Birchbox And Glossybox - May

Beauty box time!
The Birchbox theme for the month of May was "Red Carpet Ready" and it included the following items:
1) OPI mini nail lacquer (3.75ml sample worth £2.8)-the colour is lovely but the sample really is miniature. Probably the smallest polish sample I have ever had :(
2) Murad eye cream (3.5 ml sample worth £13.3)-great brand, but another tiny sample. However, the eye creams tend to go a long way as you only need a little so this one is actually not all that bad.
3) Biorganics hair oil (12ml sample worth £3.1)-Another very small sample (I'm detecting a theme here). This doesn't have any scent...or at least, I couldn't detect any so it doesn't appeal to me all that much as I do like my locks to smell nice, but I guess I will use it.
4) WEI foaming cleanser (10ml sample worth £1.6)- great brand, but a very very small sachet sample. And I hate those.
5) WEI buffing beads (1 sachet sample worth £0.6)-another sachet sample. Hardly enough product to try it out.
6) Kusmi detox tea (20g sample worth £2.2)-a lot of people complained about this one, but I love tea and this particular brand is way good. It was alos the ONLY decent sized sample in the box.

The box contained £23.60 worth of products and I loved all of them. What I didn't like was teeny tiny sizes this month. Sure, the boxes are a sampling service, but the sizes this month really took the proverbial p***. There's small and then there's small. The contents of the box pretty much fitted to a palm of my one hand and there was still room for more.  I expected more from Birchbox.

  Glossybox sampling sizes were much more generous this month. Perhaps because they were celebrating their second birthday (and that was also their theme this month).
I got:
1) Givenchy Dahlia Noir L'Eau (5ml sample worth £3.3)-I love this scent so much and was a fan even before I got it in my Glossybox. Good size sample too.
2) My trusty little sunflower cream moisturiser (full size worth £6.99)-This wonderful cream was developed by doctors in Salisbury District Hospital for the patients recovering from burns and plastic surgery. I really like it and am so glad they put this in the box as otherwise I would never have discovered it.
3) Beautiful Movements primer (2.5g sample worth £2.5)- It's a bit of a wonder product as it can be used alone as a primer and mixed with foundation for the airbrush effect, with blushers for cream blush effect and with shadows for eyeliner.
4) Caudalie oil (full size worth £4.05)-Another multi tasker that can be used for body, face and hair. I love it.
5) Headline Colours nail polish in Firewater (full size worth £9)-I like the colour, but I do think it's more suited for winter so it will probably have to wait before I sport it on my digits.
I also got green and black organic chocolate and emery boards.
Super happy with this month's Glossybox. The box contained £26 worth of products, 3 of them were full size and all of them were good.
Glossybox trumped Birchbox again this month. Both boxes contained good products, but Glossy was more generous with their sizing.


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