Birchbox October 2012

[loliki]

The hell? How is this a beauty box? I think I'm going to cancel.

My box:

 

[KatiebuglovesBB]

I logged into my account just to see if I was getting the Mary Lou-manizer on my second (Transformation) sub using feedback method (I don't want to spoil the WHOLE surprise ;-) )... and I am!!.. so that alone makes me feel better about my other box. Not a complete let down this month!

I'll let you guys know what Birchbox says when the respond to my email about the perfekt pill!

 

[VegasLover75]

Originally Posted by msdollfaced /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Got my box today and i'm on the fence about itI received the 3 Mightly Leaf tea packet, Caudalie, Orofluido, Perfekt lip gel in "Melrose" and the DDF Brightening Cleaner. 

I can use the DDF cleanser but everything else i'm just disappointed about. I was really hoping for the beautyblender, essie, or mary lou. I think people that opted for goop got ripped off because all of these items are old birchbox choices :/ 

If anyone wants to trade please let me know. I would love to get the blender, essie or mary lou! 

I am getting this box for one of my subs & the only thing I am excited about is the tea!  I am highly addicted : )  I have the DDF already - received 2 in fact.  I too would have loved the beautyblender!!  And YES, these sure were old birchbox choices in my opinion!

 

[Ineri218]

Originally Posted by kawaiimeows /img/forum/go_quote.gif

i don't know if they just haven't uploaded all of the items for that box or not (for example, i'm getting box #1 and it only shows one product right now) BUT i've also heard some people say they only got 3 items and a luna bar in their box i guess it could go either way. which doesn't seem fair though because the luna bar (i believe) is life style extra and i always thought we were supposed to get 4-5 items + a lifestyle extra.

Thats what I was thinking also.

 

[mimosette]

Originally Posted by BettieCrocker /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Am I the only One whose box contents don't show up? My box page till shows september .

I got two emails for the same account saying my box had shipped, but no tracking number at all in both emails and no info on the account page.

Mine still shows September. No updates. And no emails. Just a little truck with no tracking number.

 

[xoxoelyse]

I'm usually the last to complain about BB, I always try and be super optimistic. I loved it so much when I started but it's so frustrating seeing people get all these good items (mascara, beauty blender, Mary Lou, etc) while I keep getting crap BB's. I haven't had a good BB since July. Which means only 2/5 BB's I've liked. I was so excited about the goop box but now I wish I had gone with transformation. It really does look like a bunch of recycled products. I think I'm most excited about the luna bar lol. Sad. Next month is going to be a make it or break it for me, and I never thought I would say that! They really need to step it up. I wonder if they are ever going to bring back full sized items?

 

[VegasLover75]

Originally Posted by mimosette /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Mine still shows September. No updates. And no emails. Just a little truck with no tracking number.

Same thing on one of my accounts.  Very annoying!

 

[emily9763]

Originally Posted by keelyknowsbest /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I will be getting box number 26!

I did not opt in for Goop, I have a Goop header, and I am pretty sure it's a Goop box? LOL I didn't even want Goop...but I am happy with the products especially the Mary Lou as I have been trying to win it from their Twitter page for weeks!

I specifically said NO to Goop and they sent me one anyway! I just think it's funny...

Also, I don't think the boxes are all the way updated because my October box pic looks like this...

The Headers are wrong on the bbox page and zadi's page. The ones listed as Transformation are actually goop and vice versa. The Manizer product was specifically listed by birchbox as a transformation box product. I'm sure that it will all get updated soon. I opted for a goop box and it looks like I am getting a transformation box, but I am getting the DDF pore minimizer and chantecaille gloss which are both goop picks.

 

[dryadsbubble]

Originally Posted by xoxoelyse /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I'm usually the last to complain about BB, I always try and be super optimistic. I loved it so much when I started but it's so frustrating seeing people get all these good items (mascara, beauty blender, Mary Lou, etc) while I keep getting crap BB's. I haven't had a good BB since July. Which means only 2/5 BB's I've liked. I was so excited about the goop box but now I wish I had gone with transformation. It really does look like a bunch of recycled products. I think I'm most excited about the luna bar lol. Sad. Next month is going to be a make it or break it for me, and I never thought I would say that! They really need to step it up. I wonder if they are ever going to bring back full sized items?

Me too. I've had off months but haven't complained, really, since there was always at least something interesting in the box. This month I'm also most excited about the Luna Bar, and that's just because I like Luna Bars. 

 

[KatiebuglovesBB]

Originally Posted by KatiebuglovesBB /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I need to start printing this stuff out: I am POSITIVE that I have seen a response from Birchbox, either on Facebook or through an email someone posted, where Birchbox confirmed that the Lifestyle extra/food item is SEPARATE from your minimum of 4 deluxe samples.

Either the boxes haven't completed updating or Birchbox is seriously going down hill quick. The pill..er..I mean Perfekt lip sample already has me seeing red..so if people truly are only receiving 4 samples including the food bar, I will be sent over the edge...

Birchbox was sooooo good from January (when I first signed up) to maybe May or June.. then it has just grown worse every month after.

Ok... I mentioned this before how Birchbox's website used to say right on the front page "4-5 Hand-picked deluxe beauty samples, delivered to your door for $10/month."

now it just says this: "Hand-picked beauty and lifestyle samples, delivered to your door for $10/month."

I seriously think they got rid of 4-5 and deluxe so that they could do to us EXACTLY what they have done this month: provide (allegedly) 4 samples total, including the lifestyle/food item, AND give us that sorry excuse for a deluxe sample (perfekt lip gel) and not be wrong since they don't proclaim to offer "deluxe" sizes anymore.

