List of the Cost of Each Month I've Received Beauty Army..

 This is just the cost. I am so behind that I might only review or write about the products I really like or love later on.

January 2012 - Grand Opening of Beauty Army!! haven't actually figured out yet

February 2012 - haven't actually figured out yet

March 2012 
 1. CoverFX Eye Prep
       Full Size is .67 oz - $43
       Sample Size is .16 oz - $10.20
2. Sun FX Body Shimmer Lotion
       Full Size is 200 ml - $24.95
       Sample Size is 2.2 oz - ? (I need to do the converting)
3. Babor Hy-Ol Cleansing Set
       Full Size is 6.8 oz - $32 - I think this is just the Hy-Ol, not the set
       Sample Size is (two) .31 oz bottles (so .62 oz) - $2.91
4. Indie Lee - The Cleanser
       Full Size is 4 oz - $25
       Sample Size is .25 oz - $1.56
5. BeFine Night Cream
       Full Size is 1.7 oz - $30
       Sample Size is .5 oz - $8.02
6. CellCeuticals Photo Defense 55 spf
       Full Size is 2 oz - $45
       Sample Size is .33 oz - $7.43
Total Cost: $30.12 + value of the SunFx Body Shimmer 

April 2012 
1.  
Total Cost: $41.46

May 2012
Total Cost: $15.93 (this one was awful - ugh) There was a story behind this too which made it even more disappointing for me. But Beauty Army being the classy company it was, answered all of my questions and actually responded to my advice (I email Nancy-Lee a lot, and I mean....A LOT. And she's been nothing but super nice and amazing.) And that is why I don't think I could ever leave this company. I would feel awful...

Gossip Girl Birch Box Review (May 2012)

I only have one Birch Box and it was the Gossip Girl from last month and it's one that I have a love/hate relationship with. Because I actually liked 3 out of 5 of the products, except they were teeny, but probably would have been okay if I hadn't known what other high end samples there were, like Dior and Stila. I signed up for these types of services to try Dior and Stila before buying the full size because they are sooooo expensive! But, no.....I hated this box, but I also liked the products. Like, I don't even think they were at the same level as the box that came with BOTH the Dior Show mascara and perfume sample. Ugh. Anyways...

My card said "Chic Sunday Brunch" - which one of the girl's from Eleventh Gorgeous got, but also with some other products, so don't know what happened there. She also got a really cool lip balm...

1. Arquiste L'Etrog - OLD LADY PERFUME - like, I put this one and IMMEDIATELY smelled like my Nana. As the day wore on it got a little more....musky I guess? as it mixed with my body chemistry and turned out all right. But it also gave me a headache. Didn't like very much. I am so picky when it comes to perfume. Full size is $165 (RIDICULOUS!!) The other sample size perfume I got before is .06 oz so I'm thinking this is the same, but don't know how big the full size is.

2. BeautyBlender - Blender Cleanser - I do not own the beauty blender, so don't send products for something that someone may not own.....I was pissed about it for that reason. I know you can use it as a normal brush cleaner, but I will never buy it for that reason on its own....just no. Full Size $17.95 (my $3 ELF ones do the job quite well). I don't know how big the full size is, or even how big this one is.

3. Color Club Nail Polish - Disco Nap - Light Gold Metallic-foil color - I really liked this color. I love metallics. It lasted like three days. And applied VERY thick that it wasn't very even. It says the full size is $8 but I know you can find this a lot cheaper and would rather spend the same money on an essie or Zoya polish.

4. Dr. Jart + - Waterfuse BB Cream - I was VERY excited for this (minus the teeny weeny sample size). I've never tried a BB cream and really wanted to and was hoping to get one as a sample. This stuff was really cool and really moisturizing. It made my skin feel really soft. I used it as a primer under my foundation. The coverage was sheer (also because I wanted it to last as long as possible). I got about 6 uses out of it, when if I had a full size BB cream of a decent price and was given the same amount it probably would have been 3 uses. Full Size is $32 (UGH). I will definitely get a BB cream because of this, but it will be one of the Korean brands I've heard rave reviews about. I would buy this if I had enough birchbox points to bring down the price. Except I would have liked more coverage. It was barely enough to be a tinted moisturizer. The color was pretty light.

