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Sneek Peeq Mystery Box

Sneek Peeq is offering mystery boxes, with a new one coming out February 1-10.

The boxes sell for $29 with mainly beauty and style products. Each box has at least 5 items, with a promised minimum retail value of $60,and some will get lucky and receive a premium box worth up to $500. I received a box around the holidays to take a look at.

The box is nicely packaged.

Sneek peeq box

Inside were 5 items:

  • A Glam Mat for resting hot styling tool, $22.49
  • LaRocca shimmering body lotion, value $35
  • Uno Magnetic Necklace, value 19.99
  • A mystery leather necklace with no information provided,value unknown (must be $82.52)
  • Chella Lash Conditioning Treatment.  Value $90

I also got a card stating that I had received a premium box worth $250. I had a hard time viewing these items as worth that much, so I looked them up, the ones that could at least. The total was $167.48 , meaning my mystery item is worth $82.52. Read on for why I think that is rather off!

Sneek peeq mystery box items

The Uno necklace is kind of interesting. It is a metal chain and a magnetic ball. Depending on how you wrap it around the magnet, you can get different looks. The one in the box was not a particularly attractive color, or really attractive in any way, but the company does make them in multiple shades and it is an interesting product.

Uno Magnetic

The mystery leather necklace stumped me. First off, there was absolutely no information about it. Then, I couldn’t get the bar to fit through the ring to close it. Maybe it isn’t even a necklace at all and is something else? Does anyone have any idea what this is? I can’t imagine it being worth $82.52!

A True Mystery

A product I liked was the LaRocca Shimmer Creme. This is a lovely body cream with a pretty shimmer to it. I will use this!

LaRocca

The styling mat is also a useful item that I will use.

Glam Mat

Finally, there was the Chella Lash Treatment. I don’t use lash treatments, so I can’t really speak for its $90 value. It might make some people happy though and I will probably use it as a giveaway item.

Overall, for $29 the box is OK. I have seen much better though among the various boxes out there. Also, I don’t really buy the claim that the premium box is worth what they listed. The inclusion of a mystery item that doesn't appear to function properly was also a bit troubling. With that said though, I have seen a few other reviews of sneak peeq boxes that had items that I would have liked much better. So maybe I just got a bit unlucky with this one.

If you want to see the February offerings, you can go to  SneekPeeq.com. One word of warning though, they make you sign up through Facebook, which also troubled me a bit.

Disclosures: Beauty and Fashion Tech at times reviews products provided by a representative of the company. When we do so, we specifically state so. We also use affiliate links. For more, please see the disclosure page

Beauty Box Five Review

October and November are all about subscription boxes for me. I will be reviewing around 10 of them and then will also make a big comparison video. Today looks at Beauty Box Five, which is one of the better value boxes in my opinion.

Beauty Box Five

At $12/month, Beauty Box Five is relatively affordable. The box itself is not as nicely packaged as some others, but it is decent enough. In each box are 4 or 5 samples of beauty products.

My box (August 2012) had the following items:

  • Blinc Eyeliner
  • The All Natural Face Vegan Eye Shadow
  • Everyday Minerals Blush
  • Blum Naturals Oil Absorbing Face Tissues
  • Comodynes Easy Peeling facial Mask, New Face Effect
    I have not tried any of these before, so I was happy with the selection. I also liked that it was more cosmetic oriented than skin care. Overall, I liked the box and think it is a pretty decent value. My video review of it is below.

Buy a Beauty Box Five

Disclosure: This post is based on a box sent to me by a representative of Beauty Box Five.

Disclosures: Beauty and Fashion Tech at times reviews products provided by a representative of the company. When we do so, we specifically state so. We also use affiliate links. For more, please see the disclosure page

Birchbox Review and Video

During October (and probably into November) I am going to focus quite a bit on subscription boxes here on Beauty and Fashion Tech.   I recently got together around 8-10 different boxes to do individual reviews and video reviews, and well as one big comparison review, where I will rank them from best to worst.  So keep an eye out for that! Today, I look at Birchbox.

Birchbox August 2012

Birchbox is one of the older subscription boxes. At $10/month, it is also one of the more affordable subscription boxes. I have tried two Birchboxes. One was sent to me for review eons ago and I was not impressed, so I didn’t review it. The one I am reviewing here, I purchased. I like it OK, especially based on the price, but I still am not overly impressed.  I also didn’t love that there was wait list to get a box. When I ordered mine, I waited about 6 weeks to be approved. Cancellation, however, was easy. I was able to do so with the click of a mouse through the website.

Birchbox Contents

In my Birch Box, which was the August 2012 box, were the following items:

Birchbox Review

Beauty School: A booklet with beauty tips. This was a rather basic publication and I really didn’t have much interest in it. I basically view it as a cute, but rather useless addition.

Schick Razor: I have tons of razors. I get them in the mail as a consumer and companies send them to me as a blogger. So this really isn’t a needed item, nor is it anything special since these things are not hard to come by.

Whish Shaving Cream (sample size): I liked this item. It is a nice shaving lotion with a good fragrance and I was not familiar with the brand. So I was perfectly happy with this item.

Viva La Juicy Fragrance (sample tube): I am not a fragrance person, and fragrance samples are a dine a dozen. So I wasn’t thrilled with getting this in the box.

TwistBand Hair Tie: A cute little hair tie, but it didn’t impress me much initially. In the video I wasn’t even sure what it was at first! But then I looked at the brand’s website. If you want hair bands in every color under the sun, that is the place. So this turned out to be kind of cool in hindsight.

The Balm Stainiac (sample size): I love lip stains, so I was fine with this item. However, I have received samples of stainiac in the past, so it wasn’t new to me.

Overall impression:

I give the Birchbox a middle of the road grade. At $10 it is a pretty good value, the website is easy to use, and cancellation was easy. But I also didn’t feel like it was all that original in terms of the content of the box.

Below is my video review:

Where to get it: Birchbox.com

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Disclosures: Beauty and Fashion Tech at times reviews products provided by a representative of the company. When we do so, we specifically state so. We also use affiliate links. For more, please see the disclosure page