Influenster College VoxBox

If you guys don't know, Influenster is a site where you can sign up and be active by reviewing products and seasonally, they will check your profile and if you've been active, they'll send you a VoxBox with a theme that is right for you. For fall 2012, there was the College voxbox (which I got), Beauty Blogger Vox Box, and Holiday Vox Box. I was chosen for the College one (which doesn't make quite a lot of sense, because I don't go to uni but anyways) and I've finally tried most of the products so I decided to do a review on all of the products.

It comes in a nice box with an influenster card.

The first product was these imPRESS nails that are a press-on manicure, and I have mine in Holla, which is a nude ish design with fishnet/lace detailing on it, which I think are super cute. I am actually saving these for Valentines Day or for a special event, so I have not actually tried this. But I have talked to a lot of people who have used these and so far, not so good opinions I've been hearing :\ A lot of people say it falls off too easily- and thats pretty much the only con. I'll have to see for myself, and maybe make a separate NOTD when I do wear these.

The next thing I got were YAY food! The Tropical NECCO wafers. A lot of people liked these! But, unfortunately, I didn't very much. It's not that it tastes bad or anything. I just thought they'd be crispy wafers, but they turned out be kind of the chalky, hard wafers.. and I don't realy like those kind of hard candies. So, not a plus for me. But the smell was HEAVEN.

This next thing might seem random, but fights very well into the whole College theme.. its a Pentel EnergelX pen. At first, I was dissapointed, like seriously? A pen? But. NO. BEST. PEN. EVARRRRRRRRRRRR. I used ONLY this pen for the following months on assignments and in-class essays and it is the best pen I have ever used. I used to use cheap ones because I thought it didn't make a difference. It does. Got me some A+s, especially on those finals ;) It writes sooo smoothly and is such a pigmented black color. Its a liquid gel ink pen so it has the pigmentation of a gel, but glides like a liquid and dries fast so it doesn't smudge, which I don't like about gel pens. So it's so perfect. Plus, the grip is just right, because having too big of a grip can be bulky sometimes. I used so much of this pen that I ran out of ink after a couple months. A couple weeks ago, I replaced it with a pack of 2 new Pentel EnergelX pens.. I think they are an updated version because they look different- silver and slimmer, but still the same great quality. Plus, I realized this isn't a cheap pen. It's about $5 for 2, which is the most expensive in all of the office pen selections. So, if you want to splurge on a pen.. Pentel EnergelX is the way to go.

This next item was a beauty item! A ShowTime Glitter Pencil Eyeliner in ShowTime Black from NYC, which I've always wanted to buy from- they are very affordable and have some great products that are raved about (ahem, NYC Sunny). Anyways, this turned out to be my first NYC product, and I was glad that the beauty product was from a brand that I knew and heard about a lot and could trust would be good.. which it turned out to be. This pencil eyeliner is a very dark black with SILVER SHIMMER. YES. It's soo unique and can add a subtle glam effect without being too out there. In the swatch I did, it doesn't look very black because of the flash, but I can assure you that it's pretty black on the range of pencil liners. The silver shimmer in this liner is not an overall effect, but individual microglitter embedded into the pencil, but the glitter doesn't go everywhere, it's like implanted in the pencil- it's difficult to explain, but it's not messy at all. Since it is a pencil, it's really easy to handle as well. The silver sparkle is also very subtle and can only be seen pretty closely so if you're intimidated by that, that's not a factor to worried about either.

Finally, I got these Energy Sheets. They are basically like breath strips, but in a pack that somewhat looks like a cigarette pack.. but anyways.. they have some caffeine in it so it's supossed to give you energy without the calories of drinking a Starbucks. It also has about half the caffeine of coffee in one strip, so you can adjust your dosage- though it is recommended that only 4 be taken every 3 hours.. or something of the sort. I was very excited about these because sometimes I have those days when I'm just falling asleep in class, so I thought this could be an easy way to wake myself up. So one day I tried these one of those days. First of all, the taste. I didn't know what I was supossed to do with the strip in my mouth, I thought it would easily dissolve like a breath strip on my tongue, but instead it got all sticky and weird so I kinda had to chew it, which was awkward,and it ended up tasting WEIRD, soooooooooooooo weird, it was minty, but a WEIRD mint, like as if someone mixed orange juice and toothpaste together and it was just such a weird taste, and unappetizing too. I tried to drink water to get rid of the taste, but it made it worse. It stayed there about an hour. I hated it. Many other people hate the taste of it too, so I know its not just me. So about the actual energy- I took one sheet and it kicked in about 30 minutes later and I started getting really really hyper and my hands started shaking a little (I'm a really hyper person in the beginning, so you can imagine what happened ahahahahah). For a product that's supossed to give you more energy to be more concentrated, I was very distracted and scatterbrained. Maybe caffeine just isn't for me (but STARBUCKKKKS). However, it really depends on how you like this- some people didn't experience any reaction, some had the same reaction as I did, some just liked it a lot and wasn't bothered by the taste (I ended up giving this to one of my friends, who liked it).

Anyways, this was my first Influenster box, and I'd have to give a 3 out of 5 because it was good to try all these products and some were awesome but some were just.. eh. But still, I'm very grateful for being chosen by Influenster to recieve this box!
Of course, this isn't sponsored and I am not getting compensated by making this post. Influenster just sends boxes to a lot of people who are active on their site, and not for the sake for having good reviews for them (but a lot of people do that anyways haha).
These boxes are free and you can obtain them by just being active on the site and having some kind of social media outlet (eg YouTube, blog, etc), so if you're interested just go to influenster.com and sign up!

If you're interested in any of these products, I've listed the product info here..

-imPRESS Press-On Manicure: $5.99 for colors, $7.99 for patterns. Get them here.
-NYC New York Color Show Time Glitter Eyeliner Pencil: $2.49 per pencil. Get the eyeliner here.
-Necco Tropical Wafers: $1.29 each, $24.00 per box, $37.50 per tub. Get candy here.
-Pentel EnergelX Pen: $1.90 per pen. Get the best pens ever here.
-Energy Sheets: $5.95 per pack of 10 sheets. If you're into that kind of thing..

Anyways, I hope this didn't sound like toooo negative. I'm just being honest, I hope you guys can appreciate that about me :D Anyways, hope you guys can check out influenster and possibly get a box for spring!

TOODOOLOO for noww!