I caved: I decided to buy the Birchbox "From Korea, With Love" box, primary because...well, K-beauty....? But I'm still very firm on not wanting to resubscribe to the monthly box from Birchbox at this time.

Basically, this curated box had items that I've been...well, lusting after for a while.

I ordered on Oct 15 and it was shipped the following day, on Oct 16th. (Yes, I'm very late in writing this and putting this up, but work has been killing me in the past few weeks--but hey, it's money!!!)

The box was USD$35, with a shipping charge of $5. I added the "free mystery sample pack" that was offered by Birchbox for purchases over $35 and I used a coupon code that took 20% which brought my total down to around $33, including shipping. 

The box arrived literally a few days later, on October 19th! After I got home from work, I grabbed my box knife and got to work at opening this bad boy.


I did take pics of it, yes: I happened to open the outside box upside down.  There was two layers of bubblewrap and then the box, which meant that there was no protection on the top of the box inside, had I opened the outside box, the right side up.  It's no big deal, though, but I thought it was kind of strange that the bubble wrap and air bag things weren't on both top and bottom and sandwiching the inner Birchbox box.



Here's the lovely box contents at first glance.  I'm still ecstatic about this box, despite my annoyances with the regular monthly Birchbox. Basically, I let this sit until the next morning



tony moly panda's dream brightening eye base

I'm so glad this product was in the box because I've wanted to try this out! I already have the cooling eye base (it really works) so it's cool to finally be able to try out this bad boy.


ipkn twinkle lips lipstick

Prior to ordering and receiving this box, I researched this lipstick online to see if other AB-er's had reviewed the lipstick, or had swatches. I saw that at the time, you could only buy it on eBay--I'm a little iffy about buying on eBay--so having this lipstick in this Birchbox box is pretty handy. The colour looks gorgeous and I'll likely be reviewing it very soon (with more pics to come!!)

The colour looks gorgeous and I'll likely be reviewing it very soon!! (with more pics to come!!)




too cool for school dinoplatz escalator mascara



I'm excited but I am kind of expecting the mascara to be average, or mediocre...but, we'll see!




tony moly magic food banana hand milk

I actually already own the full size of this sweet hand milk--it reminds of me those banana mallow candies!!




too cool for school egg cream mask

I've been dying to try this out at least once for probably...a good few months now. So of course, it's great timing that this was included in the box!





the mystery sample pack


When ordering, I had no idea what the mystery sample pack would be so this was a nice surprise!




harvey prince organics hello body cream

Never hear of this brand until now, but holy wow!!!! the smell of this is so gentle and nice.  It smells like honey and a faint citrus scent--so pleasant.




stilia stay all day liquid lipstick  - bella 13

Wow, this liquid lipstick kind of smells like cake batter....or vanilla frosting, and I'm 100% loving it.  I'm going to wear it at work tomorrow.