Memebox Beauty Box Review & Coupon – Global #13

Just attempted to purchase two boxes, only to be shown they ship US ONLY! Please revise your information – fail!

I really want to try a meme box… {after reading your review & many others, I can’t wait to get my hands on one of those boxes!!}. But, when I go to the website I feel like I’m in the wrong place/like I’ve clicked on the wrong link. Seems like I keep reading, meme box & then a “#”…maybe that comes after you receive it? I’m super confused. Do you always see the products prior to getting the box like they are listed on the site? Maybe I should wait til next month and see if something changes…

I’m finally glad you decided to do a review on a memebox! I just bought the Girl’s Night Out box and the sleeping beauty box. Which I’m very excited about! I love the majority of there skincare products and so far I’ve noticed a big difference especially with there tea tree oil I got from them.

For the Disney lovers out there, Memebox has 3 Disney Princesses boxes. Snow White (currently sold out), Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. I got the Rapunzel box, hint hair products 🙂 and cant wait to get it. This would be my first Memebox, I love anything Asian so I am really excited to see whats in the box.

I got the superfood box yesterday. Best box ever. The have toner in it that is shaped reminds me of the julep nail polish remover top pump ( great design ) so it is easy to use does not get everywhere, and the product is light and refreshing and smells great. A ginseng wrinkle filler which is interesting and a product i needed to get one of , broccoli wrinkle powder, a peeling gel from volcanic clay. along with a few other great items. I also got the special k beauty box #22. – It had a sunscreen in it valued at $55 – Sleek and smells nice, The special k beuty box has a citrus smelling perfume rollon that was nice. I did not like the waterproof lip gloss ( to bright for me – it’s up for swap ) Both boxes are great. The superfood box is so far the most interesting and best box I’ve tried. I also like the special #22 beauty box, and would order both again, yet the superfood box is more to my liking. – I’m not a fan of makeup, and the bright colors that memebox has does not look okay on my fair skin. — So far MeMe boxes have been the best boxes I’ve ordered. – I’ll still keep my blush mystery box and glossy box for the values yet have canceled other boxes to get the MeMe box and for me it has been a great budgeting decission.

I purchased a “Memebox from Nature” a couple months ago. It was my first box from them, and for the $30 that I paid for it, I actually felt like I was getting a great deal.

Everything was full size, and I fell in love with the Green Tea Sheet Masks. One of the products was a full size Snail Extract Facial Peel. I try to steer more towards vegan products, but I did give this peel a try since it was still organic (and Asians have great skin!) It was a little too harsh for me, and I felt super guilty about the all the little snails that gave their lives!

Anyway, today I received The Traveler’s Beauty Kit + the Super Food Box Value Set. I paid $45 (included free priority international shipping) and the value was just under $200. (And no snails!) the Superfood box is amazing. I think you would like this one, if it comes back in stock. All full size products made of vegetable extracts! There was even a broccoli toner! I’ve never been so excited to wash my face! Lol

Liz, there are some new boxes which won’t contain snail products. There is a new ” Cafe box” ( I don’t like the taste or smell of coffee so I passed but it seems to be popular), a new Yogurt skin care box which should be great for sensitive skin, an eyebrow box which is under $20 and is a Superbox which means all the products are full sized, and a really cute ” Meme’s Pouch” box which appears to contain both a cosmetic bag and several different products ( facial color items it looks like to me from the photo).

However, and I say this out of experience with over 22 Memeboxes, the GREATNESS in Korean ” cosmetics” ( they call skin care ” Cosmetics” also) is the skin care.
The color products are not what most of us are used to wearing. I got an eyeshadow compact and the main color is a cranberry red.. Luckily, it was a gift from a very good company called Missha. If you are a Glossybox subscriber and have been from the beginning, you will remember the gorgeous BB cream from Missha. It was in a dark red tube with a nice pump top which was gold colored. I ” saved” mine– now I know where to buy more..

