Welcome to the July 2015 BDJ Box entitled Prepped and Polished.
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| July 2015 BDJ Box: Prepped and Polished |
...or simply put, The Box of Repeats.
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| July 2015 BDJ Box: Prepped and Polished welcome note |
I really shouldn't be so succinct. I read so bitchy when I am.
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| V10 Plus Vitamin C and Licorice serum, Php 4750 / 30ml, ~5ml sachets provided |
The only reason I'd place these V10 Plus sachets on the top spot is if it's the newest or most exciting thing. These sachets aren't that big and they're a bit thin so you can get a feel of my mood about this box.
Plus, I blogged about it days after I got it.
I only really like V10 because it's new.
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| FS Luscious Lipstick, Php 299 / 4g |
The FS Luscious Lipstick is not a repeat either but it feels very cheap. It's too lightweight and the color seems to be that pink-fuschia I veer away from.
I'm pretty much over FS Cosmetics now. They're true drugstore in that quality is 50-50 and I'm not particularly invested in mining gold out of this pile.
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| Cetaphil Cleansing Bar, Php 441 / 127g, sample bars provided* |
Cetaphil bars are new to the BDJ service, but more to the point, will BDJ ever stop sampling ubiquitous, classic, drugstore items?
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| Canmake Colorful Nails, Php 330 / 3.8g |
Canmake Colorful Nails is actually a pretty cute lime green color. It's good for summer though I'd wear it any time. It's ranked a bit low because I'm not into nail polish right now, but I do feel good about this sample!
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| Dove Oxygen and Nourishment Shampoo and Conditioner, Php 115 / 180ml each |
You all know how I feel about these things. They're appreciated as supplies but I didn't come here for supplies.
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| Benefit They're Real! Mascara, Php 1300 / 8.5g, 3g sample provided. |
These have been sampled twice before: once in June 2014 and another in December, I think. I haven't posted the latter because I was on hiatus and my curation cards were thrown away, trashing my will to write along with them.
I LOVE Benefit They're Real! but I know how they work and I've gotten them twice already.
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| Celeteque Cleansing Oil, Php 199 / 50ml |
Not feeling too miffed about the Celeteque Cleansing Oil because while it was overdistributed early on, the reformulated version has never been released so I'm giving this a pass.
I wish they kicked up a bigger fuss about this being different, though. I heard Kaycee let go of hers not even realizing it's not the old oil- which I was unhappy with as well.
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| Carmex Tube (Php 110 / 10g) and Click Stick (Php 110 / 4.25g) |
Good product, but so tired. Also, a great lesson in math and pricing.
RECAP:
Box Value: Php 1278, or 2.2x the Php 580 subscription fee *considering only full-size items
Having written the post, I'm confronted with how there isn't that many repeats in the box. There are technically only two/three repeats, Benefit They're Real and Carmex, out of eight samples.
It's not that bad, but the brand partners are feeling kind of stale... I would love if it were a brand like Happy Skin, an out-of-this-ballpark brand that regularly pushes out product. But these are drugstore brands with 50-50 line offerings and are supremely easily accessible. I'm only okay with Benefit having repeats, and even then, not too frequently.
Could this possibly be a strategic lowering of expectations in time for the bombastic Elite-only August box?
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