Mario Badescu

Last weekend I signed up for a bunch of free samples on different websites. One of those at Mariobadescu.com which is a natural skincare company. You answer some questions so they can figure out what skin type you have and then eventually you get a response back and you find out what skin care regimen you should follow along with the products you should use and they let you know you're going to get some samples of those products. 

I looked up samples from previous years and they looked like travel size samples to me but when I got my samples today it was mostly foil packets and 3 in plastic containers. Which is completely fine, it was all free! I just wanted to put that out there in case other people do the same thing and see the older pictures (some were from 5 years ago) and also think they're going to get some good sized samples. 

So I signed up for these about a week ago and received my package today so the turn around time there is awesome. It's the first samples I've received out of everything I signed up for last weekend. 

There's everything I got. They sent a variety of 8 products with the eye cream having 2 samples. I'll probably be able to get 3-5 uses out of the foil packets (I usually do with face products) and then no clue how many I'll be able to get out of the plastic containers. The pots are awesome, I'll be able to reuse them for nail art glitters when I'm done. I don't think I can open the Aloe Lotion bottle though. It came with a product guide and a product application guide based on my skin type. I think the application guide is awesome because I was looking at all the samples first, looking at the directions and wondering which should I use first, how do I even use the aloe lotion (it's actually a liquid and not a creme) or when would I use the drying cream. 

Everything was on the guide except for the Botaincial Exfoliating Scrub which based on the directions, I think I could just use it instead of the Strawberry Face Scrub. 

There's a close up of the directions for everything. I didn't get a sample of the Enzyme Cleansing Gel so I'll use one of my regular face cleansers while I'm trying all of these products out. I like that the moisturizer has SPF in it. I've been trying to use a sunscreen lately to help with the redness (sunburn I guess) I get across my cheeks and on my nose when I do deliveries (four days a week). I don't like that none of their eye creams have any SPF in them. I have a sample of sunscreen from Sephora that is for the eye area and I think that's great. I don't get sunburned there but the eye area is prone to wrinkles because of the sun. 

Here's some closes up the samples and the back of the packets!

I don't know when I'm going to try these but after I'm done using them I will post a review. I'm just trying to use up some other samples first. 

May's Mystery Bag from Rainbow Honey

I just got June's bag last Friday and I haven't posted May's yet! Well I better do that. I don't have pictures of June's yet so that might not show up on here for a while, lol.  But I promise I'll get pictures up before I get July's bag.

The label says Featuring Summer Drinks July 2014. 

Here's everything together. There were 3 polishes again and I hope they continue with that. I think more people prefer that and I know there were complaints when they sent out 2 polishes and 4 nail/skin care products. October, November and December were all just 2 polishes. I'm not counting base or top coats! But I think they were and now they're not! So it's an improvement and it shows they do listen. Like the solid perfume they did in December. It was in a tin and you would have to scoop it out to put it on you. In March they introduced the solid perfume balm which I prefer but in a scent I like, I didn't the Rose. HOWEVER!!!!! If a solid perfume was made with the May's cuticle balm scent, I'd buy it. So on that note, what the heck did I get??

-Twisted Ice Tea Cooling Gel- I won't use this. I don't use cooling gels often and I don't like ice tea so I'm leaving this sealed until I can sell it. 

-Piña coco-colada cuticle balm- I love this. I love this more than Pomme Rouge and Cranberry Sangria! If/when they release other products in this collection (summer drinks July 2015) I'll be buying more of these cuticle balms plus maybe a lotion. 

-Mojito Classico Perfume- I get nauseous from anything minty. Smell or consuming it. I can chew a piece of mint gum but I have to spit it out after 10 minutes or less because I'll get sick. I just sold this the other day. (along with things from past bags)

Let's move on to the colors!! 

-Juicy Orange Pop is pretty. It's sheer and works best over white or lots of multiple coats. 

-Laguna Grande is a really pretty green blue color. It looks blue in the bottle but once on the nails, the green shows up.

