August Glymm Box Photos

Here is what I got in my August Glymm box. This month the makeup bag was a shiny black, textured bag which compared to the previous few months is very much my style. 

Here's what was inside:

Bentaberry G-1 Moisturizing Face Cream: Made from 100% natural active ingredients: burdock, jasmine, mandarin, blueberry, white dead-nettle and zinc pidolate.

Full size: 30 mL/$22.00

Enriched with the Bentaberry regulating moisturizing complex, it combines white dead-nettle with the botamix (jasmine, burdock and mandarin), to control excess sebum and purify skin. Skin is mattified, soothed and balanced. Redness and blemishes on the face are diminished.

Vitamine & Sea Mineral Clay Mask: This natural facial mask made with clay directly from the Dead Sea will tingle as it softly exfoliates, eliminates toxins, promotes circulation, cleanses and strengthens your skin.

Full size: 210 mL/$62.00

This organic mask is enriched with vitamins B1, B2, C, A, D and E from sweet almond oil to pamper your skin and a touch of honey that wil protect from daily free radical damage and balance your skin's moisture, and work immediate wonders on all skin types giving a soft, tight, sexy, radiant glow.

Mai Couture Papier: The Papier collection by Mai Couture exudes novelty and modernism. Whether you need coverage, colour or highlight you'll find a quick and effective solution here.

Full size: 50 sheets/$19.00-$26.00

Beauty on-the-go? Mai Couture has the solution: blush, foundation, bronzer and it's all without a brush! Add colour to your cheeks anytime with highly pigmented blush papier or get an illuminated and flawless complexion and touch up your makeup with their one of a kind foundation papier. Just rub the paper on your cheeks for instant results. 

The Laundress Delicate Wash: Take care of your beautiful delicates and lingerie with a wash that's effective, yet gentle.

Full size: 500 mL/$22.00

The architects behind The Laundress know how tricky it can be to care for your delicates and lingerie. This non-toxic, biodegradable and allergen-free wash cleans effectively for those tricky specialty fabrics such as silk, silk blends, fine cotton, polyester, rayon, nylon and more. Specially formulated to remove perspiration, body oils and stains for both hand and machine washing. 

Naked Princess Naked Shine Luscious Lip Gloss: This sexy gloss stimulates collagen, is non-tacky and plumps your lips ever so gently.

Full size: 2.96 mL/$26.00

Infused with Shea Butter, Sweet Almond Oil. Moroccan Vanilla and anti-oxidants for radiance and shine. A collagen-producing Peptide helps to plump lips without irritation to reduce the appearance of fine lines. It may be worn alone or over other lip products. 

Atelier Cologne in Vanille Insensée: An electrical current runs through the subtle sweetness of vanilla, jasmine and fresh lime to bond with rich oak moss, woods and spicy coriander.

Full size: 30 mL/$70.00

The master perfumers of Atelier Cologne blend unexpected and rare extracts with signature fresh citruses to create Colognes Absolues. Each scent depicts a moment in time. Take a journey with Vanille Insensée: "He wove through the crowd when suddenly his heart quickened. That scent. It was hers. He had worn it first until she stole it for herself. Now, there she was before him and the magic of years past came flooding back in a moment.'

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July Glymm Box Photos

My July Glymm box has arrived! Let's take a look inside. 

This time the makeup bag is bright orange. I love it - it matches my toenail polish right now.

Here are the goodies inside.

Joico K-Pak Revitaluxe

Joico K-Pak Revitaluxe (150 mL/$25.00): This luxury hair treatment is clinically proven to instantly correct damage and protect against future damage. 

We tease, hairspray, curl, twirl, straighten and braid our tresses until they just can't handle it anymore! It's time to show them some love with a treatment that will leave your hair stronger, softer and more moisturized. It's designed with bio-advanced Keratin Peptide Complex, a patent-pending blend of revolutionary ingredients.

Mane Teeze Social Butterfly Hair Perfume.

Mane Teeze Social Butterfly Hair Perfume (50 mL/$34.00): Summer is a busy time for pretty socialites like you, so bring this hair perfume along with you when you need that little boost of luxury.

Freshen up and bring out the fun-lover in you with this charming, vanilla infused fragrance. The sweet subtlety of each spray teases your senses for up to 12 sensuous hours. This perfume has a higher concentrate than your average perfumes, so one to three sprays is more than enough to bring out the tempestuous diva within. 

Mereadesso Beautiful Body Balm.

Mereadesso Beautiful Body Balm (200 mL/$54.00): This non-greasy, all over body balm, hand moisturizer and foot cream is the ideal skin solution for all skin types. 

From the neckline down, lather yourself in this sumptuous balm. Using vitamins, minerals and 28 globally sourced botantical extracts it will extract your inner glow, improve your skin's texture and enhance elasticity. It absorbs quickly so that it won't transfer to your clothes and the refreshing scent will dissipate so as not to interfere with your signature scent. 

Cyberderm H20 Hydration and PM Anti-Age.

Cyberderm H2O Hydration (50 mL/$60.00): This moisturizer will show your skin a good time. With more benefits than you can count, you can be sure to see some drastic results.

H20 Hydration provides calming relief from the day's stress and great anti-aging benefits. This olive based moisturizer mimics the skin's own barrier, allowing its active ingredients to penetrate deeply. 

Cyberderm PM Anti-Age (50 mL/$115.00): Take a bold stance against physiological aggressors that age us with this powerful cream. 

