Category: glossy box christmas 2012
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| Chocolate fingers - Fried egg and potato waffles - Macaroni cheese |
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| Christmas Graze box - Candles! - Christmas tree |
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| Kawaii phone case - 100% Russian on Rosetta Stone - Top gear! |
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| Lost Glossy Box Blusher |
As you can see from this first three photographs, this week has consisted of a lot of comfort food - pasta, chocolate, hot chocolate, coffee, waffles...and so on. This week I also received my first Christmas graze box (Graze box is a weekly or fortnight subscription service whereby you receive a box of four, various food items such as nuts/seeds/flapjacks/Italian breads/cake/chocolate). I have also been burning a lot of candles this week - my Yankee Candle Eggnog tea lights to use them up and my bath and body works leaves mini candle (which I don't actually like :O ). We also put up our Christmas tree this week, which looks really pretty with glittery baubles (they had to be glittery!). Also my cute Kawaii popcorn phone case broke but on a happier note myself and my sister scored 100% on Russian grammar on Rosetta Stones online demo (Link Here). I have also been obsessed with Top Gear this week (Well for the past few months!) - The picture above shows Jeremy Clarkson's winning face (cute). On the day that my Christmas glossy box arrived I had a small catastrophe whereby the kyrolan for glossy box blusher fell into the mud and leaves (Panic over I did save it with some kitchen tongs).
Hope you all had a great week (Only 9 days until CHRISTMAS!)
I had unsubscribed to Glossy Box at the end of September, so I didn't received the amazing November box - it looked quite fantastic, but I have resubscribed to get the December/Christmas Glossy Box - and I am fairly impressed!
Firstly, I received six products from the brands: Sebamed, Mary Greenwell, Rituals, Seche, Sleek and Kryolan - the last three brands I have heard of and I was excited to see those brands included. Here are the products I received!
Firstly, the Sebamed hydrating body lotion, it comes in a small bottle (I mean really small) so it definitely wont last long but I am excited to use it as I do get really dry skin in the winter - although I would have preferred the face cream as this box included two body lotions.
Staying with the theme of body lotions I also received the Rituals Magic Touch Cherry Blossom and Rice Milk Body Cream. I have been wanting to try some of the Rituals body products/fragrance for a while now but I need to work my way through the stash I already have but this looks like a great product and it smells really nice and clean too. A travel size of this product is available.
A fragrance sample is next and it is 'Lemon' by Mary Greenwell - I have not heard of this fragrance before and I really don't like the scent. The scent is a mix of lemon washing up liquid and my dads aftershave/cologne - not a great mix!
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Now onto the Seche nail polish in the shade 'precious' which I was quite excited about even though the shade definitely isn't me, especially for this time of year but the shade turned out to be really pigmented which I wasn't expecting and it applies nicely. Although the nail bottle bottle does look a bit battered and worn for some reason.
The blusher is swatched above as well. The blusher is by Kyrolan for Glossy Box and it is in the shade 'glossy rosewood' and it is a gorgeous shade. In the pan this shade looks quite bright and pale but on my skin is a pale dusky rose shade with purple/mauve undertones - it is actually really nice, smooth and pigmented.
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The last product is a lipstick from Sleek, I haven't tried any Sleek products before. The packaging for the lipstick is great and the lipsticks come in various finishes. The product comes great but the shade is awful, in my opinion, and I definitely will not wear it so I am not going to swatch it as I am giving it to a friend.
