Glymm: Beauty in a Box
Glymm.com as you’ve probably heard me talk about last month is a Canadian company offering an exciting Glymm Box subscription with a full boutique where you can use earned points to get free products. More on that later.
You can sign up for a monthly subscription for just $10 a month, and do month-to-month if you wish. Or you can save some money by purchasing the deluxe Glymm Box yearly subscription for $110. Glymm box is delivered straight to your doorstep every month, and each month it comes with 4-5 deluxe sized, luxurious beauty samples. Last month I received Gucci perfume, and OPI nail polish to name a few. At first when you sign up you take a quiz which then gets your samples hand selected by a panel of Glymm Experts according to the personal Beauty Profile you filled out. Other brands that are up and coming into Glymm include Stila, NARS, and even Lise Watier.
Once you’ve had time to use your products that you recieved in your latest Glymm Box, if you like your product enough to buy it you can access the product in the Beauty Boutique and purchase the full sized version of your sample there. My favorite part, which is a nice added bonus, Glymm even offers Glymm Points! The points are very easy to rack up and can be traded in towards purchases in the Boutique. You can also leave your opinions through monthly product reviews, ask questions to Beauty Experts, and of course stay up to date on trends and perhaps learn some new makeup tricks.
It’s only been a month since Glymm.com opened its online doors to the public, and within two weeks the first Glymm Box sold out at record speed! Since limited membership spaces are available, make sure you order your Glymm Box in time for next month!
Now for the fun part!
One of you lucky Canadian girls will be eligible to win one of the Glymm Boxes for September. Please note this giveaway is only available to residents of Canada and will end on August 19, 2011 at 11pm EST. There are a few easy and fun ways to enter the contest:
To enter:
Do any/all of the following for one additional entry each (leave one comment per entry please):
1 separate entry: “Like†Glymm on Facebook
1 separate entry: Follow @GlymmGirl on Twitter
1 separate entry: Follow me @spiffykerms on Twitter
1 bonus entry: Tell me what you would like to receive in your next Glymm box. Be creative! (Wouldn’t it be great to see a hundred dollar bill, or the swoon-worthy David Beckham in your Glymm box!)
The winner will be drawn on August 19th and notified shortly there after. I will send the winners mailing address to the Head Office at Glymm. Glymm boxes are mailed out on the 10th of each month, so in September you’ll probably get it the second or third week.
Good luck!
iPad review
I’ve had my iPad for a little over a week now. I mentioned last week I’d do a review about my iPad. So here we go…
There isn’t much to tell you in the manual, so thankfully my Bosses daughter knows a lot about Apple products so at work she explained to me what I had to do when I got home with my new device.
You have to have a computer with iTunes already installed, so that you can plug your iPad into your computer via USB, and then it sync’s it to your iPad. It doesn’t even have you be your iTunes, or your computer. Just someone’s. Because then you register your iPad immediately after. So that you can of course purchase, or download free apps.
We have wireless internet at home, but I bought a sim card (which came free when I went for the 3G purchase) in case I wanted to use the internet elsewhere. Where does the sim card go? Why is this so hard?
It looks like the only spot for it to go, is in here — but maybe I’m wrong. (I was right, lol)
Everything is so well thought out and neatly packaged with apple products. I thought that pin was a decoration. What, you don’t see it either? It’s that paper clip looking thing. What’s that for? That’s to push inside that tiny little hole in the ipad so the tiny sim card can go inside. Magical.
Oh!! Screen protectors are incredibly expensive! I suppose you don’t really need one. But I don’t like screens getting dirty, and I’d rather have a piece of plastic over top to clean it with so it doesn’t get all gnarly if I have oily finger tips. I paid $10 for one stinkin’ screen protector, and that was the cheapest one I could find at Best Buy, the others were $29, and $39!
What I didn’t read up upon before applying it onto my iPad was how much dust clings to the “sticky” (it’s not really sticky) part of the protector. We (again, my bosses daughter and I, lol)Â spent a good half hour trying to get it to lay correctly, then only to have it bubble a bit. It was frustrating. I googled something along the lines of screen protector dusty and came across a site where people were explaining how you should be in a damp room where the dust settles nicely, like a shower-fresh bathroom for instance. Or tape. Scotch tape works just fine. Just a little hint for you guys.
My screen protector looks great now, by the way. Lots of finger prints but no bubbles!
A few things that bothered me with certain things regarding applications and changing things up was that I don’t really know how to change my wallpaper. I mean, I technically do — you just go into the wallpaper settings. But how do I get my own images? I suppose it’s as easy as plugging my iPad back into my own PC computer and having images on my PC to load onto my iPad. Seems a bit weird.
I use the mail application to check my gmail account. What’s annoying to me is that I don’t think that my contacts have been linked, so when I type in “Mom” in the address bar, it doesn’t automatically fill out her e-mail address. I think I’ll have to do something about that.
Also, reading some news feeds on twitter had me a bit confused, especially when I clicked on a link. You don’t have to Click the “home” button …
… to exit out, re-click on the twitter icon and go back that way. It’s super easy, you just swipe your finger over, the convo and it’s gone.
One two three, gone!
Overall, I think I’m becoming more comfortable with it therefor spending hours on it each time I come home from work. I’ve written tons of e-mails on it, with grammatical errors like “,!” instead of just “!”. I’m too lazy to hit backspace sometimes. I’ve downloaded free and bought some apps foir my iPad, but deleted a few free one’s since they were garbage. I use a few things on a regular basis like Diner Dash, Twitter, Reeder (for blogs that I subscribe to via Google RSS), Mail (of course), and wordpress! The only two that cost money was Reeder ($4.99), and Diner Dash ($4.99).
I’m also having fun in photo booth, lol.
Anyway, I think it’s clearly a good investment piece for what I need it for. That’s it! That’s my first review on owning an Apple iPad for a whole 10 days. It’s a pretty neat thing.