Swatches: The Perfect Yellow Nail Polish-Sinful Colors in Pull Over

Three coats of Sinful Colors nail polish in Pull Over:

The color is a canary yellow with a cream finish. There's no shimmer or glitter in it. It has a warm undertone and thus looks amazing on olive or tan skin. A lot of the pastel nail polishes that are hot for spring don't work on me, but this one is perfect!

Also, the Sinful Colors nail polishes are 0.99 cents this week at Walgreens! If you get some, let me know what colors you get. I am planning to haul some tomorrow.

Swatches: NYX Cream Blush in Natural and Boho Chic on NC35/NC37/NC40 Skin

NYX Cream Blush in Natural on left, NYX Cream Blush in Boho Chic on right:

Natural has a warm undertone, so it does indeed look very natural, like a flush of rose on my NC37 skin. (My skin color ranges from NC35-40 depending on the season, but I generally match to an NC37.)

Boho Chic has a much cooler undertone and therefore appears more of like an icy pink on me. If I don't blend well, it can almost look a little silver and  ashy on me, so I prefer Natural on my skin.

The blushes look similar in the pans, but in the above photo, Boho Chic is on the left (it's the slightly lighter one).

Look inside my April 2011 Birchbox with me!

 

Here's a list of what's inside my April 2011 Birchbox:

• Juice Beauty, Green Apple Peel 
• EXTRA/Juice Beauty, Stem Cellular Repair Moisturizer
• LIV GRN, Earth Eau de Parfum
• Weleda, Wild Rose Smoothing Facial Lotion
• Zoya, Nail Polish in Jules
• EXTRA/Bloomin, Seed Paper

A few initial thoughts:

This was my first time ordering a Birchbox. The samples are pretty small; they're the same size as the free samples you would get in a gift-with-purchase bag from a department store counter like Clinique or Lancome.

I'm not sure if it's worth the $10. You're basically paying $10 for what are supposed to be free samples, you know? I mean, if I received a gift-with-purchase bag, pulled out the free samples, and then charged you $10 for them, you might feel a little like you were getting ripped off. That's just kind of how I feel.

However, I guess when you spend the $10, what you are really paying for is the ability to receive and test generally hard-to-find brand samples at your doorstep along with the thrill of getting a little package in the mail.

I admit that I enjoy seeing a box of goodies nestled between all of my bills and credit card offers ;) After a long day's work, it's a little something that brings a smile to my face. In my opinion, that fact alone is worth the ten dollars.

What do you think of Birchbox? Did anyone else order one this month? Did you get the same things as I did? Leave me a comment and let me know!