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Beauty Box 5
Cost: $12/month.
Ships To: The lower 48 United States and Canada via the Postal Service.
Coupon Code: Use code “FREEBOX1” to get the previous month’s box free with a new subscription.
B and I (and WB) got back from running all of our errands today just as the mailman was dropping off the mail. Perfect timing! One of the boxes I received (and opened first) was my January 2015 Beauty Box 5.
In case you aren’t familiar, Beauty Box 5 is a monthly subscription service that delivers a sample box of all things beauty. Each box contains 4 – 5 samples of a variety of makeup, skin care, fragrances and everything in between! Boxes are $12/month if you do a month-to-month subscription, however, I subscribed a while back when they had a crazy deal that brought the cost of an annual subscription down to $6.58/month.
Beauty Box 5 ships via DHLGlobal Mail. It starts out with DHL and then is delivered by USPS. I believe it took about a week to arrive. Not amazing, but not awful either.
The first look? Just kind of meh.
The January 2015 Beauty Box 5 theme was “hello!” and included the following items:
~Coastal Scent Eye Shadow (~$2): Wow. These are some bright shadow colors. WB saw me taking a picture of them and yelled “I wanna paint too”! I didn’t get it at first and then I realized he thought I had finger paints. LOL! I actually may let him go ahead and paint with these because the colors are a little too much for me.
~Sally Sansen Salon Effects ($9.99): These aren’t my favorite brand nail strips, but they are fun for sure. I like the design I received and I think that they will work nicely for Valentine’s Day!
~Ultraflesh The Gold Standard Mascara in Blackout ($7.89): This brand is new to me, but the mascara is pretty nice. I think I like the container better than the formula, itself, but how can you blame me? That container is great!
~Softsoap Nutri Serums Vitamin E Body Wash ($1): I am not opposed at all to receiving drugstore brands in subscription boxes, but, at the same time, I am not overly excited by them. This will get used (probably by L who goes through body wash like it’s his job) and it does smell pretty good.
~Garnier Fructis Daily Care Fortifying Shampoo ($1): Again I am not opposed to this and I will use it, but I wish they would have sent us the conditioner too. One of my pet peeves is receiving just one or the other. I feel like like should always come together.
All totaled I came up with a value of $21.88 for the January 2015 Beauty Box 5. I wasn’t impressed with this box and was happy I paid less than $7 for it. It was well over the cost of the box, but I didn’t find it to be overly exciting to me.
Do you subscribe to Beauty Box 5? What’d you get in your box this month? If you are interested in subscribing or want to check out more, click here. New subscribers can use the coupon code “FREEBOX1” to get a box from a previous free with a new subscription order.
