Here, Kitty, Kitty...

Hello Kitty has to have one of the biggest merchandise lines ever. They have everything from clothes, shoes and laundry baskets to actual planes and weaponry (which will NOT be making an appearance in this post). Since I'm more immature than I like to admit, here's a post about some really great Hello Kitty merchandise.

Kick-start your collection with some gorgeous

 Hello Kitty jewellery!

An adorable hand-crafted necklace shimmering with silver, black, pink and yellow diamonds. Made of tarnish-free alloy, this is definitely one of the cutest necklaces I've had the pleasure to come across.



These gorgeous sparkly earrings are the perfect match to any outfit! They instantly add an adorable touch, and the Swarovski crystals are definitely hard to miss! I own a pair just like these, so I definitely recommend them for any Hello Kitty lover.




This gorgeous bracelet is covered in Austrian crystals, making miss Kitty's face shine. Nickel and lead-free, who doesn't want something like this?













Another gorgeous, crystal-covered Hello Kitty necklace. Rather than her face, this time it's her general shape, outlined with the use of iridescent crystals. The attention-stealer in this piece is definitely her bow, which uses red crystals instead.



Hello Kitty jewellery

Got enough Hello Kitty jewellery already?

Want more general Hello Kitty in your life? (you can never have too much Kitty!)

Check out some of these cool things!

Kitty-fy your room with this gorgeous and durable die cut rug! Cute and easy to clean, this rug can fit in almost any room! Definitely on my wish list!

Hello Kitty diecut face shape Area Rug



more fun Hello Kitty bedroom decorating ideas here

Hello Kitty slippers

variety of styles

Comfy, cute and just right for the Hello Kitty fanatic.

Sanrio Hello Kitty Umbrellas - variety

 Staying dry in the rain gets funner with Hello Kitty umbrellas. Your child will adore the cute Hello Kitty design with the adorable Hello Kitty mascot handle.

Every girl needs a bag to store the umbrella, here's a few cute  Hello Kitty bags, big enough to store all your goodies. A woman can never have too many handbags.

Variety of Hello Kitty bags here

and to keep your Hello Kitty bag off the dirty floor, this must have 

Compact mirror foldable purse hook

This cutie is covered in rhinestones, crystals and enamel gemstones.
Cute and functional!

Hello Kitty Bling Compact Mirror

This cute compact mirror is "blinged out" with tiny crystal jewels.

This glamorous, must-have addition to your purse features a regular mirror on one side and a 3x magnification mirror on the other.

 

 

Hello Kitty Noir Eyeshadow and Lip Gloss Palette

A gigantic makeup palette featuring Hello Kitty Charmmy products, including 25 eye shadows and 10 lip glosses, all in a collectible tin. It's Hello Kitty's biggest makeup palette ever! Packed with dozens of colors, this set gives you everything you need to create an unlimited range of looks. The tin features a glossy finish and a removable makeup pan, use it for years to come for your favorite Hello Kitty possessions.

 

Craving the need to make people even more jealous of you as you drive around in your Ferrari?
Hello Kitty seat covers
will help that along nicely.

Who needs tan leather seats when you could have Hello Kitty?

A must have if you love Hello Kitty and and want to give your car a little Hello Kitty classy chic bling!

3D Hello kitty Decal Emblem 3M Metal Hello Kitty Auto Car Sticker

Great for decorating the interior or exterior of your car

Want more Hello Kitty in your kitchen*? Check out these fantastic products!

When I'm sick, all I eat is toast. In my opinion, it's God's gift to man. As an avid Hello Kitty collector, this toaster is perfect! Along with Hello Kitty's cute face, this toaster features 7 different heat settings and a removable crumb tray for easy cleanup!

Hello Kitty Toaster

I absolutely can't stand eggs, but make them pink and shape them like Hello Kitty and I will chomp them down.
Be sure to put the egg in the mold while still hot. For best results largest eggs work better with the Hello Kitty mold. For extra yumminess dye the egg pink with a touch of food coloring.

