The Allure Summer Beauty Box is the first Allure box I’ve purchased. I was super excited to get it, and I’m sure you all know there were tons of problems in ordering it. My friend Alena actually ordered it for me (first because it became available when I pick my child up from the bus and also because I got here in time but couldn’t access the site! This box was $44.95 (no kidding) plus I think around $10 shipping. It weighs about 12 pounds and they shipped the boxes much faster than they had in previous quarters! I hope they continue to sell these absolutely amazing quarterly boxes (I think they actually do it only 3 times a year?) but also wish they could resolve their website issues! You can enter the giveaway for this box at the bottom of this post!
Also, I originally forgot to mention this, but Allure is actually involved with a subscription box! They have a partnership with Beauty Bar Sample Society and you can check out all my reviews of that subscription here 🙂
The Allure Summer Beauty Bo has an extensive information booklet with one page for each product. I was more interested in playing with everything. There’s something about getting a huge box of full-size products that’s really exciting. Even for someone who gets a box or 5 every day, this was really truly fun.
A portion of the proceeds of Beauty Box were donated to NYU Langone Medical Center to benefit melanoma research.
And it took me quite some time to unpack it all! I decided to take my time with everything in it before posting. I have not had this much fun playing with new products for a while!
Burt’s Bees Even-Tone Moisturizing Cream ($20) I am excited about this because it’s a natural tone evener & wrinkle reducer!
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Face + Body Stick Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 70 ($10) I usually keep my foil packets of sunscreen in the stroller, so this has found a home in the next to the front door basket along with our spray Neutrogena!
IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better® CC+ Cream with SPF 50+ ($38) Sorry for the worst photo in the world. This is in the medium shade and I was suprised/shocked/thrilled that it matched my skintone. I am not usually a medium, but in the summer I really am. I bought this box because of this product so I was really happy about it. I have had my eye on several IT Cosmetics products (I’m a qvc junkie) and I was excited to try it.
TanTowel Classic Self-Tan Towelettes ($12) I am mildly obsessed with self-tanning and these are my absolute faves. Really.
Rimmel London Scandaleyes Retro Glam Mascara ($5.99) I would honestly love to try this, and my very fave mascara is drugstore, but it feels wasteful to open it when I have sooooo many mascaras to work through. Giveaway pile!
Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara ($20) I can’t resist using it 🙂
Rembrandt Deeply White Toothpaste ($7) Who doesn’t love toothpaste? If I feel this works well, I might buy it again. I need enamel restoration!
Cargo Cosmetics Essential Lip Gloss ($16) In Tuscany. This is pretty much the perfect lipgloss.
Neutrogena MoistureSmooth Color Stick ($8.49) I wore this today, and it was too pink to go with my bronze glittery shadow. So I plopped some of that Catalina Su on top of it (which I didn’t care for the color of) and it was perfection. I love this as a base or just for running around.
Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleansing Cloths ($6.50) I love any cleansing cloth as long as it doesn’t require rinsing. I do use toner afterwards on a cotton round. I think this box could have used a toner!
Softsoap Sea Kissed Exfoliating Body Wash ($5.99) Smells great!!!
Dove Purely Pampering Body Wash ($5.49 Target, online) in Pistachio Cream with Magnolia. Why can’t this be edible?
Sally Hansen Triple Shine Nail Color and Top Coat ($10) Looooove this color and it was exciting to get a top coat too. I can always use more.
Flower Nail’d It Nail Lacquer ($4.98) This is a polish color perfect for… someone else.
HAIR STUFF
Oscar Blandi Pronto Dry Heat Protect Spray ($24) I don’t really heat style my hair a whole lot, but I am thinking of experimenting more with it now that I have more free time. This will be useful!
GK Hair ThermalStyleHer ($15.99) I’m obsessed with either chopping all my hair off (I never blowdry) or growing it out and pretending I have fabulous hair (I don’t). If I did I might use something like this. I thought it was cool it was travel sized?
