tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42526928884573822812024-03-12T18:41:02.941-07:00Beauty Boxes for JerksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-87000172223962922112017-03-04T19:33:00.001-08:002017-03-04T19:35:49.226-08:00Blue Apron and Target Beauty Box<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few weeks ago a friend gave me a free Blue Apron box. Blue Apron is
like a beauty box for your stomach and it is appropriate to write about
here.<br /><br />A Blue Apron box contains fresh ingredients for three
recipes serving two people. Each box costs $60. My first free one came
late - it was supposed to be delivered on a Friday, but didn't come
until Monday. I emailed Blue Apron about it, and they gave me another
free box. Even though my first box was three days late, everything was
still usable because they pack it so well.<br /><br />Going into this I
thought it was stupid and ridiculous. For 60 bucks I could buy way more
groceries! However, I wouldn't. These are healthy meals that offer
variety, and it's fun to come home to cook something up all fancy-like,
like a real adult. Also Blue Apron was very generous in giving me
another free box. So I'm keeping my Blue Apron subscription for a little
bit. You can skip weeks, which is nice - you're not locked into $60
every week.<br /><br />So far I've gotten three boxes and paid for one. I
have done a pretty bad job on two of the dishes. We'll see how long this
goes.<br /><br />IN OTHER BEAUTY BOX NEWS:<br /><br />I still have way too many
products that I'm trying to use up from my wild and heady days as a
beauty box connoisseur and blogger, so there's no way I can justify
signing up for any more beauty boxes for the foreseeable future.<br /><br />However,
Target has monthly beauty boxes, and you don't technically <i>sign up for<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></i>them, you purchase them individually
every month, and they're not expensive ($5-10, depending), and sometimes
if they don't sell out after a couple weeks they'll discount them, and
my sister wanted one in January so I bought it for her in a very
generous and grand fashion, and I was impressed and filled with envy when she opened
hers, so I decided to buy one for myself as well. I was very pleased
with it. Then I bought a February one when it got discounted (because
everyone on the internet hated it that month and refused to buy it)
and I was pleased with that too. This month the Target Beauty Box has
already sold out! So that's put an end to my Target Beauty Box spree,
thankfully.<br /><br />But Amazon also has a beauty box! My mom bought me
one for my birthday. It's full of tiny little things, many little
things. They'll be useful for the gym. (I'm going to the gym again.)<br /><br />Just
today I finally used up one of the bottles of the cleanser that I got
from the Blush Mystery Beauty Box many moons ago. I liked that stuff.
Probably because it was blue. (It was the Avene Cleanance Cleansing Gel
for Face and Body. On the Dermstore website they have a picture of the
bubbles from this stuff. Ha ha.)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-27443990378676503582016-01-04T21:33:00.001-08:002016-01-04T21:35:00.081-08:00Annual Birchbox SubscriptionI treated myself to one year Birchbox Subscription. I received a 20% of discount so it comes out to $7.33 per box. Less then the price of two lattes a month.<br />
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Mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244029040520044408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-5217848229688296702016-01-01T17:01:00.002-08:002016-01-01T17:01:39.614-08:00Are we back for 2016?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Someone might be subscribing to a subscription box or two!! More to come. Happy New Year!!</b></span>Mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244029040520044408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-85050197127724381052015-02-19T20:00:00.000-08:002015-02-19T20:00:02.130-08:00February 2015 Blush Mystery Beauty Box<div>
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here's a quick rundown of the last year with the Blush Mystery Beauty Box, formerly the best mystery beauty box:<br /><br />In 2014, the Blush Mystery Beauty Box started sucking in mysterious and confusing ways:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They sent out more shampoo than you can shake a stick at.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They sent repeat items frequently, sometimes only a month or two after the first time.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They sent expired products and it seemed like they were clearing out extra inventory rather than thoughtfully putting together a collection of products.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I kept hoping it would get better, but it only got worse, so finally in November I canceled my subscription.<br /><br />Then! The December box came out and it looked great, so I resubscribed. I was very happy.<br /><br />Then! The featured item for January was an item that we'd received in December, and another item was one we'd received a couple months before that. The internet was SO MAD. I think Blush included that product in December's box by mistake and only meant for it to be in January's but maybe the Blush Mystery Beauty Box is put together by robots who don't notice things like that. But whatever. Blush sent out a shitty coupon apologizing for the duplicate items. I decided to hold on another month but if they sent more duplicates or shampoo I'd unsubscribe again.<br /><br />This month is February. Here's my review for this month, along with a subjective and illogical rating system.