Hello Kitty Boil Egg Mold

The global phenomenon that is Hello Kitty has arrived at Wilton, with an exciting collection of party products designed to make celebrations special. With her sweet face and trademark bow, she's sure to brighten birthday cakes, cupcakes and other party treats. Edible sugar shapes to decorate cupcakes, cookies, ice cream and cake. Hello Kitty Icing Decorations

Wilton does it again! Baking delicious cakes - and eating them - has never been so fun with this adorable Hello Kitty cake pan! The cakes made with this would almost be too cute to eat.
Almost.

Hello Kitty cake pans
these pans create a cake as sweet as Hello Kitty herself. Create the purrfect Hello Kitty cakes or use as a Hello Kitty jello mould.

How about some Hello Kitty technology?

It can't get better than this gorgeous, totally pink,

Hello Kitty mobile phone

that boasts a touch screen AND a smile-detecing camera.

Who needs iPhones, anyway?

                                                                             

Hello Kitty style

3D Swarovski Luxury Crystal Bling Case Cover for iphone 4 / 4s

This Luxury case is made from real crystals, NOT plastic rhinestones. This is the real diamond sparkle, you can tell the difference from a mile off.

Bling Hello Kitty case! Unique Design & Superb Quality that you will NOT find elsewhere!

The craftsmanship, attention to detail and overall appearance are outstanding. It is heavy and durable, sparkly and absolutely perfect.

Sooooo worth the money, stunning bling for the phone

3D Swarovski Pink Hello Kitty Crystal Bling Case Cover faceplate for iphone  Verizon

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MAC Hello Kitty Collection Haul

Originally planned to launch Thursday, Feb. 12, the MAC and Hello Kitty collaboration launched today, a couple days earlier than originally planned. I of course, went nuts over the stuff, with a purchase totaling over $260 in product. I bought both Beauty Powder blushes ($18 each), the Lucky Tom eyeshadow quad ($38), a Beauty Powder in Pretty Baby ($22), lipsticks in Strayin', Big Bow, Most Popular, and Cute-ster ($14 each), and my first lipglasses in Mimmy, She loves Candy, and Sweet Strawberry ($14 each), Tinted Lip Conditioners in Pink Fish and Popster ($14.50), and my first MAC nailpolish in On the Prowl ($11). I did the vast majority of my haul at Nordstroms, but a few things were bought at a MAC freestanding store (and the reason is at the end of this post!) Everything came in black packaging with Hello Kitty Written on it, kinda cute, and a welcome change from MAC's regular boring black packaging in this blogger's opinion.

Here's everything after it's been freed from the packaging (well except for the nailpolish, there was a mixup with my preorders, and one of them went missing)

A few items opened up..

Here's a close-up of the Lucky Tom Palette open. The palette is quite a bit smaller than I had expected, barely larger than the four eyeshadow pans squeezed together, and measures less than 5" in length, 1.25" wide, and less than 1/2" tall. Inside are four colors:

Creme Royale (Veluxe Pearl)- the smoothest of the four colors in this palette, a sheer shimmery yellow gold shade.

Paradisco (Frost)- a repromote from the permanent line. Paradisco is a sheer shimmery peachy pink shade. A pretty color, but it's a bit difficult to draw color off this shade, so I'm not fond of this.

Stylin' (Velvet)- Gorgeous blue purple color with sparkle in the pan, but the color loses the sparkle once on the lid. Also has somewhat poor color payoff, but the color builds up easily.

Lucky Tom (Luster)- A dark dirty taupe with glitter in the pan. The glitter also dissapears on the lid.

Overall, the palette isn't the best, but it's not the worst either. Unless you're in it for the cute packaging, I'd probably skip this palette. If you already bought it, it's still worth keeping, but the colors don't really go that well together either.

There were two beauty powders released with this collection, and quite frankly, like all beauty powders in my opinion, are not worth purchasing. I however, did purchase one of the powders, mostly for the adorable imprint on the powder. I chose Pretty Baby, the light pink matte powder because that one showed up a little bit better on me. It has the possibility for being used as a very very light pink blush, but I have my doubts about that. I'm not sure I intend on using it anyways ( I know, shame on me...)

