What to Expect in 2014

Hello everyone! Happy New Year!

Today I would like to talk about what to expect to see on this blog in 2014.

One of my resolutions for the new year is to post more on my blog. I hope to have a new post at least once a week (Hopefully it will be twice a week but let's not push it). These post will be about a variety of things including beauty products, nail polish, and book reviews. I am very excited to start posting more.
 
I hope everyone has a happy, healthy, and overall wonderful new year!

Violet VoxBox

Hello everyone! I was very excited when I received an email a few weeks ago saying I might be getting the Violet VoxBox from Influenster. A few days ago I received my box in the mail.

If you don't know, Influenster is a website where a community of people review and share products. On the site you earn badges based on the things you review and sometimes you get the opportunity to be rewarded with a VoxBox. A VoxBox is a box filled with products from brands that would like to share their products for testing and review. I received these products complimentary for testing purposes from Influenster.

I received four items in my Violet VoxBox (pictured above). I got a SoyJoy bar in the flavor banana, a Sally Hansen triple shine nail polish in the color "Play Koi", A goody athletique headband, and a goody quikstyle hairbrush. 

SoyJoy bars are gluten-free and baked with real fruit and ground whole soy beans. I had never tried SoyJoy before so I was very excited to try them. I was happy to get the banana flavor because I love banana flavored things. The taste was similar to banana bread. I think it was a little dry but it tasted good. If you don't like banana flavored things there are other flavors as well. I would recommend trying it if you think you might like it.

The nail polish was probably my favorite thing I received in my VoxBox. I love getting new nail polishes and I didn't have a color like this one before. "Play Koi" is an orange/red color that really does remind me of a koi fish. I really like the brush for this polish. The brush is flat and wider than other brushes and makes the polish apply very easily. The polish lasted about a week before chipping. It is very shiny, it definitely lives up to the name "triple shine". I would definitely purchase other colors from this line.

The goody athletique headband has velcro on it so you can adjust it to fit around your head. I like using it to keep my hair out of my face while I wash my face. I don't think it's anything special, it's basically just a headband and it does do it's job of keeping hair out of your face.

I was excited to try the hairbrush from goody. It supposedly helps your hair dry with absorbent microfibers. It claims to remove 30% of water. I tried using the brush after towel drying my hair. It did remove some water, I don't think it was 30% though. I do like that I can use this brush when my hair is still wet because my hair gets easily tangled and it's nice to brush it out before it dries.

Overall I was very happy with the products I received in the Violet VoxBox.

Goody Ouchless Hair Ties Review

 *I received this product complimentary for testing and review purposes from Influenster.*

     These hair ties are great. They work just as good if not better than other hair ties. I love that these hair ties don't pull my hair out when I take my hair down. 
     Some people do not like that they have a knot tied in them however, I like the knot. I think it gives it more personality especially when wearing it around your wrist.
     They are very easy to used. You can use these the same way as a normal hair tie. My favorite way to wear them so far is in a braid. I think it adds a little something that normal hair ties do not.  
     They come in a variety of colors and cost about $4 to $5 for a pack of 5.

If you are interested in these hair ties here is a link to the Goody website where you can learn more about them: http://www.goody.com/ 
And you can view their influenster product page here: http://www.influenster.com/review/goody-ouchless-ribbon-elastics?tab=review

Olay Fresh Effects

      I received this Olay Fresh Effects BB cream complimentary from Influenster. Mine is in the shade fair to light. Olay Fresh Effects BB Cream is basically a tinted moisturized. It comes in two shades fair to light, and light to medium. It offers six skincare benefits in one step. It says it refreshes, brightens, evens tone, hydrates, smoothes, and protects with SPF 15.
      I have tried this a few times so far. I like that it has SPF in it to protect my skin from the harmful rays of the sun. It does smooth my skin and is very hydrating. I wouldn't recommend for people with oily skin because it can be a little greasy. It does helps to even tone a little, however it gives very sheer coverage. It blends in with my skin tone very well, but if you have darker skin I don't think this would work for you because the shades it comes in are so light.
     Overall I like this product. It is very hydrating and I love that it has SPF.
You can lean more about it from the olay fresh effects website www.olayfresheffects.com
To purchase this product you can go to www.olayfresheffects.com or http://www.amazon.com