<br /><br /><b><u>February 2015 Blush Mystery Beauty Box</u></b><br /><br /><b>Alterna Bamboo Smooth Kendi Pure Treatment Oil</b> - This is stuff for your hair. I've used it a couple times. It smells nice and my hair seems to like it. <b>+10 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>100 Percent Pure Creamy Nail Polish in Kiss </b>- I don't like the color (reddish pink) but we haven't gotten fingernail polish in a long time and getting fingernail polish from the Blush Mystery Beauty Box changed my life. I'll give this away because I don't wear pinkish red fingernail polish but I approve of this. <b>+5 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>Cargo Liquid Liner in Black </b>- Blush sends Cargo products frequently but they haven't sent much eyeliner lately. I probably won't wear this but if I wore eyeliner I would. <b>+5 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>Neostrata Skin Active Antioxidant Defense Serum </b>- We get a lot of these "antioxidant" "defense" "serums" and I don't know if there's any difference between any of them but I'll use this and don't mind it. It's a small sample so if I don't like it I won't have to deal with it for long.<b> +5 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>TOCCA Hand Cream in Stella</b> - This is the featured item this month and you got one of three flavors. I got blood orange. Yum! Delicious! This is nice stuff! <b>+10 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>TOCCA Eau de Parfum in Stella </b>- Small sample of perfume. Normally I'm not into perfume, but this is the same flavor as the hand cream, and it seems like they matched the flavors for everyone. And that's nice! That brings the points for this up from 5 points to <b>+15 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>Juliette Has a Gun Perfume</b> - Oh, another small sample of perfume. I'm impressed by the thoughtfulness of the TOCCA perfume/hand cream, but this... it's French, but mostly I'm confused about the name. She has a gun? Good for her. Does she smell good? Does her gun smell good? What does a gun have to do with this? <b>-10 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><b>Vichy Idealia Life Serum </b>- Oh, another "serum". That's a -10, but it's French, so <b>+0 points</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b><br /><b>Sarah Potempa The Wrap Up </b>- A thing to put your hair into fancy buns that look like bagels. This won't work for people who don't have bun hair, but it's a unique item. I'm a little freaked out by perfect buns but luckily for me (or unluckily) my hair still looks like a pile of straw and not a bagel. <b>+10 points</b><br /><br />Total points out of a possible one million: <b>+50 points</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No, wait, I really like that hand cream, it's worth another 10 points. So, all together, <b>+60 points!</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Will Blush send shampoo next month? Will they send another tube of TOCCA Hand Cream? If they did would I be upset about the duplicate or would I be happy to get another tube of super great hand cream? Tune in next month to find out!</i></span></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-59023278300641220942014-10-15T21:20:00.001-07:002014-10-15T21:20:54.653-07:00Beauty Box 5 October 2014 - Extend your Beauty Cosmetic Tool<p dir="ltr">I haven't  been blogging much because I'm only receiving Beauty Box 5 right now and they haven't  been all that exciting.  Mostly chapsticks, nail polish, eye liner or face or hair product samples.  This month though  I received  a mini SPATULA!!!  This product is hilarious.  It allows you to scrap the sides of tiny bottles to get every last drop of a product.  I guess if you buy $100 eye creams or <a href="http:// http://www.fekkai.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Fekkai-Site/default/mProduct-Show?pid=BRILLGLOSSSHAM&start=2&cgid=shampoos">Fekkai Glossy </a>shampoo you would need this tool.  </p>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also got <b>Oilless Oil by Peter Thomas Roth</b>. It's moisturizer for your face and whatever else needs moisturizing. I've been using this at night and I quite like it. They make a big deal out of the process they use to make this - it's from sugar cane or whatever, and they do a lot of fancy stuff to it, apparently. This seems to work nicely, and my face and I like it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">They also sent </span><b style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">pūr~lisse pūr-moist hydra-balance moisturizer</b><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. This is the cousin of the stuff that my chin apparently hated last fall and I'm scared to try this. Also goddammit, why does the name have to be so complicated? I'm inclined to dislike it </span><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">pūr</span><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">~ly because of the name.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">And we got <b>Laura Geller Beauty Cool Lids Cream Eyeshadow in Silver Sands</b>. Silvery liquid eyeshadow. I don't wear eyeshadow but this is the bombdiggity, if you will. I really like this stuff. You just use a tiny, tiny dot, and suddenly you look very, very fancy. Me gusta, Laura Geller.