Now that I’ve been a Birchbox subscriber for more than a year, I’ve tried my fair share of beauty, skin care, and hair care samples, and I thought it was time to try out a makeup look using only products I’ve received Birchbox samples of. I could have done any number of different looks because at this point I’ve received 65 Birchbox samples (!!), but I decided to do a quick and easy no-makeup makeup look. Below are the products I used to achieve the look:
1. Deadpool: the ultraviolent, foul-mouthed trailer for this flick was a huge hit at Comic-Con last year, and when the major nerds serious enthusiasts at Comic-Con approve of something, you know it’s gonna be good. My husband and I saw the movie last weekend, and it was so much fun that I want to see it again. Ryan Reynolds was the perfect casting choice for the role. The movie was just so fucking funny! Go see it. Now. (Warning: you will have Salt-N-Pepa’s “Shoop” stuck in your head for about a week afterward.)
I follow a few celebrities on Instagram (who doesn’t?). Some time ago I saw Ian Somerhalder post about a website called Thrive Market, but it didn’t fully register with me because it appeared to be a brick and mortar location in Los Angeles, and I live in Brooklyn. Then Olivia Wilde posted about Thrive Market more recently, and my ears perked up. I started doing some research on Thrive Market, and my conclusion was that it’s brilliant.
This post will be a quick one: today marks one year since my first post on this little ol’ blog! I kicked off my personal blog with a post about an organic beauty bag that I won in a raffle, and this post is my 130th! That means I’ve averaged 2.8 posts per week over the last year—not too shabby.
I’d like to mention that I did a bit of blog reorganization last week. You can now browse through my post categories in the main menu up top. If you’re interested in reading my posts about subscription boxes you can also do so via the main menu. My subscription box posts are interspersed throughout the Categories drop down as well (e.g., Stitch Fix is in “Style”), but I figured I’d put up a second way to find them. I hope these changes help you navigate my blog a bit better!
Thank you so much for reading, and here’s to many more years of blog posts to come!
I received my February Birchbox this past Saturday—a perfect little Valentine’s weekend treat. Whoever is creating the graphic design on these boxes is just nailing it. February’s box is sort of a pastel neon peach hue with illustrations that would be really cute as tiny tattoos:
1. Bioré Deep Cleansing Pore Strips: yup, these are still around, and are still as fun and gross as ever! #sorrynotsorry for the image of all the blackheads I ripped out of my skin… 😛
I don’t know if there are any “official” rules about Throwback Thursday needing to be a photo of yourself, but I wanted to share this photo taken in Snowmass on a family vacation we took in March 1987. I love the rainbow pop of color from the hot air balloon…and why on earth does it appear to be flying so low to the ground?!
Last week’s HelloFresh experience was a frustrating one for me, starting with the delivery. To be fair, I’d never had an issue with HelloFresh’s delivery in the past. I had scheduled my box to deliver on February 1st but it arrived on February 2nd. I don’t know if they recently switched carriers, but this box came via UPS and required my signature, whereas whichever service delivered the previous boxes left them on my porch (which I was fine with). Anyway, the late delivery sort of mucked with my cooking plans for the week, but it ended up working out alright—and HelloFresh did give me a $10 credit when I contacted them about my box arriving a day late.
So, what were last week’s vegetarian dishes? Read on to find out…
Swiss Chard & Wild Mushroom Penne with Chili and Parmesan.
1. Pitch Perfect 2: I finally got around to watching the sequel to the breakout hit about college acapella groups, and I LOVED IT. There’s something about voices singing in harmony that just sucks me in. I’ve listened to the soundtrack to the original movie a million times, and as soon as I finished watching the sequel I bought the soundtrack on iTunes. The regular, non-Blu-ray DVD is only $9.99 on Amazon so I’ll be ordering myself a copy as soon as I finish this blog post.
My January k-beauty Birchbox was great for three reasons: it renewed my waning interest in Birchbox, it turned me on to a whole new world of fun beauty products from Korea, and it introduced me to Soko Glam, a website filled with Korean beauty products curated by esthetician Charlotte Cho. After playing around with my k-beauty samples (all of which I love except for the TONYMOLY lip tint), I became a little obsessed with browsing around Soko Glam for some goodies to order and try out. I signed up for the website’s mailing list and received a 10% off discount code via email, so I was extra motivated to place an order! I finally settled upon three products:
