Here we are at the absolute last day of the month and I am just now getting my Boxy Charm review up. Well, you can rest assure that I have tried everything multiple times so I'm good and confident about the products. So let's dive right in..
The theme this month was "Road Trippin". I received 5 full size products; Crown eye shadow pallet, Dr. Brandt eye de-puffing gel, Wander Beauty mascara, Chella Beauty eye brow cream, and Note Cosmetics silk blush.
Let's start out with the Crown Brush - Fuego Eye Shadow pallet, retailing for $29.99 US dollars.
It has 6 matte and 4 shimmer shades in a variety of warm tones. As you can see the pigment in each color is absolutely fantastic. Below you will see just how I made my eye look with the pallet.
While I have plenty more pallets that have these similar shades, I would most certainly pay the $30 for this one. It has a nice selection of colors that I feel you can get various looks with, but the size of the shadows in each pan are huge and the quality is very top notched. If you are wanting a terrific quality pallet with these types of shades I do feel good telling you that the $30 price tag would be well spent, in my opinion.
Ok, next item on the list is the Dr. Brandt No More Baggage, Eye De-Puffing Gel for $42.00 US. I love Dr. Brandt's products and his Pore Dermibrasion cream is my all time favorite....except for the price of course. But my thoughts on this product wasn't as positive this time.
While it seemed to slightly correct the under eye color, I don't have too puffy of eyes to really see if the works on. I don't have perfect under eyes by any means, but I just don't have severe puffiness. I think that the only reason it corrected the color a bit was because the color of the product is an orange-ish color that will off set the blue undertones of the under eyes. But for puffy eyes, I just can't give you an honest opinion.
But, one thing I will say is that I don't like how it sat under my makeup. It actually started to show a ton of texture mid-day under my eyes. Which is something I never have. So unfortunately I can't recommend this product, whether it be $42 or even $4.
Moving along to Wander Beauty Curl and Volume mascara which retails for $24.00 US.
This was a very wet formula at first and wouldn't give too much volume. But after about a week or so, it finally dried up enough to make the volumizing really amp up. I love the wand on this mascara....but I love ALL curved brushes because they just fit my eye so much better than the straight wands.
My only concern would be the curling effect. It doesn't seem to have any at all. It doesn't seem to weigh down the lashes at all, but I can't say if it keeps the curl. My lashes will stay curled after I use a lash curler anyways, so I don't know if it will help with that or not. But I did NOT get my curl from the mascara alone.
Basically, it's a good mascara, it gives beautiful volume to my lashes, I adore this type of wand and I thought the longevity was wonderful. I actually wore this to the funeral we went to over the weekend and while it did run some with tears (its not waterproof, nor did it claim to be), it was still very easy to manage and it didn't smear everywhere. I was able to clean it up with a tissue and it didn't get all on the top of my lid from my wiping of it.
So I like it, but I am not quite sure I'd spend $24 for it.
On we go to the next product....
This is the Chella Eye Brow cream (in Taupe) that retails for $26 US. I might say this is my favorite product in the box!!
This is on side an angled liner brush and on the other side a cool toned, taupe colored brow pomade. It's the size of a lipgloss, that's how small it is. I love how compact this little baby is and the color is absolutely PERFECT for my brows. I am just a happy little camper when I find perfect matching brow colored products....so all I can say is YES I'd happily pay the $26 for this product. It's absolutely perfect for me....I think I'm going to buy another on to keep in my purse and one in the trailer for our traveling. Where has this been all of my life?
Okie, dokie, the last product is a silk blush by Note Cosmetics and retails for $11.99 US.
I think this is such a cute blush and I don't mean "cute" as in "size", it's just cutely packaged. I do like the color, despite the fact that in the pan it looks almost burnt orange, it's actually a burnt rosy shade. The swatch on my arm shows the color at it's full potential. On my cheeks I had it very lightly dusted on....I wasn't sure of the product then, so I went safer than sorry.
I like how soft and rich this blush is, and the name "silk blush" really does sum it up quite nicely. I like the blush color, performance, I think its a very nice high end feeling product and the package is so weighty to the touch and very sleek.
I do think I'd pay the $12 for it....I pay $10 for the Milani Rose blushes and I think this blush is worth the extra 2 bucks. So yes this is a keeper.
Well, all in all the total of the box retails for $133.98 and I paid $21 for it....not too shabby if I do say so myself.
My stand outs were the mascara and mostly the eye brow product, and my only fail was the Dr. Brandt de puffing gel. But overall, I thought this box was a real winner for me.
If you want to check out Boxy Charm subscription you can use my referral code. There is absolutely no pressure whatsoever to use it, but if you do, thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy your subscription as much as I do mine!!
Other than that, I believe that's all there is for me today. I hope you enjoyed today's post and found it helpful. If you already subscribe to Boxy Charm, let me know how you liked yours for this month and what you got, I'd love to know.
I will be back again tomorrow with another "Can you guess the high end look?", I'm excited to show this look off, I love how the eyes came out. So until tomorrow, take care everyone.
-Kim
