I like being a girl.
Aug. 25th, 2016 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm not gonna lie. I smell really good right now.
I have spent a ton of money recently on bath products. This is all, as you might have guessed,jade_okelani's fault. Well, it's really her mom's fault. OK let's just say it's both of their faults and spread the blame around a little bit. They introduced me to Beekman 1802, and if it were possible to fall in love with a soap and want to marry it, that is what has happened with me and their goat milk soap in honeyed grapefruit scent. It smells DIVINE. I actually have a soap wrapper sitting on my desk that I can't bear to throw away because it smells too good. Every so often, I pick it up and sniff it. IF THAT'S WEIRD, I DON'T WANT TO BE UN-WEIRD.
(In fact, the brain is such a funny thing. I've been doing it so often, and what I've been doing at my desk most lately is watching 12 Monkeys, so now when I smell it, I immediately think of the show. It's so weird and cool that my brain has already developed this association. As Jade says, this is why humans are so easy to brainwash.)
Anyway, Jade gave me a bar to take home (THE FIRST HIT IS ALWAYS FREE), and I immediately began doing a search for it online, because I knew I was going to need more than that one bar, and I didn't want to use the one I had until I knew I had others to take its place once it was gone. Only it's sold out on the Beekman site, and it's $54.93 + $7.49 SHIPPING PER BAR AT AMAZON BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GREEDY, PRICE-GOUGING ASSHOLES. I complained to Jade, and at first she said not to worry, that she would keep me supplied with this soap until it was back in stock (like any proper drug dealer would). But then she found it at Evine, where you can buy it in bulk, and, well, let's just say I wasn't shy. FUCK IT, I just got a decent bonus at work, what's that for if not to at least partly spend on luxury items for myself?!
The bar is fairly large (9 oz), so as apparently many people do, I cut it up into smaller pieces, and I hope it'll last longer that way. I also ordered the soap in a couple of other scents, just to see if I like them as much as I do the honeyed grapefruit, though I can't imagine that will be the case.
OK OK, I also decided to try a few of their other products -- SO SUE ME. I mean, all their stuff is so highly rated! And it's made from all-natural ingredients! And baby goats are involved! Tell me this charcoal face scrub doesn't intrigue you. Or this lip balm. And if I had one complaint about the soap, it's that it doesn't stay very long on my skin. :( But I love the scent so much that I felt I had to get this whipped body cream in the hopes that the smell can stay with me all day long. :D
If this were all, I might be able to walk away with my head held high. But... then... it led me down a dark path, to... beauty box subscriptions. *SOB* I just want surprise makeup, skincare, and hair product samples every month! Is that so wrong? People online seemed torn between Birchbox and Ipsy, with both sides swearing up and down that one is better than the other. Finally, I got sick of researching it, and was like, fuck it, they're $10/month, I can try them both! Honestly though, I do think that's the better way to decide which one is for me. I mean, only I can decide which box is better suited for my needs. I can see how they trend and decide from there if I want to continue on with one or both. (Both of those links, btw, are my referral links in case any of you decide you want your own monthly beauty boxes. I get referral points, natch.)
The basic concept behind them both is the same. For $10/month, you're delivered a beauty box with 5+ premium samples of everything from makeup to skincare, supposedly from popular brands like Urban Decay, Stila, etc. Ipsy's comes in a reusable makeup bag; Birchbox comes in a recyclable box. Again, what someone prefers is based purely on personal preferences. (Me, for example, I don't need a zillion makeup bags, so I'd probably prefer a box I can recycle. Also, the less $ they spend on the bag, the more, in theory, would go into the samples. Or I could also see the other argument, that you're really getting a 6th item with the bag, and there's no evidence it affects the samples at all.) Both places ask you a bevy of questions about your skin type, hair color, makeup style, etc., to ostensibly tailor samples to you. I don't know (yet) how much they actually do. With Birchbox, you also have the option to customize your box somehow -- I don't know the full details of how that works, but it's something like you can either get really specific about which samples you want that month (of what's being offered), or you can choose their editor's selection, or something.
Sephora has something similar, the Play box, which I didn't know existed untilakscully mentioned that she gets that one. They have a waitlist right now, which I can only be thankful for, because otherwise I'd feel compelled to try that one too, and $30/month on beauty boxes is somehow far less justifiable than $20/month.
Anyway, at the very least, I will have fun sharing my boxes each month on LJ, and either being excited about them or bitching about what a total waste of money it was. :)) So you got that going for you.
