Joliebox October 2012

My Joliebox arrived last night, the theme of this months box is Pure and Natural.

Back to the black box this month.

The bag inside the box was really full this month and it is nice to receive two full size products. However......

Balance Me Balancing Face Moisturiser

10ml sample size, 50ml retails for £24 on their website making the sample worth £4.80.

I was so disappointed to see a Balance Me product in the box, I have had so many products from this brand...

Facewash as a freebie in Glamour Magazine - here

Eye Cream in Lux Box - here

Hand Cream in She Said Beauty - here

I have also had the body wash, lip salve and lip balm!

LOV Organic Herbal Tea Bags

The box contains 6 teabags containing a mix of white and green tea.

100g of this loose tea costs £10.70 on their website

20 teabags retail for £8.75 making the 6 bags worth £2.63

Personally I don't like receiving teabags in my beauty boxes! It would have been nice as a little extra but I don't think it fits under the definition of a beauty sample?!

You can use the code JOLIELOV for free UK shipping and a free miniature pack of teabags.

JASON Bee Healthier Lip Balm Stick

The first full size product in the box, this retails for £2.49 here.

This smells nice as it contains peppermint leaf oil and it feels quite moisturing but I have so many lip balms to use up that this will probably get chucked in a drawer somewhere waiting to be used up.

MOA The Green Balm

Sample size but doesn't say how much the tub contains.

Again a product that I have had twice before in beauty boxes! I received it in one of my Lux boxes and in a Latest in Beauty box.

I haven't used both of the other samples yet!

Ritessens Cleanser

The second full size product, I can't find any websites that sell this in the UK or find the price anywhere on the internet!

This is the best product in the box, although I am being careful not to try too many new products on my face at the moment as a lot of products are breaking me out.  As the tube is sealed I will stash this until my skin is behaving!

Overall I am not impressed at all with this box, Joliebox have been my favourite subscription box for months now and the only box I have on subscription now.  This is the first box that I have been disappointed with, I want to discover new products that is why I subscribe! I do not want to receive products that have been in other beauty boxes or given away as freebies with magazines.

Joliebox have always been the box that don't have the same brands that have been featured in other boxes so maybe that is why I am so disappointed in this box.  I hope next months is much better or that might well be the end of subscription boxes for me......

Did you get this box? What did you think?

Lux Box - April

New beauty box on the block this month - Lux Box.  I tried to resist temptation but signed up the day before subscriptions closed.


My first box was delivered this morning.......

Hard to describe the colour of this box - quite like it though!

Packaged like all the other boxes.

Six good sized products.

Couldn't believe it though - I have had nearly all these products in other beauty boxes!!

Balance Me Wonder Eye Cream.  Retails at £14 for this 10ml sample.

This is the only product that I haven't received in another beauty box. I like the products from Balance Me and I'm really getting into natural products at the moment so I'm looking forward to trying this out.

Steamcream.  Full size and retails at around £10.

I had this in my last ever Carmine box (boohoo miss Carmine) it's a really nice light cream that can be used on both your face and body. I love the designs on the tin.  I have two unopened tins so will add this third one to the pile!

MOA The Green Balm.  

This is a 100% natural balm that can be used for anything from cleansing to putting on cold sores! I have one of these from a Latest in Beauty box, I've never really used it as not really sure what to do with it - I'll have a good read on their website.

The pot doesn't say how much it contains, I'm guessing around 5ml, making the sample worth £1.66.

Eldora False Lashes in H101. These are £4.25 on Eldora's website.

Again I received these in a previous Carmine box.  I don't really wear false lashes and I'm building up quite a collection - may have to start wearing them soon.

BM Beauty Eyeshadows.  These are 100% natural mineral eyeshadows.

I got the shades Her Majesty and Marble Sparkle. Her Majesty is  pink with a gold sheen, Marble Sparkle is shimmery grey. These are both 1g sample pots and 2g full size products retail at £7 each making these worth £3.50 each.

I got Her Majesty in Februarys Glossybox and swapped it so this one will probably be up for swaps too, but I would like to try some different colours.

Right then my impressions on LuxBox - there are so many beauty boxes in the market now that they need to stand out from the competition to win new customers and to keep existing ones.  

I think if you don't subscribe to any other boxes then this is a really good box.  As most people I know subscribe to more than one box then they will probably have received at least one of the items in a previous beauty box.

The same brands seem to be repeating in the boxes and I think that if a box is featuring a brand that has been in a competitors box then the person in charge of buying should make sure that the product is different.

As I posted at the weekend I will only be keeping one other box than Glossybox (I have a 12 month subscription) and I don't know if LuxBox will be it :(.

Did you get a LuxBox?  What did you think of yours?