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Allure Beauty Box Unboxing and Review: Summer Essentials 2013

So this is actually my first Allure Beauty Box. I’ve seen them sold before but was never satisfied with the contents enough to purchase one myself. This time, however, after seeing the sneak peeks in my Allure Beauty Enthusiasts newsletter, I knew I just had to get this one!

The selection of products is amazing, and exactly what I need right now. Most of it, as you will see in the pictures, is hair stuff, but I was getting low of my hair treatments so I desperately needed more. And of course, who would be able to resist the temptation of getting a Butter London nail polish from the newest Summer Holiday collection!

About Allure Beauty Box:
Once a season Allure Magazine releases a box filled with seasonal must-haves. The box contents are never a surprise, because they always reveal exactly what’s going to be in it. The box costs $39.99 + $10.00 S&H + tax if applicable, but the value is always 3-4 times higher than what you pay.

As you can see, the box was packed full! Hopefully, I will review everything over time, because there’s just too much stuff to go through. The plan is to set aside a few things as gifts, and use everything else myself. Most of the items in the box are hair products, which is why I got it in the first place. I was running low on my hair spray and soon I’ll have relatives staying over for a month, so this was a good chance for me to stock up the guest bathroom with some basic essentials.

Hair products:

Face products we got were mostly of the “cleansing” type, consisting of classic staples like Cetaphil and new must-haves like Neutrogena Ultra Gentle cleanser that just came out a little bit ago. I heard many great reviews about it so I really wanted to give it a try.

Face products:

Not a lot of body products this time, mostly self-tanners that I don’t use, and the bikini spray by Sally Hansen that I might or might not try.

Body products:

Nail products were represented by some big name brands like Sally Hansen and Butter London, along with a nail salon brand – Sation. As you can see from the swatches, Sally Hansen “Jaded” is almost a perfect Tiffany blue, and Sation “LOve at First Byte” is a very sheer streaky orange-pink. It’s so sheer, the color almost doesn’t show up at all when you put on the first coat! I will not be swatching Butter London “Bobby Dazzler” because I plan to give it as a gift.

Nail products:

And last but not the least, fragrance and makeup items. From all of these I’m only planning to keep the Pixi eye liner, because I just couldn’t resist the gorgeous teal color. The rest of these items would make great gifts for many wonderful women in my life, especially since Mother’s Day is almost here.

Fragrance & Makeup products:

The verdict: The total value of this box came to $280.94, which is pretty amazing! I’m glad I could stock up on essentials and little gifts, and I will probably get the Fall box even if I don’t really need anything from it.

Disclosure: I bought this.

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