I would like to preface this entry, but saying, I'm very annoyed at Julep this month, which as most of you know, is quite unusual for me.
I'm not that angry about the box coming 8 or so days then usual... Perhaps a little confused? I know people, who got their boxes, when they normally got their boxes, so why did they get their box on time, and mine took about two weeks to deliver?
Maybe it's because I added extras? I'm not really sure. They did change their shipping service this month, so maybe that's why it took longer to get to me?
Normally, I wouldn't be so concerned with how long something took to get to me, but I've had Julep for over a year, and ALWAYS got my shit by the first of the month, sometimes even earlier. So I'm just wondering? I mean if they can't ship nailpolish by air, how did I get mine before? Is this a new law?
I do feel bad for the people who ordered the 4th of July nail collections that were extra this month. They probably didn't get those by the 4th, and maybe some of them were really looking forward to wearing America to celebrate the holiday.
Well whatever.
We'll get to why I'm upset later.
Julep is a nailpolish/makeup subscription box. They've changed their subscription policy over the past few months, so for new members, there are now two options:
My Maven, which is about $19.99 with a three month subscription, and $25.00 per month without a subscription, and it allows you to fully customize what you receive in your box... So instead of just changing profiles, and getting like the IT Girl box instead of the Classic with a Twist box, you could customize a box and remove things in and out from all the different selections this month.
I'm truly tempted to change my subscription to that. I've been very "meh" about a lot of the beauty products shipped with my usual classic with a twist box, and then I'll like colors from IT Girl and another profile, but will have to settle for one over the other because I'm still grandfathered into the old subscription service. So, I do think, I'm beginning to truly embrace the concept of a fully customizable Julep box. That way I can swap out colors I don't like or beauty products I am not interested in for colors I will enjoy wearing.
The other subscription service is Maven Luxe, which is $40.00 a month, and is also a fully customizable box with more products, so you get more bang for your buck. I personally wouldn't be comfortable spending $40.00 on a Maven Luxe box.
This is what was inside of my big white box.
This is why I am annoyed. I added on three "Mystery Polishes" for my add-ons. I know you have a chance for repeat colors if you add random colors... BUT SERIOUSLY JULEP YOU SENT ME THREE OF THE SAME FUCKING COLORS!!! I mean are they idiots? Did they NOT realize that they were shoving three of the same colors in my fucking box? I AM SO PISSED OFF. I WASTED FUCKING MONEY FOR THREE OF THE SAME FUCKING COLORS, and to top it off, THEY'RE THREE COLORS I OWNED ALREADY!
The patriotic tootsie rolls don't even come CLOSE to making this better for me!
See, three of the exact same colors.
I AM ENRAGED!
It's not even worth contacting them because they'll just give me some bullshit about how they've already said that mystery colors and boxes and such can be product repeats.
I'll probably give one to Audrey, the daughter, of a friend, who loves her "Jamie" manicures. As for the other two... who knows.
However, because I filled up all my add-ons, I got two free polishes with my order. So from L to R: Farrah and Alexandra.
So that sort of makes up for my three fucking Cynthia polishes because I don't have any of those two colors, but I am still angry.
Farrah is a beautiful color. Only I wish it had a different name because it totally reminds me of Farrah from Teen Mom turned Porn Star and Erotic Author.
But it's a Silk Finish color, not that the different finishes really matter to me. It's a very light lavender with a silver sheen in it, and I like it very much.
Alexandra is a whitish fleshy type color? It's not a bad color. It's just not something I would have chosen for myself, but it's a nice nude color and will probably look good under some glitter finishes.
This months theme was the Poolside Collection, it had some pretty nice colors. I liked June's colors a lot better, and hope the purchase some of those in the semi near future, but July's colors were also nice. There were at least two or three other colors I wanted aside from the ones I got.
Here's the box within a box.
I went with "It Girl" this month because it was the ONLY box that didn't come with the body milk, and I had seriously no desire to get the body milk which was the big beauty product this month.
Was IT GIRL my favorite? Oh hell no, I really liked some of the other colors in the other boxes better, but it was the only one that didn't come with the beauty product, and that's the ONLY reason I chose it.
SEE THIS IS WHY I WANT TO SWITCH TO MY MAVEN.
from l to r: Linden, Braiden, & Dawn. OH AND MORE TOOTSIE ROLLS!
Linden is my favorite color out of the colors I got this month. It's a bright summery blue and it reminds me of the color of pool water at a swimming pool... Though technically the water only looks a certain color based on what color the bottom of the pool is painted combined with the reflection of the sky... BUT ANYWAYS, IT LOOKS LIKE POOL WATER, I LOVE SWIMMING, AND I LIKE THIS COLOR.
Braiden is a stardust finish silver glitter. It's a silver glitter. I mean I like silver glitter. My twitter name is @silverglitter, and it's really sparkly and shiny, but I've also gotten other silver glitter polishes from Julep that are very similar to Braiden. So, it's nothing unique or special, in my opinion.
I don't like Dawn. It reminds me of yellow mustard, and I hate mustard. I'm also not a fan of yellow nailpolishes, at all, unless they're bright neon yellow, so meh to Dawn. It's just too yellow.
So there we have July's box. I wasn't very thrilled with it. I'm angry about the three repeat colors I got as my add-on. I didn't like Dawn. And Braiden was just meh.
However, I do very much like Linden and Farrah, and I can find uses for Alexandra, so this month wasn't a loss, overall, but not an OH MY GOD AWESOME month either.
Ummm. You can't win them all?
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