Lust Have It September bag!

Lust have it arrived!

I get these a week or so after of the first of the month, and I give them a month to test and trial all the products before reviewing them.

September's box came!

A fancy black bag for a change!

Kerastase Resistance

Bain Force Architecte

Full size: 250ml ($42).  Sample: 30ml ($5.04)

Masque Force Architecte

Full size: 200ml ($62).  Sample: 30ml ($9.30)

These smell like a salon, and make my hair feel amazing.  I can get maybe two uses out of each one.

White Glo Whitening Toothpaste.

Full Size: 150ml ($5.49).  Sample: 24ml ($0.87)

As far as toothpaste goes, it does its job.  It has a slightly baking-soda-y taste, which is common for a whitening toothpaste.  This is a perfect travel size.

I like it.

Ofra Lip Liner - Wine

Full Size: $19.99

Its interesting that we got given two lip products in one box.  This one is a nude lipliner on me, but it matches with most of my other nude/brown lipsticks.  

Your Tea Skin Magic Tea

Full size: 60 Tea bags ($35 USD).  Sample: 1 tea bag ($0.58 USD)

We were meant to get 6 tea bags, with one before food twice a day.  I'm going to wait until the other 5 show up before trying them.

UB Cosmetics Tint Stick - V

Full Size: $23

I actually love this product.  I love the applicator (its kinda like a brush, but its like a liner, and its like a felt tip), I love the colour and I love the lasting power.  It lasts at least 4-5 hours on me with minimal wearing.

By itself with one coat of product.  Adding a gloss or balm enhances the colour.

Designer Brands - Twist And Go.

Full Size: $4.99

Another product I'm loving.  It does just what its meant to do.  It takes most polish off in one swipe/twist, and it takes a little longer for glitters and heavy applications.  I haven't tried it on gel polish, but I get the feeling it would work on that too.  

Its meant to be berry scented, but I don't smell berries.

The sponge is interesting - its like a zigzag split in the middle of the sponge.

Just a couple swipes to remove metallic polish.  The first swipe got the colour off, and the 2nd/3rd got the residual metallic finish off. 

Not overly a fan of the drying of the skin.  This is a common problem with acetone based products.




This was a pretty cool box.  I don't understand the inclusion of two lip products, but I've had a good use of the red lip tint.

Total cost of the box: $19.99.  
Total value this month: $63.28

These are very much worth the cost.

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Box is provided by Lust Have It for review as part of an affiliate programme.

Lust Have It: February bag!

Technically its now April.

Technically I got this box half-way through march.

Lust Have It boxes are $19.95AU per month, and you get 5 (or 6) products.

On with the goodies!

Most of this months products were full size.  That's always a bonus!

Paula's Choice Skincare
Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant
Deluxe Sample: $12 (30ml)

It doesn't smell bad, which is always a good sign.  I used it for a week and my skin didn't really notice much.  Maybe slightly less acne, but then again, I was using a variety of things at the time and I had a couple of really big pimples and less smaller ones.

Your mileage may vary.

Designer Brands
Black Liquid Eye Liner
Full Size: $8.99 (5ml)

It's your typical black eye liner.  I never really use black liquid liner unless I'm going out, cosplaying or experimenting with eye looks.

Designer Brands is a decent brand - commonly available in NZ from most chemists.  

I haven't worn it, so I don't know what the wear time is like.

Ulta3 
Plum Lip Liner
Full Size: $2.95

Another pretty standard item.  I love a good lip liner, specially for the darker colours that tend to feather.  They can be worn alone for a matte look, or top with a matching lipstick for depth.  You can even mix it with a bit of gloss for a wash of colour. 

Ulta3 is becoming more common in NZ, but it's still a little hard to find.  

Natural Glamour
2GLO Line Treatment Concealer (medium)
Full Size: $27.95

This is something I can get behind.  The white Line Treatment side has a slight shimmer, designed to reduce the appearance of lines and moisturise the eye area.  The concealer reflects light and covers imperfections.

The colour is pretty good for my face.  This is swatched on my inner wrist (which tends to be one of the most pale areas of your skin, so matches your neck better than the back of your hand).  I wore it with a standard foundation and found no issues with it.

