Memebox: Banila Co. and Citrus Care

Hmm. Memebox has a new design for the superboxes. I guess it shouldn’t bother me, but I dislike the random, big splotch of black in the middle of it.

“Delivering beauty everyday”

What.

Memebox Superbox #69: Banila Co.

First of all, I’m confused at this being called a superbox when it came in the smallest box. Am I wrong in thinking that the superbox should be the largest box?

How odd. Are the special boxes larger?

Banila Co. Clean it zero

100 ml + a free sample size 7 ml ($22)

This is a cream cleanser that came with a little paper describing how awesome it is. Bleah. I hate non-foamy cleaners, so this is going directly into my sell/trade/gift-pile.

Banila Co. Prime primer classic

30 ml ($22)

I’ve never actually owned a primer before, so this will go into my makeup drawer and will be tested pretty soon. Cool!

Banila Co. Claypatra facial scrub

120 ml ($15)

Silly punny name. None the less it sounds good; it contains mud from the Dead Sea.

Banila Co. Eye love gel liner natural black

5 g ($11)

I’m going to try this. Black won’t be a good colour for my pale colours, but none the less I can probably make it work if I put some effort into it.

Banila Co. Glam muse luster lipstick in LPK 569

3½ g ($14)

Seriously confused by the name of the colour. I got the darkest one; a sort of burgundy  tone with some pink in it (I think?) I never wear lipstick so this goes in my sell/trade/gift-pile.

Banila Co. Vanilla tint balm pink illusion

5 g ($5)

I’ve already expressed my dislike for lipbalms and tints that comes without applicators. What am I supposed to do? Carry a little brush with me as well? Or just dip a finger directly into the balm and wipe the excess off on my pants? Usch. Sell/trade/gift-pile.

Verdict

3 things that goes directly into the sell/trade/gift-pile.

2 things that made me go “Yay.

1 thing that made me go “Sure, why not?”

I guess overall this is a “Meh.” box for me.

Memebox Special # 51: Citrus care

This was the largest box. So, special-boxes are the largest? Or is it just random?

Unni Recipe vitamin recharger essence

55 ml ($18)

6 different vitamins, lemon extracts, orange extracts, grapefruit extracts and lime extracts. Not bad. I’m not using an essence for my night care at the moment, so I will add this one to the routine.

Tonymoly clean dew red grapefruit foam cleanser

180 ml ($4)

Is this a typo or is it a very cheap product? Huge tube that was even slightly folded in the top to fit in the box. It smells delicious: Like real grapefruit instead of artificial. I ill put this to use after I run out of the Milkypiggy charcoal cleanser.

The Yeon all day sun cream SPF 50 PA +++

50 ml ($17)

This contains a bunch of extracts, but I’m slightly worried about it containing aloe vera too. However, it also says it doesn’t have a whitening effect! This is good, because the Vitamin sun cream I otherwise liked and use, really leaves a white tint behind that washes all colour out of my face. I tried some on my hands and I haven’t had any reaction yet, so I guess it will go into my shoulder bag. It smells vaguely fresh and soapy.

Mizon refresh time grapefruit body wash

200 ml ($14)

Another product that smells awesome! I once bought a Palmolive bodywash that as supposed to wake you up in the mornings… Think it was called something along the lines of “morning tonic”? This could have been something like that too.

Vivito make-up starter intro

70 g ($35)

These are exfoliating little pads. I received something like this before and liked it. I’m guessing it’s the same principle: The pads have a rough, exfoliating texture but it also contains some essence or something that will be left on the skin afterwards.

Vivito painting sweet lip balm orange farm

12 g ($24)

24 $ for this stupid little lip balm? I kind of hope this is just another example of Memebox’es inflated prices. Sell/trade/gift-pile.

Verdict

5 good products

1 for the sell/trade/gift-pile

Very nice. I like “inoffensive products” like this one contained. This is a good box.

Etsy sucks!

