Onderria’s Birchbox Subscription Box Unboxing – December 2015

Disclosure: This box was purchased by me at a discount. There is a referral link. 

 

Subscription: Birchbox

Cost: $10/month, and with reviews you earn 1pt [$1], and after 5 reviews you get 5pts per box, so every two boxes you can earn $10 to spend in the shop!

Btw, if you subscribe by January 9th, you get $5 off your first box!

What to Expect: “The brainchild of two friends with a love of the internet and an itch to create a better way to shop for beauty products.”

 


 

What’s this??? A third December review for Birchbox?? Yes! I think all of us writers jumped on the Black Friday 30% off. So, after tax my one year subscription is about $6.50/box!

But wait, there’s more to come! Plus, a poll is in the works so you all can vote on who got the best box.

 

Birchbox December 2015

 

The Box: Oooohhh so shiny! It looks like an amazing blingy winter coat!

birchbox december 2015The contents of my BB.

 

birchbox december 2015

The Beauty Crop Lighting Crew Highlighting Cream: $18, and I think this is full size?? I am not sure.

 

birchbox december 2015

COOLA® Classic SPF 30 Cucumber Moisturizer for Face: $32 for full size.

I have gotten several sunscreens and it’s not particularly sunny where I live, so Pnut will be getting this =D

Let me know how the cucumber tastes!

 

birchbox december 2015

amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo: $22 for full size 5.3 oz bottle.

I really wish BB let us say NO to certain products like dry shampoo. I can’t brush my hair unless I’m using conditioner =( Fortunately, Pnut can use this as well!

 

birchbox december 2015

Harvey Prince Sea Salt Texturizing Mist: $24 for full size bottle. “Getting beachy waves is as breezy as, well, a day at the beach with this salt-infused spray. It gives hair instant volume and lift for textured, piecey waves that look like you just got back from the shore”

I already had my guesses, but this “beach waves” product is my personal proof BB doesn’t try to personalize our boxes.

I have curly hair. I can’t get beach waves. Like. At all. I look like a mess at the beach. Perhaps I should be happy it’s at least not a HP perfume???

 

Coastal Scents® styleEYES Palette

Coastal Scents® styleEYES Palette: $12 for full palette with 8 colors.

I like these little magnetic closer boxes, and I think these colors will look pretty together.

 

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All of my December Birchbox samples.

 

Birchbox December 2015 coupon

A $10 off $35 purchase coupon for the shop! Thanks BB!! I will use this, but it’s a code so it would be instead of the mystery sample pack which I am a-ok with.

ursa major birchbox mystery sample pack

Ursa Major Fantastic Face Wash: This is what I got in my mystery sample pack, along with a tiny bronzer.  I will probably be purchasing a full size of this minty gel wash!! I really like it. Bronzer? Not so much. Like highlighter, it’s not in my beauty routine–too much effort!

 

Bella likes to help me decide if I should Love It or List It [for swap]. We both agreed to List It!

Song: Avenir by Louane

 


 

Verdict: This box gave me extreme buyer’s remorse. Sunscreen, beach waves, dry shampoo, and highlighter all scream “summer” to me, so I was pretty bummed that the box was the most wintery item. I’ll use the winter-ish eyeshadow and give the rest away. The abundance of dry shampoos, Harvey Prince products, and sunscreens pushed me away from BB in January of this year, and I’m sad that I finally resubscribed and got all that in my first box of my new subscription. It tells me whatever sorting they use to send products doesn’t pay attention to our reviews or beauty profiles.

However, I paid around $6.50 for this box, so I feel hopeful that future boxes will be awesome and blow me over!

 

See our other Birchbox reviews!

 

Am I being too harsh? Did you like this box? Let me know! 

  10 comments for “Onderria’s Birchbox Subscription Box Unboxing – December 2015

  1. December 19, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    I can’t play your video! I will try again in a little bit. I don’t think you are being harsh about your box. I look at it and think why? It’s the wrong time of the year!

    • Onderria
      December 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm

      Hehe I know you want to give your kitties beach waves!! The video is playing on my phone. Hopefully your browser is just having a hard time loading it.

  2. December 19, 2015 at 7:11 pm

    Haha I like the Coola and the dry shampoo and I bet you know I was laughing to myself When I saw the next item!!! The CS is a wash too but that other item has cute pineapples on it so you should give it a shot (trust pineapples … unless you do not like them … then give them the side-eye).

  3. December 19, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    OMG the video is awesome/amazing/fabulous! I agree about BB. This Fall they have just really broken my heart. They were my one true box through thick and thin and now if I get one more HP sample I may…….. well, I am not sure what but something. Anyway, one thing I tried was that I cleared my profile of any preferences. After 3 months of number 4 samples I realized it was because in my profile I had listed that I wanted hair stuff. This month is my first month with no preferences and it isn’t terrible from the sneak peak

    • Onderria
      December 19, 2015 at 10:59 pm

      Wow yeah I finally realized that the perfume samples and nail polish required ground shipping and that’s why it takes ten days to get to me. But holy cow to Hawaii!

  4. Heat7918
    December 20, 2015 at 5:09 am

    Adorable video! I don’t think you’re being too harsh either – I really wish they’d go more by our profiles and reviews.
    With the ability to get $5 (sometimes $6) back in BB points for reviews, I keep telling myself that paying what amounts to $1.50 for the box of samples is totally worth it. No buyer’s remorse here even though I hated my December box too. (Although looking at my box again, yours is worse. Sorry. 🙁 )

    • Onderria
      December 20, 2015 at 10:35 am

      Hahaha yes. That’s a good way to think about it with the $5 included in there. Thanks!

  5. Sarah
    December 21, 2015 at 11:44 am

    You have fish scale nails! I love them!

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