January Birchbox // Beauty Box

Hello,

What do you know it's the first day of my massive cover-up scheme for being lazy. It's the January Birchbox! This was the first box I received and I was so chuffed with everything that was inside, really had got my money's worth, with a good mix of brands I knew and loved as well as one's I'd never heard of. Lets go through them one by one shall we. Also I have linked all the products the Birchbox store so you can see the price etc.

 Moa - The Green Balm

This little balm claims to basicaly be everything in one. It can be used to cleanse and remove all the make up off your face, as your daily cleanser or just as a general healing product. All the ingredients are 100% natural so no nasty's in here. All in all a cute little sample that I just haven't got round to trying!

 Benefit - The Porefessional

Being the UK's number 1 selling primer, it's not to have heard of this product. I am already a huge fan of this primer and was so chuffed to see it in my Birchbox, a travel size is never a bad thing in my opinon. I love the silky feel this gives my skin to allow my foundation to just glide over. Little insider tip, if your skin isn't looking as glowy and fresh as you'd like then mix this with a bit of Benefit's That Gal for the most amazing base. I'll let you have that one for free!

 Lavera - Basis Sensitiv Handcreme

This is just an nice hand cream really. Its ingredients are all natural  and organic to make it a little special from anything normally avaliable however to me hand cream, ie they are either good or not. This one falls nicely into the good category and makes a perfect little handbag size. Not the most exciting of products however nothing wrong with it.

 Delarom - Acquaconfort Mask

I'm a huge face mask girl, I love the feeling they give to my skin and the deep cleanse they can offer is to die for. As I don't have the most fixed of skincare routines I'll happily try anything especially if it claims to give this dry skin some well needed nourishment.

Philip Kingsley - Elasticizer

Yep, it's that cult beauty product that is loved by all including many famous faces. Such a great product to receive in a box, just enough to see whether you do truly like the product and decided whether you will splurge which I think in most cases is a definite, yes, yes and a yes.

As you can tell I really did love January's box, such a good mix between all different types of products and brands, nothing to complain about here. So that ends day 1 roll on day 2!

Alisha 

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7 Months Of Being Subscribed To Birchbox In A Week // Beauty Box

Hello,

Well it's been a while hasn't it. I keep trying to come up with reason after reason on why I haven't been regularly updating and there just isn't one. It started with being busy with school work, then exams, then having a brief period of chilling and then that developed into pure laziness. No more! I really want to keep my blog running effectively as I just have so much that I want to talk about. So hopefully this will be the start of me really getting back onto the blogging bandwagon and getting into a routine with it that works well around all of my other commitments so I can still retain my favorite hobby.I have so many idea's for post in the next few weeks, ie trying to do some more fashion and lifestyle  posts.  So now we've got the boring admin/apology done lets get into today's post. 

I have been subscribed to Birchbox for 7 months now which is a heck of long time and I have never done a post on any of my boxes. So I thought why not condense 7 months into 1 week so any possible people that may be interested in subscribing can see what they are to expect over a fair period. Luckily I did manage to take loads and loads of photos so you can really see in depth what you get in Birchbox. Slight spoiler alert but I am very happy with my subscription and I find the quality of the boxes to be much more consistant that some of its competitors. So from Monday 11th there will be each month of Birchbox and by the time I'm back from V Festival we shall be ready for August. How exciting!!

Alisha 

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 23

Umberto Giannini Glam Hair Backcomb In A Bottle

I already have a full size of this but receiving a travel size is fine by me because it's such an all rounder hair product. It works as a mousse / volumizer and hair spray to give you those big pageant hair styles and keep them in place all day. I find if I've curled or even just straightened my hair a few sprits of this and a little rouching which give my hair that extra model potential look.

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 20

Mavala Nail Polish in 53 London

Another Mavala nail polish, however I'm not complain I really enjoyed the formula of the glitter polish and am as equally impressed with the formula of this one. It's a really beautiful blue-toned red which is an absolute classic and every girl must have at least one in her collection. Really good nail polish, in a versatile shade.

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 19

Carmex Lipbalm

I'm already a huge fan of Carmex, I really do, for a drugstore product, fell like it adds moisture to my lips and reduces them getting chapped in the harsh cold winter months. I currently have the more liquid tube form, you know what I mean, so it was nice to try out the solid form. This has made it's way into my daily makeup bag and doesn't plan of leaving!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 18

Ghost Moonlight Fragrance Sample

Another fragrance sample wasn't great to receive, I really don't think these should be added to something I'm paying £30 purely because I can just get them for free from a counter. However I suppose the good thing is you can just throw them in your bag to touch up throughout the day. Not the best scent bit too dark and musky for me, you win some you lose some.

