Julep Jewel Heist Mystery Box Time! & $10 Coupon!

When they were still advertising this particular mystery box, I actually was able to write a review. HOWEVER, I think they filtered it out and chose not to show it…probably because it was fairly negative. The only reviews they chose to allow on their page, were 5 star reviews from people who hadn’t even received their box yet, but who were apparently excited enough for it to give it 5 stars w/o even seeing the contents, lol! That’s funny when people review products without actually receiving them. Anyhow, I’m never ordering from Julep ever again. Memebox has been my favorite beauty box thus far, and I think I’ll stick with that!!!

Big ditto – I bought this box to evaluate Julep and see if it was worth a subscription and I am so disappointed.

I know why they called it a mystery box – because it’s clear they had NO idea what they were thinking. Nothing in the box made any sense.

Horrible yellow/green polish, completely a summer color. Then I got a blush brush, with no blush. Gel eye liner in black, with no brush to apply it. And brown mascara… um, can nothing in this box work together???

Last, some kind of facial masque that I just don’t know if I’ll trust with my skin.

Really, I couldn’t be more disappointed.

It’s so interesting to see what other people have gotten in the box! I haven’t seen many posts on it yet so far and I’ve been really curious. This is the first mystery box I’ve ever bought and unless I get a really good deal again I prob won’t ever buy again. I just see it as a way for them to offload unpopular items… Which from the colors I got I can see I was right. Three are straight up diarrhea colors. Awful. I did get one really great dark purple color though.
I also got an overnight repair for hands which is on sale at 19.99 – so that at least paid for itself since I only spent $14.99 on the box and is something I will actually use.
I also got a lip gloss. Interesting since it seems most people have only gotten 1 polish so far and the rest beauty items…

I agree with you 100%! This mystery box was my first ever Julep purchase and I don’t think I’ll be doing business with them again. I bought the mystery box with the code and purchased on the 3 mystery add-ons, which totaled to about $45. Today I received two of the exact same eye shadow palettes, a lip gloss, eye lid primer, 2 hair ties, flower seeds (because the end of September is when you normally plant flowers!) and 7 polishes.

Granted the polishes alone cover my $45 investment but two of those polishes are yellow and everything in my box was from 2013. :/ I know it is a mystery box so I was buying a box of random stuff but if you’re going to send out polishes from 2013, at least send out 2013 FALL shades. This was my first and last time doing business with Julep.

Leah – can I ask what you don’t like about Jamberry? I keep seeing it on instagram and they look cute, but I’ve never actually talked to anyone that’s tried it.

The gel eyeliner was from February – you’d think it should still be in good shape! I went through all my cosmetics yesterday to get rid of stuff I didn’t use and when I opened my Julep gel eyeliner pot, it was all dried up. I have never even used it. That really sucks that yours was dried up when it hadn’t even been opened yet.

My Julep eye sheen had also deflated to less than half its original size and the texture was completely changed.

Julep seems to have a lot of issues with their beauty products – I wonder how much testing they put them through before releasing them.

I really do love Julep polish but there are things that make me want to stop buying from them. A major one is that their swatches rarely look like the actual color of the product. For example, the aurora pink lip crayon was a brighter pink than I expected and I was completely disappointed because I hate the color. Yet, some colors look much better than the swatches. So frustrating.

Mine shipped today, they sent me an email. I live in Cali and it says I can expect my box by next Friday. I did the mystery box plus the 3 mystery add ons but this is my first ever Julep order. 🙂 I hope it has diamond earrings in it!!

I just got a tracking email a few hours ago and I ordered mine yesterday. Says it will arrive on Monday 🙂

Mine still says processing. Although it’s really only been 2 full days since I ordered and they’ve just started the work day a little while ago in the Pacific time zone. Granted, the polish I ordered on 9/4 shipped 9/4 (and won’t be here until the 16th…argh). I expect these mystery boxes to ship soon (crossing my fingers).

With the last mystery box, there were definitely variations.

I think I used the same line in a conversation the other day!

I’m the same — cant resist even though I have more than enough polish (AND I just bought the Fall Forecast GWP like 2 days ago)!

They have so many sales and specials that I’m not sure that Maven is worth it ($20 for 2 polishes and a random item… I usually get my polishes for $4.99)… but the perks are good so so far I haven’t canceled.

The only thing I don’t like about them is their maddeningly slow shipping.

You should be getting Jules for every regular monthly box you take. (Mystery boxes, secret store, and regular purchases don’t get you Jules, by my understanding.) It does take awhile for them to show up in your account, but they should be there before the next month’s selection window.

Assuming you didn’t spend them for add-ons, if you are not showing any, you should contact them. Although be prepared for a long wait either on hold or for a return e-mail…

Actually for $12.50 – there was no tax! Such a good STEAL!

They charged me the full price after I used a coupon glitch on the last box. It took like an hour to get them to cancel the order, they only did it after I threatened to dispute the charge. Luckily I had a screen shot…

Let’s find out. I was hesitant to order at $25 because I wasn’t so happy with the last mystery box. But I just ordered one using the coupon code and they (so far) have only charged me $14.99. I don’t even need all the birthstone polishes as I already have 4 of them plus the September one on the way.

I have been on the good side of a billing error with Julep in the past and they didn’t retroactively charge me. There was a “3 months for $16.97” code going around awhile back. I used it. Somehow I ended up with a 5 month subscription. (Considering they gave a blogger $15 for a referral, they really didn’t make any money on me with that one…)

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll add that disclaimer to the post.