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Subscriber Survey: What Item Gets You the Most Compliments?

Liz Cadman
ByLiz CadmanJul 23, 2017 | 68 comments

Sunday Subscriber Survey time! Is this you?

Friend: Ooh! I love that dress/necklace/bracelet/scarf/etc!

You: Thanks! I got it in a subscription box!

What subscription box item gets you the most compliments? 

For me, the easy answer is this backpack from The Honest Company:

(It's the easy answer because I wear it all the time, so it's going to get more compliments than anything else!) I've been having a backpacks-over-purses phase lately!

What subscription box item gets you the most compliments? (OK to list more than one if you can't narrow it down!)

P.S. Have a subscriber survey question idea for next week? (MSA Reader submitted questions coming next week!)

Liz Cadman
Liz Cadman
Liz is the founder of My Subscription Addiction. She's been hooked on subscription boxes since 2011 thanks to Birchbox, and she now subscribes to over 100 boxes. Her favorites include POPSUGAR Must Have, FabFitFun, and any box that features natural beauty products!

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68 comments

Emily

My Keep Cup from PSMH. I keep it at work and get compliments all the time from colleagues and patrons.

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TK

The gold compass necklace from BOS. I don’t think I’ve gone a day without wearing it since I got it. I love it’s simplicity. I wear it alone and layer with other necklaces.

If there were “meet up” groups in your city where MSA readers could get together, socialize, and trade, would people participate?

What’s the best skincare product, makeup item, hair product you’ve received from a box and why do you like it?

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CreativelySwank

I was totally unimpressed with this when it arrived but then I finally put it on yesterday. Stunning piece! I wish I hadn’t waited so long now.

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Emily

That would be a fun idea!

My favorite skincare products have come from BOS – I’m obsessed with the tatcha face wash and SUndy Riley moisturizer.

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Ashlea

Any of several Bijoux Box necklaces. They really stand out!

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JacLyn

The Kimono from the recent Box of Style. <3 🙂

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Michelle

The few times I’ve worn it, people have loved the straw hat with black small pompoms from Rachel Zoe. I swapped for it and I’m really happy that I did!

People have also complimented me when I’m wearing the winky lux lipstick from the popsugar box (december?) And a light pink tarte lipstick I got as a freebie from boxycharm for being a new subscriber.

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Michelle

And I course my really awesome stationary! Mostly from la papierre (got 2 friends hooked on it) but also from happy mail.

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KimberlyB

Winter, my Pusheen scarf with her head, ears, and whiskers on one end and feet & tail on the other.

Not Winter, my nail polishes. A lot of those compliments are just because I usually wear ten colors at a time, but they are almost always bright colors, shimmer, hologram — except not glitter often because it’s so hard to get off! If I only wore one color a week, it would take me two years to get thru all my colors, so no. About 95% of those are from Julep, and they know how to make bright colors and flashy finishes.

A question I’d love to see answers to: What box have you recently discovered that you love, and what do you love about it?

And: What item/box made you step outside your comfort zone and it turned out you really liked it?

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Abbe

My Polaroid sunglasses from the PSMH Limited Edition Summer Box!

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Bonnie

My Dylanex necklace from Rachel Zoe and all my Ivory Clasp purses so far. Those items are just a level up from what I would purchase on my own. My skin in general, thanks to all the skin care samples, masks, and products I use from subs, but I don’t think I can narrow that down to just one. And my boyfriend always complimented me when I used my Three Sisters Apothecary Body Butter in Santa Rosa Plum Nutmeg. He loved the scent and the soft skin.

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Carolann

Most anything I wear from Rocksbox receives compliments. That makes returning the items much harder!

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Michelle

Me too! I think because I usually receive more statement- type pieces than I wear on my own, and the stylists pick out a great “look,” so if I wear multiple pieces at the same time I look really put together 🙂

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AMH

erickson beamon rocks bracelet bracelet from a popsugar limited edition box (I just bought the bracelet)

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Kathy

I also get compliments every time I wear mine. I have mine on today.

