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Nina Garcia Quarterly Box Review #NGQ06

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Nina Garcia Quarterly
Cost: $100/quarter
Ships To: United States.
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Nina Garcia Quarterly Box Review #NGQ06
Nina Garcia Quarterly Box Review #NGQ06

Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. Quarterly Co. offers subscription boxes (which are shipped on a quarterly basis) from well known curators which are filled with things they love. This is the Summer (I really have no idea at this point) Nina Garcia Quarterly Co. box (#NGQ06).  If you aren’t familiar, she’s the Marie Claire Creative Director & Project Runway Judge.  This box is $100/quarter and was supposed to ship back in July. Yes, July. After numerous delays, it eventually arrived on the last day of October.  They don’t actually bill you until a few days before they ship though which is nice.

The Box

Quarterly ships via FedEx Smart Post and took just a few days to arrive to me.  This box shipped out of Wisconsin and I am in Michigan so it didn’t have to travel far.

First Look
Second First Look

I knew what was coming in this box because I had been hunting like crazy for spoilers.  Still unwrapping everything in it was fun!

The Card

The Nina Garcia Quarterly Co. box (#NGQ06) theme was travel essentials and included the following items:

~Baggu Solid Navy Canvas Duck Bag ($26): I love Baggu and am a big fan of this bag. It’s sturdy and has both top handles and a shoulder strap.  It also has an inside pocket for your passport and / or phone.  I didn’t realize it when I saw the spoilers, but this box actually had a lot of variations.  So far I have seen this bag in Navy, a Navy Stripe and a brown leopard.  I am quite pleased I received the solid navy! If you got a different variation, please share details.

Baggu Solid Navy Canvas Duck Bag
Baggu Solid Navy Canvas Duck Bag
Baggu Solid Navy Canvas Duck Bag

~Chic Buds Clutchette Power ($49.99): This also came in a ton of colors.  So far I’ve seen coral, brown, black and yellow.  Yellow wouldn’t have been my first pick, but it’s fine.  It’s a wallet that doubles as a charging station for your phone.  It’s a pretty cool idea and basically a guarantee that I will never be without my charger because I am never without my wallet.

Chic Buds Clutchette Power bag

~Flight001 F1 Caffeine Supply Eye Mask ($16): I totally understand the sleeping mask / travel connection, but listen I would feel crazy wearing this on a flight.  And not crazy in a good way.  And really, I cannot imagine Nina Garcia wearing this either.  I believe there were variations of this sent as well, but I am not sure what they all are.

Flight001 F1 Caffeine Supply Eye Mask

~Flight001 Rubber Luggage Tag Happy Hour ($7): I’m not super excited about this (not coming from this box anyway), but I will throw it on my suitcase for sure.  Not because I think it’s really cute, but because it is neon green and will make my bag super easy to spot on the carousel. But again, it’s not something I see Nina Garcia putting on her suitcase you know?

Flight001 Standby Champion Luggage Tag

~Pinch Mini-Emergency Kit for Her ($16): This I love. I have long been a fan of Pinch Minimergency Kits and think they are adorable.  They have all the essentials (from bandaids and clear nail polish to a sewing kit and a tampon) and come in a cute little bag.

Pinch Mini-Emergency Kit for Her

~Emi Jay Classic 5-Pack Hair Ties ($11): Hair ties are always a win and I can always use more of them.  They are an absolute must while traveling and honestly I could go through all five of these on a weekend trip.

Emi Jay Classic 5-Pack Hair Ties

Jane Iredale Facial Blotting Paper & Compact ($11): I love blotting papers and will definitely use these.  I don’t know that I will use them while traveling though because airplane air dries out my skin and doesn’t make it oily.  But still, I will use them.

Jane Iredale Facial Blotting Paper & Compact
Jane Iredale Facial Blotting Paper & Compact

~Weleda Skin Food (1 oz. travel size) ($12.50): I love the Weleda line and a hand-lotion is a travel essential for me, so this is a good fit.  The lotion is rich but not greasy and absorbs quickly.

Weleda Skin Food

~Flight001 F1 X-Ray Passport – Orange ($10): This *might* be the worst picture ever, but I could NOT get fluorescent orange to photograph correctly (well I probably could have if I dragged my big camera out, but I use my iPhone for 99.9% of my pictures), but I didn’t think it was worth it.  You know what fluorescent orange looks like.  I have a gorgeous leather passport cover from POPSUGAR so I don’t have too much use for this.  This is another item I really cannot see Nina Garcia using.  I may put one of my kids passports in it, but it’s not something I need.

Flight001 F1 X-Ray Passport Orange
Flight001 F1 X-Ray Passport Orange

~Shoebox Pro One Year Voucher ($60): This is actually the most “valuable” item in the box.  I’d never heard of it before, but Shoebox Pro is a storage app that allows unlimited photos and up to 10 hours of video to be stored.  I don’t know that I need something like this (isn’t that what the Cloud is for?), but I’ll give it a try.

All totaled I came up with a value of $219.49 for the Nina Garcia Quarterly Co. box (#NGQ06).  That includes the $60 voucher though.  I wasn’t feeling this box.  At all.  It just didn’t fit with what I would expect to see from Nina Garcia.  There’s SO much that could be done with a travel themed box and I think this missed the mark. It had a lot of items I would have expected to see in a Fancy Box (they no longer offer boxes) rather than in what is supposed to be a high-end fashion and beauty box.

Did you get a Nina Garcia Quarterly Co. box (#NGQ06)?  What variations did you get and what did you think of the box?

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Jennifer: Jennifer is the author and founder of Subscription Box Ramblings. She first discovered subscription boxes in 2012 and has been addicted since. Current favorites include CAUSEBOX, Boxycharm and Beachly!
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