I did a roundup blog post of all of the boxes from the whole first year the other day. The thing I was surprised about when I was going through the colors is how few of these colors I actually *love*, but it's still my favorite sub. I think the consistency of billing and shipping helps a lot, as does the very thing that a lot of people hate: I have no control over the colors, and I don't know what they are until boxes start landing -- and sometimes not until I open my own box. They really break me out of my blue/silver/green rut. They even got me to wear *orange*! Multiple times! I hate the color orange, and I happily wore two different shades of it this year! I still will only wear a pink nail polish on Mother's Day, though. I think they do a good job at not churning out variations of the same reds, pinks, etc. month after month (*cough*Julep*cough*), and that's probably because they only do three colors a month. It's easier to not repeat yourself when you limit your scope/numbers and build your collection around a theme like SH does.
Anyway. Mine is scheduled to arrive Monday, too! We'll see if that happens. It would be great if it does because Monday and Tuesday are almost certain to suck hellaciously because it's month-end *and* weekend catchup. If not, well, I'm wear-testing some wraps, and I had decided to keep them on until the wear clearly indicated that they *need* to come off. I wonder if they'll send some sort of first anniversary celebratory color. If it wasn't for the theme this month, I would hope for a shade that reflects wood because (a) Christmas trees and ( B) traditional first anniversary present, but that doesn't really fit the theme of New York City unless it was referencing the tree at Rockefeller Center (that's the big tree, right?).
I'm also really looking forward to wearing the Santa Luxe collection again! I almost always wear a month's colors only during that month (exceptions: patriot for the 50th anniversary of _Doctor Who_, dear john for a pedicure in the summer), so these have been in storage since January, and I absolutely love champagne toast. It was the color I thought I would *never* wear because golds don't work for me, but that pink cast made it magical. I'm really hoping for another foil in pretty much any shade but orange because I'm finding that I really want to wear foils right now. A silver would be a good bookend to champagne toast.
Well. Yeah. I'm really excited about this sub in general, not just this month's box. Can you tell?