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Sarah

All my PopSugar hats. My husband loves the new trucker one. 🙂 Love this question . . . giving me ideas for swaps.

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Luna

My Rose Druzy 6mm earrings from the February 2017 Kloverbox.

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Starla

I loved them so much I ordered that box from Kloverbox just for them. And then recently I ordered the matching necklace from Wrenn. Should be here any day now. Even my husband told me the earrings looked nice and he’s not known for mentioning anything I’m wearing. lol

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luna

(That’s “luna” with a lower-case “l” or Luna2 🤣!)

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Luna

Haha! Too funny. 😀
(this is the OG Luna, btw 😉 )

Michelle

My Cate&Chloe 18k gold tiger eye necklace. It’s so pretty. I love it!!

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Jane

The rose gold bangle from Olive + Piper I got in a Mommy Mailbox! Everyone always compliments me on that!

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Jessica

The silver Adornmonde Ivo Earrings from the Spring 2017 Rachel Zoe Box of Style. They are circles with a dropped stud, very simple, and I don’t wear them often, but when I do someone always compliments me.

Just realized that the last sentence sounded like the Dos Equis “The Most Interesting Man in the World.”

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Shiree

Ha! I just laughed so hard at this. Probably harder than I should’ve.

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Shiree

Oddly, The Keep cup we received in Popsugar & the Mountains earrings & necklace from Penny and Grace!

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CreativelySwank

The Alexis Bittar ring from BOS always garners many compliments when I wear it. I have such tiny fingers that it is rare to find a ring that fits, I love this one!

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Megan

I would have to say my cargo highlighter I got from my fabfitful box

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Megan

Fabfitfun *autocorrect*

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Veronica

The Avenue A by adidas summmer box shoes . A purfume from scent bird dark rum . My skin had a lot of texture from adult cystic acne and since ive been using a certain skin resurfacer, i have gotten compliments on my skin ,which is extremely rare.

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Debbie

Mind sharing which resurfacer?

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katie

The Falsies mascara from a Target box. Everyone ask if I am wearing fake lashes.

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C

Items currently in my rotation a bit lately that get compliments: the gold earrings from BOS spring 2017, illesteva Leonard sunglasses in the half/half grey with blue mirrored lenses (outside my usual color choices), everyone who sees the milly bag in the pink haute mess from FFF comments on it (my current travel makeup bag).

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Lisa

Deux Lux Croc Embossed Vegan Clutch from Happy Rebel Spring 2016 box. I received mine in the Mystery box that was done around Christmas time. I love it and it’s versatile enough that I can use it regularly with different outfits. I always get comments on it and people question where they can find one. It’s not like anything else I own so it makes me smile to have something unique that no one else seems familiar with either 🙂

I also tend to notice people look at my Kendra Scott Rose Gold bracelet but nobody has actually commented. Silent appreciation so far lol

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LynnDeanne

5th Avenue Style — I have a few dramatic necklaces from Karine Sultane that get comments, even from strangers on the street last time I was in NY

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Dianne

Wellpeople Mascara from a Birchbox and Target beauty box that I purchase now. Everyone asks me what Mascara I use it doesn’t flake or bother my eyes comes off easy and makes my lashes look full. I like it better than Too Faced better than sex mascara I can’t find anything any better.

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Airian

Funny enough the item I’ve received more compliments when wearing is the Jack & Lucy Biocostal wide brim hat from PSMH! I do not use it now during summer of course but I used it during Fall, Winter and maybe even when it was still cold and rainy here in spring and everyone would always comment on my awesome outfit or random strangers would ask me for advise when buy clothes at the stores (not kidding) lol! I love hats (not all the time) but I think a good hat or accesory can change your whole look. I get compliments on other items and on lipstick shades (love Ipsy!) but the hat is the winner for me. 🙂

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