November Q Box

A few months ago we finally bit the bullet and ordered one of the infamous QBoxes. Since normally at least the two upcoming ones are sold out super quickly we opted for the November box and now after all this waiting it finally arrived on our doorstep.

I don't even know where to start, I am just so excited. Let's start at the beginning though, We have been toying with the idea of trying to order any of the thousands of monthly boxes that are out there but couldn't really decide. Most of the 'normal beauty boxes' have a really big hit and miss rate in our opinion so we wanted something we could be sure to enjoy.

So something with maybe not American or European brands but rather Asian brands sounded like a good idea to us. And even for this you have a lot of options to choose from. Some cute couldn't hurt either though we thought and we like that the Q Box mostly sends out well known brands rather than new/unpopular ones.

After all this thinking we started checking out the older Q Boxes finding us liking most of the things they send out so far. In the end we ordered one and lets be honest the price for the box itself is really cheap, shipping sadly, isn't. Anyways spoiler alert we are extremly happy we paid the shipping.

The ordering happened back in September so get ready for waiting quite some time since the Q Boxes normally ship out at the end of the months (about the 20th I believe). One months passed, the next one passed and we must admit the September box didn't look that fabulous and the October box, though awesomely Halloween themed, seemed a bit to heavy on the 'only usable on Halloween'-theme.

We were a bit anxious what we would receive when we got the email that our package was send out. Five(!!!) days later we held the package in our hands, opened it on camera, for you to see our sheer joy and excitement, and found ourselves extremely happy with most of the things inside the box.

The theme for this box is 'Winter is knocking at the door' and well we coudn't really find it in the items they send but that's just details. Another detail is, though this seems to be something a lot of box companies do, that the prices they state for their products are a bit higher than things probably actually cost. We are still positive that you don't loose money when you order this box so everything is good.

For the products we got, we got a brown, feltip eyeliner from Too Cool For School which really made us happy, seeing as it's a brand known for their good eyeliners and brown being our prefered colour for eyeliner. A nailpolish from Tony Moly in a ... bright colour. Not our first choice especially since you were able to get one out of 10 colours but in summer we're sure you can rock it.

Next to those things you got a see through cosmetic bag with my all time favourite San X characters The Little Twin Stars, an adorable hairband, a bunny eared ring, the cutest coaster they probably could find that will find lots of use now that it's tea weather again. As well as a set of post it's, a bit random but with extremely cute design and, the only thing we didn't like, a tote with what looks like characters from an 80ties cartoon.

This post ended up being way longer than expected but we have a lot of feelings about this Box so please bear with it and we hope you enjoy the photos! We are very sure we'll order another Q Box for us and would reccomend everyone to try it at least once if they were interested.

ETUDE HOUSE Play 101 Pencil Haul and Review

A few months ago the Etude House finally launched an international online shop something a lot of people have been waiting for, us more or less included. As you might know we mostly buy everything Korean from Gmarket but we thought we should give the very own Etude online shop at least a try, plus they offered, and are still offering, some really great deals.

Their first month went by without them offering anything of interest for us but then they put the 'Play 101 Pencils' on discount and after having heard a lot of good things from a lot of different people about them we decided to give them a try.

First things first ordering at the Etude House online store is pretty simple. We even made a mistake with our first order and had to cancel that first one and replace it and that went extremely smoothly. The only downside is that Lisa tried also to get in contact with them over the wrong order and they never got back to her, we managed to fix it on our own but it would have been nice to hear back from the Etude staff.

We ordered at the end of Octorber, tracking included, and the parcell was send out at the 28th we think. It arrived at our place on the 12th of November which is very okay considering we opted for cheapest shipping.

The next thing that made us sad was that the online store advertised with the fact that they would include free samples in every package. Maybe they said somewhere that this didn't inlcude offers but not receiving any freebies made us a bit sad.

However the overall experience was pretty neutral. Now onto the products we got. We ordered eight of Etude's 'Play 101 Pencils' and Lisa got one as a gift a few months ago that we decided to put into this haul as well to give you a review about.

18 - Is a super pale purple, very dry and even lighter than you might imagine it to be.

19 - Super intense purple/violet, also dry but usable as a lipstick on it's own if you put moisturiser underneath.

23 - Beautiful dark red, usable as lipstick or blush, extremely mositurised.

26 - Pink with a golden shimmer to it. Definetly an eyecatcher, slightly drying but still super pretty as a lipstick.

29/33 - Easy every day colours. 29 is slightly darker with a bit more brown tones in it while 33 is pretty light and just a honest pink colour.

42 - An ashy/grey/brown colour, difficult to describe but extremely pretty for the eyebrows and probably a very simple eyeliner make up.

46 - A coppery highlighter with a lot of glitter particles in it. This one is a creamy dream if you don't want a white or pink highlighter for your eyemake up. We heard though that the glitter is pretty make up remover resistant.

48 - Dark brown, nearly black, eyeliner. Something basic. Ultra matte if you don't like glittery eyeliner this is a great choice.

We didn't have much time to try around with the pencils yet but the two times we swatched them we found out they are super water resistant, another plus for those products in our opinion. In the video linked below we are wearing:

Lisa - 26 on her lips, 46 as a highlighter on her waterline and 48 as her normal eyeliner.

Maren - 19 on her lips and 42 (combined with the Etude Browcara in #03) on her eyebrows.