I have spent a ton of money recently on bath products. This is all, as you might have guessed,
jade_okelani's fault. Well, it's really her mom's fault. OK let's just say it's both of their faults and spread the blame around a little bit. They introduced me to Beekman 1802, and if it were possible to fall in love with a soap and want to marry it, that is what has happened with me and their goat milk soap in honeyed grapefruit scent. It smells DIVINE. I actually have a soap wrapper sitting on my desk that I can't bear to throw away because it smells too good. Every so often, I pick it up and sniff it. IF THAT'S WEIRD, I DON'T WANT TO BE UN-WEIRD.(In fact, the brain is such a funny thing. I've been doing it so often, and what I've been doing at my desk most lately is watching 12 Monkeys, so now when I smell it, I immediately think of the show. It's so weird and cool that my brain has already developed this association. As Jade says, this is why humans are so easy to brainwash.)
Anyway, Jade gave me a bar to take home (THE FIRST HIT IS ALWAYS FREE), and I immediately began doing a search for it online, because I knew I was going to need more than that one bar, and I didn't want to use the one I had until I knew I had others to take its place once it was gone. Only it's sold out on the Beekman site, and it's $54.93 + $7.49 SHIPPING PER BAR AT AMAZON BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GREEDY, PRICE-GOUGING ASSHOLES. I complained to Jade, and at first she said not to worry, that she would keep me supplied with this soap until it was back in stock (like any proper drug dealer would). But then she found it at Evine, where you can buy it in bulk, and, well, let's just say I wasn't shy. FUCK IT, I just got a decent bonus at work, what's that for if not to at least partly spend on luxury items for myself?!
The bar is fairly large (9 oz), so as apparently many people do, I cut it up into smaller pieces, and I hope it'll last longer that way. I also ordered the soap in a couple of other scents, just to see if I like them as much as I do the honeyed grapefruit, though I can't imagine that will be the case.
OK OK, I also decided to try a few of their other products -- SO SUE ME. I mean, all their stuff is so highly rated! And it's made from all-natural ingredients! And baby goats are involved! Tell me this charcoal face scrub doesn't intrigue you. Or this lip balm. And if I had one complaint about the soap, it's that it doesn't stay very long on my skin. :( But I love the scent so much that I felt I had to get this whipped body cream in the hopes that the smell can stay with me all day long. :D
If this were all, I might be able to walk away with my head held high. But... then... it led me down a dark path, to... beauty box subscriptions. *SOB* I just want surprise makeup, skincare, and hair product samples every month! Is that so wrong? People online seemed torn between Birchbox and Ipsy, with both sides swearing up and down that one is better than the other. Finally, I got sick of researching it, and was like, fuck it, they're $10/month, I can try them both! Honestly though, I do think that's the better way to decide which one is for me. I mean, only I can decide which box is better suited for my needs. I can see how they trend and decide from there if I want to continue on with one or both. (Both of those links, btw, are my referral links in case any of you decide you want your own monthly beauty boxes. I get referral points, natch.)
The basic concept behind them both is the same. For $10/month, you're delivered a beauty box with 5+ premium samples of everything from makeup to skincare, supposedly from popular brands like Urban Decay, Stila, etc. Ipsy's comes in a reusable makeup bag; Birchbox comes in a recyclable box. Again, what someone prefers is based purely on personal preferences. (Me, for example, I don't need a zillion makeup bags, so I'd probably prefer a box I can recycle. Also, the less $ they spend on the bag, the more, in theory, would go into the samples. Or I could also see the other argument, that you're really getting a 6th item with the bag, and there's no evidence it affects the samples at all.) Both places ask you a bevy of questions about your skin type, hair color, makeup style, etc., to ostensibly tailor samples to you. I don't know (yet) how much they actually do. With Birchbox, you also have the option to customize your box somehow -- I don't know the full details of how that works, but it's something like you can either get really specific about which samples you want that month (of what's being offered), or you can choose their editor's selection, or something.
Sephora has something similar, the Play box, which I didn't know existed until
akscully mentioned that she gets that one. They have a waitlist right now, which I can only be thankful for, because otherwise I'd feel compelled to try that one too, and $30/month on beauty boxes is somehow far less justifiable than $20/month.Anyway, at the very least, I will have fun sharing my boxes each month on LJ, and either being excited about them or bitching about what a total waste of money it was. :)) So you got that going for you.
