rese and ry – Rese & Ry

Rese, being the best sister ever, found a groupon for a “tea experience” in downtown. My sister and I both love British culture and a good deal, thus spending an afternoon sipping tea sounded delightful.

Let me walk you through our experience!

We stepped into the shop with a nice surprise of how white, gold, and bright this shop was. There were a handful of tables open and the hosts quickly greeted us and explained their recent opening. We chose a table and sat down. The cake rack on the table was traded in for a menu. We both chose Earl Grey tea.

The host returned with the cake rack now filled with some tea sized sncks. This included a small cream cheese & dill sandwich on white sliced bread, two quarter sized cookies (one was pretty tasty and one was pretty stale), a thin scone, and a mini cupcake. This left us desiring more… other tea establishments have been more filling with more options and decadent treats.

The tea was looseleaf and served per person. We were given a cute tea kettle of hot water and an hourglass timer for seeping time.

My favorite aspect of the tea shop was the ambience. The decorations were gorgeous, and provided a modern yet classic aspect to this tea room. The tea shop’s decoration was focused primarily on one hue, gold.

The groupon was $19 for two people, original value being $32. She had a discount code, bringing the groupon down to $9, thankfully. We each received one cup of tea , a small cream cheese & dill sandwich on white sliced bread, two quarter sized cookies (one was pretty tasty and one was pretty stale), a thin scone, and a mini cupcake. This left us desiring more… other tea establishments have been more filling with larger options and decadent treats.

xoxo,

Rese & Ry

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Target’s newest beauty box has finally arrived to my front door (not really, it was in my mailbox)! Like always, Rese and I both ordered one, however I was hesitant on ordering one due to still having a lot of products to try out. I love testing out new products, but there are still quite a handful of products from previous boxes that are unopened. I think this is due to less focus on skincare and beauty during the semester, like I want to have good skin and try out more products and see what works best so that I can hopefully achieve a stage of never needing foundation–that’s the dream right? Anyways, it’s just laziness to test out new products since I put my energy into school and pampering myself seems almost like a waste of time…but it’s May and that means summer (kinda, still taking more classes😕). Now that I wrote that, I’m thinking how taking care of my skin is actually an okay procrastination compared to other activities, like watching Youtube videos. I’m making a note of that for future semesters. Overall, I did cave and order one for myself.

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This month’s box included some great products, as well as products that have been in previous boxes. What really drew me in to ordering a new box was the Loreal Colour Riche La Lacque Lip Pen, I’m the biggest fan on lip products and I hadn’t seen this lip pen before. What kinda sucks, is that I receive a red (205- Lacque and Roll) which is an okay color, I haven’t tried it on but it seems a bit bright for my skin tone. Also, red is not really an everyday color for me in my engineering courses, haha. Rese also received the same color.

There was also a dry shampoo, which is a repeat product, but I really liked it and travel size dry shampoos are so handy for travel (duh Ry, that was an obvious statement). Another repeat product was the Laneige Water Bank Moisture Cream. This face lotion smells so amazing. Oh my gosh, after writing that sentence I actually went to look up and see if it was for my face cause every time I used it, my face got very oily and I wondered if I was using it inappropriately. Thankfully I was’t, this is a facial cream for normal to dry skin. My skin is pretty oily, so this product was not for me but the scent is lovely.

The complete list of the products for May 2016 Beauty Box: