British Beauty Blogger BBB Edit Box

When Mez from Mez Made Up posted the details of this limited edition beauty box from British Beauty Blogger I knew I had to get my mitts on one! 

The box cost £15.00 plus postage & packing, which is an absolute bargain.  There was a limited quantity of 500 boxes which sold out within hours.

I have not been excited about a beauty box for a long, long time and this has to be the best box EVER!  Look at all those fabulous beauty goodies.

The box also contained a leaflet with an explanation of each product, along with some discount codes, promotional leaflets and a sachet of Lanolips.

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Trilogy Rosehip Face Oil 20ml

Philosophy Purity Cleanser 90ml

Neom Complete Bliss Hand Cream 50ml

Elemis Tri Enzyme Face Mask 15ml

Melvita Orange Blossom Water 28ml

Melvita Apicosma Body Balm 15ml

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B. Mascara 8ml

Lanolips Lip Balm in Rhubarb 17.5ml

Jo Loves Pomelo Fragrance 2ml

Bourjois Cream Blush in Shade 02 2.5g

Illamasqua Liquid Metel Eye Shadow in Electrum 8g

Benefit Cosmetics The Porefessional 7.5ml

CND Solaroil 3.7ml

I received my box last Saturday and as I was going through the contents I realised I was missing the Bioeffect Serum.  I emailed the customer service address on Saturday afternoon not expecting a response until Monday but I got one later on the Saturday afternoon! They sent me the serum and I got it on Thursday.  Can't fault the customer service one bit!

I am so excited to try all the items in the box, there is nothing that I won't try and I can't remember the last time I got a beauty box where I was happy with all the contents! 

Jane has said she will be doing a box for Christmas and I will definitely be getting one, I can't wait to see whats in it! 

Did you manage to get one of these boxes?

Selfridges Beauty Box - Alternative Box

I'm sure you will have all heard about the Selfridges beauty box by now and heard how us beauty lovers managed to crash the Selfridges website in our excitement to get our hands on one of these limited beauty boxes - it was honestly like trying to get sort after concert tickets! After the initial batch sold out Selfridges released a few more boxes and I was lucky enough to be sat at my computer and after a lot of hassle with the website crashing, payment authorisation crashing etc I managed to finally purchase a box.

However, the next day I got a phone call from Selfridges to say that a computer glitch meant that they had sold more boxes than they had in stock, I thought they were calling to tell me they would have to cancel my order but no they were telling me they were going to refund the postage of £4.95 making the box a total of £15 and were going to add in an extra item for the inconvenience! The downside being that the box wouldn't be dispatched until the first week in September.

No box arrived and we had an email to say that they were waiting on an item from the USA, then Thursday night a dispatch email! The box turned up yesterday, which was my birthday so this was a perfect present!

Yes Selfridges it really is!

With the box being delayed I wasn't sure if I would get the same products as the original box, but on inspection it looks like I did.

Philip B Katira Hair Mask 60ml.

Selfridges don't actually sell this product on their website, but I found it for £14.90 here

Stila One Step Skin Tone Correcting, Brightening Serum 30ml

This is actually one of the products I was most looking forward to getting in the box as I have been eyeing it up in Boots for the past couple of months. I love how pretty it looks!

It retails for £24.00 on Selfridges website

Estelle & Thild Organic Lip Balm 15ml

The balms is Raspberry and it smells gorgeous, it comes in three different colours - I got natural and it retails for £16 at Selfridges

Aesop Remove 15ml

This is an eye makeup remover, again I can't find this item for sale on Selfridges website but 100ml retails for £20.72 here making 15ml worth £3.11

Omorovicza Deep Cleansing Mask 5ml

Selfridges don't stock any Omorovicza products on their website, but 50ml retails for £57 here making the sample worth £5.70

Bio Effect EGF Serum 5ml

I have read rave reviews about this product and I can't wait to try it!

Again Selfridges don't sell Bioeffect products but you can buy the 5ml for £49 here

Antipodes Organic Avocado Oil & Rosehip 30ml

Bizarrely another brand that Selfridges don't stock?! Retails for £18.99 here

Ciate Pom Pom Sample Size

This is the extra item, I don't know how much this retails for as it doesn't have say how much is in it. It's a very pretty colour though!

The products total a whopping £131.70! I do think it is a bit bizarre that the box contains a lot of brands/products that Selfridges don't actually stock. I can't wait to try everything in the box, it was definitely worth waiting for and one of the best birthday presents ever!

 What do you think of the box? Did you manage to get your mitts on one?