Walmart Beauty Box: Spring Edition 2021

Hey Lovelies, today I’m going to be sharing with you my Spring Walmart Beauty Box.

Let me tell you a little about this box. It’s a quarterly beauty box containing 5 beauty items from beauty brands sold at Walmart. These boxes are $5 (plus tax) $6.98 (plus tax)

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you’ll know that I’m not the biggest fan of this box. I keep saying I’m going to cancel but I was intrigued when I received an email letting subscribers know they’ve revamped the boxes and they would be better than ever.

Walmart Beauty Box Website

Let’s see if these boxes are ‘New and Improved’…

Theme: A Breath of Fresh Air For Your Routine

This is the third season of the supposedly ‘New & Improved’ boxes and Brand Share, the company that curates the box, has made some changes. The major change that they made is the PRICE INCREASE it is now $6.98 (plus tax) every quarter (with tax, mine came to $7.48). They also decided to keep with the extra product, so now you’ll receive 6 products instead of 5.

There is a product card and it does contain a bit of information along with the full size MSRP. Unfortunately, there’s no price listed for the sample/travel sizes.

Here’s what was in my Spring Walmart Beauty Box

Hello Activated Charcoal Toothpaste (sample/travel size)—this is a product that I have received before and it’s one that I can’t use because it contains stevia. I’ll pass this on to a friend.

7^th Heaven Charcoal Peel-Off Mask Cleansing + Detoxifying (Full Size, $1.37)—again, this is a product that I can’t use because it’s for oily skin. I’ll probably throw this into a giveaway.

Dashing Diva Gloss Nail Strips in Cheetah-licious (sample size of 20 strips, full is 32)—these are not something that I would purchase for myself but I don’t mind if they come in sub boxes. While there was enough to do my nails, these are a sample size and, while they did include the nail file, they didn’t include the prep wipe which is needed to help the strips apply flawlessly to the nail. I did give these a go and they were okay. They lasted longer than standard polish but not 14 days, which they claimed.

Tanologist Face + Body Drops (foil packet)—again, we have a foil packet. It’s not something I would use anyway so I don’t feel bad tossing this in the bin.

Wild Primerose by Scunci Hair Clips (Full Size, price unknown)—these look like someone gather up a bit of shag carpet then stuck some rhinestones on top. They’re not something I would wear out but I might use them to keep my hair out of my face when I do my makeup.  I would have much rather had the hair ties or claw clips that they were sending out.

Humphrey’s Witch Hazel Toner with Lavender (deluxe mini)—this is the only thing in the box that I am excited about. I do use this brand and this is the perfect size to keep on my dresser.

 

My thoughts: Okay, so this box was a bit of a disaster. Foil packets, cheap-looking products, repeats, and items that don’t fit the skin-type/issue profile I had to fill out isn’t worth paying nearly $8 for. Yes, I did use the nail strips to try out and I will use the toner but for $8 I could have purchased a full size bottle of the toner.

I don’t see anything ‘new and improved’ about the products in the box. We’re still getting repeats, we’re still getting foil packets—both of which these ‘new and improved’ boxes weren’t supposed to have. They’re not following my profile, which again, is something that was supposed to occur with the ‘new and improved’ boxes. A few weeks after you receive your box, you receive an invitation to ‘review’ your box to ensure each box will be curated to you. This started with the Fall 2020 box and I have completed the review form each time it arrived and I still haven’t seen any improvements. The tracking, which was supposed to be better and easier to use, is worse than before—my tracking information arrived about a week after the box was delivered.

Overall, I’m going to see what’s in the Summer box—that way I will have received an entire year of the ‘new and improved’ boxes—then I will probably cancel. Before I could write these boxes off by saying they’re just $5 a quarter and someone I know will get use out of the products but now the price is creeping closer to $10 and the products haven’t improved (they seem to have gotten worse). 

 

Do you get the Walmart Box? If so, are you keeping it with the price increase? What products did you receive?