Archive for the ‘Health and Beauty’ Category

Mineral Makeup Kits

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

So far I have written about a couple of manly things but I had to make a switch recently to something a bit more feminine, makeup. The Mrs. wanted some new makeup for her and she had been eyeballing that infomercial about bareMinerals makeup. I told her let me hit the web and see what we could find.

Well, we found a site that provides Bare Escentuals bareMinerals makeup and their MD Formulations skin care line.

The first thing that caught our eye vs their competition was the free shipping and then we noticed the prices. Not only are the comparable if not lower than Sephora, Ulta and Nordstroms they have a lot of the same products as well.

So we went through the order process, it was fast, simple and easy to use. The one thing we did notice is, they are a PayPal only compay, which isn’t to bad, I just know it does scare some people off, however we moved forward using our PayPal account (Remember, you do not need an account to pay, there is a section you can use a card with).

We received an order confirmation email as soon as we paid and we noticed it stated it would take 5 to 7 days after the order was placed before it shipped. We waited for 10 days, went back to Mineral Makeup Kits and clicked on the order tracking, they had listed in the notes the tracking number, we had already known this though because they had shipped it using PayPal shipping, which is a major benefit for paying with PayPal.

Now they were a little slower than what they said in their shipping and there wasn’t a ton of communication other than the auto responders that were related to the order. We feel we could have contacted them though and had an immediate response by how fast everything shipped out.

So far, our experience with Mineral Makeup Kits is a 3 out of 5, just average as they were not challenged and nothing special was sent with the order.

Mr. Brewman’s Premium Southern Sweet Tea

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Ezekiel Brewman makes some serious Sweet Tea that will knock anyones socks off. There is a unique identity associated with this tea, and that is the character Ezekiel. The site is clean, laid out properly and gives a lot of information in regards to the health benefits of tea.

You can choose from sweetened or unsweetened, me I am a sweet tea nut so I went with the Sweet Tea order. The one negative to the entire experience is a PayPal only shopping cart, which could hurt ‘ol Ezekiel in his adventure of tea sales.

So I placed the order and sat waiting for my tea.

5 days later the doorbell rings and the UPS guy is standing there holding a box, not a little box, but a decent size box. With crazed abandon I tear open the box and I start to laugh, the packaging for the tea is ingenious, it’s a Burlap Sack, with all the tea packets inside of it and it’s stamped with Mr. Brewmans and tied shut. The other unique thing was the fridge magnet the provided the directions on how to make my tea.

So I set to, and create the 2 qt’s I know I will probably finish by the end of the day.

The tea was amazing and addicting, and Ezekiel has to seriously have a unique additive in it, because everyone else I have spoken with and sent to him, can’t stop buying.

All in all, Mr. Brewmans Premium Southern Sweet Tea receives a 4 out of 5, due to the fact he is a PayPal only site…if he breaks out into a merchant account or PayPal Pro…I will modify the rating.