A couple of weeks ago I got to try a blue mascara for the first time ever. I remember wanting one a few years back, but I couldn't find anything with good enough reviews, easily accessible and inexpensive, so I forgot all about it. This Maybelline one came as a part of May's My Beauty Box EU, which as far as I know is still available. However, whether you can get this mascara in all drugstores, I don't know and I've been trying to find it, but so far I've only seen it on Amazon. L'Oreal has some new colour mascaras on the stands, at least here in Slovenia and I think Maybelline's Great Lash comes in blue version too (or it was LE, I'm not sure).

I had the Colossal before and for a while it was my favourite mascara, until I found Essence mascaras are much cheaper and even more volumising. The brush is the same on both the original and Color Shock version, so a regular one, but very bushy. It's also one of those that manage to comb the lashes nicely without clumping them up.

The shade is called Electric Navy and since my lashes are dark, I wasn't so sure this mascara will show up on me, but it actually turned out quite nice I just need three coats. I got a nice noticeable amount of colour, which starts showing up after the second coat and then you can build it up. On light lashes, I sure it'll work even better because my dark lashes hide some vibrancy of the blue and I end up with a more navy type of shade. But as a plus this actually means I can wear it as a normal mascara since it's not as punchy, but still gives some noticeable colour. In terms of volume, mine is new, so I don't know if formula of this version thickens or not, but so far it's not the most volumising mascara, especially compared to Essence's I <3 Extreme wp.

I'll briefly go through the rest of the things that are in My Beauty Box Eu for May 2017. It was inspired by the festival season, so the makeup picks are bright.

BOURJOIS Contour Clubbing Waterproof 

59 Dynamint

As soon as I saw this I thought: "Yes, so my colour." Unfortunately, it's more green than the packaging indicates. It's a soft pencil that glides nicely on the skin and has enough colour pay-off, though you need to go over the line twice. It's also good as a base or if you wish an individual cream eyeshadow.

RIMMEL Show Off Lip Lacquer

400 Big Bang

I already had three shades of these, though mine are called Apocalips (same thing, just the naming is different in some countries), so I've reviewed the formula before, but it's a pigmented lipstick lipgloss hybrid with a to me quite an unpleasant scent. For a glossy product these last well, but these are so opaque, the already leave a stain. Big Bang is a classic red shade with a warm undertone. It's prone to bleeding over the edges, so it's better if you blot it.

YES TO Carrots Gentle Cleansing Wipes

These aren't bad wipes, though they don't remove makeup that well, especially mascara, but they are 95% natural product and they are quite soft and gentle. But the scent of these is literally like sick a few minutes out of the packaging (fresh they smell pleasant). Strange it turns that way.

Ingredients

TATTIFY  Stick it to the Man Nail Wraps + Nail File

Paradigm

I just really don't like the pattern of these, so I won't be using them. But you get an extra mini nail file and a wooden stick to help you get them on the nails.

Neon Nail File Block

For those who love neons, they included a big block nail file that's otherwise pretty standard.

My Beauty Box EU costs 12 € and is available internationally

Have a great day!

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Slovenia got a new beauty box service, called My Beauty Box. I wanted to write the next part about the box in general in English because I don't like writing in Slovene, but that'd be rather pointless considering international readers can't get our box, however, the reviews of products are a different story, so scroll down over my incoherent babbling in Slovene to see what I think of the products. 

V Slovenijo je prišla nova lepotna škatla imenovana My Beauty Box. Kolikor vem, smo blogerke šele poskusni zajčki, trgovino pa bodo odprli kmalu in verjetno tudi takrat oznanili končno ceno, ampak naj bi bila okrog 14,90€ (po informacijah Sare iz Passing Fancy). Stran imajo že postavljeno, ampak za zdaj te tam čaka samo njihov kontakt, da jih lahko vprašaš kaj te zanima. Imajo tudi že Instagram in Facebook. 

Te škatle presenečenja, ki so dejansko samo kozmetična nadgradnja vrečk, ki smo jih kupovali kot otroci, me pravzaprav niso nikoli pritegnile, saj plačevati toliko za testerje, od katerih ti bo všeč morda eden ali dva ni po mojem okusu, ampak par let nazaj je bila prava norija za temi škatlami in mislim, da jih je večina zelo vesela. Sprejela sem eno škatlo za preizkušnjo, da vsaj enkrat v življenju vidim kako to izgleda in moram priznati, da tako lepe škatle kar nisem pričakovala. Kar se tiče embalaže jim dam 10 točk, saj je škatla tako lepa in kvalitetna, da jo bom zagotovo porabila za druge stvari. Ko škatlo odpreš te pričaka prikupna pentljica in lep papir z motivi ličil - to so mali detajli, ki res naredijo vtis. V škatli je bilo pet izdelkov: 

• Essijev lak v odtenku Merino Cool, 

• tester Ginvera Green Tea Nude Cover BB kreme (8g), 

• tester vrečica Macadamia Natural oil Deep Repair maske (15 ml), 

• Tattify začasni tatuji in 

• Tepigs čaj z okusom limone in ingverja. 