Developlus Anti-Aging Hair Treatment System ($20) I’m not really sure how this is going to do all the anti-aging things it promises, but I’m ridiculously excited about it. I didn’t notice it on the box list and I was giddy when I saw it.
Redken Mess Around 10 Disrupting Cream-Paste ($15) This is for the boys!
One ’N Only Argan Oil Cream-to-Serum Styler ($11.99) This sounds like a really unique product to me. But the reviews are weird! Like one person said it was crunchy, another person said it was sticky. But that’s why this box rocks – you get everything really cheap!
Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Unit Renewal Treatment ($7.99) I really like this brand and I forgot to use this in the shower today. Tomorrow!
The night of 1,000 Hairsprays
My main criticism of the box – way too many hairsprays!
Aloxxi Flexible Hairspray ($18) Medium Hold, Humidity Resistant.
Rusk Freezing Spray ($19) I feel confident that my grandma will love it! Extreme hold, humidity-resistant.
Pureology Fresh Approach Dry Conditioner ($24) So what if it’s not hairspray? You can sort of do the same thing.
Big Sexy Hair Get Layered Hairspray ($18.95) For layers.
WHEW! Longest post ever right? The other thing I really noticed this box didn’t have? A body moisturizer! But you know, they have the companies they work with and they include the products that will work with them for this box! The Allure Summer Beauty box was a totally amazing value and I was happy to score it, even if it meant I got loads new hairspray (seriously, how can a person use all this hairspray? I’m sure Allure knows something I don’t!). I’m not sure I would really buy it each quarter. That’s lots of product, and I think it really depends on what precisely was in the box. There were specific products & brands that I was wanting to try anyways that are never in subscription boxes so this was a great way to test them out! Whatever I decide not to use I will absolutely be passing along to friends & family.
I am, of course, giving a box away! All terms & conditions are on the widget. This giveaway is sponsored by me and has nothing to do with Allure or any of the zillion companies with products inside this box. Remember if you are a newsletter subscriber to make sure my newsletter isn’t in your spam folder. You can refer your friends to enter the giveaway if you’d like to get more entries that way. Just make them promise to share!! Also FYI there were color variations in this box. The other box I have is completely sealed and I have no idea what colors are in there!
Comments
Thank you very much for the box! I Love the Sally Hansen Triple Shine Nail Color I received – perfect for summer at the beach! Box dreams do come true!
I am most excited to try the Softsoap Sea Kissed Exfoliating Body Wash.
Most excited to try the CC cream i think.
– maya hu
Aloxxi Flexible Hairspray
I’d love to try the toothpaste.
The Sally Hansen Nailpolish
I am most excited to try the GK Hair ThermalStyleHer.
I’m most excited to try the makeup items, the two lip items and the two mascaras! 🙂
Thanks for having this giveaway!
the neutrogena color stick
I am most excited to try the Burt’s Bees Moisturizer.
Laurie Emerson
I would like to try the IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better® CC+ Cream with SPF 50+. Thanks!
Fresh Approach Dry Conditioner
I would love to try the Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara.
Rafflecopter: Tara Woods
I am looking forward to the Softsoap Sea Kissed Exfoliating Body Wash
I would love to try the Pureology Fresh Approach Dry Conditioner.
jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com
I am most excited to try the Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara.
I like the Cargo NEW Essential Lip Gloss
So hard to pick just one, but probably the hair treatment. It’s been a while since I’ve treated my hair.
I would love to try the Argan Oil
I would to try the One N’ Only Argan Oil Cream-to Serum Styler on my hair… the curls needs help in this weather!
How fun! I have tried some of the dry shampoo from Not Your Mothers before and love it. would be awesome to get to try something new!
I am most excited about the One ’N Only Argan Oil Cream-to-Serum Styler because I have thick wavy hair.
For me, it is a tie between wanting to try the It Cosmetics CC cream and the Dove Pistachio Cream Body wash. Both just sound like they would make my mornings more enjoyable. 🙂
I’d love to try the Cargo lip gloss.
