Be Pretty Box from Vita Cost

I think I've mentioned before how ambivalent I am about beauty boxes. On one end, the idea of getting a box full of surprises, as well as scoring expensive stuff for cheap sounds extremely appealing. On the other end, almost every time, I real a blog that covers one of those boxes, I'm disappointed - it just never seem to be worth the money and expectation.

And so, the compromise that I found with this is going for a box from a supplier that I already had good experience with. It started with Julep Maven, a box of great nail polish and beauty products which is all from the same company, than I got the pretty wonderful coastal Scents mystery box was was also really nice (especially, since one of the eye shadows became my favorite blush in the past week).

And now, I got the Vita Cost "Be Pretty" box. I order t mostly because Vita Cost have my favorite toothpaste at 2/3 of the price and I had to order that anyway.

For $14 including shipping, I got a not very sturdy cardboard box that felt very heavy. I was very curious to see what's inside, since it felt quite full.

And this is what was inside:

2 little bottles of Kiss my Face liquid soap. not too exciting, though I do like this company, especially their sun block. At any other time I'de be disappointed, but I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks, and so, this is just perfect. I'm very pleased.

A full side bottle is $7 on Vita Cost for 17oz. so this is about 2$ worth of soap.

4 little saches of eye serum and face serum by Desert essence. I've never used this, but I do like this company, so I'm happy to give it a shot. 

Coral active moisturizer for acne prone skin. Never heard about this company before, but it sounds good, I do suffer from acne and always looking for that one product that will actually do something.
This is priced at $13, which is pretty cool since this was the price of the whole box + shipping.

Deep Steep moisturizing stick. I'm not quite sure if this is a lip balm or what, but the packaging is really cute. I like everything passion fruite and though I have more then 20 open lip balm at the moment, I'm always happy to try a new one. 

Price: $3

2 small unscented soaps by Out of Africa, again, a company I never heard about, and again something I wouldn't usually be too happy about, if it weren't for my upcoming vacation. those would be perfect for that. 

A full size of this soap is $3, so thought 2 minis are about 1$ each. 

Eye Gelee by Reviva Labs. I adore this company, I only tried their Glycolic acid peel and it's one of the more effective facial treatments I've ever used. I'm so excited to try another product by them. the bottle say "use in the morning" but I just tried this in the evening after a long day of sitting infront of computer screens and found it really soothing and refreshing. For me, this is the highlight of this box.

Price is $6.5

Last is some color! Yay! Lip plumping lip gloss is a really beautiful color! at least in the tube, I haven't tried it yet. It's nice to get some makeup after all the skin care and soap. And I'm glad they went for a color that's really pretty and doesn't feel like a chance to get rid of all the lavender brown horrible gloss no one wanted. 

Price is $5

Over all, I'm really excited to get this package. The total value is about $28 or maybe a little more. All of the products are totally new to me. I can see how for someone this can be disappointing, but since I needed a bunch of travel size products and I'm super happy about any acne products and any Reviva Lab products, I feel like this box was made for me.

I don't know if I get this every single month, but I'm excited and curious to see what's in the next one. 

Special Delivery!

When I made the rules for my shopping diet I decided that I could get Julep Maven box if it's really spectacular, and it pretty much was. I love bright colors, and I picked the one I liked and was all happy about it. A couple of hours later I realized that each month I get any combo that has a teal or blue and some type of orange in it and that I have a bunch of teals and oranges I haven't even opened yet.

I canceled it, and then Coastal Scents relaunched their mystery box and I decided that since I didn't get Maven Box, I can get this one instead.

I ordered it about a week ago, and then got sick and the box got here today, just as I was trying to feel a little better, to cheer me up in my miserable snotty condition. 

And how can one's not be cheered up by getting anything in the mail that comes in a bright magenta box?!

In the box was... a smaller box, also pink, a bumper sticker and a cute little mini eyeshadow samplers, with 4 mini shadows is New Penny (bronze) Vanilla Sky (cream) Aurora (orange) and Deep Forest (dark matte brown). 

So what was inside the mystery box?!

Nice looking tissue paper 

A really nice collection of brushes

A flat shadow brush, a small pencil brush (I'm especially excited about this one), a slanted brow\liner brash, a large powder brush, very soft and lovely, a sponge applicator (I don't like those at all, and probably will not use it) and a hash comb \ brow brush.

I'm sure the 1st 4 will be used quite a bit. So as far as I'm concern - big success. 

Coastal Scents makeup remover. I've used it in the past, it's nothing fancy or extra special, but it does a decent job at removing makeup (both face and eyes) It's not the best cleanser I've ever used, but still, totally usable.

Bronzer in "Dark", I've never used bronzer before. I think I belong to the school of beauty that think that the paler the better. Plus, with my long face, shading is not something I can work to my advantage. I'm not sure what I'll do with this. The color is quite pretty, so for me this might just be the world's largest eyeshadow. 

4 Coastal Scents Hot Pots in Powder pink (which looks more white to me), Aqua (beautiful matte light teal), Petal Peach (pretty neat, but not really my kind of color) and Sterling (a nice dark silver). Non of those are colors I would choose for myself, but I really like the pink and the aqua and sure the silver will come in handy. 

2 loose eyeshadow, a little sample of am amazing dark metallic purple and a full size doe tail, I couldn't find this color of their site, which I think means it's either discontinued or had a change of name. at any rate, it's a pretty intense shimmery dusty golden rose which is perfect.  

Lip pencil in mauve, not my favorite color, but since it's not extremely pigmented, I think I can use it under any pink lipstick, which is great.

Double ended shadow pencil in Peach De Jour, which surprisingly enough, isn't peachy at all, but what looks like bronze on one side and white on the other. This might just be just what the DR. order to recover from the WNW double shadow pencil disappointment...

I know that Coastal Scents is not exactly top shelf, but overall, I like their products. The purpose of this buy was to get myself a nice fun surprise and as far as that goes, I'm very happy with all the fun stuff I got. I'm especially excited about the pencil brush, the little brown and bronze shadows, the full size aqua and the loose Doe Tail shadow. If the double edge pencil turns out good, it might be the best part about this buy.

The boxes are out of stock (again) but if and when they come back, I'm totally getting another one.