Beautylish Lucky Bag 2017 Review, Unboxing, Contents

Beautylish Lucky Bag 2017 Review, Unboxing, Contents

Wayne Goss Cosmetopia Digest   Saturday, January 14, 2017

Meet the world's best beauty box. It comes out only once a year, on Boxing Day. I bought last year's Beautylish Lucky Bag, which you can see here, and fell in love with the concept.
Lucky Bags are popular in Japan around the New Year time - businesses distribute them, believing they will bring good luck to the recipients.
There is no actual bag - the contents of the Beautylish Lucky Bag come in a regular box with special wrapping paper. The owl, which Beautylish incorporates in the wrapping paper each year, is said to bring luck. Nils, who co-founded Beautylish, tells his staff to make each bag better than the previous years'.
The Lucky Bag costs $75, and international customers need to pay shipping as well. You cannot combine orders with the Lucky Bag. But the contents are worth a lot more - my own bag contains products worth a whopping $194, as you can see below. 
Spoiler: There are NO eyeshadows in my Lucky Bag!

Scroll down for the contents of the Beautylish Lucky Bag 2017.

Beautylish Lucky Bag 2016 Review, Unboxing

Beautylish Lucky Bag 2016 Review, Unboxing

Unboxing Cosmetopia Digest   Tuesday, January 12, 2016

I celebrated the end of my shopping ban by splurging on the Beautylish Lucky Bag for 2016, as well as on Harrods' online sales.
It arrived in five days, when I was - still am - withdrawn from public life, feeling sorry for my battle-worn skin. I have to give it to FedEx. Shipped out on Monday, arrived on Friday, whereas DHL has been sitting on my Boxing Day parcels for two weeks, and ended up wrongly returning one to Harrods. 
The Beautylish Lucky Bags seem to be an annual feature, inspired by a Japanese New Year custom where merchants sell mystery grab bags, which are believed to bring luck. Beautylish do not actually include a bag. The products are wrapped with fancy paper, in a cardboard external box - see photo below.

Scroll down for the contents of my Beautylish Lucky Bag 2016. 

Eyeshadow Blending Brush Haul From Beautylish

Eyeshadow Blending Brush Haul From Beautylish

Wayne Goss Cosmetopia Digest   Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Last weekend, Beautylish had a gift card event - if you shopped for $100, you would get a $20 gift card, which only expires in December 2016. I love shopping at Beautylish because of excellent customer care including handwritten thank-you notes, four- (five at the most) day international delivery with Fedex, and free international shipping above $100. This is not quite a haul; I only bought four brushes without really thinking.
I was somewhat makeupped-out after hauling Advent Calendars and Holiday gift sets wily-nily, so I did not really have a must-buy list. Hemmed and hawed my way through their inventory for a while, and finally decided that I would buy some blending brushes from brands I had not tried before, just to reach $100 and get the gift card. Had I only known I would fall in love....
Here are the brushes I got.