I’m excited to try the not your mothers intensive hair treatment! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Aloxxi Flexible Hairspray ($18) Medium Hold, Humidity Resistant. love to try it and see how it could hold my thin hair
I would love to try the Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara
The Tan. Towels.
Pureology, I really like their stuff and would like to try this.
i would love to try the Developlus Anti-Aging Hair Treatment System
I would like to try the Softsoap Sea Kissed Exfoliating Body Wash
it cosmetics CC cream 🙂
I’m excited to try the rusk freezing spray.
Definitely the itCosmetics CC cream & Cargo lip gloss! I’ve been wanting to try this box forever! Are they all this great? I just might need to subscribe!
It is a one-time box that you have to try to buy at a certain time (announced about a week before the sale) 3 times a year. This was my first one! I think they’re all pretty good!
The Oscar Blandi!
I’d like to try: Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Unit Renewal Treatment!
The anti aging hair stuff
Wow’ there are a lot of great products in this box. I am so bummed that I could not seem to order it. The product that I am most excited to try would be the Burt’s Bees Even-Tone Moisturizing Cream.
I am most excited about the Burt’s Bees Even-Tone Moisturizing Cream
The intense hair unit treatment sound great! I am queen of the frizzies!
summer in a box??…..I think sooo!!! Exciting!
The heat spray!
Hi! It’s hard to pick one item to be excited about but I’ve always wanted to try the Rembrandt toothpaste. So I’m most excited about that! Thank-you for this generous giveaway!!
I am excited to try the Aloxxi Flexible Hairspray
My wife would like the big sexy hair hairspray.
You know that you’re getting old when…you would be excited to try the anti-aging hair system! LOL! 🙂
I know! I’m really psyched to unbox that puppy and check it out!!!
The Big Sexy Hair Get Layered Hairspray!
The tan towels and big sexy hair
The Burts Bee Moisturizer. Thank you!
Big Sexy Hair Get Layered Hairspray! Thank you
Rembrandt toothpaste. My Dad was military and worked in the dental clinic on base. Needless to say, my family has a “thing” about pretty teeth.
Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Unit Renewal Treatment.
The Pureology Fresh Approach Dry Conditioner!
I need a tan, therefore I am most excited to try the tan towel.
The CC cream.
I would love to try the dry conditioner! I’m a little obsessed with dry shampoo so, this is a must try for me!
I’d like to try the shower gels.
blackasphodel(at)yahoo(dot)com
I would like One ’N Only Argan Oil Cream-to-Serum Styler.
The Neutrogena Moisture Smooth Color Stick excites me, among many other things here. I love lip crayons!
I am most excited to try the, Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Unit Renewal Treatment!!!!!!!
I’m excited about theBurt’s Bees Even-Tone Moisturizing Cream!
S
Awesome giveaway.
Would be most excited to try the cc cream.
I want to try the Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Unit Renewal Treatment.
The tan towels!
Wow! Awesome box. I would be most excited to try the It cosmetics CC cream. I think I am a medium in the summer also.
I would really love to try the Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara but all of the products look amazing!
That’s a lot of good stuff in that box. I would like to try Rusk Freezing Spray .
I would be excited to try all of these!!! Such great products!! I would be most excited about One ’N Only Argan Oil Cream-to-Serum Styler
I would love to try the It CC cream so many option, it’s hard to choose
We use Cetaphil everyday here on my boys excema but I’ve never tried anything other then the lotion so I would like to try the cleansing clothes. I love those for when I travel.
The Burt’s bees,tan towels,dry heat spray, and aloxxi hairspray!!!
When does the giveaway end?
Ends: 6/2/2014 3:00 AM EST – it’s always on the giveaway widget! Except the whole EST thing, it’s a lie. It’s really EDT.
The “not your mothers” product!!
I would most love to try the Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Face + Body Stick Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 70!
