Good girly times: champagne, makeup, cupcakes and deals!

Your heels click on the cool tiled floor and your ears perk up as you hear the distant buzz of excited female voices. As you round the corner, a bevy of pink and magenta balloons waft gently in the air-conditioned breeze, beckoning you in. Welcome ye pilgrim of fashion consumerism. These were the thoughts in my head this weekend as I embarked on a shopping frenzy with Lisa to not only one, but two Style Spy exclusive shopping events this weekend! If you've never heard of Style Spy, it's a Vancouver style blog featuring the hottest new boutiques, products, and events around the city and is definitely worth checking out!

The first event put on by Style Spy was at Ishara boutique in Oakridge Centre. This boutique features designer fashions by Susana Monaco, Rich & Skinny, Graham & Spencer, and many more fabulous designs, the majority of which were outside my price range! It was still fun to peruse the racks though, especially the dress rack by the change rooms. Though my intentions were to be chaste and deny myself of buying anything, when I saw this cute orange dress, I couldn't resist its punchy color and sexy draping:

Yes, that is a toilet in the background

The worst was yet to come for my wallet however as the next day we headed out to Wink Beauty Lounge in Gastown for their massive 40-50% off sale! The walk to Gastown was breezy and colder than it has been the last week in Vancouver, but eventually the sun came out:





Gastown is a very interesting and picturesque spot in Vancouver, filled with delicious restaurants and fashion forward boutiques, however it also has its bad spots, such as one block where Lisa and I literally rushed through holding hands to our faces to stifle out the smell of old pee! Once we passed piss block though, we arrived at Wink!







Wink specializes in lash extensions, but they also offer spray tanning, and sell a wide variety of beauty product lines such as O.P.I, Decleor, and Pupa Cosmetics, as well as their own in-house brand of makeup.





Most items in the store were at least 40% off and there was a giant spin wheel offering more free prizes and discounts on your purchases! Champagne and a rather impressive spread of pastries and cupcakes were also to be had - sweets, alcohol, and makeup, surely this was MizzJ heaven.





Below you can see me with my basket busting full of items. In fact I had the dubious honour of being the only one in the store who had so many items that they broke their plastic basket! I maintain that thing was defective to begin with.




And here is the entire haul: Dominance Bio-Active night cream; OPI nail polish; in-house makeup brush (so soft it's like rubbing my face with a hamster's butt), gold eyeliner, and all-over baby pink cream shadow; OPI makeup clutch, Decleor face cream and Kiss Me liquid eyeliner were all freebies provided upon purchase.





Though in pictures this may not seem an entirely unreasonable amount of items, one must also take into account this was all in 48 hours! This haul makes me shiver in fear for when Sephora and Forever 21 arrive in Vancouver. I will literally become the most fashionable person to ever live in a box because I'll have spent all my money on makeup and clothes instead of practical things like food and shelter. Hmm, I wonder if Chanel makes dog house sized boxes?