Monthly Jewelry Candle! Prize Candle Review and Reveal!

Prize Candle Review and Reveal!

Last month, I posted my first jewelry candle review and reveal for BellaCandles.com and also shot a Youtube video with my reveal. 

Although the review was a lot of work- I had a lot of fun doing this and want to continue this monthly review for my Blog and Youtube readers!

If you aren't familiar with the extremely pervasive fad of candles with jewelry that's been all over social media as of recently- I suggest checking some of these out! I was a huge fan of these candles when I was a kid and now they're even more exciting. It's like Cracker Jacks for adults! 

I LOVE scented candles and routinely stock my apartment with them and I LOVE jewelry. So, why not revel in the combination of two of my favorite things? I do have to say that even though these candles are delicious and fun- you really only have to expect costume jewelry. I wouldn't advise buying these if you're actually expecting a $5000.00 ring in there. It's kitschy and you're most likely going to get a cheap costume piece. But, why not have fun with it?

This month, I opted to try out some Prize Candles for the first time. I was able to snag some on sale for something like 3 for $40 or something like that. So, I definitely had to review one!

If you want to hop right to the Youtube reveal, check it out here:

 

A little bit about PrizeCandle.com!

Prize Candle candles are "eco-friendly" soy candles made from 100% USA grown soybeans with selective botanical oils, and cotton wicks. They are paraben, ammonia, chlorine, lauramide DEA, and pesticide free. 

Prize Candles have 5 different types of candles you can purchase:

1. Prize Candles: $24.99-$29.99. 9 oz. with a 40 hour burn time. The regular $24.99 Prize Candles contain rings $10-$5,000. Certain $29.99 scents contain rings from $25.00-$5,000. They have quite a number of various types of fragrance for any palate. 

2. Triple Crown Candles: $39.99, 14.5 oz. with a 36 hour burn time. Named after royalty, the Triple Crown candles contain 3 stackable rings worth up to $5,000.

3. Charm Candles: $29.99. Unsure of size/burn time. If you don't want a ring, they offer a few charm candles instead!

4. Party Collection Candles: $29.99, 90 oz. with a 40 hour burn time. Named after some of the most fabulous cities in the world (I have to grab a NY one!) these candles are in decorative gold confetti and contain rings and charms.

5. Noir Candle: $199.99! 22 oz. with a 100 hour burn time. The noir candle is the cream of the crop for Prize Candle. Each candle contains at least a $100 ring with a chance to win a $10,000 Luxe Ring! How do I get my hands on one of these...?

PrizeCandle.com also has a Candle Membership. The membership costs $29.99 a month + tax (but free shipping) where subscribers receive one candle a month with a ring valued $25 and up. Subscribers are billed monthly and can cancel at any time.

Finally, if you decide you're really into Prize Candles, you can opt in to sign up to be a Prize Candle Consultant:

There are 3 levels of "kits" you can start with that you do have to pay for: Platinum ($159), Gold ($99), and Virtual ($29.99). Unlike signing up for the free BellaCandles.com representative site that I set up and demo'ed in the last blog- this feels a little too MLM style for me to pay $30.00 for a membership I may not use. So, I didn't sign up! But, feel free to do so if you want to!

Okkkkkkkk. So, this was my first time buying a Prize Candle. I opted to get a few of the regular $24.99, 9 oz. candles when they went on sale as $24.99 is a bit pricey for me to spend on just one candle. But, I do get a ton of emails for different sales that Prize Candle seems to have a lot. So, that's always good.

For the review and video, I opted to review Prize Candle's Happy Birthday Candle! To be honest, the scent is very light and doesn't fill up a room like I personally like. But, if you tend to prefer a light scent that lasts a while after burning- you may like these candles. Also- for this particular scent, when you get really up close to the actual candle it kind of smells more like Play-Doh than cake to me!

It only took about 2-3 hours for the ring to start showing and loosen up in the wax. What I REALLY like about Prize Candle is the the fact that they at least attempt to keep your ring safe in a little plastic bubble. Mine leaked- but that totally could have been on me for trying to dig the thing out of the wax:

In side the plastic pod, the ring is double wrapped in a plastic baggy that also contains your special code for appraisal.

After fishing my cute little ring out,

I immediately went to the appraisal tab on the Prize Candle website:

Entered my code and...

Awwwww another $10 ring! It's cute. But, way too big to even be a thumb ring for me!


Final Thoughts:

This was my first time buying and trying out Prize Candle candles. What I really liked was being able to grab a bunch of candles on sale to try them out for the first time instead of paying the full price of $24.99-$39.99 per candle. That was definitely worth it to me, especially with the holidays approaching. The small tumbler glasses that they come in are very sleek and the candles do tend to last quite a while even though they appear on the smaller side. Although the Happy Birthday scent is a little too subtle for me- I have tried their other scents and they smell amazing (try the Provence Lavender).

I really like that they try to be sustainable and eco-friendly and don't contain all those baddies mentioned about. 
And, of course the ring is always an awesome bonus!

I am seriously considering purchasing from Prize Candle again to grab their NY candle!

Have you ever purchased from Prize Candle before? Let me know their best scents to try and show me your rings!

Do you have a jewelry candle that you'd like me to review? Let me know by sending an email to Rainarellabeauty@gmail.com!

BellaCandles Review and Reveal!

BellaCandles Review and Ring Reveal! 

Following the addition of my Mask Up Mondays for my Youtube channel, I'm experimenting with trying out a monthly jewelry candle review and reveal!

