 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and today I want to share with you some great deals that I've found and I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway. I am one. I love to save money. I want to get what I want and I like to share that with others. I always have a list of things that I am wanting. I have a list of things that I need which is, it's not as big as my want. But a lot of my wants are for gifts and I know what I want to get people and I kind of plan on it throughout the year. There's going to be a sale. There's going to be something that I can get what I want at a lot lower price. And I'm one that believes and if you're interested in something sign up for emails from Ulta from CVS from Walgreens to Macy's to Nordstrom wherever I sign up for emails and I'm real good about just clicking off of them. I read what they're going to say and I just delete them if I'm not interested in something. Well several weeks ago I got an email from Ulta and it was 10 times points and just from experience and I do have a playlist that talks about all the good deals I've gotten but from experience 10 times points to me always means 50% off and they had it on almost all beauty brands. There were a few things that didn't fall under the category but everything that I had on my list was there. So I knew there were just a couple of things I wanted for myself and a couple of things that I wanted for gifts. So I went to Ulta and Rakuten was 10% cash back. So what that means is every quarter they send out a check and I'll get my money back. And anytime you use Ulta Reward Points whatever you earn you can use that toward a purchase. The only thing you can't do with Ulta Reward Points that I know of is you can't buy a gift certificate. So I'm going to share with you a couple of my orders and what I did with some of my reward points but I'm going to go ahead and get started. My subtotal was $221.45 and I earned $19.93 from Rakuten. The part I was not sure of is how many Ulta dollars that I would earn from this order but like I said historically it's been at least 50%. Well I earned $124 reward making everything that I ordered just a hair over 70% off. Although I'm not getting that cash from the $124 it's $124 I can spend toward anything from Ulta. It really is a good reward system. And I want to share with you what I got in my first order. I went ahead and ordered the large in the Kenra blow dry spray. It's a real fine oil. I use this on my hair every time I after I shampoo and you know when it's partially dry I just put it on even if I'm going to let it air dry. I think I use about 14 pumps so I went ahead and got the large size. It retails for $35 but it costs me $10.50 so I was very happy to get this. The next item I knew I wanted to get was the Grande Brow and this normally sells I think for $70. I'll know in a little bit when I look down I'll know what I got it for. But this will last me 10 months. I use it Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I had to use it every night until I got my eyebrows as thick as I wanted them and it ended up paying $21 for it. I don't need it yet but I've got my backup so I think I told you in one video that I was kind of married to it but I'm really happy with it. I love all the Buxom lip products. I just think they're really really good and for a gift I wanted to buy somebody. There were a couple people I wanted to buy some lip glosses. They normally sell for $21. I ordered the shade Emily because you could use it for a topper with just about anything and I ordered two of them and I ended up paying $6.36 a piece for these. For me I got the Covergirl Exhibitionist eyeliner in charcoal. They didn't have it in navy and I have not tried it in my upper waterline yet but I thought I would and see if it stayed. Sometimes it just matters what color it is. Sometimes the black will stay, sometimes the charcoal, sometimes the navy but I thought I'd give this a chance and hopefully they'll make it in navy even though I do like my one from Milani. I went ahead and did the NYX Glide On Slide On. It's in a brighter blue but I like to wear blue around my eyes. We'll talk about my eyes in a minute. It was a little bit much today. This sells for $8 and it was $2.40. This Covergirl sells for $9.99 and I paid over $3 for it. And then I had two gifts I wanted to purchase and I wanted to purchase the Bye Bye Ports Powder and it's a pressed powder and I think it's a finishing powder. I have it in several different sets and it's just a translucent powder. So many people love this. I don't use a whole lot of powder unless it's a powder foundation but on occasion I don't know if I'll be shiny today or not but I will use mine but I wanted to get two of those. They sell for $30 a piece and they ended up costing me $9 a piece. Along with that order you got a bag from Itch because I ordered some It products. They gave you a sample of the It Confidence in a Cream. I'll give this away because I like the secret sauce. This is a little bit too rich for my skin. A sample of the Grande Mascara. Big old bag full of good stuff. One of the things I noticed right off the bat was It's a 10 and you know I like that. But this is going to go with one of the gifts that I purchased. But there's some really great products in there. So that was my first order. And then I started thinking I thought they only had the 10 times points for two days and I went to my list and I decided well I'm going to go ahead and place another order because there were some more things that I planned on getting. Before I placed my second order I called Alta to make sure it wasn't just a one-time deal and they said no you could order as much as you wanted from there. And that it would you know it would only last two days. So I went back and I looked and I looked at my list and I found my very favorite mascara. The It Superhero Mascara. They had them three for $39 and so I ordered two sets so I got six of them. So that was $78. It'll actually cost me $7.90. I forgot to tell you the subtotal of the second order was $186.50. I