Category: Subscription Boxes

Ipsy April 2020 Subscription Box Review

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Ipsy Bag

Cost: $12 monthly, $132 annual

Cycle: Every Month

What is it: Every month Ipsy sends out a cute makeup bag of samples and full size items. You can review your bag for points that you can trade in for reward items. The rewards change often and the range between 300 points and 1000 points. You can get around 95 points every month.

If you want to subscribe you can subscribe HERE and skip the waitlist. That is my referral link so I do get points to spend but I’m not an affiliate I don’t make any money or anything it’s just one beauty junkie to another.

You can now customize your bag and pick out one sample per month that will get to be in your bag which is a pretty nice change even though it came with a price increase.

I was surprised this showed up so early this month with everything going on I am really not sure if or when anything will be showing up.

The bag is very springy and the pull is made of wood which is really cute.

Space Case Bronzer in Fakecation On Mars

Full Size: 3.5 g

Full Size Cost: $9

Sample Size: 2.5 g

Value: $6.43

So Space Case doesn’t have any bronzers on their site but all their face products are the same weight and price so I based it off of the blushes. This is a really smooth bronzer but the color is just really weird. It is very warm and very orange. I don’t know that this will work for me but the packaging is so cute that I want to try.

Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub with Salt

Full Size: 246 ml

Full Size Cost: $53

Sample Size: 40 ml

Value: $8.62

So this will be my third jar of this product. This is like a two or three times a year product for me because I have dry hair and don’t use alot of styling products so I don’t get so much build up on my scalp. This will scrub your scalp and get it super like actually squeaky clean. It is very drying to your hair though like I am very careful to make sure it only stays on my roots and scalp and doesn’t get on the rest of my hair. This jar at this size legit last me a year because I need it so infrequently. Really good product and it smells nice and salty and beachy too.

Helios Luminor Nail Polish in Livin’ Lovely

Full Size: 15 ml

Full Size Cost: $12.50

Sample Size: 15 ml

Value: $12.50

I don’t ever wear nail polish but this is a super pretty dusty mauve that I will probably throw on my toys once and then it will sit in my dark cabinet for the rest of its life with the rest of the polish I own and don’t use lol.

Sugar Wingman Waterproof Microliner in 01 I’ll Be Black

Full Size: 0.55 ml ?

Full Size Cost: $15.99

Sample Size: 1.6 ml

Value: $15.99 ?

I have alot of confusion with this product. It is sold out and has a different name on the website so I don’t know if that is old packaging or this is old packaging. It also says that the full size is 0.55 ml (which is tiny) and this says it contains 1.6 ml, so I am guessing that is a typo and that this is a full size. I like Sugar eyeliners but I have too many open right now just to swatch a black liner.

Glossier Priming Rich Moisturizer

Full Size: 50 ml

Full Size Cost: $35

Sample Size: 15 ml

Value: $10.50

This is the item I chose this month, Glossier is a brand I always want to try but never want to take the risk in purchasing. This feels so luxurious on my skin. It is so smooth and feels so nice. It is scented though which may bother some people but it is a really clean scent that I happen to like. This is a really thick smooth primer and moisturizer combined. The most exciting thing in this months bag.

Other then the Glossier and the scrub the bag was just ok for me this month. But it was nice to have mail despite all that is going on.

Quick Summary:

Total Value: $54.04

Skincare: 0

Makeup: 3

Tools: 0

Hair Care: 1

Perfume: 0

Other: 1

And as far as sizes:

Full Size: 2

Deluxe Sample: 0

Sample: 3

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Walmart Winter 2019/2020 Beauty Box Subscription Review

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Walmart Beauty Box

Cost: $5

Cycle: Every Quarter/Season

What is it: Every season Walmart sends out a box of samples and sometimes coupons in their “free” subscription box. The box is a flat shipping rate of $5 and the box is considered free.  There are two categories of boxes “Trendsetter” which you receive if you provide a birth date that has you aged at under 35 and “Classic” if you provide a birth date that has you aged above 35.

This box always makes me so happy. Probably because it is so cheap so well valued and so random. It is the number one box where i use up all the products on a consistent basis.

Degree MotionSense Ultra Clear Dry Spray

Full Size: 107 g

Full Size Cost: $4.99

Sample Size: 28 g

Total Value: $1.31

This was sent in the last box as well. Not a huge negative though I have been using it (am almost done with it) it works just as well as the stick form of this which I usually use. I could see myself buying this for summer because it doesn’t leave the white under my arms which is good for tank top season.

Colgate Optic White Renewal High Impact White

Full Size: 85 g

Full Size Cost: $6.99

Sample Size: 20 g

Total Value: $1.64

I don’t know why this is sideways I tried everything I am sorry. I have wanted to try this since I saw a commercial for it. I am so curious to see if this will whiten my teeth.There should be plenty here to see that effect as well.

Color Club Nail Lacquer in It’s Complicated

Full Size: 15 ml

Full Size Cost: $8.50

Sample Size: 15 ml

Total Value: $8.50

This is a very pretty color, but I don’t paint my nails and if i paint my toe nails I have a few polishes hanging around that I am trying to use up so I will give this to a friend. Great to get a full size nail polish that costs more than the shipping on this box though. And this is not even the best product in the box!

