Idk either. They make brow palettes just like they make lip, cheek, eye, etc palettes so that more ppl can make use of the product. At least last time they sent out a brow gel we had a chance at getting a correct color as there were options. When they sent out the BrowGal gel it came in 3 shades – 01 light, 02 brown and 03 dark brown or something like that and even though most ppl got the light shade some ppl did get the other 2 options, trades and sales were made and ppl walked away happy. This time the brow cream comes in 5 different shades including one for redheads which is a rarity. I wish that with things like this, where shade selection really friggin matters, that they would do things differently. There are several ways to make sure that we each get a shade close enough for us to be able to use. I’m no business person, but just by going off of what other sub boxes have done Boxy could have:
A) emailed us ahead of time and had us pick a shade.
B) included a pre-paid coupon/coupon code for the product to be used on whatever company’s website they got it from so we could choose our own shade after the bozmxes shipped without spoilers being revealed too early for their liking.
C) Boxy could have waited to include products like this (shade specific products, condition or need based products like skin care and other things. There are plenty that fit in this category) until AFTER they got the personalization features/algorithms working to make sure that at least most of us got the correct shade.
D) Boxy could have just looked up basic statistics for the USA and easily found out that the most common hair color (and one would have to assume matching brow color) in the whole country is brunette with over 80% of ppl having some form of brown to black hair. It took me 2 minutes to get that info, but boxy is sending out thousands of tubes of taupe brow cream that will mostly go to waste, fill up land fills and just generally disappoint ppl all over again after the BrowGal thing from a couple months ago. Now, if they wanted to go more in depth they’d find Canada tends to have more light brown and blondes due to their very European heritage so taupe might be a hit up there. Who knows? All I know is statistically the USA has a lot of dark haired/dark browed ppl that Boxy is ignoring with this brow cream.
I also know I’m tired if getting boxes that have only 1 or 2 usable items in them (for me) and having the rest go in my big plastic boxycharm rejects plastic tub. I don’t have friends that are into makeup and I just got into the swap site and groups, but still swapping costs even more money. This is supposed to be about getting great deals for personal use, but getting the highest retail value so that ppl can buy multiple boxes and sell each item off on eBay for at least the price of the box.
Sorry unloaded on you. I’m just so frustrated and flustered with boxy at this point. I used to love her, but I might need to just dump her. For all the love they show me I’m not sure they deserve my $21 a month. They might not deserve $1 a month from me. I’m not getting a lot out of it lately.
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