For a limited time, use coupon code AUGUST to get a free bonus past box with your first month of GlossyBox. (Your subscription starts with the August box.)
Check out my GlossyBox reviews to learn more about this beauty subscription box!
And here is the spoiler for August:
Too Faced Mascara Melt Off Cleansing Oil
You can alternatively use coupon code SUNSET to get these products as bonus in your August Glossybox:
GlossyBox is a beauty subscription service box that allows customers to sample products monthly. Sampling lets the subscriber fall in love with new products and become life-long brand advocates. Each box is filled with five makeup, hair and skin care products from top brands.
55 comments
carey
I just got my July box yesterday! Finally! It did in fact have the shimmery nuxe oil, but no happy holidays sticker. lol I am pleased with the box but not the customer service.
I also got the wrong pamphlet with my box, I did not get the solid perfume or the nail polish. I got:
The nuxe oil, huge bottle
an eyeko fat eye shadow
a face mask
the nail polish spray
the too faced melted lipstick and
one item I cant recall all ready. lol
ReplyMattie
My Nuxe Shimmering Oil didn’t have a Holidays sticker on it either, however, I noticed on the back down towards the bottom it shows an expiration date of 12/2016. It’s written pretty small so you have to look carefully for it.
Unfortunately I won’t be able to use it that soon ESP since it came so late in the summer. I’m hoping it will continue to last past the expiry date but I’m not sure because it has an odor that I don’t know if it’s from it degrading maybe due to heat or if that’s the normal smell? It feels silly to complain since so many people wanted it and didn’t get it. I didn’t bother to contact CS since they are probably already bombarded with their own issues they’ve created recently. #firstworldproblems
Replystfne
Now I completely understand why everyone is so upset over Glossybox and their customer service. I decided to give them a try, as a potential alternative to Birchbox and Ipsy, when this 3-for-1 deal was offered last month. I was very pleased with all the items I received, and I looked forward to continuing my subscription. Unfortunately, I received an email on 8/2 indicating my payment could not be processed. I logged in and all my payment info was correct and up to date (and yes, plenty of available funds to cover the charge), so I wrote to inquire what exactly went wrong with my payment. Two days later, and still no response. I logged in today just to see if perhaps my payment went through, and to my surprise I now have NO ACTIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS?! Apparently Glossybox took it upon themselves to cancel my subscription without notifying me or providing any explanation. Well, if Glossybox does not want me as a customer, I will take my business elsewhere. What a brief and totally disappointing experience!
ReplyAnnie
The products Glossybox are sending are dropping in quality. (Sinful colors and Kardishian products come to mind) If Glossy wants to stay in the Sub business they either go back to what they use to be or drop the price. They are losing customers by the tons and are appearing desperate to attract more. And by the comments it sure looks like people are more then happy to drop their Glossy box Sub or can not wait for them to end and wash their hands of them.
ReplyDesireeH
Bet that “bonus” free box is the June box. June has to be the lamest box ever.
ReplyKay
Does anyone know if Glossy Dots expire? I missed a few reviews, but I should have enough at the end of my year sub to redeem for a box.
Like many of you, I probably won’t renew after my year is up. I haven’t been happy with the variation and value differences, and I really need to cut down due to overwhelming products sitting to be used.
ReplyJamie M
I’m unsure if they expire, but am also curious. Also, I just checked the “my glossydots” section and now it says you must have an “active monthly subscription” in order to use your glossydots. So it won’t let me use mine since I bought an annual sub deal with Gilt. It didn’t used to have that stipulation. So if you, or anyone else reading this, has a Gilt deal going, don’t bother with even taking the surveys I guess.
ReplyAlicia
Points don’t expire. And to redeem a free box you just need to contact CS. I used live chat and the rep was great. My yearly sub expires this month.
Gaby
You just have to email glossybox to reedemed your glossydots , thats what i did with mine and it worked, i got my sub thought gilt ..
Laura
Sheesh – I’m in on the Gilt deal too – didn’t know my points mean nothing. I have 1010 now – for nothing..
Kay
Thank you for your response. I also have a year sub with Gilt… If I need to email customer service again, I will ask about it.
Jen
It’s nice to see they are actually including a brand I’ve heard of, but this item is pointless. Any type of oil (coconut/olive) removes all of my eye make so easily.
ReplyJamie M
Why do they have “featured brands” on their website which I’ve never seen in any of my past (year’s worth) of boxes? If they haven’t included a certain brand in over a year, they should not advertise that they do. It feels deceitful. Yes, I’ve received a few… glamglow, too faced, recently kerastase come to mind. But what about bulgari, burberry, Crabtree & Evelyn, fresh, bcbg, ahava, alterna and all the other top shelf products listed?
ReplyJay
A Crabtree and Evelyn handcreme was in the November 2015 box (and recycled for some of the March 2016 box variations).
That nit-pickiness aside, I agree! I noticed that Sinful Colors is not listed as a “featured brand,” despite appearing in the last 2 months’ boxes. Whatever, Glossybox.
ReplyRebecca
When I e-mailed GB complaining about the horrendous July box I got, including how I got a $2 Sinful nail polish two months in a row, they defended the Sabon shower oil (and UGH they’re sending me the lotion in my August box – it better not count as one of the products!) but strangely did not say a word about Sinful. I don’t know if the rep glossed over it (no pun intended) or if there was no canned reply at the ready for complaints about Sinful. I’m not quite sure how they could properly address including such a cheap product.
Jamie M
Too right you are. I remember that now. I wish they’d cough up another one.
Julia
Sweep on the oil, wait 60 seconds, then – a damp cloth? Didn’t you guys just boast that it was waterproof?
Or, you could spend 10 seconds taking off your mascara with a cotton ball that has makeup remover or cold cream on it. Works for me.
