GLOSSYBOX (Australia) – January 2012

This is uber late, but I have an excuse! Four days and three nights camping on the beach can really eat into one’s blogging time. (^_~)

Review of the GLOSSYBOX Service Experience

This delivery has been the smoothest one yet! Three days after receiving a tracking number via email, I received a delivery slip in our crappy letterbox to collect the package at our nearest post office. Everything went without a hitch.
 

Review of the Beauty Samples

In January’s GLOSSYBOX, the extras thrown in included:

• a set of Australian temporary tattoos
• a GLOSSYBOX voucher for their upcoming Men’s GLOSSYBOX subscription
• 2 $25 gift cards for The IONIC for a minimum spend of $49
• a $20-off coupon from Mirenesse for their Crystal Glow Hydrating Powder SPF 15

NIVEA Rich Nourishing Body Moisturiser

I’ve known of the NIVEA brand since I was a kid, popping my mum’s NIVEA tin disc packaging to oogle at its stiff creamy whiteness.

The NIVEA Rich Nourishing Body Moisturiser is quite different from the original product I remember. Its consistency is thinner, much more fluid and flows easily. Thus, I found myself slathering more on. It absorbs easily and does not leave a greasy residue on my skin.

The scent is also different – it’s certainly not as strong, and lacks that fragrance that instantly takes me back to my childhood. Which in my opinion, is a bit of a shame as I quite liked the original fragrance.
 

KOSMEA Daily Facial Exfoliant

This is another new cosmetic brand for me. KOSMEA is an Australian natural skincare company, which uses certified organic rose hip oil in

This has very coarse grains for exfoliation. As I was squeezing it out, it would sometimes get clogged from the large grains, so I was not sure if it is suitable for daily use. Instructions were to gently massage into the skin and rinse off with warm water. The product comes out like a soft mud mask with exfoliants, but massages in easily.

Immediately after use, my skin did feel smoother, but also drier and I felt like I needed to slap on moisturiser immediately. I can’t really tell if it improves my skin condition or if I should use it everyday due to the coarse grains.
 

SHEER COVER Nourishing Moisturiser

To be honest, I cannot bring myself to rave about this one. The sample is half the quantity of a full-sized bottle, which is great for travel.

The moisturiser is thin and absorbs quickly – more watery than creamy. The scent reminds me of sunscreen and it does have SPF coverage, but just about everything skincare product in Australia does.

After application, it doesn’t make any particular difference to my skin – granted my skin type is oily and my priority for skincare is oil control.
 

SHEER COVER lipgloss

First impressions from the packaging: solid clear plastic casing, making it easy to see the colour of the product. I would expect the catch to wear down quickly for heavy users though. There is no applicator, so one would have to use a lip brush or fingers to apply. Personally not my favorite way to apply lippie, but to each their own.

As for the lipgloss itself, it glides on really easily and quite thinly. The colour is a vibrant coral in the casing, but it is very faint on swatching. The coral barely shows through the shine. I had to swatch twice to get that colour to show through above. This is definitely more suitable for those who prefer lipglosses that stay pale and subtle.

I don’t particularly enjoy the scent either. It has that strange funky smell you get with some cosmetics that immediately puts me off.
 

MIRENESSE Tight Liner Hydra Gel Eye Liner

Another MIRENESSE product! I have been enjoying the lipgloss from GLOSSYBOX Nov 2011 and have since been regularly checking their website for their other products, reading reviews and comparing them to the products I already use. There is buzz about the MIRENESSE mascara and eyeliner, so I was thrilled to get a chance to try their eyeliner out, especially as I am a tightliner (what is tightlining?).

MIRENESSE Tight Liner Hydra Gel Eye Liner comes in a simple thin black pen. Its product colour is colour coded on its end for easy and quick identification. The removable cap keeps the felt tip inside from drying out.

The felt tip resembles watercolour pens, so the artist in me squeed. Though soft, there is enough rigidity in the tip to draw thin or thick lines, depending on how much pressure you apply – perfect for precision cat eyes or wingtip lines. Unlike some pen eyeliners, this one cannot be sharpened nor pumped to load more product in the tip, so I expect the tip will wear down if you’re too rough with it.

Sapphire blue eyeliner is definitely not in my arsenal. The liner product is of a much thinner consistency than a gel. It is much more like ink and once dry, is a little harder to rub out (but not impossible) with your bare fingers. The eyeliner tends to disperse a faint blue hue over my oily eyelids after several hours of wear, so primer is definitely a must.

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