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Sephora inside JCPenney Last Minute Gift Ideas
Ho Ho Ho! Santa is coming to town in a couple of days and I know some of you still haven’t finished shopping or just started to shop! Nothing to worry about because we still have some time left. And you know what! I’m here to help you find and pick the right gifts for your girls, for him and even yourself.
I went to Sephora inside JCPenney the other day and my oh my, all the perfect gifts for everyone were there. I didn’t have to stop anywhere else, only one stop at Sephora inside JCPenney and I got all the last-minute gifts I wanted.
Inside the store, you can easily find anything quickly because they display gift products all around the store with labeling like Makeup Palettes and Gift Sets with big letters. If you need to find any specific items, you can always ask for help from the pretty ladies who work there.
I went in and out of the store so quick and still had lots of time to stuff my stockings and wrap some of the gifts without feeling exhausted. As you guy know I’m in my third trimester which means everything can be quite hard to achieve during this joyous time of the year. Thanks to Sephora inside JCPenney for making my tasks and day so smooth. I’m just so grateful to be able to get all the gifts for everyone.
I encourage you to stop by your local Sephora inside JCPenney to discover your last-minute holiday finds while supplies last.
If you want to know what I got and what the products I recommend for you to get are, keep on reading.
My goals were to shop for my sisters, my mother, my husband and myself. With that being said I separated my last-minute gift ideas into 3 sections, Stocking Stuffers Gifts for Her under $30, Stocking Stuffers Gifts for Him and Must- Have Gifts under $100.
I hope you find my last-minute gift ideas helpful and I can’t encourage you enough to visit a Sephora inside JCPenney near you. You will have a lot of fun shopping there, trust me.
Since this blog post will be the last beauty post of the year, I wish you a lot of happiness, success and prosperity from today onward. Stay safe and enjoy your holidays!
Thank you for your love and support over the years. And thank you for stopping by All About Good Vibes today. I will see you again next year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s day 6 of my #GoodVibesGifting event!! OMG, time flies! Each day I look forward to reading your stories and it’s helping me set my goals for next year. You have contributed to my goals for sure. I’m going to keep it a secret for now about what I’m planning to do but hey, that’s exciting and worth looking forward to.
If you missed my Day 1, Day 2 , Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 posts, don’t hesitate to go back and check them out. There are so many stories and thoughts from our Good Vibes Tribe members who you can learn from their life experiences and situations. Don’t forget to leave your stories at the end of the post because you might be one of the eight lucky winners of this contest.
This first post, will provide you more details on the rules and how to participate in this #GoodVibesGifting event. We would love for you to join us.
FALL/ WINTER OUTFIT IDEA
Today’s look has a little sweet touch to it. If you want to make your look to be on the sweet side, try incorporating pink into your outfit.
My tip when wearing light colors, like pink, is to match with other light colors but try adding one dark color item to help make it contrast. Unless you want to go all out to be super soft and sweet, then only wear light colors from head to toe.
As you can see here, my beret, earrings, sweater (similar here), bag and boots (similar here) are all in light colors. But I chose to wear this navy dress (similar here and here) to make it contrast to the look. So, I don’t look too sweet or too simple.
We took this photoshoot in front of our hotel when we were staying in Tokyo, Japan. If you’re planning to visit Tokyo, Japan with your family, I recommend checking out MIMARU TOKYO NIHOMBASHI SUITENGUMAEI apartment hotel. It’s a super nice place in a business district. Great for a family trip and very convenient to hop on the subway to visit places.
DAY SIX OF #GOODVIBESGIFTING
Get to know me: I’d love to share with you on how I take care of my emotions at the end of each day on this post today. Because it’s so important to pay attention to your feelings, your mind and your soul and it will help you to become a better minded person.
I used to wait for the weekends to come before I started taking care of myself and to have some Me-Time. But guess what!, you don’t need to be like an old me. You can start doing it everyday. I know it might sound hard to do it but if you can spend only 5 minutes of your day to connect with yourself and take care of your spirit, you will feel a lot better and calmer than you used to be.
What’s the point of waiting until the weekend, right? You might say you’re super busy during the week and there’s no time for you to take care of yourself. Well, you’re living your life everyday, which means you should pay attention to yourself and your emotions everyday as well.
