I had to waste some time this morning at Barnes & Noble. Honestly, I wouldn't have even thought about the New Beauty magazine but it sat staring at me from it's place right smack in the middle of the shelf, directly eye-level to me. While, I didn't have anything to write the items down, I do still have some of the most important ones jumbling around in my mind. So, I pretty much had convinced myself that it was just way too much and way too expensive for me to continue to get both "Beauty tubes" and was planning to skip the upcoming QVC one............ Well, my feeling now is NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, it's disturbing because we don't know what size these might be but if memory serves me right I think there were approx. 7 items, maybe an 8th but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was. So since I pretty much like the products and the type of the product (although we've had the brands before) I am interested in trying.... then there's one item, that I REALLY want and is probably the deciding factor for me getting the whole tube just for this one item! I really want to get past this addiction and keep holding onto the regular "beauty tube" although it seems to be suffering from growing pains........ however, I'm so afraid that I will cancel and suddenly the best tube ever will appear! With the regular tube, I feel that we are kind of roped into getting because they bill so far in advance and it frets me to no end that they don't do sneak previews anymore (I feel that was their shady way of dealing with all the negative complaints that they were getting before everyone's tube showed up on their doorstep. At least with the QVC beauty tube, it's in the magazine if you catch it at a bookstand (most likely you won't get it in the mail before that tube release) but also starts to show up on the QVC site in time where you have a chance to cancel if you don't want it......... I also find that I enjoy watching the QVC Beauty show which is usually aired around the tube's release time and they not only show the tube's items but demonstrate how to use them. So while all of this is good, sometimes I, personally, get so tired of the same old QVC items but the August tube is a nice change for me..