Ree Racoma

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

New Beauty Test Tube Spring '12 [review] + Giveaway Winners

randomized by: reeracoma at 4:29 PM 4 comments

One of my favorites subscription boxes is New Beauty's Test Tube! I really like this subscription because I feel the products are higher end products and, in all the cases that I've gotten a test tube, you get at least 3 full size products. I haven't done an unboxing or review of my previous 3 test tubes and I'm sad that I didn't because I could have shared the awesome goodies!

Here is the video of my unbox and review of my Spring 2012 test tube. Also, I announce the winners of the last two giveaways that ended recently!

UNBOXING: Gogogirlfriend deluxe box

randomized by: reeracoma at 11:10 AM 2 comments

A December deluxe box from gogogirlfriend in March is very poor customer service!

I have had bad service after my first box and decided to get a deluxe box as my last hoorah with this company. Well, it took them 3 months to get me this box. Good riddance. Being a birchbox member for 10 months now, customer service and transparency of when boxes would be received is high on their priorities - which didn't seem to be the case with gogogirlfriend.

This deluxe box was offered to members and contained many full size items well worth over the value paid - $28.

After calculating the value of each item in this box, it came out to over $50 which in turn saved me over $30!

January 2012 Birchbox Unboxing

randomized by: reeracoma at 8:46 PM 1 comments

Hello Beauts,

Here is the unboxing of my January Birchbox which is themed as Clarity.

The items in my box are:

Borghese curaforte
Juicy - Viva La Juicy perfume
Stila waterproof eye pencil in purple tang
Jouer body butter
Larabar snack in cherry pie (I did try this, it was a bit tangy for my taste but it was a good little snack)
Birchbox magnet

Here is my unboxing video -

Any of the products you're interested in seeing a review on? Let me know!

Haven't signed up? Here is the link for my referral info - Birchbox - $10/month (high end beauty products)

Here is the information on my current monthly boxes -

So far the monthly beauty boxes I have right now are:

New Beauty Test Tube - $29.99 plus shipping/quarter (higher end beauty products)

GogoGirlfriend - $12.99/month (beauty products) - *canceled January 2012

Julep Maven - $19.99/month (nail products) - *skipped December & January (didn't like options)

BlissmoBox - $19/month plus shippimg (organic beauty/food/household products) -

w/ discount paid $11 (enter my email address - racomaree@gmail.com) *skipped January's box

Lollihop - $ 18.95/month (all organic foods curated by nutritionists) - w/ discount paid $11.38 *they are closing :0(

What are your favorite boxes??

Thanks for visiting and don't forget to subscribe, it's free! yay! ---->

Laters,

Ree

Friday, December 9, 2011

New Beauty Boxes - GGG & Julep Maven

randomized by: reeracoma at 9:01 PM 6 comments

Check out current giveaways!

Omg! My obsession grows with these monthly beauty box subscriptions!!

I've been a member of Birchbox for over 6 months now and have gotten 2 quarterly New Beauty Test Tubes which I love because I get a box every month with some really fun beauty items! I can't get enough! Goodness!

I received 2 new boxes on December 7th from Gogo Girlfriend and Julep.

Gogo Girlfriend is a beauty box membership that costs $12.99 to receive a box monthly of 6 or more products, discounts on products through their website and you get to qualify to be part of giveaways.

Thoughts - First impression isn't positive so far. They indicate that they are big on customer service but their delay in getting tracking information after 2 weeks (based off the FAQ section of their site) from signing up has contradicted this. I had to email them 3 weeks after my sign up date of November 2nd and they replied quickly to say that they will contact their warehouse to let them know that I contacted the company. I finally received my tracking email for my shipment on December 2nd and then received my first box on December 7th. Wow, really? This was meant to be a November box but I received it in December. World's different from Birchbox. Although some may receive their Birchbox late in the month, at least its in the month that the box was supposed to be received on.

In my unboxing, I was not impressed with my first box and was not super duper excited with any of the products. I had viewed previous videos on youtube of previous months and they had some great items. I will say that these items seem to be worth more than the $12.99 I spent. They debited money from my account for 'December' box already, so I will see how I like the next 'regular' box along with the the deluxe box I placed an order for in the beginning of this month. I will keep you posted.

Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Blossom dreamy girl mineral shadow, Camille Beckman Gift set

Ketchup... i mean catch up...

randomized by: reeracoma at 8:19 AM 1 comments

So it's been a lOOOOng minute since my last blog post! Slacking, I know.

What have I been up to?

Mommy news front -

I have been dealing with pregnancy symptoms earlier than with nugget's. I've just entered my 30th week into my pregnancy and I've been dealing with issues sleeping, waddling sooner, gaining more weight than my previous, feeling more tired - just to name a few.

My nugget is turning the big 2 on the 23rd and we are throwing a small family Cars themed birthday party next weekend!! OMG, 2??? Time has zoomed!

I've been trying to get all the themed items together so I'm not rushing to get stuff together at the last minute. I plan to have Cars 2 playing through out the house, an art station for painting and coloring, a dessert area called Sarge's surplus of sweets and a station for temporary tattoo application. Here are some pictures that I found during my research to have during his birthday!