You don’t want to build up those unfavorite situations you’ve been through during the week and let those situations worry you through the weekend. You need to give your body and your mind a break, to help reset and get ready for the next day.
Either you pick to sit down and have a cup of tea in a calm environment to wind down or pray for 5 minutes, these can really help you as a person to connect with yourself and let go of those bad situations you have faced. If it’s a good day for you, use your 5 minutes to fulfill your emotions, mind, body and soul with positive energy.
For me, I love to take an extra 5 minutes in my shower, just to stand there, listening to the sound of the water, and let the warm water soak through my hair and body. I’d take a long deep breath and exhale slowly to let go all the tiredness and things that bother me on that day. That’s the easiest way I found myself relaxing and calming down my mind at the end of the day. It doesn’t take long and I don’t need to go above and beyond my everyday’s activities. Only 5 minutes of my day does make me feel recharged and ready for what’s to come next.
On the day that I have more time to myself I would listen to music, do a mini spa and eat my favorite sweets with a cup of hot cocoa. I would fill that hour with positive energy and joy as well and I would let go of all the bad energy. These tiny things make my soul and my body happy.
They are such simple things in life but when I pay attention to myself close enough, these small, simple things become more beneficial to my mind and helps to balance my emotions.
My thought for you today is to try to find one activity that help calm your mind each day and start taking care of yourself and your emotions. Even if it’s a few minutes a day. Don’t wait until you have time, because that would be very hard to make it happen. Don’t postpone it, you need this and your soul needs it too.
QUESTION FOR YOU TODAY
What do you like to do to take care of yourself?
I’m looking forward to reading your stories. Don’t forget to stop by my Instagram and answer a fun question there too! Also don’t forget to use #GoodVibesGifting at the end of your comment so I know you are participating in this contest.
To get a sneak peek on the gifts you might win, watch my InstaStory here.
It’s day five of our #GoodVibesGifting and I’m super excited to announce the 8 winners in a few days. I know you are excited to know too but before we do that, let’s get to know each other more. Hope that you will be back here often to connect together after this Good Vibes Gifting ends. I love learning about all of you and it opens my life’s perspective so much. Thank you again for being a part of our Good Vibes Tribe.
If you missed my Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 posts, feel free to check them out and share your stories there. If you want to know more details on how to be a part of it, head over to this post, read through the first section of the post to learn about how to join. 🙂
FALL/ WINTER OUTFIT IDEAS
Bringing the classy on today in this post because I ‘m going to talk about Faux Fur. Don’t you love the texture of it? Not only is it beautiful, adds style to the simple outfit, it’s also a good type of textile that keeps you warm. The only concern I have is that it might be a little dusty if you haven’t worn it for a while. I suggest putting a garment bag over to help protect your cloth and keep the dust away.
One tip I have when you decide to clean your faux fur coat, you should hand wash it with cold water and gentle detergent. Let it drip dry indoor. Once it’s dry, you can use a soft bristle brush to brush the fur to keep it smooth and fluff.
My look today will be a perfect look if you have your last minute Christmas party at your office. You know me, I love adding some pops of red to add a holiday feel to the look and you can use this trick too.
I’m wearing my old bodycon cami dress from TopShop, I have a similar one for you here and here. My faux fur is from Missguided. My vegan leather bag is from Melie Bianco and my Vince Camuto heels I got them from Sole Society.
DAY FIVE OF #GOODVIBESGIFTING
Get to know me: I remembered sitting with my then boyfriend in front of one of the teachers and she told my boyfriend not to date me because I have a different family background than him. He came from a great family that has everything but I was opposite. Wow, seriously? How can someone say something like that in front of a teenager and not even think for a second about how I would feel or how it would effect my life. Anyways, we were together for 7 years and ended up not being together after I decided to let him go.
In this crucial world, there are good and bad people, some people always think they know everything, try to make comments and try to bring others down for no reason. As I’m growing older I noticed that these type of people actually have their own issues in life and they don’t know how to fix them. So they put their ideas right into other people’s head, mostly bad advices that they think are good, and end up hurting a lot of people’s feelings.
I have to be honest with you here that I don’t like these type of people at all. I feel like they should keep their mouth shut and try to make their life better. Accept that they have problems, if they couldn’t fix the problems themselves, then they should go get some help from a professional.
