Korean Fashion, Korean Skincare/Makeup Reviews, Clothing Sales and Deals
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Yay or Nay

I've wanted a quilted bag for a while now and here's the chance:
From Aldo on sale from 40$ to $23.98 + 10% off + Free shipping. Only the red one is one sale hmmm.I wish the strap was longer though.


Monday, May 4, 2009

L'oreal warehouse Sale in Toronto

I guess after the one in Montreal, it's time for the one in Toronto now.

When: May 9 -31, 2009
Where: 342 Wildcat Rd, (near York University) Downsview, Toronto,Ontario
Opening Hours:
  • Sat and Sun 10am to 5pm
  • Wed to Friday 12pm to 8pm
As usual, you need an L'oreal Invitation to go.

Brands that you can find there:

L'oreal Professionnel products
Redken
Matrix
L'Oreal Paris
Garnier
Maybelling
Lancome
Biotherm
Giorgio Armani
Ralph Lauren
Cacharel
Vichy
La Roche-Posay

And this is what I bought last time from the Sale. It's semi-annually and the items vary depending on the day you go. The prices are around 50% retail, pretty good.
I didn't get much since I don't really need anything there and they didn't have the moisturizer that I wanted so bleh.

Nail Polish yay, the L'oreal ones are 1.85$CAN each and the MaybeLine were 1.50$ i think. I keep buying them without using until they expire aha. I'm really bad at applying nail polish and my nails are short and fat so it looks really funny. I'll show you next time.


Other things: Lancome Juicy Tube Collection $22CAN, another obsession of mine is buying lipbalms/ tinted lip pots and lip glosses. I'll never be able to use them all my life but I can't help it sigh. Ohh and mascara, everytime I go to this sale I stock up and end up having 2937874 of them. =____= I'm like it's only 3$ for a 2 pack so why not? The green box is the L'oreal HIP eyeliner, they only had green. I tried it at home at I look like a monster.

+ All other skincare and perfumes , all my mom's stuff. It's ridicilous how you can reach the buying limit there!Beauty products are truly expensive.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

BeautyTicket: Brand Beauty Products for cheap

BeautyTicket is a new store that sells department beauty and skin care products for 85% off retail price. How do they do this?By buying overstock and discontinued items from the companies. [ I am not getting paid for saying this, in case you wondered]. I just want to share. I'm not sure if they ship to Canada though.

Here are some of their products:

China Glaze OMG 2BHOT collection:

$17.99

China Glaze Ink Collection

$15.99 so cheap *__________* = 2$ per bottle wowww. I wish I lived in the States at those times.

Smashbox Cleaning Oil


Smashbox Mini Lip Gloss

$2.49


Stila Nude Flash Blusher

$6.49

Now, go shop, go!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Ebay Buys Gmarket

SEOUL -- EBay Inc. cleared its acquisition of South Korean rival Gmarket Inc. with antitrust authorities by promising to help small- and mid-size companies sell products online, executives said Thursday as the deal was formally announced.

EBay will pay up to $1.2 billion for Gmarket, depending on how many Gmarket shareholders agree to sell their shares. The deal combines South Korea's two largest e-commerce web sites by subscribers and revenue.

Because of antitrust concerns, the firms took the unusual step of seeking approval from the Korea Fair Trade Commission shortly after they began talks last August. The agency approved the combination in September.

At the announcement, eBay's Asia chief Jay Lee said the company promised the government agency that it would take several measures to boost the access of small- and mid-sized firms to its websites, including those in 38 other countries. "South Korean small and medium-sized companies are competitive, but it's hard for them to export their products because of the language barrier or lack of other support," Mr. Lee said.

Mr. Lee said eBay would continue to run the two e-commerce sites, Gmarket and Internet Auction Co., separately.

The acquisition turned on an agreement eBay reached earlier this week with Gmarket's controlling shareholders, Interpark Corp. and its chairman Lee Ki-hyong, who accepted a per-share price of $24, about a 50% premium over the trading range of Gmarket shares last month.

In announcing the final terms, eBay said it would attempt to buy all 50.3 million shares of Gmarket, which is based in Seoul but traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the U.S. At the time of the announcement, executives said they'd secured deals to buy 67% of the outstanding shares, including the 34% controlled by Interpark and Mr. Lee and 10% owned by Yahoo Inc. of the U.S.

Shares in Gmarket closed at $19.95, up 3%, in Nasdaq trading on Wednesday.

