Allure Beauty Box March 2021 Spoilers!

Haha thanks. I will try to remember!

Yes, this is why I don’t trust them at all. I got one of the products and it didn’t look anything like the product at Nordstrom’s…or the ad I saw on YouTube. The consistency was supposed to be a bit like a gel but what I had was straight up like WATER!

Call them before the 3rd of the month and let them know you want to skip. At least that is what a CS rep told me.

I think the general feeling is 111SKIN is outrageously priced and doesn’t deliver results that merit such a price.

Thank you for the info about the skip. I got Allure from Amazon before. I subbed for the U Beauty! Totally worth it. Agree w/ the 111 Skin comments. Their RV is way over-inflated and products do nothing for me but if the serum is Vit C might consider. I wasn’t going to resub for long. I have other subs.

FWIW, a CS rep told me skips needed to be requested by the 3rd of the month.

I subbed through Amazon but had no idea which variation I was getting until I received the box in the mail. Has something changed?

Thank you Rebecca! This is great advice.

Stephanie, I love Estée Lauder too! Same thing, was my only brand prior to sub boxes. I got an Estee set for my birthday and remembered how nice those products are, albeit heavily fragranced.

I get ya Denise. I actually think Estée Lauder is an incredible brand. I used this line exclusively for so many years, then I got hooked on beauty boxes. The thing with EL is they own their own lab. All these new up and coming brands are all basically private labeling their products. Meaning they don’t have the lab or expertise so they go to an established lab and use one of their formulas, bottle it and put their name on it. All these brands are really just believing they can market their product better. Honestly it’s just who’s better at PR/marketing/sales. Now I do think there’s some legit brands and these are usually by people who have been in the business for many years like Monastery. I use to get a lot of beauty boxes but now just a few, now I value quality over quantity.

I’ve been to some of the production facilities in China, so I can tell you the primary differences. Production standards in China are required to meet the company’s guidelines for sanitation, quality control and all U.S. import regulations, so you don’t need to worry about quality. Some ingredients are swapped out for subscription boxes because they’re cheaper, and others because China has some different rules for what can be used in products (they require some substances to be tested on animals, for example, so a lot of companies will swap out those ingredients to sidestep that. The packaging components and labor are LOT cheaper, and that’s where the savings come in. The retail 111Skin that sells at Neiman Marcus is made by people who earn a living wage. The 111Skin in these boxes will be made by people earning sweatshop labor rates and living in high-rise dorms.

Why are people so against products being made in China, just out of curiousity? Tons of things are made in China.

That’s why I think I’m going old school brands that have been around forever. When the new places have proved themselves and been around for a while that’s different, but it’s getting rediculous just to buy one particular thing and wade thought so many. If you have knowledge it’s easier but for someone like me to wade through ingredients and makers etc I could have something on my face until I can narrow it all down 😔

I’m assuming Denise that the more expensive ingredients are left out for the one that’s made in China. One would need to see the ingredient list to advise on that. Regardless, for quality control, sanitary and regulation issues I don’t do PRC products.

Dept stores aren’t always best. Grace & Stella are in Nordstrom and they buy and rebrand from AliBaba. There are some beauty boxes that give solid beauty products that you can trust.

Even if the ingredients were the same, there’s still no way to tell if one is a higher quality than the other. So it could be like one version really very good, but the other not. Other than stuff to play around with or test for smell or bad effects, I’m going to start going to a store for skincare so I know it’s real, instead of sub boxes. There’s so many over priced things that I would just never buy IRL

Mine said Made in China on the box. And even worse the oil they used was PALM OIL!! Have you seen the orangutans hanging on what is left of the trees while the bulldozers clear the rainforest and what’s left of their home? Palm oil is in all types of food products. It has no business being in an expensive skin cream.

The last two 111 products I got from subscription boxes, one form FFF and I don’t remember which box sent the other product. Both made in the U.S.