Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response- Serene citrus scent

First, Sorry about the lack of a new photo. Mine looks a bit gross from getting ink on it after the tattoo!
Did you know there are three causes of sweat --Heat, movement, and stress? Stress sweat comes from a different gland, so it actually smells the worst. Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response in Serene Citrus is uniquely formulated to protect you from all three causes of sweat, especially stress sweat. It's proven 4x more effective at protecting against stress-induced underarm wetness than the wetness protection required of an ordinary antiperspirant.

In my SweetHeart Voxbox I also receieved Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response- Serene citrus scent. I have put it to a couple awful tests & I am by far pleased! I've been looking all my life for such a creature! I applied it hours before I got the above tattoo. I was extremely stressed that it was going to be excruciating pain, 4-5 hours spent on those wings & I never really had underarm wetness or smelled like anything but the deodorant at any given time. Awake from 7am-2am! It had plenty of hours of stress to protect me from!

I also spend around 3 hours exercising daily, normally I come away from exercise completely reeking since I'm a fan of garlic. I wish I would have discovered this sooner, I could have saved so many exercise shirts from my horrible staining stench. If anyone has any idea how to get stubborn B.O. out of clothing the help would be greatly appreciated!!

Overall thoughts, Very nice scent even though citrus isn't really my thing I do enjoy the scent alot. It lasts & works & has kept me smelling incredible in some of the most smell inducing situations. for only $7.99-$9.99 I will be repurchasing when I run out. Which I think will be a while since it doesn't require alot for application & for the first time I haven't had to reapply every couple hours!! Thank you Secret!!


Not Your Mother's-Beach Babe Spray


 To start this post I want to mention the fact I have super frizzy, pin straight hair. Frizzy from bleaching it but the pin straight hair is super difficult to get it to do anything unless heat is used in the process.

Rock a sexy beach look even on those days you're not at the beach! Infused with natural Dead Sea salt and kelp, Beach Babe helps create voluminous texturized and wind-swept waves.
In my Sweetheart Voxbox I receieved Not your mother's Beach babe spray. First OMG the smell is to dye for, smells like a trip to the beach...Also makes me wish I had a pina colada!! Now onto how it performed, when I applied it to damp hair it didn't do much more than give me a little volume and completely tame my fly away frizz. Nothing to complain about there, smells awesome & frizz be gone!! When applied to dry hair (sorry I forgot to take a picture I had a grunge look going) it gave me a nice beach look to my hair, or you could even say a semi grunge like hair look which was very pleasing since I've had a thing going with grunge like clothing lately. Doesn't really dry the hair out, wash & condition the next day & it's like you never had it in your hair. Unlike other products that you seem to have to wash your hair 50 bajillion times! Ok so that is an exaggeration but still application & removal are super easy which is a huge plus for me!! Also can't beat $6.00 full size bottle!


Thursday, February 28, 2013

Olay Fresh Effects Powered Contour cleansing system & Shine minimizing cleanser



I recieved the Olay fresh effects {Va-Va-Vivid!} powered contour cleansing system ($12.99) along with the Olay fresh effects {Shine, Shine Go Away!} shine minimizing cleaser ($6.99 5 oz) in my SweetHeart VoxBox this month. I haven't been using it very long but I've been impressed by it's cleansing power and by the nifty little vibrating cleaner. I had recently been debating buying something to better clean my face due to using your hands just doesn't really cut it. Plus I'm trying to break the picking habit so the less I touch my face the better!!!
Before using both, right after I finished my exercise so my face is nice and shiny!

 The shine minimizing cleanser has been very good with breaking through the shine/grease from exercising let alone my regular greasy face! The powered contour cleansing system has been a fantastic little scrubber, just make sure your gentle. I was a bit to rough today with it and I have some flaking going on from some of my pick sights.
 
after cleaning my face, nice natural shine but not greasy, sticky, slimy or filmy in the least bit!
I must admit after some other cleansers I have tried (equate's for of proactiv, clean and clear, and other common facial products) I have had a tight feeling to my face, extreme flaking, pimple, or just not feeling like it actually cleaned anything. This left my face feeling nice and clean without being super drying! As long as I don't have any break out issues after further usage I will be repurchasing the cleanser!



Skinnygirl Daily On-The-Go bars Coco-nut


I recently recieved the Sweetheart Voxbox through influenster.com, inside the box contained a single full sized On-The-Go bar.






180 "guilt free" calories. 5g of fiber, 8g of protein, some vitamins, but 10g of fat total for a little bar. Ok so in the photo it looks A LOT bigger than it really is. I received the Coco-nut flavor, I have a small allergy to anything nut and coconut(may have an itchy rash) but not bad enough to stop me from consuming the bar. I'm a huge fan of anything coconut or peanut butter which this is both!! It tasted awesome, but not any better than low end "protein/fiber" bars you find in the cereal isle. Certainly didn't taste anywhere near good enough to justify the $9.99 for a box of 5. I could buy the higher end protein bars at Walmart for the same price of each single bar, maybe even feel full/content after consuming one. Hate to say it but I wasn't very impressed by these bars. I'm grateful I got to try one out to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything since I try to be very food/health conscious but I will not be repurchasing these in the future. Sorry Skinnygirl!

Monday, February 25, 2013

Influesnter SweetHeart Voxbox!!

Look what finally arrived!!!
Not that long ago I recieved a Cosmo Voxbox and was completely thrilled with the items inside. So when I recieved an E-mail with a survey to attempt to qualify for another Voxbox I was ecstatic!!! I immediately completely the survey and a few days later I qualified, I have been (im)patiently awaiting its arrival. Then at last it arrived but I had to wait 6 hours for other family members to arrive back home with the mail(they checked the mail and grabbed it on their way out >_< )!!!

So far it all looks awesome! I can't wait to give it all a try, I've got some testing to start tomorrow! I had just been saying I need to purchase a clinical strength deodorant, luckily I hadn't gotten to it yet LOL!! The clinical strength deodorant smells amazing already!!! I had also been browsing and contemplating buying a face cleaning brush of some sort to help really get it clean, scrubbing with my hands just isn't cutting it anymore. Pimple & black head city *sigh*. I'm always thrilled to try out new hair products since I used to have naturally wavy hair, then it was naturally curly, now it's pin straight with no volume *sigh again* so I am EXTREMELY excited to give it a try. I am constantly trying new hair products and seem to be disappointed so cross your fingers that this works for me! In general this is a pretty awesome box, especially since I've never tried any of these products! Can't wait to get started on testing the items, & eating the SkinnyGirl on-the-go bar!