Beauty Box 5 August 2014 Review, Pictures, Swatches: Radiant and Remarkable

The season is coming to an end, but we are still shining! In August Beauty Box 5 is committed to helping us prolong the Summer glow and carry that carefree attitude well into Fall. It’s time to bust out those bright lip glosses, and nail glitter, and embrace the remaining August days!

HOW IT WORKS
For $12/month subscribers will receive a box filled with a carefully selected mixture of five travel-sized, deluxe-sized and full-sized cosmetic products from luxury, commonly known brands, niche brands, eco-conscious and even vegan brands. Aimed at introducing women to new cosmetic products and educating them on best practices, Beauty Box 5 scours the market to find the best products for your lifestyle.
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La Fresh Travel Lite Makeup Remover Wipes – These biodegradable and compostable wipes are enriched with vitamin E, so they cleanse and moisturize the skin at the same time. This is a great option for traveling!

I brought these wipes with me to visit family in Indianapolish, so I actually used them all up already. I must say, while they are definitely good at removing makeup, I found that the formula really irritated my eyes. If you also have sensitive eyes, I think these are an easy pass.

Nanacoco Lip Gloss in First Kiss – This is not a brand I’m familiar with, so I had to look it up to find more info. Looks like they offer inexpensive beauty products at wholesale prices, and their lip glosses are enriched with Vitamin E.

The formula is very saturated, it’s almost like an ultra-glossy melted lipstick. I only needed one swipe to coat my lips with opaque fuchsia color, which by the way looks way different in real life than it does on the site. I’m very picky about my lip products so I will probably have to find a new home for this gloss. It’s very pretty, but I am just too paranoid about the ingredients.

Pur~lisse Pur~protect SPF30 – I don’t know why, but this brand never seemed to have any appeal to me. It has everything I would like in skincare, but for some reason I just have zero desire to use their products. Silly, isn’t it?

According to the description, this particular moisturizer is enriched with soy proteins, peptides, something called Lotus Lupine 5, and white tea extract. It also offers broad-spectrum sun protection and a fast-absorbing formula that works well under makeup.

Novex Brazilian Keratin – My hair is pretty straight already so I never use keratin treatments like this one. I do sometimes use a keratin-infused spray to tame frizz on especially bad hair days, but that’s usually as far as I go. I’m still undecided if I should give this sample away or try it myself,I’m just afraid to mess up my already fragile hair. Have any of you with straight and fine hair used keratin treatments before? How did it go?’

The company describes this product as a deeply nourishing hair treatment that infuses hair with keratin and Vitamin E to make it smoother and shinier. The treatment was made using only Brazilian ingredients to provide an authentic experience.

Style Essentials Nail Polish – Looks like subscribers received different colors of nail polish: some got glitter top coats, others received shimmers and metallics. I had a hard time finding the actual product site, but BB5 is selling a set of four for $7 in their online store.

I got this mix of mint and white hex, bar, and round glitters suspended in a clear base, that would look great over a solid color. I think those glitters will really pop when applied with pastel yellow and pastel pink solid base.

THE VERDICT
This month Beauty Box 5 felt a little… cheap? I don’t know about you, but I just didn’t love it as much as their previous boxes, and I probably would have been a bit disappointed if I bought it. That’s only my opinion, of course, that some of you may disagree with. Even though I didn’t particularly like any of the products, this box was an exception rather than the rule, because most of the previous months have been great. With that said, I’m sure the September box will be a lot better!