PUR Cosmetics Make It Matte Oil Mattifying Blotting Stick Review

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If oil is a problem, this stick is a handy helper.

If you read me regularly, then you probably are aware that I have dry skin for the most part.  This is true except for an oily nose, which baffles me since the rest of my T-zone is fine. This shiny nose problem gets worse through the heat of summer.  With that said, I thought PUR’s Make It Matte Oil Mattifying Blotting Stick might be a helpful save from over powdering or using a blotting sheet.

Here is what the product looks like.

This white blotting stick is what you use instead of your normal mattifying primer and apply to dry skin before makeup.  The product comes in a short, chubby silver tube that is perfect for throwing in your handbag or targeting smaller areas like a nose or running over your T-zone.  

When I read the ingredients, I noticed it had one particular ingredient that I knew could help to produce a mattifying effect.  It was silica in the formula.

When I tried it, I was pleased at how well it kept my nose shine free for hours without the need to retouch. I’m glad that I found this product now before broiling summer sets in to make that shine more of an issue.  

If you also need to zap up excess oil, PUR Cosmetics Make It Matte Oil Mattifying Blotting Stick ($26) is worth trying. 

DuoBed Modular Multi-Functional Storage Sleeper Sofa Review + ($972) Giveaway!–Ends June 10, 2017

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Meet the new object of my desires, my DuoBed Modular Multi-Functional Storage Sleeper Sofa!

I am smitten with my new modular sofa bed that arrived because it does so much more than look beautiful in my house with its clean, straight lines.  Besides being extremely comfortable due to its specially designed foam cushions for lumber support whether sitting or sleeping when an extra bed is called for, it also has plenty of deep, inner storage within its ottomans.  It also gives me more decorating freedom to use it differently by separating the pieces into two separate chairs, or a chaise or buying additional ottomans if I care to expand my design plan for the room.  However, my DuoBed Modular Multi-Functional Storage Sleeper Sofa that I received for this review and giveaway gives me all those options unlike what you normally can expect from a sofa bed.

Here's another view of my sofa bed in Mocha.

The sofa that I chose was  the smaller size that turns into a twin bed over the larger one that has four ottomans for reverting into a king-size bed. The size of the two ottomans that I selected was in 36-inches, but a smaller size of 30-inches is also available.  It has two sofa back pillows and two back supports/armrests.  DuoBed has five shades with the one I selected in Mocha (pale brown, but darker than beige), Brick, Deep Ocean, Espresso, and Flint.  If you’re not sure of how well the color would fit in your room, the company will send you a free swatch to compare before your purchase.

You can have decorating options and redesign those modular pieces unlike conventional furniture.

The fabric of my American-made sofa is all polyester. It has a wonderful, smooth feel unlike some textured fabrics that can be scratchy and irritating.  Furthermore, the material is safe to use Scotch Guard on to protect it, if I so desired.  If by chance, it received a small spill or a pair of small dirty hands left evidence of their crime, a bit of rug cleaner is safe to use to remove it without worrying about damaging the fabric or color.

Each ottoman is roomy.  I  prefer the look of no armrests and kept them inside, but you can attach.

I can’t stress enough how wonderful this sofa bed feels against your back.  It’s not too firm nor too soft but just perfect for what a back needs–-at least one like mine.  

You could store  a complete bedding set inside with pillows, blankets, sheets.  I put in two big afghans to show you.

Someday I want to get another for my office.  This would really help organize equipment, paper, and supplies much better while giving me more space. In fact, DuoBed has a commercial version of fabric with Cryton Fabrics that is sold through Grainger that is water resistant and can even be cleaned with laundry detergent and diluted bleach that is specifically geared for hospitals, offices, hotels, universities and colleges.  

Here's a full front view.  By now, I bet that you are smitten too!

I don’t know about you, but give me multifunction furniture any day of the week!  If you’re shopping for furniture, check DuoBed’s website first because you will get more value than you can possibly imagine!

DuoBed can be one of the best investments you'll make.

Thanks to DuoBed, one lucky Nuts 4 Stuff reader in the continental United States wins a DuoBed Modular Multi-Functional Storage Sleeper Sofa in their choice of color and size!


