Influenster: SweetHeart Voxbox 2013 unboxing!

It's that time again, I was a lucky recipient of the newest Voxbox entitled "SweetHeart"! This is the Valentines and 1 of 2 February Voxboxes! I'm so happy and ecstatic that I was given this box because it had 2 things that I've been wanting to buy! If you don't know what Influenster is, refer back to my other post, here. So without further ado, let's dive into my box!



 

This is my beautiful box! It has four awesome products that I will get into in a bit, but first, I'll talk about the card.

In every box that you received from Influenster, you receive an awesome product card. It gives you a little message on the front, along with the box name, and on the back tells you what the product is, what it does, and how much it costs.

This card reads:

"Valentine's Day might only last 24 hours, but we're celebrating love the entire month of February. This is the first Voxbox of 2013 and lucky you- you're one of our Sweethearts! Roses, candy hearts, and now, Voxboxes are all standard when it comes to love..."

Then the rest reads about us having to check our box in, and share our reviews/experience with the products via social networking sites.

Now onto my box, I'll start with the least exciting and go up to my favorite!

The first thing that I received is this:

This is a SkinnyGirl Daily "Skinnygirl On-the-Go Bars" in the flavor Coco-Nut with Peanut Butter. The card reads:

"With only 180 calories per bar, you can enjoy Skinnygirl On-the-Go bars guilt-free. The bars are natural, kosher, and high in fiber. All bars now have MORE protein & MORE fiber, LESS sugar & FEWER carbs! These bars are the perfect indulgent treat for individuals looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle."

This will be the only product in this post that I'll do a review on (others will be separate posts) because there's not much to say about it. I'm not a health nut, but I do love my granola/nutrition bars. This was exceptionally tasty! I wasn't really excited to try it because these "Low Calorie" bars usually don't have much taste and have a weird texture, but the coconut and peanut butter really pulled the bar together. I highly enjoyed it. One thing I don't like is that this is priced at $9.99 for 5 bars. 5 BARS! That's nuts! I'm going to stick with my Quaker Granola bars :)

The next thing is:

Not Your Mother's Beach Babe Texturizing Sea Salt Spray. This was an optional product, you could have received this or the Not Your Mother's She's a Tease Volumizing Hair Spray. According to the card:

"Rock a sexy beach look even on those days you're not at the beach! Infused with natural Dead Sea salt and sea kelp, Beach Babe helps create voluminous texturized and wind-swept waves."

The full sized product will cost you $6.00 which is highly acceptable for an awesome product like this!

Second to the last product:

Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response Deodorant. This was one of the two products that I was on the verge of buying! I received a sample of Clinical Strength way back when it was first introduced (or re-introduced...not sure how old it actually is) and I fell in love, but what was keeping me from purchasing it was the price tag! $9.99 for a deodorant, in my opinion, is CRAZY! I've been seeing commercials for this all the time and it just keeps eating at me, I would have caved in and purchased it had Influenster not been generous to give it to me for FREE! So thank you again! This deodorant is in Serene Citrus! The card reads:

"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."

This product retails anywhere from $7.99-$9.99 (an assumption of possible different sizes.)

Last but not least, my all time FAVORITE product I've ever received in anything that I've ever got in the world. (That was a little overly dramatic, but I still LOVE it!):

THE OLAY FRESH EFFECTS {VA-VA-VIVID!} POWERED CONTOUR CLEANSING SYSTEM!!!!! YAY! I've been raving about this product since I saw it in some magazines and the commercials on TV! (Seriously, even ask my mom!) I was verge of buying it, literally within the next week. Then I saw someone had posted the picture of their SweetHeart Voxbox, and I almost DIED! I was so excited to see I was actually getting this for FREE! THANK YOU INFLUENSTER! I know you're reading this ;) From the card about the Cleanser Brush itself:

"A vibrating, tri-tip facial cleansing brush that packs some punch! This battery-powered device reaches deep into contours, liberating skin from dirt, oil, and makeup in hard-to-reach places for a clean that is 400% better than basic cleaning."

The system retails for $12.99 and includes the brush an a mini cleanser.

The card also explains the cleanser, "Shine Shine Go Away!":

"All the purifying power of a mask with the fresh feel of a daily cleanser. This face wash gently lathers and reaches deep into skin to help reduce the appearance of pores."

The full sized Cleanser retails for $6.99 (full size of course!).

 

Overall I was PLEASANTLY surprised and happy with this box! Of course, I have no room to complain considering I got all of these products for absolutely nothing, just my time in testing and reviewing (which I live to do anyways! And yes...I said LIVE not Love, but I do that too :P)

I'd like to thank Influenster again for the opportunity to do this!



