Color Club Wanderlust Collection “Pardon My French” for Birchbox vs Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth

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Check out the below video for a detailed comparison and swatches of Color Club Wanderlust Collection “Pardon My French” for Birchbox vs Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth. Both are pastel purples but with slightly different looks.

http://youtu.be/Vr5sMnwLVq4

September 18, 2012

September 2012 Birchbox unboxing

Posted by By Hilary Baumann

Posted in Beauty & Skin, Makeup / Cosmetics, Subscription boxes

What’s inside:

Birchbox and Color Club® Custom Collection in “Put a Pin In It” : love it, I’m thinking the other shades are enticing as well.
twistband™ Lace up for Fall
The Brush Guard Variety Pack
Fekkai Essential Shea Shampoo & Fekkai Essential Shea Conditioner : scary ingredients. Didn’t even bother running a custom report on this one after taking a closer look. Add in that it would cost $50 total for shampoo and conditioner and I’ll pass on buying a full size version any time soon.
Dr. Jart+ Water Fuse Beauty Balm SPF 25+ : This BB Cream is a 5 according to a custom report with the Cosmetics Database. The big problems are parabens. For me two additional problems (for breakouts) are talc and dimethicone. I tried it on anyway… it just was all wrong for me.
BVLGARI Mon Jasmin Noir : again with the synthetic fragrances

Bonuses:

Madewell Coupon for $25 off a purchase of $75 or more (sorry, this one is not sharable.)
Digital Download: Tristan Prettyman http://www.tristanprettyman.com/bb

So favorite things from this box: nail polish, hair tie, and brush covers.

Unboxing video:

via YouTube

July 16, 2012

Birchbox Glamour Magazine July 2012 unboxing

Posted by By Hilary Baumann

Posted in Beauty & Skin, Subscription boxes

Color Club nail polish in Blue-Ming – looks like Essie Turquoise & Caicos in the bottle but they are different enough on that I’m glad I have both. The Color Club is a little brighter and a little more in your face whereas the Essie is a little more demure.
Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner in Black (not waterproof)
Harvey Prince fragrance in Eau Flirt (you know the drill by now, synthetic fragrance is not my thing)
Supergoop! City Sunscreen Serum – this is ok. There are better but this is acceptable: http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/company/Supergoop%21/
Here’s the 2012 Sunscreen Guide: http://breakingnews.ewg.org/2012sunscreen/
Tea Forté Minteas Reboot in Cocoa Mate – these are organic and have yerba mate as an ingredient. I thought I had these in some other flavors but it turned out that what I had were actually SenCha mints in different flavors. These taste VERY similar.
Neon Earbuds – cute but lacking in bass… tried them after the video and they’re a little too tin-y. I’ve actually bought $10 earbuds before that sound better than these. I was kinda excited to get these but they ended up in the trash they were bad enough.

Link to Glamour’s “getting pretty” playlist: http://www.glamour.com/spotify

via YouTube