Vegan Box February 2016 Unboxing & Review

Hi everyone!

Today I have a The Vegan Box unboxing! This is a monthly box that costs $30 a month including shipping.

This is an Australian company. Reviews of this box seem really hard to find online.

You can buy one of your own here. They also have a bi-monthly beauty box which is pricier at $50/month!

The contents

The information card

My overall thoughts:

I'm very happy to find a vegan alternative to chocolate and parmesan sauce in here. I will use both (I'm still munching on the Cacao crunch as I blog right now - the taste is really growing on me and it's pretty delicious!)

I will also use the Konjac sponge, and I'm happy to try a different brand to the one I currently have, which is from Sasa. I really love my Konjac sponge, and they do need to be replaced regularly!

If I had to complain about something, it would be the small sizes of some of the other items. One Ginger Chew and one 4g Coconut sugar sachet seems hardly enough to make a real impression of the product.

I appreciate that they prefer to give us a lot of different products to try rather than a large quantity of one product, but I think it really is difficult to know from one candy if you want more of it!

I think for a box like this, paying $30 for $36 in value is reasonable, even though with a beauty box that would upset me more. This company seems like it's still growing, and the money goes into brand research which would be a lot more difficult in this area. + They're setting us up for the realistic expectation that becoming vegan is expensive :P

One more thing... I wish they replied to my email asking if I was getting the January or February box. Maybe they missed it? Or maybe their customer service is lacking. Either way, I got the February box, and not the January one, and no suspicious/dodgy double-charging happened, which is great!

I think there are definitely improvements that can be made, but my experience with this box is still overall a positive one! I would not mind ordering from them again when my budget allows - perhaps in April. =)



My video as always:


Thanks for reading/watching guys

With lots of love,

pynkbunny.

February 2015 Bellabox - Harper's Bazaar Edition! Unboxing & Review

Hi everyone!

Here's my Bellabox for this month!



Yup, it's the Harper's Bazaar edition - there were three magazines you could have received this month, and to be honest I was hoping for Cosmopolitan (I think Cosmo is honestly so hilarious!)... But Bazaar is cool too :) There's a lot of pages that would look good on my magazine page wall so hooray :)



Here's the information card with the value of each item!

A lot of samples I won't go near but that's alright - I get a shiny magazine and an Essie nail polish!

Mine is in "Take It Outside" and it is a gorgeous grey colour!

Sorry my application is quite messy - I think that the polish still looks quite nice despite me uncoordinatedness which really says something about the polish!

It was really easy to apply, the formula is nice and thick, the brush covers an entire nail with one swipe and it dries reasonably quickly :)

The Essie polish really does live up to the hype!

For my first impressions and unboxing, please check out the video below!






I hope you all have a fantastic day!

xoxo

athy. :)

February Style Box by Style Story - Spoilers, Unboxing and Review!

Hi everyone!

In light of the Memepocalypse, I decided to try a new subscription box: "Style Box" by Style Story. You can see their website here if you are interested. They currently only ship to Australia!

I got the basic box - there are two types, the basic box for $24 and the deluxe style box for $40 a month (including shipping and taxes - which is why the prices on the site are a bit cheaper.)

The basic box promises "6 different Korean beauty products in a combination of full sized, mini sized and sample sizes delivered straight to your door."



As always, my first impressions video :P For those who prefer to read though...




This is the cardboard box that the products came in. It's quite disappointing because honestly, even Bellabox and LustHaveIt which are $15 subscription boxes can have nice boxes! I know this company is just starting up but honestly the nice boxes really make a subscription box for me personally, and I know it's like this for a lot of people.

Having said that, of course the products are the most important thing, so let's have a look inside...



The first half of the info card. All these three items came in small sample sachets.

I have to mention that info paper is more accurate. This is literally just a piece of paper with this stuff printed on it. Not much production value going on here :P



The second half of the card. These were the "full size products", but it's a mask and a nail polish... The lip product is kind of exciting but these products only add together to make $25.50. (I paid $24 for the box!)



As you can see, for $24 this is extremely underwhelming and I am going to unsubscribe.

Although I'll use everything in the box, I can definitely go on a site like TesterKorea and make myself a haul much more worthwhile with the money.

I know this is a new company so they are still trying to find their feet, but I think this box is only appropriate for the Australians who really don't know what they want in kbeauty and want to try new products... In a very cost-inefficient manner, because they can just order these mini samples themselves randomly :P

I really wanted to like this box but I just didn't, sorry!

In summary, this box isn't particularly good value and I personally would not recommend buying it. It's not like it's TERRIBLE or anything, just underwhelming and personally I would rather spend my money on a lot MORE random samples and sachets with the same amount of money. I think this is their first month so I hope that they can take feedback and improve and I can eventually resubscribe and eat my words!

If for some reason you decide you'd like to subscribe, then here is their website again.


My video of my first impressions and unboxing is here



Until next time, adios amigos!

pynkbunny <3