of it was free

Burberry Beauty is one of my favorite luxury makeup brand (fragrance too). I’ve been eyeing on their promotion and GWP for a good few months now. Sometimes if you are lucky you can get a full size makeup remover (which is not on sale at counter) or even full size blusher as GWP but of course the amount to be eligible for that is higher. For the current Anniversary Sales, the GWP tier is just RM300 and you can get a decent medium size pouch, mini lipstick (3 shades to choose from) and mini kabuki brush, which I’ll add the pouch and mini lipstick to blog sales soon.

I bought Fresh Glow (RM165), Lip Velvet #Honey Suckle No.305 (RM96) and Lip Velvet #Peony Rose No.302 (RM96). I’ve tried on lip velvet on my lips before deciding to get it. Surprisingly it’s quite moisturizing and it’s matte so the color stays on the lips unlike normal lipstick.

The BA was helpful and attentive. He is not pushy and told me to only get things that I will use since I told him my previous haul is still untouched. He make sure I will use the lipstick by asking me again and again if I’ll even use it lol! He also include a Lip Cover + Sheer Foundation Sample Kit, Burberry Body Tender 2ml vial and I requested for Fresh Glow sample which he kindly gave me 3 sachets. As for my mini lipstick I choose Lip Mist #Copper No.202

I dropped by Clinique to redeem the new Even Better Powder Makeup SPF 25/PA+++ #63 Fresh Beige sample. Powder sample like this is good to bring around in the handbag for under eye touch-up.

Then I walked over to L’Occitane to redeem the complimentary 10ml hand cream which was pending for more than a week now.

As usual Sephora is also my weekend staple whenever I’m at KLCC. I remembered about See by Chloe vial redemption but couldn’t recall where I seen it. I checked my sms, email and nothing. I asked the promoter that was promoting the perfume and she said Facebook. Then I showed her that I’ve liked the post, wrote down some details and I was given a 1.2ml vial. This is going in my purse

As I was walking out from Sephora I finally spot the travel size of Urban Decay De-Slick Makeup Setting Spray #Oil-Control (RM49). I bought it right away. I’ve been searching in Sephora since a few weeks ago but only spotted the normal size. This comes in 3 variant – Long-Lasting, Cooling & Hydrating and Oil-Control. Full size of 120ml retails for RM109. The purchase enabler is none other than Tongue in Chic

Hope you too managed to haul back some beauty and non-beauty products on last weekend. Now excuse me because I need to find space to store these babies away

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