It's Birchbox time again! I have been lacking with my Birchbox posts lately. It's honestly because I just haven't been excited about the boxes I had been getting so I didn't have any motivation to post about them. Each month would roll around and I would get excited for my box and then once it arrived I would feel so overwhelmed that I would just shove it aside and move on to something else.
I think the real problem with BB the last few months is that they have had SO MANY box variations going out each month. When I first started BB their were like 20 variations at the most. July had 53 box variations. This leads to a lot of box envy and "why didn't I get that box? It matches my profile much better."
I figured I would go ahead and post this months box because 1. it's pretty decent, and 2. I should be posting my boxes, both good AND bad.
Also, Birchbox just recently went through a redesign and I thought I would show you guys. I like it much better than the pink they had before.
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| The box. |
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| The theme this month was "Power Play" |
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| Contents Card |
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| What the box looks like when you open the tissue paper |
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| Contents |
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| DDF Acne Control Treatment |
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| No. 4 Super Comb Prep & Protect |
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| Benefit It's Potent Eye Cream (OMG look how cute this is!) |
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| Little tiny box. |
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| The eye cream. Some girls reported that their jars seemed less than half full. Other girls had jars that were so full it was almost spilling out, like mine. I am not sure how or why this happened since they should all have contained the same amount. I am not complaining though, since mine was one of the overfilled jars. |
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| The Balm Instain blush in Swiss Dot (a peachy coral) |
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The Balm Instain in Swiss Dot
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I also received some BB bobby pins, which ended up being my favorite thing in the entire box, which is saying a LOT because I am a huge Benefit, The Balm and No. 4 fan. The bobby pins are in the "Contents" picture above. They are a wider, flatter style pin and they hold my hair in place like nobody's business, and they are only $5 for 6 pins on Birchbox.com!
I haven't had a chance to try out the Benefit eye cream, the DDF product or the No. 4 product yet (will update as I try them), but I have worn the Instain blush several times and WOW is it amazing. It really is a staining blush and it lasts allllllllllll day. I may have to purchase a full size. Though this blush is so pigmented, and you need so little of it, that this tiny sample will last forever.
So even though I have my skin listed as dry and my skin concern as anti-aging and not acne, they still sent me an acne cream. Which, in the long run is not a big deal. I will save it for the rare breakout. The rest of the box was pretty good. I managed to receive one of the coveted items this month (the Instain blush) along with some things I need (eye cream).
Overall, not bad.
Birchbox, I just can't quit you.
