My Little Box: March

So I've been looking at monthly subscription boxes for a few years now, I think the concept is so exciting, getting sent a bunch of surprise products each month to try, all at a greatly reduced price usually.The main reason I've never signed up for one before is because I've never found one that I thought was really good value for money and had interesting products in it. Cue My Little Box, the thing that first interested me in this box was the gorgeous illustrations on it, I think it's great that everything is linked together through the illustrations. I also loved the fact that rather than just getting beauty products you also get a lifestyle product or two each month. But I think the most convincing factor was that their partner brands are so good, for example L'oreal, Carmex, Nyx, Essie, Elizabeth Arden and Bourjois. So I took the plunge and waited 2 weeks for my box to arrive, I tried to avoid spoilers but I couldn't resist checking the instagram tags (Oops), and I have to say I was rather pleased.

In the box I received a Wonder Woman themed sticker sheet, the magazine which comes with every box, a rather cute 'I believe I can fly' T-Shirt, a L'oreal kerastase conditioner, a Caudalie Paris hand cream and a lip and cheek stick form my little beauty.  The sticker sheet isn't amazing, but I'll probs stick them on my school journal as they're quite motivational which I always need at school :) The T-Shirt I like and will wear and the magazine I found to be rather interesting. I thought it was gonna be really boring but I actually found it very interesting I especially liked the Philol Article and the quotes pages. Moving onto the products, the conditioner I have used once and found it to be disappointingly average, but I'll keep using it and see if my opinion changes. The hand cream smells absolutely amazing and makes my hands feel lovely and soft but no more or less so then any other hand cream I've used. And finally the lip and cheek stick, I'm not really a great believer of multi use products, I'd much rather have two good products then one sub-par one. and whilst I love the colour of this as a blush the formula is absolutely useless as a lipstick.

So there we go, that's my opinion on everything. Whilst it doesn't sound like I'm very pleased with the box  overall I actually am and I'm very excited to see what I receive next month.

PS you can use the promo code FIRSTBOX to get your first box for £11 instead of £14.95

March Favourites

Sorry it's been a whole week since I last posted, it feels like an age! But like many teenage bloggers at the moment, my blog is taking a back seat due to, you guessed it, exams! Hopefully I'll be able to keep the blog going but most likely my posts will just be a lot less frequent than they usually are :'(

Anyway onto my March favourites...

1. Millies Cookies- As you can see from the photo, some amazing people brought me a giant millies cookie for my birthday. It took me an entire week to eat it  though which surprised me. I thought it would have been demolished in about 3 days. But then again my brother was at Uni so he didn't get any and my sister had her own so it was pretty much just me eating it :)

2. Highlighters- Highlighters and a good soundtrack are just about the only things keeping me sane under this mound of revision at the moment! I don't why but its so much easier to learn titration calculations and centripetal force when it looks like a unicorn has thrown up over your notes.

3.Captain America: The Winter Soldier- I went to see this the day it came out, I was so excited. I also went to see Divergent but totally forgot to include that on here. Shailene Woodley and Theo James are both gorgeous and perfectly cast and I just love the story so much! But back to Captain America anyway, I was super excited and I have to say that as usual Marvel delivered, the story line wasn't too predictable, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are great together and I really enjoyed the storyline too, even having read, like, ALL the spoilers and theories there was still stuff that was new! And the after credit scenes...all I can say is WOW.

4. Mortal instruments series- This is kind of a cheat one since I haven't quite finished the book yet. As I am sitting here writing this, I still have about 30 pages left but I'm really really loving it and will hopefully finish it later today. I have wanted to read this since I saw the movie and since everyone has been recommending it to me, I'm so glad I did now!

5. My Pandora ring- This was a birthday present of my amazing friends, as you will know if you read this post and I really do love it, I've been wearing it all the time.

6. Loreal Studio Line Supersizing Spray- I brought this back in January and to begin with I didn't really like it but I think I've finally figured out how to use it and I really like it now. I think I was spraying too much on my hair so that it was weighing it down, but I finally seem to have got it mastered now and it adds a lot of volume to my hair. I'd definitely recommend it.

7. Lee Stafford Purple Shampoo- Loads of people have been commenting recently, asking if I have re-dip-dyed my hair because it's looking a lot brighter and the only thing that I can think of that I've changed is that I have added this shampoo to my weekly hair care routine. SO thank you very much to Mr Lee Stafford and to whoever invented the concept of purple shampoo. 

8. Tangle Teezer-I know that i am super late to join this bandwagon, like years late. But better late than never, at least for my hair. There has been some particularly windy days round where I live over the last month and this brush has been an absolute lifesaver, it just does exactly what it says on the tin. I hate using normal hair brushes now!

So let me know in the comments below what your favourites have been...

March Summary

March has been quite the busy month for me with my birthday and quite a few of my friends birthdays so I've been up to quite a bit..

1.Comic-con highlight with Anna and Elsa, full post here.

2. Photo from my birthday, full post of that here.

3. Taking selfies in TK Maxx in Stratford when I was in the hat section.

4. I made some profiteroles for mothers day and sparklers make everything better.

5. That fateful day came to take my passport photos.

6. One of the funniest nights of my life. We went for a curry and the waiter ended up thinking that me friend Katie was called Tracy and that it was her birthday so they gave her birthday cake and brought out a bottle of champagne for us to share! 

7. Emily's 16th birthday which was awesome.

8. Bronaghs 16th birthday which was amazing! 

So what have you guys been up to this month?

March St Patricks Printable

I still don't have internet so my posts still won't be frequent but I had a moment to post this. I'm sorry its a bit late but here is March's Subway art.

Easter is really early this year on March 30th but I decided to do it for April because I had a St.Patricks day one so I'll post that next time I have internet probably. Don't miss me too much ;)

Katie

xoxo