What is it: Every month you will get a bag, We used to get $5 off any beauty purchase then it became a coupon off a purchase amount and now we don’t even always get that, 5 deluxe samples and 1 bonus sample. Why not just say 6? I don’t get it. You never really know how many items are going to come its always different.
All the brands will be brands you can find in Macy’s which is cool since they sell Mac and a lot of other brands that are never to rarely seen in subscription boxes.
So we have another brand takeover box this time with La Mer. These are the tinest samples i have ever seen. In total its is 14.5 ml of product like that is about 1 teaspoon in fucking sane. These will also have such an over blown value. I don’t think La Mer is that sppecial to be worth the price they charge.
This is so annoying to me because they act like omg wow the value but you don’t get enough of these products to even see if they are worth the ridiculous prices.
My goal this year was to have a 10% reduction in my collection and i did not succeed I ended up with a 5.5% reduction in my collection. I really wanted this years goal to be get my collection to under $1000 items but I don’t see that being a possibility at all.
Final Results
Final Totals By Month and Category
As usual travel months May and Oct always yield so much better usage results for me.
Pie Charts
As usual Skincare is the most and Home Scents are the second most.
And here is my entire years breakdown.
I ended up with 71 less items but I wanted to end up with over 100 less items so not that great unfortunately. Still moving in a positive direct and a smaller collection then last year so need to just keep that trend going.
I ended up using about 6 more items per month then came into my collection.
I am going to keep the same goal of a 10% reduction even though I don’t think I will meet that. I also really want to focus on decluttering more thing that I’m not using or don’t like.
Here we are finishing out the year. I think i really need to lower my goals I’ve been ambitious and have not been meeting them.
Skincare (7)
FCS Superfruit Facial Oil in You’re So Beautiful I ended up using this as a hand oil and loved it for that but the scent was so strong good but strong that I just could not tolerate it on my face but I love a body oil and hand oil so I enjoyed this a ton just not for its intended purpose.
Repurchase: Eh it’s too expensive at this size for what I use it for.
Leaders Pore-Scaling Black Aqua this is just a sheet mask nothing special.
Repurchase: No
Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mask this was really nice maybe my skin look and feel good but I wouldn’t buy such an expensive sheet mask.
Repurchase: No
Garnier Skin Active Moisture Bomb The Super Hydrating Mask Soothing Sheet Mask this is fine just a sheet mask a little wet but not too drippy.
Repurchase: Maybe
R.E.M. Beauty Full Night’s Sleep Cooling Blurring Undereye Balm I actually really liked this it had a cooling matte effect and it was smooth and nice and I did make my under eyes look and feel smoother and depuffed. Didn’t do much for brightening or moisturizing.
Repurchase: Probably
Vitamasques Snow Glow Eye these were super cute but they didn’t do a ton and they did slide around even though I wasn’t doing anything.
Repurchase: No
Clarins One-Step Gentle Exfoliating Cleanser I unfortunately really liked this it was scrubby my skin felt good and clean and soft I don’t love that the beads didn’t all break but still nice.
Repurchase: Maybe
Random (3)
Vitamasques Candy Cane Foot this was good I liked it very moisturizing.
Repurchase: Yes
Degree Ultra Clear Pure Rain Deodorant its good deodorant but it is not clear it leaves terrible white stains.
Repurchase: Maybe
Vitamasques Wonderland Foot this was not as good as the candy cane one this was much less moisturizing.
Repurchase: No
Home Scents (1)
Bath and Body Works Wallflower in Hanukkah I still love this the scent is great.
Repurchase: Yes
Lip (3)
Trader Joe’s Flavored Overnight Lip Mask in Gummy Bear this was fine it tasted good but it was not particularly long lasting.
Repurchase: No
Trader Joe’s Flavored Lip Balm Butter in Gummy Bear I didn’t really like this it tasted good like gummy bears but it was kinda sticky and wore away really quick.
Repurchase: No
Basin Lip Balm in Chinese Mandarin these are good lip balms I like them.
Repurchase: Maybe
Makeup (2)
Colourpop No Filter Concealer in Fair 00 I mostly used this as an eye base but I’ve used over half the doe foot broke it isn’t the best base and I have better so it is just time to let this go.
Repurchase: No
m2u nyc Eye Primer in Nude this is just a nude primer I do not like it more then Urban Decay or Two Faced and because primer lasts so freaking long like literally years I rather pay more for something I know I like.
Repurchase: No
Perfume (1)
FCS Perfume Oil in Recently Deceased this grew on me the top notes were very graveyard-y and fresh but then it wore down be more sweet and warm. I found the contrast jarring at first but it really grew on me and I ended up really liking it.
Repurchase: Yes
Haircare (1)
Eva Nyc Therapy Session Hair Mask I really like this hair mask it makes my hair feel super soft.
Repurchase: Yes
Declutter (1)
Lolavie Glossing Detangler this I don’t have a picture of because I gave it away but this did the opposite of detangling it made my hair sticky.
I used up a decent amount this month but not as much as I could have a I have a few more items I had been hoping would have been used up but they will have to get dragged into 2025. There will be a yearly wrap up coming soon.