No Picture Yet :(

5. twistband - Skinny Headband - Bright Light Blue - I was VERY skeptical about this. I was excited for it because I'm getting into hair things but every time I try a fabric headband it slips, even the ones with the rubber to prevent slipping, they slip. This one barely slipped. It only did if I had put shine spray in and right after I dyed my hair (which sucks because now I need to wash it). 6 pack is $20 and they really are worth it. I would totally spend the $20 on the 6 pack  - well, if I was this one and it still works the same. It comes in such fun colors too!


The other main reason why it's such a love/hate relationship, is because this box was SOOOO SOOOO SOOO hyped up. They made it seem like it was going to be the best one yet. And so many people said they loved the teen vogue box, I think they were expecting it to be super amazing because the teen vogue was and this was so hyped. And I bet a lot of girls were happy when they got Dior and Stila and real makeup and such. And since this was my first month, and a bunch of people signed up, I would have given the new people something to really draw them into the service. Soooo, that leads me to this, I do a three strikes and your out kind of thing (unless you do something really bad). So I'll give it two more months.. If I am not pleased I will be cancelling and hopefully trying either GlossyBox (which I want sooooo bad but its $21) and another one that I just found that was makeup, which is their own brand, like Julep, so I don't really care, it's all makeup (around $16).





 

That time of the month - plus EXCITING news!

And by "that time of the month" I mean the time where all my money goes to sample boxes :))) Mwahahaha.

Ugh humid weather

I forget that with humid weather comes sticky skin and since i'm just figuring out blush....I put too much on. I was hoping to use the elf bronze that comes in the blush and bronze duo as a contour even though it has a little shimmer but I think its too orange, even though its not really that orange at all. Some lighting it looks really good, other lighting not so much. any ways this is what happened....

I know these will most likely look like the other pictures I uploaded I wanted to upload a look that I did today which is toned down with a light mint green lower eye liner and a neutral eye lid color. I used a light pink coral blush with gold simmer and some pink from the hard candy blush box as a high light color. I useda nyx lipstick in nyx which its a orange, sheered out with a random sheer nude gloss by covergirl. Also used a slight contour and  bronzer.

The pictures are what happens when I upload them straight from my phone through the blogger app. I'm trying to add the good ones from google+ and photobucket after these but it's not liking me at the moment.....

Trying this mobile..

I finally got my replacement phone and its my first real smartphone with apps. I didn't know there was one for blogs. And its the kind my blog is. While I can't make it all super pretty looking like I would if I was on the computer. At least doing it this way I can upload pictures directly from My phone which is what I am currently using to pictures until I can by batteries.and itt takes duck nice pictures and its do easy to upload that probably continue to do it like this for awhile and just edit the posts later with links and pretty ness.
I just did a random look which I will upload and the pictures of the Stila lip glaze trio I was talking about in my last post. And I can even speak and have it write my post for me.
The look its inspired, well actually pretty much the same, as a look done by Ingrid at....I'll add get channel name when I can remember it and link it. I really like it but would have to tone it down a little for wearing in public. I also want to change three mint to other colors.
I'm also wearing the hard candy fox in a box but only the orange color. You can see the sheen and its so freaking pretty that I just want to keep looking at it. But it doesn't look like orange blush.
Oh and from the looks of it, the pictures are going to show in whatever order they want even though I uploaded them in a specific order. And hopefully the font and everything is the same, it just shows up Tmes New Roman on my phone.

Update

I'm such a bad blogger :)) But I think it's because none of my cameras have batteries in them. I got a brand new phone where I can take really nice HD 1080p pictures and video and upload straight to photobucket, but then it broke and am waiting for the replacement to come in. It's supposed to come today and then I can upload a bunch of pictures. I have no much to add that I don't know if I should do one post, or multiple ones. Hmmmm...

-Mini Haul, Target, Walmart and Sephora
-Birchbox, Beauty Army, Julep, MyGlam from multiple months
-Adventures in Beauty Exploration (lol)
-A few random looks I did (actually uploaded these pictures to instagram and twitter)