 

Influenster.com

Fresh Effects

Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response

Not Your Mother's

SkinnyGirl Daily

 

 

 

 

Influenster: Palmolive Fresh Infusions unboxing and review!

Today I received my second package from Influenster! This was a special box put out by Palmolive about their new Fresh Infusions dish soap. I've passed these in the stores a lot and always wanted to try them but never had the money to pick it up so needless to say I was estatic to get this in the mail. If you don't know what Influenster is, please check out this article I wrote on what it is.



This is the box I received this morning and I was so happy! When I opened the box I was pleasantly surprised. The first thing I spotted was the card!

If you can't read that tiny tiny print it says:

"Congratulations! You have been hand-selected to test the new Palmolive Fresh Infusions dish liquid!

Palmolive Fresh Infusions was designed with elegant simplicity and the freshest scents in mind. The clean you've always trusted from Palmolive blends with naturally inspired fragrance for the freshest kitchen around!

In your box, you'll find three naturally inspired fragrances:

• Ginger White Tea


• Lemon Thyme


• Lime Basil

Choose your favorite scent to keep for yourself, then select one to share with a girlfriend. We wouldn't want to make your other friends jealous though, so you'll also find 5 coupons for $1.50 off to share with others.

...

Happy Dishwashing!"

So I was like, wow okay cool! Not only do I get to use it, I get to share it with friends as well! So I chose my "girlfriend" to be one of my bestfriends, my memay. I know she washes her dishes all the time so I figured I'd let her get in on this new fresh action!

So followed by that, I saw the next item.

There were 5 of these bad boys in there! This is save $1.50 on ONE! That's half off! Talk about generous! These are awesome as they do not expire until May. I thought that was a very nice thing for them to throw in there. I do feel bad for some of my fellow influenster girls as their boxes didn't have any coupons because they had slipped out of the box (they were placed on top of the contents). I'm very thankful that my box came together very nicely.

Now what you've all been waiting for...the soaps!

These are the gorgeous dish soaps! 3 FULL SIZED BOTTLES (16 FL OZ)! How awesome is that?I love everything about the bottle. They really are so simple and I like that they're not shaped awkwardly like most dish soap bottles because they can stand up without knocking everything off the sink. There was one thing that a lot of Influenster girls experienced and that was when they received the package one or two of the bottles had actually spilled all over the box and the rest of the contents. As much as I love the bottle design, I believe they need to change the nozzle of it. I opened my Ginger White Tea (the pink one) and closed it as much as I could, and it still leaked out. They don't click shut like they should and there is no protective cover over them in case they were to spill. I almost wish it had a close top like Dawn has.

Of course, this is the Lime Basil scented dish soap. This smells so good! You can definitely smell the Lime and the hint of basil, but it's not too overpowering. The lime scent isn't an artificial lime aroma, you can tell that it is indeed natural which is something I like a lot because some dish soaps can smell chemically or just fake in general. This is prominently lime but at the end of the sniff you can smell the basil lingering around. It's actually a quite pleasant scent. This is one of the two I've decided to keep.

This, obviously, is the Lemon Thyme. I love lemon, and this is a very soft lemon scent. It's the perfect amount of lemon, but oddly enough I cannot get the Thyme smell. To me it smells like straight up lemon. My dad said that he could smell it, but I think he's looney :) I do however enjoy it, but will be giving this one to my Memay. Like the Lime soap, this one most certainly has a natural scent compared to an artificial.

Last but certainly not least, is the one I tried out myself, Ginger White Tea. May I ask you something Palmolive? Have you thought of making perfume? I mean...I guess people wouldn't want to walk around smelling like dish soap, but this scent is just so amazing I want to wear it :) I don't think walking around all soaped up will work though...things might get slippery. ANYWAYS, this is a very beautiful florally (once again, another word not in the dictionary, I should really become a dictionary writer huh?) scent. As I've said, I already tried this out, and can honestly say I love it.  I have gotten red bumps whenever I used various dish soaps throughout the years, and those red bumps would itch, and then I'd scratch them, and my arms would turn into a giant mess of red welts. Well, with this I had NO bumps which in turn equalled NO itching! :) So not only am I a happy camper about that, but it cleaned my dishes AWESOMELY! I had a dish that had caked on chocolate (or something else brown...I hope it wasn't...well...) and I threw it in the soapy water, took it out about a minute or so later, and it was almost gone without me having to scrub it at all (of course I did anyways to get the residue off of it). I found that this soap left my dishes sparkling clean, I was literally so impressed by it. I can't wait to use my coupons!

I would like to thank Influenster again for sending me this AWESOME package, I'm so grateful to be a part of this awesome program.

