Beauty Fix Subscription Box Review – July 2015

Hi,

Can someone tell me how when they bill? Is it the date that you sign up for the subscription or is it a set date every month?
I’m subbed last month and I’m giving them a couple months before I unsub. I’m hoping the boxes are better when they don’t offer 50% code but I don’t know when to expect to be billed. Can someone help please?

How do you cancel BeautyFix? Do you have to call? I don’t see anything on the website…

I’ve subbed to this box for about a year and a half, and this is easily the most disappointing one yet. I kept feeling like something was missing when going through this box – like the hero item was accidentally left out. I paid full price for this box, and I’m honestly not sure which is worse: being a new subscriber and thinking this is representative of the box’s usual quality, or being a loyal subber and paying full price for a lesser box.

Previously (when Blush) and since the relaunch (BeautyFix), the box had a nice mix of items and had mostly travel/full size items with a few sample/deluxe sizes. This particular month felt like an odd assortment of tiny samples were randomly tossed in a box with little thoughtful curation. Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by stellar boxes, but when a company makes claims of a certain number of items or a certain value, it’s disappointing when they fail to meet it.

I really feel like this month wouldn’t have such a negative response if just one more full sized item had been included. This box just had such an aura of incompleteness about it. Also, I’ve noticed that the whole Dermstore “two free samples with every order” promise is very hit-or-miss when applied to this box. Dermstore, if you’re listening: Your loyal BeautyFix subbers are getting a little tired of seeing the the same SkinMedica and SkinCeuticals samples in just about every box. Tell you what – if you’re so keen to get rid of these bitty sample tubes, why not count those as our two free samples and include a proper item as part of the box? That way, you get rid of your plethora of SkinMedica/SkinCeuticals sample inventory, and we get to look forward to sampling a new product each month. Win-win! If those little tubes were just an extra and didn’t count as part of our box, I don’t think quite so many people would be so down on them.

Well my box never arrived. I kept checking the tracking number and it seems stuck in transit. Anyway I called customer service and they immediately processed another shipment. Like I said before, I’m going to stick around for the August box and then it’s a wrap even if the box blows my socks off. My stockpile of products would probably last me a year.

BOOOO!! Worst Beautyfix/Dermstore box EVER!! When I opened it I was pissed, I paid full price(not the 1 time cost but the monthly)! This is usually one of my fav subs but WOW what a HUGE let down!!! What were they thinking?!?! Let’s rip our subscribers off?? And those clips I’ve gotten for free with almost every DERMSTORE order I’ve ever placed! I just got my Popsugar box and I’m still smiling but this box, BOOOOO!

I’ll give this box one more month. If August is as big of a let down as July, I’m done.

I also received the box for half price, I had been wanting to try this box for a long time and i’m glad it was half price because I would not pay full price for this box, i’m very disappointed. I’m going to cancel, I put the samples in my box that I use to send out goodie bags in swaps or donations. When I pulled the clips out of the bag, I was so excited! I used to use these types of clips in FL but they were metal and they held my hair great, unfortunately these did not. I tried both clips and they still did not hold my hair, it’s very thick and extremely long, so they will be donated. Too bad, I would have kept this box if it had a few bigger/better products.

I was able to return my box for a full refund, including shipping, because they charged another of my cards, not the one on file with them at present.
They have done things like this in the past, so has Glossybox.

This time, though, I’m done. Completely finished with Dermstore and all their little tricks with charging this card, that card or any other card they can find in a customer’s ordering history. I don’t trust the company now, and that makes a bad box intolerable for me.

Am I the only one that *didn’t* like the Lip Quench? I didn’t like the texture, the smell or the taste. The color would have been great if I liked the formula, but that’s definitely a fail for me. I’ll see if my eldest daughter likes it, if not, it goes to my youngest daughter. :\

I am enjoying the Vichy Micellar Water, and will likely to add it to my skincare routine, eventually. As for the Firmarine bar…… I’ve watched how you are supposed to use it… but… I use the Clarisonic….. any suggestions on how to combine the two, because I’d like to try it out.

I won’t be trying the other stuff until I work my way through the mountain of samples I already have; I like to rotate my stock so nothing is out of date, or goes bad before I get a chance to use it.

The clips were OK. I mean, they can hold my hair up with just one clip, so that’s a plus. But I wasn’t wowed by them, AND they were also a “free sample.” I just feel like there was no real thought put into this box and they just threw a bunch of samples in it and shipped it out.

I have to admit this months Beautyfix is not my favorite. I feel it is full of tiny over priced samples. My favorite items were the hair clips. I put many things up for swap. I am debating cancelling.

