War of the Beauty Boxes!

Within the last year you may have noticed a whole host of beauty boxes have launched.

A beauty box is basically a month subscription fee in return for a number of products you can try. They range from anything beauty related, tweezers to nail varnish and everything in between too. They are a great way for people who are maybe a bit hesitant at trying and spending the money on new products to explore the range that really is out there. You certainly always make your money back on the products that are inside the cute boxes.

Glossy Box

By: Glossy Box
Price: £10 + £2.95 p+p

I really did not get on with this box, I found there were too many age products and only being 18, I hope they weren't trying to tell me something! As time went on I was less and less fascinated by this box and found it more of a chore to open. I didn't look forward to seeing what was in the box each month. I also found there customer service horrendous, e-mailing and no reply, but then again that's probably what to expect with a bigger company of beauty boxes. On the other hand, there were a huge range of products to explore and you always got a different brand. Another up side was that they do a men's version! Which I am pleased about and it is differnet, I've actually gotten Jake a box and he was fairly impressed himself, as far as blokes go.

The packaging is cute, however predictable, a pink box, with black paper inside and a matching pink ribbon. 

Amarya

By: Amarya
Price: £10.00

First impressions were great, great products, good sizes and high quaility. I couldnt wait for the next box, well it was until I found out the products aren't tailored to your skin colour, which I found the other boxes would e-mail around or you selected on your page on the website, what size colour you were, hair colour, skin type or eye brow colour, which really personalised the boxes. I was let down by this when I recieved a very dark shade of foundation, it certainly didnt go down well with a milk bottle like me!

Carmine

By: Carmine
Price: £10.00 + £2.75 p+p

Ha, those of you who follow me regularly will know how much I really loved this box. A beautiful sleek black box with a green interior, it was super different. You would get five products, normally full size and you would certainly get your money back on the products inside. You were always e-mailed before hand to ensure the shade was correct for you, and having so many subscribers to the box, I believe that was a really good service and commitment. Well that was until they 'joined forces' (got brought out) with Glossy Box. Really disappointed.

So the verdict, I am a hard person to please. Although I've heard very good things about 'SheSaidBeauty' box, apparently the same as the other beauty boxes, however the price is just £9.00 including p+p, but the longer your subscription, the cheaper it gets! Another way to get me hooked is a bargin :) I believe I might just subscribe to this beauty box and I'll keep you on the down lo' of how things get on. Hopefully I will be blown away! 

Much love xoxoxoxox

Carmines Sold Out!

Well. You all have permission to tell me off.

I was a VERY commited buyer of the Carmine, from the very first box I was blown away, great products, great service and a fantastic design. It was a million times better than other boxes I had tried, it felt almost like a relief.

I did many'o reviews of the products that came in the boxes, I was a highly impressed customer! However, I do admit, I unsubscribed for a few months, as I did let my blogging slack, as most of my life once I went into full time work, so I was off the radar.

Yesterday, I went to sign back up, I went onto the website, no website, I went on to the Twitter, no posts for 80 days! Confused... I hit the Internet, to be told SOLD OUT, more like selling out!

This must have happened around the 21st of March, unbelievable. I have tried GlossyBox and I can tell you I am not the most pleased customer.

I am very disappointed with Carmine too for selling out, maybe if it wasn't bad finance, it was inconsiderate. I feel now Carmine was more about making money, (which as a person, I understand this is a mega thing in business) but I always believed they were a great company, and ALOT of people liked them.

So I am a very sad girl this afternoon. :(

Bye bye little black box.

xoxoxox

2 in 1: Gellish and Magnetic Nails!

So I am sat here at my desk at work writing a blog post, hopeing my boss doesn't catch me! But I just had to share my experience with Gelish nails!

Very very similar to Shellac, but claims it lasts up to 3 weeks, instead of Shellac which only claims 14 days.

Basically, the nail tech puts like sticky label around each finger, and then coats on a mixture of a lotion and a powder to form a kind of gel which goes over the nail and the sticky label, to create longer, stronger and more lush looking nails. The nail tech then continued to paint the new magnetic coloured nail varnish over!

