Article by BR Natalie.
We want everyone to enjoy the time they spend on Beauty Review, so here's our top tips for a great BR experience.
- If you confirm your place on a trial team review your product by the due date. There are no second chances for a missed deadline. Our blacklist is as final as the black spot is to a pirate!
- Before accepting a trial please read the invitation email for any conditions, such as being required to get colour matched. If you can't do it by the given date please decline the trial.
- Do not review products or services you have not personally used just to rack up points. The site is based on honesty, and we really do read every review. We have been known to deduct points for obviously false reviews.
- Put a bit of effort in to all of your reviews, but especially the ones where you have been sent a product! We're not asking you to rival War and Peace, but writing one sentence when you have received a product that other members would have given their left arm to review is disrespectful and dare we say it, a little ungrateful. One sentence and “no effort” reviews are flagged and the reviewers are sent to the bottom of the selection pool.
- BR is run by a lovely team of beauty fanatics who enjoy interacting with you and reading your comments, reviews and forum threads. Don't be mean to us by sending us crappy emails because you’ve missed out on a trial, you haven't been picked, your status hasn't leveled up. Angry and abusive interactions (do not press that caps lock key) and persistent whinging on FB that you haven't been picked, will simply mean one thing...we won't be friends any more.
- Please understand, you’re not going to get selected for every review. We might be sending out a conditioner that would be perfect for your dry hair, but you wont be the only person with dry hair that misses out.
- Don't accept trials for the sake of something free. If you're not going to wear an orange lipstick then your review won't fairly reflect the product and someone who will rock the look will have missed out.
- Please don't try to inflate your points! We know you want as many as you can to spend up in when the Beauty Vault opens but we don't want our points system to become pointless!
- If you don’t receive your product when you expected to, tell us...if we don't know we can't fix it, and once some one is blacklisted, they remain on the naughty list.
- Keep embracing and supporting us – we're taking on your feedback and hopefully giving you beauties a space on the internet that is expanding, evolving and spreading beauty around.
- Finally just keep talking to us, we love your feedback and your support of Beauty Review to date...you’re awesome.
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You guys do an awesome job - I can't understand why people would even coconsider being mean to you. Keep up the great work!