The Box by Fashionsta July 2020 Spoilers!

No, there was nothing from China in the box, there was one lovely Korean Sunblock stick.

Stephanie,

I’m glad you get it. It seems this box sends the same things over and over. I would LOVE true INDIE makeup. But this isnt it. I’ve subbed with them for a while now and they kept saying it would “get better” and better names as they grew. I have only got 1 named brand item decent items which was a sigma brush, which then lead me to buy 3 different Sigma brush sets, but that was over a year ago. It just gets frustrating because I would rather have a couple good items over junk random junk. They seem to think because the container is glass that it means it’s amazing and fancy.
I try boxes to try good brands, name brands or indie because I will then buy more from said brand if I get it and it works for me. And I know this was new and kept waiting for it to get better, and then the plauge hit, so I want to support smaller relative new bussiness but I decided I’m only giving it another month or two and then I’m done. I just can’t wait around anymore for this box to be interesting. On the other hand, the men boxes seem really good, and they had “mystery ” boxes that actually had brand name products in them, but they don’t send it in the monthly womens box.

Hostile?? Lololol. Um, okay. But no, it’s not a “skincare” box. It’s supposed to be a mix. I’ve been with them since the 2nd box. Nothing “hostile” about telling my own experience with this box, and my opinions. Especially since I have been subbed to it from the start. I like to support new companies and they said “stay with us and we will get better with time and as the “brand grows” okay, no biggie, then instead of improving on the box, they add mystery boxes, supposed surprise sales (but o ly select few was able to get on there), then a men’s box, etc. Yet they never I proved on the quality of the items in the original box itself. If you look online on youtube people were paying 49.99 for a mystery box and only receiving 2 items. Then they raise their price, okay…so that means better items like they said?? Nope. Same quality of items. Then covid hit and they ask people to bare with them..okay, so you feel bad and do, they paused for a month to get caught up…cool. but then you keep seeing not so good items, after you were loyal and stayed with them…at some pii t, instead of adding on sooo much, please work on what’s there. You start getting broken items, moldy items, forgotten items in boxes , having to track down your box every month in order to wonder why you havent got it(even though yes they ship late in the month, that’s cool because it’s at a slow time and always fun to get items) then you realise its into the next month and you have to bother them to get you box (this is the first month I got tracking already so that’s great!!) But then you realise you’re giving more away then you’re using, and then you can’t give away combined with everything else…its about time to cancel for me.
I was so excited for this box, and then wanting to build and support a new box, but then combined with everything else, its frustrating. Go to the Facebook group and everyone is excited items are in a glass jar and cute packaging but okay with iffy brands. Then the other experiences…
I’m allowed to come on here and state my experience, just like you are and then replied and I typed back. I’m not being rude or hostile at all. Just responding to you. Go ahead and try it. You may enjoy it, but I know I try many boxes and I spend thousands on makeup and skincare outside of boxes as well, I guess I’m upset for believing in what the hype was for the new box and then told by the owner to wait a few months until they got going and they would have better makeup and skincare brands and it’s been over a year and they just added more. Heck, to be honest, the men boxes look better then the other boxes. Lol. But since they came out saying they were going to be better then ipsy and boxycharm, I expected better products (even eventually 6/7mths down the line) and it’s never happened. And then gifting a moldy box to a friend (and you can Google that month and read reddit and other places, my box I gave her wasnt the only moldy one and it was all the cbd booty scrub having issues) they didnt replace or fix it either.
By all means try it and see if you like it…for me and my money, I’m about to the point where I will be done because I was hoping for so much more and very excited by what they were going to do and I think they just got in over their heads to be honest.

Carrie,
Fig and yarrow isnt really my kind of brand. If you google their bussiness, it even says the bussiness is “permanently closed” once again, I guess it’s a true indie brand, over the cheap china based junk they send. They like to send things in a glass bottle and want to act like it’s so fancy and nice. I’d rather have crap packaging and a brand I recognize and heard of vs random junk I’m not interested in and can’t buy or won’t buy. I dont get sub boxes and then just “move on” to the next month. I LOVE to get decent things that has a good chance of working and if it does, or I like the formula I will check out more from that brand, or try other things.
I LOVE and collect eyeshadow pallettes. Sadly, they can send great brands in “mystery boxes” but can’t send them in monthly women’s box. I spend money on my skin care and makeup. Like this pallette, is junk. Its cheaply made, but I can say it’s a brand I’ve heard of. But they sent a matte lipstick from this brand not too long ago, but the sad thing was boxy and ipsy and other boxes sent the same matte lipstick down to the same color YEARS AGO. Like they want to cheap out on the monthly women boxes every month, without a gem in the mix . I’ve tried to support them since they started, but it’s still at the same kinda junky brands/items it started with. At least the second month I got a sigma baking brush (I dont bake) but I liked the brand and brush so much I have bought many sigma sets now. That is the ONLY thing in over a year and a half almost this box has “introduced ” me too. The rest is just stuff I find myself giving away or if no one wants it, I just leave it at random places in Hope’s someone comes along and can use it…but at some point you realise you’ve wasted a lot of money to support a smaller company, then wait around for it to grow and they said they would send better items the longer they go, and you see the, send out good decent name brands and known brands for other boxes, yet don’t for the regular it gets bad.
I’ve had broken pallettes that have never been replaced, had moldy cdb “butt scrub” I gave as a gift from the November box (talk about embarrassing, and many others online talked about having this issue as well) .

Inge, you have to experiment a bit with facial cupping, for sure. The key is to use enough oil so the cups slide easily over your skin, and to keep the cups moving. That said, I don’t think you can avoid ending a cupping session without getting a little pink. You are stimulating your skin and blood vessels. Cupping is a before-bedtime activity only! I’m pretty new to it still so the jury is still out on the results you get. Hoping to reduce puffiness. I have a facial cup I bought during a recent Sephora sale.