I picked up both blushes in my haul today, Tippy, the pink blush, is a bright, slightly shimmery pink, that requires the use of a skunk brush to work on most skin tones. Otherwise, it'll just look clownish. Even still, it's quite bright

The second blush, Fun and Games, while looking somewhat orangey in the pan, ended up as a great subtle peachy glow on me. Out of the two blushes, this one is the most wearable in my opinion.

I also picked up both tinted lip conditioners, which are lightweight, have great color, and smell carry the scent of vanilla. The best part about them for me? When you run out of lip conditioner, you can probably switch the Hello Kitty imprinted lid with that of a regular TLC. Popster is a sheer coral shade. It isn't anything special, but it is definitely pretty.

Pink Fish is a light, slightly cool toned pink on my lips that I think would work well with played up eyes. However, I feel that it's also one of those things that isn't a must-have.

Next up are the lipglasses. The lipglasses released in this collection are all really sheer, and somewhat sticky. They don't carry the light vanilla scent that I've heard that all MAC lipglasses have. I picked up 3 out of the 6 that were released with this collection:

She Loves Candy- Sheer light pink with shimmer. It's not much on it's own, and it screams that it's dupeable to me, but it's quite beautiful over a couple of the lippies in this collection. It's definitely a nice addition to your collection if you're looking to collect one of the lipglasses.
Mimmy- Super sheer light peachy-pink/coral shade, this lipglass is fairly unexciting and imparts only the slightest hint of color and shimmer to your lips.

If you plan to wear this shade alone, then it's not worth purchasing. If you really want a color like this, Chanel's aqualumiere in Candy Glow is very similar in the tube, and goes on with a bit more color. I myself was thinking of taking this one back until I tried layering it on top of Cute-ster lipstick. The two go great with each other.
Sweet Strawberry- my favorite lipglass in this collection. Sweet Strawberry is berry toned in the tube, but once on my lips, is a mid-deep pink with a hint of berry. It's also sheer, but the color is quite pretty. It is definitely worth looking at.

Of the 6 lipsticks released with this collection, I purchased 4, 3 of which are much brighter than what I normally wear. All lipsticks came in a black tube with Hello Kitty design on them and a cute hello kitty imprint in the lipstick itself. The two I did not purchase, Fresh Brew (Lustre, repromote) and Fashion Mews, did not suit my skin tone and were left alone

Cute-Ster- is a sheer peach color with gold shimmer. This was my favorite lipstick of the collection and I have already purchased a backup. This was already sold out at my freestanding store by the time I went to go pick up a backup. I think this would not show up on a lot of people, but as I have pigmented, cool toned lips, this transformed my natural lip color quite beautifully. Other people have mentioned it didn't show up though. I think this one is fairly similar to Marquise D. from the Blonde, Brunette, Redhead collection, but cutester is slightly pinker, and less frosty than Marquise D., with more subtle shimmer.

Big Bow (glaze)- is a sheer bright blue pink on my lips. There isn't too much I want to say on this one at this time. It's pretty, and I'm decently happy with it, but it's not a must-have for me

Strayin' (Frost)- is a mid-toned brightish pink that seems perfect for Spring. Although it is a frost finish, the lipstick itself is not frosty at all, but instead has a slight sheen to it. It's also, in my opinion, the prettiest one to look at in the tube.

The last lipstick I purchased was Most Popular (Lustre)- which is a berry tinged pink shade, also much brighter than the colors I normally wear. It's similar to Sweet Strawberry lipglass, but with slightly more berry tones.

I had to go back to the store for my On the Prowl nail polish (which is why it was not in the first few pictures), and I'm glad I did. On the prowl is a light matte grey shade that I haven't seen anywhere else. The bottle is decorated with MAC's version of Hello Kitty.
Congratulations! you've reached the bottom of my long, badly written post! Here's the reason why part of my haul ended up being done at a MAC freestanding store versus a complete haul from Nordstrom's, which I prefer more for their great service and return policy: I recieved this tote for making a Hello Kitty collection purchase over $50. Yay! It's not the best made tote in the world, as it's made of this strange plastic-like material, but it's super cute and it was FREE.



Hope you enjoyed this post!