Welcome to womanhood. I love it. So how can I keep my costs down while experimenting?
I have been thinking about subscribing to a beauty box service. These services send you a monthly or quarterly box of sample size and/or regular size makeup and beauty products to try. I am thinking this would be an inexpensive way of trying products. I will throw away the ones I do not like and keep the one I like. This way I can build up my makeup wardrobe.
These boxes come in cute colors and its like a periodic birthday gift.
I have identified 9 services and I do not know which one to try. It does seem that they are broken into two groups. A higher end, more expensive service and a lower end service. The high end service has a $40-$50 per box cost but sends full size products on a quarterly basis. The lower end service has a monthly box in the $10-$21 per month range. They offer a discount if you pay a year in advance $100-$220.
All of the services (except Beauty Box 5) allow you to cancel anytime. But I would check to make sure I can get a refund if I prepay for a year service.
I have listed the services I am researching. At this time, I will try a lower end monthly service, just to see how it works. I am OK with a sample size only because if I do not like the item, I am not throwing away a lot of product.
| Lower End Service | Monthly Fee | Annual Fee |
| Beauty Box 5 | $12.00 | $100.00 |
| Birchbox | $10.00 | $110.00 |
| Beauty Bar | $15.00 | $180.00 |
| Glossy Box | $21.00 | $210.00 |
| Ipsy | $10.00 | $110.00 |
| Beauty Army | $12.00 | $132.00 |
| Higher End Service | Kit Fee | Monthly or Quarterly |
| Fabfitfun | $49.99 | Quarterly |
| Beauty Fix | $49.99 | Quarterly |
| Popsugar | $39.95 | Monthly |
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