April 2014 "Free for All" Special Edition Birchbox Review

                          

Emma (E.S.) is gonna have some fun catching up with my reviews after I get all these loaded up!! This is the special edition Birchbox! After shipping this box was around $50. The regular Birchbox subscription is $10 a month with free shipping. This special box theme was Free For All, which means all products are ingredient conscious! 

Here's the box, it's different from their usual brown box.

                                         

Here's the first look when you open the box up. 

                                         

Here's the card explaining that this box has products that are all naturally and free from parabens, GMO's and everything bad for you! 

                                        

The first product is Shave With Benifits in mint and eucalyptus which is shaving cream (of course!) This cream helps with razor burn and red bumps and is perfect for people with sensitive skin! For a 5 ounce bottle this is around $19. 

                                     

Next is Karma Naturals nail polish remover, this stuff smells so good!! I hate the way nail polish remover smells, it's so harsh and makes everything smell!! For a 4 ounce bottle this is $12. 

                                     

This is such a cute little box! It's eyeliner by W3ll People, it's an actuall pencil rather than a gel, (which is what I prefer). 

                                    

I love the back of the box, as well as saying their product is free from certain chemicals, they call them nasties, which I don't really know why but I think it's cute!!! This is about $19 a pencil. 

Tea is something that I think I get in 95% of my subscription boxes and I'm totally ok with that! This tea is Lov Organic tea, you get 4 different tea bags in this box, Lov is Beautiful, Lov is Zen, Lov is Pure and Lov is Good. Lov is beautiful is a blend of green tea, white tea and rooibos with mango, apricot and pineapple (yummy!) Lov is Zen is rooibos, lemon, apple pieces, blackberry leaves, and orange and caramel flavors, Lov is Good is aniseed, fennel, liquorice, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, pepper and cloves, Lov is Pure is green tea, apples, green mate, and natural citrus flavors. Lov is Good is the only flavor that I wouldn't think I'd enjoy drinking. This tea comes in a 4 ounce metal tin for about $17.  

                                        

This is radiance serum by Jurlique. This serum does all kinds of great stuff for your skin! It helps reduce redness and dark spots, and makes your skin firm. For a 1 ounce bottle of Jurlique it is $58. 

                                        

This is Alima Pure lip tint. My mom really likes this, she said it's very soft. The color is rhubarb and it is $12 a bottle. 

And of course the most important thing is the makeup bag!! It is a burlap make up bag with FEED on it, I really like that they donated 10 school meals with the purchase of this special box!!

This is such a cool box! It's nice to try out products that you wouldn't go out and buy, I love samples! 

How did you guys like this special Birchbox? Let us know! 

-F.M.

2014 Fancy Mystery Box Review

Hello on this beautiful day! I decided to buy myself a Fancy box mystery box to see if I recived better products than my mom, (which I did!) I picked the small box just because this was my first mystery box, so it was about $20 after shipping. Let's see what's inside!

                               

This is how it was shipped to me, I thought I was getting a box but this works too! It was pretty heavy so I was excited to rip it open! 

                               

You guys know that I love nail polish! So naturally I was very happy with this, and the fact that it was red and black nail polish made it even better! This polish was specially made for Fancy Box by Rainbow Honey (http://www.rainbowhoney.com/) they have some beautiful nail polish colors and they have a mystery bag that you can subscribe to for just $10 a month! Crap I think I just found another subscription box to subscribe to!!

                                

I love the way this was set up and I didn't even notice at first that it came with cuticle cream so, yay! This is valued at $10. 

                                

The colors are Fancy Red and Fancy Black, I can't wait to try them out! I think that these bottles are worth at least $10, I'm just guessing by the price on their webpage.

                                 

At first I didn't realize what this was so I say there and stared at it for at least a minute before I realized it was a headphone splitter! Once I figured that out I thought it was a pretty cute idea. I've been meaning to buy one of these and now I don't have to, so of course I'm excited! I found one on Ebay for $8.50.

                               

So I found out why the bag was so heavy, this frame has some weight to it! I have a crazy collection of picture frames that I haven't used yet so I guess I get to add another to the pile. I do really like this frame though and it being neon green really helped too!

                                

I thought the bag was empty until I dumped it upside down and this little bag fell out. It's a thing of Chapstick, which one can never have to many things of Chapstick! 

So what did you guys think? I enjoyed this box and wouldn't mind ordering another, I love the mystery of it! Did you order a Fancy mystery box, if so what did you get? Let us know!

-F.M.

March Bonjour Jolie special box

Hello again! I really need to catch up with Emma (E.S.), so my mom ordered the special edition Bonjour Jolie box! This box was a limited edition box for $20 which she just ordered a week ago so she was really surprised and excited to see on her door step when we got home from our thrift store adventure! From the looks of it this box is still available. So, let's dive in!

Here's what it looks like when you first get it and open it up! This box was heavy so mom was excited to see what was in it!

 Here's the first impression you get when you pull back the paper, the first thing my mom saw was the Moon Pie so she was already happy!

These are all the little treats you get, there were two Moon Pies (and to quote my mom, "Hot Damn!"), a Russel Stovers caramel heart, some Sweet Tarts, two Land O Lakes hot cocoa packets in french vanilla and warm oatmeal cookie, a handful of Tootsie Rolls and blackberry creme chocolates.

We found out why the box was so heavy! I guess six little bags of bath salts are heavier than they seem! They included three bags of brown sugar and fig and three of chocolate truffle. Both of these salts smell wonderful, but I don't think my mom enjoyed them too much because she doesn't take baths so I think she may re-gift these!

Next is Chocolate Minted hand soap and Chocolate Decadence Soy candles, both of these smell nice and chocolaty and also may be in the re-gifting pile!

 My favorite part, well besides the jewelry, is the tea! I do love Stash! You can tell by the pumpkin spice that these are some that they had laying around and wanted to get rid of, which I'm fine with!

These are flower petals to sprinkle in your bath, they both smell very nice. But whether my mom will use them or not, I don't know. I love things like this which obviously means the wrong person is receiving this box!











My mom liked these products! It's a Bodi Heat pad, which works wonders for cramps! As well as a eye mask, which makes this box a great spa box between this, all the salts and the flowers. Bonjour really wants to make sure you're pampered!













This little bag had some nail care items in it. It had a Sally Hansen color quick pen, a nail art pen, a nail file, cuticle oil, and some nail polish wipes as well as some Bonjour Jolie chap stick. I like the nail art pen because you can draw on your nails. I don't like the color quick pen because they never really work well and they are pretty messy. Mom was just saying she needed more cuticle oil so this came just in time!









Last but not least, the jewelry! These are both very pretty and simple necklaces. One is a silver heart locket and the other is a light purple stone. Both necklaces are nice and simple, and can be worn on a casual day or a special occasion!










So, what do you guys think of the special Bonjour Jolie box? I love the special subscription boxes, not that I myself have gotten to any in time! I plan on ordering this box ASAP as long as they still have it, and if it's different I'll share with you guys! Let us know what you think!

-F.M.