Review: Mighty Tea (chamomile citrus)

 

I received three flavors in my Birch Box in September. Like I said when I was opening the box I'm not a tea person. The only time I drink tea is when my mom makes me drink chamomile tea if I'm sick. So needless to say that my frame of reference was limited!  Well as soon as I opened this tea the tea bag looked SO different. It was made of SILK! um, as Cici at my job said, I don't even have anything that's silk so  yeah it's safe to say I have never drank no tea that came from a silk tea bag! My sentiment exactly. So fancy!! It makes me think if the bag that carries the tea is like this then what care do they take to pick out the best to for taste? Must be awesome! It has actual tea leaves that are visible. I mean the tea my mom gives me  has tea leaves in it but it's ground all up so if it were not in that paperish bag  then I don't know if I could tell it were tea as apposed to a dry spice. So the smell was pretty aromatic too! I'm not gonna lie no I don't think I will ever switch to tea from coffee but what I can say is that Mighty Tea is definitely doing it right. They actually are making me want to give tea another once over to see if I might like something other than chamomile. The only thing that I don't like after doing some research for this review is the price. I searched on Amazon and I found that it varies a lot from flavor to flavor some were like 8 bucks (15count) and yet some others were like 28 dollars (15 count). That's a lot of money for tea, I think. If it were coffee I still think it would be a lot of money. I mean if I really liked the flavor a lot then I don't think I wouldn't mind paying for it especially if I were to drink it a lot but since that's not the case I'm gonna have to go say  skip it. But by all means if tea is your thing, then go for it. I looked on their website they have a variety pack for 20 bucks, if you are interested. :)

 

Xiomara



Review: Macadamia Healing Oil Treatment

 

 

Since I am subscribed to two different sample websites Beauty Army and Birch Box, I thought I might as well write reviews on the products I receive. So that's what I'm doing. I'm starting with this product because frankly I was really looking forward to using this it. Let me tell you about the good stuff first.

- It smells good, earthy and sweet.

- A little goes a long way so it will last a good amount of time.

-Available in different sizes so you can try out a small and if you like it.

 

That's about it...lol. I'm not happy to report this because my thinking with this was:  well it's expensive so must work... Nope yet again that rational let me down. It makes my hair smell nice and silky while it in my hair of course but so does the 5 dollar one I bought at WalMart (FX morracan oil)! Oh and by the way I took a poll at the job just to see what they would say about the smell comparing the five dollar one and this one. Most of them said they liked the smell of the 5 dollar one better! (they smell a like) The only difference was that the macadamia one smell slightly stronger. Bottom line this review might come off as harsh and I get it. Maybe I could beat around the bush and not say the truth but that defiantly wouldn't be me. Plus, if I'm going to buy something that's forty dollars for the regular size (4 oz), I better get my forty dollars worth of it. This product just doesn't do it. Skip it, unless you want to try the small size just to try it out, you will only be out 10-12 bucks if you don't like it.

 

 

Xiomara

 

 

 

 



FREE BOX :Influenster VoxBox ( Beauty Blogger) Oct 2012

Influenter.com sent me this box for free! All I did was go on the website, make a profile and fill out some serveys which they call it to unlock badges...They then selected me to receive a box. Just like I said in the video just cause they gave me this it doesn't mean that I will like evertyhing. I think I'm gonna post a blog about it when I have used these products to review just cause I feel like you guys should know if they are good or not. Oh and of course the most important thing which would prove if I liked them or not, would I spend my hard earned money on any on them again?... If you have any questions, let me know I will try my best.

