So after reading an article from Jezabel on the American company Birchbox I decided to see what the Uk comparatives are, step in Glossybox.co.uk and Carmine.co.uk. For those who don't know what they are basically you pay £10 a month plus £2.95 P&P to subscribe and each month you get a very pretty box with five samples (sometimes one or two will be full size) of beauty products for you to trial and review if you want. Obviously these company's are hoping you will then go on to purchase full size or more of the products you like and to nudge you into doing this you'll get discount codes in the box.
Both companies offer 50% off your first box so I decided after researching through youtube and facebook to send of for both companies boxes and compare and see which I felt was better value and more suitable for me. So that's exactly what I've done both sites are easy to navigate and signing up is easy.
At this point without having received my boxes I liked the glossybox site because you can pay though Paypal but the Carmine site I felt had a better survey for you to complete to help them choose products suitable for your individual needs, the Glossybox's survey made me choose my foundation colour with a selection of colours and in all honesty none matched my skin or looked like the foundation I buy whereas Carmine asked my skin tone and just felt better at determining what kind of colours etc I'd like, of course the proof will be on the contents of my second box and how appropriate they are to me so the jury is out!
I'll let you know what comes in the boxes and my views on them when they arrive!
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