Natural Glamour 
Illuminating Foundation SPF 15 - Medium.
Full Size: $29.95

This I'm not too keen on.  For a "medium" foundation, this is really dark.  

I swatched it, and refused to put it on my face, purely because I didn't want to insult anyone by going out in public with black-face.

After contacting Lust Have It to see if I could swap the colour, they advised that the concealer + foundation duo were included so we could experiment and have fun with contouring.
The likelihood of me to ever contour, besides a wedding, is highly unlikely.  

I will pass this onto my darker skinned friends to try.




Verdict for this month:  It was ok.
$51.89 value for me, because I won't use the foundation.  
$81.84 for people who will use the foundation.

I would of preferred something else instead of the foundation and concealer.  

Maybe swap the concealer for a contour palette (2 light, 2 dark, suited for most skin tones) and the foundation for a beauty blender.  

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Lust Have It: January bag!

Lust have it had some problems with their shipping and packing department, so the January bags didn't get out till February.  

Lets get on with the pretties!

Another pink mesh bag.  I'm getting so much use out of these.

Onto the products:

Designer Brands Chubby Lipstick Crayon - Dollface
Full Size: $7.99

I love this colour.  Its slightly less intense than it looks on the swatch, but has a lovely pigmentation.

Urban Skincare Co Infuse Body Balm
Full size: $12.95 (100ml), $35.95 (500ml)
Sample: $4.78 (35ml)  

I did some extreme maths for that one.  

The balm has a citrus scent, common with the addition of vitamin C in products.  It absorbed quickly and didn't leave a residue.

Small enough to throw into a hand bag, I'd use it for my hands and cuticles because it is designed for dry skin.

Marsk Certified Organic Eye Liner - Pitch Black
Full Size: $33.50

It's a smooth formula, and smudges out quite easily for a smoky look.

Marsk Mineral Eyeshadow - Mudcake
Full Size $24.95 (1.2g).  Interestingly enough, $22.50 on the website.

On the website this looks like a flat brown tone.  On the skin and in the tub, however, it is a medium brown with a bright green/teal flash.  I have a very similar colour in Bundle Monsters Forest Nymph.  

Swatches above show the product alone and over black.  You can see the brown pigment is more visible when seen from straight on, whereas the green takes over when over black or from an angle.

Comparing to Black Comedy, the other mineral eyeshadow from Marsk that I've received, I must say that this one had a much smoother formula.     

Beau Box mineral foundation in Nearly Nude.
Full Size: $20 (6g)

I tend to shy away from foundations that I get in boxes, mainly because I don't get the option to pick my own.  

This one is designed to work with "most" skin tones.  It seemed to match me quite well, and I would hazard a guess to say it is somewhere on the sheer-medium coverage scale.  

I like that it has SPF in it - something very useful in NZ.

Colour by T.B.N - Pash Tasch
Full Size: $2.50

You know that smell that "cheap" nail polish has?  That kinda sharp plasticy smell?

Other than the aroma, the polish was smooth, and dried relatively quickly.  They call it a Fluoro... and I have no idea what colour to call it.  It looks coral in the bottle, it looks red on the nails, and it looks pink in some lighting.

The closest match I could find to it:  The red on the Canon boxes.

So bright, so wearable, and also a little distracting.

 Last but not least, vouchers.

I will probably never use the Urban one, so feel free to make use of the code.

If someone out there in Australia would like the Hello Fresh voucher, hit me up on facebook and I'll msg you the code on the back of the card.

Using all the makeup products from the box this month, and the Primer and Blusher from previous boxes, I put together this look for a friends birthday.  

I smudge the black liner up my lid and covered it with the eyeshadow, to bring out that green flash.  Then I re-lined the lids with the liner.


Thanks Lust Have It for another box.  Fingers crossed that the next one comes soon, and they aren't playing catch-up for the rest of the year!

Total cost for the Womans Box:  $19.95AU
Total value for this month: $93.72 (without the vouchers).

*DISCLAIMER*
Lust Have It provides their Womans Box to me for free for review.  All opinions are my own.