P-Co Beauty Diary

A year ago today I started my blog just to blab about beauty products. Now it is one year and 248 blog posts later and I have 200+ followers that I am forever grateful for. As a thank you I wanted to do a giveaway featuring the one thing that I have constantly loved on my blog and that is  Birchbox !. I will be giving away a 3 month subscription to  Birchbox ! All you have to do is be a follower of my blog (duh!), leave a comment letting me know what you would like to see more of on my blog and like  P-Co Beauty Diary  on face book. There will also be additional entries for following me on  Twitter , and tweeting about the giveaway. Good Luck! XOXO!   a Rafflecopter giveaway

This is is a look of my first year with  Birchbox May 2011 (this was before I started my blog so the pic is from their website) June 2011  July 2011 August 2011 September 2011  October 2011 November 2011  December 2011  January 2012 February 2012  March 2012  April 2012  May 2012 Overall it has been a good year with  Birchbox . It has been the only subscription service that I have stuck with for a year, and I actually paid for a year in advance in February. Look out for a giveaway I will be doing on June 2nd that might included  Birchbox !

Before I started blogging or even stopped relaxing my hair I picked up  Curly Girl: The Handbook by Lorraine Massey. I remember that I didn't even read the book. I just popped in the DVD that was included and thinking "this seems like it wouldn't work for me". Now a few years later after seeing this book mentioned countless times on YouTube I pulled it out and actually read it. The book is a guide to the Curly Girl Method (or C.G. Method) and it gives you the steps to obtain beautiful curls. The main points of the book are to stop using shampoo, silicone in hair products, combs, brushes, and flat irons. Now the part I am having a hard time with is the no silicones. After looking at the products I use quite a few of them contain some form of silicone. The book states that silicones coat the hair and don't allow moisture to get in, and that the only way to remove silicones are with shampoo which is a major no no because it is drying to the hair....

I try to do a treatment about once a week on my hair, and after watching a bunch of YouTube videos on natural hair I decided to try Shea Moisture Purification Masque. This mask retails for about $10 at Target or Walgreeens and it has tea tree and willow bark to help dry itchy scalp. I don't have scalp issues but since I heard so much about it and I saw it on sale I bought it. The consistency of this mask is like melted ice cream so it can be a bit messy. What I first noticed about this mask was how easy it was to detangle my hair, it is like magic. I have broken combs before just trying to detangle my hair so trust me when I say detangling can be a nightmare.I normally leave this on over night after I shampoo and in the morning when I rinse it out my hair is amazingly soft. If it wasn't for YouTube I would have never have picked up this mask since I don't have scalp issues, but I am sure glad I did. XOXO!

Back in December I got an  Influenster Holiday VoxBox  and did a review on  NYC New York Color Liquid- Lpshine . Well Influenster like my review and I was given NYC IndividualEyes eye shadow palette as a brand challenge prize, so here is what I got here are swatches  I am excited to play around with it! Thanks Influenster!

I ordered 2 nail polished from  Zoya  and I also received my prizes from Influenster for unlocking the Kiss badge . Here is what I got 2 Zoya Nail Polishes in Mitzi  (lime green)  Robyn  (bright blue) Kiss Nail Dress in Peplum and Kiss Nail Metallic Nail Art in NS31

In my  May Beauty Army Kit  I received  Grand Central Beauty Smart Skin Perfecting Mask  and couldn't wait to try it. The sample kit I got came with the active mask powder, an intense booster vial and a spatula. This mask claims to Smooth, Moisturize, Anti-Age, Reduce redness, and Tone (S.M.A.R.T). The instructions were to mix the powder and the vial together along with water until everything was thoroughly combined. I applied the mask to my face and let it sit for 15 minutes and then peeled it of. When this mask dried it felt rubbery but that made it easy to peel off. It kind of reminded me of the Bliss No Zit Sherlock Breakout Busting Rubberizing Mask. After I removed the mask my skin did feel Smooth and Moisturized. I didn't notice any Anti-Aging but I am in my 20's so I wasn't expecting much. I did however notice Redness reduction on some post breakout spots, and I my skin Tone was slightly improved . Overall I like the mas...