When people have a big mouth, they tend to not know that their opinions can affect and make the listener become stressed and/or even ruin their lives. I used to be one who stressed to the max, cried and was just unhappy about myself after listening to someone’s comments. Like the example of my situation I mentioned above. That made me not able to eat, sleep, only felt so bad about my life and thought that maybe I deserved to be alone.
Now I have realized that I should know myself better, love myself better and shouldn’t listen to someone who thinks they know me but in reality have no idea about me and my life. When something like this happens to me now, instead of freaking out and getting upset I would tell that person to stop talking and keep their advice to themselves. Then I will sit back, relax and try to forget about what they said. There’s no need to keep that negativity with me. I still respect people who give me good advice because I know they love me and want the best for me. But I stopped wasting my time to think about those bad comments from people who pretend that they love and understand me.
My suggestion for you today on how to deal with negativity from others is to love and know yourself and try not to care about other people’s negative opinions. It’s your life, you know what’s best for you and what will make you happy. Stop stressing out because that will ruin your health and you don’t want that.
Question for you today:
How do you normally deal with negative people?
I’m looking forward to reading your answer. Don’t forget to stop by my Instagram and answer a fun question there too! Also don’t forget to use #GoodVibesGifting at the end of the your comment so I know you are participating in this contest.
To get a sneak peek on the gifts you might win, watch my InstaStory here.
I can’t believe we are half way through to our #GoodVibesGifting event. You guys are so amazing! Your stories are so touching! Thank you for being a part of this event and sharing your stories. Your stories will benefit so many people who read them. Life experiences are the most valuable thing that we can share and learn from each other. Thank you for all of the positive vibes.
If you missed my Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 posts, come join us by sharing your stories at the end of the posts. This first post, will give you more details on the rules and how to participate in this #GoodVibesGifting event. We would love to hear from you.
FALL/ WINTER OUTFIT IDEA
I’m getting out of my comfort zone and my usual style in this post today because I got inspiration from a magazine to try something new. So I’m all futuristic today. What are unusual for me about this look are this quilted jacket and these chunky-sole boots. I’ve really never worn them before but they are definitely fun pieces to wear and have in your closet.
Since this post is about Fall/Winter outfit ideas, I would love to talk about how to make your look more stylish and still keep you warm at the same time. For this black on black look, instead of wearing a normal black sweater top, I chose a choker neck sweaterto add some edge to the look. I picked a pair of vinyl leggings to add some fun and I also picked my vintage Channel patent handbag to go with the look. My cat-eye sunglasses are from Forever21.
Below are some cute patent handbags I picked for you.
Even thought I’m wear all black but the textures of the different fabrics help make this look more stylish and interesting and of course will keep you warm.
DAY FOUR OF #GOODVIBESGIFTING
Get to know me: Let’s talk about personal values today. I’m bringing this topic up because it is so important to have at least one value to help push you to achieve your goals in life. I value family the most. As you may already know from my first post of this #GoodVibesGifting series about my family and how difficult it used to be for me growing up. Because of having my family, this makes me able to face any situation in life. Whatever I do or think about doing I will think about my family first.
Before I decide to do something stupid or about to do something stupid, I would think about my family first. I always measure how good or bad it might affect my family with the decision I’m about to make, if it’s going to hurt my family I won’t do it.
All of my goals I have in life always include my family in it. As I’m talking about this, it’s making me tear up because it’s so true that I value my family so much and they are in every step of my life.
If you don’t know what your values are, you can take a look at the list here, read through and think about what the most important things are in your life right now. Your personal values can change over time when you start achieving more goals, have your current values fulfilled or when you are in a different stage of life.
When you have your values picked out, start incorporating them into your decision making or planning and you will start seeing a lot of changes in your life. I guarantee you, your personal values will lift you up and push you to achieve your goals.
Question for you today
What’s your number one personal value in life? Why do you think it is so important to you?
I’m looking forward to reading your stories. Don’t forget to stop by my Instagram and answer a fun question there too! Also don’t forget to use #GoodVibesGifting at the end of your comment so I know you are participating in this contest.
To get a sneak peek on the gifts you might win, watch my InstaStory here.
It’s day three of our #GoodVibesGifting. I don’t know why I didn’t think about connecting with you this way before. It’s so much fun reading through all of your comments. Let’s keep the good vibes going because I am now planing for us to connect more next year.
