Thursday, October 16, 2014

Monthly Subscription Boxes - ipsy October 2014

The Glam Bag from ipsy is a monthly subscription of beauty products curated for subscribers based on a beauty quiz.  Each month, subscribers receive an exclusive makeup bag and five full-size products and samples.


Nice quality bag, perfect to throw in a purse or overnight bag.


From left to right:
-Skyn Iceland Mini Glacial Cleansing Cloths
-ModelCo VOLUMEYES Extreme Black Mascara
-City Color Be Matte Lipstick
-Fig & Rouge Hand Cream
-Doll 10 Beauty H2Glo Highlighter

I can't wait to try these products, I'm particularly excited about the cleansing cloths and the hand cream.

Monthly subscription boxes - LootCrate October 2014

I signed up for LootCrate last month as a birthday present to myself.  It's a monthly subscription box of geek and gamer stuff, from t-shirts to figurines, comics to candy.  Each month has a theme, and the items in the box align with that theme.

October's theme is FEAR.  Obviously.  Now with the un-boxing!


Open the box to find a t-shirt (I got an e-mail to confirm my shirt size, so it was expected, but exciting!) and a smaller box.


I wasn't quite sure what this was at first, except that it was some sort of weapon from Dead Rising 3.  When I looked at the description in the monthly magazine, I discovered it was a Sledgesaw Hammer pen.  Functional and violent, right up my alley!


 Death by Kittens!  This shirt looks like it runs small, glad I went up a size.


 How to Survive a Sharknado (And Other Unnatural Disasters) book.  This book retails on Amazon for $9.57, so it's definitely a big ticket item! 


On the left, a Walking Dead art print features zombie Merle Dixon and living Daryl Dixon, with the caption "Oh, brother."  Yes, I laughed.  On the right, temporary tattoos of slashes and bites.  Halloween is coming up!


 Monthly exclusive pin.


 On the left, gift card for digital content, on the right, monthly magazine.


 The Walking Dead comic, issue 132, with Loot-exclusive cover.  Also, toxic waste candy.

The whole crate!  This month was awesome, I'm particularly excited about the pen and the book, though everything in the crate is way up there in coolness.  You can still get this month's crate, so long as you sign up before 10/19 at 9 pm PT. 

Monthly subscription boxes - LootCrate September 2014

I signed up for LootCrate last month as a birthday present to myself.  It's a monthly subscription box of geek and gamer stuff, from t-shirts to figurines, comics to candy.  Each month has a theme, and the items in the box align with that theme.

September's theme was Galactic, and as a life-long Trekkie, I was super excited that it would be my first box.  I didn't take pictures as I opened the box, because I was so excited to just dig in, so I just have a picture of the entire box unveiled.


Clockwise from top right, this is what I received:
-9"x27" poster of Han Solo encased in carbonite
-Pop Rocks candy
-Firefly bank robbery money
-Monthly pin
-Monthly magazine
-Firefly vinyl "Mal" exclusive action figure
-Tribble (exclusive Looter edition)
-Alien action figure
-Digital codes for Halo Escalation comics
-Retro arcade magnet

Overall, the box was neat, but I wasn't crazy impressed by it.  Not sure what I'll do with much of the stuff.  The Firefly money, for example, is cool, but what do you really do with it unless you have a dedicated display space?  At least our Tribble collection is growing!