These awesome soaps can be purchased at ANY Walmart! :)

Visit Palmolive's website HERE

Visit Influenster's website HERE

Dino Lingo Italian!

So I was introduced to Dino Lingo which is a Language Learning Program for Kids through the Influenster program, and I was told to watch a preview of their videos and write a blog on the topic. Wow was I impressed with this series. For starters, I watched the French video on their Youtube page www.youtube.com/dinolingo



Then I thought, you know, my nieces will be learning both French and Spanish in middle school as part of our towns curriculum, so I decided to check out the Italian version and was pleasantly surprised with them. Growing up, I was used to watching Muzzy in our language classes, and to be honest, they were just so cheesy and boring I wouldn't pay attention. These however, would have caught my attention.



I personally took Italian in highschool and LOVED IT! I thought it was such an awesome language to learn, and used to try and speak Italian with my grandfather who is Italian and refers to himself as a "Guido" (Because of Jersey Shore of course...) which ironically was his fathers name :)

ANYWHO, back on track, this program seems AMAZING! Dino Lingo is an award winning language teaching program designed for small children aged 2-7. Crazy as it seems, my 10 year old niece would LOVE this program as well. I think it'd be easy and interesting for both of my nieces to learn.

Each full home education set comes with a TON of things. One of which is a 5 DVD kit that includes colors and numbers, food (fruits and vegetables), playtime (toys, vehicles, house objects), verbs, nature, family, body parts and clothing. This goes above and beyond as to what Muzzy used to teach us. This set also includes 150 learning flashcards to help your children practice their lingo. The cards go in the same categories that are shown in the DVDs. Also an Italian vocabulary book for kids, which is considered a guide book to the DVDs which I find is AWESOME! So while they're watching these DVDs they can be filling out their vocab books. Another thing included is an Italian poster kit for kids. These posters are of colors, numbers, body parts, clothes ect. there are 10 posters which have the most important 150 words kids need to know! A world map, italian flag, coloring book, guide booklet for parents, and plush dino toy are also included. This set retails for $148.95 with FREE shipping! This is a STEAL for a full home education set, and would be great if you'd like your kids to get back to their italian heritige.

There are also smaller sets such as the basic set which comes with 5 DVDs, 150 flash cards, dinosaur poster and parents guide (Retail $99.95); the poster set which comes with the 10 posters, world map, and italian flag (Retail $59.95) and lastly the plain DVD set which just contains the 5 DVDs (Retail $89.95).

The Dino Lingo program comes in 30 different languages. Yes, I said it, 30 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES!!! That's ridiculous! Everything from Greek, to Portuguese, to even Fillipino!

To buy the Dino Lingo Program go to dinolingo.com/

The Influenster Program

For anyone who doesn't know, there is a website out on the interweb that goes by the name of Influenster.com and my god, this is the best site ever. It's a site in which you can sign up completely for free, and give awesome reviews on products any where from food, to makeup products, to video games, to movies, ect. Now the cool thing is, is that you have this thing called an Influenster score, and it's on a scale from 0-100, and it's based on all of the other Influenster members and your badges, the higher your score, the better chance you HAVE to score.

What's there to score you ask?

Well they have these things called Vox Boxes. What are they? Well they are these cool little boxes that are filled with things for you to test out and review. No big deal right? Wrong! These boxes come with the HOTTEST new products that interest YOU. This is why you earn these Influenster Badges with different categories such as Bow-Wow which you unlock if you have Dogs, or Catnip if you have cats, or even Blushing Bride if you're getting married! (And if you are,  congrats to you!) Now please, don't be greedy, and only sign up for the badges that REALLY interest you! For instance, I'm not going to be getting married anytime soon, so I won't be filling out the Blushing Bride survey, because I'd like for the people who really ARE getting married to get the boxes, catch my drift?

So here is an example of what's actually inside a vox box...this is my first one which I most recently received (November 21st, 2012) and it is the COLLEGE Vox Box!



 

Now with a Vox Box, this is NOT about just receiving these absolutely FREE products, it's about being an Influenster, trying them out, writing reviews (such as this) and telling friends and family about them, if you like them. In this Vox Box I received ImPRESS Press-On Manicure in Holla!, NYC New York Color Show Time Glitter Eyeliner Pencil (WOO, mouth full!) in Show Time Black, Necco Tropical Wafers (Which haven't even hit store shelves yet mind you), Pentel R.S.V.P Pen, and Mint Energy Sheets. I've currently used all of these products and have even written reviews about the ImPRESS Manicure and the NYC Glitter Eyeliner which you can see in my previous posts.

Now in order to receive said Boxes your influenster score needs to be UP! You need to be an active member on social media sites (something that I personally enjoy) and also on Influenster.com itself.