-Neon Yoshimi is a neon (duh) glitter topper. It has pink square, yellow/green square, black square and white square glitters in various sizes along with iridescent hex glitters. There are also pink hex glitters. The white glitters are the smallest, there are two sizes of both pink and yellow glitters and one size of black. The small pink and yellow are the same size then the big squares in pink, yellow and black are the same size. The yellow glitter looks metallic yellow in the bottle but over certain colors it looks green. It's the same yellow that was used in Magic Cake. 

I think I like all 3 colors. I love Laguna Grande. I didn't like Neon Yoshimi at first but then I tried it over Laguna Grande and liked it. I've also now seen it over other colors and I really do like it now. I also like Juicy Orange Pop but I think it's just going to be annoying because it's so sheer. 

I don't have any good pictures of Laguna Grande and Neon Yoshimi, just a few I took at night in bad lighting. I only swatched Juicy Orange Pop and didn't take a picture. 

There was a previous collection called The Robots Collection (I think it came out early 2014 but it could have been in 2013) and it had 5 frost colors and their names ended in Bot and then there was a black and white square glitter topper called Yoshimi. We've now had 3 colors in our mystery bags this year that are apart of the 2015 Robots Collection which I think is just awesome for whenever the collection is released. I'll already have 3 out of possibly 6 colors. Rosy Bot was from January, Neon Yoshimi from May and then in the June bag was a green frost called Thallo Bot. 

Samples!!

I have lots of samples coming my way soon. I have a bunch from Walgreens (hair care and mascara and...? I don't remember what else), some dog treats and cat food, Lipton single serve teas for bottled water, shampoo and conditioner from Garnier, some skin care samples from Mario Badescu and some perfume samples. I'm not sure what else I've signed up for. But I'm excited!! I'm also possibly getting a Voxbox from influenster which would be full size items but I don't know if I'm getting one for the survey I just did. We'll see.

Some of my samples.. Some were cheap or free full size products. 

Walmart box is $5 every season and is a subscription.

Target box was $7 and these tend to come out seasonally but it's not a subscription.

Birchbox had a promotion for $1.

....

I'm not happy. 

Sometimes I'm cold.

Most of the time my body is comfortable or cold. Comfortable is great, you know. Cold is fine too. I can just cover up and I'm great then too. But then sometimes I get painfully too cold or painfully too hot. I rarely am "comfortably warm or hot."

When I'm too hot, I get migraines and then I throw up. I do not like it when I get too overheated. I've been at work and stood in the walk in cooler to cool down because throwing up is bad. Like I can walk around outside in the heat and can be fine (most of the time). But if I'm in a hot house, my body just reacts badly. I guess when I'm outside in the heat, I'm usually active and my body temperature might not get as high, whereas if I'm sitting still and it's hot, my body temperature might get too high. 

Then sometimes my body is just so cold, I can feel it in the bones and it hurts. I'm like that tonight. Last night too. I was in the shower last night for about 30 minutes just standing under hot water and kept turning it up. I couldn't get myself to warm up. And tonight, same thing. The cold felt like it was in my bones. The house AC blows on me, on my side of the bed and it doesn't stop until about 9 or 10 pm so I got cold quickly and the AC wouldn't stop. The AC kicked off finally. But I never took the blanket off, I took my arms out from underneath the blanket. Then J got hot since the house AC wasn't on and the room AC wasn't on. So I turned it on and then realized it is also blowing right on me. I fixed that. I turned it to face him. Lol. 

I think the extremes bother me so much because of the fibromyalgia. 

I have my 6th RH (rainbow honey) order to blog about. I'll try to take better pictures tomorrow. I'm also going to take pictures of the stuff I want to sell or swap for. Like all the lotions, lip balms, lip scrubs, cuticle oils and balms and scented top coats. I have prices already in mind. And I just sold a polish to someone who I ordered two things from. I've got to print her shipping/tracking label. We'll see how bad I fail at this. 

I need sleep..

And now a cute baby goat!