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I have to admit to being quite lucky with Bzzagent and this another review for a product that I have received free for review from this site. This is a review for the Scholl Express Pedi and the Scholl Velvet smooth Intense Serum. This seems to be a much hyped up product at the moment with adverts on the telly but after using it for a couple of weeks and using a few times I can't really see the difference, especially for the £39.99 rrp.  I have to admit that the Express Pedi itself reminds me of a dremel that I used to use as a teen to carve wood in the way that it turns and 'buffs or exfoliates' off the skin of your feet but it seems to have liittle effectiveness on my feet. It might be because my feet aren't that bad or because it lacks power but it seems pretty ineffective and I think you are much better with a foot buffer that does what it says on the pack, i.e buffs your feet, and some foot lotion from the body shop as the serum is as effective but is as e...

It takes a lot to really get my knickers in a twist but Royal Mail is really starting to irritate me something chronic. On Friday I got a sorry I have missed you card despite being in all day and today it happened again.

Here are the contents of my boxes for April  and links to the corresponding reviews (if carried out).

I have to admit that when products make claims I tend to take it when a pinch of salt.  So when I was lucky enough to be selected to try John Frieda Frizz Ease for bzzagent for free I definitely took it with a pinch of salt that it would tame my very long very frizzy hair that is more lion king than elegant lady a lot of the time.

I don't know why British people, in general apologise all the time but here I go again. I am sorry that I haven't reviewed sooner but here is my next Memebox review and I promise I am going to catch up with other reviews tomorrow.  This is Memebox #9 that arrived earlier and had a snazzy silver that was really cute and a nice change from pink and black so I had to photograph it.

So, I missed reviewing last months and it was very good but mainly savoury. I prefer sweet, to be honest, and hoped this months was mainly sweet and I wasn't disappointed.

My second review of the eight is another Memebox and this one is, sadly, not as great as the first box from them that I reviewed today.

I have to admit my blogposts have stacked up this month due to campnanowrimo and the fact that we had two bank holidays, meaning that I now have eight boxes to review. This is the first of the eight I will review from this batch and is probably one of my favourite boxes that i have received for a while as it is amazing value for me, a great plus for a pennypincher like me, and has given me some sunblock, which I really need as I burn really easily and the Uk weather is starting to hot up.

I cancelled souksouk last month but resubbed this month as I saw that this was their birthday box and that got me curious so I paid again and when I received this box and saw the items above I was really happy as it is mainly body and skin care and that makes me happy as I much prefer it to make up products in general. But, what did I receive?

I have to apologise again about delays in doing reviews but now my 50k is written I am trying to get back o n track and the first review I am going to do is the one I got about a week ago and it is one of my favourites, as anyone who has followed me for a while will know, and it is Love ME Beauty for April.

My memebox eight came early this month but been too busy to review as I have been doing campnanowrimo but I am taking a break as exhausted so I have decided to do this review tonight. Memebox is a box that costs just under £19 including postage from Korea and is full of Korean beauty products. I really like it as you get a lot of bang for your buck and the few products I have tried from my boxes have been very good.  I also love the beautiful pink outer boxes. At the moment they don't ship to the uk but I have signed up until box 16 and as this box is only number eight I will be reviewing them until at least October, especially as I expect they probably be shipping to use again. Anyway, back to number eight. As per normal the box was nicely full of products and even from just looking at a general overview you can see there is a good variety of products. So, what did I get? The first item in my box this month was a Flower Men Energy Moist Boost...

I really think I am a jinx when it comes to boxes at the moment and on Friday this box was supposed to arrive but it was updated on Saturday morning as tried to deliver on Friday morning, yeah right, unlikely as both me and little mr nosey was in all day, then 'unable to locate'. So I emailed birchbox but it thankfully arrived anyway this morning while I was asleep so I can now review it. So, what did I receive?   They have changed their magazine again, please try to make your mind up, and it now concertinas. It proudly tell me that the topic this month is 'good enough to eat', which looks interesting.   I was rather sad about my offerings this month though as the items are rather small and the sort of items you get free with magazines and there is another eye pencil. I received one two months ago and don't use them as I have very limited sight with no glasses on so it is wasteful, plus it is so tiny it is really a 'why bother item'. ...

I always enjoy my youbeautydiscovery box and this month is no different as I managed to get in fast, I always order just after midnight, sad but effective, and had my choice between the ten choices in the menu this month. This months selection was a 'organic & natural' menu.  

Firstly, I apologise that I am a bit far behind on my reviews at the moment but I am doing campnanowrimo so I am lost in my own little world at the moment, quite literally, and finally decided to take a break to do some reviews as my story is only 9k off the end.

Here is a picture summary of my March 2014 boxes. I like doing them like this as it makes it easy to compare them and a picture paints a thousand words. Astrid & Miyu March box (quarterly jewellery box) My review Youbeautydiscovery March box My review Wantable March box My review Glossybox March box  My review Birchbox March box My review Lipfactory March box My review Souksouk March box My review (have resubbed) Lovemebeauty March box My review Memebox #7 My review So, there were all my boxes in March. I have included links to my reviews if you want more details. x-J-x