got $16.78 from Rakuten. And we ended up getting $113 Alta Reward dollars. So it averaged up to 70% off. It was 69.78% or something like that. But anyway I got six tubes of my very favorite mascara and some of the people that I love it's their favorite mascara too. For $7.90. The small bottle of the Platinum Blow Dry Spray is $23. So I ordered two of them and they're going to be gifts. And so they ended up costing me $6.90 a piece for those. So I was really happy and I ordered one more thing. And it was for me and I went ahead and ordered the Grande Lash for my lashes. Lash Serum doesn't work in my eyebrows. This normally sells for $65 and I paid $19.50. Again I'm still using what I have. I've dated it. I expect this to last me nine more months and I just use it Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. But if I wanted my lashes to be longer than they are I could use it every day. But I'm happy with my lashes, how they are. And again with this I got another mascara. And because I ordered something from It Cosmetics I got another one of the It Confidence and the Creams. And another one of the Big Bags. So I was really happy. Oh and one other thing. And it also had like gifts with purchase and there's all sorts of stuff in here. Bondi sand, self tanning powder. There's Vichy. I mean just all sorts of good things that are in here. Juice Beauty. They're supposed to be worth like $80. They never are. But it's a nice thing to get, you know, to give to people. See everything that I got was not on clearance. Nothing was on sale. But because of the 10 times points and because of Rack-U-Tin it truly what I consider cost me those prices. Well there was one more thing I was really wanting and it was for a gift. Five times points was being paid on it. So I thought about it and I kind of tried to figure out how much I thought it would be. Well my subtotal on this was $88. So I earned $7.92 from Rack-U-Tin and $33 of ultra-reward dollars. The subtotal was $88. I bought some candles and they're $44 apiece. But with everything taken into consideration they are $23 and some change apiece. And this is the nest candle that I love in bamboo. And it even smells good in the box. Oh it's lovely. So I knew I mean almost half price and this will make a lovely gift and I know I got two of them and I know the people that are going to get them are going to really enjoy them. So I had quite a few ultra-reward dollars and so I sent an email or a text to a relative and I just said hey look at Ulta and figure out $125 worth of items that you want. And it made their day. So they texted me back or emailed me. I asked them to email me back and listed quite several things that added up to about $125. Well you get the most for your points if you spend $125. It's a point system and a dollar system. It's kind of confusing but I know that $125. I'll get to use the points to the largest advantage where she was just shy under $125 and I found some cotton buds, q-tips, something like that to throw in there. So that was really nice. So anyway I placed an order for a couple of things that I wanted and I used my ultra-reward points because normally I would have spent my money on this. And I don't want to show you what it is because the people that two of these gifts are intended for, they watch my channel and I don't want to give them a heads up. But there was something for the hair. It was a new appliance for the hair that I think they will love and they're $80 apiece and they happen to be on sale for half price. So I got two of these hair appliances and I may talk about them after Christmas is over but I got two of those that would have cost right at $150. I bought the Milani State Put eyeliner in Femphatel and that's a navy color. I got a Milani lip pencil that I haven't used yet but it's in true red. I bought the Essence mascara with the purple writing. That's the only other mascara that I like and if I do a drugstore get ready with me I wanted to make sure I had that. Although $7.90 what I paid for my it in any way. And because of Kathy's beauty care chats I ordered two of the found sealers in the small version and I haven't used those yet. I bought some other makeup not from Ulta. I'll do a video sometime in the future about some new makeup I'm trying. So if I would have had to pay for this it would have been $198.97 and I got it just using $125 in my points and I still have some left. The eyeshadow I have on is very very very glimmery and I bought it right when it came out. It's called the Topes and it's from ColourPop and I have this in my crease and this on my lids and I'm not kidding you. Once I got it on my lids I was afraid to do anything because I think there's some fallout. I had someplace I had to go today and I didn't really have time to take it off but I don't think it looks bad but it's very glimmery. I really suggest anybody that likes good deals to sign up for emails. It helps a whole lot. So now I'd like to announce the winners of my last giveaway. Lisa Jay from BK Beauty sent me Angie Hot and Flashy's brush set and this is a set of seven brushes that Angie designed for the more mature woman in mind. And the other gift is from Dermatology. It's the Broad Spectrum SPF 45 and then the Tinted Moisturizer with an SPF of 46. That's the one that I use and I buy and I love the Tinted Moisturizer but these are both full size bottles. The first name that was drawn wanted the brushes and her name is Raspberry Beret. Congratulations Paulette. I hope you enjoy the brushes. The next name that came up in my random comment picker was Jackie Norwood and her second choice was the SPF and it's going to be sent your way. Congratulations to both of you. Congratulations. Be sure and leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me. It is all good. I hope you all are doing well. We're hanging in there and doing just fine and I'll see you in my next video. Take care. I would add add a lot. I mean I can't strongly recommend. I cannot recommend and I know and what I did with my report. 97 dry space. The small bottle making everything in this.