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Ricky’s NYC Cult Crushes Beauty Box – June 2018 Full Spoilers!

Liz Cadman
ByLiz CadmanJun 10, 2018 | 71 comments

Ricky's NYC Cult Crushes

Cult Crushes
3.4 overall rating
30 Ratings | 6 Reviews

We have the full spoilers for the June 2018 Ricky's NYC Cult Crushes beauty box! (Thanks for the heads up, Lisa + Erica!)

Each box will include:

What do you think about the spoilers?

About Cult Crushes:

The Box: Ricky’s NYC Cult Crushes

The Cost: $14 per month + free shipping

The Products: Each month, subscribers receive a themed selection of handpicked products in cosmetics, skincare, haircare, and fashion.

Ships to: US

Good to Know: As a subscriber, you also get 25% off all online purchases and free shipping on purchases of $50 or more when you shop with Ricky’s NYC.

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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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71 comments

Tanya Melby

Can someone tell me how to cancel Ricky’s cult crush. I can’t seem to find it on their website?

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Monica

I was charged in April (never got an April box). I was charged in May and then got 2 May boxes! There isn’t anything in the May box that I will use. So now I have 2 of everything. Ugh! What a waste. And waste of money. I just got my June box yesterday. Although it does look better than last months I’m done with this box already.

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GinaMarie

Just got my box from the mail man moments ago. He asked what is inside because it’s all over his bag! The put the bubble wrap in, then raffia, then all the products on top! Rose water…..which is what I was excited to try….EVERYWHERE! Ugh. The shadow…first ingredient is talc. It’s pigmented but, if you’ve got even a small amount of wrinkles on the eye…the shimmer is gonna make those wrinkles show like they’re crepey. Done with Ricky’s. I looked up this sub before ordering. People are right. Something is wrong at Ricky’s. I got billed at the end of May and again today for the June box. I now have the hassle of explaining to a company that I already paid and do not want to pay $28 for a sub I only agreed to pay $14 for. Bye bye Ricky’s. It’s one thing to have some not so good boxes, itsanother when you begin to mess with my account like Allure did. Hope everyone else’s experience is a whole lot better than mine.

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justmissjamey

Yikes!!! Don’t seem interesting at all :(( don’t need skincare, rather have makeup, lashes, setting sprays etc..

Wonder if enough people cancel they will drop the price again, because this don’t seem to be getting better

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Dorothy McDowell

I just subscribed and am already VERY disappointed…… time to try another one – I will give Ricky’s 2 more months only….

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Betsy Wetsy

Wow!!! What a disappointment! This is my 2nd month with Ricky’s. I said I will give them a 3 month trial to win me over & it’s not looking good so far. If the box doesn’t get better by next month, July will be my last with them. Wow… Just wow.. I was so super excited about this box a few months back.

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Emmy

I agree with you! This is my second month, and the box is a total disappointment. Perhaps the box is targeted more toward tweens than grown women. Based on what I’ve been reading, the box was supposed to be a more hip version of Ipsy. Sadly, Cult Crushes is not living up to its hype.

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Jamie

It was a more mature, cooler version of ipsy, but now it’s like ipsy’s drunk 3rd cousin twice removed that got arrested at thanksgiving last year bc they can’t get their act together lol.

Lisa

I just paused this sub. It was pretty easy to do and if they do turn around it is easier to restart than resubscribe. For people who think this is a good value is CC only box you have? I am just wondering because most boxes seem to be around 4x the value of box. My Ipsy is usually around $40 Boxy is around or over $100 Allure is over $60 . Even mystery boxes like PUR or Too faced etc follow this. So no a $14 sub that sends products worth around $30- $40 is not a good value. Their box needs to be closer to $60 retail value. And this needs to be every month you can’t say well few months ago they sent great boxes. Ya to get a rush of subscribers to fill their pockets look at them now .

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Vicky H

Agree 100%! Even at Ipsy’s lowest it’s still about a 1-3 ratio. I do like the products included and enjoy that it’s different but not for $14. I’d rather save the money and buy the palette I want from Ulta or the lippie set from Sephora. I am excited to try the eye things and always love face masks.

By the way she has adult onset acne that is hormonal… I started going to a dermatologist because my checks were breaking out bad. It’s under control and mostly clear but I can’t use other products that aggravate skin because most acne products or medicines dry your skin out.

Question… if you pause, can you re- activate it prior to shipping and get that month’s box or do you get the following month’s box? I said I would give it 3 months but I’m struggling to justify keeping it. They keep deleting comments which makes me angry and I feel it’s manipulative and unethical.

On a positive note – it could another false promise, but they did reply to a comment on Instagram that there would be more color in July. Again, taking it with a grain of salt…

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Lana

Wow this box jumped the shark fast! So glad I passed

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Jan Hautala

I’m really disappointed. One makeup item. The rest is skin stuff and not the exciting items of past. I guess they expanded too fast. I’ll hang in there another month. I hope they can figure out how to get back to the fun boxes and not give us skin stuff and boring items we quit Birchbox for. Vitamins? Acne cleansers. Thanks grandma.

