Allure Beauty Box Review – April 2019 + $5 Coupon

My debit card number got stolen so I had to get a new one. I got a notification from Allure to update my card and updated it right away. They still didn’t ship my box so I called to make sure they had the right card number. They said they did. They still don’t ship. I call again. They said they have no record of my previous call. So I update them again.

I finally got my April box yesterday and there is no Anastasia lipstick. They must’ve ran out by the time they got around to shipping my box. I have been a member for a long time now and I am pissed that I didn’t get that lipstick because their customer service sucks.

I got pretty much the same box as Liz, bronze color eye shadow, black eyeliner and the other frizz hair product. I wish the lip color was usable for me. It washes me out and it is a difficult color to gift. So my stories with Allure… I had two cancelled accounts before November last year and I called CS a few times to reactivate, and it didn’t work… So I was buying from Amazon here and there. I created third account when they offered Sunday Riley full-size product and it worked. I got the mini Versace perfume and $10 for the first 4 months. I contacted customer service about SR product and they said that they have “no record” of such promo in my account. Ah well, at least I tried. And I agree about the plastic pouch… they should focus on sourcing better products than making/paying those plastic pouches that are easy to tear and cannot be recycled. Mine has been in tact so far, but I haven’t used them. Good news is that Project Beauty Share accepts new makeup pouches (not on their list of donations, so I asked and they confirmed yes!). I subscribed to Allure because I think it is a great mix of skincare, makeup and hair care, but I haven’t been crazy about bloggers boxes. I wasn’t excited about this month, but there are new to me items that I am happy to try. As to variations…. I don’t think Allure knows what they are doing because I read here that long-time customers are getting the repeats! That’s not right. They need to put their acts together along with improving customer service!

I got the Anastasia lip color, which on me is my lips but deader, the Natasha Denona shadow in Aubade (gold), the LG eyeliner in Blackbird, the Luxie brush and the Bye-Bye Frizz hair product and the tan towels.

Not terribly happy,

The eyeliner is Just Another Black Eyeliner.

My hair is straight and does not frizz.

I don’t use self-tanner at all, and I already have more than one of the brush.

If Allure is going to offer color variants, they need to create AND USE customer preferences.

TJ Maxx (at least the ones in my area) have tons of Anastasia Liquid Lip in various colors. Probably not this color, but if you like the formula or you want to try the product in another color or try it cheaply, check there. I got Sugar Plum, and I love it!

The only reason I sub Allure is because they don’t do variants and I cancelled play because of that. I was sick of getting red lipstick, primer and junk mascara in every box and watching other people get skincare that would have matched perfectly with my profile. I am cancelling Allure if they continue this. As well I thinks it’s BS that people get to sub like 5 boxes and the customers subbing 1 that have been subbing for over 2 years get the variant with hair product. Any variation should go to the people who get more than one box after the first wave gets sent out to allure subs or it should be ONE BOX PER HOUSEHOLD! So they stop overselling. I can’t believe the people on here complaining that sub like 5 boxes! If everyone got one box there would be enough to go around. Either way allure needs to get ot together or they won’t need to worry about running out of product but what to do with the leftovers.

I was so excited for April’s box. Until I received it. I got two items from the December box, the JP mini palette, and the LA Splash Art-ki-tekt liquid eyeliner. No idea why anyone would need two of either of those products. The ONLY other thing in my (ripped) plastic pouch was the gold Moda brush. No ND, no ABH, no tan towels or briogio. It’s not as if I am a new subscriber, I’ve been getting Allure for almost a year. EVERY SINGLE month I have to call them, either because an item is broken, missing, or my box, that they said they were shipping out 3 times, never actually arrived. It took several months to get my new member gift and a gift I was supposed to get for signing up through a friends link (which, when they finally sent, was not even the correct item). This month was the month that broke me. When I called yesterday, after finally getting my box, the customer service lady did not seem to see what my problem was. I only got 3 items!!!!, none of which were initially listed on here or their own webpage as the box for April!!!!!. If you can’t supply enough of the items you promise, start doing what every other sub box does, CREATE A WAITLIST! stop promising not only new customers, but loyal, long term customers (especially us) products that you know you have no hope of delivering on. After finally speaking to a supervisor last night, she said she would re-send an April box, but couldn’t promise it would be the one that I was expecting to get. I would have happily paused this month if I knew that the reasons I wanted the box, were never an option. I swear if I end up with a THIRD JP mini palette and LA Splash liquid liner (which was horrible when I tried it in December), I’m not going to have to call them to yell at them, they will hear me from across the country. Ugh. I so wanted this sub to work out, but like any other bad, abusive relationship, I have to walk away.

