Beauty Haul + Mini Review ft. The Body Shop, Ananda Spa, Batiste etc.

I keep a list of products I want. These are the ones I’ve heard good reviews of but I’m waiting for them to go on sale so that I can buy them with lesser guilt. Believe it or not, some of them have been on my digital wishlist on every e-commerce website I stalk - because why should I miss out on a good deal, eh?

Winter Friendly Skincare and Body care Haul !

Nothing says you’re back for good like a large haul. I hope the plethora of skin and body products in this post makes up for my unplanned hiatus! These are a couple of necessities I bought recently as well as almost a month ago.  

The Body Shop Online Haul & Shopping Experience {International Women's Day Offer}

So here I’m finally getting around to revealing some of the gifts I got myself on International Women’s Day. The Body Shop holds sales frequently on their online store & I've always been eager to try it out, coz their stuff is pretty expensive otherwise. You can check out the current offers on their Promotions Page . Everything I purchased was stuff I'd already tried out at the store (many times) before but always hesitated to purchase because of the price.  

URL: http://www.thebodyshop.in/

Here's the stuff I got 

Huge Haul : Real Techniques, E.L.F, TheFaceShop etc + iHerb and SingPost review

Its been such a long time since I showed a haul on my blog. I have been buying products left, right and center (thank you online discounts!), but I never got the chance to put them together and take pics. Last week, my sister came home from Singapore. With her, she brought a list of things I had demanded and Real Techniques & E.L.F brushes which I had ordered from iHerb and gotten delivered to  Singapore because I was afraid of my losing package in the Indian mail system.

Here’s what I ordered from iHerb (mostly brushes)

Online Shopping Experience, Review & Haul - Slassy.com

A few weeks ago when I was in college, (this was before I came home for New Year’s) I needed some things-make up products to be precise-urgently. I couldn’t help myself, and despite my feelings about online shopping I placed an order for them.  The online store that had most of the products I needed was Slassy.com, it was the only website that had the Maybelline Color Show nail polish  in the shade Porcelain Party which is a plain white shade.

Their url: www.slassy.com

 So I placed an order with them on 20^th December and paid the money online.  Even after 5 days of placing the order, I had not received any notification about whether my order had been shipped, and when I checked online they had not yet shipped my order. I kept calling their number but I always got the message that the office hours were over. Finally on 26, I got a call from them informing me that Porcelain Party was not in stock and that’s why order had been stalled. I choose Coral Craze instead and they shipped my order on 27^th and I received it on 28^th. So overall the delivery was fast but they delayed it by a week which was obviously very frustrating for me. They should have informed me at the start, rather than at the end that they were waiting for the product. And why isn’t the number that they list on their website working?

I’ve previously ordered from Slassy.com, way back in July’13 and I didn’t face any such problems then. That time I was in Mumbai and the delivery time was 2 days. On both occasions they shipped through Aramex.

this is the box they sent...

the invoice

You can see that they sent everything in that rectangular cardboard box. An invoice was tapped on the back of the box and there was one more inside the box. I really didn’t like that they put those thermocol pieces inside the box rather than bubble wrapping everything.

What I ordered:

•  Maybelline Hypercurl Volum Express Waterproof Mascara
• Maybelline Color Show nail polishes in Coral Craze and Nude Skin
• Vega Cuticle Trimmer and Pusher.

 Only the MNY Color Show nail polishes were bubble wrapped. :-(

Currently, Slassy.com is offering free shipping on orders worth Rs.499, which is lowest, comparing it to other online shopping websites.

Overall I liked the fast delivery and they just need to work on customer care and on updating their website. I always prefer DTDC courier service so if they add that also it would be a better experience for me.

Have you ever placed an order from Slassy.com? If yes, how did you find it? If you haven’t yet,do you plan to haul from them?

<<I know the pics are bad, I blame the weather!!>>

Hope you found this review helpful ! 

Do check out:
Online Shopping Experience with ASOS
Online Shopping Experience with L'occitane 
Online Shopping Experience with Major Brands
Online Shopping Experience with Jabong
Online Shopping Experience with Nykaa

Another Haul It Is….

If you are a beauty blogger, humour me. 
Do you have backlogs that stretch up to a mile or more? Do you find yourself indulging in shopping at any and every opportunity?

For me, it’s yes to both. I’ve done so many hauls and I know realize, that I should have at least posted them first. For me, product reviews take a lot of time. I like to test creams /lotions, concealer/foundations/BB creams for the span of 1-3 months to see how they perform under different weather conditions and different face conditions(breakouts, clear/irritated/tanned/sensitive skin). The thing is, I mostly have a clear skin, I don’t break out, hence no scars either. So I tend to stretch the review up to my time of month, when I do happen do get few pimples. And for brushes/tools, I like to test them for 3-6 months. So that’s my explanation for some of the delayed reviews.

Pictures of stuff that I can post, like nail polishes, lipsticks, eye shadows etc. are lying watermarked on my laptop, waiting to be seen on a monitor other than my own. Why the delay for that? Honestly, its because of three main reasons: academics, wifi and laziness. So here I am, trying to overcome the last and battling the 2^nd reason, with a haul post for you guys. Don’t you just love hauls?  Me: yes...oh yes

I brought most of the stuff in the first week of September, so yes, reviews will follow shortly after my exams next week.