New Beauty Test Tube Subscription Box Review – March 2015

Thank you for mentioning Tarte! I was looking for a good self tanner and this was amazing!

I wish there was a way whereby we could decline a box that contained too many unwanted products.

The tanning product does not work AND it smells horrible! My friend and I both tried the product together and reacted to the smell simultaneously! We tried it anyway with no color change to the skin.

I like both the lipstick and eyeshadow. Both feel good going on. They are perfect for the “unmade” look that I sometimes want. No notable smell to either.

I kept the Lumene day cream and Key West facial cleanser. I’ve not tried them yet.

All the rest were given away.

I’ve put my membership on hold while I consider what I want to do.

I have been receiving the Test Tube since the beginning. The first year was amazing and the tube was always chock full of great high end items. It seems as though when they changed the tube package from pink to the Tory Burch Knock off pattern, the products began to slip and the repeats were aplenty.
Not to mention the shipping cost of that darn tube is egregious!
I’d still go buy the magazine as it’s super informative but they need to fire the clowns in charge of the tube!
Bye bye Test Tube!

My eye shadow pencil was empty. Odd. It was sealed too. just a completely clean tube after breaking the seal. I emailed them about it, but have yet to hear back. It has been six days. I cancelled this subscription, but they still billed and shipped this box. Personally, I would never waste $$ on the types of products they keep sending me; drugstore hair products, no less.

Key west aloe facialcleanseR ingredients
Water, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Glycerin, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Acrylates Copolymer, Sodium Cocoyl Sarcosinate, Disodium Lauroamphodiacetate, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Polysorbate 20, Babassu Oil Polyglyceryl-4 Esters, Citrus aurantifolia (Lime) Oil, Ocimum basilicum (Basil) Oil, Citrus sinensis (Orange) Peel Oil, Vanillin, Thymus vulgaris (Thyme) Flower Oil, Capric/Caprylic Triglyceride, Citrus aurantium bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Extract, Citrus nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil, Santalum spicata (Sandalwood) Oil, Mentha piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Oil, Citrus limon (Lemon) Peel Oil, Citrus grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Oil, Ferula galbaniflua (Galbanum) Resin Oil, Disteareth-75 IPDI, Glycereth-7 Caprylate/Caprate, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, Methylisothiazolinone.

Do you see any gluten ingredients Liz? Because I can’t have any either. I dont see any.

Over the holidays, I swear I saw this sub for sale at Costco, magazine and all. With all of the repeat products, this seemed like a great way to just get it only sometimes. Of course, now that I’m actively seeking it out, it’s not there anymore.

Does anyone else remember seeing this at Costco, or was I just in the midsts of a Christmas hallucination?

I received my Test Tube yesterday and got everything listed above except the Smile Actives pen… i did however receive a Tarte Maracuja Oil roll-on and a $40 coupon card towards a Hello Fresh subscription in addition to the other items listed above. I was a subscriber in the past and signed back up for this months tube after a year of not getting them and I have to say I am EXTREMELY disappointed. In the past I received more skincare rather than the overdose of hair products. The travel size shampoo and conditioner used to be the extra sent in a small organza bag where basically all of the other items were listed in the booklet. To top it off, the volume treatment cap was unscrewed, the eyeshadow stick is broken as half the stick was already open inside the lid, and the Moisturizer was unscrewed as well – luckily that had a foil covering on it. Ive already unsubscribed and will turn my luck to other subscription boxes in the hopes that I will be able to try NEW products or products I don’t already know about at the very least. New Beauty clearly does not focus on sending out the latest and greatest products to hit the market anymore.

This was my second month getting this box and I decided to cancel. The lip gloss and eye shadow pencil were both so terrible I threw them away. The lip gloss was sticky, hard to apply with the brush, and a bad color. The eye shadow pencil is only good if you want your eyes or cheeks to have full-on glitter on them. It’s not shimmer, it’s truly flecks of glitter. Also I’m tired of getting so many sample sized shampoos and conditioners from all the boxes I get. I’m also cancelling Beauty Joy.

Cancelling today. It just keeps getting worse. When I started a couple years ago it was the bomb! New samples, many full size and well worth the price. Not anymore.

New Beauty Test Tube was the reason I fell in love w/subscription boxes. It saddens me to cancel, but it’s just not as good as it used to be & I can no longer justify spending almost $40 per box on repeats of products I already have.

Does anyone have info about the QVC test tube??? I feel like I missed one!

I first subscribed through QVC and got tried of receiving only their brands, but it seems to have bled over to the company site also. I received a Mally lip volumizer instead of the smile actives. ARGH, I’m getting a little tired of the same old stuff again and again.

This will be my third beauty test tube. The first two were awesome! I loved the value, and the variety of the first two. However this test tube is extremely disappointing. I wish I could return it! I will cancel after seeing the contents of this test tube and wait for spoilers before I resubscribe. I was really excited to get this box, and I am so disappointed now that I know it’s going to be in it!

I got the same as the above but no SmileActives pen! So a far lower value. I do not feel like this sub delivers on the “New” or “Test” aspect of trying things that are new in the market, so I unsubbed after receiving it.

I’ve always wanted to like New Beauty Test Tube but based on your reviews I think it looks like they send a lot of brands I’m not interested in. I agree with some of the other commenters, it just doesn’t seem exciting.

Liz… was there a winter QVC test tube? Thanks….

I tried this subscription in the past but it was not for me. Too heavily weighted on hair products.

I got everything shown plus full size Tarte blush in color Flush ($26 value). So I was actually pleased with this one.

I got the exact same thng as Liz. For, me, this box was weighted too heavily on hair items. I cancelled for many of the reasons outlined in Liz’s post.

I’ve always wanted to try this subscription, but I don’t ever because the boxes are never that exciting. It’s all like tried and true brands. I’m actually pretty tired of seeing John Frieda in subscription boxes. His products have been in Allure beauty boxes a lot. They might be great products for someone, unfortunately do not work well for me. Also a lot of repeats from other beauty boxes too.