I've been subscribed to Glossy Box for the past 6 months now, and quite look forward to coming home to a beautiful box of beauty surprises. There are now quite a few beauty boxes available, all designed to give you samples of luxury or up and coming brands ranging from skin care, to hair care and cosmetics.
This month the fan base was stirred a little, as GB put back dispatch by about a week with the excuse that the box had had a face lift for the new year. However when boxes started arriving (dispatch was staggered over 3 days - I was one of the last to receive my box, typical!) angry posts from subscribers started appearing on GB's page. Many complaining about the quality of the items in the box, and some claiming the face lift wasn't worth the wait and that the original box was better. But let's get onto what I received!
So here is the contents of my box, the box itself has changed shape slightly and it's now got a gloss finish. Inside is pretty much the same, but the ribbon is now branded (can no longer to wrap gifts damn it!). It looks nice enough, the glossy box is now glossy but I don't think a change was needed to be honest. Now! The contents, starting with the positives:
Anatomicals 'Puffy the Eye Bag Slayer' Wake up under eye Patches.
£6 for 3 pack. Sample size of 2, value of £4.
I was skeptical about these when I saw other posts before getting mine, however I'm feeling quite good about them now. I have a strange sleep pattern and I don't think it's going my eyes any favors. It's a half an hour treatment which you apply to your undereyes after cleansing. I'm going to pop these in the fridge for my next hangover *cough* Sunday *cough*.
Beauty UK CC Cream
£4.99 for 25ml (full size received)
I'm so glad I got this instead of the Vaseline moisturiser sample that most subscribers received! Manly because I've wanted to try out a CC Cream for a while (nearly pixed up Max Factors but resisted) but also because the Vaseline sample was the main subject of many peoples complaints, which I can understand. It's come in the lightest shade (only 3 available) which is natural. I'm worried that it does look a little dark, but I am hidiously pale so that might be why... I'll give this a go, but Beauty UK is one of the cheaper drugstore brands, so I'm not putting my hopes too high on this one.
Now for the few items that didn't really float my boat:
The Vintage Cosmetic Company Floral Slanted Tweezers
£8.00 (full size obviously!)
This is the only spoiler from GB this month, which didn't really excite me too much, I do already own tweezers. I suppose these will come in use, but I've not heard that many good things so far. Also I don't like floral patterns, but that's me being picky.
Balance Me Super toning body wash
£10.25 for 250ml. Sample size of 50ml, value of £2.05.
I've got a few body washes on the go, it's not really something that I'm looking for at the moment, but this will be nice for travelling. It says it's also good to use in the bath, as a soak, which I'm probably more likely to do.
Yu-Be Moisturising Skin Cream.
£13.50 for 33g. Two samples of 3g, value of £2.70.
This hasn't excited me purely as it's another cream, and I've had quite a few lately. But it seems to be the Japanese version of skin food, and a wonder product for dry areas so I've decided to test it out on the boyfriends elbows. Glamorous hey.
Overall box value: £21.74.
Not too bad on the value front, I will use everything from the box, but I can see why many people are happy. If it wasn't for the CC cream, I wouldn't be that content. I will say though that I thought the brands in these boxes were supposed to be high end, as on their website they have a page of brands that I've never seen in my boxes! Also there wasn't a large variety of products this month, looking at other blogs and photos. I will continue my subscription for now, but I am considering other beauty boxes.
So how did everyone else feel about their box?
Foxy x
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