Once again, I got the regular Top Box with 4 items. I will never choose the Privé boxes, due to my love of the unknown: good or bad, I'd rather be surprised when I open that lovely cardboard tube.
Best song I know about loving the unknown
So let's begin!
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| Gardener's best friend! |
List Price: $5.00
"...will make tweezing easy (okay...) and fun (!)"
I have several pairs of tweezers already (doesn't everybody?), and they all cost a lot more than $5, but I guess I can use these? I tried to pluck a couple of close-lying eyebrow hairs, and I was not able to get the job done with these. I much prefer my razor-sharp and thin Revlon tweezers, but I suppose I can throw these in my First Aid Kit. I can also see myself using them to pluck slugs off the hostas, maybe.
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| You are not nearly as nasty as you look! |
Full Size: $19
Approx. value - $4.50 (?)
Wellll...this is the first product yet that I'd actually consider buying. Wow - this stuff is awesome. When I first saw it, I thought it looked like another cast-off from the Island of Unsellable Colours. I was WRONG! Supposedly transparent pigment looks slightly different on each person, depending on your base lip colour. On me it looks like a slightly dark cherry colour, with a bit of gloss to it. Fabulous! It also stays on for a few hours, similar to the lipsticks I usually wear.
The only thing that will probably prevent me from buying this is that I *hate* Clinique's packaging. I just think it looks ugly and dull, especially compared to my two favourite cosmetics lines from MAC and Lancóme.
Lise Watier - Ombre Soufflé Supréme Eye Shadow
Full size: $24, approx. value $5 (except not really because this is obviously a sample that you could get for free if you know where to ask for it.)
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| Pretty shiny! Pretty messy! Pretty pretty! |
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| Dark, strange and creepy |
Full size: $12 (9g)
Here we have a strange and wondrous item. Apparently the "imagineers" over at Avon have been trying to find a new way for people to get black gunk on their eyelashes. Because a traditional wand is so difficult and ineffective? Hmmmm...I've worn mascara nearly every day since I was 16. Let's do the math on that:
22 years x 365 days = 8030 mascara applications with a wand. Add in a few more for all those times I just went over the morning's mascara before going out for the evening, and we'll call it an even 8200.
Suffice it to say that I'm *really good* at putting on mascara with a wand. Like, a pro, almost. I am also, apparently, really bad at putting on mascara with a centipede-like wedge. I have tried this product for the last two days, and I have also jabbed myself in the eye with this product for the last two days. I even got mascara on my contact lenses, as well as my lower lid. On top of that literal poke in the eye, I can't get enough leverage/pressure to build the mascara up for thickening or lengthening. I am an Avon MEGA Effects failure.
I'm not going to complain too much, though, because I really respect this product's designers for thinking outside the (Top)box. (Or tube, I guess.) At least this product is different and wacky, compared to the banal moisturizer samples I got last month. Props to Top Box for entertainment value.
To wrap, here's the value breakdown of this month's selections:
Tweezers: $5.00
Lip-stuff: $4.50
Eye shadow: (I refuse to give this sample a value)
Disturbing mascara: $12.00
GRAND TOTAL: $21.50
Not bad, Top Box. Not bad at all. Adding up the entertainment value (which is really my primary interest) and the actual retail value, I feel that I certainly got my money's worth this month. Here's hoping they can keep it up!
What other items are floating around out there this month? Did anybody else get this Top Box, and what did you think? Let me know in the comments! Also, please feel free to post links to your own reviews...
Thanks for reading!! xoxo
I was wondering how that mascara thing would work. :) Thanks for poking yourself in the eye so I didn't have to.
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