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Allure Sample Society
Cost: $15/month
Ships To: Continental US.
Coupon Code: N/A
Sample Society, which arrived here yesterday, is the brainchild of the editors of Allure Magazine. Each month they select a curated mix of five deluxe skin, hair, makeup and fragrance samples and deliver them to your door. Your subscription also includes a coupon for $10 off $50 a BeautyBar purchase each month and an Allure penned “mini-magazine” which gives you the details on all the samples.
Sample Society ships via UPS and took only a few days to arrive. Very few boxes ship via UPS, but they are awesome.
We received full spoilers on this box a week or so ago, so I pretty much knew what to expect from this box. The first look didn’t really make me any more or less excited about the box either.
Sample Society includes an awesome information booklet which lists the products in the box, prices for full-sizes, what the products do, why Allure likes them, etc. The November 2014 Allure Sample Society theme was all about upping the soothing and protective elements of beauty routine and included the following items:
~Malin+Goetz Bergamot Body Wash ($2.11): This smells awesome and I don’t think there’s anything from Malin+Goetz that I don’t love.
~Reveal by Calvin Klein (~$2): This scent is nice, but it’s not going to become my new HG either. It’s described as a “warm, sexy” scent, which I would agree with. Kind of unrelated, but did anyone else used to wear CK One? Every time I see a Calvin Klein perfume I think back to my obsession with CK One. I thought that silver bottle was so cool (and it was).
~Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Omega+ Nourishing Oil ($4.22): I love this stuff and really like what it does to my hair. It really does add shine and I think it helps hide the fact that I haven’t gotten a hair cut in ages. Just don’t use too much though. Less is for sure more with this.
~LORAC Cobra Mascara ($11.20): I like Lorac stuff and would actually love to see more of it in subscription boxes. That said, I will probably be passing this one on to a friend because I am in mascara overload!
~MD Solar Sciences MD Creme Mineral Beauty Balm ($5.53): I like this because it’s more moisturizing than other BB creams (I usually end up mixing them with lotion), but it still provides nice coverage.
All totaled I came up with a value of $25.06 for the November 2014 Allure Sample Society. And honestly, I thought it was just meh. They started out so strong after their revamp, but it seems to be headed in the wrong direction now. I will likely give them another month or two and them decide if I want to keep it or move on to a different box.
Did you get Sample Society this month? What’d you think of the box? If you are interested in signing up or just want to learn more, click here!