I'm a huge fan of the new "jewelry in candles" fad. I have been since I was a little kid. They're SO kitschy and nostalgic for me. I used to beg my mom or dad to pick one of these type of candles up from me from every gift shop I saw them in.

They're like cracker jack boxes for adults now and are completely pervasive on Facebook and other social media platforms. I'm eating them up (figuratively- please don't eat your candles!). So, I figured why not review them??

I thought maybe my subscribers would be interested in checking out different candle reviews and jewelry reveals. I figured I would try out a new jewelry candle on Youtube on a monthly basis. So please check out my first shot at it!



For my first video, I did a review and reveal of BellaCandles.com's Vanilla-Coco Cream 18 oz. candle with ring option.  **I made a mistake in my video and thought it was the 10 oz. candle. Oops! I do have a pic of the 10 oz. jar down below if you want to check it out and compare it to the 18 oz.!**

A little bit about BellaCandles.com:

They have 2 different types of candles you can order:
1. Small Special Edition Candles for $19.99. They look like they're 8 oz. to me- but don't hold me to it! The wax is 100% soy and they contain rings worth $15-$5,000.

2.  Their Standard Candles which can be ordered in 10 oz. ($24.99) or 18 oz. ($29.99). The standard candles. You can either choose a sterling silver ring or earrings for these candles worth $10-$5,000.

BellaCandles also sells handmade, organic soap bars in various scents $19.99 which contain a sterling silver ring. I've never bought the soaps- so I can't vouch for them.

BellaCandles also has a Candle Club where you can currently get a special edition candle for only $4.99 shipping and then receive 2 candles monthly for $49.99. I have gotten a free candle this way in the past which you can check out here. But if you go this route, you have to be sure to cancel before you are billed for the club!

In addition, you can sign up to be a BellaCandles representative to receive 45% commission on each sale that is made through your rep page.

I signed up to see their process for the sake of my youtube video and this review. It's fairly simple. Just enter standard info (name, email, address, etc...) and pick a domain name. They then send you a confirmation email and you're good to go.

It took me about about 2 minutes total to set everything up and I got a cute little page!

 

I cannot reiterate this enough. I'm not here to try to sell things to my readers or viewers. I totally just like to review things and try things out for fun and for a hobby. I literally set up this rep page while I was writing this blog post- weeks after I started filming the original video. None of this is sponsored and this is really something I want to do and have a lot of fun with. But, if you want to check out the little rep page I set up you can do so here: http://rainarella.candl.es/

If you do buy something from there. PLEASE let me know so I can give you a little shout out and send you an additional little gift. 

PHEW. Got that out of the way!

Now to the review and reveal. First things first, I have gotten BellaCandles in the past which is why I decided to review them for my first formal monthly review. 

There are a few reasons I have been a repeat customer of their company:

First: If you are on their mailing list- they have tons of sales. I actually bought this particular candle for the video because it was 50% off. They do get a little spammy. Although that personally doesn't bother me- you may want to take that into consideration.

Second: The 18 oz. candles are HUGE and last forever. Like weeks upon weeks of use for me if I burn it and can last months upon months if I use my little candle warmer. The website states that the candles have 80-120 hour burn time. 

Third: The candles not only smell amazing- but even when using my dinky candle warmer that kind of sucks, the scent definitely fills my whole apartment within minutes.

Fourth: I LOVE their apothecary style jars. Once my candles are done, I take off the labels and use the jars for decoration and storage in my bathroom for everything from toiletries to make up brushes. Here are two I saved. The large, 18 oz. jar has a home made lavender peppermint bath soak I made. I'm using the small 10 oz. jar to store sample packs I'm hoarding:

Fifth And Most Important: the hidden jewelry! WEEEEEEEEEEEE

Here's my ring!

Each ring comes with a code attached to it so you can appraise it on the website:

Annnnnnnnnnnd my ring is worth...

Awwwwww! It's still super cute though and fits my right ring finger. 

Final Thoughts!

First things first, this is a fun thing for me. I love scented candles and have always been drawn to the whole jewelry candles catch. I am more than aware of the fact that I am most likely always going to get a $10-$15 dollar (if that!) valued ring in any of these candles I review. I never expect to get anything other than that. And, if you want to try some of these candles for yourself- you should expect that too. These aren't for you if you really, really want to only get expensive jewelry. 

Second, I want to address some angry comments I've seen on the BellaCandles' facebook page. Although I set up a BellaCandles rep page for the sake of this blog post- I really have nothing invested in the company other than the fact that I like their candles. A lot of people seem to be extremely pissed off and threatening to sue BellaCandles (::eyeroll::) because of being charged the $49.99 for the candle club after getting their free candle. As you can see from the picture I posted above- they're pretty clear about that fact that if you want a free candle, you will be signed up for their club. You can totally cancel the club membership without EVER being charged the $49.99 right away or even after you get your free candle if it is before the next billing month by emailing support@bellacandles.com. I've actually done that a couple times. 

GAH!! I'm trying not to be obnoxious. But when someone signs up to pay for something the onus is on them to read the fine print. Yeh, it may be a weeeeeeee bit odd, maybe not 100% kosher. But come on now. I even had someone make a somewhat accusatory comment on my last blog post like I had something to do with the fact that they didn't read what they were signing up for...

I have been a repeat customer of BellaCandles for a while. The candles are large and have great scents. The Vanilla Coco-Cream was awesome. I've tried the Mojito and the discontinued Red Currant (which I loved). I really love the jars and keep them forever. And the cute jewelry is an awesome addition and super cool extra surprise.

I would LOVE to do more jewelry candle reviews and reveals. So please let me know what you thought of this and my youtube video so that I can keep them coming for you!