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BzzCampaign: Gucci The Flora Garden Collection

• Gorgeous Gardenia (pink)- An elegant, sensual celebration of the shrub’s first blossom and sumptuous full bloom.
• Gracious Tuberose (green)- A Classical homage to the flower’s innocent nature and luscious petals.
• Glamorous Magnolia (turquoise) -  A relevant homage to the flower’s radiant freshness and smooth, velvety petals.

All in All, I really enjoyed receiving this BzzKit in the mail. I love perfumes. I really have no preference as to whether the fragrance is a high end fine fragrance, or one from Bath & Body Works. I just like having a nice collection. This is really a nice addition to that. I love, and yes i do mean LOVE, each scent provided in this collection. Gracious Tuberose has to be my favorite at the moment. Notice I say “at the moment.” That’s because I have a collection of over 30 fragrances, and I still don’t have a favorite. They all have different meanings for me. Ex: Day, night, casual, not casual.

I have only one complaint about the contents of this BzzKit, When I receive sample cards of fragrance, or any sample really, I hate when there is no spray top. The samples here are all the kind you must dab on yourself. The reason for this is because, in the past, I’ve spilled the perfume on my clothes. Not only did it stain my clothing, but the fragrance was gone. I personally think it is much easier to apply if it the spray kind. Other than that, I really am so thrilled to have been selected for this Campaign. Thank you BzzAgent!!

Also, before I end, did you know that out of all our senses, our sense of smell is the one that brings back memories the most? I can honestly say I’ve experienced this. When I was 4 years old, my father had passed away. I went to live with my grandmother and she has a basket of his unwashed clothing. I picked an item up and I could smell his cologne on it. It really made me remember him. I’ve always had that memory. I’ve read a lot about our sense of smell and I just think it’s so cool to have smell bring back memories form certain time periods in our lives. Have you experienced this?

Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed seeing what I received in my first and hopefully not last BzzCampaign.

Klout & Perks

Klout is the go to place for measuring an individuals/companies Social Influence, using a number of variables such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogger, Wordpress, etc. Klout measures your True Reach, Amplification, and Network Source and then analyzes your impact into a score from 1-100. A high Klout score is considered to be around the 20’s. That may sound strange but the Klout score is more difficult to raise as you go on. 

• True Reach: How many people you influence.
• Your True Reach is the number of people you influence. Klout will filter out spam and bots and focus on the people who are acting on your content. When you post a message, these people tend to respond or share it.

• Amplification: How much you influence them
• Your Amplification is how much you influence people. When you post a message, how many people respond to it or spread it further? If people often act upon your content you have a high Amplification score.
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• Network Impact: The influence of your network
• Your Network indicates the influence of the people in your True Reach. How often do top Influencers share and respond to your content? When they do so, they are increasing your Network score.

Basically Klout helps you understand your influence as well as others. With Klout, you can increase that influence and well as spread it! I’ve interacted with many of my twitter followers that I never tweeted with before!

About +K’s

When visiting a peer’s profile, you can give them +K about a topic in which they have influenced you, helping the overall Klout score. Giving influencers +K is the best way to acknlowledge their influence. And it’s public to them, making it easier for them to +K you back!

About Klout Perks:

You can use Klout to earn perks. Perks are nice “gifts” given exclusively to test and review. There are hundreds of brands who offer perks via Klout. Perks are given to specific influencers based on topics in which they have a high rating.  Perks also allow the user to interact with the brands. 

I’ve been using Klout for about two weeks and I have already been selected to accept a perk. The perks I was offered is the New Lipton Tea & Honey. I will receive 10 samples Lipton Tea & Honey Mango Pineapple Iced Green Tea mix. When Accepting a perk there is always a disclosure you must post when sharing and code of ethics to follow. 

So there you have it, Klout the latest social networking trend. Are you on Klout already? If so, have you accepted any perks? If not, are you going to join the fun?


You can join me on Klout and add me as an influencer HERE.

MyGlam May Sneak Peaks

So as you know, Every month MyGlam sends out four “sneak peaks” of the their new bag every month, via their twitter/facebook. I received the first sneak peak in my email because they sent a reminder to change over to their new payment platform. The Picture was of just the bag. It’s blue and has lipstick lip kisses all over it. The first sneak peak on their twitter included the bag and lip stick.

