UnBoxing: Play! By Sephora
Play! By Sephora is a limited-membership monthly beauty box aimed at the VIB Rouge set, though membership seems to be opening more widely as of late.
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I was filled with excitement over opening this uber-hyped beauty box. Oh, Sephora box: I waited for you; you arrived. I did a little dance; I opened you.
Although I didn't find it to be uber-generous, each item was a little treasure. An already favorite lip-liner in miniature form? Get in my makeup bag.
A mask primer and a sleeping mask? So fun to experiment with. Who doesn't love a mask? Who doesn't love sleeping? Nobody I know.
All I wanted was more. Apparently I'm not alone.
The below is Grav3yard Girl "Bunny," who is an enormous YouTube sensation, and in some ways my spirit animal. She felt similarly:
Until the next unboxing...
Xx, Mom in Mascara
My skin was smoother than life in a week. So I went back for more. Which is why I look like a dartboard this week. Check with me in a few days.
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Jasmine Swann, a self-characterized "clean beauty junkie with a dirty past" has a special meaning of love too. Of course, hers isn't easy either.
Gifts are symbolic and it's in our human DNA to want to share with people we love. Psychologically speaking, gift giving is a deeply natural way of forming bonds.
Don nary a bracelet nor necklace... but enrobe your life in gemstones nonetheless (without the new-agey bull-crud).
Pretty girl gets a grown-up, natural bridal makeup transformation from Mom In Mascara.
beautyblender: I still really love you, but lowercase is soo goop circa 2008.
Forcing another person to do virtually anything is generally indicative of malice. Unless mom is forcing you to eat your veggies. (Also, an appearance by Brandi Glanville.)
The face cream was... well, really and truly, thickly, abundantly black. Strangely black. It was ambiguous in its inexplicably. It was wonderfully luxurious, and inexorably mysterious, but just too expensive for what you're really getting.