This was simply a special nail varnish, that the tech then uses a special magnet to create the effect below. I loved this to begin with, but now I've had them done for a few weeks, I'm not really a fan. I feel the same as I did with the Barry-M cracked nail effects, however you do it, it always looks the same.

Not to mention, I walked into a discount cosmetics store and they had on the counter a cheap version of the nail varnish but did the exact same effect!

Let me know of all your experiences, wether professional or self done.

Many thanks xoxo

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer

Hola revolution in a tube! Ok. Maybe not quite that, but it certainly is a dark horse.

Not that I have ever used much of Collection 2000's make up, but I was recommended this little beauty by a friend and was I impressed or what!

Such a thick creamy concealer applies smoothly and forms perfectly on your skin to hide those annoying teen spots or those dark circles around the eyes. I was well and truly impressed by the colour selection, allowing choices of 6 different shades. (I use no. 2 light). The wand is comfy and easy to use and apply. Absolutely no issues with the product!

It claims that it lasts 16 hours, that I am not sure about, but mind you I don't believe I would even have makeup on 16 hours!

On the bonus, I picked this gem up from Morrisons! at only £1.99! You can't go wrong.

So girls get down to Morrisons and get buying, you won't regret ;)

Hello Kitty

So we've moved in, we've got the furniture, we've got the cars sorted, we've got our jobs on the move, what was left to do? Get a couple of pets to complete the house!

Photo's wont upload correctly, boo to the laptop!

Hehe, so after a bit of search on a few sites, I found these two! They were two 7 and a half week old kittens, cross between Bengal and Tabby, they were cute as buttons. Literally tinier than my hand. We actually only originally went for one but as the story goes we came home with both.

They are both un-named at the moment, so can anyone think of any purrrr-fect names for these two little ones? :)  Let me know!

New Start!

Hello all,

I am well and truely sorry for not updating this AT ALL since December 11'. Personally I think that is pants. But I am not going to lie, I have been incredibly busy, since starting a new job and actually in the process of moving out of my parents house - my life has been manic.

But on this actually quite sunny and warm Monday afternoon, I thought I'd hunt through Blogger and see what's been going on... an awful lot apparently. And try tackle writing a post on my lunch break!

However, in my time of absence I have started a fantastic job, in the office! I am as they like to say, a junior accountant and administrator. Not to mention an office full of men, who do not appreciate apperance at all and obviously not makeup, nor when I have a fit because a nails chiped, at all. Now that may sound like premadona talk but really, it costs a lot to have done so I believe I have the right to shout at the keyboard when it yet takes down another innocence victum :( Thats the downside. On the upside I am vowing that I will be blogging far more! You have my word for it.

So a quick and simple blog just to say how much I have missed blogging and a general update.

Much love xxxxxxxx

GHD Hair Straightners...

GUUUUUTTED was an understatement of two morning's ago when I went to turn on my straighteners to sort my mop of a head of hair out, just to find that one plate isn't heating up anymore! Normally GHD is a well respected, high quality brand, so I was upset to find they weren't working, and only a week earlier my mums had broken too and weren't heating up at all. We haven't even had them a year... I was not impressed.

I'm also quite disappointed over how the white is rubbing off the product. Unfortunately there is alot of fake GHD's flying around the market at the moment, however the ones my mum and I own are 100% genuine. They retail at about 99£ for the original standard black set, however the Pure Edition (shown above) cost us £129 per set, so I'm not impressed.

I tweeted about them, and kindly GHD tweeted back to fill in a repairs form and send them off, which I won't do over the Christmas period but perhaps after when delivery and corries have slowed down a bit. However I'm not entirely sure if the warranty exists for the two sets we own as we didn't buy directly from GHD. So gutted, and I can't be forking out £129.00 for another set before Christmas time so I'll have to make do without. LUCKILY my brother ALSO owns a set of Pure Edition straighteners (his are still working fine) so I guess I'll be using them for the next few weeks. :)

Thanks for reading, and you can make your own mind up about the quality of GHD. Let me know if you've ever experienced any problems with them etc.

:) xxxx