If you missed my Day 1 and Day 2 posts, feel free to check them out and share your stories there. If you have no idea what we’re doing here, please head to this Day 1 post, read through the rules and let’s get to know each other more!
LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY OUTFIT IDEAS
Is it a good idea to add ruffle detail pieces to your Fall/ Winter closet? Yes, it is! Only one thing you have to look out for is the appropriate fabric for the colder weather. Even though you might have seen a lot of ruffles during Spring/ Summer but there’re no strict rules that you have to wear ruffles only in that time of the year.
What’s so great about ruffles are that it can make your look extra fun, flirty, sweet, feminine and stylish at the same time.
In today’s post, I’m wearing this pastel purple check with ruffle cuffs sweater from Nasty Gal. I really love the color, pattern and the ruffle cuffs but too bad this sweater is already out of stock. I have linked some cute ruffle sweaters for you below in case you’re looking for one.
I’m wearing my sweater over my purple midi dress. My bag is complimentary from Ella McHugh. For shoes, I go for my old leopard print heels in pink, here are the same style heelsas mine but they’re in brown. Adding a holiday texture like these pretty burgundy velvet socks to complete my look. I have linked some colorful leopard shoes for you below.
DAY THREE OF #GOODVIBESGIFTING
Get to know me: Are you a perfectionist? I have to say that I used to be 101% perfectionist, now I decrease it to 75% I would say. 🙂 I used to wait for everything to be perfect and ready before I started any project. Or I would wait until my project was completely perfect before I called it finished. Over the years, I have learned that I shouldn’t wait or waste my time before I decide to do something. Time is so valuable and it will pass by so quickly. I felt like I was in my teen years yesterday and today I’m already in my 3o’s. I can’t waste my time anymore. I have to live my life to the fullest and the happiest.
Since I became a mom and having my own family, time goes by even quicker than ever. I know all of you moms out there are feeling the same way as I feel. There are time that I feel stress, tired and want to sit and do nothing, but that means I will waste my time again. Sometimes just to get myself out of the house with no makeup and messy hair was too hard to do. Because I felt like I wasn’t perfect enough to go out. But you know what, who cares? No one really cares and they don’t know what your day was like anyways. So why have that perfectionist fear kept me in the house and loose the opportunity to get a cup of coffee or even just breath in the fresh air.
I started living my life by the “Nobody is Perfect” mentality and my life has been a lot more simple and easy to live. Whatever I want to do, I will do it right away so I don’t miss the opportunity or keep forgetting to do them.
Like starting this blog, I was so afraid to start at first. I thought of so many names, how to design a blog, what I was going to say because English is not my first language. I was thinking and planning to have my blog live for so many months. I published my first blog in Mid June of 2016, almost a year after I gave birth to my first daughter. Just to think about it, I don’t know why I waited for so long to do it. I must have missed a lot of opportunities during those months. Oh, well but I’m here now.
My first blog post didn’t even look good. I didn’t know what I was doing and when I compare that to all of my recent posts, I feel I’m getting a lot better but I still have some room to develop. I know, that the perfectionist is coming back to me again! Lol! 😉 But I have my content out to share with you anyways. I don’t want to miss the time to connect with you and start building our relationship. Who knows, we might meet each other one day! If I wait for everything to be perfect, my blog might have never been on the internet today.
My thought for you today is that time will help you develop your skills, make you feel more comfortable and confident. Life is so simple, don’t make things complicated and overwhelm yourself. Time is valuable, so please don’t let time go by because you want to be ready or to be perfect. You will learn and develop the second you start doing. No, you don’t need to be perfect at the beginning but trust me, you will get better and better and in the end everything will be perfect in your eyes.
Questions for you today: What’s one project (thing) you’re planning to do and never started doing? What’s stopping you? Are you going to do it now? If you decide to wait, why?
I’m looking forward to reading your stories. Don’t forget to stop by my Instagram and answer a fun question there too! Also don’t forget to use #GoodVibesGifting at the end of the your comment so I know you are participating in this contest.
To get a sneak peek on the gifts you might win, watch my InstaStory here.
Mollie Larsen is the creator of All About Good Vibes—a feel-good destination that inspires women to love, care and be themselves. Growing up she loved dressing up, taking care of her skin and helped supporting others. She believes in positivity and seeing good in all situations. Her biggest achievement of the day is putting her babies to sleep early, relaxing and watching her favorite shows with her husband.
