December Julep Maven, Be A Bombshell, and Birchbox purchases

The other day I had three packages waiting for me at the post office.

 I had ordered Be A Bombshell eyeliner in onyx and the One Stick in Southern Belle for black friday. They also sent me a free lipgloss in coco since I am an ipsy member. Southern Belle is a coral color and coco has a copper shimmer. I liked the colors on me. The shipping is pretty quick. I decided to try another One Stick in Buckwild. I think it will work even better as a three in one product. I don't see myself using Southern Belle on my eyes. As a cream blush it is lovely, and on the lips it is okay. It looks better with a little gloss over it.

 I had used some of my points to order some items from birchbox. I decided to try Its A 10 since I likes the 21Benefits so well. I don't think I like it as well, but I also had the sea salt spray in my hair the day it came. I decided to order Stainiac in Prom Queen since I already had a nice sized sample in Beauty Queen. Prom Queen is more of a pink, while Beauty Queen is red. They both work nice. 

 I chose the Boho Glam box for December, with an add on of an extra brush and eye shadow palette. The extra this month was the hair tie set. 

 The eye shadow palette came in neutrals. I have dark pigmented eyelids that look like I have brown eye shadow on. These tend to blend too much, so I need to try again after full make up with concealer. The brush they sell is actually a blending brush and does not apply the eye shadow well. It tends to dump loose powder. I have plenty of the eye shadow brushes so it was nice getting a blending brush for a change. I did like the lightest color as a highlight and the other colors are nice as well if I can get them to show up. I did use eye primer.

The nail colors that came in the Boho selection were Misti- a smoky blue that has a hint of teal and Joelle- a silver holographic glitter. I also used the diamond glitter from Crystal for this look.

Thanksgiving, Max, and Birchbox Man

We had an early thanksgiving at the house. I had a few days off so I cooked a turkey dinner on tuesday. While the turkey was in the oven I played with Max. He was trying to get my toes here.

 here he just looks cute

 I took wine and salsa to marinate the turkey, made green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, gravy, and bourbon cranberry sauce. The cranberry sauce was yummy, especially with the turkey.

 We also received December's Birchbox Man. It had the perfect comfy socks for winter. I let Danny have those. The small patch on my phone is a screen cleaner. It was an extra to promote their app. We got the Crew hair spray which I will probably steal for when my other travel spray is gone. The GO247 body wash for the boys. I added the Proraso shave cream and after shave to Danny's shaving supplies. Today would have been a good day to try it out, but he has decided to disappear on my only days off.

Celebrate November's Loot Crate

This month was great, everything was appreciated. 

 It had two Dr Who items: a wall decal and a balloon. Charles and I fought over the sticker and I won. I think Danny took the balloon.

 Danny snatched up the BFast as soon as this picture was taken. He said it tasted like strawberry milk, which he is a fan of. The shot glass stuck around a little longer. I thought it was interesting and as the only drinker in the house I generally don't do shots. I had placed it by the computer with my other shot glass, that happens to be holding hair pins. It has since disappeared. I assume they gave it to one of their friends.

 Danny claimed the tyvek wallet. He pulled his out and transferred the items immediately.

 The front matches Danny's hat. Yeah, Batman. Saddly he needs a new hat as he got a little too close to the candle he claimed from the Birchbox Man box. Now he looks even more like the stoner that he is NOT. Maybe I should have him cut his hair, but it is so pretty.

 The speaker figurine was cool, even f you don't watch South Park. I tested it out and it works well too. It is amplified and you can plug it into your computer's USB port to use it as a computer speaker or charge it and use it for a phone speaker. I kind of wanted this, but Charles suggested we give it to Alex. She doesn't have speakers for her computer.

 The last item in the box was a deck of cards. Charles snapped these up. He wanted cards to play with his friends. As long as he is still going to class...