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">And the last item. <b>Miracle Skin Transformer Face</b>. They sent this exact thing in October. But the tube I got in October expires in a year and a half, and the tube they sent this month expired in March. This is super weird. Weird that they're sending something they've already sent, and weird that they're sending out expired products. I could have contacted them and gotten a replacement, but I don't want a replacement, so eh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I really like three of the products that came this month, I will probably like one product, I'm scared to use one product, and one product is stupid. Overall this was a successful box for me, but I'm still feeling underwhelmed. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm on the internet and eventually everyone has to turn into a whiner. I still think the Blush Mystery Beauty Box is the best beauty box. It's nice that this month they donated products to the Beauty Bus Foundation. The blush, eyeshadow, and oilless oil are probably among the top products I've received and I'll continue to use them for all my livelong days. Bleh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Maybe I need to take a nap.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-17394628976508171292014-05-16T09:35:00.000-07:002014-05-16T09:35:01.972-07:00May 2014 Beauty Box five Unboxing Video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got my money's worth this month with just the eyeliner and face mask. I'm very excited to try cat eyes with this waterproof eyeliner. The last few eyeliners and mascara I received from other beauty boxes were all natural but since they were not water proof it looked like I was crying all the time. <br />
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This is my last Maven box. I cancelled after I received the the May box. After spending $171.19 on nail polish in 3 months, I've finally quit, it's an addiction. Yes, it was absolutely great fun and has provided me hours of entertainment. I decided it was ridiculous to spend that much money on nail polish. I'll have to give myself manicures every week to recoup my investment in Julep. - MirandaMirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244029040520044408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-50438143672418314812014-04-25T19:35:00.000-07:002014-04-25T19:37:43.761-07:00April 2014 Birchbox: still not bad<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'd like to be able to unsubscribe from Birchbox because I don't need it - the only reason I signed up was to be a brat because everyone on the internet hates it so much, but then it turns out I really genuinely don't hate Birchbox, and it's not even out of spite. It's a perfectly fine box. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It's only ten bucks, and you get something to eat!</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">This month's Birchbox theme was Rainy Days. They included a little card with a random tip for surviving a rainy day. My tip was to go buy an umbrella. Thanks, Birchbox!</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Here's what I got this month:</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Harvey Prince Yogini perfume.</b> This is a little sample of perfume but with a spray top! A spray top on a tiny little tube! The card says this is the "scent of liberation." Exclusively at harveyprince.com. They say to use the code "beautifulyou" for extra magic. Magic! You can buy magic on the internet at harveyprince.com! I hope those don't automagically turn into hyperlinks for you. You'll have to copy and paste that if you want to go there. I refuse to add hyperlinks, sorry.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Sumita Color Intense Pencil in Suman (black).</b> I'm not much of a makeup person, so all I can say about this is that it's eyeliner. Eyeliner is eyeliner. This seems very eyeliney, so it seems fine to me. No French at all on the pencil. :(</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Beauty Protector Protect & Detangle Leave-In Conditioner.</b> This is a little bottle of stuff to put in your hair. It smells nice. I've used it once and it was quite nice. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The bottle is rubber. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The sprayer on the bottle doesn't work.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Color Club Gala's Gems Collection Breakfast at...</b> This is a little bottle of pearly shimmery light green fingernail polish. It's cute, although the name is complicated. I'm getting a similar green color in my next Julep box - it will be interesting to compare.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>KIND Healthy Grains Maple Pumpkin Seeds with Sea Salt. </b>Food!</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">So AGAIN I won't be canceling Birchbox. Someday I will but I just can't find a reason to right now.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Fingernail plan for the weekend:</b> Dark shimmery purple (Elle). I'm not sure how this will work out for a 5K - it seems more appropriate for something longer - but we'll see. The last three weekends for my races (all 5Ks) I wore: bright sparkly green (Tatum), sparkly mermaid teal (Marion), sparkly orange (Tatiana). As you may have guessed, the bright green and the orange worked out well, but the teal wasn't as fast as I would have liked.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This month, again, was curated by a BOY. The featured item he picked out is the <b>Love Lips Collection Duo Crayon by La Bella Donna</b>. This is a two-sided lip pencil thingamabob. The colors are nice but I'm not good about using these things.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also got a full-sized can of <b>Oscar Blandi Pronto Invisible Volumizing Dry Shampoo Spray</b>. Half the internet is pissed about this, because we've gotten dry shampoo before, and half the internet loves this. Now that I'm a lady who goes to the gym, I use dry shampoo often, so I'm excited about this product. "Oscar Blandi" sounds very fancy but I think the fanciness of this product would be enhanced if they'd change the color of this can. It's brown. Brown is the color of poo. They should make it silver, which is the color of fabulous.