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Prize: One (1) winner from the continental USA wins a DuoBed Modular Multi-Functional Storage Sleeper Sofa ($972 value) in their choice of color and size!

Dates of entry: 05/22/17–06/10/17 at 11:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

Eligibility: Open to the continental  USA.  No PO Boxes.   The winner will need to respond to my email with name and shipping address within 48-hours or another winner will be picked.  

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Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate 5 Treatment Mask to Ramp Up Your Beauty Review + ($225) Giveaway (3 Winners)!–Ends June 9, 2017

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This box contains five separate masks to rescue your skin.

The best anti-aging ingredients can make a striking improvement to your complexion. To make those effective ingredients work even harder, the formula needs to have an innovative delivery system to reach deeper for the skin’s ultimate benefits like the remarkable difference that you can expect from the Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate Mask that I have been testing for this review and giveaway.  

The Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate Mask is unique because it is the first hydrogen water filled premium skin care mask of its kind.  Without going into all the science, hydrogen has the perfect size molecule, being the smallest atom on the planet to reverse free radical damage by its unsurpassed ability to penetrate skin cells to neutralize toxic oxygen that is already inside the skin and converting it to water.

What this means for your face is treating it with this mask and its perfect water from hydrogen can revitalize the skin’s elasticity and stimulate regeneration of new cells for a younger, softer, healthier, and an optimally moisturized complexion.  In fact, hydrogen has more antioxidant power than vitamin C, coenzyme Q10 and out does vitamin E by leaps and bounds.

The product has all natural ingredients with more than 15 plant extracts that by combining niacinamide and adenosine benefit a complexion by also increasing elastin and collagen production without the presence of parabens, mineral oils, surfactants, benzyl alcohol, phenoxyethanol or methylaparabens in the formula. Besides what this mask can do for anti-aging, moisturizing, whitening, and detoxing the skin, it also has anti-inflammatory properties for calming irritation and anti-bacterial ones in keeping the skin as healthy as possible.

This is a full face mask that has ear tags so it doesn’t slip like others that you randomly plaster on to adhere. I applied to my freshly washed face and left on for twenty minutes.  Once the time was up, I removed the mask and was covered with this sticky substance.  You don’t rinse this stuff off but lightly tap this into the skin, then leave it on for about an hour.  You will want to be alone when you do this because you will not look your best with this stuff on your face.  However, by the end of the time, the substance does eventually disappear into the skin.  

When I finally finished and examined my face, I was truly impressed at how this mask freshened my complexion and made it velvety while also plumping up fine lines and incredibly lessening deeper laugh lines.  

The Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate Mask retails for $35 for five separate treatments! 

I think this mask is a great product and definitely worth a try.  Check the Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate Mask at the company’s website because it could be the solution for ageless and better skin that you have been looking for!

Thanks to Lisse Skin Healer, three lucky Nuts 4 Stuff readers in the United States win the Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate 5 Treatment Mask ($35) + the Epilocue Toilet Perfume Set ($39.95) for ($225 total value)!

Epilocue Toilet Perfume Set to make your next trip more pleasant for your household or you!

Giveaway Details and How to Enter:


Prize: Three (3) winners from the USA win the Lisse Real Hydrogen Rejuvenate 5 Treatment Mask ($35) + the Epilocue Toilet Perfume Set ($39.95) for a ($225 total value)!

Dates of entry: 05/21/17–06/09/17 at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

Eligibility: Open to the  USA.  The winner will need to respond to my email with name and shipping address within 48-hours or another winner will be picked.  

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BR Naturals Organic Oils Review + My Zesty Curried Rice and Olives Recipe!

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Black Cumin Seed Oil is the star of today's recipe with its spicy goodness.

BR Naturals is a Canadian-based company that specializes in natural skin care and a wonderful collection of organic oils for cooking and health.  With their own farms and processing plant, they have the ability to make sure how their ingredients are grown, cultivated and refined to keep their end products as pure as nature intended.  I had the opportunity to try a variety of their fine oils and will be sharing additional recipes with you on what I created to show them off to their ultimate advantage.

My Zesty Curried Rice and Olives with Salmon Patties is an easy, healthy meal.

How to Get More Cleaning Power From Your Makeup and Facial Wipes!

