Showing posts with label eos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eos. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Haul of the Week 11.7.12

Hi everyone!

I hope you're having a wonderful day! I can't believe we're already a week into November! I was slowing down on lip balm buying, until I went to San Francisco this past weekend! I definitely did not expect to find as many lip balms as I did. Eventually these posts will start to slow down, but let's enjoy them while they last! Here's what I have to share with you this week:



When I went to San Francisco last weekend I definitely did not expect to find SO many limited edition and special lip balms! These are what I found in three days in San Francisco:

Softlips' Marshmallow Ghost 

Softlips' Jack Frosting

Softlips' Sugar and Spice

evolution of smooth's Pomegranate Raspberry

Maybelline's Pink Wink

Chapstick's Apple Cider

Chapstick's Candy Cane

What have you received this week? Anything completely surpass your expectations?

--Christina

Saturday, October 20, 2012

e.o.s. Alice in Wonderland Giveaway!

Hi all!

I thought that for reaching 25,000 views and in celebration of my birthday, I would gift to one reader their own trio of the Limited Edition Alice in Wonderland e.o.s. lip balms! When I first got my hands on my set of these lip balms, I wanted to buy a second set, but didn't know what I should do with them. I then decided that these would be great for a giveaway!


How to enter: Leave a comment saying which one of these flavors your most excited to try

Additional Optional Entries (please leave a separate comment for each entry):
+Like LipBalmWrangler on Facebook
+Share the giveaway on your Facebook page
+Follow @LipBalmWrangler on Twitter
+Tweet about the giveaway (Something along the lines of: "Enter for your chance to win a set of eos Alice in Wonderland balms from @Lipbalmwrangler at lipbalmwrangler.com!")
+Follow my blog through GFC (Google Friend Connect)
+Follow Lip Balm Wrangler on bloglovin'
+Take a photo of your favorite balm and post it to Instagram with #lipbalmwrangler in your caption
+Share the giveaway on your own blog

*If you already do one of the above, leave separate comments saying so and make sure to leave a way for me to contact you if you win!*

That's a total of 9 entries for you to win the set of these lovely lip balms!

This giveaway is only open to U.S. residents, sorry!

When it ends: This giveaway will end on November 3rd, 2012 at 9:00AM CST. That's two weeks for you to enter! I want to make sure everyone who's curious about these balms has the chance to enter! The winner will be announced on November 3rd, 2012.

Good luck to all who enter!!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

My WHOLE Lip Balm Collection!

I'm sure you've all seen at least some of my reviews and how each review has anywhere between 2 and 9 (sometimes even more) lip balms. Upon seeing these, I'm sure you've all wondered, "Where exactly does she keep this stuff?!" Well I'm finally going to share with you all and uh...the world...just how I store all of my lip balms. It's really embarrassing and makes me seem like I have a problem (which I kind of do), but lip balms are like my hobby if you will. I'm going to walk you through each container that I keep my balms, are you ready?

This is my "top" container. It has three drawers, a compartment that opens up on top, and a few holders on top.
These are the holders on top in the back of the container. These balms will be used in giveaways that will happen very, very soon!

This is the first drawer, it used to hold a lot of stuff. It was used for my lip glosses (which now have a little box for themselves in my bathroom), but now it's used for my tinted balms, potted balms, and lip scrubs.

This is the second drawer of the top container.

This is the third drawer of the top container. It houses all of my Softlips and other thin tubed lip balms.

This is my "bottom" container. It has FIVE drawers.

This is the first drawer, there's a lot of Lemon Citrus balms kept in here.

This is the second drawer. it houses my eos balms and all the other ones are special lip balms my dad brought back for me from London and Portugal.

This is the third drawer, it has a lot of Savex balms and balms I picked up over Christmas.

This is the fourth drawer and it houses a LOT of Mylipstuff.com balms (which I haven't reviewed yet) and various others.

This is the fifth drawer and it houses almost all of my Crazy Rumors lip balms and various others.

This is the top and bottom containers put together. These two containers are stacked upon another three drawer unit which houses my makeup.

This is one of my containers that sits in my headboard. This contains all of the new balms I've received in the last couple of weeks. It's a little hard to reach the ones all the way in the bottom without emptying out the entire thing.

This is another container that I keep in my headboard, it contains some of my most frequently or most recently used balms (except that vanilla bean eos stick, that one fell behind my bed a few months ago and I finally picked it up). This container used to house all of the balms I owned. That was back in October or November of last year, ever since I found Etsy my collection has exploded!

