April Empties

 Another month has whizzed by, so I've got my empties to show you all! I managed to get through quite a few things again this month.

I've been using this Rodial moisturiser for ages. I got it in the December Love Me Beauty Box, and initially I wasn't that impressed. After a while of using it though, I found that it moisturised my skin really nicely, and it was also great as a base for make up. Unfortunately I don't really like Rodial as a brand, and they're really expensive with a full-size tube of this coming in at around £60-£75.

Repurchase? No.

 

This Dr Brandt Pores no More Pore Refiner lost out to the Porefessional in one of my recent posts, and I didn't really enjoy using it. I stuck with it all the way to the end of the tube though! I found that it made my skin feel quite oily and almost grimey at times, although it was quite effective at blurring my pores.

Repurchase? No. 

 

I was really sad to finish this little pot of La Claree's gentle cleansing milk. This was great at removing make up, and left my skin feeling really refreshed. It's about £19 for a full size bottle, so if I'm feeling flush one day it might fall into my basket!

Repurchase? Hopefully!

Urban Veda is one of my favourite brands, so this sample was never going to last long! This has that trademark Urban Veda scent, quite floral with a hint of herbs, and my skin felt great after using it. At £8.99 a tube, I think I could see myself buying some more items from this range!

Repurchase? Yes.

 I've managed to get through a couple of hand creams this month. This Lavera cream initially put me off because I found the scent to be a bit sun creamy, but it definitely grew on me the more I used it. It didn't sink in as well as I normally like my hand creams to, and left a slight greasy feeling. 

Repurchase? Probably not.

 The other hand cream I used up was this super cute sample from the March Birchbox. This hand cream smells absolutely amazing! Rhubarb is definitely the main scent, I could hardly detect any rose at all. It sinks into your skin very quickly, and left my hands feeling soft and nourished. 

Repurchase? At some point, yes.

This sachet of the Organic Pharmacy's Antioxidant face cream came with this month's You Beauty Discovery box, and I loved it. It's had a very thick creamy formula that meant that I hardly had to use any, and it sank into my skin like a dream. I just wish it wasn't £40 a pot!

Repurchase? No, too expensive.

 

Finally, I managed to get down to the bottom of my bottle of Soap and Glory's Sugar Crush shower gel! This came with the Yule Monty set and it has literally taken me 4 months to use it all up. This has a lovely lime scent, and worked really well with the body butter I got from the same set. I'm not sure I'd repurchase Soap and Glory products individually as they're quite pricey, but I'd definitely get another set similar to Yule Monty!

Repurchase? Maybe as a set.

I can't believe how many samples I got through this month! I can't promise that May's empties will be as jam packed as this month, but I'll try my best! 

Have you tried any of this month's empties?

Love Me Beauty Box - December edition

Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I've pretty much fallen out of love with Glossybox. I'd seen a few good reviews of Love Me Beauty though, and had decided to subscribe to get the January box. However, a couple of days ago I received an email from Love Me Beauty offering the last few December box options at half price, and obviously I couldn't turn that down!

I think this is option 2 out of the 3 menu choices. My first impressions are pretty favourable, the packaging has really impressed me. Not because it's anything particularly special, but because it's 100% recyclable. With Glossybox, there's so much packaging left over that just gets binned, so to have everything recyclable is a great idea.

First up, another brown polish. What is it with beauty boxes and brown nail polishes?! Having said that, this is a much nicer shade than I got from both of the December Glossyboxes. Will I be keeping it? Probably not. But this is a brand that I haven't tried before, and the colour isn't so disgusting that I can't face doing a full mani with it!

 

This box option included two moisturiser samples, which I was happy with. I don't like the idea of facial oils (which were in the other option) as my skin can get quite greasy, and I'm always happy to give new moisturisers a go. We've got Rodial's Glamtox day moisturiser and S5 Restore Cream. Both of these are ridiculously expensive for the full size bottles, so I'm interested to see if I can spot any obvious skin improvements.

 

Finally, we've got two Lord and Berry products. This was one thing that originally put me off from subscribing to Love Me Beauty. They seem to repeat their brands fairly often. I've spotted Lord and Berry products in a few of their other boxes, but as I didn't receive those I was happy to get a couple of things in this box. I got the lip liner in Spice, and the lipstick in Glazed Pink. The lip liner is a bit too brown for my liking, but maybe once applied it might look a bit better. The lipstick is pretty impressive though. The packaging is really nice and feels really sturdy and expensive. The colour is pretty much prefect for my skin tone, and I can't wait to wear it to work.

Overall, Love Me Beauty have impressed me with their December box. I've already picked my box for January, and I can't wait to receive it. I've also subscribed to Birch Box after their cheeky spoiler revealing that a Benefit product will be included with January's box! I might very well end up cancelling Glossybox and sticking with Love Me Beauty and Birch Box at this rate...

Do you subscribe to any beauty boxes? Which is your favourite?