Hey Beauties,
I love a new month, because a new month means a new beauty box, and a new beauty box means brand new little goodies to try out! Ohh I hope I fall in love with some of these from my December BirchBox!
As with all of my beauty box subscriptions, I got an email to say something along the lines of "Horray! Your new Birchbox has been despatched and will be in your hands soon!" and usually that "soon" is around 24hours, but oh no, not today, that "soon" meant give me a few hours and I'll be knocking at your door! WOW. I have never had it so fast.
Although I must admit, I was confused at first as I was given a blue bag rather than anything box shaped. I was thinking about all the orders I had made online but nothing came to mind, it was oblivious to me what it was. I opened the packaging delicately to find a clutch bag. The bag looked familiar, I had seen it somewhere before but where? I picked up the outer blue packaging again and examined the label - Nope, nothing on there to say where it was from. Only by chance the light caught some fine letters on the bottom of the bag and my eyes noticed what it said "BIRCHBOX". That's it! That's where I had seen the clutch bag, on the emails and on their website!
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| Photograph: Birchbox UK |
I open up the popper and I see all my goodies inside, making me feel excited again. Usually I'll have a flick through the booklet first, but not today... I'm straight in there picking up all the little goodies! Benefit, Skin & Co, Model Co, Ciate London, Elemis and Roloxin. Where do I start!?
Let's start with the Model Co lipstick as lips seem to be a massive part of beauty fashion at the moment (especially with Kylie Jenner releasing her Lip Kits which sold out in 30seconds!). Sleek shiny black packaging with white writing "Model Co", a pink sticker on the bottom with the name Kitty, pretty standard and nice. The shade itself is a natural pink tone, a my lips but better colour, I would imagine this colour would suit pretty much everybody. It's a nice dusty pink, silky smooth and moisturising in texture on the lips with a subtle sheen.
The Elemis product is the Pro-Collagen Marine Cream which it to be used in the day time and it's in the anti-ageing category of skin care. It has one claim and that's "Reduce the depth of wrinkles". I'm in my mid-twenties, which is the right time to start using light anti-ageing products but because this says it reduces the depth of wrinkles, I may just be a bit too young to see the benefits of this day cream. I don't have many wrinkles and any I do have are no where near deep set or forming my skin to be any less plumper in areas, it's still pretty smooth. I'm thinking of giving this to my mum to try, she's a big fan of reversing the look of her age without doing anything dramatically - strictly over the counter in stores is where my mum will go for her facial care items, so I shall be giving this to my mum (maybe as a little stocking filler for Christmas actually!).
Still keeping it skin care, Birchbox have included a sample Roloxin Lift Revitalizing Facial Treatment. It's a facial mask and I am a huge fan of facial masks, I love them. I will be giving this one a go - although the "lift" implies it may be an anti-ageing product or it could just mean "lift" as in refreshing as it does state its a revitalizing treatment. I had to dig the booklet out and read about this, so Birchbox says "If you've got a big party coming up, or you just want to feel a little more skin confident, then this wrinkle-smoothing mask will be your new BFF. It diminishes pores, firms the skin, and boosts radiance - for up to 24hours after use!". After reading that I'm definitely going to give that one sachet a-go. Sounds like it should be good!
The last skin care product is a Skin & Co Sicilian Body Gel with organic Sicilian Orange and Olive extracts. Its smells divine, orangy and refreshing. I can imagine using this in the mornings and it completely awakening me, these cold and dark winter mornings make waking a massive chore for me but I can see this shower gel making that task of getting up so much more enjoyable.
We have a gorgeous mini nail varnish in the bag by Ciate. I'm really liking this one - it's definitely one for the party season. I have the Couture Noir shade which is a clear nail varnish with small white and black strands of glitter-esk material. Baring in mind that is basically an effects nail varnish it applies really well and feels smooth on the nail which is a massive bonus for me and it's less likely to chip and peel. I'm pleased with this nail varnish, it can be used alone to create the on-trend negative space nails or over colour painted nails.
Lastly, it's two Benefit products rolled into one little package, one side for the party - the other for the morning after! We have the infamous lash-hugging gel liner pen 'They're real! push-up liner' and the well sort after under eye gel 'Puff Off' in which 94% of 31 women said the eye area looks smoothed after 7 days of use. Nice! I'm using these - I'm not giving them away, I am a complete and utter BeneBabe and proud.
So the December BirchBox (or should I say bag) was a little hit and miss. I would have preffered a box (sorry) and the anti-wrinkle Elemis day cream is a little bit before my time, considering I'd happily try and use the other products shows that this isn't a bad beauty 'box' and besides, my mum will get use out of the Elemis day cream so really it's just the bag that will go to waste... I think I'll give it to a local charity shop and make a small donation at the same time.
See you again next year for the first BirchBox of 2016!
Speak to you soon,
Have fun and be good.
Love Tessa x
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