Birchbox: July

This month Birchbox teamed up with Glamour to create a box themed based on the 5 senses.  It's nice that Birchbox makes the effort to do something special like this while still providing a good variety of products in the box.  I'm happy with my box this month, I think I was too hard on Birchbox in the beginning compared to all the other sample services - it's pretty darn good for the price.

Here we go...

Fancy Glamour Sleeve

The five senses theme goes with Glamour's July issue of celebrating them. 

It wasn't quite as neatly put in there as it usually is - but I'm okay with that. 

The goods:

• Color Club - Blue Ming:  A pastel mint colored nail polish.  I have loved mint all season, but unfortunately I have an Essie polish almost identical in color (I could keep this one at work though).  I should also mention that this is my second color club polish and the first one stayed on pretty well with a top coat so I think they are good quality polishes.
• Gloss Moderne - High-Gloss Masque:  The white tub above is a vitamin-rich conditioning complex for your hair.  This product smells amazing.  I like the fact that it is free of sulfates, sodium chloride, and paragons too.  This is about the fourth that I have received samples of, but because I have long hair I don't mind trying them all out since it can only help my dry ends!
• Harvey Prince - Eau Flirt:  Thank goodness for a good smelling perfume sample!!  I never knew what "scents" made up the perfumes I like until I started receiving Birchbox because I have learned that I like the citrusy scents (weird - because I'm not a fan or orange or lemon scented items).  This perfume has layers of citrus, jasmine, lavender and pumpkin... ask me to identify each of these and it would be a lost cause - but it is a fun fresh perfume! 
• Manna Kadar - sheer glo shimmer lotion:  This is a shimmer lotion that can be mixed with your foundation or applied by itself on cheek and brow bones.  I haven't purchased a luminizer or shimmer lotion before since I fear it would translate as greasy/shiny- but I'm excited to try one out.  
• suki - Balancing Kit:  This five step facial kit is supposed to smooth and hydrate your skin giving it a better appearance.  I'm sure products that are meant to go together help your skin avoid irritation or break outs and at $40 for the entire kit it is one of the more affordable professional facial kits out there on the market.  I wish I had more than a small foil pack of each one to try because usually it takes a couple days to know if my face is going to break out or not from a product. 

Extras

• LARABAR - Über:  I already love these all natural fruit and nut bars because they only have whole ingredients.  This one was on the more nuttier side, I typically like their apple pie or peanut butter chocolate chip. 
• Earbuds:  neon pink and green headphones - I plan to keep these in my car at all times in case I ever loose the ones with my iPod.

Size comparison with my hand - this luminizer will last me forever

I guess Birchbox wants me to have all the mint colors (darker one from a earlier  box)

Birchbox was good to me this month.  The variety of products was nice.  I'm pleased and excited to try the skin care line (that typically I wouldn't be excited about) since it is affordable and I have an entire line to try out.