I would love to try the lipgloss! I’ve also heard a lot of good things about flower products so i’d be excited to try that! But probably not in orange! haha
I’m excited to try the toothpaste!
The triple shine nail polish in that blue metallic shade.
WOW was there alot of stuff! LOL! I would really like to try the oscar blandi…kinda digging that brand right now!
I’m most excited to try the Softsoap Sea Kissed Exfoliating Body Wash
Big Sexy Hair Get Layered Hairspray
I would love to try the Tarte mascara!
The Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Renewal
Probably the Burt’s bees moisturizer and the it cosmetics cc cream.
The item in the beauty box that I am most looking forward to trying is the Burt’s Bees Even-Tone Moisturizing Cream
The IT CC Cream…except it worries be about the snail excrement as the second ingredient lol.
I AM COVERING MY EYEBALLS FOR THAT ONE THANKS!!! 😉
What a fabulous box! I’d be totally happy with all the hair stuff – specially The Rusk Freezing spray.
The It Cosmetics product is what I would be most excited to try followed by everything else of course!!!
The Sally Hansen color!
There are several that I would love to try but most excited about the Big Sexy Hair product!!
It cosmetics CC cream
I’d love to try the tan towels!
Great haul! Especially the Not Your Mother’s hair treatment! I tried for this box and got all the way to clicking submit then I got a pop-up telling me they can’t ship to Alaska or Hawaii 🙁 Thank you so much for having a giveaway!
I would love to try the CC cream!
I would love to try the IT Cosmetics CC+ cream and the Intensive Hair Renewal treatment. Wish that I had bought this, so much that I would use, and lots that I would give to my friends. Thanks for the giveaway!
The IT cosmetics for sure, just hope it’s not too dark for me…
I’m all about the Tarte mascara! That stuff is awesome.
I wants it all, but like you, the thing that draws me the most is the IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream! This is a really fabulous and generous giveaway. I really wanted to get a box but my girl decided she was sick (of school) that day, so I forgot all about the second chance to get it!
The Tarte mascara and Cargo lip gloss! But really, that’s a lot of great products!
Wow. What a super giveaway. I tried so hard to get one of these beauty boxes but wasn’t quick enough.
I’d love to try the Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara first.
Thanks so much.
I would love to try the anti-aging hair treatment! 🙂
I would want to try the CC cream.
Burt’s Bees moisturizer!
What a great box
I’m excited about the Tarte lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara (
I would love to try the intensive hair treatment before I end up having to chop off too many split ends!
love to try the anti aging hair! All the hair stuff =)
I’d love to try the Cargo Cosmetics Essential Lip Gloss.
The Burt’s Bees moisturizer
all of it! But especially the tarte mascara! 🙂
The CC Cream!
I love hair oils and well, any hair product. I so wanted one of these because of the hair stuff but I wasn’t available to even try to score one.
Developlus Anti-Aging Hair Treatment System
It cosmetics cc cream
And I would be most excited about trying it all! But the 1st thing that came to mind was the Moroccan Oil 🙂
Well, you’ve got ME excited! Lol
Omg i love all of them! If i had to choose, I’d love to try the dry heat spray.
Scandal Eyes!
Most excited to try the CC cream!
Oooo id love it all!
I was super close to buying but I didn’t. I am definitely most excited to try the It Cosmetics CC cream.
I am most excited to try the CC cream. It has great reviews! Thanks so much for the chance to win!
I am excited about Neutrogena MoistureSmooth Color Stick
I’d love everything in the box, but am most excited at the chance to win the Developlus Anti-Aging Hair Treatment System
Love the polish!
I want to try the Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Unit Renewal Treatment , My hair needs help!
The Not Your Mother’s Intensive Hair Renewal stuff!! (:
That looks like a great box! I would be most excited to try the Burt’s Bees moisturizer and the Cargo lip gloss.
What a great box!! There are so any items I want to try in that one!!!! Doing the happy, lucky dance!!
The driest hairspray,hate goopy hair products.Thanks for the chance!