Review of January’s DIY box

A whole new box is going to have to wait until I get home from Montreal, but it will give me a good chance to completely finish everything in there!

January’s box contained:

• Phyto Keratine Reparative Conditioning Treatment  (that’s a mouthful!)

It was fine, but nothing too special.  I like the bumble and bumble stuff from last month better.  Honestly it wasn’t much different than what I use all the time:

• Burt’s Bees Radiance Eye Cream

I have a double standard towards eye creams.  Logically I really don’t think they do anything, especially not anything different than the lotion I use for my face… but I still like using them.  This one is nice and light and has a sweet but subtle scent.  I like it and even though it is not a large container it seems to last and last.

• Wild Fern’s Manuka Honey Body Butter

I love the smell of this lotion.  In the space of three months I have gone from never using lotion to being lotion crazy!  I actually had to use less because it was making my circus life difficult ( I had trouble with my grip and Dan had trouble gripping my hands, feet and legs).  SO no more lotion before training!  I am about half way through and I think I’ll be quite sad to see it go.

• Philosophy’s Field of Flowers Body Lotion

I hated this.  It was a tiny , tiny sample and I couldn’t even finish it and had to wash it off me.  The scent was beyond powerful.  Definitely not for me.

• Shiseido Moilip lip balm

I got this lip balm in Japan from a drugstore.  I thought the Sugar lip balm from last month was my favourite, but I think this might be.  The sugar one tastes delicious, but this one seems to keep my lips unchapped longer.  I have particularly chapped lips especially during winter.  So this lip balm has been by my side all month, I’ll be sad it see this one gone too.

• Benefit’s gimme brow

This one has me stumped… and I am not sure it does anything.  I’ll keep using it for February and maybe I’ll have made up my mind by then 🙂

• Smashbox’s O Gloss Noir

I haven’t been using this one… oops!  Another month to fix that!

• …and a black handbag to keep in all in

I have been using the black as my new make up bag and it fits that perfectly.  Plus it let me throw away my dirty, makeup stained other bag, yay 🙂

So in February I will try to finish up the lotion, lip balm, lip gloss, and brow stick.  Plus I am going to throw in this stuff:

Reviva Vitamin K Cream

I didn’t even know I had it with me, but it is definitely time to use it.  I got it several months ago to address the growing number of broken blood vessels on my face.  These broken blood vessels are a result of me hitting myself in the face with my hula hoops (on accident… clearly).  Now they aren’t that big, but they also aren’t disappearing as fast as they used to… yes I hit myself in the face somewhat often.  This lotion comes directly from me medically googling myself into a panic, so I’ll be interested to see if it works at all.  Finger’s crossed!

I have to say this DIY box has been really fun, I was actually kinda sad I wasn’t able to make myself one for this month.  I guess I’ll just have to make a really great one in March:)

January’s DIY Box

So in December I started a monthly project with the hope of using up all my excessive toiletries.  It’s a silly problem to have, but somehow I can’t bring myself to throw them away and using them is decidedly better.  So December’s DIY box looked like this:

Here are my reviews:

• Lotion from Avalon Organics

This is probably the first lotion I have ever completely finished.  It may sounds sad to be excited about that, but hey… baby steps here.  The lotion it’s self was good.  It has quite a strong smell, but I really like a citrus scent and it wasn’t perfumey.

• Sugar lip balm, untinted

I really loved this lip balm.  It is the first lip balm I used all the way up and then was sad when it was gone.  It is pretty expensive for lip balm, this one was a free gift from sephora, but i liked it enough that when I finish all the others, maybe I’ll even buy it.

All gone!

• Snow globe soap sample from LUSH

This one was easy, I just threw it in the bathroom soap dish and let everyone help out finishing this soap off.  I liked the scent, it wasn’t overpowering like some of LUSH’s products.  I really like LUSH in general, it’s just that they are expensive and I don’t think they are quite as “all natural” as their advertising leads you to believe.

• Sample pack of Bumble and Bumble shampoo

I always hate these plastic packs because they contain more than one use and then everything gets messy.  However I was actually surprised that it actually lived up to its claim.  Usually “volumizing”  hair products do little for me, but bumble and bumble worked as it claimed!

• They’re real!  Mascara from Benefit

I really didn’t like this mascara.  I tried it three times and each time it clumped to no end.  I ended up throwing it away (which is also kinda a small victory for me).

• Assortment of powder foundation samples from Alima

These powders were fine, but nothing special for me.  They were pretty light though, which is nice because I’ve been trying to wear less and less make up in general when I am not performing.  The main problem I had with the company is that the array of choices is so overwhelming, unless I was in a store to pick it out choosing over the internet is too difficult for me.  I probably won’t get these again.

• A cardboard gift box I received 3 years ago and for some reason can’t part with…

Still can’t part with it, but I found it a new home… it can store all the lip balms I have yet to test out 🙂

SO on to January’s DIY box

This month we have:

• Phyto Keratine Reparative Conditioning Treatment  (that’s a mouthful!)
• Burt’s Bees Radiance Eye Cream
• Wild Fern’s Manuka Honey Body Butter
• Philosophy’s Field of Flowers Body Lotion
• Shiseido Moilip lip balm
• Benefit’s gimme brow
• Smashbox’s O Gloss Noir
• …and a black handbag to keep in all in

Even though this has turned out to be much more fun than I thought it would be, I still have to wonder… where did I get all this stuff???