August JolieBox - Hit or Miss?

I was never swept along with the beauty box buzz when it first started but as time went on I decided to take the plunge and went for the Feelunique.com beauty box subscription. I loved the Feel Unique box but unfortunately they decided to stop producing the box so again I was back to square one.

After much deliberation I decided to subscribe to the JolieBox monthly subscription for £10 + £2.95 p&p.

My first box was the July box and I was quite impressed. I did receive 2 products which were tanning related which didn't interest me in the slightest but the other products more than made up for that!

This month however I have been very much disappointed.

The box looked promising as it is a special edition box, meaning it was pretty colours instead of plain black. This is as far as the excitement went for me though. 

The box included the following -

Dr Bronner's Pure-Castile Soap 'pillows' - 

So these are not pillows they are just sachets of soap which apparently revive from head to toe. 

So does this mean I can use them as shampoo then? Or just soap? I am confused. 

If you can use them as shampoo there is definitely not enough in the samples to do both my hair and my body. I am sure these will be nice but not exactly thrilling, they will be joining my 10000's of other shower gel samples I keep for weekends away.

Phil Smith Be Gorgeous Dry Clean Revitalising Dry Shampoo - 

Really? Dry shampoo? I love dry shampoo but these are suppose to be luxury samples, I do not class dry shampoo as a luxury. At least I know I will use this at some point I guess.

So Susan Cosmetics Lip Cushion (Sheer lip gloss) - 

I do like receiving cosmetics in my beauty box, but honestly they shouldn't really have bothered with this on my account. It is way too glittery for me, too pink (though I am sure it will go on more sheer), too over packaged and smells like calpol. 

I would like to give this to someone but unfortunately I do not know any 6 year old girls. 

Guess this will go in my 'might use on day' draw.

So Susan Cosmetics Wide Awake Face Palette (Illuminating Cream, Highlighting Cream, Eyebrow Sculptor, Small brush and a pair of tweezers) - 

Again I think this looks like it was made for a 6 year old. Now this is just a personal thing, I don't like cream highlighters or blushes etc so I was never really going to like this palette. The thing I find odd about this palette is the eyebrow sculptor, it is 3 powder colour (dark brown, light brown, redish brown) but they are all shimmery. I would never put a shimmery powder on my eyebrows and they aren't really the colours I would even use as eyeshadows either. 

JolieBox Leather Hair Styling Lace - 

What? What is this? Apparently they are putting Youtube videos up on how to use this. 

Yes, I will have to watch these because I have absolutely no idea.

So as you can probably tell, I am not impressed. I know this will happen every now and again and I will give it a few more months but if I get more miss boxes than hits I will be unsubscribing. I know £12.95 isn't a lot but I do expect better products than this.

How do you feel about your August JolieBox? Should I switch to Glossybox instead?