It seems that Allure has been unable to handle the influx of subs that probably came with the Sunday Riley oil in January. But I realize that not every $15 box is going to have that kind of product. They need to stop releasing spoilers if they can’t fulfill non-variant items for subscribers at the time of the spoiler release. New subs get in at the back of the line. I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if people who have canceled and resubbed get treated like newer subscribers. I expect that the rate of this type of churn makes it difficult to plan. I didn’t hate my box but didn’t love it. The way I evaluate my subs is how many products I will actually use and over time, if I have fewer than half that I want to use, I cancel. (bye Boxycharm). So far, over time, Allure has been good enough for me. A couple more months will tell the tale.

I only have 2 items that match this box. I did get eyeshadow and eyeliner in different shades.
After getting my April box and seeing the spoilers for May, I have no problem skipping May’s box.
Allure needs to go back to being consistent.

So I feel I’m in the minority where I would have preferred to get the 2 hair products instead of the Anastasia lippie. I tried the lippie out and the color is so close to my skin tone that it makes me look like I have no lips/I am sick. I love the Allure boxes and know that the products won’t always work for me. It looks like this lippie and the one next month in a similar color will be given to my niece.

I got Morgana which is stunning and just received the Bronzeage in a swap. They are simply amazing shadows and although I would never pay for a palette I understand, kind of, why they are so pricey. I want to trade for the other color out there as well. I promptly dropped my swap one but I don’t care. I love them. They made the whole box for me, the other stuff was gravy.

I got a luxie brush which I love and I had already received the mods brush in a previous box. I got the eyeliner in black. DO NOT use to tightline the upper waterline as it bleed super bad. I also loved the tan wipes but I must be super bad at it because it streaked on me but the color was very natural where it did develop

I didn’t get the Anastasia lippie. Instead, they sent 2 extra hair products (a Rene Furterer texture spray and John Frieda secret weapon cream) along with the .75oz of the Briogeo farewell frizz cream. I got the Laura Geller liner in a gold color, which I’ll use as an eyeshadow wash instead and Morgana in the Natasha Denona shadow. The brush and tan towels are ok.

I look at it this way, if I saw this kit at Sephora being sold with a Natasha Denona eyeshadow, brush, full size LG liner etc, for $15 I would buy it.

Atleast that’s how I am trying to convince myself to see it, lol.😂……

I love this month’s box. Allure is quickly becoming one of my favorite subscription boxes. I just signed up for Ipsy Plus, so I can’t compare it to that yet but out of the other subs I receive, I think this one is my favorite atm.

Same here. I got the same box you did and felt totally ripped off. How goes a hair product even compare with Subay Riley Glow Oil or Retin A. The Sunday Riley products are 2 to 3 times more expensive. Very disappointed this month.

I cancelled after getting this box. I got two repeat items (the Nuvia palette and the arkitect eyeliner), and it just tipped the scale for me. Customer service was kind and offered to send me other items, but the next couple boxes just don’t seem worth staying for. I think I’m going to switch to Ipsy.

I received three items from the April box and the other three were left over items from previous boxes. I assume since I am receiving my boxes for $10 I am not getting as good of items.

I recieved the same box you reviewed but without the little spray bottle.

My eyeliner was ultra violet and is absolutely gorgeous! I have light green eyes and I love it so much that I’ll be ordering another when it runs out. The eyeshadow was pretty but nothing out of the ordinary IMO. The brush is okay.

I have a light olive skintone thanks to my Greek-Italian heritage and I tan easily in the FL sunshine, despite my using sunscreen daily. So I’m sure this was user error as I don’t use tan towels normally. I took the time to exfoliate my legs and really try to apply it evenly. My tan was a streaky mess and I had patches that didn’t take to the tan at all. I wore pants until today and it was 91 degrees out yesterday. 😂 That will teach me. No more fake tan for me.

The lip product was a disaster as it was so light that it makes my lips look dead. I tried to use it twice and it went in the garbage. It looked light I put foundation on my lips that went matte and cracked.

It was absolutely worth the $15 for me to find the eye pencil. The glitter in the eye pencil is stunning!

