Birchbox April 2013

[JC327]

Originally Posted by gemstone /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Woah I just checked and one of my boxes shipped and will be here tomorrow!

Super fast, post pics.

 

[JC327]

Originally Posted by msdollfaced /img/forum/go_quote.gif

OMG! I have tracking AND it's updated 

 My box weight is .5240 and should be here by the 10th (although it often arrives days early)

So lucky!

 

[hiheather]

Aw, I'm jealous of everyone getting shipping already. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by Eva Papoutsi /img/forum/go_quote.gif


For what it's worth I really like the name Jessica.. it's probably the name I would have picked for my self if I was from the US (or any other English speaking country).

I was born and raised in Greece and I have one of the most unusual names there... my real name is Evlampia, but everyone has been calling me Eva as long as I can remember. I got teased a lot in school where everyone knew my real name, but now I am proud of it! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

P.S. Oh, and I also have a twin sister with a very beautiful name: Katerina!

Where I live in Southern California, we are so diverse now that there are so many different names floating around out there.  I think it would be hard to pick on just one person with an unusual name. If all of the unusual named people got together, they could bully the people with ordinary names! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I like your name as well, even the nickname of "Eva".. reminds me of Wall-E!  Timeless! 

YAY for twins!  If you are fraternal twin look out!  I'm a fraternal twin that had fraternal twins.  I didn't even think about it really but I guess it's genetic.. no skipping a generation with genetics (of course it could appear that way though.. )

 

[ydlr20]

It's official. Another product has been revealed

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[JC327]

Originally Posted by hiheather /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Aw, I'm jealous of everyone getting shipping already.

Me too!

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

I'm also a Jessica - also a Jess P which is my name in other forums/IM/etc so I get SUPER CONFUSED when I see you post. I was the only Jessica from K-12 but there was another Jessica in my preschool class. She was part of morning pre-k and I was afternoon. She took all my art work/projects home ALL THE TIME. So I was ALWAYS stuck with hers and they weren't even that good. If you can't tell, I'm a little salty. I hate how my mom has a Mother's Day plate circa 1996 from another little girl on display at home.

Nice to meet you, too! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Such beautiful and unique family names. And as a fellow Jessica, I totally understand - I remember in grade school there were always like 4 Jessica's in my classes and it drove me bonkers. At one point, I told my parents that I was going to go by "Jessi with an i" only. I guess that was the most-creative way I could think to stray from such a common name lol. 

 

[jkwynn]

Originally Posted by wildsp187 /img/forum/go_quote.gif


She hasn't reached school age yet so it hasn't been a problem since most people know her name verbally and not from reading it.  I wonder if people don't know how to spell it though.. I have cursed all of my kids in one way or another.  I have 2 year old twins as well.. and I named them Adamari and Amberly.  All 3 have their dads first name backwards as their middle name (His name is Roman so their middle name is Namor.  I liked it because we are raising them bilingual and N-amor is cutesy to me in spanish since it contains "amor" and is almost enamor etc..) and their last name is a very uncommon spanish name.  I have my reasoning though!  I am a fraternal twin with my sister.  My mother was told she was having a boy and a girl (this was back in the day before they did as many ultrasounds) so she didn't pick out 2 girls names.  My sister was born first and they named her Natalya (she has had trouble with people pronouncing her name) and I got.. Jessica!  She just picked the most common name at the time because she couldn't think of anything else!  I've grown up with name envy my entire life.  My husband wanted to name Amberly Amber and of course I refused.  How could I do that to her with sisters like Amelie and Adamari!

Well.. now you know the story of my life.. nice to meet you /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Originally Posted by JessP /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Nice to meet you, too! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Such beautiful and unique family names. And as a fellow Jessica, I totally understand - I remember in grade school there were always like 4 Jessica's in my classes and it drove me bonkers. At one point, I told my parents that I was going to go by "Jessi with an i" only. I guess that was the most-creative way I could think to stray from such a common name lol. 

As a Kimberly from the 70's I totally feel ya. I rarely had less than 2 Kimberly (so one of us could be kim) - and in 3rd grade there was another Kim M., so I couldn't even be that!  And I married a Jason, also one of the most common 70's names.  So when we were thinking of names, we couldn't agree. I wanted something unique, he didn't want anything 'weird' - we settled on Dylan for the oldest.  Then, after he was born, I went to have his pics made I heard another mom yelling at her kid "Dylan! Stop it!" and just about broke down right there in the photo studio, lol.

 

[Jamie P]

No shipping here yet. Blah. I want my boxes! Haha! I am trying to decide if I want to continue my 2nd sub or let the gift sub end this month. Wow me BB, wow me! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[FormosaHoney]

 

       

   

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Thank you MUT beauty council!  