So, my beautiful and awesome new hair stick is lost in the mail.

Effing Etsy!

After I placed the order, I had the thought that last I checked in on Etsy, it had this weird bug where it mixed my former Danish address up with my current Swedish.

So I checked, and sure enough: still bugged.

I managed to fix it and sent the store-owner an email telling her what had happened and asked that she would send it to my correct address.

Unfortunately she told me, her father who makes the sticks had sent the stick out without checking the email.

So now my awesome stick is lost in the Danish mail. I contacted them, but have no hope whatsoever that I can get my stick back. The Danish mail sucks ass and they don’t give a crap about customer service.

The store owner was nice enough to refund the stick and shipping cost, but I’m just upset at the loss of a stick.

Does anyone have any experience with the curly sticks in the store?

I like these two, but aren’t sure if a curly stick would work for me at all.

Rockpaperscissorlizardspock rocks!

Well, what can I say?

She’s awesome and we will definitely meet up again!

I had so much fun I forgot to even ask to take pictures (So, sorry for those reading this)

Scissor storage

I like keeping my scissor near my computers. The light and contrast of a monitor is simply the best for making damage show up in my hair.

Where do you guys keep yours?

Fake bangs, part 3

Hmm. I haven’t been able to find colour #10 anywhere. I’m very disappointed in that.

I guess I can either keep looking on and off, give up or go for #12 which was the second best fit.

Opinions? 

Fake bangs, part 2

Checking the colours indoors in artificial light. 

Colour #09: The one I just can't find anywhere. Too bad, it seems to be a pretty good fit.

Colour #10:  Was a pretty good fit outdoors in sunlight, but indoors in artificial light I think this one is the best fit of them all! 

Colour #12: Was a pretty decent fit outdoors, but indoors it is too light and red. 

(Don't know why, but all the pictures I took of this one got pretty shaky)

So, what do you think?

Colour #10: Medium ash brown is the best?

Fake bangs, part 1

The failed fake bangs have only seemed to stoke my urge to get a proper wig part.

But I have also been afraid of having to deal with more trouble of having to return something that didn’t work again. I guess you really can’t properly see the colour of a wig part on a computer screen: You need to see it close to your own hair in a variation of light conditions.

So I ordered a colour ring showcasing the colours available to Swedish brand Rapunzel that specialises in hair extensions. They have a line of fake bangs in artificial fibres that I am interested in.

So, out in direct sunlight with me and the colour ring. 

The colour ring. I like how the artificial fibers feel close to my own hairs texture. Very different from the fine and fragile-feeling human hair bangs I tried. 

Colour #08: Copper brown.

Too dark, too red.

Colour #09: After much searching I haven't been able to find this one anywhere. I guess they don't stock/make this colour anymore? 

Colour #10: Medium ash brown. Pretty good fit, don't you think?

Colour #12: Golden brown. Also a pretty good fit!

Colour #16: Light copper blonde. Hmm. Indoors I thought this looked pretty close, but I guess the light tricked me?

Hmm. Now that I have taken the pictures out of the camera I can see I need to check the colours out in unnatural light too.

Look what I just ordered!

It's been a very long time since I was last "Wow!"ed by a hair tool, but this one did it for me!

The stick is 6.96” (17,7cm) long and 1.45” (3,7cm) wide, so the size should be perfect for me too.

WoodArtJewelry on Etsy

Cool!

I have enough indigo for several treatments for the ends, even though I only bought tiny little sample packs. So I placed an order for more cassia and more Indian henna samples at Hennabutiken.

They have cassia in 4-packs now, so that’s pretty sweet.

Hennabutiken sent me a sample of Jamila henna for free too. Cool!

I wonder if it’s a hint: “Here, try this too!”

Today’s hair: Knotted, bunned braids

Continuing my experiments with knotted updos.

Dual French braids knotted together and wrapped up in a bun. Got slightly lopsided and looks rather messy, but none the less I thought it looked cool!