WOWed the husband

The Montagne Jeunesse face masques have been something I have seen for years. Many a time I stopped to look more closely before moving on down the aisle. I guess it's great price had me worried about if it would work. Well clearly I'm the fool in this story!

The product smells amazing and is so quick, not to mention easy to use. A product that suggests only once a week usage and under $2, you can't beat that!

After rinsing it away I was really happy with the results, my skin was baby soft! My husband actually said "oh wow!" He isn't one to care at all for beauty products and probably thinks they are all a waste so for him to be impressed means this product is a winner.

If you read some of my older reviews you will see that I have reviewed all my products from Influenster. But as a brand challenge I wanted wanted to put the spot light on my favorite products, this including. There are a lot of "ok" products out there and I wanted to show of the products that more "awesome."

Thanks for reading. As my VoxBox challenges seem to be coming to an end please keep reading my posts about all sorts of new adventures and rambling thoughts I have.

My My what glossy lips you have!

I love makeup but I hate paying crazy prices only to be disappointed by over hyped expensive products. If you're like me, NYC is a brand you want to take a second look at!!!

After trying out the NYC Liquid Lipshine I know I won't forget to stop by and see what else they have to offer.

With sleek looking packaging you would never guess it is only $2.49. This non sticky gloss adds a great touch of color and shine. The applicator is a tad bendy but it does the job.

I will be checking out the other colors they have to offer! What is your favorite NYC Liquid Lipshine color?

Favorite Product!

Welcome to my first Brand Challenge!! I fell in love with three products during the Influenster VoxBox and the Kiss Nail Dress was my #1 product.

For $6.99 I will be buying these again when I want to trendy, professional look fast! No more rushing around with wet nails before heading to a wedding. I will be popping these babies on within minutes and will be ready to go. No more worrying about messing up your nails while they aren't dry yet.

Even with my very short nails these babies looked great for days! I am currently growing out my nails so I can try them again. Why stop there? Do your toes too. This summer I am going to show off my Nail Dress toes in some cute flip flops!

Everything you need is in the little box, including 28 sheets and a nail file. If you have very short nails you might want a nail scissors but it's not something you have to have, any scissors will do.

I was blown away by this product and can't talk about it enough.

Get them at almost any store/drug store.

I hope you all love them as much as I do!

Chugginton the son stealer

Since my son has been able to open doors we have always kept his door free of childproof locks. We have been told by others to put a knob cover on his side of the door to keep him from getting out but my question is, why would I do that?

I love that my son is able to get up and come out when he feels ready. And maybe I am super lucky cause my son never abuses it, he isn't a morning person either and tend to rest in his bed for a while before getting up.

Also, what if there was a fire and he couldn't get out? Yeah, that scares me!

I have been enjoying watching him learn about this new bit of independence. In my opinion the greatest way to wake up in the morning is to hear his little feet running towards our room so he can come up to me and say "good morning bud." That is until the train set arrived...

My In-laws gave him a Chugginton Train Set for Christmas and it was taken over his attention. He now gets up and runs straight for his train set and starts to set it up. Ok, in all seriousness, good for him! He is doing some great small motor and problem solving work while setting up the track...but I feel so rejected!!!

Well, at least I still get my "good morning bud," that is when I get out of bed and walk down to where he is playing trains. He does stop for a moment to great me and flash his big proud smile.
::heart melted::

Maybe this is preparing me for when he starts dating.

Decor Withdrawal

It's that time of year again, time to take down all your Christmas decorations. I hate this time of year, not because it's a lot of work or anything but because I love how full and well pieced together my living room seems during Christmas. Huh? your saying. Well let me explain...

We have a good sized living room, we also live in a split level and our living room has the birds eye view of the entry which makes it seem ever larger. Rooms like this really need a large focal point that bring you away from the entry space and into the room. My problem is that our whole living room is made up of old free furniture from family...the stuff we have had since college. It's totally NOT cute and doesn't fill the space at all. I have tried and failed to make the room work but no matter what it just always looks badly decorated. The Christmas tree is that tall focal point I am always craving and it takes up a large amount of space. It forces all the other small furniture to be better placed, closer together and just plan nicer looking. Without the tree there always seems to be a corner of nothing, a black whole.

We are remodeling our basement on a tight budget and don't even have furniture for that space yet. Sometimes I just sit around my house and want to scream, when will it ever look nice?????

Ok wow, in terms of starving children I am just being plain silly. But you work hard and save every penny, you want to have a nice home. I'm not wanting much, I'm 27 and I just feel like we are way over due with moving on from college furniture.

If I was blind to interior decorating maybe I wouldn't care so much but I LOVE decorating and making spaces the best they can be. Hopefully I will get used to the Post-Christmas room layout soon.

Ok, silly rant over. Happy Friday!

My full Holiday VoxBox Review

After filming and re-filming my Influenster views I decided I was SICK of it, it was just TOO LONG! So I came running to my trusty new outlet for my thoughts and feelings. I hope you all find this informational and most of all a bit comical. ENJOY!

Kiss Nail Dress
This product stole the show! My first thoughts before trying this product was that I was going to hate it. They reminded me of press on nails that come right off when they get wet. I have VERY short bitten nails and thought I wouldn't even be able to use them. Not to mention the design was not my taste, it's a bit over the top. I love my $2.50 Maybelline nail polish so why would I spend $6.99 on a one time thing, even if it claims to stay on for 10 days?

