Subscription Box Favorites: 2012 Edition

Well, it hasn’t really been a year since I subscribed to my first beauty box, but 2012 is over and I wanted to sit down and round up my favorite products received across various subscriptions. This helps evaluate them based on how many products I ended up loving to the point where I can’t live without them so you really see the personal value of each one in the long run.

Some services I’ve been longer with than others but I give all of them a fair chance to impress me and introduce me to great products. Here are my all-time subscription favorites discovered in the year of 2012. Sure there were dozens of other products I “liked”, but the ones below I absolutely loved and will repurchase with almost 100% certainty.

Beauty Subscriptions
Beauty Army:

1. Macadamia Natural Oil Healing Oil Treatment – July

Beauty Fix:

1. Exuviance Rejuvenating Treatment Masque – Summer
2. Stila Set and Correct Baked Powder Trio – Summer

Birchbox:

1. Benefit It’s Potent! Eye Cream – December
2. theBalm cosmetics Mary-Lou Manizer – October
3. Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner in Black – July
4. Hair Rules Lift Volumizing Shampoo – June

Glossybox:

1. Skin&Co ROMA Truffle Serum – November
2. Ahava Mineral Botanic Velvet Cream Wash Hibiscus & Fig – June

Ipsy:

1. Coastal Scents Eye Shadow Quad in Maroon Berry, Flesh Tone, Caramel and Light Bronze – October

Sample Society:

1. Kate Somerville ExfoliKate Intensive Exfoliating Treatment – October
2. Diptyque in Vetyverio – September
3. Ahava Purifying Mud Mask – September
4. Deborah Lippmann Nail Lacquer in Private Dancer – August
5. Malin + Goetz Vitamin E Face Moisturizer – August

New Beauty Test Tube:

1. Moroccanoil Intense Hydrating Mask – Fall
2. IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye in Neutral Medium – Fall
3. Mémoire Liquide ‘Vacances Liquide’ Eau de Parfum – Spring
4. Mally Evercolor Shadow Stick in Platinum – Spring
5. SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical UV Defense SPF 50 – Spring

Wantable:

1. Beauty For Real Light Up Nail Polish in #1 Red – December

Lifestyle Subscriptions
Cravebox:

1. Bic Soleil Bella Disposable Razor – Summer Beauty

POPSUGAR:

1. Bodum Bistro Double-Wall Insulated 10-Ounce Glass Mugs – December
2. Tea Forte Sampler – December

Food Subscriptions