I got it with the half price coupon, and cancelled as soon as I got the box. I was surprised that the samples were so small. I do like the hair clips, mascara, and lip balm…and I’m happy to try the rest. But I’d be really upset if I paid full price for this.

This box was a bit of a disappointment, but as with all boxes they have their good months and bad months… This happened to be a bad month. I wasn’t really wowed by anything in the box. I received that Harry Josh clips for free from Dermstore a while back, so I wasn’t excited for them, but I’m a cosmetologist and I prefer alligator clips when I’m doing hair… So they’ll get used. The Devacurl didn’t work for my wavy hair at all. I do like the Lip Quench, it’s pretty great. I needed new mascara (I never thought I would say that again). The Bliss stuff us pretty cool and Erno Laszlo is always welcome! Still my favorite box!!

This is a box I find myself cancelling only to get lured back in with a good month, followed by a bad month so I cancel again. This box is one of the worse ones I have gotten, and I will be cancelling again, hopefully, we will get another good box that will have me resubscribing.

I stopped getting this sub a while back. Small sizes, value not even close to what they say. Repeating the same stuff. Some of the samples were expired at time or looked old and dirty. Looks like not a thing has changed.

What a dissappointment! What a let down! I feel as if this marketing ploy to sell the box for half off and get customers made the value low. As a long time subscriber, this box really really upset me.

Canceling for a few months; your move beautyfix. This box was not worth my money.

This was my first month. I’m probably going to cancel. I can’t believe how tiny the samples are

I normally love BeautyFix/BlushMystery but this box?! No. Samples and freebies should not make up the better part of the box. I was so frustrated about the larger part of the value of the box being from two free “not for resale” samples! I squeezed out one of those entire tubes and weighed it on my mailing scale and it was 4 grams of product… Ill be honest and say that it looked like more in a big glop than it did in the tube but still. Unacceptable.

I agree with Rachel and Mary Beth that I actually liked this box. No, it wasn’t their best and yes, the samples were small – but I find that some of the small samples actually last for a lot more uses that I ever thought they would.

People are happy when $10 Birchbox or Ispy are worth over $20 (double the cost) – or amazed when they’re $30-$35 (triple the cost). Yes, BeautyFix promises over $100 (4X the cost!) so if one month isn’t quite there, that’s okay for me b/c it’s still well over double and probably really triple the price. (Assuming you paid full price and not the half price deal.)

I do understand why people are frustrated but just wanted to give a little perspective – my 2 cents.

I got this box only bc I was able to get it half price. I don’t think this box is all that great, but for $13, it’ll work. I probably wouldn’t be happy at all if I had paid full price for it.
And my favorite thing is probably the hair clips too, they just come in handy! Haven’t tried any of the other products yet – the samples are so tiny!

Those hair clips were given away for free about 6 months ago at numerous salons across the country that carry Harry Josh products.

I called DermStore to complain. My argument was that the box does not reach the promised $100. They tried to say it did, by counting the alleged value of the “free samples”, but I would have none of it. Finally, they offered me a 50% refund from the full price I had paid (so a $13 refund). I was fine with that so I accepted. I encourage anyone who paid full retail to call them. DermStore, at least, has great customer service.

I’ve been stalking DermStore in social media, and this is what their Facebook person wrote to me about the next box: “You will not be disappointed with next month’s box – I saw it for the first time today and it is looking good. A lot more full-sized products, great brands, and great value – you’ll see.”

So I’m giving them one more month, but if they don’t come through, that’s it for them.

I got my box the other day and was quite disappointed. I do LOVE the hair clips, I already owned a few, but having some spares around is great. The rest of the box was simply mediocre. Hopefully it’s just a one-month fluke.

Looking at the teaser photo it appeared that the Deva Curl box held sample BOTTLES, not packets. I signed up for this planning to give them to my big-haired friend – presenting a handful of foil packets will seem like I’m just passing on some freebies.
The Barbie-doll-sized Firmarine is just silly. Who even knew anyone made soap for grown-ups in such itty bitty sizes. Perhaps there are people with truly tiny faces, I’m not one of them.
Also, I have enough mascara to beautify every long-lashed camel’s eyes in the entire Sahara Desert, so I’m not terribly excited to receive another.
I phoned and cancelled. I was really hoping they’d ask why.

I don’t understand how this is a 35 dollar box. Looking at the items and sizes, it seems like maybe two or three of the items aren’t bulk samples they were rushing to get rid of. Very glad I didn’t subscribe to them.

I was actually really liking this month’s box. I thought it had a great variety of stuff and I liked looking through all of it. I’ll try most of it. And I love the clips.