Wipes are so convenient for quick, no-fuss makeup removal.  Sometimes, though they can lose some of their initial moistness over time.  However, there is a way that you can keep them as well lubricated as when you first opened that package with this little tip that I’m about to share.

What I do is now is to store my container of wipes upside down instead of up the normal way.  I found by doing so, the next wipe that I pull out is just as moist as the first.

You probably are going to laugh, but you got to try this if you want to get more cleaning power from your wipes because you will!

Molton Brown's Heavenly Gingerlily Eau de Toilette Review

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This fragrance offers tropical beauty that you can lose yourself in.

For anyone seeking an instant retreat to a tropical locale with sun, sand and warm ocean breezes that capture the right blend of exotic flowers, spice and freshness to perfume the air, Molton Brown’s Heavenly Gingerlily Eau de Toilette could be your ticket to get there.  This romantic fragrance, classified as a floriental was created by perfumer, Jacques Chabert and launched in 2015.

The opening is a joyous exploration to paradise with welcoming floral notes of the ginger lily joined by intriguing notes of cardamom and cloves to keep you guessing.

Once this fragrance warms further in the heart, it takes on a gardenia headiness from the influence of tuberose that seems to sweetly dominate until the marigold notes (tagetes) and jasmine wonderfully emerges to balance it out.

1.7 oz. retails for $65

As the scent dries down in the base, it becomes soft and inviting when its sensuous notes of creamy cedarwood, sandalwood and musk surface.  

To me, Heavenly Gingerlily Eau de Toilette is a decadent-feeling fragrance that you can lose yourself in with its lush bouquet of haunting beauty of white floral, spices and woods. If what I describe sounds like your type of fragrance, visit Molton Brown and let Heavenly Gingerlily Eau de Toilette take you to your own special ecstasy!

Beauty Box 5 May 2017 Review

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May 2017 was a good month with five full size products and one bonus sample! 

Summer Date Night is the theme behind this latest Beauty Box 5.  If you are unfamiliar with this beauty box subscription, then you are missing out on the fun way to shop and often find some great products that you might never have ever heard before.

Each month Beauty Box 5 sends a box with five full and sample size makeup, hair and skin care, nail polish, beauty tools and fragrances.  The cost is $12.00 per month with  free shipping in the USA, but $3.00 extra if you are in Canada.

May 2017 happened to be a really good month with the beauty stash that arrived in my green box.  Let me show you what I found.

Beauty Box 5 May 2017

1.  Cougar Beauty 24 Hour Liquid Lipstick (Full Size)----------------------------------$12.99
2.  Jersey Shore Cosmetics Mongongo Lip Conditioner (Full Size)-----------------$10.00
3.  Jelly Pong Pong Bare Necessities Highlighting Pencil (Full Size)---------------$17.95
4.  Daily Concepts Exfoliating Body Scrubber (Full Size)--------------------------------$5.00
5.  Nanacoco Jumbo Eye & Lip Pencil (Full Size)------------------------------------------$5.50
6.  De La Cruz Arnica Salve (Sample of 0.12 oz.)------------------------------------------$0.35

Total Approximate Value:   $51.80!

The Cougar Beauty 24 Hour Liquid Lipstick was flattering.  The color was deep pink-mauve called Mulberry. The finish I got was matte and had wonderful staying power.

The Jersey Shore Cosmetics Mongongo Lip Conditioner came in a delicious vanilla coconut cream flavor.  It’s all natural and makes dry lips feel good.

Jelly Pong Pong Bare Necessities Highlighting Pencil was from a brand that I never tried before.  However, this product was ideal for accenting areas with its gorgeous pigment and smooth blending.

The Daily Concepts Exfoliating Body Scrubber is something that comes in handy.  This sponge has two sides with two textures from gentle buffing to more vigorous scrubbing.  

As to the Nanacoco Jumbo Eye & Lip Pencil, I was disappointed in the choice of color that landed up in my box.  Mine happened to be a bold deep green that was somewhat darker than a pickle that I would never wear.  This will go to my neighbor’s teen daughter who goes in for that wild sort of thing.

The De La Cruz Arnica Salve is helpful when you get a fresh bruise.  I didn’t run into anything yet, but I do that once in a while when I move the furniture around.  