Curel Dry Skin Therapy Hydra Silk Moisture

Full Size: 354 ml

Full Size Cost: $10.99

Sample Size: 29 ml

Total Value: $0.90

It says non-greasy but uh its a little greasy. It is super hydrating and does feel really nice and silky. It is more and better then I would expect in texture from a curel product but with all the benefits of hydration and good for my skin like I expect from Curel. I just don’t like the scent of their products I don’t like the scent of the masking agents used in unscented products that is just a me thing.

Nyx Soft Matte Lip Cream in California

Full Size: 8 ml

Full Size Cost: $6.50

Sample Size: 8 ml

Total Value: $6.50

Nyx Soft Matte Metallic Lip Cream in California

Full Size: 6.74

Full Size Cost: $7

Sample Size: 6.74 ml

Total Value: $7

I am so hyped about this I have been wanting to give the soft matte lip creams another try and have never tried the metallic ones. This little set came in the cutest box they are both full size this is so awesome they are not the same shade eve though I think they are supposed to be but they are nudes that I am hoping won’t pull too pink on me. They dry down they were soft they seem like they are going to be everything I want.

Walmart out here killing the game every time for me at least.

Quick Summary:

Total Value: $25.85

Skincare: 0

Makeup: 2

Tools: 0

Hair Care: 0

Perfume: 0

Other: 4

And as far as sizes:

Full Size: 3

Deluxe Sample: 2

Sample: 1

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Boxycharm January 2020 Subscription Box Review

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Boxycharm

Cost: $25

Cycle: Every Month

What is it:

Boxycharm sends out 4 to 5 full size items every month which makes it really unique among the  boxes I subscribe to. It is a nice change to get all full size products especially for $25 which is usually less then the cost of one item in the box. Boxycharm also joined the customization train and you can choose between a few items to have one in your box for the month. I really like that because Boxycharm was getting to the point where I was only liking one thing in my box and even though the value was there the fun wasn’t anymore.

If you would like to subscribe you can use my referral link HERE. I don’t get anything other then points but would really appreciate it but do as you feel comfortable you are also welcome to use the link in the header that leads to the regular homepage.

You can also review your products and get “charms” which are their versions of points that you can use as money off in their shop.

How is everyone holding up? I hope you are all safe and healthy and have toilet paper lol. Shits really real right now but let’s have this be a nice little mindless escape from all of that and relax with some very odd products from Boxycharm. Boxycharm also didn’t send me a card this month and I saw a review that also had that problem this month and that is an extra big issue when I get to the second item I talk about.

Chella Slanted Tip Tweezers

Full Size: Yes

Full Size Cost: $20

I don’t think these are worth $20 and this is not the first time they have sent me tweezers it just seems like an odd thing. I don’t love these I feel like they are really had to squeeze because I am not used to the weird middle. I know it is supposed to be easier to hold but I don’t feel like there should be a hole it in because it is just awkward to hold.

QMS Medicosmetics Lip Line Corrector

Full Size: 15 ml

Full Size Cost: $200

This thing. I chose this thing because it sounded interesting I had no idea it was $200 dollars. That is one of those prices that I like have a really hard believing is a real price and that any one pays that it seems so inflated. There is nothing particularly special in the ingredient listing. Since they didn’t send the box and there is no ingredient list on the packaging I looked it up and found that this also has nuts in it I feel like that allergy warning should be on the bottle as well as on a card in the box that is super serious and could be really dangerous to some one.

Becca Glow Gloss in Camellia

Full Size: 5 g

Full Size Cost: $22

I hate lip gloss and I hate pink this is just not for me. I am tossing up between giving this away and just saving it for using on other people I haven’t really decided yet. Swatched Below.

KVD Vegan Beauty (Formerly Kat Von D Beauty) Metal Crush Liquid Highlighter in Helix

Full Size: 1.8 ml

Full Size Cost: $12

So if you keep up with beauty world drama Kat Von D finally got bought out of her dying brand and it has been renamed KVD Vegan Beauty, which this supposedly is, expect we all know this is a highlighter left over because her name is still on the side of the box and this is being clearance out on Sephora it was was $25 and is now $12. I know boxes are always going to send things that have been removed from certain stores and things like that they have to make their profit but this seems like throwing it right in our faces that we are getting bargain bin items.

It is obvious why this brand was dying 1.8 ml for $25 dollars that’s so insane that is so expensive. I thought I was going to hate this but it is actually really pretty on it really does look like crushed up sparkle almost like shard of glass on the skin it is so intense and really pretty. Swatched Below.

Hank and Henry Living in Color Palette

Full Size: 0.8g x 9 shades

Full Size Cost: $27

This is so late 80s early 90s that it physically hurts me. I hate and love everything about this palette. I think its really funny that is suggests doing your eye shadow with your fingers since like that’s what you woulda done back that its cute.I feel like in the palette it doesn’t look like much it looks slightly more exciting swatched. It isn’t my color story per say but it is a useful pretty cohesive palette.

Just a weird assortment of products like it felt weirs to me this month maybe its just that I;m in a weird mood with everything going on I don’t it was just super weird box for me with the ridiculously priced serum. At least I got makeup this month I feel like its been forever since I have gotten makeup.

Total: $281

Total Value to Me: $239

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