FYI – Ipsy Acquired BoxyCharm + New Subscription Coming Soon!

I don’t like the new “refreshments” products – seem low end and who wants a beauty box with face wipes and body soap!? I want high end products to try!! Hope this doesn’t ruin BOXYCHARM !! Ipsy has crap makeup like Wander – yuck!

It’s funny because all of the complaints people are saying about Ipsy are exactly my complaints about boxycharm!
I’ve LOVED my Ipsy Glam Bag Plus premium subscription. Might get a dud item, but overall, my boxes have been great. They’ve been packaged great, items are great, not expired, and if I’ve had issues, their CS has been SO amazing and has gone above and beyond!
can’t say the same about Boxy. I get base and premium and maybe cancelling after December. Too many dud boxes, not enough notice about add-ons, pop-ups, and customization! I’ve had orders in the Pop-up take MONTHS to get to me and CS doesn’t respond until I send ~3-4 emails and then they don’t refund me. The Pop-up is my favorite part of the subscription honestly. That’s about it. the reward system for both is a joke, though. It’s Sephora-level lol.
I’m interested to see what the merger offers.
Maybe Boxy will let me cancel my base box so I can just do premium FINALLY?!

I’m not happy with this news. I started with boxy about 3 years ago and now get the base, premium, and luxe boxes. I love the brands, the full sizes, and the variety. I subbed to ipsy glam bag plus after it came out due to a no waitlist offer. I would say I got it for like 6 months before I cancelled. I did find 2 or 3 indie brands that I never heard of that were awesome, but besides that I was getting drug store quality items. I can go buy nyx items at walmart, I want the expensive items that I was promised, and a variety of items. 3 months in a row I received blush palettes, 2 different ones from nyx and one from the balm. I also got elf eyelashes. They are 3 bucks in the drugstore for a variety pack. So I really hope that this does not mean the end for my favorite sub box now that ipsy has acquired them. It was the only way I could afford some of the high quality prestige brands of makeup and skincare that have become staples in my daily routine. My skin loves it and it makes me feel good that I am taking care of myself. It has improved my self esteem, and I am lucky that I was blessed with good Gene’s and good skin, but at 45 some of the fine lines and wrinkles are just starting to show so I make sure I pay special attention to those areas, and the better skincare items that I got in boxy has helped alot. So much so that w hff en my bottle was empty I crimped and saved to order it from sephora because it was that good. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I think the body basics box there calling Refreshments is a great idea since so many people are staying home, working from home, maybe but wearing makeup so much. So, something to go along with our pajama pants lifestyles and self pampering is a good idea. I like the name, too. I know I’m the only one.

But I do not at all like the merger. I like that the boxes are different. I get them both, the bottom two tiers of each. I also IMMENSELY dislike moving mute towards house brands and “creator” brands. I want to try the brands I see at the stores. I don’t want direct to consumer stuff for makeup. I don’t mind it for razors or that kind of thing where the brand doesn’t matter to me, but not for makeup. I’d rather switch to buying affordable k brands and NYX then let my subscription boxes turn into random boxes of house brand Chinese made whatever. And I’ve been subscribing to these things since ipsy glam bag was only a few months old.

Such a bad business move for Boxy. Ipsy is a horrible service. Everytime I ordered from them I got broken products, leaking, nasty stuff that looked like it was 10 years old, horrible packaging that always had something sticky on it and bags were always dirty. Not to mention they always slip in a drugstore product claiming its more expensive than it is. Awful, so disappointed because I love Boxy but I do not want to ever give my money to Ipsy again.

Oh this is bad news, monopoly in business is always bad for customers

I liked Ipsy because I found a few indie brands that I liked. I’ve been with ipsy for a few years and they have changed a lot and I’ve never experienced shipping issues.The crappy options that I saw tonight for my November bag is the last straw. I’m at a loss right now because I don’t know where, other than ipsy, to find these indie options.

This is horrible. I love boxy for there full size name brands. You hardly ever get that with Ipsy there no name brands, scared to use because what kind of dollar store crap are you giving me to put on my face. The only reason I get Ipsy is for the makeup bags mostly anything that I get that’s not name brand I throw in the trash or give away. This horrible horrible news.

Since Ipsy went downhill with new ownership, I’m not looking forward to this.

Face wipes? Oh my. Maybe someone ought to alert them that 2005 was 15 years ago…

so the merger is creating a new sub box but both ipsy and boxy are continuing with their own, separate boxes? Interesting. Will wait to see how this all shakes out.

Just so I understand: merger is creating a new sub box but both ipsy and boxy are continuing with their own, separate boxes? Interesting. Will wait to see how this all shakes out.

this is going to be hard…i’ve started cancelling my ispy’s…and getting more boxycharm..they did have the best items…prices, products…well, i guess we will all see how this goes down..

“Refreshments” is a horrible name for a skin care/beauty box thing. IMO

Competition is good. It makes for better boxes and the need to do better. That being said, makes me wonder what the future will bring with each one being operated separately. 2020 has been the worse. Hurricane the other day, direct hit and now my favorite present to myself each month has taken a hit too. What about charms etc? I guess they made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

I’m scared of what this means for my Boxy. Despite not really customizing, Boxy still managed to give me amazing variations that were much MUCH better than my “customized” Ipsy bags. I review absolutely everything, but it doesn’t matter. If Boxy uses Ipsy’s customization software, I’ll be getting a billion black eyeliners, bronzers, and of course Wander Beauty mascaras.
No, Boxy! I love you!

Well with the news of boxycharm and Ipsy merging, hopefully we’ll have better customer service because boxycharm has simply gone downhill in the last year-and-a-half what their customer service takes days to hear back from them then takes about 93 emails to get a replacement package. I’ve always preferred Ipsy because I’ve never had any issues with their customer service they also have better personalization very nice products and I am glad for the merge cuz I am over boxycharm in so many ways it’s not even funny Ipsy I’m down with they’ve never done me wrong we’re on the other hand boxycharm has been disappointment after disappointment for the last year-and-a-half so thank God hopefully some professional customer service people will be added. Cuz boxycharm has nothing of the sort long delays for replies broken products missing products etc etc.

Seriously, first Sean Connery died, and now this, I am not happy with how the day is starting, Im going to go gain 10 lbs of candy now!

Goodbye to good BoxyCharm boxes. Ipsy is great with the glam bag and samples but their bigger boxes are terrible. I hate to see this. I’ve enjoyed BoxyCharm for years. I see many cancellations in Boxy’s future.

Same as the general sentiment around here. Not pleased to hear about this aquisition for a multitudue or reasons.

Boxy has much better brands, better prices in pop-ups. I cancelled Ipsy long ago and there’s never been a review that has made me want to resubscribe. If boxy starts to turn into ipsy, I’m just gonna have to peace out, it was good while it lasted lol

It seems my reaction to this news is quite different. My first thought was, yay! A new sub for me to try out!! 😂 I wonder if there will be a promo code to join and if so when they will start taking members!

It didn’t even cross my mind what this would do to our boxy and Ipsy subscriptions! 🤦‍♀️ Silly me lol

I left Ipsy because of the miniature sizes of subpar product. This news is depressing. Joe has an amazing business with Boxy and now with Ipsy having digs into it, I think they will crappify our boxes. Very very disappointed. I hope I’m wrong

Would’ve been nice to get some credit for telling the website about this.

I don’t know, I liked them operating as competitors. Innovative box offers and prices. Now that they are under the same ownership, I’m worried they’ll just raise the prices because they don’t have any major competition to worry about. Dang