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Walmart Beauty Box Review – Summer 2018 Trendsetter Box

Liz Cadman
ByLiz CadmanJul 30, 2018 | 92 comments

Walmart Beauty Box
3.5 overall rating
376 Ratings | 122 Reviews

The Walmart Beauty Box is a quarterly beauty sample subscription box from Walmart. They feature brands you will find at Walmart, plus coupons.

FYI – They ask for your birthday at sign up to customize the box based on age. There are two options you could receive based on age: Trendsetter (under 35) or Classic (35 and over).

You can sign up for both like I did - just change your birthday year for the different account. Check out my post on the Trendsetter and Classic options to see how to get both options.

This is a review of the Trendsetter Beauty Box.

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The Box: Walmart Beauty Box (Classic Box)

The Cost: $5 (ships once a season)

The Products: Beauty samples from brands carried by Walmart.

Ships to: US only

Delivered via: USPS

Check out all of my Walmart Beauty Box reviews!

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SOO AE Donkey Milk Skin Gel Mask - Retail Value $3.30

This sheet mask is hydrating and gentle. It took a long time for the excess product to absorb after I removed the mask, though. I'd recommend using this at night, or otherwise, you'll likely have to wipe off excess product.

Kleenex Wet Wipes Gentle Clean - 8 wipes Value $.50

These Kleenex wipes are ideal for travel. Basically anytime you'd like to wash your hands, but don't have access to soap and water, these will do! (I'm packing them for my next flight!)

Village Naturals Therapy Aches + Pains Muscle Relief Bath Oil & Body Wash - .25 oz Value $.08

Village Naturals Therapy Aches + Pains Muscle Relief Hand & Body Lotion - .25 oz Value $.09

Love the scents of both of these! The strongest scent in the body wash is the menthol, and the standout fragrance in the lotion is the Wintergreen. Both are very refreshing!

Garnier Fructis Damage Repairing Treat 1 Minute Hair Mask - 12 ml Value $.36

This is an ingredient-conscious line from Garnier - and I really liked it! The tropical scent is fab, and the formula added moisture without weighing down my hair.

Garnier SkinAcive Soothing Mask with Rose Water - 5ml Value $.25

This moisturizer also doubles as a mask. It also is ingredient-conscious, and I found the formula to be very gentle.

Pantene Pro-V Sheer Volume Foam Conditioner – 1.4 oz Value $1.40

This foam conditioner designed for fine to medium hair. You use it how you would normally use conditioner, just wait for the foam to absorb, then rinse out. My hair isn’t fine, so I don’t have the issues of regular conditioners weighing it down, but this still worked as a regular conditioner for me.

Verdict: This box has a value of about $5.98 - just a little over the cost of the box. I'm not happy with the value and the amount of foil sample packets in this box.

What do you think of the Summer Walmart Beauty Box? Did you get the Classic or Trendsetter box?

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In your Walmart Beauty Box, you'll find beauty samples and tips on products sold at Walmart and on Walmart.com. Receiving your Walmart Beauty Box will be another reason to welcome each new season.
Liz Cadman
Liz Cadman
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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92 comments

Sarah Grenke

How the heck do you cancel this? I cannot figure out where on their website. I emailed them over a week ago and never heard back🙄

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Toby

I get both the trendsetter and the classic box and both had almost exactly the same crappy foils that everyone else got. Only difference, my trendsetter box had the L’oreal foam conditioner.
On the plus side, I did not get any more samples of wet skin shower moisturizer-HATE that stuff-and what’s up with face masks in every box??
Cancelling if my next boxes are full of foils.

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Gidget

OMG! LOL! LOL! LOL! I posted before I read the comments here. No wonder I’m getting an email from them asking me to resubscribe! Everybody is sick and tired of getting boxes of leftovers and crap. Plus, nobody wants another can of that Pantene conditioner. Everybody is fed up and canceling???