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also got a big bottle of <b>Jonathan Infinite Volume Shampoo</b>. Again, half the internet is pissed about this, and half loves it. Shampoo! Volumizing! Again! Some people are mad that we've gotten Jonathan products before (have we? have I?). I'm mad because this is "for fine/thin hair", which I misinterpreted when I was younger to mean that it would make your hair fine and thin, which I wanted. Who wouldn't want something to be fine? Instead, "for fine/thin hair" means that it should be used on hair that is already fine. So confusing.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then Blush always sends some free extras. And I got two foily things, and then TWO OF THE ELIZABETH ARDEN PERFUME BOTTLES that we got a couple months ago. Two of them. The bottles are very fancy and cute but I already have one! I'll give these away. I don't understand why they gave me two. Were they confused? Was it someone who was like, "I don't even care, I hate this job, I'll give this stupid lady two bottles of perfume ah ha ha."?</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guys, someday, at some point, my relationship with the Blush Mystery Beauty Box must come to an end. You get to a point where you have plenty of personal care items sitting in your bathroom, and then the beauty boxes become less and less exciting, and then you take to the internet and start complaining. Maybe I need to take a break for a few months.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I hope they start sending toothpaste and deodorant, because I could use some of that.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-87162598264002800472014-04-03T20:38:00.000-07:002014-04-03T20:47:00.263-07:00Very exciting updates on things<div style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial; font-size: small;">
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Unfortunately, the bluey-purpley polish leaked into its lid a little. Not much, not a huge mess, but enough to make me feel sad and persecuted. But not enough to make me want to notify Julep about it.<br />
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I didn't think I would, but I actually like the bluey-purpley color. I refuse to post pictures, so you'll just have to imagine. The first coat is very light and if you can make it go on without being all streaky and dumb, one coat is really nice, a subtle barely-there iridescent pale blue. Two coats looks like poo, don't do that. For the finest results, you have to do three coats and a topcoat. (Someone on the internet was putting a white coat on the bottom and that looked nice. Who would have thought? Should I buy some opaque white polish in order to do that? Would Wite-Out work?)<br />
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I've decided to wear the bright green polish on race days because I think it will make me faster. I can't imagine wearing bright green fingernail polish at any other time. I will never, ever use this bottle up.<br />
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The blush is packaged very fancily, as are all Julep products. I'm sure it's nice but I haven't tried it and won't try it for another 50 years, not until I've used up all the other blushes I have.<br />
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The April <b>Blush Mystery Beauty Box </b>is on its way to me! I'm very excited about it, as usual, because Blush was the first beauty box I subscribed to and I am fiercely, doggedly loyal, even when my loyalty is undeserved, which it is not in the case of the Blush Mystery Beauty Box. Best mystery beauty box!</div>
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Last week the internet was abuzz with talk of the <b>ModCloth Stylish Surprise</b> - ten bucks, a surprise. You could choose from shoes, clothing, or apartment fodder. Everyone was posting pictures of their clothing surprises, and I didn't like anything that anyone got, but I was overcome by it all and ordered one myself. I will probably get either a tenty shirt designed for an 18th century peasant or a short short dress that's so short I wouldn't even have worn it when I was 13. But who cares! It will be a stylish surprise!</div>
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Maven madness is spreading at my office. We have four subscribers because Julep is AWESOME and contagious. In the video I'm wearing <a href="http://www.julep.com/malala.html" target="_blank">Malala</a>,which is great for a professional office setting. Malala is a dusty pink mauve creme and is part of the Classic with a Twist collection. 100% of the proceeds from Malala benefits <a href="http://malalafund.org/" target="_blank">The Malala Fund</a>. <br />
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Colors in the April It Girl Box<br />
Bailey - Hyped Cobalt Sheer (It Girl)<br />
Maren - Electric Bubblegum Sheer with Blue Sheen (It Girl)<br />
Flora - Exotic Dragonfruit with Blue Shimmer (It Girl)<br />
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My birthday is in May and I'm considering upgrading to get all the May polishes. What am I going to do with all this nail polish you ask? Line it up in my bathroom into a nice display!!!<br />