I get my box through Amazon well I did I should say I luckily canceled end of March to see if I would like April varient I didn’t so luckily I dodged that bullet. I lost hair to chemo last month can you imagine slap in face 3 hair products would be?! Instead of $20 lipstick ugly sure but at least I could have made THAT work. Now Amazon says boxes are currently unavailable. I am hoping they are just out of stock seeing as Allure could not even fill all their orders with promised items. If not it will be bye bye to Allure for me. I did email Amazon but they could only tell me they were out of stock this month and don’t know if April box will come back in stock.

I got a not- great March box ( WHICH HASN’T BEEN REVIEWED ON MSA) and a really dismal April box with extra boxes sent from either Amazon or Allure, I really cannot tell.

All I know is that I have 10 self- tan towels, 4 Morgana eye shadows and one in the bronze shade, 0 ABH lip gloss, 4 Laura Geller eyeliners- 2 blue and 2 green when I need lavender.

5 Brigeo samples of some spray bottles and a tube of something I won’t use because blow drying my hair would ruin the curls, The John Frieda No-Frizz product travel size item and the Rene somebody travel sized product ( 4 of each of these.)

Then the box from Allure which had a Nubian eye palette of which I already have 3, at least, but I like it.
The gold metal eyeliner container with some not- great black eyeliner,
the bronze eye shadow, some sort of hair scalp scrub..

I called Allure CS about the box they sent me. I explained that 3 products are repeats and this is not what I paid for regarding the April box.
They are supposed to be sending me lip glosses ( I said ” NO LaRitzy please”) and the Laura Geller lavender shade and the gold one.
Also, some other things which they didn’t specify but once I sent photos of all those palettes and so forth, they were extremely nice, polite and helpful.

Also, I threatened to do a chargeback and cancel my memberships ( all 4 or 5 of them, depending on what it is that Allure.com is doing with my charges now) and they sent an email stating some specifics of what they are replacing my ” disappointing selection” with.

This was a first for me with their CS. I hope they are improving, because 3 months ago, they couldn’t find my subscription and they were charging and shipping out 2 per month.

I’m being patient because I KNOW how great they can be and USUALLY ARE.

I told them, and I feel this way ” When the box sells out, start putting those customers at the top of the list for the next month’s box and don’t assume they don’t have the ” replacement surplus you dig out of storage, please”.

They’ve started staggering the shipping dates, so if they are short on the primo products advertised month after month, it’s possible those with the late in the month dates are almost always going to get the remnants or the substitutes and that’s just not equitable in price or philosophy.

If you are unhappy with a substitute group of items, please let them know. Their customers by and large pay full price. I know I do, always. I don’t want last winter’s left overs and neither do you.

None of this is a reflection on MSA, of course, but if we don’t talk to each other, we don’t get things improved by working together. 😉

I care about YOUR box and getting a nice selection you’re happy with like I am with MY box.
One last thing- The CS person was SUPER DUPER NICE!!!

I received 126k Aubade and really wanted Morgana, in case anyone wants to swap eyeshadows? I tried to sign in to swap but I see it’s invitation only and I’m wanting to get in.

I think some of these companies are in a no win situation. If they start doing variations due to mass amounts of new subscribers people get mad. If they stop accepting new subscribers to prevent variations or over selling people get mad. Not defending them at all just saying that they are really in a tough situation. I understand why so many companies are just stopping their sub boxes.

I have been a consistent subscriber since this box was called Sample Society and run by a totally different company. Never cancelled or skipped and I got the 2 extra hair products instead of the lipstick. However I was actually hoping that I wouldn’t get the lipstick because I already have that color along with many others. I don’t know how they decided who got what. Everything else was the same in my box as Liz got except for I got the Briego blow dry cream and my eyeliner and eyeshadow are different colors.

I resubbed to try the Natasha Denona, so the box was worth it to me, but I feel Allure is deliberately deceptive about variant items. I’m not sure I’d resubscribe (via Amazon, definitely not through the Allure website) even if there is another really good spoiler.

Plus, many people are still not receiving the subscriber’s bonus items that MSA keeps promoting. I wish I could opt out of receiving emails specifically about Allure from MSA.

My bag was cracked again (I haven’t received a single intact bag since they had introduced them), the eyeshadow shattered, no ABH lipstick, and 2 hair products instead of it. Was it a variation item?
Total disappointment.

I’m curious to know what the Amazon subbers got. Can someone please let us know which eye color was in the box?