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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.
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Julep is a monthly nail polish (and beauty) subscription service.  They offer 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 were grandfathered in at the $19.99/month rate, however, they will need to upgrade to the $24.99 subscription if they want to customize their boxes.  I finally decided to upgrade to the $24.99 subscription so I am now able to customize my box.

Julep ships via FedEx Smart Post out of Ohio and tends to take just a few days to arrive to me. You can expect to receive your box in the first few days of the month.

I am such a sucker for a freebie and always get three add-ons so I can get the free item you get when you get 3+ items.  I have a friend who is obsessed with Julep products so even if I get a duplicate polish color (which I typically do), it never goes to waste.

The January 2016 Julep Theme was “New Year, New Look”. I selected the following items in my customized box:

~Shay (Bombshell) (0.27oz) ($11.20 / $14): Shay is a celadon iridescent chrome. It’s sort of mermaid like and really gorgeous.  A great change of pace from my normal super dark winter polishes.  I don’t mention it enough, but Julep polishes are 5-free and are made using a vegan-friendly formula that also includes strengthening Hexanal and antioxidant green coffee extract. 5-free means that polishes are made without Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), Formaldehyde, Formaldehyde Resin and Camphor.  You’ll notice the difference as soon as you open a 5-free polish because you don’t get that big whiff of chemicals.

~Julep Tali (It Girl) (0.27oz) ($11.20 / $14): Tali is a glacier breeze linear liquid holographic.  That’s what Julep calls it anyway.  It reminds me of the movie Frozen.  I would call it Frozen Blue.  I always go for Julep’s liquid holographic polishes because you can get away with not doing a perfect job polishing your nails and no one will know.

~Julep No Limits (1.7oz / 50g) ($24): Julep No Limits is a brand-new “indulgent moisturizer for any place that needs a spot of intensive hydration”. The cream itself is thick and rich and does work to soothe dry spots. But the dispenser cap?  That needs some work.  I had to push the little “push to dispense” button a few dozen times before anything came out.  And then when it did come out I thought maybe I did it wrong because it came out all around the sides of the opening and not the little hole?  Maybe it’s supposed to be like that?  I looked on Julep.com and it seems like a few people took the lid completely off this one.  That seems to be the way to go!

~Add-Ons / Freebie: This month I added on the Clean Slate Conditioning Nail Polish Remover (the dispenser on that really does work) along with “Joss” (a ripe fig duochrome) and “Celeste” (a mahogany iridescent molten).  I received “Janae” as my freebie polish.  I paid $18 for my extras, which I think is quite reasonable.

All totaled I came up with a value of $46.40 (that’s using Maven pricing) for my January 2016 Julep Box.  I paid $24.99 and was pleased with this box.  I also love that you can skip Julep as needed.

What did you get in your Julep this month?  If you are interested in subscribing you can use this link to get your first month free with a 3-month subscription or click here to get 50% off your first month.