Wrangler's Monthly Wrap Up: October 2012

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Can you believe it's Halloween already? This month has just flown by! Does it feel like that to anyone else? We're quickly progressing further into my favorite season ever, fall! But I don't want winter to come too quickly!

I have found so many new lip balms and lip balm companies this month, it's been amazing! This was definitely a great month for lip balms and I'm hoping next month (where I'm anticipating tons of sales because of Black Friday and Cyber Monday) will also be a great month for lip balms!

Here are some of my favorite parts of October and some other interesting things!

Blue Q's Lip Shit

(review)

Epically Epic

(review)

Lippincott Soap

(review)

My Surprise Birthday Present

This month I found my new favorite lip balm Winter Frost by Little Batch Apothecary

The most popular posts (determined by views) were:

1. eos Alice in Wonderland Giveaway

2. eos (evolution of smooth)
3. Blue Q's Lip Shit

4. Trader Johann's Virtuoso 
(This one surprised me! Someone included it in their post on reddit.com and it got tons of hits in 24 hours that shot it up to the top 5 for this month!)

5. H&M Lip Balm

What were your favorite parts of October? Let's brace ourselves as we enter my next absolute favorite month of the year...November!

--Christina

***Don't forget to enter my giveaway to win your own set of Alice in Wonderland eos Limited Edition Smooth Spheres! Giveaway can be found here and ends on November 3rd!***

The First Mini Monday 10.22.12

Hi all!

I have another new feature I'd like to start implementing in the blog this week. I realized over the last two weeks that I have SO many lip balms I need to review. Many of which are seasonal balms since we are well on our way into the fall season and I've actually been trying seasonal flavors. And as we progress into the big holiday months it also means we progress into big shopping months. I don't want you guys to hold back from buying from shops because I haven't reviewed them yet or you don't know anything about the balms or you want to know what the flavor is like. So I thought that I could start doing mini blurb-like posts on Mondays that give a sneak peak, if you will, to some balms with a fuller review to follow at a later date. What do you guys think of that? This way you'll get an overall idea of the balm/company and be better able to decide if you want to purchase or not. I'll do different flavors from different companies so that I'm not just focusing on one shop.

This week I thought that I would start with:

Orange Thyme's Caramel Apple

This balm reminds me exactly of a caramel apple. It's a tart and sour apple covered in ooey gooey delicious caramel. Reminds me of the sticky sweet without the stickiness! Wonderful balm!

Crazy Rumor's Candy Corn

This smells very sweet, very sugary! It also smells a bit like burnt sugar. I didn't know what to expect really since I've never ever ever had Candy Corn before.

Lippincott Soap's Bite Me (Black Cherry)

This is a FABULOUS black cherry balm! If you love black cherry anything or maybe even cherries in general, you'll like this balm. I don't usually like cherry balms, but this one is FABULOUS.

Upstate Herb Works' Mint Chocolate

This balm is AMAZING! Reminds of me an Andes mint, it is perfect rich chocolate blended with sweet mint. Love, love this balm!

That's all until next week!

--Christina

***Don't forget to enter my giveaway to win your own set of Alice in Wonderland eos Limited Edition Smooth Spheres! Giveaway can be found here.***

My Haul This Week 10.3.12

The packages keep on rollin' in! I think for my birthday I'll spoil myself with some new boots, some new clothes, and...you guessed it..some new lip balm! Not that I really need any excuse to spoil myself with such things, as you've seen by now I buy lip balm all the time with or without a valid excuse. The same goes for a cute top or a new pair of boots, except I'm a little more reserved with those. Any who, here's what arrived this week:

Lippincott Soap Co.

Lee's Bees

Sweet Creek Herbal Care

I just noticed that all of the balms I received this week are oval tubes, awesome! I love lip balms that come in oval tubes.

What have you received this week? Anything completely blow your mind?

--Christina

A Look Into My Purse...

So while I was doing my last minute checking of my bags yesterday to make sure I had everything I needed for my weekend in San Francisco, I went to slip in some new lip balms that had just arrived in the mail into my purse so that I could use them this weekend. Of course, on a daily basis I don't usually pay attention to these things, but when I went to put my new balms in I had to think to myself, "which pocket am I going to put this into?"...or more so..."which pocket still has room for a few more balms?" I use a very small cross body bag because when I used bigger bags I just filled it with tons of stuff I really didn't need to lug with me everywhere. Anyways, after realizing how many lip balms I had in my bag...I thought you guys may be interested in seeing what the Lip Balm Wrangler carries on a daily basis. Instead of rotating balms in my bag like most people do, I kind of just put balms in without taking balms out, at least most of the time. So here goes...please...brace yourself.... this is going to be a long one!

Long Winter Farm's Chocolate Orange

(review)

 ForGoodnessGrape's Lemon Sorbet

Orange Thyme's Peppermint Stick

 Orange Thyme's Caramel Apple

 Orange Thyme's Grapefruit Strawberry

 Epically Epic's Cardamom Vanilla

 Lip Shit's Raspberry Lemongrass

(review)

 Honey House Naturals' Tangerine

(review)

Lippincott Soap's Orange Dream

 Lippincott Soap's Bite Me (Black Cherry)

 Lippincott Soap's Berry Boo (Blueberry)

Lippincott Soap's Mermaid (Snow cone)

 Kiehls's Mango

(review)

Lemon Citrus's Lemon Sugar

(review)

ForGoodnessGrape's Blood Orange

Bath and Body Works Liplicious Jungle Guava Lip Gloss

(review)

ForGoodnessGrape's Coconut Lemongrass

(review)

Phew! There you have it! Everything that's in my little bag (for now). What balms do you have stashed away in your purse/bag? Am I the only one who hoards balms like crazy in their bag?

--Christina