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 Starlooks Starbox
Every month, a box will be delivered to your door filled with 3-4 FULL SIZED pieces of STARLOOKS BRAND MAKEUP (plus some fun, little extras). Every box will include a different mix of product types including colors, styles, formulas, etc.  

Each month, you will receive a beautifully crafted box with 5 FULL SIZED beauty items. 
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Join me on ipsy and subscribe to the Glam Bag! 

You get 4-5 beauty products every month delivered to your door, for just $10.

 Michelle Phan curates the bags!

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BirchBox Woman's Box

Packed full of brands like Lancome, MCMC, Ojon, Smashbox, Youngblood and more. If you decide you want a full-size version of something that came in your sample box, Birchbox offers free shipping if you order that product within a month of receiving the sample.  

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November 2014 Nail Recap

November Nail Looks. 

I've been absolutely obsessed with Julep's Nail Color, so November's Manicures are all from the company. They each have a beautiful name and even more gorgeous color, with a variety of amazing finishes. 

Up first is Margaret, then Nadia with Shoshanna as a glitter top coat, and finally Austen.

I cannot wait to get Decembers Maven Box which I fully upgraded and then my extra goodies from their Black Friday sale! 

Nails : December PT 1

PICTURE 1: Julep - Sky

PICTURE 2: Julep - Soraphine, Devon and Sky

PICTURE 3: Julep - Myrtle, Valerie

Nail tape is from www.shopmissa.com/.

Birchbox Unboxing - BuzzFeed

Honestly, I forgot all about it. I've been having problems with Juleps shipping and this perked me up a bit!

Box is wrapped beautifully - nice and sturdy - smells great thanks to the candle that's inside! 

Here's what the box looked like...and the goodies are:

 I'm keeping it all except the mascara.  Happy with Juleps Go Big and Too Faced - Better Than Sex.

I'll review the items when I use them. 

Overall I'm pleased, it's cute and the sizes -albeit samples, are significant and good for multiple uses. 

I'll keep my subscription for another month for sure. 

If you're interested in buying or swapping with me just check out my Pinterest board at the top of every page.

Birchbox definitely has good stuff for things. :)

Operation : Organization : Progress

Thanks to Amazon Prime I got the items I ordered next day, free. I have very limited space in my little NYC apartment so finding space and looking okay are not easy tasks to accomplish when it comes to organizing my stuff. 

Luckily I have a bookshelf in my room so I can utilize free space as places to store/display my beauty products. While I wouldn't want antiperspirant on a shelf in my living room, I don't mind so much in my bedroom.

One of my dressers is perfect to display/store some of my brushes, a makeup box for storing my items for sale, and a great magnetic close Julep gift box that works to hold my 'to be organized' stuff. Yes, I save Juleps packing material...it's adorable!

Another shelf holds my Julep polish, and that little organizer has everything else - foundation, lippies, eyeliners, mascara, etc. 

Operation : Organization : Nail Polish

I *hate* cleaning. Frankly, I despise it with a passion, and I would rather...I don't know what...but I don't like cleaning. However, there's few things I love more than organizing my stuff, it's a bit obsessive.

One thing though,  I notice I'm not alone! Over and over again I see that many who are enamored with beauty product collecting also love organizing all the stuff in creative, fun, and often really, really, cool ways. This is what I've been working on the past few days while I impatiently await my remaining November and December subscription boxes and Black Friday purchases.

I have decided to attack a few tasks at once because it seems like it would be most time effective - not that I actually limit myself to how much time I spend on my beauty things, but that's another story all together. Shh...

The first thing I want to do is get to swatching my collection. I love Juleps nail polish the most and they are the core of my collection. The bottles are beautiful, but they are glass, they are conveniently sized, but not traditionally shaped... not to mention the swatch spot is on top and the name on the bottom - storage is kinda tricky. I like many colors so ideally I'd like to display them in a rainbow fashion, I just like how that looks. I have the Color Caddy - but I can't see them in there. Truthfully I'd like to keep as many polishes out and in view as possible. I decided to go with this (I purchased 2 from Amazon, $5.48/ea, hold 24, *shipped from the US) to display my favorite colors.

I'll store the rest of my polish in my color caddy for now - I think that would be enough to keep out on display for the time being. :D I eventually hope to upgrade to a wall mounted piece for my polish. I'm holding off however, because I hope to move out of state in the next 6 months or so.

!!!SWATCH PLANS!!!

I am so excited to start swatching I'm almost embarrassed! I looked high and low for something that I felt I could follow through with and would be somewhat enjoyable to do - and not incredibly tedious. I don't really have a pretty handwriting and I didn't want to take all the time to type things out and cut and paste the names on, so a pretty book didn't seem like a good idea for /me/. I looked at the nail sticks, but I felt like that would waste a lot of polish because it'd keep doing it over and over if the nail didn't come out /perfect/. Some people were using binders with loose-leaf paper, but I worried if the color would be skewed by the paper.

Finally, I came across someone who used artist swatch-cards and a binder - not exactly what I was looking for but it did give me an idea! Un-ruled index cards, a index card holder, dividers and my OCD. Alphabetized Julep polish? Like...a library catalog? Y/Y? YES! Since we all know Julep by Maven name, I think this is going to be PERFECT! I cannot wait to try it out and how it comes out. This is what I bought to do the job, got everything on Amazon!