Birchbox

I received this S a gift for six months. The products we nice but nothing I was thrilled about and nothing I decided to reorder. I do think this would be a great gift to give someone as it was fun to see what I would get each month.

I did not care for the options given in the subscription. I never wanted to try hair products but would have to include it each month. I would rather double up on skincare or makeup.

It's fun to get a "gift" in the mail every month but I just wasn't using the products in the box so I finally cancelled. I still like some of the brands they carry on-site and order from them, but I can't justify paying a monthly fee for something I'm barely using.

Use bigger named products, or consider a theme like all-natural products.

Fine, have discovered some cool products

Don't love the excessive packaging, wish there was an option for only cruelty-free products

Birchbox was one of the first, main stream subscription boxes and at first it was very exciting to open. The boxes are often beautiful and I've kept many of them for organization, but the contents were often boring and not something I was interested in. There was often one sample I really loved and the rest were passed along or tossed. There was an option to let them know things you didn't want, I requested no fragrances because I don't wear perfume, but in every single box I got a perfume sample.

If you let your members state preferences, please actually listen. And better samples of cutting edge things would be great.

Liked having an opportunity to test new products, but didn't like having a lot of the products i didn't like or need laying around my house.

Opportunities to further curate your own box.

When I first tried it, I received lots of great items. I’ve subscribed a few more times and very disappointed, because there are too many repeat items, poor quality items and tiny samples.

Better and useful items, larger samples

I was subscribed to Birchbox as a gift and I think it was a really good gift! I just think I am the kind of person who would never reach for a sample product. I am not super experimental in my beauty routine and I like to do research on my products before I buy them to make sure they are right for me. However I have tested some pretty amazing products through this service and ended up buying the full sized version. This was a great gift, and it was fun getting something new every month!

Diversifying the brands!

I loved this at first, but it got quickly redundant and wasteful. Too much perfume. Too much packaging.

I never received anything in my Birchbox I found worth using. In fact, I felt like the box was kind of a waste of paper and plastics and felt bad getting it until I eventually canceled. I did end up giving out a lot of the samples to my younger cousins.