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Mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244029040520044408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-14356536788640552472014-03-24T21:30:00.001-07:002014-03-24T21:32:56.139-07:00Birchbox isn't so bad<span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;">One day I was at work and feeling particularly sorry for myself, so I decided to make myself feel better by signing up for Birchbox. Everyone on the internet hates Birchbox, so I was super excited about how much I was not going to hate it, just to be ornery. I was looking forward to this so much.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><b>Gilchrist & Soames Body Lotion.</b> In case you start thinking this hotel brand stuff isn't all that fancy, please note that there's French on it. It's not just body lotion, it's <i>lotion pour le corps</i>. And Gilchrist & Soames was EST. LONDON ENGLAND, so it's pretty posh, don't worry. I'll take this to work to use on mon corps or perhaps mes mains.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><b>Supergoop! City Sunscreen Serum.</b> This is an anti-aging UV damage repair complex that you put on your face. It will protect you while you are out in the city. No French on the tube but it's made in Australia and I find the lack of pomp refreshing, as I'm sure you do.</span><br />
<span style="color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><b>theBalm How 'Bout Them Apples? Cheek & Lip Cream.</b> This is a tiny dot of pink stuff in a tiny magnetic book. I like this packaging quite a lot. When you open it up, there's a shirtless man in a cowboy hat to remind you why you're putting on this pink stuff. The color I got is called Pie.</span><br />
<span style="color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><b>Tea.</b> One of the reasons everyone hates Birchbox is because of tea. Everyone on the internet hates tea. This month they sent three pouches of Mightly Leaf: Organic Earl Grey, Green Tea Tropical, and Chamomile Citrus. I'm okay with all of this.</span><br />
<span style="color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;">The last item was in a fancy pouch. I opened it up and oh my god guess what came out (in addition to the thing that was supposed to be inside)?!!?? A little chocolate bar!!! I was surprised! I'm going to eat that chocolate bar so much tomorrow, oh man.</span><br />
<span style="color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial;">The thing in the pouch was a little pouch of <b>Agave Healing Oil Oil Treatment,</b> a.k.a. traitement a l'huile. They also talk to us in Spanish here. Now I can't be entirely sure but I kind of think I got this stuff in my last Blush Mystery Beauty Box. Did I? I don't actually know, but I think so, and I'm not going to get up and go into the bathroom to check. Please come back for my next entry when I update you on this.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-8910268309076097642014-03-16T09:23:00.003-07:002014-03-16T09:24:19.905-07:00Julep It Girl Welcome Box<h2 class="style-profile-col-2-content-col-2-h2" style="background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34) !important; font-family: proxima-nova, 'Proxima Nova', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: auto auto 10px; padding: 0px;">
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1. The Bag itself is super cute.<br />
2. NYX Eyeshadow in Love in Rio Colors. Great neutral colors.<br />
3. Chella Indigo Blue Eyeliner. This is the same color as my favorite blue pilot pen. Seriously this is very Emo/hooker blue/something you would wear on the streets of Tokyo and fit in perfectly. Full Size. $24 Value. <br />
4. Pixi Beauty - Flawless Beauty Primer. Primer is all the rage now since it provides a base coat on your skin. It's like the base coat or spackle you would use on your walls if you were remodeling except it is for your face. Really what it does is fills your pores so the surface is more even. I love bareMinerals primer and didn't think this Pixi Beauty was as good.<br />
5. Marvelous Moxie Lipstick in Get Ready by bareMinerals. I like this because it's sample size and it's a cute dollhouse size lipstick. <br />
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Mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244029040520044408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-1119041886985626752014-03-12T09:00:00.000-07:002014-03-12T09:00:04.953-07:00March 2014 Beauty Box 5One of the best blogs is Liz Cadman's <a href="http://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/" target="_blank">My Subscription Addiction</a>. She posts on the 3-6 boxes she receives per DAY and always shares great discount deals. This is how I received an annual subscription to <a href="http://beautybox5.com/" target="_blank">Beauty Box 5</a> for only $79 per year. That's only $6.58 per box. Somehow I justify this cost by saying that's less than the cost of a sandwich. When I added up the value of the sizes I got I estimated the March Box at $28.<br />
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Notice I'm wearing Aisha <a href="http://www.julep.com/rewardsref/index/refer/id/673877" target="_blank">Julep</a> nail polish in the video. <a href="http://www.julep.com/rewardsref/index/refer/id/673877" target="_blank">Julep</a> is still my favorite subscription box because the company does amazing things for women. Check this story about their Powered by Girlfriends program. <a href="http://blog.julep.com/malala-yousafzai/">http://blog.julep.com/malala-yousafzai/</a><br />
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<strong><u>Miranda Updates</u></strong><br />
Favorite Box: <a href="http://www.julep.com/rewardsref/index/refer/id/673877" target="_blank">Julep</a><br />
Expecting in the mail: March Ipsy Glam Bag <br />
Most Wanted Box: <a href="http://us.memebox.com/?referrer=Direct" target="_blank">Memebox</a> - Products curated from Korea<br />
