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Julep has a new mystery box for Halloween. The banner says that the nail polish will be Halloween-y colors, so I'm hoping this mystery box is an improvement over the last one.
Also, you can add any other nail polish you like to your cart and use coupon code 15PLUS to get that nail polish for free with your order!
COUPON: Get a free nail polish of your choice with your order. Just add the nail polish to your cart with this mystery box and apply coupon code 15PLUS
The Products: "$100+ of Halloween-y color and Bewitching Beauty."
Liz is the founder of My Subscription Addiction. She's been hooked on subscription boxes since 2011 thanks to Birchbox, and she now subscribes to over 100 boxes. Her favorites include POPSUGAR Must Have, FabFitFun, and any box that features natural beauty products!
Liz is the founder of My Subscription Addiction. She's been hooked on subscription boxes since 2011 thanks to Birchbox, and she now subscribes to over 100 boxes. Her favorites include POPSUGAR Must Have, FabFitFun, and any box that features natural beauty products!
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I agree with everyone about how horrible the jewel heist box was. It was honestly pathetic. But i was very happy with the halloween one. I got 3 polishes (plus a 4th with the code), eye primer, doublestep, neutrals eyeshadow palette, eyeshadow brush, and candy corn!! The best mystery box I’ve gotten in a while.
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Heidi
After the jewel heist mystery box, I wasn’t sure if I would ever purchase from julep again. However, I was pleasantly surprised with this box. All the items I received were 2013 or 2014 and I received five nail polishes all in great fall/ winter colors. I haven’t opened my serum yet, so based on other reviews I will have to see if it smells rancid, but all the other items in the box were in good condition. Much better than last month.
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Erin S
Hi all! I took the plunge, before I read this post, and actually got a very good box today! All Halloween colors, candy corn, hand lotion and scrub, eye primer and nail masks. MUCH better than the last few- maybe they are learning??
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Emma C
Very tempting, I love Holiday themed anything but I will pass. I don’t like Julep. I signed up for a free box and it was so hard to cancel my subscription! I’ve also seen and heard many reviews about the mystery boxes and I will not go down that road. Julep seems to be a sinking ship.
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Pilar
I wish there was more nail polish subscriptions out there, cause I can’t deal with Julep right now! :/
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Anne Shaw
I love Square Hue and a portion of their proceeds go to charity. Also I read that Zoya is also going to be doing a nail polish sub.
Liz also reviews some other nail subs – there is one that just does one polish at a time. Square Hue only does 3 polishes and you don’t have any choice in it, but they give you some clever spoilers now based on a World City theme, which I like a lot!
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Chris
Check out squarehue.
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Pilar
Ok, Thanks! I will be checking them out. 🙂
Brooke
FWIW, I really love being a Julep Maven. I love the program, I love customizing the boxes, I love the boxes, I love the many many sales and coupons they have.
BUT I won’t do their mystery boxes. There, they do suck….
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Jennifer
Oh no, Julep, you’re not gonna get me this time. I learned my lesson after the Jewel Heist Mystery Box. That is the last time I ever order a mystery box and get stuck with multiples of last season’s ugly colors that wouldn’t sell. I don’t believe a word they say anymore, and I guarantee these colors won’t actually be Halloween colors.
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CreativelySwank
What’s worse is I just saw some of the colors I have received in the past few month’s mystery boxes at TJ Maxx for $3 ea.
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chris
So they were actually Julep polishes at TJ Maxx? Or just the same colors from a different company… Interesting.
Utena
I completely agree. I also bought the Jewel Heist box and thought and I would get one or two of the jeweled polishes. Nope. Instead I received a bunch of makeup I wasn’t interested in and two multiples I already had. Neither color was jeweled or glittered in any way. My level of excitement went down the drain. So what’s the point of getting a mystery box with a jeweled theme with no jeweled like colors? I was very disappointed and will not be getting a mystery box for awhile.
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Robyn
For anyone considering purchasing a Julep mystery box – please go to the Julep “Subscription Boxes” section of the Makeup Talk forums and look up the September Mystery Box reviews – the thread is titled “Julep Mystery Box: Jewel Heist”. There are 10 pages in the thread currently.
Last month Julep sent out 2+ year old (expired) products in the “Jewel Heist” boxes. This happened to multiple people, and there is correspondence between these individuals and Julep posted.
