Blog of the Week: Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom

Posted on November 27, 2011 by zadidoll

I honestly don’t remember how I came across Destany (~~not her real name~~ err, strike that… I now know two women Destany :D) of Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom but I have to admit I’ve been “forced to buy” a couple polishes after seeing swatches on her blog. What I actually enjoy are her “Franken” polishes which are basically a mix of different polishes to make a new polish color.

Here’s one of her Franken polishes using Wet n Wild Black Creme and Sally Hansen Ice Queen. She calls this Comet Powered.

I loved her PacMan nails since it looked like she had fun doing these.

I’m absolutely jealous she was able to find the Wet ‘n’ Wild Flirting With Fate polishes… which NONE of the RiteAids in my area carried and supposedly it was a RiteAid exclusive. 😦

I still want these polishes for my collection. Especially Love Bites (see image above).

So check her out and also check out her Facebook wall because you’ll see her photos there sometimes sooner than you do on her blog. 😀

MyGlam: Yup another subscription service

Posted on November 26, 2011 by zadidoll

MyGlam is the newest beauty subscription service by Michelle Phan of YouTube fame. Like Birchbox it’s a subscription beauty company that sends out “four to five new beauty products each month in a cute makeup bag“. From My Glam’s FAQs, “Glam Bags are shipped on the last day of every month via USPS mail“.

This company launched in November 2011 and is set to send the first boxes in December.
Cost per month: $10

Now I have a few things to point out at this time. At the time I subscribed the point of purchase was unsecured, it looks as of November 26 the page is now secured (https instead of http). There are a couple of things that still bug me (and granted this is a brand new company and will probably eventually work the bugs out) and these are:

The questionnaire was odd and more suited to subscribing for shoes not makeup. There was no place to enter your skin color, your hair color or even your eye color. The questionnaire even skipped a page, it jumped from page 5 to page 7 and I don’t know if that’s due to a glitch on the site OR if there were 13 questions and not 14.

How will they be able to determine the right products for the customer? Granted Birchbox gets it wrong from time to time with colors sent out to customers but we know there are a larger variety of boxes that is sent out by Birchbox each month. No idea with MyGlam. Still I’ll be the guinea pig on this one it seems since I have signed up despite the fact that the MyGlam order page is not secured.
Will they have perks like Birchbox and other companies when it comes to referring people or reviewing products?
Are items being sent out full size, deluxe size or mini samples? Frankly mini samples tend not to be worth it especially if there are no perks such as a referral or review system to offset the cost of the box.

Date order was placed: 11/22/11 and according to the MyGlam site this is what will be in the first boxes sent out:

Is it worth it? Well if the items shipped out will be either full size or deluxe size then yes $10 is worth it HOWEVER at this time I have no opinion on if the boxes sent out are worth it or not.