Monday, February 10, 2014

VoxBox #2: Mystery Brand Challenge!

I'm now 10 days post surgery. And I'm going insane. I've left the house once in total, and being stuck at home is driving me insane. Daytime TV is terrible, and staring at the ceiling isn't much better. I'm finally at the point I'm able to get up and hobble around (think Igor) the house a bit before swelling kicks in and I have to go back to bed with my ice packs. So for my trek today, I figured I would check the mail. I was quite honestly expecting bills, hoping and praying for a big fat check. I found neither. Instead, I found this:

Which of course I had forgotten I was chosen to receive. So not only was this exciting to find, it also gave me a little ray of happy! After I wobbled back upstairs and tucked myself back in, I got down to business. First thing I noticed was the smell. Normally, when you get a package with a smell, it's not always a good thing. But this smell... Magical. It's all I can smell right now, and my nose is in heaven. Once I finished sniffing the box and actually opened it, I found 3 bottles.
One bottle of shampoo, one conditioner, and one split end serum. Obviously, I needed to remove the caps and sniff them (product quality assurance folks!) even more. Okay, now that I was again sated, I finally read my instructions. The run down is fairly simple. This VoxBox has two parts to it. Week One, which I just got, has 3 bottles of mystery product from L'Oreal. For the next week, I will substitute the mystery product in place of my usual shampoo and conditioner routine. The product is "specially formulated to reconstruct hair's strength by 90% from root to tip, it repairs hair and prevents further damage." What makes this possible? It contains Phyto-Keratin Complex, and Cupuacu Butter. Let me also point out, when I first read Cupuacu, I definitely read Chupacabra. (I told you I've been watching a lot of TV.) 
Since I just showered this morning because of a ridiculously early doctors appointment, I'll have to wait until tomorrow to try out my products. But being that simply by touching my hair, I know that it is dry, and a little damaged thanks to my straightener, I'm quite curious to see what kind of impact these three items will have, and how much of a difference I'll notice. I'll make sure I do a follow up in a couple days to let everyone know if I notice anything, and when the second box comes in about a week, I'll follow that up, and give a final opinion. If nothing else, the smell is fantastic!