I appreciate your input on the Atelier perfume splurge, all very thoughtful and insightful.  I'm gonna go for it!  I do deserve it and I'll curtail my other expenditures, to the tune of $100.  I'll report back on the perfume's degradation in say six months?

 

 

 

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by usofjessamerica /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'm also a Jessica - also a Jess P which is my name in other forums/IM/etc so I get SUPER CONFUSED when I see you post. I was the only Jessica from K-12 but there was another Jessica in my preschool class. She was part of morning pre-k and I was afternoon. She took all my art work/projects home ALL THE TIME. So I was ALWAYS stuck with hers and they weren't even that good. If you can't tell, I'm a little salty. I hate how my mom has a Mother's Day plate circa 1996 from another little girl on display at home.

Originally Posted by jkwynn /img/forum/go_quote.gif


As a Kimberly from the 70's I totally feel ya. I rarely had less than 2 Kimberly (so one of us could be kim) - and in 3rd grade there was another Kim M., so I couldn't even be that!  And I married a Jason, also one of the most common 70's names.  So when we were thinking of names, we couldn't agree. I wanted something unique, he didn't want anything 'weird' - we settled on Dylan for the oldest.  Then, after he was born, I went to have his pics made I heard another mom yelling at her kid "Dylan! Stop it!" and just about broke down right there in the photo studio, lol.

Aww Jessamerica.. that does suck.  I don't know that I would display that.  I probably would have made the teacher let you make another one.. haha.. It's all about ME!! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

@ Kimberly:  That same thing happened to me in 6th grade!  There were two Jessica G's.  They gave us the "Jessi/e" option which neither of us wanted.  We couldn't go by Jessica G.. I would NOT go by my middle name (Ruth) so then it came down to Jessica 1 and Jessica 2... which with sixth grade potty humor was.. not that great of an option either.  I think we just ended up going by our full names that year..

 

[kawaiimeows]

Originally Posted by FormosaHoney /img/forum/go_quote.gif

 

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I appreciate your input on the Atelier perfume splurge, all very thoughtful and insightful.  I'm gonna go for it!  I do deserve it and I'll curtail my other expenditures, to the tune of $100.  I'll report back on the perfume's degradation in say six months?

 

 
Yay! Great to hear! Maybe by then I will have saved up enough points and money to buy it myself 

 

[audiophilekate]

Originally Posted by usofjessamerica /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'm also a Jessica - also a Jess P which is my name in other forums/IM/etc so I get SUPER CONFUSED when I see you post. I was the only Jessica from K-12 but there was another Jessica in my preschool class. She was part of morning pre-k and I was afternoon. She took all my art work/projects home ALL THE TIME. So I was ALWAYS stuck with hers and they weren't even that good. If you can't tell, I'm a little salty. I hate how my mom has a Mother's Day plate circa 1996 from another little girl on display at home.

Awwwwwwww 

  It's a shame they didn't include your last name or at least the initial. 

 

[FormosaHoney]

Originally Posted by Jamie P /img/forum/go_quote.gif

No shipping here yet. Blah. I want my boxes! Haha! I am trying to decide if I want to continue my 2nd sub or let the gift sub end this month. Wow me BB, wow me! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

This month will be the last month of my 1-year sub as well.  It's been a good sub, but since I now have a rather handsome supply of beauty products, I'm much harder to please then I was a year ago.

So yeah, BB please bring your 'A' game!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JessP]

Originally Posted by usofjessamerica /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'm also a Jessica - also a Jess P which is my name in other forums/IM/etc so I get SUPER CONFUSED when I see you post. I was the only Jessica from K-12 but there was another Jessica in my preschool class. She was part of morning pre-k and I was afternoon. She took all my art work/projects home ALL THE TIME. So I was ALWAYS stuck with hers and they weren't even that good. If you can't tell, I'm a little salty. I hate how my mom has a Mother's Day plate circa 1996 from another little girl on display at home.

Oh my goodness! That would be awful and I'd be salty, too! Sheesh lol.

Too funny about the Jess P thing - that's what I was always called in high school and beyond so it's kind of stuck. Though I did get called "JP Money" when I worked at House of Blues in Chicago.. That was always a fun nickname /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[meaganola]

I was named Meagan (Irish spelling. My mom found it in some trashy romance novel) several years before _The Thornbirds_ made Megan (Welsh spelling) one of the most popular names in the '70s. It was pretty much unheard of when I was in grade school. Then that book came out, and it just *exploded*. By the time I hit high school, every store had at least three eight-year-old or younger Megans getting yelled at. As a side note, I think I have encountered more Meagans with that spelling on this forum than I did in my entire life put together. My brother had a similar problem. His name is Ryan (after Ryan O'Neal). No Ryans when he was an itty bitty, scores of them being yelled at in malls by the time he hit high school. He had the added fun of being in kindergarten with another Ryan with almost the same last name. If our name has been Willis, that kid's last name would have been Wills. That caused many, *many* problems for everyone. The other Ryan was a little hellraiser who was always getting suspended, so our mom was constantly getting called to pick up her son, but it was never her son. The school would think was in denial about her baby getting in trouble, but it really was never her kid.