TTYL,


Xiomara

Book Review: Click, The Magic of Instant Connection

 

I picked up this book just because I thought it would help me with my job. I work at a BIG bank and I am in sales. So anything that I can use to give me an edge is great due to that fact that I get paid salary plus commission. So to tell you the truth yes I think it was interesting, but would I ever go out and purchase the book...No. I don't think so. I thought I would find out so interesting things that I didn't know yet but as it turns out I was already doing a lot of the things in this book without know what the technical term was. For example, when I meet someone (not for work but let say romantically) I usually like right off the bat- maybe on the first date to share my most embarrassing moment with them because it's funny and because I feel like that person ends up wanting to share what theirs is. Which for me breaks the ice. Well in the book that is the first one of the seven things that brings people to click . A common venerability. I was already doing that but what ever. One thing that really resonated with me from this book though that it has stories about real people in it. I particularly liked the one about the guys in the college basketball team. There was these four guys that just clicked together and played together a lot, at practice and off practice. They developed a kinship like no other and went on to win two championships playing together. They happened to just click because they were roommates. So this book is filled with stories of real people, which is what helped my get through it. It's an alright book. I give it a ** star out of 5 star rating.

08-10-2012- Haul Palattes Swatches

***All swatches are WITHOUT primer***

Inspiration...

It came with plain nobs but since I had to go to home depot anyways while I was there I bought new pretty ones :)

My new organized closet!!

Yep, I built that all on my own!

OMG... I found a new love...I know, I know, I love a lot of things and sometimes it's hard to keep up. So let me catch you up. I have two closets in my master bed room. I use only one really and I was SO messy. But let me tell you why. Ok so before I bought my house I lived  in two different apartments plus my mom's apt. Anyways my mom, bless her heart is a pack rat.  It's cool I understand that there are a lot of people in the world that would like to have furniture but I just don't want to have a used broken drawer in my house even if it was free. Ok that may sound harsh but consider that at the apartment she would collect like five or six of them. She would collect A LOT! So I made a rule at my house when we moved in. I don't want to live like a hoarder so keep that collecting of old things to what you can fit in your room. That being said when I got to my house there was a lack of storage space. Well not really storage space but more specifically chest of drawers for clothes. My closet was CRAZY looking. So I had purchased this chest of drawer at Ikea a while back but I still had to build it. This last weekend I was off so I decided to make a go of it and build it myself. Thankfully I did well everything looks great! Thank God that even though not all pieces came in the box ( I was missing the proper screws) I went to home depot and bought the right ones. It got done. Now my closet is so organized which inspired my to do all my room. I have already came up with the design and I will be doing that soon. I will post a picture when it's done. But that big point of this whole blog is to say that wow I really never thought I could enjoy myself so much organizing and building something. I was awesome. Even though I did at one point hit my thumb with the hammer... it was still worth it because it's so organized now. YAY!

Book Review: Why men want sex and women need love

*****  5 of  5

 

OMG... this book is awesome! Ok so I guess I should prefase this by saying that I saw this documentary on Netflix a while ago called the science of sex appeal... this book totally reminds me of that documentary. The only different is that this book not only goes in to much much detail it gave me a lot to thinks about. Communication mostly, and how important it really is. This book explains in detail how the sexes are different in how they think and not only that the REASON they think differently. I mean I knew that men and women thought differently but now I now WHY. This book tells you all the medical termanology without being too boring. It's funny with the quotes that it give as well. And at the end it gave me something to think about... here goes... It states that because when people are in love they have all types of chemicals going on in the brain. Ok so they brought up that because now we know what goes on in the brain during the process of falling in love with someone that what if in the near future we might be able to actually decide that we don't want to fall in love!!!? that maybe soon we could have a pill that could prevent all those chemicals that cause love not to happen or not to become active!!??? They go on to say- What if a person wants to concentrate on their career? Or what if a person doesn't want to have kids? What if someone wants to live by theyselves?  When I heard that I was so taken a back from that...it imediatly cause my brain to go into overdrive with those statements...seriosly I was like WOW!  I wonder if they could make a pill to trick my mind into thinking it was 28 again...lol. I can just imagine how cold the world would be...and yet so productive at the same time...probably less kids...my mind is just going and going. Very interesting book!