Sneak Peak #1

 

Sneak Peak #2

After some googling I’m almost 100% certain that this fragrance is “Love Sweet Love” from Philosophy. It retails from $40-$45

Sneak Peak #3:

More brushes to our MyGlam Brush Collection. These two see to be for the lips.

Sneak Peak #4:

These seem to be those stick on nail polish strips. They seem more appropriate for a young tween, and for Valentines Day. The caption under the Photo said “Love is in the Air” I’ve actually used a lot of nail stickers from Sally Hansen, Kiss, Incoco and Jamberry Nails, and I’m kind of over them.  No complaints on the item, cause my nieces will absolutely love them!

My Thoughts:

I don’t know if this months bag is for me, but we will see. I really don’t wear lipstick, but I’m open to it. I like the brushes for my collection but again, I don’t wear lipstick. It will be nice to have a whole collection of brushes though. I do think this bag is a step up from the February and March bags so that is a major plus.

So what do you think of the May Sneak Peaks? Are you excited to receive your bag? If you’re not subscribed are you going to when ubscriptions open up?

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Birchbox Points

• The subscriber will receive 10 points for the initial subscription.
• You will NOT earn points with any months subscription following the initial subscription. (Not such a bad thing and you will see why if you keep reading)
• Referring friends will earn you 50 points. You can refer friends via email or your personal link, both retrievable when you log into your account.
• You will also receive 10 points for EVERY product feedback survey you complete. (So each month you have the opportunity to earn at least 40 points.) 
• Usually the bonus item does NOT have a feedback survey.
• You will receive 1 point for each dollar spent on full size products.
• Only current subscribers in good standing can earn points.
• For every 100 points, you get $10 in the Birchbox Store.

• After your points have accumulated you can redeem them for full size products or gift subscriptions.
• Unfortunately, you cannot redeem points for future boxes for yourself, only the gifts subcriptions.
• Redeeming points is very simple, there will be a option to use your points when checking out of the Birchbox store.
• If your total comes to anything above each $10 amount of products, the points redeemed will be the number rounded up. Example: My total came to $52, I will have used 60 points.

Tips for Earning/Redeeming Points:

• Be sure complete each product feedback survey, for the items in your current box. The feedback time is limited, once your new box has shipped, you will no longer be able to complete the survey for last months items.
• If you want to purchase full size products from the current months box, do so quickly! Those items ship for free! 
• Points do not go towards shipping fees!
• Current box products do not only count for the items you received. The products for each month are every item in ever single box for that month. Example: I received items that another subscriber didn’t, All the items in both of our boxes will be considered the current months pick.
• You will not receive the 1 point for every dollar spent if your entire order is paid from redeemed points. 

 I think Birchbox has done a fabulous job at establishing the Birchbox Points Program. What more can we ask for? Silly question, because I know at times suscbribers (including myself) are given an inch and we want the whole yard, but I feel the Birchbox Points Program is very fair! 

A few examples regarding Birchbox’s fairness would be that just this past December, (2011) boxes were shipped out slightly late. Birchbox gave every subscriber 100 points for the inconvenience. I also just heard about many subscribers receiving expired items, and again Birchbox credited those subscribers with 100 points, no questions asked.

I just redeemed 500 Birchbox Points (which equals $50) for full size items in the Birchbox shop. These items were from the current month (April) so those items shipped free. I am totally amazed that I basically received $50 worth of high end cosmetics for nothing! There’s little to no work in earning points. 

All in all, when I hear people complain about Birchbox, I think to myself, this really isn’t a bad deal. I pay $10 a month for products I know I will never try, or even heard of before. If I don’t like an item, no biggie, at least I didn’t have to break the bank to find out. Also, not very many beauty subscriptions services offer points. Birchbox even has the their community, consisting of their blog, YouTube channel, emails, twitter and Facebook pages that are all updated very often to give us advice on products, and anything beauty related in general. 

Birchbox has been very good to me, my very first month, one item was missing and I tweeted about. Not even an hour later they had the situation taken care of. I received the item within the week. So of course, I am keeping my subscription.

And in case your wondering what I redeemed my points for:

Pur Minerals 4-in-1 Tinted Moisturizer in medium, $34

Pange Organics Lip Balm in Italian Red Mandarin w/Rose, $12

Are you a Birchbox Subscriber? If not click HERE to become one. If you are a subscriber, have you redemmed your points yet? If so for what? If not, what items are saving them for? I’d love to hear what every has to say!

xoxo mattabellax3

(Source: mattabellablogs.blogpsot.com)