Does anyone remember the website saying that, or am I crazy? Wow, more and more let down by Birchbox every month.

 

[Wynter]

My goop box is posted online.  Still no details on my tracking number.  I'm just meh about this box...happy for the item on the far right, but otherwise, it's disappointing to me.  Well, I think it's a goop box.  I just noticed my BB page says transformation and talks about costumes.  My shipping email said goop.  I opted in.  Who knows? lol

Products in Your October Box

• 
  Jouer Lip Enhancer
  Ships Free
• 
  LUNA Bar
  Ships Free
• 
  Supergoop!® City Sunscreen Serum
  Ships Free
• 
  essie® goop picks Nail Polish Collection
  

 

[shanny21]

Originally Posted by fanchette /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I got my box today, two days early (yay!)

I was in the group of "twenty somethings with about .75 weight (.7420 i think)


here's mine



  DDF Brightening Cleanser -there's the weight

Orofluido - smells amazing

Mighty Leaf Tea

Per-fekt lip crap (tiny and DARK) 

Cauladile serum 

All in all, a little disappointing, no beauty blender or essie which is what I really wanted, but I think the DDF will last me long enough that I think that makes up for the rest of the "perfect" crap. haha. And I think I'll really like the Orofluido and tea as well. 

I'm a 20 yo college student and I kept seeing all the others like me on here had .75 oz boxes so I figured mine would be different, but nope! My box weighs .5740 and the box above is what I'm showing for october? Seems like a huge weight difference

 

[kawaiimeows]

Originally Posted by KatiebuglovesBB /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Ok... I mentioned this before how Birchbox's website used to say right on the front page "4-5 Hand-picked deluxe beauty samples, delivered to your door for $10/month."

now it just says this: "Hand-picked beauty and lifestyle samples, delivered to your door for $10/month."

I seriously think they got rid of 4-5 and deluxe so that they could do to us EXACTLY what they have done this month: provide (allegedly) 4 samples total, including the lifestyle/food item, AND give us that sorry excuse for a deluxe sample (perfekt lip gel) and not be wrong since they don't proclaim to offer "deluxe" sizes anymore.

Does anyone remember the website saying that, or am I crazy? Wow, more and more let down by Birchbox every month.

i definitely remember the website saying that in the past. but i don't see it anywhere in the FAQs now.

 

[CRB882]

Put me down in the "my e-mail said transformations but the website says Goop" category. I elected not to opt in or out.

I don't know what box number it is, but apparently I'm getting

Ouidad Climate Control® Heat & Humidity Gel
theBalm® cosmetics Mary-Lou Manizer
Lucy B Cosmetics Roll On Perfume Oil Duo
Vitivia Vitamin capsules

I'm really pretty disappointed in this, and I'm not really interested in any of the items. I really don't understand the Ouidad Climate Control Heat & Humidity Gel because I do not have curly hair. I don't understand why they'd send that to someone whose profile clearly says they don't have curly hair. Has this happened to anyone else before?

 

[Meshybelle]

Originally Posted by KatiebuglovesBB /img/forum/go_quote.gif


Ok... I mentioned this before how Birchbox's website used to say right on the front page "4-5 Hand-picked deluxe beauty samples, delivered to your door for $10/month."

now it just says this: "Hand-picked beauty and lifestyle samples, delivered to your door for $10/month."

I seriously think they got rid of 4-5 and deluxe so that they could do to us EXACTLY what they have done this month: provide (allegedly) 4 samples total, including the lifestyle/food item, AND give us that sorry excuse for a deluxe sample (perfekt lip gel) and not be wrong since they don't proclaim to offer "deluxe" sizes anymore.

Does anyone remember the website saying that, or am I crazy? Wow, more and more let down by Birchbox every month.

That is exactly what it used to say. I don't know what is going on over at BB, but they need to fix it fast!! They have a lot of unhappy customers..... not good. And, I'm glad I didn't opt in for A Goop box. They stink!!!

 

[Scooby Dynamite]

I'm getting the Perfekt Pill too....if BB is moving away from decent sized samples, I'm moving away from BB.

 

[yanelib27]

Ugh I am getting the DDF Brightening Cleanser which I do not want. I got it before and it wrecked HAVOC on my skin. Blah. 

On the other hand, I am getting the Caudalie Vinoperfect Complexion Correcting Radiance Serum and the Miracle Skin Transformer SPF20 Face but most importantly, I am getting the per-fekt beauty Lip Perfection Gel which (if they are giving out the full size), is worth $24.00 alone! 

 

[PAsh]

Originally Posted by yanelib27 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Ugh I am getting the DDF Brightening Cleanser which I do not want. I got it before and it wrecked HAVOC on my skin. Blah. 

yes, that stuff stings!

 

[PAsh]

Originally Posted by PAsh /img/forum/go_quote.gif


yes, that stuff stings!

may be it's supposed to BURN your wrinkles away? LOL

 

[xoxoelyse]

Put me down in the "my e-mail said transformations but the website says Goop" category. I elected not to opt in or out. I don't know what box number it is, but apparently I'm getting

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Ouidad Climate Control® Heat & Humidity Gel theBalm® cosmetics Mary-Lou Manizer Lucy B Cosmetics Roll On Perfume Oil Duo Vitivia Vitamin capsules

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

I'm really pretty disappointed in this, and I'm not really interested in any of the items. I really don't understand the Ouidad Climate Control Heat & Humidity Gel because I do not have curly hair. I don't understand why they'd send that to someone whose profile clearly says they don't have curly hair. Has this happened to anyone else before? in August I got shampoo and conditioner for color treated hair. my hair is colored lol but it was not listed as colored.