In my opinion, May 2017 was a vast improvement over the previous month.  I loved it all except that one eye & lip pencil and only because of the shade.  Have you tried this beauty box subscription out yet?  If not, I suggest check out Beauty Box 5!

*****Beauty Box 5 is no longer in business.******

KMS Tame Frizz De-Frizz Oil Review

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This is more a clear gel than a typical hair oil.

Anyone with a natural curl to their hair knows what a problem that frizziness can be. Since I am one of those people, I was more than willing to test KMS Tame Frizz De-Frizz Oil when PR reached out.

This is a clear formula with a slight sweet scent that you can apply to slightly damp hair after washing it or to tame dry hair.  It has a dimethiconol polymer to guard the hair against humidity and cyclopentasiloxane for controlling the frizz.

I tried it for the first time yesterday on dry hair when it gave me trouble sticking out in the wrong places. Instead of just randomly applying the product to the whole head, I found it was better to start by pumping out a small wad of this non-greasy gel-serum at a time and work it from the bottom of the hair upward.  This way I was saved from piling on too much until I was familiar with how much I would need.

The product helped make my misbehaving hair smooth and manageable without weighing it down or causing stickiness, which is a win.  Furthermore, my hair did gain some shine, but next time I am going to see the difference of applying to damp, freshly washed hair since the company recommends that for getting the glossiest effect.

I liked KMS Tame Frizz De-Frizz Oil.  Have you ever used this product yet?  Check it out at the company’s website!

Look deVine Wine Inspired Lip Shimmers, Shine and Soap Review + ($47) Giveaway!–Ends May 30, 2017

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Look deVine wine inspired and resveratrol infused beauty.

We all heard the benefits of red wine for our health when consumed in moderation.  Look deVine stole the thunder of those red wine grapes and redirected its resveratrol, grape seed oil and red wine antioxidants for skin beautifying power with their becoming lip shimmers, lip shine and soap that was sent for this review and giveaway.

The Bordeaux Lip Shine is on the left, then Rosé Glycerine Bar Soap and four Lip Shimmers on the right.

The products are 100% natural and made in the USA, which is another reason to celebrate considering forgoing ingredients that could possibly jeopardize health and manufacturing here at home to boost our economy instead of one overseas.

The Bordeaux Lip Shimmer shade is a lovely red-plum.  Pinot Noir is a deep purple-wine.  Merlot is a red-berry color.  The last one I received was the Pinot Grigio, a pale pink.  All complimented my lips with their pigments and shimmer, but Bordeaux was my favorite with my skin tone.  They also made my lips feel good in the process to relieve dryness.

On the left is Merlot, Bordeaux, Pinot Noir and ending with Pinot Grigio on the right.

The only thing I wished was that their caps on the lip shimmers weren’t manufactured so tightly to make them such a struggle to pull off.  

The Lip Shine is also in Bordeaux, which I recommend the color for flattering all skin tones with how it can liven up a face without overdoing it.  This product is very moisturizing and slicks up the lips with lots of a shine.  You can wear it alone or layer with one of the lip shimmers like the pale pink Pinot Grigio to give the shade more depth.

The company also included a Rosé Glycerine Bar Soap.  It lathers up with a creamy, rich lather that smells sweetly delicious with that tinge of wine scent as you cleanse with it.

Everything I tried from this company was great from a beauty standpoint to healing.  Check Look deVine out because I think that you would like them, too!

Thanks to Look deVine, one lucky Nuts 4 Stuff reader in the United States wins Look deVine four Lip Shimmers (Bordeaux, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Grigio), a Lip Shine (Bordeaux) and a Rosé Glycerine Bar Soap ($47 total value)!

Giveaway details and How to Enter–


Prize: One (1) winner from the USA will win Look deVine four Lip Shimmers (Bordeaux, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Grigio), a Lip Shine (Bordeaux), and a Rosé Glycerine Bar Soap ($47 total value)!

Dates of entry: 05/15/17–05/30/17 at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

Eligibility: Open to the  USA.  The winner will need to respond to my email with name and shipping address within 48-hours or another winner will be picked.  

How to Enter:  Please use the Rafflecopter widget if it works.  You can also enter by clicking this link or try to enter using another browser. You can return daily and log in again with your email to tweet or to vote daily for Nuts 4 Stuff on Picket Fence Blogs.



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