Birchbox August 2016 Sample Choice Spoilers + Coupon!

Okay… Canceling my BB subscription after this month. No hard feeling BB, you have been great and I have enjoyed our time together, but we both need something new and different. I give myself $45 a month on sub boxes and am thinking of revamping/mixing things up and need your help. For $45 a month…will not go over… This NYC gal learned her lesson when looking at what apartments just above her budget will get her… Let’s just say, “Don’t text drive a Mercedes when you can only offord a hand me down Huffy…” Anyways, back to the point. For strictly $45 or under, what’s everyone recommendations on subcription boxes on the women’s beauty/fashion themed (excluding Birchbox) subs? I do have a/nother subscription(s), but, I’m willing to say goodbye if people really suggest others. Plus, I want to see if people suggest the it/them. Any help is appreciated and thanks everyone!!! ps. Liz… Thanks for this site! I’m a frequent visitor and just love the personal feel and reading everything people have to say! Just between you and me… When I open my subs, I love to review the boxes myself like I was reviewing them for your site. I know, super dorky, but it help keeps me honest of what I want to keep and what I want to swap! If you ever need a guest reviewing… My cat will endorse skills and years of experience! Thank you and awesome job with the site!

I’m torn. I’d prefer the curated box, but the last two months they’ve put it in the “gift with purchase” section if you spend $35. That means I could get a regular surprise box and also the curated one just two weeks later if I bought something… For some reason that annoys me, I don’t want a second curated box, but I might want both.

When you use points to buy something does it still count as $ for a “gift with purchase?”

I have very long, straight, thicķ, hair. It’s pretty coarse, it gets frizzy and it tangles horribly. I could use any product that could help me fix that problem. I have to really tug on my hair to get the tangles out.

I love Stila long lasting lipcolor. I wear it everyday, but I have never tried the color Patina. The color Dusty Rose looks really pretty and I wear pink all the time. That would be a lipcolor I would wear a lot. I think that would be the box I would choose.

I don’t like any of the sample picks. Does anyone know if the salt spray could work as a hairspray before French braiding?

I don’t need or want hair oil…..don’t use it, don’t like it.

Maybe the curated box? Even with the oil, it might be ok.

I was hoping boxes would be great to keep us. I am giving them till the end of the year to wow me. Frankly, I was more wowed by my target box than birch box! that’s pathetic! Lol

Birchbox is sending me a Third box. Because they keep sending me the generic pink lid box with the Navy blue bottom and that another empty coola primer. They sent replacement coola primer separate and it was a quarter of the way full. I was going to cancel an now I’ll wait. My daughter resubscribed with Free100 code and did her review and got 50 points for her 6 small samples. Give them one more month.

I purchased a gift sub for myself last year during a Christmas deal I think? And have been debating on cancelling, but the curated box is making me want to stay. I only have 4 boxes left, so it’s not really a big deal, especially since I’m paying less than $10 a box. It’s still frustrating though, that I never use all the items. There’s always something I can’t use, either because of color (I’m red headed/fair skinned) or hair type (thick, curly), or it’s a perfume sample which I specifically stated I wanted NONE of. Ugh. First world problems.

Are you serious? Most of this stuff was in the past 3 boxes. So disappointed. I’m out.

Does anybody know how many subscribers they have lost since changing their points system? I had two subscriptions and am definitely cancelling one of them. They samples seem to have gotten smaller and getting rid of the points was a horrible idea. My last box had two one-use samples. Pretty disappointing. I thought they would step it up a bit.

Has anyone successfully cancelled their yearly sub after the whole points change debacle? I’ve been debating about whether to try and cancel for next month. I only have a few boxes left in the subscription (maybe through November) but I’m seriously disappointed with the points change and not excited at all lately about any of the sample choices.

I got a black Friday deal so each box costs me about $6.75 so definitely not paying the full $10 price. So that’s another factor to consider. When I do cancel, plan to subscribe to Play because their sub looks awesome.

Can anyone tell me how the oribe sample choice would be for naturally wavy, long hair?