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Sammyknows

I’ve been a subscriber since last year, the last 2 months have been such a horrible disappointment. And the fact that they jacked the price up $3…. and sent us this box of samples. They should have tried to impress us, and show us that yes, the box now costs more, but look what your gaining. Instead it was box with small samples and 3 masks. December had one product alone worth $35. Other months have had palettes and even a straight iron mini. I’ll give them another 2 months tops. Then I’ll be unsubscribing if it hasn’t improved.

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Lizette

SO SO SO happy I unsubscribed! I subscribed when I started noticing the unboxings on youtube and though I have subscription box overload I can never pass up a good value box. May was my first box and I was really not that impressed. Not super disappointed, however, not wow’d either. I decided to cancel when the price was increased a couple of weeks after they opened up their wait list because I felt it was a little shady to do that right after they took on a bunch of new subscribers, and SO glad I did. You would think that after a $3 price increase they would have had a fantastic box in the works to make the consumer feel satisfied with the increase, but this box is just disappointing. Even Alexandra Ryan feels that way because she put the blurb of “is it worth it?” on her video. And she’s gone on the record to say that Ricky’s was one of her favorite sub boxes, so that just goes to show you the opinions floating around in our sub box world….

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Shauna

Same here, May was also my first and last box.

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Adrienne

Soooo, I thought this was a make-up box. Only 1 makeup item….so disappointing. Yep, I am cancelling after only 2 months.

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Stephanie

I’m still waiting for one item from the May box (that I received in June). I’ll give them one more month then decide if I unsubscribe or stay. After all the great reviews I read about their $11 boxes, I’m disappointed things are turning out so poorly.

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Jen

$14 free shipping you say? They charged me an extra 5.99 last month for shipping charges…

Yeah…no

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justmissjamey

How did you tell they charged shipping??

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jukeboxx

This happened to me too. I emailed CS and they refunded the charge. I’m still kinda pissy about it though.

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Bonnie

Overall, I like the box and i am definitely not cancelling, nor am I particularly upset about $3 more. But…a vitamin sample? Really? You need to send at least a 30 day supply if we are to see any value in this product.

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Dea

No, it sounds like a hair product, not a vitamin sample.

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GinaMarie

It’s a vitamin sample. There is 14 of them inside. You’re supposed to take it 2 x a day. I just received my box. Hope yours is packaged better than Mine! Rose water everywhere

Bonnie

They are Healthy Hair Vitamins, nourish from within. I actually clicked on them as well as seeing Alexandra’s YouTube review (above). They are vitamins. Personally, I don’t see how you can know if they work if you can’t try for a whole month. So for me, it’s one less item.

Jamie

I watched an unboxing and it’s definitely a little bottle of pills. It says they’re nutritional supplements.

Dea

Sounds like a great box to me. Not surprised at the whining from the crowd that thinks that a good box is only a box with products from the overpriced, mediocre Tarte and Too Faced. Once all these people are gone, Ricky’s can relax and continue to be the non-Allure box that it has always been. Rock on, Ricky’s!

If you don’t want to try new things, don’t get beauty boxes. Just go to Sephora and shell out for exactly what makes you happy.

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GinaMarie

Here’s my complaint, besides how my box was packaged….the eye patches come 6 for about $8. They sent 2. Ugh. Really Ricky’s? Really? Ugh

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GinaMarie

I’d love to try something new. Thing is…none of this is new to me. None of it. Another gold shimmery eyeshadow? Seriously? How many of these are given to subscription Boxes? Not just that but, the price went up. I expect an entire bottle of hair vitamins not a sample with only a weeks supply.

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sara

Why not voice your thoughts without ripping on what other people may or may not think? You are putting down people and don’t need to. There is plenty of room in the comment section to express yourself kindly.

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Jamie

Some ppl feel food abt themselves only when bein unkind to others. I don’t understand it.

On another note, what that person says holds little weight since too faced doesn’t work with any sub boxes and Tarte only works with a very few. Most of the Tarte items being seen in sub boxes these days are not authorized to be there from Tarte, weren’t bought from Tarte and Tarte had no idea where or how they got those products for distribution, but Tarte says they’re looking into the problem. I know bc I emailed them and asked for a lost of their authorized sub box distributors and they provided it and they also gave answers as to the unauthorized ones.

Lastly, Ricky’s started out as a good box. It’s just recently they started with this sample sized mess. Then the prize increase and the horrid CS. It’s not right to do ppl that way. Not for sub boxes or for site commenters.

Lori

I like the box too.

What I am unhappy with is the fact that they seem to be having serious problems with supply and yet are opening the list to more subscribers. They need to get their house in order and then add subscribers.

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Rosette

Nope. Not expecting high end stuff from Ricky’s, but they had better boxes when they were $11.

