Sometime last October, the Colourpop Cosmetics website offered free international shipping for a day with no minimum purchase. I of course scrambled to order some of their much coveted lipsticks. Colourpop lipsticks cost an average of US$5+ each. But since they don’t have a legit distributor in the Philippines, resellers or biyaheras sell them for…
Category: Shopping
Lifestyle Stone Cookware Set from O Shopping
I woke up around midnight one weeknight back in October. Our TV was tuned in to O Shopping. I couldn’t go back to sleep so I watched. At first they showed an infomercial about some sort of exercise bike. Yawn. We already have a Gold’s Gym stationary bike in our bedroom so the ad was lost…
Christmas shopping at The Body Shop!
When I was in high school, The Body Shop was my go-to store for gifts. The Body Shop has something for every budget level. Everything is exceptionally festive during the holidays too. They’re packaged, boxed, and tagged already so that means less work for me. I love the holiday edition of The Body Shop’s Body Butters!…
Christmas shopping at Fifth Rack Concept Store
Christmas is the season for shopping. Unfortunately, most malls are so crowded that everything from parking to paying for your purchases involves lining up for a looooong time. Add that to the traffic and you’ve got yourself a lot of time wasted. This is where standalone stores like Fifth Rack come in. Tucked away from…
Baking with Contadina Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Last Tuesday, I found myself at Robinsons Selections in Venice Piazza for the Contadina Supermarket Raid. It was a shopping race. We needed to have a dish in mind and we were given P2,000 to shop for the ingredients. The first person to finish shopping would win P5,000 GCs. It was my first time at…