I’m gonna go with the curated box. Looks good to me and I haven’t completely given up on BB yet.

Liz! I heard you on NPR this morning! You were great!

Target sales Acure products and the wipes.

I love love love the badlands dry shampoo paste – I use it almost daily.

*Sigh* I was waiting to see what August brought, but I just cancelled. I haven’t used one product from my July box (NOTHING matched my profile) and am so underwhelmed. Birchbox told me I’ve gotten 57 boxes. =( I am sad to go, but the Birchbox I loved (with great plus items and lifestyle items and new-to-me brands and discovering new holy grail items) seems to be gone. I am hopeful they might come back, but not enough to pay $10 a month!

Was going to cancel this month, but I may choose the Oribe product- I love the brand but it’s so expensive. The curated box also looks pretty good but I just bought a full size of the BB cream ? Decisions, decisions!

I absolutely love the curated box. I JUST got the BB cream for July, but I personally thought it was great. I don’t like foundation, but it was barely there so I was happy. And I love Living Proof brand, and I think that lip color is lovely.

So far, I’m going to continue my BB sub. We will see how it goes. I will truly miss the points. I finally cashed in my $40 worth for some stuff I had been eyeing. I have this deep hope that maybe they will see it was a bad way of doing it and bring back at least a little of the review points. Even Ipsy’s eventually works out to get something here and there. And they aren’t nearly as generous.

loving the curated box! i don’t think i’ve ever actually got one of them; but this may be my first. Unless they do the coupon to add on a purchase.

I may be in the minority here but I really like the curated box this month! Repeats and all. I am always up for trying new face wipes, I love the beauty protector spray, the Stila color looks so pretty, love the bb cream for camping and I haven’t tried the living proof oil before. I’m not so sure about the hum item but 5 out of 6 items is a winner for me.

I’m excited for the curated box! I’ve been with birchbox for a year and the only product I’ve already received is the Beauty Protector and I don’t mind another of those.

I’m prefacing this by saying I’m no longer a BB subscriber, but was for about two years.

I hate to say it but there are some pretty good items offered this month. The PROBLEM is they’re items that HAVE been offered EVERY month for over two years!!!

The Beauty Protector oil and spray conditioner are both AWESOME. I LOVED the oil. I have fine hair and it never weighed my hair down and it smelled amazing! The sample was small but it lasted forever. The conditioner has the same scent and was also lightweight.

Also, that Oribe spray is coveted to me. I would love someday for someone to give me a full sized can of it, but no way would I ever spend the ~$50 it cost. It worked wonders for my hair and is probably the BEST “wave” spray I’ve tried (and I’ll try any beach wave spray I can get my hands on).

I always enjoyed when BB included the lifestyle items (food, hair accessories) and I see that there’s a powder drink in the curated box. It’d be nice to see them go back to doing that.

With that said, none of this stuff would make me want to resub but I thought maybe new subscribers might get use out of my thoughts.

Oooh, Oribe… Beach Wave spray. Dammit.

From the video, it sounds like you pick one sample from the list and then receive a surprise item based on your profile? I am leaning towards the curated box. I want to try the Stila liquid lipstick as I gave away the bright pink one from before.

I was hoping the Oribe product would be any of their shampoos/conditioners or Impermeable spray–I use that like crack during the summer and it’s pricey so a travel size would have been nice. I already have an Oribe beach spray somewhere from either this or another box. None of the other choices are really calling my name.

Glad I cancelled. I’m picky about my beauty products. Play allows me to sample brands I trust. I’ll stick with that.

Although I really enjoy most of the items I get in Birchbox every month, I’ve been really disappointed these last few months with the sample choices, and the curated box. Sometimes I don’t want any of the products available to choose from, and sometimes I want only one, but sometimes I want all of them. I think they need to do a better job of choosing items, instead of the constant repeats. Oribe texturizing spray is always welcome – I love using it. But the marcelle BB cream is just awful, along with Coola products (their tinted sunscreen was horrible). They need to go back to celebrity curated boxes!