If all the shares are tendered, the $1.2 billion deal would mark the eighth-largest acquisition of a Korean company by a foreign one, according to Thomson Reuters, just beating the $1.17 billion Lone Star Funds of Texas spent to acquire Korea Exchange Bank in 2003.
—SungHa Park and Geoffrey Fowler contributed to this article.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123987481714424705.html
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I am actually happy about this, I never bought something from Gmarket since it seems so confusing and not very user friendly.I hope this will change when Ebay takes the control.

have to wake up in 6hrs >__<

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Urban Outfitter's version of AA's melange skirt

I Love Urban Outfitters but the prices of most pieces is out of my range. Last thursday after my last class for this semester, I met up with a friend to go window shopping and we walked from Concordia towards Mc Gill and stopped by UO. And there I saw so many cute skirts and many other things that I want to have *__* but most of them are minimum 50$ for a simple skirt *sigh*. When it's on sale there's nothing good left at UO I find.

I didn't have a camera to capture pics but here is what I found on the UO site:


Does this skirt looks familar to you? Price 38$US

AA's version:35$CAN


Which one do you like better?

It looks really easy to DIY. @__@

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Boutique Olivia

Olivia Boutique is a small shop at Peel,and it is one of my favourite 'secret' (well not anymore because it has become pretty popular) shop in Montreal. The clothing are very cute and asian style yet trendy but different from other mainstream shops. I don't know how to describe it. It's just different. I am sure the designers took ideas from korean and asian fashion in general XD.

Here are some pieces from their shop.



















Sunday, April 5, 2009

Kate Moss for Topshop Spring Summer 09

Those are some pieces of her spring summer collection that just came out on Topshop . Yay or nay? I think that she has actually some talents.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Coach Outlet opens in Niagara Falls

Niagra Falls opened its outlet store not for a long time ago!So when you pass by Toronto you know where to shop for coach purses!

Canada One Factory Outlets
Address:
7500 Lundy's Lane
Niagara Falls, Ontario
L2H 1G8

Opening Time:

Monday to Saturday*: 10 am - 9 pm
Sunday & Holidays: 10 am - 6 pm

Saturdays* (January 1 - April 30): 10 am - 6 pm

Canada One is open 364 days each year
(closed Christmas Day)

And here are some of the stars wearing Coach Handbags.



Hayden


Eva


Mandy Moore


I always thought that Coach bags all have the famous C sign all over but I was wrong. I'm not very fond of Coach bags though, it's too "hard" looking for me although the one that Hayden is carrying looks decent.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Forever21 opening in Montreal!

Good news for Montrealers, F21 will open it's door in Montreal this year. One in Complexe Les Ailes and the other on St. Catherine street. It is about time, I'm so excited!H&M & F21 & Zara on the same street, what can you ask for more?


Original Article:
Montreal : Forever 21 takes flight at Les Ailes
L.A.-based retailer to open here; 'These guys are on fire, they're one of the hottest retail brands in the U.S. right now'





By MIKE KING, The GazetteJanuary 20, 2009
Forever 21 operates this store at the West Edmonton Mall.
Photograph by: BRUCE EDWARDS, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE, The Gazette

Montrealers' sense of style could be the city's saving grace during the current economic crunch, commercial real estate and retail experts suggested yesterday.

Top names in the clothing business have set up shop around town or will be moving here this year.

"Montreal is a very desirable and vibrant city for retailers," Jeff Berkowitz, president of Aurora Realty Consultants Inc., said yesterday. "There's a lot of growth potential despite the economy."

In March, one of Berkowitz's clients, Los Angeles-based Forever 21, is taking possession of the prime Ste. Catherine St. location of the former Archambault music store as well as an adjoining space on the métro level in Complexe Les Ailes.

Johanne Marcotte, general manager of Complexe Les Ailes, confirmed the "excellent news" about Forever 21 and added: "We will help them open as soon as possible."

"These guys are on fire, they're one of the hottest retail brands in the U.S. right now," Berkowitz said of the California company that sells what it advertises as "cheap, fun and fast apparel and accessories aimed at teens and college kids."

Forever 21's 18,000- to 19,000-square-foot Complexe Les Ailes location in the heart of downtown is expected to open in time for this year's back to school rush.

Another store will open in the Champlain Mall in Brossard by the end of the year.

And in the spring of 2010, the company is taking over the three-floor, 30,000-square-foot Gap store location at the corner of Ste. Catherine and de la Montagne, Berkowitz said.

The private retailer operates more than 400 mainly mall-based stores in the United States and Canada, including two existing locations in Ontario and one at the West Edmonton Mall.

He said he puts Forever 21, "one of the top performers in retail the past two years," in the same category as two popular international players that recently arrived here - Zara of Spain and H&M of Sweden.

The three retailers are known for quickly getting inexpensively priced, ripped-from-the-runway fashions on their sales floors.

Gilles Fortin, owner of the Tristan & America chain, said there is "definitely a trend" of all the fashion firms wanting to be in Montreal, especially on Ste. Catherine, which he describes as one of the busiest streets in North America for retail.

"We were about two years behind Toronto (in attracting U.S. fashion retailers) because of certain fears about (French) signage, but with the arrival of Forever 21, the big international players are almost all here now," Fortin said.

