April Julep Maven Box Review

Now for my April Julep Maven Box! I just received it recently and it's a good one! First off, the add-on options this month were phenomenal! There were so many great things on sale it was hard to decide which ones to get, but I'm happy with my decisions.

These are the products that came in this month's Bombshell box. It included Julep's new Pore Minimizing blush and two nail polish colors. I chose the blush in Petal Pink, it's a nice, bright pink and it's very flattering. The formula is quite powdery, so you only need a tap or two with a blush brush to get good color. I'm not sold on the pore minimizing aspect just yet, but I'll give it a few more days before I declare a verdict. The polishes this month were part of the "Vivids" collection and they are most certainly that! The colors I received are Kayla, a periwinkle blue with purple pearl and Tatum, a bright, shimmery lime.

For my add-ons, I chose the Party's Over Glitter Nail Polish Removal kit and Felicia nail lacquer, a mint green with black speckles of different sizes. Felicia is a fun color that will be great for spring, and the speckled polish is now also available in pink and purple on the Julep website. The Party's Over kit is a totally genius idea that I plan to use all the time. I love glitter polish, but it's so hard to remove, and wrapping it in foil is time consuming and annoying. I usually end up soaking my nails in acetone, but that's really drying to my nails and the surrounding skin. Party's Over comes with reusable sleeves that act the way foil wraps do by keep a remover-soaked pad pressed against your nail and enough pre-soaked polish removal pads for 5 rounds of glitter polish. It's not a lot, but the caps can almost definitely be used with cotton pads and regular nail polish remover.

This box ended up being a great value. As usual, the box cost $20 and the products in the box would have retailed (non-Maven) for $52. I used Jules for the Felicia add-on and got it for free, and the Party's Over kit cost me $20 extra, but retails for $28 so I got decent savings on that. So all in all, between Jule savings and Maven discount savings, I saved $54 on products which is far more than I actually spent on the box + add-ons ($40). Julep continues to be a fantastic value, and I can't wait to see what they have in store for next month!