Graze Box: Get Your First Box Free! Review and Photos

Graze.com is a lovely subscription box of a variety of healthy snacks: seeds, nuts, bread, flapjacks, pudding, mixtures of dried berries and chocolate buttons and so on, you can eve try out some beef jerky if you like!

I've stumbled upon a coupon code to try out the first graze box for free, and I thought I'd give it a go. I could cancel my subscription after the first free box,so there was no harm in trying it out, but after a couple of boxes, I think I'm keeping with it for a while! 

In your box, you get four packets of different snacks. The lids are see-through and also indicate all the ingredients. You also get a booklet in every box, describing the nutritional values of your snacks. After you try your snacks out, you can go on the website and rate your graze box: which snacks you liked and which you didn't enjoy. Also, you can browse through their selection of snacks and mark whether you never want them sent, you're happy to try them, you want them to be sent occasionally or regularly and if you want something sent as soon as possible.

Graze.com also offers a lighbox, a boostbox and an eatwellbox, depending on a nutrition plan you would like to choose (only if you want to, you don't have to) as well as the graze goodybox for children, customised with their name on the box and lovely snacks that kids enjoy. Unfortunately, as many snacks have nuts in them or can have nut residue, the graze box is not suitable for those with nut allergy :( 

Under the trays of tasty goodies you can find a recycled napkin and spoon (if your graze box contains a treat that requires cutlery), so you may order your box to be delivered to your work and treat yourself during lunch! The box delivered anywhere where the post comes and fits through the letterbox in your door, so you don't have to be home to receive it! You can choose one box a fortnight, a weekly box or twice a week!

If you're interested to try out the graze box but do not want to pay for it before you know whether you like it or not you can get your first box free! In fact, you can get your first, fifth and tenth box free if you use these friendcodes: DAVIDM64B or VAIGAV4YB while visiting http://www.graze.com/friend . Be quick, as each of those codes have only 4 uses! Remember, your first box is free and you can ccancel your subscription if you don't want to continue with it!

Make Up Academy (MUA) New Matte Range: Eyeshadow Palette and Lipsticks Swatches and Review

As soon as Make Up Academy (a great affordable cosmetics brand) released their new matte range of products, I was chuffed. It includes a great-looking matte eyeshadow palette, and one cannot have too many matte eyeshadows! So I picked up the aforementioned palette and five matte lipsticks online. I photographed and swatched the products immediately, but I wanted to use them a few times before I gave an eligible review.

New MUA Matte Eyeshadow Palette, £4

To begin with, the matte eyeshadow palette looks really attractive, however, I must have expected a little bit more out of it. It is not as pigmented as any other MUA eyeshadow palette, especially the top row of the lighter colours. The darker colours are alright, easy enough to work with, but the lighter colours are just too sheer and you most definitely need a good primer or some light creamy base for it. However, the range of colours for the palette is great and suitable for both natural and more dramatic looks. The browns serve as great colours for lighter or darker eyebrows as well. Despite the lack of expected pigmentation, I still like this palette very much, as there aren’t an abundance of affordable matte eyeshadow palettes out there.

There are five colours of matte lipsticks to choose from: Pouty Pink, Peachy Keen, Totally Nude, Scarlet Red and Wild Berry. I’ve tried out cheap/affordable matte lipsticks before and I must say I was slightly disappointed in MUA’s range, especially since their other lipsticks are great. It is well known that any matte lipsticks are a bit more difficult to apply and can be well drying on the lips, but these ones are the most difficult ones.

New MUA Matte Lipsticks, £1

 Firstly, the pigmentation in them is definitely not good enough: Scarlet Letter is the only one pigmented enough for an easy application. The others are not as pigmented, but still possible to work with. The hardest and sheerest one I found was Pouty Pink. It feels like rubbing a wax crayon on my lips and putting no colour on. Moreover, Wild Berry looks like a deep aubergine colour in the tube, but it is nothing like it once you put it on your lips because you just don’t get that colour out.  By the time I have enough colour on my lips, they are sore and very dry. So secondly, they are the driest matte lipsticks I’ve ever used, except Scarlet Red. It was easy to swatch them on the skin of my hand, but once you try t wear them on your lips, they are just too drying. However, they are only a pound each and if you’re willing to try them out as well, then give it a go!

I would recommend the matte eyeshadow palette for the price but I might look for other matte lipstick ranges out there as I found it really hard to work with them.

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Review: Bourjois Paris Volume Glamour Ultra Black Mascara

Bourjois Volume Glamour Ultra Black Mascara has been my favourite for a few years already.

Firstly, for a good mascara, it is fairly affordable (~£7.99). It doesn't dry out fast after a couple of months, but stays a great consistency till the day you run out or you have to throw it out (six months after you opened a mascara you should replace it). I try out different mascaras on the side, but I have not stopped using the Bourjois one continuously for around 2,5-3 years. I have not yet found a mascara in that price range that I would like better.

Secondly, it doesn't make my eyes feel like they're carrying bricks on their eyelashes, as some mascaras do. One coat for a natural long eyelashes finish, two coats for a full eyelash explosion. The wand is not too big so you don't smear mascara all over your eyes. It is not waterproof, but it doesn't run under the eyes , but is removed easily with any eye make-up remover. Here is the before and after (one good coat):

There is an enormous variety of amazing mascaras on the market, Bourjois Volume Glamour Ultra Black Mascara is a favourite of mine. What is yours?

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