After reading all about the products in this months Lust Have It! box, I wanted to keep this one as a surprise. Boy, was I surprised.
After opening the shipping box, I found a lovely, sturdy box inside with the ILoveThisBox logo inside. The card included talked about this months box focusing on "natural ingredients". To me that sounds like it's going to be a box full of boring crap. I was right about that. I took of the lid and ripped open the pretty purple tissue paper to find....
... a few products, mostly tiny ones, drowning in a sea of shredded paper. :-/
Kinda sad looking isn't it?
First thing I noticed was the Just D'Lish 15 hour burn time soy wax candle. I noticed it first because the glass container that it was in was smashed and there were pieces of glass throughout the box. Also, I live in an apartment block where I'm not allowed to burn candles for fear of setting off the fire alarm.
So, I can't use it and because it's smashed, I can't even regift it.
The candle smells like all those other generic candles you can buy from anywhere. Is it just me or are candles a useless addition to a BEAUTY SAMPLE box? Anyway, this piece of crap is going straight in the bin.
Next thing I noticed was the full size Avado Sensitives Organic Gel Exfoliant. I noticed it for two reasons:
a) it's full size and
b) it was fucking dirty! It had brown shit smeared all over it, more on that next!
The exfoliant smells okay and is Australian made and certified organic. I'll leave it in my shower and use it next time I'm in there. It's nothing to get excited over though.
This product retails for $14.99.
The next thing I pulled out was the brown stuff that had been making a mess of the Avado. It was a badly packaged sample of Chikii Natural Salon Quality Mineral Cosmetics - mineral bronzer.
It came in a little plastic bag with just the word "Chikii" on it. I had to read the card to find out what it was. I initially thought it was a little bag of that synthetic hash you can buy from those hippy shops. (If only!) Seriously, who packages bronzer like this? How the hell is anyone supposed to use this without making an absolute fucking mess?
I hate bronzers anyway, so this went straight in the bin along with the smashed candle.
This product retails for $50.00 (I hope for that price it comes better packaged!)
What followed the messy Chikii bronzer was an equally shitty packaged Haf Mineral Make Up Mineral Eyeshadow. At least this eyeshadow came in a sturdy plastic container with a lid, but that being said, once the outer plastic protection was removed there was loads of loose eyeshadow that went all over my hands, bed and ILoveThisBox box. Nice.
The colour I received was called Eclipse. It's pitch black so I'm a bit unsure how to use this as an eyeshadow without looking like a filthy whore. Perhaps I can blend it with water to use as a eyeliner? Perhaps I should just throw it in the bin? I've kept it for now, but if ILoveThisBox doesn't post a tutorial on how to use this particular shade than I'll ditch it for sure. Lame.
This item retails for 16.99.
Last of all was a full size Maybelline lipstick. As I was peeling the purple tissue paper back I momentarily got excited thinking it was a Revlon Lip Butter, but quickly realised it wasn't. Damn, that would have made up for the rest of the box. Never mind!
What I did get was a lipstick in the shade On The Mauve. It's a dark purple colour. Think the colour your dead auntie would have worn in the 80's and that pretty much sums up this shade. Eek, if I wore this it would instantly add 20 years!
I'm going to offer this to my mum, she might like it. If not, it'll just go in the bin too.
The lipstick retails for $16.95.
(I can't help but feel that Maybelline were overstocked of all this ugly, underselling lipstick and thats how they ended up in our boxes. Especially since heaps of people said they look used or have damaged packaging, eek!)
So that was everything in April's ILoveThisBox. I got one out of five items that I will use, one regift, one to put away for a rainy day (or for the bin if I don't figure out how to use it) and the two for the bin.
Did I love this box this month? Definitely not. I'm actually really disappointed in my first box.
I was even more disappointed upon checking out other reviews and unboxing videos on YouTube and finding that others received nicer products, in better shades, and their stuff hadn't broken or leaked out. I feel kind of cheated. :(
The very best part of this months ILoveThisBox is the actual box it came in. It came with some little cardboard dividers to add to it so it can be reused for organising tiny things (which is actually perfect for me!)
So which beauty sample box wins The Beauty Sample Box War for the month of April?
Lust Have It! do, hands down!
Sorry ILoveThisBox, you didn't even have a chance!
What did you think of this months boxes?
Here's all the ILoveThisBox crap to be thrown out.
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