Sample SHOWDOWN!

Hey everyone!  

I tried a few new samples today from my April Birchbox (If you haven't seen the unboxing video, here is the link!!   http://youtu.be/hZ3bKb1IbeA )  ANY WHO, I tried a few products and I just thought that I would give a quick little review of what I'm thinking about them!  

I want to start a little series, called Sample Showdown, where I try the beauty box samples, or Sephora samples, or Salon product samples or whatever, and tell you all what I personally think about them the minute I think it!  I find myself trying new products, meaning to talk about it in a video or on twitter or on here and then it just slips my mind.  So it's getting real over here and I am BOUND AND DETERMINED to get this sucker started!

SO LETS BEGIN!

Shall we start with the good or the bad?  

I think we should just get the bad out of the way!

The first thing I tried was by juice beauty and it was "stem cellular repair cc cream" in the shade natural glow.  First thing, it smells awful!  I understand that it is organic and that they do not have all the artificial fragrances added that a lot of beauty products (and any product for that matter) have.  I kinda smells like a mixture between aloe and the veggie juice I make every morning for breakfast...  I put kale in my juice and now I feel like I rubbed kale all over my face.

Getting away from the smell, it was too heavy for my skin.  It made me oily feeling the minute I put it on, even with a mattifying primer on underneath and I felt like it never did set.  I so then set it with powder and I still feel like I should be using oil blotting sheets all day long.

The coverage was so so, I wasn't expecting miracles out of the coverage, it is not a foundation after all, but it just did not WOW me, by any means.

RANT OVER

on to the good :)

The Next product I tried was called beauty protector leave in treatment.  AND LET ME TELL YOU, this sucker is amazballs.

Granted, I do not know if it does everything that it claims to do, the list is a rather lengthy one, but it did make my hair feel, and smell, wonderful.  I combed out my hair after the shower and then sprayed this little beauty on and I styled it as normal.  I could tell immediately after blow drying that my hair was already less brittle feeling, and after I straighten my hair I had no flyaways and it was as smooth as a baby's bottom.  I'm going to continue to use this little sample, and there is a great possibility that I will buy this guy off of Birchbox's website!

So ladies and gents, what are our thoughts on this months beauty boxes?  Have any of you tried any samples that you have to rant and rave about?  Let me know!