No longer subscribing to: Blush Mystery Beauty Bag or Birchbox<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need to stop reading online beauty box reviews. They're so whiny and critical. Everyone is constantly disappointed by their beauty box subscriptions. They're mad because the sizes are too small or they don't like the colors. They're mad when they get something they've never used and they're mad when they get something they've already used. They're mad when someone else on the internet gets something they didn't get. They're mad when there are hair products and they're mad when there aren't hair products.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stop harshing my open limbic system, a-holes! You guys are snotty jerks! Of course you're not going to like everything in your beauty box! If you only want things you want, you should unsubscribe from your beauty box and buy the things you want yourself!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Blush Mystery Beauty Box is the best mystery beauty box in the world! It is mysterious and beautiful. I have been subscribed since August, and I've gotten some really great things that I never would have tried otherwise ($30 body wash). I've also gotten things that I make fun of (nail wraps), and I've gotten things that scare me (pink human hair), and I've gotten things that I didn't know I needed but now can't live without (fingernail polish). Thus far, however, I still have received no products for my ears. Nothing. Now that I think about it, that's an absolute outrage. It's very disappointing. Blush hates ears! Blush is anti-ear!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's something calling itself Spackle. Spackle! Like the stuff you put on your walls! Except this is for your face! Specifically, this is <b>Laura Geller Beauty Spackle Under Makeup Primer</b>. How dare they send this to me, knowing how uncomfortable I am with the concept of facial spackly stuff. Blush and Laura Geller are basically telling me that my face is drywall. It's unbelievable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The box also contains <b>StriVectin-SD Intensive Concentrate for Stretch Marks and Wrinkles</b>. I am so offended by this. The implication that I need something for stretch marks and wrinkles is the height of impudence. Also, I don't know what SD stands for. San Diego? Stand Down? Or does it stand for Stupid Dummy? The potential for insult just increases the more you think about this. Highly offensive product.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also got <b>Miracle Skin Transformer Hydroactive Microderm</b>. This is from the same company that made the product that gave me a huge existential meltdown a couple months ago. And here they send another product from them! Are they trying to destroy my mental health on purpose? I pay money for this!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also got <b>Talika Eye Therapy Patches</b>. This is great because Talika is the company that made that eyelash goop that actually (maybe) worked, but this is terrible because these come in a little foil packet. The two eye patches are actually worth more than $10 but I can hardly enjoy them because the packaging does not meet my high standards. These patches, which can be used three times, are supposed to deliver moisturizing and anti-aging ingredients directly to the skin by osmosis. Well I don't believe in osmosis and I don't like them pushing their religious beliefs on me. It's called the First Amendment, people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Suki washcloth.</b> This is a 100% organic washcloth made from the highest quality cotton. It is a cream color. How dare they pry into my personal life like this.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Skinceuticals Hydrating B5 Gel.</b> This is the featured product picked out by this month's curator, a BOY. This is the tiniest, cutest dropper bottle of stuff ever invented and I can't bring myself to say anything bad about it, except that it's not as tiny and cute as the teensy-tiny 3mL dropper bottle for the super expensive Dremu oil. Actually, comparing the two, this Skinceuticals bottle is ungainly and gauche. Too huge! Gross.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>DCL Oil Free Ultra Light Hydrator.</b> This is the hugest bottle of face moisturizer I've ever seen in my life, 3.5 oz. So they think I have skin that might like to be hydrated, do they? I'll be the one who decides whether my skin gets hydrated or not, thank you very much.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last product is <b>Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid</b>. This is, perhaps, the most disappointing product in this month's beauty box. The internet loves Paula's Choice, but who is Paula? And why should I accept her choice? What are her qualifications for making this choice? What did she choose from? And what does BHA stand for? I don't know, but I can only assume the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My free samples from Blush this month are: a small packet of nettoyant pour le visage de First Aid Beauty, and a small packet of moisturizing body lotion from Amlactin that doesn't have one word of French on the packet. :(</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In sum, this month's Blush Mystery Beauty Box is the most disappointing thing I have ever experienced. It has harmed my home and my health. Yet I will continue to suffer this burden on a monthly basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fancy Schmancy Nail Subscription! It's unlikely I will use most of this stuff but getting this box at work made my day. $19.99 per box (free shipping) and you get $40 worth of products. Usually 2 Nail Polishes and a nail tool or 3 Nail Polishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are like me and paint your own nails like a 12 year old. I can't wait for the Julep Plie Wand coming in the May boxes. Video <a href="http://www.julep.com/idealab/plie-wand" target="_blank">here</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right now I'm wearing the Oxygen Nail Treatment that I got. Did you know that the French word for 'fingernail' is <i>ongle</i>? I didn't either! Mis ongles look tres chic without being all scary and bright. And they are being oxygenated, and my teeth haven't bitten them once today. Success!