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Gidget

Has anybody gotten a Walmart Summer Classic box? I got an email from them saying we miss you and asking me to resubscribe. I’m just too leary. The last 3 I got wear basically the same repeat items and bottom of the barrel boxes. Just 3 or 4 random items from past Trendsetter and Classic boxes. I can remember saying that I can’t complain for $5 but yes, yes I can. I’ve gotten that awful Pantene conditioner in the last 3-4 boxes. smh

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Kitti

I canceled as well. I received nothing but foil sample packs. What a waste of money. 🙁

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Sarah Grenke

How the heck do you cancel this? I cannot figure out where on their website. I emailed them over a week ago and never heard back🙄

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Peggy Muraco

https://beautybox.walmart.com/customer/account/login/
log in
I think I clicked on My Subscriptions

?

👀

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Stacy Gurule

How do I sign up?

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Peggy

I just got finished canceling my subscription.
Save your money. I kept getting the same stuff and this time around they were all samples. I didn’t get anything that resembled a full size product. This box was not worth $5.00. I was very disappointed.
The only thing I really used was the coupon that allowed me to purchase a full size box of hair coloring and then after I used it, my entire body broke out in hives.
This was a waste of money.

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Peggy

The hair coupon didn’t come in this box, but in the last box.
I didn’t get that foam can this time around. From what I can read this was the “Classic” box and I changed my subscription to the Trend box. I would have loved to have received nail polish and things like that, but this stuff is garbage.

Jen

This was my second box and I received the same items as what’s shown in this review and also feel swindled.
#1 I was charged on June 27th but they didn’t ship it until the END of JULY.
#2 I received the exact same crappy Pantene Mouse Conditioner in the previous box shipment. It’s the one product I hated and rated 1-star. I have fine hair but I find this product is so, so unnecessary. What a gimmick, I got a little more than 2 applications out of this stupid 1 oz. can… as opposed to about 10-12 applications out of 1oz of traditional conditioner. I see it as just a way for mfg’s to make a lot more money off their product by making it in a foaming version. I don’t want to, and will not pay for AIR. No thanks Pantene.
#3 Not impressed with the rest of the samples in the box.
#4 Not a good value overall. If next shipment is this bad, then I will be cancelling my subscription.

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Vera

I got the exact same thing in my regular box and my trendsetter box. What’s that about?

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Tammy Haley

…this is the worst box, ever–from any company, ever

don’t care if walmart themselves aren’t “doing” this box–the box has walmart written all over it, not “brandshare”…sooo, walmart gets my bad attitude, and all the bad karma that comes with ripping people off…because, this is practically straight-up theft–at least, it makes me feel like i was robbed!

never, ever, will i waste my $5 on this pathetic bs, and never, ever will i waitwaitwait for this box, again

EVER

so done…sooooo done

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Angie

Just got mine and I’m upset but not surprised. I got
* nair wax ready strips (only 4 came in it)
*pantene pro-v foam conditioner sheer volume
*garnier fructis damage repairing treat 1 min hair mask (.40 oz)
*garnier skinactive soothing 3 in 1 moisturizer (0.169 fl oz.)
*neauteogena hydro boost hydrogel mask
*kleenex wet wipes (8 wet wipes )
I’m on the trendsetter profile and I’m 30 so this was not a good array of stuff and as u can see the sizes are very very small

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Sourkraut

My box was basically this with a bath bomb instead of the Village Naturals Therapy products and a different sheet mask. But I only got one (ONE!!!) Kleenex wet wipe. I’m sitting over here feeling jealous that others got a whole pack of six. Very disappointing to get so many foil packets of samples and not a single coupon in the box. I cancelled and I see I’m not the only one put off enough by this box to cancel. Which of course means that next season’s box will be super awesome since they’ll have so many samples available thanks to all of those cancellations!

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Jane Larkey

Omg!,I have been getting this box for a very long time, I use to Love ! The walmart bb, this is the most ridiculous box ever! Nothing but a few packets of one (If I’m lucky) times use pkts. I’ll cancell. What a joke.You mean they couldn’t even send me at least 1 travel size if nothing!?