Also, something cool about the new revamped Influenster.com is that they've come out with new Expert Badges. You can only choose 5 of these expert badges to begin with, so be careful (stupid me didn't realize that and I chose 1 I don't really care for, but oh well!). But these "expert badges" will allow you to get into even MORE boxes!

But just because you have a badge does NOT mean you're going to get a box, you still need to qualify for it. And to qualify, your badge scores and influenster scores need to be high, and you need to have some social activity. If you do qualify, and receive it, and do all of the mandatory tasks, brand challenges, ect, you have a much higher chance to keep receiving them (because some people I'm sure take the products and run.)

I hope this gave you a little insight to this AWESOME awesome program, and I hope you will want to join. It will NOT be a waste of time, I promise you that.

NYC New York Color Show Time Glitter Eyeliner!

This will be another COLLEGE VOX BOX post from Influenster :)

Story goes, I received a College Vox Box from Influenster to try out and review. If you don't know what Influenster is, it's an awesome program that sends you things to review and try out. You receive things called Vox Boxes that contain a number of items that are related with the theme. Mine of course was all about "pampering" after a long day of classes. If you'd like to join Influenster you can go to their website (Influenster.com) and sign up from there. You will take surveys and earn badges that will place you into these campaigns.

ON TO THE REVIEW! This review, by the title, is from NYC (New York Color) a brand I absolutely adore, and it will be for their NEW Show Time Glitter Eyeliner! Now I'm going to firstly say that I don't wear makeup. At 20, I JUST started wearing mascara, so I will be gradually working my way to get to use this properly. BUT I have tried it out on my hands and I did try it out on my eyes (not used to the look of eyeliner, so I was a little shocked).

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Now because of the fact I don't regularly USE eyeliner (or actually have tried it out for that matter...) I'm not sure how to compare it to other brands. All I do know is that from testing it out on both my hand and eyes, I've found that it does go on VERY smoothly and I was completely satisfied with the fact that you're actually able to see the glitter in the eyeliner. I was thinking you know, they would barely be in there and it was just a marketing ploy, but oh no, I was completely wrong, they are in there and you can SEE them!

This is from the Vox Box introduction card that is sent in every box:  " Missing the Spark? Get it out there with Show Time Glitter Eyeliner Pencils. Create jewel-encrusted eye looks with these long-wearing glitter-infused rich colors. No doubt you will be dazzling."

Boy were they right about the long-wearing, although not for the eyeliner itself. The glitter pieces stay on your skin (or eyes) for a LONG time. I was still seeing bits of glitter on my eyes for a few days after taking it off (which by the way comes off with water, IE. not water proof.)

At $2.49 a pencil, for a makeup/glitter fanatic, you literally can not be beat. NYC remains to be one of the most outstanding drugstore brands I've ever used.

These new Show Time Glitter Eyeliners can be picked up at drugstores and mass merchandisers nationwide!

Product Website: www.newyorkcolor.com

Broadway Nails ImPRESS Press-On Manicure!

Hello everyone and welcome to my first post on my new blog! I'm hoping to get a camera for Christmas, so for right now I'm going to be using Google Images and crappy iPod Touch quality pictures :)

I'm part of the Influenster group where you get a chance to receive Vox Boxes that contain products that you get to try out and review. I recently was chosen to be apart of the College Vox Box, and inside of it I received the new ImPRESS Press-On Manicure Nails in Holla!

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Let me tell you, I LOVE these nails! Not only is the design beautiful, but they're long lasting and they really are fast & easy like the package says. The package comes with 24 nails in 12 different sizes, but unfortunately I have very naturally long and wide nail beds, so I was unable to use them for my thumb and middle finger, BUT when contacted on the company facebook about this unfortunate problem, they informed me that in the next year they'll be coming out with bigger nails for longer, wider beds. AMAZING! I'm a nail art fanatic, but most certainly will be purchasing them.

Now if you play these right, you might be able to get 2 uses out of them. I was able to put them on my nieces hand, and the ones that I could fit on my fingers and still have a few left over.

Overall I believe that these nails are worth the $5.99 for colors or the $7.99 for patterns. You can purchase these nails at any drugstore, K-mart, Walmart, Target ect.

TIPS:

• Make sure your nails are cut and CLEANED! The ImPRESS will NOT stick to oily nails or nails with dirt fragments on them.


• For added time wearing them, add a little Nail Glue to the beds of your nail, it will make them last longer.


• Some people say they aren't numbered, but they ARE, if you can't see the numbers (they're usually near the tips) then take a pencil and lightly rub it against it so it will show better (the pencil can rub off)

HAVE FUN with this product! I know I did :)

 Product website: http://www.impressmanicure.com/