I'll be honest - I've seen the different reviews about the various Topbox's this month and I was disappointed. But, I did keep an open mind and told myself that it can't be all that bad. After all, the hair products looked alright.
My box arrived 4 days later than it should have (no surprise there, and I don't blame Topbox at all for this!). When I got home, I ripped into it and was horribly disappointed. So much that I'm not going into the details that I normally do. Actually, I'll still do the break down of cost. I'm curious about this.
First disappointment: Pangea Organics Facial Cream. Nigerian Ginger with Lavender & Thyme. I got 2 packets, each containing 2ml. I thought Topbox prided themselves on Deluxe Samples? These are like mail order samples, or samples that you get from walking into a store and they want you to try their new product.
Ferro Cosmetics Blush X3. The colour's ok. Wouldn't use it as a blush and if I wanted to, the jar's too small for that. The jar is decent size, for shadow pigment, however the amount is very small. If I were to take a guess, jar's 5grams and we got maybe 1gram. (If anyone remembers the days of me experimenting with making eye shadows, this is very similar to a shade I've created)
Next dissapointments are the Goldwell products. First was the size of them. When I seen the pictures posted by others, I thought they were decent sizes, like about the size of my Beauty So Clean brush conditioning sprays. I was wrong. The larger of the two samples, is half the size. One's a "Hot form spray" and the other is "Sleek perfection". One's a serum for silky straight hair, the other's a strengthening styling lotion. Honestly, not much of a difference to me.
Math time!
Ferro Blush X3 retails for $17 for 4grams (OUCH!). I'm guessing we got about 1 gram, so approx $4.25
Goldwell Hot Form Spray retails for $20.95 for 150ml, got 30ml so $4.19
Goldwell Sleep Perfection retails for $20.95 for 100ml, got 20ml so $4.19
Pangea Organics retails for $38 for 60ml, got 4ml (total), so $2.53
Total: $15.16
Wow. Paid $13.56 for this.... I'm going to stick around to test out the new Privé Box that they're putting out in January, but overall, I do think I'll be quitting Topbox. I've already got a new sub in the works. One that I think I'll be much happier with.
*hugz*
-Sam
Oh no .. my value was disappointing too, ended up being like $3 worthy of products I can use, since I can't use the kellett sample, and dont like the chloe sample I got. I valued the goldwell product a lot lower because I saw it on beautybay for $10, I wish I got the pangea cream though! I really hope the prive box is much better..
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear that. Topbox has been lousy the past little bit (December being the worst so far I think). I've heard scary things about the Kellett sample, so I wouldn't use it either. Even if the Prive Box is better, I already cancelled TB. The Prive will be my last.
DeleteYes...this month was rather sad. Out of 3 boxes I've received so far I've only like one. I would have cancelled but of course...like a sheep I have to see what the Prive box is all about. :/
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean Aleks. Since I get billed before I get my box (so billed for jan before I get dec box, etc), I already cancelled TB, that way I still get the Prive Box, but I wont get the temptation of "what if" for future boxes
Deleteuughh i agree with you completely - Topbox definitely let me down last month. i really hope this Prive box is all that it's made out to be
ReplyDeleteI hope so!
DeleteI am so frustrated with TB. Considering 2 of my samples were listed as free not for retail, the value of my box was about 4 dollars. I am looking forward to the Prive box, but i have already cancelled my sub with Top Box.
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing. Prive will be my last. I'm thinking of either Ipsy or Lip Factory next...possibly, Glossybox, but with their latest mishap... We'll see
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