Gifts under 300

Time is drawing closer and the clock is ticking. If you want to have your sanity intact I suggest you get the gifts done within the next week, otherwise it ll get stressy. He´res my suggestions for gifts under 300Dkr

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Christmas Fun Fact of the Day: In Scandinavia children will often put out a rice pudding with cinnamon to the Gnomes (a kind of Christmas elf's) in order to make the gnomes happy. Since the viking age it was believed that Gnomes would bring good luck or bad fortune depending on their mood, thus the pudding is a sort of gift in exchange for good tidings

There will be no or limited swatches for a while. Due to the weather and season, I cannot take a prober picture. Out lights are the kind that gives out an orange light which kinda screws up the pictures. Until I get my hands on a lamp with "natural" light, I cant swatch.

September Goodiebox

Yes yes I know - VERY late review, I do hope you don't mind to much tough. I'm expecting to blog a lot more now that I got a new and awesome phone with an awesome camera and a nice little "light box" to use for pictures. All I need now is some lights to help it, but all in time. I still haven't received my order from the Models Own sale, but as soon as it arrives ill of course show off my purchases.

Goodiebox is a danish equivalent of BirchBox and Glossybox
EDC means Endoctrine disrupting chemicals. The ingredients in red is EDC´s from the EU list of 17 that has been proven harmfull

This months theme is Rock It Up, inspired by the one and only Lady Gaga who recently performed in Copenhagen.

All together!  

 

Diesel, Loveoverdose perfume

The perfume is described as a fresh and fruity scent with notes of orange flowers and liquorice. I do like the full size flagon, very girly! I cant tell if its good or not since of allergies

Retail is 275Dkr, get it HERE

David Beckham, The Essence por homme perfume

In my opinion 99,9% of perfumes for men stink. You better make your own opinions on this XD

Retail is 230Dkr, get it HERE

Oriflame Beauty Eyeliner Stylo

To me, Oriflame is equal to old ladies that don't know quality and just need something to smear on the face twice a year when there is a party - Cheap and bad quality. No offense to anyone but that's how I perceived it, so I was pretty curios to if they changed since my mom would receive her monthly packages back in 1990ies. Well... This stinks. Literally. Like benzine or turpentine or something like that. YUCK! That went straight to the garbage can.

It also contains  methylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben 

Retail is 110Dkr (wheres the days where Oriflame was cheap??), get it HERE

Oriflame Beauty Eyebrow Kit

After the disaster of the eyeliner I was less than positive when opening this one. Luckily this isn't so bad. It´s not amazing but it does what its suppose to. A good beginners kit i´d say. Decent pigment and the wax is easy to use as well.

Retail is 69Dkr, Get it HERE

Nutrilett Hunger Control Bar

A diet bar in a beautybox. Good grief. Like the diet supplement in the previous box, this just rubs me the wrong way. I also dislike these things in general. Eat a fucking apple if you need a healthy snack, not some mineral added candy bar. They claim it can be eaten instead of breakfast and just to be clear: Then you fuck up your body. The breakfast needs a lot more to keep you going till lunch. It is body physics 101: To keep the engine running to burn off calories, you need to eat 3 main meals and 3 snacks a day. That way you keep your sugar level steady and your burner burning. 

Retail is 19,95Dkr and you can get it here HERE

Lóreal Proffessionel Abondance De Cacao Shampoo

I LOVE chocolate and incidently cacao! You can practically sell me any product as long as it contains chocolate lol. The shampoo is designed specifically for fine Scandinavian hair - which I don't have. Oh well maybe it will do something nice for my hair to. What I love about this is that its PARABEN FREE and no silicone either! The bottle got this nice rough "natural" feel about it

Retail is 118Dkr but Nicehair has it for only 98Dkr. Get it HERE

Orofluido Elixir

Dye my hair pink and call me Lucy! WOW!!! What a gem to receive! I heard nothing but praise to this hair-oil-that-isn't-quite-a-hair-oil. There is something about this that makes me feel like I'm sucked into Arabian nights. The color, the logo, the bottle. Like I'm a princess getting pampered. 

Ad to dry or damp hair, lenght and tips not scalp! Its filled with good stuff like argan, cyprus and lin oil. It also contains perfume but I hope I can use it anyway. unfortunately it also contains Cyclotetrasiloxane ::( Bummer! 

Retail is 129Dkr but Nicehair got it for 77,40Dkr. Get it HERE

Max Factor Face Finity 3-in-one All Day Flawless Foundation

Primer, concealer and foundation in one. I'm all for products with more than one use! They got 5 shades available and its paraben free

Retail is 149Dkr, Get it HERE

Fun Fact of the Day: Artistic nail art is not a modern invention. The Incas painted eagles on their nails

August Goodiebox

Goodiebox is the Danish equivalent of Glossybox and Birchbox.

It seems they had some troubles with delivery as I didn't receive my box till Tuesday. I am still not going to recommend signing up for this just yet, as I am less than pleased with the way they treat other costumers. I haven't had any issue myself, but I'm aware of several very unprofessional responses via their Facebook.