Če gledamo cene Essie stane 9,90 € (cena v DM-ih, ampak tega odtenka v novomeškem DM-u ni), 40 ml Ginvera BB kreme stane £24,95 (po mojem hitrem zanič izračunu je v testerju za približno 7 € izdelka), 30 ml tester vrečkica Macadamia Deep Repair maske stane 4,20 € (Beauty Bay), torej je ta vredna 2,10 €, Tattify Tattoja sta 5 $ in Teapigs čaji (2 vrečke) so £1,30. Vsebino zagotovo ne preplačaš, koliko vas je pa navdušila je pa čisto subjektivna zadeva. Sama sem mnenja, da so na dobri poti, sploh laka sem zelo vesela, ampak bi si želela samo kozmetične izdelke, sicer pa kot pravim, vsake oči imajo svojega malarja.

ESSIE Nail Lacquer

Merino Cool

Undoubtedly the most exciting product in the box. I immediately loved the colour as it's a proper autumnal shade and I already included it in my Autumn Picks. Merino Cool it's a mix of purple with grey and it's very likely that they decided to include it to match the box, which was pretty cool of them. The formula is an average one, it needs two coats, sometimes three coats for full opacity and it's fuss free to apply. I know many people find Essie's are just not worth it, but I really like them.

GINVERA Green Tea Nude Cover BB Cream

I remember a British blogger raving about this, about how it's her HG base, but I don't know who it was. The box contains an 8 g sample, which is a decent size, however, the tube is not full - still it lasts quite a few applications. It comes in only one shade, which is just lazy, how could you possibly expect that it will fit everyone? It's quite a dark shade from my perspective. It's darker than my darkest foundation Catrice's Nude Illusion in 010, but at least it's a neutral shade and it didn't end up looking too off on me also because of the coverage. The latter is light, with additional layers it can be built up to light-medium, but you'll definitely need concealer for under the eyes, redness and spots. The texture is very light, it blends beautifully and sets fast, in fact it reminds me of a less greasy version of Missha's Signature BB Cream. It looks very natural on the skin, it just sort of melts into the skin and it has that Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum effect, where it's not obvious you're wearing anything. I really like how it looks on the skin, only it sometimes looks a bit weird on my pores, but I think this has to do with my skin condition and not this BB. It has a strong, but pleasant scent of green tea.

It's nice, albeit expensive, but the texture of it is really lovely. If only they were sensible enough to create more shades, they might even get me as a customer.

TATTIFY Temporary Tattoos

The tattoo craze passed me by completely. In fact, I'm one of those grumpy people that does not like looking like a human doodle, but I digress. There are temporary tattoos, not unlike those we had as kids. I'll be brutally honest here, I'd probably get a better quality tattoo in one of the kids chewing gums than this. My picture doesn't lie, but the result I got bummed me out. It didn't transfer well and I followed the instructions to the letter, plus it was essentially falling apart after an hour. I didn't try the other one, to see if the one I tried was faulty, but might update you if that one is better. The design is pretty, though.

MACADAMIA Deep Repair Masque

I've already got a review of this where you can read how unimpressed I was by this. It's incredibly popular and people rave about it, but it just doesn't work on my hair. Having said that, my mom loves it for some reason and I keep buying her pots of this. It's a thick hair treatment that I expected would be super nourishing, but it made my hair very frizzy that's why I didn't like it. But again, I hear it works for a majority of people judging from the rating on MUA. 

TEAPIGS Lazy Days Tea

Lemon and Ginger

They just had to include tea *sighs* Yes, I sound spoiled and I'm aware many people would be very happy to get it in their box, but I'm not one of them. I want beauty products in my box - what a shocking revelation. It's a British brand that uses whole leaf only and their tea bags are one of those pyramid ones. I didn't drink it, I doubt I ever will as I mostly drink only home-grown camomile tea, but it smells like lemon. Sara says these are supposedly really good and she's really into teas, so listen to her not silly little me.