But other than BB creams, your very best bet in Memeboxes will be the targeted skin care boxes, not the color cosmetics. I do not like the colors most of the time ( green lip gloss, very flat colors like from the drugstore bargain bin, IMO).

In all my expansive and expanding Memebox world, I’ve never gotten a snail product at all. I consider that to be extreme luck, but also I chose my boxes, whereas the company sent you one that would not make me extremely happy to get if I had paid for it…..

Korea has its own FDA certification for cosmetics and like I said, their definition of ” cosmetics” definitely includes all skin care items. I just bought 4 more boxes. Go have a look and find something that looks like it would be good for your skin. type. 🙂
Lots of people have liked the Vitamin care box.. It’s still available and the products are all citrus scented. NO snail or collagen. 🙂

Seems like I am in the minority here in that I feel a bit disgusted by many of the Memeboxes I have seen discussed.

Admittedly I haven’t tried any of the boxes myself so I couldn’t know for sure, but the descriptions of the products seem a bit hokey/disgusting to me…..

More for the rest of you! Enjoy. 😉

Regarding the ” Collagen” comment:
I think women should KNOW where our cosmetic collagen comes from. It is pertinent as there is quite a LOT of Collagen in the Memebox products which are for hydration.

Cosmetic grade collagen comes from the ” hard” parts of hoofed animals, usually beef. This means that after the meat is harvested at the slaughter house, the connective tissue, bones and hooves are boiled and processed to render a gelatin- type substance when cooled. This is pure Collagen as we know it.

Gelatin also used to come from the same source.

IF you look on Memebox.com you will see a picture of a Collagen specific box called ” Collagen”. The little tan colored see through squares are exactly what fresh collagen from beef bones and hooves looks like.
This stuff does not help your skin, but if it is improperly processed, it can become rancid quickly and if not used within a reasonable length of time, collagen- rich products are subject to both breaking down into a jelly and also to bacterial and fungal growth which is sometimes NOT evident when looking or smelling the product.

Hi Liz!

I am in love with Memebox!!! i have received a substantial amount of boxes from them and I can truly say that i have yet to be disappointed. if i could make any recommendations i would suggest that you order boxes that are specific to your skin care needs for example there is currently moisture surge box for individuals who have dry skin issues and a free from oil and trouble edition that helps with oily, acne prone skin. there are also fun themed boxes that cover head to toe items such as milk, cacao, and the new yogurt cosmetics box. i really believe that which ever box you choose you will enjoy. just read the descriptions and choose according to your interests. 🙂

I freaking LOVE Memebox! There isn’t any box in the world that approaches the uniqueness and the VALUE…you genuinely are surprised (99 percent of the time, pleasantly surprised) by what you get. If you’re hyper picky or overly sensitive, though, you should probably pass on it. I look at it this way: all those Koreans using these haven’t died from it, so what’s good for Korea is great for me! (And besides, they have a GREAT affiliate program, and that’s what beauty box reviews are all about. 🙂 )

Here’s the ingredient list: Wheatgrass extract 75%, Shea butter, Sorbitan olivate, Niacinamide, Cetearyl olivate, Caprylic/capric triglyceride, Glycerin, Cetearyl alcohol, Squalane, Isoamyl laurate, Jojoba seed oil, Sodium hyaluronate, Propanediol, Betaine, Beta glucan, Caprylyl glycol, Trehalose, Meadowfoam seed oil, Propanediol dicaprylate, Hydrogenated olive oil unsaponifiables, Butylene glycol, Hexanediol, Illicium verum, Scutellaria bbaicalensis root extract, Portulaca extract, Green tea water, Viscum Album (Mistletoe) Ferment Extract, Imperata Cylindrica Root Ferment Extract, Lactobacillus / Soybean Ferment Extract, Ardisia crenata sims, Magnolia extract, lysine, Histidine, Argenine, Aspartic Acid, Threonine, Serine, Glutamic Acid, proline, glycine, Alanine, Valine, Methionine, isoleucine, leucine, Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, Cysteine, Calendula Flower Water, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Jasmine oil, Geranium oil, Cetyl Palmitate, Sorbitan Palmitate, adenosine, Sodium Acrylate/Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Isohexadecane, Polysorbate 80.
Translated by fanserviced-b.com

