And I thought I would continue where I left off!
October 2012
The bewitching collection. Containing Elouise, Sabrina, Hermione, Lisa, Ursula, Keira (repromote), Boris & Nicole (repromote), Gwenyth (repromote), Glenda, Leslie, Caroline and some add ons. But a disappointing month when half the polishes are crakles which was already a dead trend at that point, and bunch of repromoted colours.
November 2012
The long awaited Suedes. They had been at Sephora about 3 months when these FINALLY came out!!
December 2012
This was all about glitter! The Give, Glitter & Glow Collection
January 2013
And wow, we are onto 2013!. Escape and Unwind was the collection for this month. A group of in your face bright polishes that many had hoped would see a dupe for the long past Helena. Bette certainly was close, but no dupe was found.
February 2013
Get on the A List was the collection this February. And a nice little surprise in everyones boxes!
March 2013
Get ready to play this march! Reformulated products made it less exciting for long time mavens, but the rock star hand cream seemed to be hit with all, so complaints seemed short lived.
April 2013
Well, if we thought January shades were neon and bright, we had not seen anything yet! Now again, there was some controversy over the collection. Mavens were told we would get first chance at shades and that was part of the appeal of the program. So this was yet another month where we were anxiously awaiting the Rock Candy collection that had been at Sephora for a few months already. And while we didnt get it, we did get access to a new rock candy shade, named Candy. Must say I thought they were TOO sheer myself and was not sad to see only one, and I did get it, but it was certainly......... discussed a lot on the Julep wall!
This also saw the introduction of my beloved and now discontinued Dry Shampoo with a terrible nozzle that got clogged for loads of people!
May 2013
A lot of complaints here to this month because of how tiny the lipsticks are. And yes, they are basically 3 deluxe minis. But really, THREE deluxe minis kind of equal one full sized, and how many of us beauty addicts go through an entire lipstick. And we know Julep is KNOWN for tiny sizes, so I really didnt get the hysteria.
June 2013
Ahh.......... The DD cream and concealer. Juleps infamous little amounts in full sized LARGE packaging. i wont even DISCUSS that shitstorm!
July 2013
The California Coast Collection. This was a month where there seemed to be little to complain about. Both products have proven to be winners for them thus far. Though I must say, I am getting very very IMPATIENT and FRUSTRATED waiting for sea salt spray to COME BACK IN STOCK!!!
August 2013
Happy two year anniversary to Julep. And with that, the Garden Party Collection.
September 2013
So September brought us The Cityscape Collection. Along with the collection came two featured add ons, Reece and the sponge.
October 2013
I must say, this October was certainly an improvement over last! The Beauty profile got the liner and the Mask Noir, and the colours were both logical for Halloween, NOT repromotes, and also, were thankfully not crackles!
November 2013
Right At Home was the collection this month.
December 2013
The Glitterati collection had the oh so exciting eyeshadow palette. I have not seen any BAD reviews of it, but I think the common thread among reviews was that it fell short. Kind of disappointing.
January 2014
The Boudoir collection introduced us a new profile. Welcome to the Core Classics. An option of so far classic products from the core line. Also, the drip dry drops were repackaged and equally crappy in terms of turning yellow and evaporating out of the packages!
Core Classics Box:
February 2014
Dramatic Collection Anyone? How about Julep doing something really really sneaky and in my opinon COMPLETELY SLEAZY? Is that dramatic enough?
Mavens who signed up on or after December 18, 2013 will only get to skip once every 6 months. Julep calls that “earning” a skip NO NOTICE!!!!!!!!!!.
Mavens who signed up BEFORE that time will be “grandmothered” in.
The removal of the skip was a big surprise to everyone. Especially the mavens who signed up in the one month period where they signed up being told they COULD skip and then BAM! Surprise, no skip. I had actually referred people who got screwed by this bait and switch. And it also makes ME look bad for recommending one thing when they got another.
I posted my disappointment on Juleps facebook wall who kindly responded saying they were going to contact me. They never did.
So if Julep wants to know why the last person I actively referred was in December, this is why. I am STILL not ok with this. And I work with a coworker who got screwed by this and yeah........ I will end this there. NOT COOL JULEP. NOT COOL.
Featured Add Ons:
March 2014
The Riviera collection. Not much to say. More lip glosses. If you like the glosses, this was great. Otherwise......
April 2014
While I liked this box, I think Julep kind of missed the boat only making ONE bronzer. There should have been a light and a dark one. Otherwise, I though the blushes were fine. Nothing too exciting or too dreadful this month.
Core Classics:
Featured Add Ons:
May 2014
Ahh.... The Fresh Twist Collection. A larger shit show not seen since the DD cream debacle or Julep stealing bloggers pictures and editing out water marks. Seriously, this company sure knows how to simultaneously piss off 2/3rds of their mavens while sucking them back! Its amazing really.
I think now that its July everyone has gotten their may boxes? I say I think, because it was THAT much of a circus. My May box came June...... 15thish? They ran out of plie wands, many got BROKEN plie wands, and there was ZERO communication until far far late into the game. They did however have enough time to do two different mystery boxes while claiming to be working around the clock to get May boxes out and promising they were doing all they could do.
Now there were also more big changes!!
Starting next June 1: New Mavens can customize their box as much (or as little) as they like. Sign up for 1 month and pay $24.99/month ($4.99 shipping for your welcome box), or sign up for 3 months and pay only $19.99/month (FREE shipping on your welcome box!!)!
Julep boxes will now be completely customizable. My Maven will give you the ability to swap out items from your box – it’s $24.99 per month or $19.99 with a 3 month prepaid subscription. Maven Luxe will have more stuff – $60 worth instead of the regular $40.This option will be $39.99 per month or $34.99 per month on a 3 month prepaid subscription.
- You can’t customize collection upgrades.
- You won’t lose your skip privileges if you have them.
BE WARNED THOUGH!!! If you try My Maven EVEN ONCE, there is NO GOING BACK! You can not get the $19.99 a month option back.
AND ALSO NOTE: They upped the add on price from $4.99 per polish to $5.99 per polish
Now some also commented that the modern beauty box was a cop out (kind of agree) since it was not new products and was recently a core classics box. Personally, I dont want product boxes so I paid little attention.
This was Core Classics:
This was Modern Beauty:
June 2014
This was the first collection in AGES I was excited about! No pinks, mainly purples, a stardust finish polish, it SCREAMED my name as loudly as a polish collection is able to!
Featured Add On - Katerina
And we are all caught up? I think so! July boxes have not yet shipped, so we are good to go! That is all 35 boxes that have come out, I have not missed a single month, and with that - see you all in another year and half for the next installment!!!
