Boxes of Beauty

My latest and greatest online find is a little operation called Birchbox--and it's brilliant.  For a $10 a month fee, Birchbox sends you three deluxe samples of cosmetics, skin care, and beauty products, once a month.  You can also receive a discounted yearly subscription for $110.00.  Birchbox specializes in high end beauty brands like Stila and NARS, so you know when those samples are delivered to your door each month, it's going to be good quality.  The fun thing about Birchbox is that each month, your samples are picked for you--meaning it's like a mini-Christmas present once a month in your own mailbox.  If you don't happen to like a product occasionally, no big deal--the nominal price of 10$ a month makes it easy to enjoy the ones you like, and discard the ones you don't without any buyers remorse.  There are options to pay month-to--month, in increments of several months apart as gifts, or a yearly subscription.  Of course, Birchbox also has full size products you can also purchase for an additional price.
Visit Birchbox.com for more information.