Let's face it, sometimes our lifestyle choices, albeit fun - may not be the most conducive to younger looking skin. So put up a fight with this ingenious cream. It will increase the lifespan of your skins' collagen and elastin fibers and uses turmeric to brighten and bring out your radiance. 

November Glymm Box

Glymm is a world-leading, luxury based beauty and cosmetics website offering the best new products, expert advice, and an exclusive beauty community combined with a revolutionary subscription service that facilitates a life more beautiful.

A Glymm Box is a carefully curated selection of 3-5 luxury samples that we’ve tried and tested ourselves alongside our panel of beauty experts. From your favorite brands to hidden gems, your samples will span a number of categories to beautify you from the inside out. From hair care to skin care, make-up to brushes and tools, your life will be so beautiful and you will love switching it up every month! - from the Glymm.com FAQs

I signed up for a year's worth of Glymm Box recently and received my first one last week. I've been getting the Loose Button Luxe Boxes for most of the year and wanted to see what another monthly box subscription service was like. Let's dig in!

Glymm Box is in shiny pink packaging - I'm definitely not a pink girl (unless we're talking lipstick) but it's what's inside that counts, right? 

Tied with a pink and white ribbon, Glymm Box comes with a note about fall trends and how the products inside fit with them. Product information is on the back.

Glymm Box has an online Beauty Boutique where you can buy full-size versions of the samples inside as well as other items.

You can also earn points towards purchases in the Glymm Beauty Boutique. One way you can do this is by recommending Glymm Box to friends.

And here's the good stuff, what's inside!

$10 off at www.brownsshoes.com

A little glass container of Jelly Belly jellybeans!

RGB Nail Lacquer

I'm not familiar with RGB brand nail polish. My Glymm Box information card tells me that it's L.A.'s hottest contemporary nail care line and is 3 Free (this is a good thing). 

A bold cherry-red. Not terribly unique, but a hot colour nonetheless. I approve!

Annabelle Smudge Paint in Plummed 

Annabelle Smudge Paint is a new product, a potted cream liner with a built-in brush in the cap.

Annabelle Smudge Paint in Plummed 

Annabelle Smudge Paint in Plummed 

Clever packaging, the lid comes apart into two pieces and reattaches into a usable brush. Well, somewhat usable, to be honest. As a brush, it's not great. For a thin liner line, it's too thick and for an all-over creamy eyeshadow application, it's too thin. 

Annabelle Smudge Paint in Plummed 

Annabelle Smudge Paint in Plummed 

Orlane Paris Light Smoothing Cream

Orlane Paris Light Smoothing Cream is a hypo-allergenic day cream infused with vitamins and minerals to protect your skin against daily toxins. 

Orlane Paris Light Smoothing Cream

And it apparently needs a few pages of instructions.

Lise Watier Flash Lift Radiance Vial

I got a sample of Lise Watier's Flash Life Radiance Vial in my October Luxe Box. I like it, so I'm not complaining I got a second one!

Rahua Luxury Shampoo and Conditioner

Rahua is a luxury, organic line of haircare containing Rahua nut oil sold in top salons around the world and used by Gwyneth Paltrow (who does have enviably long, shiny hair). I gave these to a friend since I don't have luxurious tresses (A.K.A. long hair).

Rahua Luxury Shampoo and Conditioner

So that's my first Glymm Box. I'm most excited about the RGB nail lacquer. 

What do you think? Do you get Glymm Boxes? What was in your November Glymm Box?

Sign up to receive your own Glymm Box here. 

C.

June Luxe Box

Luxe Box by Loose Button is a beauty subscription service that just recently went from invite-only to public. You sign up and pay a subscription amount (monthly, quarterly and yearly) and you get three boxes shipped to you for three months. Each box contains three deluxe samples of beauty brands such as Dermologica, OPI, Lise Watier, Anna Sui, Christian Dior, Benefit, MAC, Clinique and Principessa, among others. 

I signed up just before Loose Button went public with their service and bought three months worth of Lux Boxes. Just before they went public I was offered the change to sign up for another three months, so I did. And I'm glad I did as I got my first Luxe Box last week (sent out early due to the impending Canada Post strike). 

Luxe Box is so pretty - a brown box, wrapped with a black ribbon. Very sophisticated and very chic. Inside is teal tissue paper and a pink striped card, with what beauty treats are inside and a personalized note.

My Luxe Box goodies for June are a mini bottle of China Glaze nail polish in Pink Underground, Daily Microfoliant from Dermalogica and a full-size Laura Mercier eyeshadow in Sandstone. They also threw in a little chocolate treat.

China Glaze nail polish, Dermologica Daily Microfoliant, Laura Mercier Eye Colour, chocolate!

Mini China Glaze in Pink Underground

China Glaze nail polish in Pink Underground

This is not my colour. It's too bubblegum pink, although it's pretty enough with the slight purple sparkle. I lasted less than 24 hours with it on.

Dermologica Daily Microfoliant

I have tried this yet but it's a rice-based powder exfoliant that will smooth and soften your skin, removing dirt, dead skin and roughness. 

Laura Mercier Eye Colour in Sandstone

Laura Mercier Eye Colour in Sandstone

Laura Mercier Eye Colour in Sandstone

Laura Mercier Eye Colour in Sandstone

Laura Mercier Eye Colour in Sandstone

Sandstone is a very pretty, shimmery fleshtone shade making it perfect as a browbone highlighter or to blend darker shades. And Laura Mercier makes gorgeous eyeshadows.


I was thrilled with my first Luxe Box and can't wait to see what's coming next month!


C.