This is a bag that I use to carry balms I'm just about to write reviews about. It goes with me almost everywhere that I'm going to be spending some time, just in case the mood to write strikes me.

This is the container I keep in my living room. It sure has come in handy. I used to keep my balms all over my living room end table, but this little container keeps it all neat and tidy in one place.

Here's what the inside of my living room container looks like. It's pretty bare compared to my other containers.

Here's my whole collection (minus my review bag) in one piece!

I hope you enjoyed my walk through, I don't think there's anyone out there who is more addicted to lip balm and trying new flavors like I am! So trust me, I think I know a thing or two about lip balm.

The square cardboard containers can be found at Target in their $1 impulse section when you first walk into the store. The plastic drawers can be found at Target, Walmart, Meijer, basically anywhere and retail for about $10.

If you see any balms from these photos that I haven't reviewed yet and you'd be interested in reading a review about them, please let me know and I'll add it/them to my roster for reviews.

What does your collection look like? Did you get any ideas from my collection on how to keep your balms?

--The Lip Balm Wrangler

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

eos (Evolution of Smooth)

If you've ever stood in line at a Walmart check out you've probably noticed these brightly colored spheres next to the lip balms in the impulse section. I had always noticed them and never knew what they were, simply passed them by every time I saw them. One day I decided to pick one up and realized it was a lip balm! As soon as I picked up one flavor, a friend suggested two other flavors which of course I picked up as well and before you knew it I was completely hooked on these cute little spheres! I now have basically every flavor (including their stick options). It took me a long while and a trip to San Francisco but I have successfully acquired all of the spheres (including some limited edition ones). 

Company: eos (Evolution of Smooth) 

Flavors: Lemon Drop (SPF 15), Summer Fruit, Honeysuckle Honeydew, Sweet Mint, Tangerine (Medicated), Strawberry Sorbet, and Passion fruit. The Lemon Drop flavor is my absolute favorite, I've never had a lemon lip balm before this one and I absolutely loved the flavor and scent. My friends saw me constantly putting it on (the sphere on the inside is no longer a sphere, it was almost completely flat by the end of the first two weeks of owning it). Its sweet and fresh. The Tangerine is my next favorite, you can't really tell that it's Tangerine but there's something about it that I just love. Sweet mint is in 3rd place, I love anything mint so this was definitely going to make my top three. It's a subtle mint and not at all overbearing. The scents on all of these balms are light and fragrant and not at all obnoxious. The rest of the flavors are good as well, not my favorites but still pretty good. Passion fruit and Strawberry Sorbet were the limited edition flavors last summer and I was really excited to find them finally in store in San Francisco but was disappointed that past a nice, light scent there was no flavor and no real "oomph" or anything spectacular about it. They also carry Vanilla Bean, Pomegranate Raspberry, and Sweet Mint in their tube forms. I was not a fan at all of the Vanilla Bean but I didn't mind the Pomegranate Raspberry. It may have been the sticks I received but the scents/flavors didn't compare to the spheres. I'll try them again but for now, I'm sticking to the spheres.

Wear: The sphere takes a second to get warmed up and quickly does and goes on great. It's not a slick application, it's always a little stiff but if it weren't the sphere would most likely not hold its shape at all. The coverage is great, using the sphere is much different from the usual lip balms you find in stores. The round shape of the sphere allows you to place balm where you want it, but once you get to a flat state like mine, balm can stray off the lips but that's only if you decide to forgo maintaining the spherical shape of the balm. My lips always feel really smooth after application and it usually lasts at least an hour.

Packaging: The balms come in cute colorful spheres, each color coded to match their flavor. Very original packaging, not your usual drugstore tube. It definitely makes you stand out but the sphere is harder to carry around than your usual tube if you're trying to fit it into your jeans pocket. What else is there to say, the packaging is awesome and unique!

Price: The price varies depending on where you buy. You can get them at Walmart for about $2.96 which is a great price for what you get, but if you buy from other places you may pay anywhere from $3.25-$4. You also get 0.25oz for around the same price as an average tube of lip balm which is only 0.15oz, which means this balm lasts you longer than your normal lip balm for about the same price. Wonderful!

Overall:
Pros: Packaging, Price, Variety in Flavors, Wear, Long Lasting, Most Organic
Cons: Only one flavor has SPF, Can't fit in jean pocket


Rating: 5 out of 5 twists, there isn't enough good stuff I can say about this balm. If you haven't tried them yet, you are definitely missing out!
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