The trend of subscription boxes in India is
not new at this point in time; there are quite a few beauty subscription boxes
that are well known now, like Fab Bag, MSM Box and My envy Box. I tried My Envy
Box for the first time this month on their Second Anniversary. Honestly,
because of the products they promised and also because of the pretty box I had
thought I would receive. Plus they were doing well last couple months!
Unfortunately, they could not deliver what
they had promised. I ordered my box sometime in the second week of this month
and by then they were out of stock. But they did not inform that.
They mailed after a week that they were out
of stock and they re-stocked the products and will be shipping out the boxes.
And also the boxes will be different.
But, I had not thought that the boxes will
be torn, old boxes and the products will be different.
So out of the 5 products which they had
promised and what the others had received already, three products were
different. Which clearly outweighs the two products that were consistent.
So when you say that you are stocking up on
the products again, what does that mean? It means the products which were
supposed to be in there, right? Not some random products.
Let me tell you what all I received in the SECOND
BATCH OF My Envy Box OCTOBER 2015.
First the Box –
The box in which my products came was the
Box of the DECEMBER 2014 edition. NOT Happy about it. They could have at least
got a simple box for the second batch, but new ones. NOT RECYCLED ones. But
okay, I can try to understand. Then
again it was damaged and torn and this is not the case only with me! My lovely
readers also told me that they had received torn and damaged boxes!!!!!
Kerastase
ELIXIR ULTIME Sublime Oil-enriched Shampoo – Now I
have tried this earlier, did not like it much. The size is pretty good, 70 ml
to be exact. Not disappointed with this. They delivered what they promised.
Kerastase
ELIXIR ULTIME MASQUE – A very impressive product to be in a subscription box. This was a reason I
ordered this box, because I wanted to try this. This is a 75 ml pack , so pretty
impressive.
So till now Happy happy , but now , the
graph goes down!
L’Occitane
Verveine Body lotion – a 75ml pack of the body lotion,
in Place of the shower gel. A different product than what they had promised. The
product is from L’Occitane, but NOT what I wanted.
The shower gel was another reason I bought
this box. But I didn’t receive it. Although my card says that I should have.
Honey
from Marc Jacobs Perfume sample – I am not a huge
fan of perfume samples. Yes, they do come in handy if I need to carry a perfume
in my purse, but I have a lot of samples lying around already and I was happy
BEFORE receiving that they were not sending a perfume sample this month.
But alas
they DID! If it was like a year ago I would have been very happy with it
because I did not buy much perfume then and did not have many samples.
Lastly {I have mixed feeling about this} ,in
place of something from Sephora (never
been to a store) or Givenchy (Only
have perfumes from them) or Burt’s Bees
(Never tried anything from this brand) they sent me a cream matte eye shadow called Vanillaty Fair from Catrice
cosmetics, which is a sister brand of Essence cosmetic and they are famous for
good products at a reasonable price.
I
wanted to try something from Catrice and honestly I would have had been happy
if they had said that they would be sending this in the first place, because I
would not have placed my order then!!!!! Because I wanted to try other things from them, NOT a matte eye
shadow!
I was literally praaaying to get something
from Sephora because this was my only way of trying their products but instead
I got something from Catrice which is way less the price of the Sephora palette
they sent out first. I would not have had much of a problem if they had sent
these two things in the first batch also.
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| Second Batch Of My Envy Box 2015 review |
This was my first envy box and honestly out
of the products I received I am genuinely happy for only one, because that was
something that I wanted. So out of three things that I really wanted I received
only one. And the saddest part is
that they had shown what was going to be in the box before they sent them out
and did not deliver.
Also When a fellow blogger, Shivi from
Cosmochics , said that she was sad about the same, they quite rudely replied on
her Instagram page! And I read a comment from a girl saying that she talked to
someone on their team and they said that be happy that you are getting products
worth 3000 buy just paying 850! They could have simply said it was out of stock that creating such a mess.
I mean this is what their basic concept was
when they started right!? Did they change it recently or what!!??
SAD!
Did you get this
month’s my envy box? Which batch did you receive?? First or second??