My April 2012 Birchbox

Every time I received my birchbox I get an e-mail 3 days before telling me what is inside of it, and I always have to remember to delete the e-mail before I get nosy and ruin my surprise.

The unwrapping is always so exciting!

Oh hello there, what wonderful gifts will you give me today!?

I will be honest, I usually toss this aside, but today I decided to read it

My samples:

dropps Laundry Detergent

amika Nourishing Hair Mask

Zoya Nail Polish in Lotus
Juice Beauty Oil-Free Moisturizer

Wonderstruck by Taylor Swift

Close up of Lotus

Wonderstruck and Lotus with a peeking amika!

 

 I am a bit of a nail polish hoarder so this has already been used. I love the grayish tone to it, and it has just enough sparkle and shine. I am a huge fan of Zoya Products as it is so anytime I get one of this I am ecstatic!

While I still love my birchbox, I think they need to up the ante and get more beauty products to try, as in MAKEUP. I have so many soaps, oils and lotions and countless mini samples of perfume but I have my little survey set to "I like to try new makeup trends" and I have yet receive ANY new makeup trends. Face makeup or Eye makeup... Odd. What I will say for birchbox as a company is that when I recieved my last birchbox and the glass perfume sample had shattered they shipped another box to me without any additional costs. It was very nice, a WHOLE new box and not just the sample. Which in fact I loved because I got a different color of the nail polish and I LOVE the Shine perfume. Great work birchbox!

lovelovelove

Maya



High Five for Friday!!

Here are 5 things that make me smile!

My new J Crew Necklace in Turquoise and I also got Grey

(E bay)

Sending my friend a picture of my makeup this week...

(This was only picture #3)

Free Filtered Water at work!

You pick two at Panera!

If you don't have one, get their FREE rewards card, it is a fun surprise getting a little treat here or there for ...again FREE! (Not shown: my Free Berry Smoothie!)

That Sir Winston can give high fives! He is so cute and fluffy, try to find him!

 

Lovelovelove

Maya

99 Cent Sale!

There are a few reasons I check my favorite blogs daily.
One is to save money honey!

Enter G from http://nouveaucheap.blogspot.com/ 

She spends countless hours researching and distributing prime beauty deals and information. She is amazing! She even organizes each weekly sale by store: Rite Aid, CVS or Walgreens  etc. 

To quote a crazy little blonde stylist, she is Ba-na-nas! 

I started reading her blog last year and have figured out when I need to head to the drugstore to find the exact deal I am looking for, eye shadows, nail care, hair products, shower goodies...

Wet N Wild is known as that teeny bopper makeup line that costs pennies and is worth using about .5 times right? 

Well no more! They have improved every product they have. Their colors are much more pigmented which basically means more vibrant!
My favorites are the Comfort Zone Palette, which I use every day. And on stand by are my wet n wild color icon eye shadow singles in Brulee, and Nutty. After that are my Coastal Scent Palettes.

The great thing about these little babies is the price, the singles are usually $1.99 but from  8/28/11 to 9/24/11   all their $1.99 products are 99 cents! For the list of the products on sale check out this link!

Here is my haul from last night, not soon after my last post I grabbed the boy and we headed to Walgreens.

The pictures are from my phone so they might be a little grainy, I apologize.

Nail Polishes: (L-R) Wild Shine- Tickled Pink, Fast Dry- FuchsiaRama, Everybody Loves Redmond (Top,Bottom and Right) - Megalast - Bite the Bullet, Haze of Love, Under your Spell, Disturbia, and Sugar Coat.  

Mega Last Eye Liners - Black Brown, Charcoal, and Navy.

Idol Eyes Creme Shadow Pencils - Graphite and Pixie 

Eye Shadow Singles: Sugar, Brulee (x2), Penny, Nutty

* My daily eye, Brulee on lid, nutty on crease and a little sugar on the brow bone*
For night time, heavier on the Nutty, I like to add a little Penny to the middle of the lid and blend in your crease. It is beautiful copper color...or color of a penny get it? ;)

lovelovelove

Maya

-- Summer Beauty 5

#1

Covergirl Smoothers Spf 15 Tinted Moisturizer

$7.00 at Target

This is a great light coverage moisturizer for summer! I have noticed that my winter make-up routine is just not working for this ridiculous California heat. So I am leaving my foundations at home and taking this with me! I use a foundation stippling brush to blend this into my skin and then I use a kabuki brush with a little of this powder. Love true match. Coincidentally I use a little bronzer that is my....

#2

NYC Bronzer: Sunny

This is a very matte bronzer that I like to use to contour my cheeks during winter. Summer on the other hand I like to use it along my t-zone to add a little kick to my already golden skin tone.This is about $3.00 so it doesn't break the bank!

#3

Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Tin

I prefer the tin to the stick. Own both, use both and there really is zero difference. I am not a very organic/ natural buyer but I really enjoy the kick this stuff has... try it and you will know what I mean. Again this runs about $3.00, it is a very small tin but it goes a long way.

#4
Smith's Rosebud Salve

Okay I know- I know one after another much? Yep another lip product. But, this one comes with a story! One day my friend and I decided to go to new york. Yes that simple. In one day. well 6 days later we were off to the airport to go! Jet Setters? Nope. Her aunt worked for an airline and graciously gave us stand by passes.
One thing you know if you fly stand by is that you NEVER check your luggage. Because it might be there but you might not. I am pretty sure Keep Calm and Carry On was really meant for this, sorry British Government.
Well there I was ready to go through security and TSA kindly asked to go through my bag. My first thought, I seriously have every bottle in its own huge plastic ziploc, what is the problem. Well my #4 was the culprit. I was even asked to throw it away. GASP. The TSA agent had about a 4.3 in personality already but then she uttered that question. The question that made me cringe.
As I was almost in tears about having to throw my little baby love away, she says.... " Haven't you heard of chapstick" BAM.
Knife in my heart.
This little beauty is heaven. It looks precious, smells lovely and reminds me of my mother. Hence why it was in my luggage. My mother and I are best friends, I wanted something useful that I could pack that would remind me of her. Miss TSA unfortunately had no problemo throwing it in the trash right in front of my very very sad eyes.

I have and  love the Original, Brambleberry Rose and my late-strawberry
tear

A little pricey at $7 a tin, but it lasts FOREVER. Unless you don't give it it's own plastic baggy in your luggage and the TSA has the grinches heart.

#5
MAC Turquatic

You know that scent that just works for everyone, but smells differently on everyone too?
This is mine.
My older sister introduced me to this perfume and then my other sister was wearing it one day, two completely different smells.
I was wearing yesterday and was asked what I was wearing, my friend owns it and also made the comment that it smelt nothing like that on her. Amazing

I had a small heart attack when my local hipster MAC girl told me it was gone gone gone forever.No details. Well thank goodness for a little google action. It is back re-packaged and they made a larger bottle!
For anyone that gets two for a special someone for both birthday and Christmas this is great! hint hint wink wink.


Loving the new packaging



Until next time
Lovelovelove
M





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