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Julep
Cost: $24.99/month (My Maven) / $39.99 (Maven Luxe)
Ships To: United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, and Canada.
Ahh, my May 2014 Julep Maven box is here! This month’s box was a bit delayed for me and, of course, it was one of the boxes I was most anticipating!
If you aren’t familiar, Julep is a monthly nail polish subscription service. They have recently switched a few things up and are now offering a “My Maven” box for $24.99/month which contains $40+ worth of product and polish or “Maven Luxe” for $39.99/month which contains $60+ of prestige products. Both boxes are fully customizable and you have the option to switch between tiers. Subscribers prior to 4/29/14 are grandfathered in at the $19.99/month rate, however, they will need to upgrade if they want to customize their boxes.
Julep ships via USPS First Class Mail. As I mentioned earlier, my box was a little later than normal this month. I got an e-mail about it last week, but it didn’t say why it was delayed. I ordered some add-ons this month as well, but they weren’t in here so I can only assume they are shipping separate?
I had no idea what style profile I had selected this month, so I didn’t know what colors I had coming. All I knew was that I was getting the Plié Wand!
The May 2014 Julep Maven Collection was called “Fresh Twist”. It featured nine new polish colors , the much anticipated Plié Wand and a hand scrub. I opted for the “Bombshell” collection this month which included the following:
~Julep Laree ($11.20 / $14): Laree is a golden pink taffeta shimmer and is totally gorgeous. It could be my favorite pink ever from Julep? It’s shimmery and not just pink, but it has an orangish look to it as well. I always do two coats, but I could probably get away with one with this. However, things look smoother if I do two.
~Julep Saaya ($11.20 / $14): Saaya is a golden apricot shimmer. It reminds me of a shimmery creamsicle. In a good way.
~Julep Plié Wand ($20 / $25): Ahh, the Plié Wand (which until yesterday I thought was the “Pile” Wand)! The box has everything you need to paint your nails with a Julep (or whatever kind I guess) polish, while the other package has a precision brush. I was so clueless on how this thing worked until I actually got my hands on it. I think it was because it has a brush and all the polishes already have a brush. Not too sure, but I was confused. So anyway, you don’t need to use the brush (the one in the box) if you don’t want too. You can take that outer cap off your polish (pull it straight up) leaving just that small round cap on. Them you take the brush part off the Plié Wand (it’s all magnetic) and stick the and on top of that small cap on your polish. Unscrew your cap like normal and boom, you are using it! And it totally works. My nails didn’t look like a professional did them, but they looked like a professional version of me did them! I didn’t have time to let them dry (which is my entire nail polish problem) so I took the polish off after I tested it, but I am so going to pain them again with the wand when I have a few more minutes!
As I mentioned, the Plié Wand also includes an a brush so you can use it with another type (types) of polish if you want. I didn’t try this yet because I didn’t feel like cleaning the brush when I was done. I will probably use it with a different polish for special events or something, but not on a regular basis just for the cleaning reason!
All totaled I came up with a value of $42.40 (or $53 using non-Maven pricing) for the May “Bombshell” Julep Maven collection. I couldn’t have been happier with this month and I think that now that I actually have the Plié Wand and “get it”, I am much much happier with it than I thought I would be. It just sounded so confusing (and it is at first), but once you can play around with the caps your self I think it really helps.
Did you get Julep this month? What collection did you get? And what did you think of the Pile Wand???? As always, if you are interested in subscribing to Julep, click here and use the coupon code “FREEBOX” to get your first box for $4.99 (you pay only the shipping).