Well let me tell you, I was so wrong! I went ahead and did one hand with the Nail Dress and painted the other hand a matching color. Yes, that sounds silly but I wanted to really test this thing and doing a full hand was the only way. I plan to use them again when my nails are longer to see if they are better that way. It was super easy to apply even with my short nails, though you might want a nail scissors. Because I had to cut so much off I actually ended up loving the design. I had cut off some of the over the top stuff so what I ended up with was super cute. Or maybe it just looks better on than in the box. I wash my hand a zillions times a day, with a toddler who doesn't? It's now day 4 and they still look great and I haven't had one issue with them!

I will be buying this product again. I have decided it's my new special event nail go to product. When off to a wedding I'm going to use these to look fabulous under $10 and 10mins!

Goody Quikstyle Brush

Who wasn't excited to open their box and see a brush? I was excited to try this crazy looking thing. I laughed inside cause my thick hair was going to me a true test to this sucker. And well honestly the fact that you are told to use a hairdryer WITH this products give you all you really need to know. This thing doesn't do much of anything. How much faster can your hair dry when you are already using a hair dryer? Not much, def not with thick hair. It was silly! The brush it self cut through my wet hair nicely and I actually liked it for that reason only. The TINY piece of soft grip was also a waste, it wasn't big enough or well placed. Then of course you need to leave the wet brush out to dry on a counter to get good air flow. Jeez, we have wet towels and dirty clothes to care for after a shower and now a brush? 

For $11.99 it's a fine brush but who knows how months of use on the microfiber will result in..ew! I wouldn't buy it for fear of having to pitch it sooner than I'd life. But I'm cheap :-) 

NYC Liquid Lipshine

SCORE, free makeup! Ok well not the greatest color win...nude? But who can't use a nude gloss! I'd say this is just another product that is prefect fine. Nothing to get excited about and will quickly be forgotten and be just another gloss to try. To the people on a budget it's only $2.49! Nothing really to complain about except for the weird applicator that just kind of bends around flexes way to easily. If you don't mind glitter stuck to your lips after the color and shine fads away then go for this stuff. Like I said, nothing great but nothing really bad about it either. Pick out a better color and tell me what you think! 

Quaker REal Medleys

Free food, again SCORE! Oh wait, almond peach? Couldn't it be chocolate? LOL ok so I just don't like fake looking fruit in stuff, it weird me out. Yes, I know, it's just dried but it just isn't the same when it's not done by a more USDA Organic company. For $1.79 you could have a nice healthy snack. I laugh at the 45sec heat time, more like 2 mins! Then watch out if there is a nut allergy in the room cause it's an almond explosion! Not the best flavor but over all a good product, if you like microwave meals. 

SoleSociety
First reaction.."SWEET I get to buy shoes!" After seeing the website I wasn't so happy. Ok, did I really think I was about to get a free pair of shoes...yes..but can you blame me? Something about all the shoes being the same price tells me to run away from that site. I mean how can they all be the same price? I don't think I could ever buy shoes online and after looking at them a lot I decided I just wasn't about to spend $25+ of my own money to find out. Hopefully a friend will want to try it out otherwise it will expire. Nothing worse than waiting on shipping to get a product, then having to return it, and wait some more. I don't like waiting!! hahaha I just wanted The Princes Bride the other day and this reminds me of  one scene. :-)

Montagne Jeunesse
Say what? Jeun-what? mont-huh? Well I have seen these most of my life but never bought one. Under $2? SWEET! I got the chocolate one and it smelled like you could eat it! Using it was so fun, except it hurt a lot where I had a blemish :-(. Rinsing it off just as easy but I had a lot left over even after putting it on my neck. Anyone know if you can store it? Did I say I was cheap and thrifty?
Good product, my skin felt AMAZING! Will def buy in the future!

EBOOST
This product disgusts me! 41,677% of Daily value of Vit B12? WHAT? Consult a doctor if pregnant or considering pregnancy? Nothing yummy about this product. I felt sick during and after drinking it. I gagged and later had a headache. The next day my bowels weren't happy either...ok I'm no doctor, nor can I really say why that happened. BUT I'm not sick, no fever, and it lasted for 1 hr and then I was fine all day. My thoughts are it was TOO MUCH stuff my body didn't need and needed to get rid of. $28 for 20 pouches? Your crazy! EW!

Thanks for reading! I'm done for new with these reviews so look forward to more fun stuff!

Here is my funny reaction to drinking EBOOST > http://youtu.be/9Gr8yjdt4GQ

Influenster Holiday VoxBox

I recently joined Influenster after watching Youtube Channel Dreamflight6000's video of her receiving her VoxBox. I thought it would be fun to write reviews on things I have used, learn more about products I haven't tried before, and of course I was hoping I would get my own VoxBox someday.

I spent some time reviewing products, answering other members questions, and asking questions myself. I was sooo excited when I got an email saying I might qualify for the Holiday VoxBox!! I took the survey and a few days later I received an email confirming that I would be receiving the Holiday VoxBox!!!

Here is what was inside!

One full package (28) of Kiss Nail Dress
One NYC Liquid Lipshine - in Nude
One Goody QuikStyle Brush- Half-round brush
One Quaker Read Medley Oatmeal- in Peach Almond
One $25 coupon code to SoleSociety
One sample pouch of EBOOST- In Acai Pomegranate

Important note: I am not being paid by Influenster or any of the companies that make the above listed products!! I received them complementary for testing purposes only! It is of my own choosing to vlog, blog, Facebook, or tweet about these products.

A full review of all products will be posted here and on my youtube channel very soon!