First you must sign up. I believe you have to be invited by someone who is already a member (just ask! I'd love to send you an invite!) Then you select 5 expert badges to unlock and as many lifestyle badges as you would like. (Choose your expert badges carefully- you only get 5 and you can't undo it once you've unlocked one.) Then you different activities to raise your impact score. Each badge has a score and each time you connect a social media platform you get more impact points. Then you can write reviews for products, stores, services etc that you have tried and rate them. As you unlock badges, connect your social media and write reviews your impact score will begin to rise. It can take a while of some serious work to see improvement in your score so be patient and keep working at it. I joined in November and quit after a few days because I wasn't seeing any movement in my score and it seemed like too much work. Then I kept seeing these really cool boxes that people were getting and decided to give it another go. I read up some on blogs about how to raise my score and all I kept seeing was that you needed to be active and patient. So I committed myself to simply writing 5 reviews a day and just being patient. I did this for 2 weeks and only saw my score raise a point at first. Then I logged in one day and my score had jumped 3 points and all my expert badges had gone from 0 to all over 70. Then a month after restarting I received my first VoxBox!! So now I am enjoying this a lot more :-) Basically if you decide to join just be patient and keep working at it! Here's what I got in my first box!!
** I got all of these products free from Influenster for testing purposes***
Here's the box it all came in
The card that came with the box lists all the items in the box, gives a brief description and price.
Included in my box was
A card for the Shell fuel rewards program.
I'm not so crazy about this program. It says you can earn money off gas by shopping at certain stores (only one of which is in our town), eating at certain restaurants (none of which I have ever heard of), linking your MasterCard (which I don't have) or referring friends. Plus we live right next to Road Ranger that gives us .05 cents off every times we use their debit card. So.. bust...
Neosporin to Go
This looks handy. Lizzie doesn't get a lot of scrapes yet but I'm sure it coming some day... But its a cool concept.
A package of Puffs to Go
Always handy :-)
A bar of Ivory soap
I'm not their biggest fan, I don't really like their soap and like the brand less because of an ad they put out about this time last year that I found kind of offensive (nothing crude just not nice to people who don't like their soap- check it out on Youtube- the 5th mom). But there are lots of things to do with a bar of Ivory soap on Pinterest so that's what I'm going to use it for.
Avon Anew-wrinkle concealer
I was kind of excited about this (no, I know I don't have wrinkles yet but I do have some lines on my forehead that I'm not crazy about. Probably from raising my eyebrows too much ;-)) because I thought it would help make them go away. Instead it only a concealer and it really doesn't work. It takes so much effort to get it on and if I raise my eyebrows once all the lines reappear. But this is a great example of why I love Influenster. This is a 30 dollar product that I got to try for free. So instead of paying for it and finding out I hate it and then throwing away the rest I got it for free and could try before buying. That's how this program works.
And saving the best for last!!
Sorry its kinda blurry :-(
This is a coupon for a FREE tub of Bryer's new Gelato!! This is the best part of this box!! Again the same reason I love VoxBoxes. This tub was 6 bucks (on sale) and is about half the size of a regular carton of 4 dollar ice cream. I probably wouldn't have ever tried this on my own. I would have just reached for the cheaper ice cream I know I love!! But this stuff is awesome!!! Plus its made with less fat :-) Only probably now is that I love it and will probably want to buy more in the future ;-)
So there it is, the good, the bad and the middle. I'm not crazy about everything in the box but I'm grateful for some new cool things to try and hope to get picked for more boxes in the future.
After you receive a box the fun isn't over yet. In your profile there is a set of activities you can do related to the items in the box. It includes everything from create Pinterest boards to blogging to tweeting so there's something for pretty much everyone! PLUS they unlock brand badges. Brand badges are where you can do a set number of listed activities and after you complete them you are entered into a drawing for a prize from the brand and Influenster. For example this box has unlocked the Bryer's badge and the Shell badge. The prize for the Bryer badge is a year's supply of gelato and a big gift card to Target (you better believe I'm doing my best to win that one ;-) and Shell is offering a 50 dollar gas gift card to 10 people (also nice). If nothing else you have a bunch of new items to write reviews for!!
Hope to see you on Influenster!! (I have plenty of invites left ;-))
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