Hi guys! I have an update on the BoxyCharm situation. If you’re not up to date, here’s a link to my previous review where I talk about why I needed a replacement box:
https://texturedandtrying.blogspot.com/2022/06/boxycharm-june-2022-review.html
Yesterday I got my new box, which I was honestly hoping would have some different items in it, but unfortunately it was just replacements for all the other items, with the distinct difference of the unbroken serum.
I was so excited – even though the packing job on this one was no better than the last, lmao.
So The Sunday Riley serum wasn’t broken! And I was really excited to try it. But I do need to go over my skin and where it’s at.
A week or so ago I was having a really difficult conversation with a family member about something that had happened in my life – and I caught myself picking at my face. I feel really ashamed about it and I felt awful at the time, because I didn’t want them to see me like this and I knew I was causing damage. But it was just so comforting and satisfying to keep picking, and even though I did a good job holding back, I still caused myself more texture and a little bit of pain.
The way I see picking, is like it’s a small child I’m responsible for taking care of – and in some ways that’s really true. It’s an impulsive thing that something in me enjoys and finds peace through – even though it doesn’t bring me peace at all, it actually makes me cry when I see that it’s happening. It breaks my heart.
So what I need to do is put the small child in a playpen where it can’t break everything in my house. I do this by keeping to a routine. Skincare, makeup all day, wash off as late at night as possible, skincare, bed. Zero time to pick. Zero time for my hands to re-acclimate to my clean, bumpy skin. Zero time to start thinking with my fingers.
I guess that’s what it is. Thinking with my fingers. My hands trying to understand my face.
Anway, it goes wrong on the weekends at lot. Because – I want to do mud masks because I have oily skin. And this complicates things because of time. So let’s say it’s a really nice day out, so I want to go get some sun. But if I got out with no makeup on, I might pick my face while I’m downtown by the lake. But if I put my makeup on to go out and then come home immediately to wash it off … what a waste of makeup, right? And it gets hot, and the makeup runs all over my oily face, and I feel insecure about it.
So I’d rather just do my makeup for a whole day and not go anywhere – but then I can’t put on a mudmask. It’s frustrating. No matter what I do, I end up picking.
So that’s how I got into this situation. It was the weekend, so I hadn’t done my makeup, and I had washed off my mudmask for the conversation so that I could talk freely. But that meant my free hand was free to start on my face. And even while I was talking I was getting more upset, about what had happened and also that I was picking about it.
Routine is the way around what I do to myself, and it’s hardest because my boyfriend, who’s home all day, doesn’t have any kind of routine. So I don’t know what my day looks like until I hear from him. And it’s hard to live with someone who’s home all day because I don’t always feel like it’s my home too. I sort of feel like he has full custody of the home and I have visitation.
That’s something I’m working hard on though. It’s important to me that I feel like it’s my house too.
Anyway, the Sunday Riley serum has a great texture, and I’m applying 1-2 pumps in my skincare routine like it says on the bottle. It does sting in my open cuts but that makes sense because even water stings in my open cuts to be honest. I wasn’t exactly actively bleeding when I did my skincare that night, but it was definitely raw and red.
Still is.
It also has a really strong fragrance, like citrus/lemon. I can’t smell it after it’s been on my skin for a minute, so it doesn’t linger, but when you initially put it on it really smells super strong.
The only thing I will say, I’ve had it maybe a week and a half, two pumps before bedtime, and it’s already about a third empty. I’m going to switch to one pump from here on out just so it doesn’t run out before I can tell if it’s working.
I apply it at the same time as my retinol and hyaluronic acid serums, since I really don’t want to stop using those to test this out.
I’ll probably poshmark the other replacement items I got, since I wasn’t even particularly excited for this box anyway and don’t need another unlisted lip crayon and gloss.
My next BoxyCharm opens up on Monday, so I’ll be able to log on and see what I’m getting and select add-ons if I want some, so I’m going to try to make this box a little more personal. Maybe I missed out on that part last time and that’s why I didn’t like the box.
Thanks for hopping on to read this update! I’ll post for my next few boxes.
Dani