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also got a bottle of top coat, which is very, you know, toppy and coaty, and I got the cleanup tool, which will come in handy, and I got the two bottles of nail polish - blue and creamy white. The blue, a light periwinkle, is very nice. The creamy white polish in the bottle looks like something unmentionable. Never mind about that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julep nail polishes are very nice, even if they are only 4-free. They cover nicely and dry nicely and stuff. And there are so many, many colors. Mucho gusto, Julep, you jerk. I want so much nail polish now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This month's Julep box also came with: a candy stick! I ate that immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Blush Mystery Beauty Box news:</b> Well, Blush is still ignoring me because they again haven't sent me an email about the March box. But it's okay, Blush Mystery Beauty Box is still the best mystery beauty box.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This month's Blush Mystery Beauty Box is curated by a BOY. His chosen product is hydrating gel for your face, your décolleté, and the backs of your hands. A 1 oz. bottle of the stuff is $74. Given my newly acquired refined tastes for stupid expensive face crap, I will probably start buying it.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-8215642883586406122014-02-24T17:56:00.002-08:002014-02-24T17:59:27.389-08:00FINGERNAIL NEWS FLASH<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The <b>Julep March Maven Reveal</b> ends today! I just changed my box again! I decided I'm not a Modern Beauty. I switched to the Core Classics Box, which includes a cleanup tool, top coat, and oxygen nail treatment. The cleanup tool is this little thing that's supposed to clean under nails and fix polish mistakes. It's kind of like a jackknife but fancier, and for ladies. Hooray! I'm still adding on the cloudy clear polish and the light periwinkle polish. I'm not getting the lippy stuff. This is a fingernail subscription, who cares about lips right now, am I right? Right? Am I? I have a few more hours to change my mind again. Did I do the right thing? Maybe I should switch back! What if I chose the wrong thing!</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">I decided I wanted the cleanup tool because I put on the coral pinky <b>Butter London</b> polish over the weekend and there's no way to put it on without looking like a 5-year-old. Impossible. I even took it off and put it back on as carefully as possible, but it's still embarrassing. Somehow you can't stop it from leaking into your cuticles, and it's so bright that any mistake like that is quite blatant.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">In contrast, the purple <b>LVX </b>polish goes on like a champ - no smudging, no weird cuticle leaks, no streaky bad spots. LVX nail polish makes you look like an elegant professional, a competent and graceful gentlewoman whose apartment is not a disaster, a put-together grown-up who gets up in the morning without hitting the snooze button five times. I really like the LVX stuff. I try to like the Butter London stuff but just haven't been able to.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Fingernails, man. It's so complicated.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Julep boxes start shipping on the 27th. They come from Seattle so it'll only take a couple days to get here. I am very excited for this box and </span><span style="background-color: white;">in preparation </span><span style="background-color: white;">am growing out my fingernails with all my might.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-49733698921239948232014-02-20T18:22:00.000-08:002014-02-20T18:33:37.996-08:00Julep March Mavel Reveal, and important updates<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the 20th of the month! That means that the March Maven Reveal is open! For a few days during the Reveal you get to look at the products you'll get in your Julep Maven box, and if you don't like them you can switch to a different box. You can also add single products from other boxes, or you can add every single thing possible. All these things.
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This month, the Julep Bombshell box contains: yellow fingernail polish, blue fingernail polish, and peachy lip gloss. Everything obviously has fancier names than that. But I decided to switch to the Modern Beauty box, which contains lip conditioning treatment and lip scrub (LIP SCRUB), and I added a light periwinkle nail polish and a cloudy clear nail polish. I think the cloudy clear stuff might help me ease back into the world of clear nail polish, which I currently cannot handle. Colored polishes help trick my teeth into thinking my fingernails are not fingernails. If my teeth can see the whites of my fingernails, they know that they're fingernails and cannot be stopped from biting them.