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Ashley

Just got my box. I got-

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel Mask
Aches & Pains Cold & Allergy Relief Mineral Bath Soak
Kleenex Wet Wipes (8 ct.)
Garnier Damage Repairing Treatment 1 Min. Hair Mask foil
Garnier Soothing 3-in-1 Moisturizer Day/Night Mask foil
Garnier Whole Blends Oat Delicacy Shampoo & Conditoner foil

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STACEY

why do they keep sending us that same dang pantene sample every month? This box is terrible. It used to be so nice! I can get more samples on a Saturday morning walking through Sams club.. booooo!!

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Anna

They should rename this to box of 💩. I think someone from Brandshare & Walmart heard that Woot has a bag of crap and they want to compete with an always available box of crap.

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Gidget

😂

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First&LastBox

This was my first box and I promptly cancelled. I received the same items as what’s shown in this review and feel swindled. I’m seriously embarrassed that I even subscribed.

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JoAnne

I actually liked Wal Mart beauty boxes, but with the new company BrandShare and taking a month to ship I cancelled , even before I opened my last box and glad I cancelled..

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Yarngirl

I don’t get this box but just had to comment. I think I get better foil packets in my Allure magazine that is a dollar per month! Sorry to everyone that paid money for this, it would probably work better to just pick 5 random samples from the bins at Wal-Mart.

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Sally

I was all set to be disappointed and mad when I got my Walmart box, but mine was awesome! I got a full size L’Oreal infallible super slim eyeliner, a full size L’Oreal voluminous lash paradise mascara, a full size L’Oreal multi mask clay kit (3 mask pots!) and then packet samples of the garnier hair mask, Kleenex wet wipes, garnier skin active moisturizer, and a voucher for the full Camilla cabello album. I couldn’t believe it, and I really don’t understand the discrepancy between boxes.

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Crystal

My box was like yours just without the mascara. And I got a nice make-up bag. Sounds like we got one of the few decent boxes.

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Anna

I received the Camilla bag box too, it wasn’t an exciting box but compared to what Liz & other commenters have received it wasn’t so bad. I do have to say that if the box I received was a Target box on sale for $5 that I wouldn’t have purchased it though. The last Target boxes weren’t great but they’ve always been better than this box.

Julissa

This is the worst box ever like seriously the worst

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Cynm

Ok I have always told myself it is only $5 but honestly foil packets?? the only thing about this box worth $5 is the box itself which I will trash because I don’t need boxes. This is really making me think it is time to cancel.

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Ann

I tried to justify this box because it is only 5 dollars, but 4 times a year means 20 bucks that could go towards an actual beauty treat or more expensive product. So glad I canceled.

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Dawn

Cancelled – only some of the foil packets were received by me and no travel sizes. Not even worth $5. I should have cancelled much sooner.

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Cindy

just received mine after over a month of charging my account …. worst box yet cancelling my account with walmart

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Trace

I agree. I just cancelled too. 1) I never know when they’re going to charge my card 2) then I get the box sometimes months later 3) I can’t even use 99% of the stuff they send anymore. My hair is way too long to use a foil worth of shampoo and/or conditioner. Plus, I don’t use masks. This was their worst box ever and they’ve got worse and worse as each new box comes out.

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Mary

From what I understand. This is not Walmart. They are using an outside marketing/advertising company to promote and distribute these items with the hope that you will purchase these items in the future from them but the only thing I think is that they are getting (walmart) is negativity. I always say you get what you pay for and they probably just hired the cheapest marketing company they could get. I cancelled after they took my money ($10.00) for both subscriptions and never shipped it. The worst subscription ever. So glad I cancelled as this box would have been the last straw

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JoAnne

The marketing company is Brandshare, and I didn’t care for them at all..

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Susan

I’ve been subscribing for a while and canceled. This box was beyond terrible! I didn’t get any full size or even deluxe size samples. All I got was foil packs. Everything seemed to be a repeat of what they’ve sent before. When I picked up the box, it was so light, I thought it was empty! I know it was only $5, but there’s no way the value of my box was $5. Hope they get better or they will lose all their subscribers! I subscribed to both the trendsetter and classic and both were terrible. I’m happy for them, but I’m not sure why some subscribers seemed to get a half way decent box.

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