I have a bad habit of not speaking up sometimes. I can be easily talked into things by nice people and end up spending money I would rather not have. Let me explain.

The other day while I was downtown I stopped at Nordstroms to return some boots that didn’t fit and decided to check out some makeup while I was there. I was looking for a bright pink for spring. At one of the makeup counters they were having a little event where they’d do your makeup as long as you purchased something. I was planning on getting a lipstick anyway and it sounded fun.

I had two really nice makeup stylists do up my lips, my eyes, and even bronze me. It looked nice but it certainly is not my everyday look. I guess there was some promotion that if you spend $100 you’d get blush/bronzer for free (a value of $40). So the nice makeup artist picked out $100 of product for me and took me to the counter. The whole time in my head I’m having a conversation that looks like this: oh man I don’t need all of this makeup-I don’t want a makeup brush that costs $50 nor do I need it-well I guess it would be fun-I suppose I could buy it all-I do get the free makeup and that’s a good value-but no all I want is the lipstick-oh jeeze. Seriously my “it’s ok” conversation almost won when I finally said I’ll just take the lipstick. They seemed a little irritated but how would I feel if I left with way more than I needed/wanted and spent way more than I wanted/was planning? I would have felt really bad. So I’m glad I spoke up and I’m happy with just the lipstick.