Snail mucous does sound gross but read up on it. They use the filtrate after they purify it. Snails regenerate quickly so the properties are supposed to be similar that it helps your cells regenerate quicker so it’s an anti aging thing. It is in US stuff already in fact Michael Todd Organics if I remember has it in one product in particular. There’s actually facials where people let snails climb all over their face. That I cannot do, but a purified filtrate is different. It has no smell either. Not any weirder than the ever now popular salmon egg filtrate used in Perricone stuff or other products as an exfoliant.

Don’t worry about the whitening properties. Asian cosmetics say “whitening” when they really mean evening out skin tone. Whitening means fading sun spots, more even complexion, etc. They don’t actually whiten the skin!

LOVE MEMEBOX! Wish I could afford more! Their cosmetics are very high quality.

Love these boxes! I do tend to grab more makeup boxes which are on their way! 😉 I have used the Missha snail line for a long time now and love it, so I got the 2nd Snail memebox that’s waiting to be opened but I’m sure I’ll like it too! If u buy 5 boxes within 3mo? you turn VIP-discounts.

IT Cosmetics CC cream contains Snail Secretion Filtrate. You might be using snail by-products more than you realize.

I recommend the blog Unboxing Beauty for details on Memeboxes. The writer of that blog gets just about all of them and does a great job hunting down the ingredients and how to use information.

I got a couple of these boxes but won’t get anymore. The snail thing bothers me – I presume they are killing snails for the process. Once I thought it through I realized this stuff is made in a country without the controls they have here in the US for products. It just gave me enough of the heebie-jeebies to stop subscribing.

I’ll keep Q box and other foreign boxes with cutesy stuff you don’t put on or in your body!

The CC cream that I got from #13 was the sun based one and it comes out white but it changes to your skin tone color in a few seconds. So maybe yours is the same way.

I was so surprised to read this post and discover that snail mucus is now a cosmetic ingredient. That’s just bizarre! First: who decided to use it? What was the decision-making process there?!? Second: how exactly do they EXTRACT the mucus? Scraping? Squeezing?

Sorry, it’s just mind boggling to me!

Liz – For some reason I thought you were gluten-free. Are you able to tolerate gluten in cosmetic products? I was surprised to read that you might try the wheat germ creme. My sister is GF, but not a celiac. She’s noticed an improvement in symptoms since staying away from products with gluten in it.

I had to google about the use of snail in cosmetics. I’ve learned a lot from this blog.

MeMe boxes look fun. Enjoy.

I’m not too keen on snail mucus. But I have a PhD in biochemistry and I work at a patent law firm. And I have learned more about consumer products in the last two years at my job than I EVER wanted to know. Beef tallow in some plastics, and don’t even get me started on how collagen and (non-vegan) hyaluronic acid are extracted.

Memeboxes are AWESOME! The site is really easy to use once you get familiar with it. I have three Memeboxes coming… I’m always looking for more!

I got this same box and laughed at the tampons too. Thanks Korea, but we already have those here lol!

Memeboxes are sooo fun to get just for kicks, they can shake up your boring old routine for sure. I’ve fallen in love with Korean sheet masks and don’t think I’ll ever go back to regular masks-in-a-tube again.

I’m on hiatus with buying any more Memeboxes though. I went on a slight binge earlier this year and now have a small mountain of foreign beauty goods I need to use up before I buy more. I think I only have one more coming (Zero Cosmetics, you shoulda bought that one Liz, it was all natural stuff) and then I’m done for a good long while.

I think snail extract is a new thing in Asian skincare. It’s supposed to work really well! I’ve been debating which boxes to buy. Maybe I’ll decide soon. -.- Lol.