Textured and Trying

  This might be my favorite box I’ve ever gotten. I have been immensely looking forward to going over all the items I got/picked and continuing to use them over the course of the winter.  First though, I just want you to picture this: Sitting on my couch, with a cup of coffee, at 8am on a Saturday, in my nightgown and warm socks, watching my favorite streamer, working on my blog 🙂 So November’s box is ICON. In case you didn’t know, when you subscribe to BoxyCharm through IPSY you can opt in for the ICON box. Four times a year your usual $35 or whatever it is you spend on BoxyCharm gets swapped out for about a $55 charge, and you get an ICON box instead.  ICON is supposed to come off like it’s more carefully curated and intentionally created, which so far I actually do think it is. They pick a celebrity known in the beauty space or just a popular brand owner and make them the face of the box. They add two or three items from that person’s brand into the box, or they let...

Isn’t it neat how they named a month after a Taylor Swift song? I’m currently spending a lot of time trying out the stuff I got in the ICON box. So far it’s all really exciting stuff, and a good mix. I accidentally got three mascaras though, so I’m gonna need to maybe do a whole post on those instead of cluttering up this post.  I’m really excited to be playing around with all this stuff, but we do need to get a huge problem out of the way. The box came soaked through with a product that had shattered in transit. It was a glass bottle containing the Rose Body Oil from the brand Jurlique . It was actually a pretty bad cut on my finger that I got from that, a piece of glass got embedded in my finger and I had to get it out splinter-style. Little cut, lots of blood.  The entire box was covered in this oil. It looked like it had been left out in the rain honestly, and funnily enough it had rained very heavily the day it arrived, but it was up under my porch. The cardboard basica...