I echo what others have said – my Gilt City sub for GB will be up in October. Then it’s buh-bye.
ReplyAmie
I subscribed with them this past month in order to get the additional box and I just received an email saying my box shipped. Am I not getting the August box? I’m not certain how this sub works because it seems different than my other subs. Thanks in advance to anyone that knows!!
ReplySaiza
I can’t even get my July box
ReplyKarina
I’m waiting on mine as well. Since it’s now August, I can’t even see tracking for it. I am waiting on a shipping email from July. Maybe it’s because I cancelled so they wouldn’t charge me in September. 🙁
ReplyEmily
Mine (finally) arrived today. Have you called customer service?
ReplySue
I will be so glad when my sub is up – uggghhhh
ReplyGeorgie
Cant wait for my subscription with glossybox to be over. Will never resub
ReplyDanielle
I have the Gilt City special sub with them until this winter. I would never pay full price for this box again, unless they drastically improve. It’s such a shame, because this used to be such a good box.
ReplyRebecca
Agreed – they’d have to have another insanely good deal for me to keep them around! However, even then I think I’d hesitate because the quality has gone downhill very quickly. If I’m currently sorry that I’m locked in through October, I imagine the regret won’t disappear a year from now unless the boxes go way uphill, stat.
ReplyKarenG
My thoughts exactly Ragan. I think they should focus on putting together boxes of excellent quality like they used to, 2 years ago. Does anyone remember the Bergdorf collaboration?
Now, they have the same old repeat products, nothing imaginative, all boring and bad quality.
I’ve tried to be a loyal subscriber since GB was my very first box subscription but even their 3 for 1 last week didn’t sway me.
This is just sad. It’s like watching an aging Hollywood star take the crappiest roles with no pay just to get a movie. 🙁
ReplyLola
I understand the metaphor and think it is an appropriate one. I terms of ageism, I lost my job ten months ago at age 52. I have worked hard all my life. I have been searching for a new job but ageism is out there. I am usually “over qualified ” for a lot of what I have been applying and interviewing for but it really comes down to the fact that most think I am too old. By taking care of my skin I look many years younger than I am, most usually guess ten to fifteen younger, but my naturally silver white hair, while all the rage at this time, gets me senior discounts at places I don’t expect like the county fair. Remember this critique is about the box service and not the movie industry.
ReplyJay
The aging Hollywood star comparison is funny. Maybe not bust-a-gut funny, but funny nonetheless. Unless there is a contingent of washed-up stars all hanging out in the comments section of MSA, I’m not sure who this is offending.
ReplyDonna B.
What about if just one “washed-up star” is hanging out in the comments section of MSA, Jay? is there a quota for how many people could be offended, and it would be okay with you? Is there an age limit for readers of MSA?
If you laugh at people getting older, and maybe even losing their job or their whole income, then maybe that comment is funny. If you’re pretty sure it won’t happen to you.
Donna B.
I live in Hollywood, and most of the people I know work in the industry – I do, too, occasionally. People who put down Hollywood are mostly jealous, but they have no reason to be – i know the most wonderful actors, hardly any who work more than a few days a year, and make so little money. But they keep trying and work hard, and I really admire them.
What bothers me about what KarenG said is how ageist it is. I sincerely hope you find a way to avoid growing older.
ReplyJamie M
You know what’s great about *me* getting older? I don’t mind it. I chose a career that doesn’t bank on my looks. I look forward to getting older, because the seniors in my life are pretty awesome and I strive to be like them. I won’t find myself in a situation where I’m totally irrelevant without a backup plan. It’s not even ageist. It’s a jab at people who make poor life decisions. And heck, in certain sports, athletes reach their peak before 20. If their life goes down the toilet after 20 because they have no other life plans besides athletics, whose fault is that? And is it ageist to point out their shortcomings? At 20?
Jay
Good grief. She wasn’t “put[ting] down” Hollywood- she was making a comment about Glossybox’s desperation for subscribers. Glossybox is what’s being criticized there, not “Hollywood” in the abstract,mFor example, when my mother tells me I have gotten “fat as a house,” she is not putting down houses, she is criticizing me.
I don’t think KarenG is the one being ageist. Her analogy is based in the ageism Hollywood itself (gasp!) displays towards older women. She is saying GB is desperate for subscribers, much in the same way the aging star is desperate for a role, because Hollywood has no use for women over a certain age.
monah
I can’t help but comment on your aging Hollywood star analogy. Not only was it a poor analogy it was poor taste as well. It was a WT? moment. Sorry, but it just didn’t seem appropriate at all.
ReplyKC
I don’t get offended easily – thought it was hilarious and spot on.
Marie
I think the analogy is perfect.
Julia
Not at all, monah. Some people (and companies) are desperate to stay relevant, and it’s really sad to see them flailing like that. Nothing offensive about the movie star analogy.
trace
Have been tempted to sub again with these specials they keep having. Then realized the only thing I like is the pink box. Not a heavy make-up wearer so really don’t need it. That’s why I like Allure and Look Fantastic. I’d rather have skin care products.
ReplyCandace
I love both of those subs!
ReplyKate
Glossybox, just move your price to $10. I think you will find substantially happier subscribers and maybe less cancellations.
ReplyRagan
Wow, they are really having trouble moving the old inventory out. I’m stuck with them until October but then I am gone.
ReplyRebecca
Between all these “get [fill-in-the-number-of-the-day] boxes free with subscription”, the sales on past boxes, and the appearance of “Happy Holidays” stickers on the Nuxe oil of the 74 people who actually got one in their July box (LE holiday box, anyone?), something is up. Maybe someone finally found the black hole containing Glossyboxes that never made it to FedEx after leaving Glossybox, including my December box and (apparently) a whole lot of July boxes.
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