CHICAGO -- It's a beauty product fan's dream: a monthly box sent to the door filled with samples of lip glosses, face creams, hair treatments and nail polishes. The trend started a few years ago with ...

My love of samples dates back decades. When I was a kid growing up in the Midwest, I would accompany my dad to Sam’s Club on Saturday afternoons, an outing that was mostly about buying bulk packs of ...

Brand-new for 2025, and selling ridiculously fast, Next has launched two beauty boxes, of which the contents are a complete and utter mystery until they're delivered to your front door. I decided to ...

Every time I walk into Sephora, I'm met with a slew of new products I have never seen before and am thus tempted to buy. But, after enough shopping trips that ended with a cart full of products that ...

Shopping for skincare products at the drugstore isn’t what you might call an enjoyable experience. But for busy women, it’s sometimes the best alternative out there. There are many times when I’ve ...

There are few places on earth better than Target's beauty aisle. It's the kind of place where you can mysteriously end up with a basket of products you had no idea you needed but could now never ...

Though everyone and their mom seemed to launch a subscription service last year, beauty boxes have led the market for the best part of a decade. Things hit fever pitch back in 2010 when Harvard ...