Luxe Box

Got this month's Luxe Box yesterday:

Inside, I found the following:

- Pur Minerals 4-in-1 Pressed Mineral Makeup SPF15 in Golden Medium (4.3g)

- City Lips by City Cosmetics Lip Plumping Treatment (1.5ml)

- Proclaim Cocoa & Shea Butter Hand & Body Lotion (88ml)

- Calvin Klein Forbidden Euphoria Eau de Parfum Rollerball (3ml)

- Sheyna Jewelry handmade pearl and moonstone earrings (bonus product)

Honestly, I wasn't too impressed with the products in this month's box. It's not that they're bad products, it's that they aren't to my taste. The Pür Minerals powder is a decent product, but I'm not particularly a fan of mineral products to begin with, especially in my foundation. If I was, I'd be using more of MAC's Mineralize products, which I get at a hefty discount or for free as gratis. Having worked at Shoppers, I have tried a few of Pür Minerals' products and they're decent, but they're just not my favourites. Or, at least I didn't like them enough to merit a re-buy. Moreover, the Golden Medium shade is way too dark for me, so at best, I'd use it for contouring. The City Lips Lip Plumping Treatment is something I'm not interested in using, period. I'm not a fan of plumping products at all, 'cause I hate the feel of them (besides MAC's Plushglass, which has a very subtle tingling sensation) and my lips are naturally quite full.

Proclaim's Hand & Body Lotion is nice, lightweight, and quite moisturizing, and this is probably the only product in this box that's going to get remotely any use. That having been said, I have tons of hand creams that are better quality and smell better (Proclaim's lotion doesn't have an offensive smell, it's very much the smell of cocoa butter, which I'm indifferent to). The deluxe sample of Calvin Klein's Forbidden Euphoria is relatively generous and comes in a handy rollerball applicator, but unfortunately, I'm just not a fan of the scent. It has that kind of overly sweet floral smell that tends to give me headaches, similar to the original Euphoria (I liked Euphoria Blossom the best of the fragrances released under the Euphoria umbrella, but even then, I didn't like it enough to buy it).

The earrings from Sheyna are a generous bonus product, but they're just not my style (I like simple silver and white gold and occasionally crystals, but I don't like really girly or delicate-looking jewelry, like pearls), which is unfortunate because they are rather cute (on someone else). Overall, I didn't think this box was worth $10 for myself, though I do think many other people (specifically people who aren't in the cosmetics industry) will enjoy these products.