- Hey everyone, it's me Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere, as always.
Today I wanted to get on and talk to you all a little bit
about a new menstrual cup I've been trying, the Eva Cup.
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So I had been using the Lunette Cup
for the past two to three years,
and I sort of began to realize, like, okay,
it's been awhile, I should probably purchase a new one.
But my cycle was coming up and I didn't wanna
necessarily try to order one online on time,
so I went ahead and just went to my local grocery store
and happened upon the Eva Cup and figured, oh,
this is like a good opportunity to try a
new cup and talk to you all about it.
I picked up the Eva Cup in size two,
similar to other menstrual cups,
it comes in two different sizes.
Size one is a little bit smaller,
and I think a little bit not as wide, as well.
And usually they market size one to
women who haven't given birth vaginally,
and then size two is marketed to women
who have given birth vaginally.
I got size two even though I do not have any
children and have not birthed anything,
and that's because my menses is usually
pretty intense for the couple of days and
if I used size one then I would be going to
the bathroom like every couple of hours to empty it,
and that's just, doesn't,
isn't conducive for a productive day, you know what I mean?
So I always get size two,
and size two always feels comfortable to me.
A little bit about me.
I'm five foot one and around 120 pounds, so.
But yeah, something I will say right off the bat
that actually made me a little nervous when
I first purchased this and opened it and
was in the process of disinfecting it,
the silicone compared to the Lunette Cup
is a lot softer and a lot more maleable, I would say.
This cup has a lot more give to it,
which gave me pause because of, like, oh man,
is it gonna like stay (laughs) in place when I insert it?
But then to my delight, it did.
I would actually say it stayed in place
a lot better than my Lunette Cup.
Something with my previous cup that
I always struggled with a little bit,
but it was never enough to really like annoy me,
was that, there was always just a smidge of leakage,
like, just little boom boom boom.
But the type of underwear that I own,
there's like padding built in to them,
I use Knixwear underwear,
and there's like a little bit of padding built into
them to absorb discharge and things like that.
It never really bothered me.
But like, I had the tools for it to not affect
my daily routine or anything like that.
With the Eva Cup, though, I've been using it now
for about three cycles and yeah,
there's like hardly any leakage.
As long as I insert it correctly and it's in place,
there's like nothing, it's pretty awesome.
I like it a lot, and I think a lot of that has to do,
again, with the silicone just being a
little bit more soft when you insert it,
being able to just shape and form to you that much more.
The other thing about the Eva Cup that I think is neat
if you're someone who's trying to monitor or calculate this
is that it has very distinct markers for measurement.
If you're trying to figure out how much menses
you're producing over the course of your cycle,
maybe for your own internal research,
maybe you're trying to adjust your diet or
something like that and you wanna see how that's going
over the course of a couple months to a year,
maybe you just wanna give that information to your
gynecologist, I don't know, I don't live your life.
It has measurements in ounces and milliliters on this cup.
Very visible so that you can,
as you're emptying you can see
how much menses you're producing.
So, that's really neat, you know?
Finally, the other thing I really liked about this cup,
you know, most of them all kind of have a very
similar shape across the market, it seems like.
It gets down into the fine details for individual people as
far as comfort and placement and all that kinda stuff.
Something I really like about the Eva Cup
compared to the Lunette Cup and other cups I've
seen on the market is that the tip of it,
which is to help you insert and remove it,
is curved rather than like squared,
and I feel like that just makes it a little more comfortable
once it's inserted and you're going day to day.
You don't have to worry about it kind of
rubbing against you or anything like that.
I felt like with my Lunette Cup sometimes that would
happen to where the sharper end of the tip was like
kind of against like a little bit of my wall,
and I was like, that feels weird, you know (laughs)?
I'd have to go to the bathroom and kinda like adjust it.
I don't get that problem so much with this cup
because it's nice and curved, which is cool.
The one thing about the Eva Cup that annoys me
a little bit is that even though it was easy
to find this cup at my local grocery store,
the color selection, and this is such a nit picky thing,
but the color selection is a little limited.
I think when I was at the store
they only had pink and white.
I'm not, I would not say a very feminine person in general,
so I tend to not like pink in general (laughs)
so that was a little frustrating to me.
I wish they had more colors.
Something I really appreciated about the Lunette Cup
is that they have a wide variety of different colors,
whereas the Eva Cup seems to be just very more
overtly feminine in their color selection.
But, the other thing that comes with the Eva Cup
when you purchase it is a lovely, carrying case,
but again, very feminine, so, you know.
If, eh, you know, and, it's just, it's very,
it's, it's very feminine, you know.
If you're interested in purchasing this cup,
if it's available on Amazon I'll link to it down below.
If there are other menstrual cup brands that you
think are awesome and you want more people to know about,
let us know in the comments below.
I'm Hallease, and I'll see you when I see you.
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