 

[FormosaHoney]

Originally Posted by usofjessamerica /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'm also a Jessica - also a Jess P which is my name in other forums/IM/etc so I get SUPER CONFUSED when I see you post. I was the only Jessica from K-12 but there was another Jessica in my preschool class. She was part of morning pre-k and I was afternoon. She took all my art work/projects home ALL THE TIME. So I was ALWAYS stuck with hers and they weren't even that good. If you can't tell, I'm a little salty. I hate how my mom has a Mother's Day plate circa 1996 from another little girl on display at home.

 

 
Oh that just cracked me up!  I don't mean to be insensitive but that last sentence is the cutest grumble I've ever heard!

 

 

 

My name's Grace.  I was know by my Chinese name until 10, then we moved to New York.  Our folk's English friends back in Taiwan named myself and 2 other sisters.  

Amongst the combination of names were Hope, Chastity and Blessing...  I am so so grateful they went with Mary, Grace and Faith.  

I worked as a cocktail waitress in Jekyll and Hyde NYC and I wore a lab coat, stethescope and carried a rack of beakers filled with shots - sex on the beach, fuzzy navel and they called me Tie-One-On (Taiwan-On) because I was from Taiwan.

 

 

 

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by meaganola /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I was named Meagan (Irish spelling. My mom found it in some trashy romance novel) several years before _The Thornbirds_ made Megan (Welsh spelling) one of the most popular names in the '70s. It was pretty much unheard of when I was in grade school. Then that book came out, and it just *exploded*. By the time I hit high school, every store had at least three eight-year-old or younger Megans getting yelled at. As a side note, I think I have encountered more Meagans with that spelling on this forum than I did in my entire life put together.

My brother had a similar problem. His name is Ryan (after Ryan O'Neal). No Ryans when he was an itty bitty, scores of them being yelled at in malls by the time he hit high school. He had the added fun of being in kindergarten with another Ryan with almost the same last name. If our name has been Willis, that kid's last name would have been Wills. That caused many, *many* problems for everyone. The other Ryan was a little hellraiser who was always getting suspended, so our mom was constantly getting called to pick up her son, but it was never her son. The school would think was in denial about her baby getting in trouble, but it really was never her kid.

LOL your poor mother!!  These are the reasons I didn't name my daughters something "normal".. They are going to be the "it's AHN-drea not AN-drea" girls.. hahaha.. Just can't win /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by meaganola /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I was named Meagan (Irish spelling. My mom found it in some trashy romance novel) several years before _The Thornbirds_ made Megan (Welsh spelling) one of the most popular names in the '70s. It was pretty much unheard of when I was in grade school. Then that book came out, and it just *exploded*. By the time I hit high school, every store had at least three eight-year-old or younger Megans getting yelled at. As a side note, I think I have encountered more Meagans with that spelling on this forum than I did in my entire life put together.

My brother had a similar problem. His name is Ryan (after Ryan O'Neal). No Ryans when he was an itty bitty, scores of them being yelled at in malls by the time he hit high school. He had the added fun of being in kindergarten with another Ryan with almost the same last name. If our name has been Willis, that kid's last name would have been Wills. That caused many, *many* problems for everyone. The other Ryan was a little hellraiser who was always getting suspended, so our mom was constantly getting called to pick up her son, but it was never her son. The school would think was in denial about her baby getting in trouble, but it really was never her kid.

 

 

Wait did I read that right?  That kindergartner was getting suspended??

 

[JessP]

Originally Posted by jkwynn /img/forum/go_quote.gif


As a Kimberly from the 70's I totally feel ya. I rarely had less than 2 Kimberly (so one of us could be kim) - and in 3rd grade there was another Kim M., so I couldn't even be that!  And I married a Jason, also one of the most common 70's names.  So when we were thinking of names, we couldn't agree. I wanted something unique, he didn't want anything 'weird' - we settled on Dylan for the oldest.  Then, after he was born, I went to have his pics made I heard another mom yelling at her kid "Dylan! Stop it!" and just about broke down right there in the photo studio, lol.

Well here's the icing on the cake.. my middle name is Kimberly lol. I'm always like, thanks Mom and Dad, for giving me the most common girl's name ever!