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Birchbox
Cost: $10/month
Ships To: United States. However France, Spain and the UK also have their own Birchbox subscriptions.
Coupon Code: Subscription Box: “bark100” to get 100 Birchbox Store points when you purchase a women’s monthly or yearly rebillable subscription. Shop: Try “welcomeoffer20”, “mobile20” or “take20off”. And don’t forget to add a Mystery Sample Pack to your cart with your $35+ shop purchase!
I still can’t believe it, but my November 2014 Birchbox is here. This box is from my “second” Birchbox account (the one I just opened a few months ago) and I seem to get the boxes on this account SO quick. I absolutely love it.
If you aren’t familiar, Birchbox, which is $10/month, offers 4-6 (sometimes more) hand-picked beauty and lifestyle samples, delivered to your door each month. You can review the samples you receive on a monthly basis to earn points in their shop, which makes the “real” cost of the box even less. Points accumulate until you are ready to spend, so you can stockpile and combine with coupon codes and get some complete steals (which I try to do).
Birchbox ships via USPS through Newgistics. My box took three days to arrive this month which was amazing.
Birchbox gave subscribers the option this month to select between the Happy Holiday Hacks BuzzFeed Life + Birchbox collaboration box or the monthly “Giving” themed box. Like I have been doing the last few months I opted for the collaboration box on one of my accounts (this one) and opted for the normal monthly box on my other account.
When I got the e-mail to customize my box for November, the Happy Holidays Hacks box actually was listed as “Sold Out”. If you ever see that and are really hoping for a specific sample choice or one of the special boxes E-MAIL THEM! They manually updated my choice for me without any issues at all. I have heard of plenty of other people doing this with no issues at all either. Anyway, since it is so early in the month there is no way (yet) to browse through and check out all the November boxes, but they should be posted in the next day or so.
The Happy Holiday Hacks BuzzFeed Life + Birchbox included a slew of double-duty products, morning-after saviors and problem solvers – all the beauty hacks you need for a stress-free holiday season. Here is what was inside:
~amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo ($6.75): I love the entire amika line! I think this dry shampoo *might* rival my all time favorite dry shampoo from Suave. It smells amazing too.
~Dr. Jart+ Pore Minimalist Mask ($7.50): This mask took a lot of redness away from my skin for sure. I couldn’t tell too much difference in my pores, but I don’t know that they are too bad right now anyway. Oh and does anyone else think they look super scary in these masks? So creepy.
~Dr. Lipp Original Nipple Balm for Lips ($2.90): The name of this always makes me giggle, but it’s awesome stuff. I use it on my lips, but you can also use it as a skin balm or on your cuticles as well.
~Greenleaf Signature Candle in Silver Spruce ($1.92): This smells so good and every time I sniff it I am in a holiday mood. I love it.
~Mirenessee iCurl Secret Weapon 24hr Mascara ($14.38): The brush on this wand is curved and it gives lashes great length and curl at the same time. It wasn’t clumpy at all and didn’t flake off. Maybe not my favorite mascara ever, but a great one for travel or to throw in your bag.
All totaled I came up with a value of $33.45 for my November 2014 Happy Holiday Hacks Buzzfeed Life + Birchbox. Including the points I get for reviewing the items in the box (10 points per item = 50 points = $5 to spend in the Birchbox Shop) plus the points I get for purchasing the box (*) (10 points = $1), I came up with a total value of $38.45 for this box. I know I mentioned it last month (and the month before that I am sure), but I love these special collaboration boxes they are doing in addition to the regular boxes. So awesome. All these fun samples and I am racking up the points like crazy!
Do you subscribe to Birchbox? What box / sample did you pick this month? If you don’t subscribe (it’s only $10/month) and are interested in learning more, click here and use the coupon code “bark100” to get 100 Birchbox Store points when you purchase a women’s monthly or yearly rebillable subscription.
