Friday, August 11, 2017
PopSugar Must Have May 2014 Review
PopSugar Must Have May 2014 Review
Theres always a bit more anxiety when you subscribe to a higher-cost box. At $40 a month, PopSugar Must Have is in the you-better-not-fuck-this-up-for-me price point.
Heres what I got this month:
Kerry Cassill Eye Mask, retail value $24
I am sure that there are people in the world that use sleep masks. Clearly, those people exist, or no one would bother make them. (Alternative explanation: this is a money laundering scheme.) However, as someone who has no difficulty sleeping anywhere, I dont really think that this is something Id be able to integrate into my life. On a boat, with a goat, in the rain, on a train… I can fucking fall asleep. Last night I fell asleep while I was watching one of my fish tanks and I literally just slept the night on the living room floor. I could put this on my face, but it would not affect my ability to get rest.
I will say that the design is really cute, so anyone who does use it can feel really fancy as they wear it.
Tone It Up One Day Fat Blast DVD, retail value $15 (Note: I cant actually find this available for sale anywhere, so I am trusting PopSugars value assessment here)
I try a lot of products that I otherwise would not touch because I get them in subscription boxes and I want to be able to offer a meaningful review. I told myself I was going to do the same with this DVD. On this one… I cant. Im sorry. I dont have it in me. Watching a DVD about working out is the exact opposite of the kind of workout I want to do. I want monotonous cardio with a very distracting TV show blaring at the same time so I can try to forget that Im all sweaty.
This product has negative value to me. I will pay you to come pick it up from my house so I dont have to look at it or store it.
Zing Anything Citrus Zinger, retail value $16.99
When you go to a restaurant and the waitstaff pours from a pitcher with a bunch of lemons in it, my heart sinks. I dont want random citrus in my water. You can wax poetic about how water is too "boring", but water is fucking delicious the way that it is. (Unless you live in Southern California. Southern Californian water is disgusting and helps me understand why people would buy bottled water.)
So, as well-designed as this product is, Im not necessarily the target audience.
The Zing Anything water bottle opens on both ends. One end is the normal "you drink from here" side and one has a manual citrus juicer.
I had no leaking problems. Its easy to clean. The opening is big enough to fit in ice. Its visually appealing.
Ive tried it with limes and with an orange. The lime fit inside the container well, and the orange was fine, although I had to cut it up to make it work. Both were… not appealing to me. The insert inside the bottle had other recipe ideas, but they dont sound like they would work well for me, either. For example, it suggested adding strawberries to the base. If I have strawberries and water, I would rather drink my water and eat my delicious strawberries than combine them to get mediocre strawberry water.
Ultimately, I do think that this will work well for me, even if the intended use isnt up my alley. Im a big iced tea lover, and I think I would be much more satisfied with a citrus-infused iced tea. And, again, the design is good, so if you do like citrus-infused water, you probably will like this.
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Nail Lacquer in Pool Boy (0.5 fl oz), retail value $10
Pool Boy is a robins egg blue cream polish that was opaque in two coats.
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| I broke my ring fingernail and couldnt bear cutting my other nails any shorter than this. |
Smell Bent St. Tropez Dispenser Eau de Parfum Spray (1.7 fl oz), retail value $45
This is the weirdest fucking perfume I have ever used. This was the "big ticket item" for this box and I feel like the smell is weird enough that not a lot of people are going to be making jazz hands when they use it.
It smells like sunscreen and coconut.
A few bloggers have contested the clear fact that it smells exactly like sunscreen, asserting that it actually smells like gardenia. If that is the case, my sunscreen all smells like gardenia.
Although the scent has definitely grown on me in the past few days (it smells like summer in a bottle), theres no denying that this fragrance is strange.
Hi Im Skinny Sticks in Multi-Grain Sweet Onion (7 oz), retail value $3.50
I want to hate these so badly. The brand name is literally "Hi Im Skinny". That deserves to be loathed by default. The back of the bag is so condescending it reads as sarcasm: "Well arent you a smart pup for choosing our Hi Im Skinny sticks" [sic]. It suggests that I "fear the weekly weigh in" and that "skinny jeans [are] a scary thought". Shut the fuck up and let me snack, you assholes.
To add insult to injury, they dont even bother with commas.
Fortunately/unfortunately, these are fucking delicious. Theyre an awesome combination of sweet and salty. I have already grabbed a few more bags on
Make no mistake: these are not healthy. Saying something is 40% less fat than potato chips is a nutritional cop-out, since potato chips are pretty much just a bag of fat. The Hi Im Skinny Sticks actually have more fat than comparable foods (e.g. Open Nature Veggie Sticks). Thats not a fault, necessarily, but it means that the way they are being marketed is not only dickish, its misleading.
Indeed, the only reason the standard one ounce serving size seems at all large is because the fucking things are hollow.
Still… theyre really yummy. I will eat them. Ill just glare at the awful bag.
Total Box Value: $114.49
This isnt the best PopSugar Must Have box I have gotten, but Im definitely satisfied. When you subtract the value of the sleep mask and the DVD (both of which I will never use), the value is about $82.50, which isnt bad. The biggest problem with this box is there is no item that I was completely over-the-moon about.
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