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who am I? Am I still a Bombshell? Am I a confident frill seeker with magnetic appeal? Do I still adore bold, glam colors and anything that sparkles? Modern Beauties are savvy tastemakers obsessed with the art and science of beauty. Is that me? I don't know. We'll see which box I choose next month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A month or so ago I decided that, like a cat, I do not like to get wet. I experimented with taking waterless showers, but those experiments failed. Luckily I subscribe to the Blush Mystery Beauty Box! We've gotten dry shampoo twice, and we got that SweetSpot wipette for your sweet spot. With the Blush Mystery Beauty Box, I'll never have to get wet again! I've used the <b>Klorane Dry Shampoo with Nettle</b> a few times, and it's great! It works well, even after TRX. I don't know if other dry shampoos work like this or not, but this is quite good. If you need a dry shampoo, I do recommend this. I also still really like the Klorane Leave-In Cream. And Miranda likes the Klorane hair mask that she got. This blog gives Klorane four thumbs up.
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've used up the </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Osmosis Skincare Harmonized H20</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Guys, I do not recommend this product. Since I started using this harmonized water, my shoulder started hurting, I discovered a gray hair right in the center of my hairline, and my house developed a mysterious drip. Beware.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've put on the <b>Elizabeth Arden UNTOLD</b> parfum twice and was nearly asphyxiated both times. After you put this on, the smell becomes increasingly more powdery and intense. Unless you like cloying powderiness, I recommend using only one dot of this stuff, maybe just in your elbow pits. The problem here is that I don't like most perfumes. People who like perfume might like this perfume more than I do.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm keeping this because the bottle is so fancy and cute.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NCLA Designer Nail Wraps.</b> Only use these nail wraps for some fancy occasion, guys, because they scare people. I put them on over the weekend to try them out. I went to a coffee shop and as I was handing the barista my money she saw my horrifying fingernails and jumped. These are okay but not for everyday use.
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am STILL using the <b>SmartLash Eyelash Enhancer</b> from November. Whether it enhances your eyelashes or not, I don't know, but it sure lasts a long time. Man, how much longer can this bottle last. Definitely worth either $30 or $125, if that's how much you want to spend on stuff like this.
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently had the opportunity to use the <b>NYX Love in Paris</b> eye shadow and the <b>Mirabella Mineral Highlighting Powder</b> when I went out for an evening. I also wore mascara. Nothing happened.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4252692888457382281.post-33188363239441617412014-02-18T20:10:00.005-08:002014-02-18T20:14:59.406-08:00I'm an Ipster. February 2014 Ipsy Glam Bag - The Look of Love<div dir="ltr">
I just signed up for the <a href="http://www.ipsy.com/r/6d5c">IPSY</a> glam bag. This one is also $10 per month and is the biggest competitor with Birch Box since the boxes are about the same size and same price. Every month you get a cute makeup bag with your subscription. </div>
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What I like about the bag is IPSY personalizes what items you receive through IPSY match where you answer questions about your beauty preferences.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ipsy.com/r/6d5c">February Glam Bag - Called the Look of Love</a> $41 Retail Value</div>
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<a href="http://popbeauty.co.uk/Popbeauty_Products/Lips/Plump_Pout/Index.html">Popbeauty - Pump Pout Mini</a> - Size 4gs $10 Retail Value<br />
Promised to plump up my lips to be more kissable!! Not my favorite.</div>
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<a href="http://www.zoya.com/">Zoya Nail Polish</a> - Full Size $9 Color Odette<br />
This is super fast drying and I love the color. Usually when I paint my nails it looks like 8 year old painted my nails. Hopefully this is higher quality then the Wet N' Wild nail polish I used to buy as a kid. I'm actually very excited about this product!!</div>
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<a href="http://www.citycolorbeauty.com/be-matte-blush.html#.Uv2hLHVdWhM">City Color Be Matte Blush</a> - 2.99 Retail Value<br />
This Blush is Gigantic. It will last me years since I have a lot of blush. This color too pink for me.</div>
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<a href="http://www.skyniceland.com/IPSY/?2">skyn Iceland Fresh Start Mask with Ice Age Mud</a> - 2 Masks Retail for $12<br />
10 minutes face treatment. Mini facial in one package</div>
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<a href="http://jcatbeauty.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=18_46&product_id=53">J. Cat Eyelashes - Eyelashes + Glue</a> Retail $3.99<br />
I would never buy eyelashes for myself so it's fun that they came in the Glam Bag. I have the tiniest eye lashes and virtually none on my bottom lids. I'll try them at least one for fun. I like that the company has "Cat" in the name.</div>
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Please use my referral link if you want to subscribe: <a href="http://www.ipsy.com/r/6d5c">http://www.ipsy.com/r/6d5c</a></div>
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Overall I'm very impressed with this bag for a mere $10. That's two drinks from Starbucks. I will use the nail polish and mask and give the rest away.<br />
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