For my very first review, I will go ahead and review Birchbox. Basically for $10 a month you can receive a box in the mail that has items that are supposed to be matched to fit your likes and wants. After you sign up you fill out a questionnaire all about yourself. Questions like: What is your skin like? Your tone of skin? What kind of hair do you have? These questions are supposed to help match you up to specific products every month. So, I thought, why not? Why not try this? Well I received my 1st box and well.... I wasn't reeled in just yet. Inside I had received acne cream, bronzer, hair spray, perfume samples and an eye shadow. Okay that might sound great... BUT let me tell you how small these items are. They are travel/sample size. Not just that but I was receiving items that didn't match my information. I put that I do not get acne.. so why is there acne cream? Well, I thought to myself "ok, well maybe it's just this box. It could be better next time." To make a long story short....... it wasn't just that one time. I was let down 2 more times. Luckily you are able to cancel at anytime. There is also a little plus to the box where each month they allow you to review each item. After reviewing the item, you receive 10 points. At 100 points you are able to go onto the sites store and turn that 100 points into $10. I was actually excited to do this! Except, when you get on the store, the items are ridiculously overpriced! So guess what I got for $10? Travel size makeup remover cloths. Each has a pack of 8. $2.50 each and $5.00 for shipping. I guess I can't complain about free stuff but still I wasn't very happy about it. Overall, I thought it was pretty fun to receive a random box every month. I just was not happy with what you received. In my personal opinion, it was a waste of money. I ended up cancelling after 3 months. I think out of the whole subscription, the box everything came in was the best part of it all! :)
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