June is the perfect month for those planned and unplanned vacations, staycations, and spontaneous road trips, so pack your things, grab a cosmetic bag filled with beauty samples and enjoy a well-deserved bon voyage!
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. Click here to subscribe.
Urban Decay Perversion Mascara has a really great formula that really helps build up the volume at the base of my lashes. I don’t think it was very effective for lengthening, but it might eliminate the need for tightlining if you sort of wiggle it from side to side a couple times. I also like that the color is a true, intense black, rather than gray or dark charcoal.
There were different scents of Herbal Essences Body Wash sent out, and I got Honey, I Smell Good, that smells like honey, fruits, and flowers. It’s a fabulous summery scent that can make anyone feel happy by simply taking a shower.
I’m just not a black & white makeup person, so I think I’ll include LOL Rotational Eye Shadow Palette in 01 Black Berry as an extra in one of my little gift bags. LOL is a very inexpensive drugstore brand from Australia, that apparently makes high quality products, sort of like e.l.f.
Nails Inc Nail Polish in Bruton Street is a beautiful pale grayish pink, that belongs in my Spring color palette, but I can see it looking very pretty with a slight tan. I like Nails Inc formula, because it usually wears well on my nails, and i’m happy to add another bottle to my collection.
I’ve seen so many blog posts about Simple Skincare Micellar Cleansing Water, and almost went to pick up a full-sized bottle to try. Glad I waited! This month we got a little peelie sample of it to try, as well as a $2 off coupon, which I’m totally going to redeem.
THE VERDICT: Initially I thought that including a magazine insert peelie in the box and counting it as one of our five samples was super stingy, but the more I look at these products, the better I feel about them. After all, it’s not every day I can get my hands on a sample of Urban Decay mascara, and the full-sized nail polish will most definitely be used. I also loved the body wash, and I like that it’s from an affordable brand, so I can just go and buy it without feeling guilty about washing money down the drain [pun intended]. So yeah, after all, what I thought would end up a sad box, turned out to be not so bad after all.
Have you tried Urban Decay Perversion Mascara before? Do you have a favorite body wash? Let me know in the comments below!
| Product | Retail value |
|---|---|
| Urban Decay Perversion Mascara | $5.50 |
| Herbal Essences Body Wash | $1.00 |
| LOL Rotational Eye Shadow Palette | $3.00 |
| Nails Inc Nail Polish | $9.50 |
| Simple Skincare Micellar Cleansing Water | $0.00 |
| Box Retail Value | $19.00 |
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I really love those herbal shower gels! They smell so good! Looks like you got a great box this month.
I used to buy them often in the past, then switched to Tone and Softsoap for my drugstore picks, and The Body Shop + L’Occitane as my high end body washes. I think I may need to revisit the line, because they added some really fun scents recently. In the end this was a pretty good box, although when I first saw that peelie with micellar water, I started shaking the box trying to figure out if there’s a sample missing.
I’m not sure how to even use a peely sample of micellar water! lol. UD Perversion mascara is one of my faves right now for a dark, sleek look. It’s not a big, showy mascara, for sure. The nail polish is pretty, and I love that you got a whole palette from a new brand, though it would have been nice to get colors you’d try.
Well, it can be peeled off from the side and squeezed onto a cotton round, but yeah, not too happy about the peelie. I like the rest of the samples though, especially UD mascara.
There are some really nice goodies in this box but I would have been a little bummed to get the sample of the micellar water – trying to figure out how I would use it without making a mess. Overall – the polish, mascara – great goods.
Agreed, despite that tiny peelie sample, I thought it was a good box.
The cleansing water is THE BEST
I loved reading about it on everyone’s blogs 🙂 Definitely redeeming that $2 off coupon!