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 17

Soap and Glory Flake Away Body Exfoliator

I'm a huge soap and glory fan and too see this in the calender was lovely because I've tried all of the other scrubs apart from this one. It has the really classic soap and glory smell and works as a lovely exfoliator on the skin, not to harsh but removes all of the dry, dead skin cells. This is the perfect size for traveling so I will be taking with me next time I jet off somewhere!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 16

IS THIS EVEN WORTH A DAY. CHEAP EMMY BOARD. EW. NO. DISAPPOINTMENT.
Alisha
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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 15

Seventeen Tattoo Me Liquid Eyeliner

This eyeliner really has me on the fence. The negative of it is that its such a pain to apply and I find can be really mess and stick in your eyelashes. However the staying power is comparable to anything I've ever tried. I place a swatch on the back of my hand and, including have showers, its stayed for easily 5+ days. That is mental. I find that that it lasts on my oily lids and well is a great product apart from the application issues. For the price defiantly worth a purchase!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 14

Juicy Couture Couture La La Perfume

Can you see the non existent perfume in the vial. Literally just drops in the bottom, not good, not good at all, however I do feel I coming to the end of ranting about stupid perfume samples. But this is just ridiculious like fine give me a perfume sample, but actually put some in the bottle. JEEZ. Not a happy bean.

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 13

Vichy Liftactiv Serum 10 Eyes and Lashes

So this product I feel is more aimed at the more mature woman. It claims to reduce the signs of ageing around the eye and strengthen the lashes. Now I am only a mere 16 meaning I have young youthful skin and well I feel my lashes are pretty strong so I don't really know how this one will benefit me. On the other hand I may try this out to see if it will stimulate the growth of new lashes and make my existing ones longer. It's worth a shot!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 12

Boots Salon Care Nail Shine Solution

Just found the link for this and was like wow that was more than I was expecting on the price front. However this top coat does make your nail's look glossy and have that high shine finish that we all seem to crave. It does make your nail polish longer than if there was no top coat however does it compare the my beloved Nails Inc Caviar Top Coat? Not really I'd rather pay a little bit for well sn outstanding nail product. But to be fair this was a nice thing to receive on day 12 so oh well!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 11

Ghost Moonlight Perfume sample.

Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. I'm really starting to hate perfume samples and is it just me or does every time I open one the amount I actually get decrease. Idek. What a bloody stress. I'm not a fan of the Ghost perfume or this one both are a bit meh for me. I just feel like 1 or 2 perfume samples is okay but this is just a little too much considering the £30 price tag. Ygm?

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 9

17 Supreme Shine Nail Polish 

Not sure of the colour but how pretty is this. I love the colour so nice and will suite everyone and anyone also the formula is pretty good too I love the shinny finish, makes the polish look super glossy and much more expensive that it is. It lives up to the claim of 10 days for sure, it survived school and work! These are on the boots website for only £3.99 which is a steal, defiantly going to pick up some other shades, too good of polish to turn down!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 10

Orly Bonder Base Coats

Sweet Jesus it's an Orly product. Orly is an amazing Australian brand that are probably best known for their beautiful nail polish in the shade rage. I'm lusting for it. A bottle of this normally retails for about £5 at boots so this is ace. It has a unique rubberized formula so it is designed to make you nails smoother i.e. no ridges and make the nail polish last longer. I can vouch for both these things it is incredible, I love how pro-longed my polish and how smoothly it glides over the top leaving it all even a pretty. Defiantly a win for me!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 8

Umberto Giannini Hair Bobble

Award for the ugliest hair tie goes to .... this! Yay! What even is this, I saw the big door and got excited that it was going to be some amazing product. Oh no, it was this tatty thing, the only good thing I can say about ti is that its by Umberto Giannini and I do really like his hair products they really do add volume to my flat hair but this, this is not good. Come on boot please give me a better day tomorrow.

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 6

Vichy Idealia Life Serum

This serum claims to do everything. It swear. It aims to remove anti-ageing and wrinkles, make the skin glow and look renewed. Now I find Vichy is brand that is aimed more towards the likes of my mother who has more mature skin than mine. See for me in a serum I look for something that reduces redness, helps fight the acne of teenage skin and reduces the dryness I suffer from. This may be a lovely serum but I just don't think it's the serum for me and I may pass it onto my mother who may fall in love with it. It's a lot cheaper than the one she actually wants to hopefully she can fall in love with this instead.

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 5

Rimmel Stay Matte Foundation

Today is a hard one for me to write about purely because I don't look for matte foundations. I have very dry skin so I go for more dewy textures that don't cling to my dry patches. So for me personally this isn't a holy grail foundation however my friend also had this calender for Christmas and she personally enjoys this foundation. It offers a good coverage and is perfect for more combination/oily skin issues. So I would say defiantly worth a try if you have oily skin, its a good price for a good product!

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 4

Nina by Nina Ricci Perfume Sample

Too much of a good thing? Day 4 was a little bit of a let down on the brilliant run of the first days but I guess not all can be brilliant, and lets be honest this is a nice perfume so I guess you can't knock it too much and well it is a nice way to try out a new scent. This a lovely fruity floral scent, very girly maybe not 100% me but still nice enough. You win some you lose some all the same to me. 

Alisha

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Boots Beauty Advent Calender // Day 3

Mavala Nail Polish in Pure Diamond 217

I'm slightly obsessed with nail polish I have in excess of about 100 nail polishes. Ooops. Oh well another is always welcome to the family especially if it is as pretty as this beauty. I wore this to my winter ball and I loved it, about three coats and it went fully opaque. Now I know that isn't amazing but it's not meant to be, because one coat would look beautiful over any nail polish. The formula and brush of this is perfect and I couldn't ask for a better nail polish in my calender. LOVE!

Alisha

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