MyGlam bags and May Birchbox

So I just realized that I have not been updating my Glam bag posts! The last one I posted was in February... shame on me! So I'm going to catch up in one post. Here's a quick and dirty run-down of the past 3 Glam Bags

March Glam Bag

March's theme was "Repair and Restore". We received a DermStore care package with sample of Murad's Eye Lift Perfector, PurLisse's Essential Moisturizer, and a $25 coupon for DermStore. We also received a sample of Keracolor Color Enhancing Leave-in, and a MyGlam brush case and crease brush. Also each bag contained either 3Lab Perfect cleansing foam, PurLisse pure lip comfort, or Murad's absolute bronzing boost. My bag contained the full size PureLisse pure lip comfort which is really nice.

There were some complaints that the bag and the brush case smelled chemically, and they did. However, a few days of airing out and they were fine. The quality of the crease brush is also very good. From what I can tell it is made of natural hairs, which is awesome. 

Overall, not the greatest Glam bag but still pretty good!

April Glam Bag

April's theme was "Girl's Night Out" and our bags were filled with items that we could use to create a very nice party look. I received Urban Decay's 24/7 glide on eye pencil in Junkie, which is a shimmery golden teal color. I loved it so much that I bought the rest of the "electric" collection from Urbandecay.com. This eyeliner is soft and really does glide on like butter! but after a few minutes, it dries and become smudge-proof, best of both worlds my friends :)

We also received DermStore's new Lip Quench which is a plumping lipgloss but without that stinging feeling all those other plumpers have. It is also really nice. Along with that each bag contained a pair of lashes from All-Belle and an eyeshadow and eyeliner brush.

May Glam Bag

Finally we have May's Glam bag with the theme "Love is in the Air!". This bag contained a sample of the new perfume by Philosophy "love sweet love" along with some glittery nail stickers, a Studio Gear lipstick, and the 2 last brushes for our MyGlam case: a concealer and a eyeliner definer brush. I'm not sure how an eyeliner definer brush is used though... it looks more like a lip brush to me...
Overall, not as good as April's but still pretty banging for $10!!

Lastly, I've also joined a few other beauty boxes subscription. I joined Beauty Army a couple of months ago because I liked the fact that you could pick out which samples you wanted. Unfortunately, the variety of what they had available was rather disappointing. There were a lot of moisturizers and small packets of eye cream, but nothing I really wanted to try. So after 2 boxes, I canceled my subscription.
Then last month I joined Birchbox since I had heard so many good things about them. This is what I received this month

Aparently Birchbox had teamed up with Gossip Girl to create this box and I couldn't be more thrilled. I looooove Gossip Girl! Since I don't have cable, or reliable local channels, I have to get my fix through Netflix which means waiting until the September for the whole season to be uploaded :(
Anyhow, back to the box! My box came with Algenist's complete eye renewal balm, Color Club in Disco Nap, Dr Jart's waterfuse BB cream, and Ojon volumizing shampoo. Oh and a little note-card :)
Not too bad right? I'm not too thrilled about another eye cream but I will probably just give all of the eye cream samples I have acquired to my mom.

So that is that. Sorry about the massiveness of this entry. It's hard to fit 3 month's worth of stuff into 1 entry but that is my fault for being a slacker right?

What do you think of beauty box subscriptions? Should I keep posting about the ones I received or do you hear about them enough in other places? let me know :)

Until next time ^_^