Louis Burgos, senior vice-president for Quebec at property management firm Cushman & Wakefield LePage, acknowledged the economy is more stable here than south of the border, adding that "Quebecers have always been very fashion conscious and spend more disposable income on clothes" than elsewhere.

Nathalie Verge, vice-president of operations for the Retail Council of Quebec, said the group's survey found Montrealers spent 9.4 per cent of their disposable income on clothes last year - more than 50 per cent more than the Canadian average per population.

mking@thegazette.canwest.com

For more information, visit www.forever21.com
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

Monday, December 29, 2008

My Zipia items are finally here! + Review

Loong story, I got them last week but didn't have time or was too lazy to show them off here : D. I only got my items after meeting with the survey peron for the second time and this time she didn't ditch me yaay.

I love all the three items!Shipping + Paypal fee + Conversion makes them a lil more expensive though but it's worth it in my opinion.

It was the first time that I ordered something from Zipia so I was curious how their quality would be. Well, it's not top notch quality and not bad either. The hoodies are thinner than I expected, not your AE hoodie quality but they're cute that makes it forget about their thickness I guess. The vest that I ordered fits me perfectly as opposed to the cuts here where everything is too big for me and I am size small by the way. Their free size is pretty small made for skinny people. All in one I would definitely order from Zipia again when the canadian dollar does better.






My guy friend thought it was the playboy bunny lol




It's really long, covers your but.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Zipia Survey!

If you happen to live in Montreal you're lucky, there's a Zipia survey going on for Montrealers. And guess what I couldn't resist and ordered these items here:

Best Friends Hoodie - 7$
Rabbit Hoodie - 9$
New York Hoodie 11$




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36$

No more shopping!

Friday, August 22, 2008

Too much walking

I went out with friends today. Met D. at Place des Arts, it was so sunny and hot!The World Film Festival started today and it's good that the weather is so beautiful because they show free screenings outside (even if it's old old films).

We walked to eaton center to meet X. afterwards. I passed by the Body Shop to get these with much stress and hassle haha.


Tea Tree Oil facial wash


Olive Glossing Conditioner

which costed 9$ in total. I saved 10$ with the coupon weeee. I showed the lady the coupon and she said that normally it has to have the name and email address on it but she said she'll still accept it and would make an exception. In my mind: ^__________^. Cashier Guy:"Normally we only accept the orginal coupon as people seem to print the coupon off the internet on a certain site but we'll make an exception for you". <---I printed it from that site aha.

I looked stressed my friend told me.

We went to magic at Guy afterwards where I had my pineapple BBT. After that we walked to the Korean Grocery store near atwater where we bought Kim Bab and I bought dried seaweed also.Then we walked back to the EV building at Guy to wait for a friend.It was 7pm by then already. Finally we walked from Guy to Chinatown (walking back and forth 1000x times today?) and landed in L2. I didn't order any BBT, 1 is enough for the day and had chicken with rice instead.Didn't finish the food boo.

I didn't bring my cam so no pictures, i can't find my cam >_<.

I must not shop until the Guess Warehouse sale,yup yup.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Joe Fresh Fall Collection

I just received the flyer for Joe Fresh along with other food flyers =___= today. There are some pieces that I quite like:






I never find anything when I go to Maxi though.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

H&M opens on St-Catherine tomorrow!

Weee, I just went to downtown yesterday and saw posters plastering the metro stations that H&M is having its grand opening at 1100 St Catherine tomorrow at noon.

The good thing about it, the first 250 customers in line will receive a gift card between 10$ - 200$ randomly. I'm not sure if I want to go to downtown at 12pm for that.I'm happy because I don't have to go all the way to Rockland Center or Galerie D'anjou anymore.


Source: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=fa55a597-1b5a-4a96-a7ca-f81524910103

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Toronto Part 2: Pacific Mall - Cuteness overload

Trust me, you'll feel like heaven here if you like asian clothing. There's hundreds of stores selling cute japanese, korean,hk fashion. The only downside is that it is not really cheap. Price ranges from 10-30$ for cheap and 50- 100$ for expensive pieces. Since I'll be going to Vietnam in two weeks I didn't buy any clothing there was we had ony 1 hour to shop. It opens at 12pm and closes at 9pm but we went on sunday so it closed at 8pm.




It's the largest chinese shopping mall in north america.







There's lots of electronics, illegal pirated DVDS (Yes, I saw a screener version of Kungfu Panda there WTH o___O , cute plush and of course clothing and shoes!






As for food there's a food court and there's also BBT at every corner of the mall and not to forget spicy fishballs, yummy! They're 1.50$ for a cup with 5 balls each. They're really good as a snack. BBT is 2.50$ for a small one, 1$ cheaper than Mtl!Grrr, why is food so expensive here.

I would definitely go back to Pacific mall next time if i had the chance.