Regardless, they seem to try and straighten things out, so I'm holding on a bit more. On a related note, I signed up for MyBeautyBox which is a cosmetic focused box! They already made promise of Urban Decay in the first box! I will of course review them when I get the box (shipped October 15th).
And now to this months - or rather last months ;) - Beauty box!

Pink band again - I do love pink <3

This weeks box is dedicated to Vidal Sassoon, the man who in 1960 invented "The Wedge Bob" and changed the way we saw woman's hair forever! He´s the grandfather of the modern short styles with his vision of hair that was easy to style and keep. Most of the products this month is all about the hair!

Loreal Texture Experts Smooth Ultime

I'm not exactly sure what this is... Goodiebox calls it a "Hair Tamer" but I haven't got a clue what that means. Contains Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate and Methylparaben both EDC´s so I doubt ill be using it.

Full size retail is 192Dkr

John Frieda Frizz-Ease Shampoo, Conditioner and Serum

John Frieda is the stars go-to hair expert, and rumor has it that his products are amazing. Upon inspection tough it turned up that they have several EDC´s in them including Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate Probylparaben and  Methylparaben  but ther´es some good stuff to like Glycerin, olive oil and mineral oil. 

Full size retail is 89Dkr

Davines Absolute Beautyfying Potion

The product I'm most exited about this time!! It is a hair oil, and im looking very much forward to use it! Sadly, again parabens :( Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, which is an UV filter. 

Full size retail is 300Dkr

Milk_Shake Whipped Cream, Leave in Conditioner

I love quirky stuff and this whipped cream conditioner tickles my funny bone :D It smells like caramel whipped cream, UMM I say! I couldn't spot any parabens on the label yay! It contains sunflower seed oil and milk protein! And we all know that Cleopatra bathed in milk to keep her beauty 

Full size retail is 159Dkr

Futura Silica

A diet supplement to hair and nails. I'm pretty iffy about this one. I know that many people are unaware of the consequences it can have to mix drugstore pills with medicine, and I cant really see the purpose of a diet supplement in a beauty box...

Retail is 79,95Dkr

Cacharel Catch Me Perfume

Booo :( As a perfume allergic I cant test this. I'm putting it in my "give away" box

Look how pretty that bottle is on the pic! Curse my allergies

Gosh Light´N Shine Lip Glaze, Pick Me

This is really a treat! Full size and limited edition; can one ask for more?

It got a mirror on the side - very clever!

and light in the top!

The applicator is a brush. Not very innovative but it suits the texture of the gloss. It is VERY sticky! The scent and taste make me think of candy apples, and the texture; Syrup. I WANT to love it but I have a hard time with sticky gloss.

I couldn't find the ingredients list, if anyone knows where to find it let me know!

The color is a dark plum with a hint of red. Like red wine (or candy apples).The shine is so intense,  a real eye catcher! 

Retail is 99Dkr

And as a goodbye, a pic of me I took trying to get a good picture of the gloss - sexy pout yeah! 

Fun fact of the Day: Hair is made of keratin, same as your nails!

Wednesday Wishing Well

Every Wednesday ill blog about something I wish for. Something I cant buy right away or maybe ever, things that may be to expensive or to hard to get my hands on. And now presenting this weeks wish! 

DKNY Be Delicious

I loved Be Delicious ever since the first was released. I loved the bottle, the scent and the whole idea of smelling like apples. I loved the red one to, deeply. Each perfume seems to have the perfect balance of sweet and fresh. It is play full and makes me think of summer days and fresh apples. It was a sad day when I had to give away my bottles to a friend. I became allergic. Perfume made me sneeze, my eyes filled with water and clogged up my nose. I even got a rash. The sad part is that some perfumes I can use - like those based on essential oils. Unfortunately perfumes like that are hard to come by. 

Be Delicious retail for approx. 460Dkr

And now I find out about this: 

Yeah why don't you just rub it in ye bastards 

Fun fact of the day: In the 17th century, the perfect body shape for a woman was what we today would consider overweight

Wednesday Wishing Well

Introducing the Wednesday Wishing Well!

Every Wednesday ill blog about something I wish for. Something I cant buy right away or maybe ever, things that may be to expensive or to hard to get my hands on. And now presenting this weeks wish!

Escentric Molecules' Molecule 01

The Molecule 01 is a perfume unlike any other. The perfume melts with your natural pheromones and thus creates a unique fragrance! Everyone will smell different! The active ingredients ISO E Super, an aroma chemical. They claim that you most likely wont notice the scent yourself but everyone around you will - its like those pheromone sprays but according to the raging reviews this one actually works!

The travel size retails for 38£ on Cultbeauty but you can also buy the Refill for merely 27£ 

I am quite intrigued by the prospect of unique perfumes. In theory the scent should change with the pheromone levels, and that is quite amazing! The bottle is simple and plays on the geeky (01100101 is binary for E, referring to the chemical) and that pleases my inner geek! 

Fun fact of the day: Wet hair can stretch up to 50% without breaking