Natalie & Christopher in Germany

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We are Natalie and Christopher. We blog about life in the suburbs of Orlando, FL with no kids and one dog. Thanks for checking in.

New Beauty Buys

While browsing the Birchbox website I found a bunch of stuff I wanted to try, so when I got an email with a 20% off promotion code I had to place an order. 

Befine, Caldrea, 21 drops, Klorane, Sabon

My favorite thing I bought was 21 drops aromatherapy blends, in Sleep. The Sleep blend has sandalwood, ylang ylang, palmarosa, and vetiver root oils and is really nice. I have used it for about a week now and I feel like I am sleeping much more soundly. Even Christopher has been using it, so it's a fun thing you can share with your husband. 

The Befine Belips Lip exfoliator and Lip serum duo pack, was a fun little splurge for my lips and apparently I got one of the last ones because they are out of them now. I love lip scrubs like this. My lips seem to chap a lot more easily than other peoples so I like to give them a little scrub-a-dub-dub when they start to get a little rough. The lip serum is really smooth and nice and not too sticky. I'm definitely glad I ordered this. 

I also ordered full sized Klorane eye makeup remover because of the Belle over at Capitol Hill Style gave it a thumbs up, and I agree that it works well and doesn't irritate my sensitive skin.

Then, just because I could, I ordered a Plus 2 pack which lets you choose two extra samples in addition to your regular Birchbox. The pack I ordered had a sample of the Sabon foot cream and Caldrea hand soap, in sea salt neroli, I selected this plus two pack because I love the Caldrea hand soap and wanted to try another scent and took the chance of getting something I had already tried. Thankfully, I got a new scent and it is just a nice as the basil blue sage. The foot cream has a really nice scent and is really smooth feeling, Christopher put some on my feet for me last night and I feel right to sleep. It was heavenly.


The Same day my Birchbox order came I stopped at Ulta on the way home to get some butter London nail polish because they were buy two, get one free and I had never tried them before. The colors I picked up are (right to left) Slapper, Saucy Jack, and Shag. The Slapper color did not photograph well and is a much darker, more teal color in real life.


When I checked out they gave me three perfume samples, Viva la Juicy La Fleur, Justin Bieber's Girlfriend, and they are all surprisingly nice smelling. Even the Justin Bieber scent. If I wore perfume that would have been quite haul of freebies. 




This is the Shag color. I really like it and I think it is going to be one of my fall staples this year. I love nail polish, just excuse the nasty looking cut on my ring finger. I was helping Amber move last week and cut myself on a lamp I knocked over, right before I had to go home because I gave myself food poisoning. It wasn't pretty. 

Meatball subs

Houston, we grew a pepper!