Before I get into the brink of this entry, I'd just like to take some time to write about how awesome
Julep's customer service is. I was expecting this box on Friday, and when I when to check on the delivery status of the package, it said that the package was being returned to sender because no such address existed. I was confused, I've gotten millions of packages here from
Julep and other places... Maybe Fed Ex was fed up with me because my apartment accepted a package addressed to me, the other day, where I totally put the wrong apartment address, and they didn't want to delivery it, but the office people recognized my name, and made them leave it here... who knew...
So anyways, I called
Julep up on the phone, told them what happened, and they had no problem resending my package to me, no questions asked, and told me to expect it sometime this week. They were so nice and sweet to me.
Then this showed up in the mail today:
I'm not quite sure if my picture accurately portrays how beat up that box is. It's re-taped back together, bent in, and my address was wrong... I don't know what happened, the last number was left out, and hand-written in, and I got it today. No wonder they wanted to return it to the senders...
But in the end, the vanishing box, still got here. I think my replacement box got sent out yesterday, so we'll see if I get another box. If I do, it'll be interesting to compare the contents of the two boxes. If I get repeats, no biggie, I promised our landlord that I'd give her some of my doubles, which I have several of, as it is because she's interested in sampling their polish since she sees how many packages from them I get a month.
The first look at the Trick or Treat Mystery Box.
Now, tons of people were PISSED OFF [me included] about the lack of "jewels" in the September Jewel Heist Mystery Box, and were quite vocal about to
Julep on their facebook.
Julep said they learned from the feedback, and were eager to make a more pleasing Mystery Box, so even though the Trick or Treat Mystery Boxes would be recycled colors, they would be more theme related. So I was eager to see what it would contain. I was expecting a lot of oranges, yellows, greens, and blacks.
Ajani took a liking to the box it came in.. He's still in there, and doesn't seem to be leaving any time soon.
from l to r: Payton, Leah, Roc Solid, and Millie.
They were my "Trick or Treat" add on and mystery color.
Payton, Bombshell, is a bright mint green. I feel like my nailpolish collection lacks some good green color polishes, and green is my favorite color, and I'm very happy with this color.
Leah, IT GIRL, is a shimmery green. It's a different shade of green than Payton, as you can see in the picture, and it has a greenish silver shimmer. I like it.
Roc Solid, IT GIRL, is sort of a teal colored gray. It's very much a me color.
Millie, Boho Glam, is a cross between gray, blue, and purple. It's also very much a me color.
Love these four colors, they're the sort of colors I tended to buy in bulk when I used to get my cheap drugstore nail polish back in the day.
Verdict: LOVE THESE COLORS
Four colors, each worth $11.20, at maven prices, total value, $44.80, definitely way more than I paid.
The inside of the big box.
Nail mask, worth $2.o0
I have never used one of these and never plan to use one of these. I'm sure they're great, they're just not really my thing.
Verdict: FAIL, only because it isn't a "me" product.
Julep's Blank Canvas Eye Primer and Candy Corn, worth $17.60.
I have nothing against eye primer. I've used it before, although I tend to use strictly Urban Decay's eye primer, but I think I now have a total of three of these Blank Canvas Eye Primers... so maybe it's time to switch loyalties?
I just rarely have a time, where I can sit down, and really work on making my eye makeup look pretty. I'm too busy. For school, I put on enough eye liner and mascara to make me NOT look like a corpse, and run out the door.
And my friends group consist of a bunch of awesome geeky nerds, who care far more about what MtG cards they're going to get in their booster packs than what my makeup looks like, so I don't really have any social opportunities where I can really find a reason to dress my makeup up. Therefore, I just don't really have a reason to use primer.
Verdict: Like, just don't have much time or reason to take advantage of such a product.
The Candy Corn is already gone.
Verdict: LOVE[D]
Luxe Care Hand Creme, worth $16.00
Hand Creme is useful. I swear between
Julep and
Ipsy, I'm never ever going to have to buy hand creme ever again.
Verdict: Neutral, I don't love it or hate it.
Brilliance Glycolic Hand Scrub, worth $18.40.
I'm intrigued by this product. I totally prefer a hand scrub to a hand creme. As a special education teacher, everything I do is very "hands on", so it'll be a nice little treat for my hands that I can use to wash school off of them, and I always love the way exfoliating products feel on my skin when I use them.
Verdict: Very Curious
from l to r: Beatrix, Valerie, Josephine, & Faye.
Beatrix, bombshell is awesome. It's a black polish with thick chunks of silver glitter in a pool of rainbow glitter. It's very much a me color.
Valerie, bombshell is a turquoise with a gold shimmer in it. You can also see the gold shimmer in my picture. It's also very much a me color.
Josephine, IT GIRL, is more of a navy color than my picture shows. It may be a really good color for my wedding since my bridesmaid dresses are all navy blue.
Verdict: LOVE THESE COLORS
Faye, boho glam is a shimmery golden sand color. It's not the ugliest color I've ever gotten, but it doesn't wow me either.
Verdict: Meh
Again, four colors, worth a total of $44.80.
Total: $98.80, with Maven Prices.
Well over what I paid for it, and I'm actually very satisfied with this box. I love basically all the nailpolish colors that I received, and I wasn't wowed with all the beauty products that I got, but there's really nothing [except maybe the nail mask] that I would call a waste of space. So
Julep did redeem themselves for the Jewel Heist Fiasco with this box. Everything fit nicely, for the most part, with the Halloween theme, and I very much like the selection of products that I got in this box.