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Lisa

Me either but I get better boxes or at least same from Ipsy for $10 sooo bye Rickys!! Not paying $14 for samples!! Also with Ipsy they usually follow my profile so no skin care. Been with them for over a year and they have sent me skin care maybe 3x.

Bonnie

Yes yes yes!! I say this all the time. Beauty boxes aren’t meant to be money savers, at least I don’t think. (although I haven’t shelled out for skincare in years because of them). They are for fun. When you cry that you can’t use this color or that item without even trying it, you shouldn’t be a subscriber.

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Cat

I am on the waitlist and they just sent out an e-mail about signing up, but I’m a little hesitant based on these spoilers. It doesn’t seem as good as what I’m seeing from Allure or BeautyFix or Look Fantastic…

How long is the wait on the waitlist usually?

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Jamie

Before the price change and the junk boxes? About 2 to 3 months, but at the rate that ppl are cancelling I’m sure that will decrease significantly.

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Sisujan

Looking a little bland. Really don’t want vitamins. I’ll do Another month. They started out great but like other boxes, hum drum has set in. Nothing exciting or edgy. One makeup item. One? Maybe they grew too big to keep up exciting boxes. I have no idea what the extra cost went for this month, It didn’t seem to be anything in the box!

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Barbara

I am SOOOO angry at Ricky’s NYC. After being on the waiting list for 2 months, they finally contacted me to subscribe and I did just that. After I got their box, I decided to order something from their website and VOILA…NO DISCOUNT! All Cult Crushers get a 25% discount…so why not me> I sent them an email asking what’s going on…and I got no response.

I then got a general public email from them saying the wait list was off and I could subscribe. WHY would I need to subscribe since I was already subscribed> I sent a second email…no response. I got a second notice that I could subscribe…sent another email and guess what? Still no response. I sent a 3rd, 4th, 5th email and (all together now) NO RESPONSE.

I was so fed up that I actually called their offices on Friday and the woman I dealt with was surprised (really now?) and said she would look into it and call me back. Still no response… Ricky’s will never get one more dime from me!

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jocey

so sad this month is trash nd for 14$?? want more makeup items

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Jamie

Wow. So gladded I cancelled. Dodged a sample sized bullet with this one! I’m pretty sure the eyeshadow is also in ipsy this month or was recently. Either that or one very much like it was.

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Misty

Yeah, not very impressed. Will stick around for 1 more month and if it doesn’t get better.. bye bye.!

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Nenia

So happy I cancelled.

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Mandy

They did a temporary hold or something on my card for the subscription amount on June 2nd, then never completed it.

Did this happen to anyone else? I’m not really understanding this company or how they do things with their sub very well.
I won’t be hurt if I don’t get this box, either.

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Lori A Camp

Mine is still pending too, even though I got the email saying something to the effect of we are going to take care of current subscribers before we add new ones.

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Jamie

I got that same email… and I canceled last month. Another example of their stellar communications. I swear we all get different info from these ppl.

Toni Marie

The same thing happened to me also. It happens every month.. the processing that is until they ship the box out. I have bern with cult crushes for 8 months. i hope it gets better for you.

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Olivia

The charge was taken off my
Account and I was never re charged. So odd and disorganized

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KimberlyB

The gold metallic eyeshadow looks amazing. Like others, I hoped that the entire box would be amazing so we wouldn’t regret staying with them. I’ll stay with them for now, because the palettes they have are so worth it IMO. For me, it’s this box or Medusa’s Make-Up. We shall see…

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Bonnie

I have said it before in these threads. Ricky’s is not a sub that sends palettes out often. I’ve subbed since they started in November 2016. I have gotten one highlight palette and I think 2 (maybe 3?) eyeshadow palettes. They are a rare surprise, not a monthly or even bi-monthly staple in this sub.

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Lisa

There is a good chance they will not send palettes anymore . Pretty sure it was just a business scheme to draw in more members. They sent an email to those of us that got Chi Chi palette in April instead of Pinky Rose and it said there is no saying when we will ever send palettes,again so you need to appreciate the one you got. They also told someone who gave them a bad review on Facebook that with increase to $14 boxes will go up in price to $60 This box is not even worth $50. This is a very shady company and people need to get out before they are out of more $$. Everything that was sent this month are things people get in Ipsy.

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Jamie

I already watched an unboxing and the prices were unverifiable. Whatever Ricky’s is claiming the value is on this box, besides the masks, is basically bunk. They sent sample sizes! Just for reference I got samples from Biossance, a high end skin care company, and good size samples too, for $5 total. Them saying this box has a value of more than $20 is crazy imo. Last month they claimed the box value was over $40 and that wasn’t true either! I’m so glad I cancelled.

Jamie

If you didn’t see last month’s comment section, Ricky’s isn’t planning on sending out palettes according to an email they sent out on response to complaints they got when ppl were upset abt getting the chi chi palette instead of the highly desired pinky rose palette. Basically it was a be happy you got something at all bc this won’t be happening again anytime soon if ever. If you subbed for palettes you’re going to be disappointed.

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