I’m a hoarder of Sephora points. Their 100 pt perks are often laughable, and even their 500 pt perks are often not worth it. But recently I came across two 500 pt perks that I felt were worthwhile to finally redeem my points for:
Urban Decay Urban Vices, and Josie Maran Josie’s Best and Brightest Argan Oil Essentials. I redeemed for the UD during the VIB 20% off sale, and the Josie Maran was during the VIB coupon sale.
The Urban Decay Urban Vices kit includes:
• Eyeshadow palette in Dope, Hoodoo, Derailed, and Smokeout (4 x 0.8g)
• 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Smokeout (0.8g)
• Eyeshadow Primer Potion (single-use pack)
It’s quite a lot of packaging to hold the little palette. The single-use Primer is located on the top of the palette sleeve (which I have to remember not to toss out!)
I’m happy that the liner included isn’t black but a nice deep brown. And how gorgeous is Derailed?
Josie Maran Josie’s Best and Brightest Argan Oil Essentials includes:
• Josie Maran 100% Pure Argan Oil (5ml)
• Josie Maran Pure Argan Milk Intensive Hydrating Treatment (5ml)
• Josie Maran Argan Infinity Lip And Cheek Creamy Oil in Everlasting Honey (5ml)
• Josie Maran Argan Enlightenment Illuminizing Veil (3.9g)
The highlighter compact mirror reads: “Shine the light you were born to shine..” 🙂 A bottle of Essie nail polish (in Pink-A-Boo) for scale:
Swatches:
I’ve used the UD eye shadows once and they were nice – although I did find the colours to fade a bit through the day (even over primer and MAC Paint Pot). The Josie Maran highlighter is really pretty but it may be too dark for some skin tones to act as a highlight – so far it’s my favourite item out of these 2 kits. I’ve had the Josie Maran 100% Pure Argan Oil before and it’s great – I haven’t tried the Argan Milk serum or lip & cheek oil yet but I’m excited to!
It was nice to get these little “gifts” for myself for free! Have you redeemed for any Sephora perks lately?
Be sure to check out the rest of the Babes in Blogland for their posts today:
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♥ Sharon of Sharon Beauty Prime
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Gifts to myself are the best! ❤
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❤ ❤ ❤ right ? xxx
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You will LOVE the JM Pure Argan Milk ! I didn’t get this 500 points perks because I hate the lip & cheek oil !!!
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Why don’t you like the lip & cheek oil?
I can’t wait to try the Argan Milk – do you like it for day time or night time?
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I use the Argan Milk at night only. The lip & cheek oil is way to greasy for the cheeks & to drying for the lips !!! (go figure )
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So weird – dry for lips, greasy for cheeks!
ok I’ll try the Argan Milk at night – thanks! 😀
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I havent heard of Maran Josie’s Best & Brightest Argan Oil Essentials but it looks wonderful to try out.
Urban decay is always a win win for me x
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Yes these are great try out sizes – if I love the items I can always go buy the full sizes! 🙂
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I was so close to using my points on the UD set they had up but then I was like nah, I have so much UD shadows I took a pass. The Josie Maran set is very nice I got a similar set last year that came with the argon oil and the lip and cheek cream. I have to agree with you, Sephora has some crappy picks for their points lately. The only time I thought the points were worth using was for the bite beauty lipstick & lipgloss set for the 250 points. I just recently used a 100 point for the Clarins sunscreen, I figured that’s not too bad. It’s slightly larger than the super goop sunscreen deluxe sample. I’m going to save the Clarins for the spring and see how I like it. I still have about 800 points to blow. I keep hoping Sephora puts up something awesome. Sigh. Enjoy your new goodies! 🙂
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I missed out on the Bite Beauty set but I remember seeing it on your blog – really pretty colours!
I still have about 1500 points but I’m going to hoard it until something else good comes along haha.
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lol That’s pretty much what I do. Yeah, the set for 250 I think was decent but their 500 point sets aren’t that great.
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Sephora doesn’t have the best gifts. Hopefully y’all will get Ulta soon cause with their point system you can save up to get money off (2k points = $125 store credit). It reminds me of your drugstore, actually cause sometimes they have deals where you can get 5-10x the points on certain purchases. Anyways good for you for holding out, you got good rewards. Derailed is totally a you color but gimme some of that Hoodoo! Hehe 🙂
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I WANT ULTA SO BAD!!! I would shop the heck out of that store and get those points.
I wore UD Hoodoo with Derailed and it was a pretty look – a bit too cool toned but it’s RIGHT up your alley!
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Is this still available? I really want to get the Josie Maran reward. Let me know how the Argan milk works out for you when you try it.
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Sorry Nicole I missed your comment! I don’t think this set is available anymore unfortunately! You should still ask at your local Sephora though.
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Aww that’s too bad. What did you think about the argan milk?
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I haven’t tried it yet! I will try it soon… I just don’t want to open up something until I’m finished what I’m currently using. 🙂
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very nice and now what I call a perk.
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Yes, these are actually worth redeeming points for!
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Oooh good choices, the swatches look awesome! The swatches of the UD palette are beautiful – Derailed looks like a beauty.
Lucky for you that you have so many friends who want to use your card for discounts! All of my friends want the points for themselves >__> Hahaha
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I tried to tell one of my friends to use her own card but she’s only BI, not VIB so she wanted my 20% off discount instead of her 15%! 😛
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No Sephora in Belgium so no perks!! It might be best for my bank account though… 😉
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Haha yes, good way to think of it! Do you have any similar beauty-only stores in Belgium? I remember going to a “Kicks Kosmetikkedjan” in Helsinki and it was similar to Sephora. It was so awesome!
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Yes, Ici Paris XL and Planet Parfum are kind of Sephoras but with less brands, my favourite is Cosmeticary because they are the only one to have Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown,… And of course Di which is more or less like Boots in England but smaller and with drugstore brands only 🙂
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I didn’t shop very much at Sephora this year. The last time I went was last weekend and my daughter got me a Make up forever lipstick as a x’mas gift. I can’t wait to read your review on the UD Urban Vices.
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I shop at Sephora less and less since I prefer Shoppers, Rexall, the Bay and even Winners!
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I can totally relate. I feel the same way too.
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