August Subscription Boxes - Wantable, Ipsy, Beauty Box 5, and Birchbox

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Lots of subscription box goodies to show you for August! Hang on....

July Subscription Boxes - Wantable, Ipsy, Beauty Box 5, and Birchbox

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Is it still July? Dang, missed it by a day.  Getting closer now! If you'd like to see the breakdown of my beauty sub boxes for July, there's a ton of pix after the jump!

June Subscription Box Bonanza! Wantable, Ipsy, Beauty Box 5, and Birchbox

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Surely that title is a typo, right? I meant July?

I should, but no.  These are June's boxes.  Sigh.  Thirty lashes with a wet noodle for me for being so late with these.

Subscription Box Battle! May BB5, Ipsy, Birchbox, and Petit Vour

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Have you thought about subscribing to one of the many sample beauty boxes out there?  I really do enjoy getting to try different things that I might not otherwise find out about, or getting a sample without risking buying a whole box of one product.  Today, I have the May boxes of 4 different sub boxes, so you can get a sense of what's out there!

Birchbox - April Rainy Days

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Welcome to another subscription box review! I really enjoy getting these boxes, it's so much fun to try out a handful of new things I'd probably not discover on my own.

April showers bring.. time inside to curl up with a book, or play with beauty stuffs! 

I like this idea of a good 'book'.  It's good eye candy, anyway.  The tiny book has pictures of 6 hunky cowboys and their favorite apple treats.  Pie is the way I like my apples, and The Balm knows it!  I tried this on both my lips and cheeks.  It's a nice, sheer pinky red shade.  I liked it in both applications.  It lasted about as long as a gloss would on my lips. 

What a cute black eyeliner from Cynthia Rowley! I have an abundance of black eyeliners right now, so I didn't really try this.

I did swatch both items, though.  The black eyeliner is okay - nice, smooth line.  I've been seeing a lot of blogs talk up the new Urban Decay Perversion eyeliners, and Vintage or Tacky did a comparison of a lot of black eyeliners, and this one just seems grey in comparison.

I also forayed into dry shampoos for the first time in a looong time.  I've never tried Klorane before, but I've heard some good buzz about them.  This was a fun experience.  Again, I find myself wishing for a video camera!  For one thing, you need to spray the dry shampoo on your scalp.  So, I tried my best to part my wacky hair and expose some scalp.

Then, you're supposed to hold the can about a foot away.  I just couldn't get my hair, head, and arms to cooperate, so I had to get closer.

The spray is COLD.  Like, I jumped about a foot the first time.  Like one of those Internet Cats that springs straight up and lands on the top of the door.

It did seem to work okay, but the next day, I felt like my hair was greasier than it would have been if I'd just gone without.  Sometimes, leave-in products do that for me.  They just attract more dirt and oil.

As for the Nyakio coffee scrub and oil.. I haven't tried them yet.  Bad blogger.

The last item, the KIND bar with pumpkin seeds, was my fave.  I want a whole box of these.  They are so deliciously salty-sweet - like kettle corn.  I ate it when my husband wasn't around, and I didn't share.  Om Nom Nom. 

If you'd like to try Birchbox, I have a REFERRAL LINK if you want to give me some points.  I would also like someone to send me more of those KIND bars.  Please?

Stay tuned! My #NailArtForNubs link goes live at 9am Eastern! If you liked the studs on the The Balm Apple sample, wait 'till you see the studs on my nails!

Review: March Birchbox

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I really enjoy getting sub boxes, even if I don't use everything, there's usually something new to try.  This month's Birchbox wasn't my fave, but there were a few fun things in it.

First of all, check out the chocolate! That's the only picture, because then I ate it.  Being a good wife, and knowing my husband likes cherry flavor, I even shared it with him.  We both really liked it! Om nom nom.

Living in Florida, I should always use sunscreen, but I don't.  I hate the way it smells.  Supergoop doesn't smell like sunscreen!

This lotion from Gilchrist & Soames was a little 'huh?' moment for me.  I've never, ever, have I ever, seen a lotion in a package like this one.  It's actually thin enough to kind of pour out of the jar - but then, put it in a squeeze or pump package, so I don't have to wait for it.  Remember that old Heinz ketchup advertisement song? "An..ti..ci..pation... it's making me wait.."   Yeah, not for my lotion, okay?

I love Stila, and I love lippies.  Can't get enough.  This is a great spring color.  I love that it came with a little pin in the tip to prevent accidental product spillage - though if you've ever used a Stila lippie, you know it takes about half-a-bajillion clicks of the pen to get the product to start, so I think they worried for naught.

I would have liked more of this product to really test it.  This little squeeze packet of Agave Healing Oil was only enough for a one-time use on my hair, and not really even enough to say if it really works.  It is really sticky! 

These tea samples look interesting, and I'm looking forward to trying them.  I like tea, but really only drink it when I'm sick or it's cold.  I admit, mostly I drink tea for the honey.

If you'd like to try Birchbox, I have a REFERRAL LINK if you want to give me some points.  I hope they're not like airline points with blackout dates.

Stay tuned, Fireflies! My #NailArtForNubs post goes live at 9am Eastern.