Some eyeliners were dried out. Some face oils were spoiled. Hand creams and mascaras were past expiration dates, and lip primers were rancid… Julep admitted to sending out old stock (translation: discontinued and past expiration) and basically said that’s the ‘risk’ you take purchasing a mystery box.
Please do your research before purchase and buyer beware!
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Tamara
Wow! Thank you for posting this. I was really tempted a minute ago to get this mystery box because I am soooo in the Halloween spirit, but not if this is the risk I take!
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emiie
Thanks so much for letting me know. I got the mystery box and also actually ordered the face serum and hand creme three of them as presents. I just opened it and it is rancid–it smells so bad. The number on the box set is #6442100. I pinged an email to Julep. I’m hoping they will refund me my money.
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emiie
I called them and they were very responsive. I didn’t get any ‘risk’ associated message. They sent a replacement for the mystery box and they are refunding me for the serum & hand creme. I guess it just depends on who you talk with.
Erin
Wow, I have to say that legally, Julep’s claim that customers assume the risk of receiving potentially dangerous products they can’t legally sell past their expiration date and saying it’s a matter of buyer beware is not just a load of bunk but downright illegal. They cannot pass off expired products as mystery items, for one it’s a violation of federal law and could land them in mucho hot water with the FDA and two, it has nothing to do with the contents being a mystery. Yes, buyers assume the risk they may not like everything in a mystery box but they most assuredly do NOT assume the risk of receiving expired products because legally it’s an impossibility. If they are making those kinds of claims in response to complaints of expired versus discontinued products they are on very shaky legal ground. Caveat emptor doesn’t apply at all in that situation.
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Robyn
I did not buy one of the September boxes so I can’t speak from personal experiences, but there are so many accounts at the thread I mentioned above that I felt it needed to be passed along. (I didn’t give a direct link out since in a sense it’s a referral-revenue competitive link with this site, but there’s definitely enough info to look the post up easily.)
On page 7 (#Post 124) a forum member reported them to the Washington State BBB for false advertising regarding this box. On page 6 (#Post 110) the same member also notified Julep they were in violation of Washington law RCW 9.04.050 (enforceable by the Washington State Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission).
VolGal1919
What are the odds that these colors are from the Halloween-themed Maven Welcome box? I actually did like those colors though I was bummed that I joined right before that welcome box went live so had to select from the normal welcome boxes. Hmmm….
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chris
0-5%. 🙂
Actually, I have no idea. But unlikely.
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Anne Shaw
Not going to get tricked again! I haven’t like most of their mystery boxes and cannot remember one I was floored about. It also became readily apparent that they are used to get rid of unwanted overstock rather than fit the theme of the box. I wish they would fit the themes of their boxes rather than use this as an excuse to clear inventory.
I will wait and see what people actually get. However, if you are building your polish collections, these are not necessarily a bad way to go. I have so much Julep that I am starting to get duplicates with these mystery boxes (and not of the polish I would want duplicates for either).
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Karolina
For those complaining about shipping, Julep just posted on their Facebook that they “broke up” with DHL and will be shipping future stuff from Ohio via Fed-ex.
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Erin
That’s like jumping off the Titanic and getting on the Hindenburg. FedEx is even worse than DHL. By a mile!
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chris
You are hilarious!
Brooke
I will be passing. I really liked the summer mystery box. I think I just lucked out, but I was not impressed with the last one.
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JoyW
Pass! Not falling for another mystery box again. Last month’s was horrible even with the coupon we had. And I agree that u don’t trust what the Halloweeny colors are & when they’ll arrive.
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Sneaky Burrito
Not falling for one of these again. “Halloween-y colors” probably means puky oranges and yellows they couldn’t get rid of in past mystery boxes.
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Amber
Hmm…I wasn’t impressed with the summer mystery box…actually I got colors in that box that I’m SAVING for Halloween, but this sounds really fun and I can come out with at least one polish I liked.
Decisions, decisions…
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Brooke
Hmmm… their mystery boxes are usually pretty bad (& this is coming from a HUGE Julep addict)… but Halloween stuff sounds fun and the free polish works for me!
OTOH , their shipping is SO pony-express-slow that anything ordered today will arrive about a week before Halloween. Not very long to play with the colors. Also Mavens just got a buncha Halloweeny colors in our boxes.
Don’t mind me, I’ll just be arguing with myself over in the corner…
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Vanessa
Definitely passing on this one. I have not had good luck with mystery boxes.
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