Ipsy Review – August 2014

Well, I’ve ALWAYS loved IPSY but this month they REALLY let me down!!! When I opened the mailer it was OVER……..ALL of the products were in the mailer ~ my IPSY BAG was like an after thought and was all smashed up and jammed in the mailer!!! The products were embarrassing and I too am giving them one……possibly two more months to get there “BAG” together or I will cancel!!! Signed up for the new French Box…….hoping it is a winner! Also having thoughts of quitting PopSugar…..but that scarf was too good to pass on this month. Hated BB and quit them. ……Boxycharm and Glossy Box just got the axe too. Julep is next (I only have ten fingers!!!! TOOO much polish!!) Keeping ELF….they are TOPS with me. Wantable also hit the road a couple months ago. Thinking of giving Sample Society a try ~ anyone want to give me few good reasons to take the plunge??? Thanks Liz for ALL you do to keep us in the know about the beauty box world ~ YOU got me hooked!!!! 🙂

I wasn’t too impressed for my first month. The mascara doesn’t do much for me. I do like the Dr. Brandt Pores no more, It works great. I’m a sucker for lip balms too! 🙂 The tiny blush and eye liner I haven’t even tried.

I’m not terribly dissatisfied but not exciting as much as my other boxes. I’m not wowed yet! I like the idea of receiving a new cosmetic pouch each month and discovering new items.
I was just on the waiting list a time and really expected more! I’ll give Ipsy a few months to see if it’s right for me. I cancelled Birchbox after this month. I’m hanging on to my full size cosmetic boxes as the value is there and I seem to love the items. Plus I’m hanging on to Beauty Box 5 because last month was great. I’m also joining in on Sample Society, starting with the September box. I’m exited about that.

Sounds like there was a mass exodus away from Ipsy this month. I cancelled too – I’d been talking about cancelling for 6 months and after getting some terrible selections in my August bag, I’m done! I’ve also cancelled Birchbox, BeautyBox 5, and Beauty Army (I never got all 4 at the same time, but have gone back and forth between all with Ipsy as a constant for the last 2 years). Right now, I’m happy with Sample Society and Bijoux Box, and am toying with the idea of ditching PopSugar but can’t seem to let go yet!

This month’s Ipsy bag was a shock. It’s was so awful!
I got: coastal scents el teeny and el cheapo eyeshadow, a sample of dry shampoo, a plain lip balm, and some tiny tube of manna sheer glo shimmer lotion, and the tiny tube of perversion mascara. This is how I feel about this: I could have taken $10 and done better at Dollar Tree. Seriously smh. And it arrived yesterday! 8/18/14. It took them two weeks to ship that? It was listed as “shipped” for two weeks. Also, there’s NO products available for Ipsy point redemption right now. None. It doesn’t matter how many points you have; it’s likely they will “expire” before you can spend them. I’m so over this bag…looking for something else.

This was my first Ipsy Glam Bag, and I’m neither impressed nor dissatisfied. I love the Urban Decay Perversion mascara–definitely one I will be purchasing a full sized tube of. I also love the Dr. Brandt Pore Refiner. The tube isn’t too small, either, so I can get some good use out of it. The JCat eyeshadow isn’t too bad, I just wish it was a bit more pigmented. I also thought the dry shampoo was great. It soaks up a lot more oil than I was expecting it to (I’m on day 3 hair right now, and it looks like I just washed it because of the dry shampoo), but the thing that just annoys me is the Mongongo lip balm. My EOS lip balms work so much better and it has a funny scent–like a mix of animal crackers and lemon meringue pie. The bag, as well, was pretty cheap. It smelled like a beachball and I don’t like the color orange. I am going to use it as a pencil pouch for the new school year, though. I am going to give Ipsy a few more months though. If the next few bags are as impressive or more, I will keep it. I also got Birchbox for the first time, and I wasn’t impressed at all. I canceled right away.

I got the Mongongo lip balm too and was pleasantly surprised. It is one of the better lip balms I have tried recently.

I wasn’t initially wowed by my ipsy bag when I saw it online but I’ve really been happy with it since I got it. I got the same lip balm as you– I’m a lip balm addict and I’m pretty obsessed with this one already. I also got the UD Perversion sample, Jcat eyeshadow, dry shampoo, and Dr. Brandt primer. I was pretty pleased with the value from this month but that Coastal Scents palette does look pretty tiny :/

Finally was able to redeem my IPSY points, so I am waiting for my September bag & if it isn’t better…I will cancel. I cancelled with GB earlier last month & signed up with Sample Society since the revamp has looked amazing. I used to be Team Ipsy all day but this bag was just sad!

First month with Ipsy and not wowed but I do feel that I received my $10 worth. The samples were so tiny.

I’m joining sample society this month and debating glossy box. I cant turn down Sample Society there first spoiler of an $85 full size eye cream. Plus I’ve been wanting to join and it’s $15.

I already have birchbox, ipsy, beauty box 5, boxycharm and Blush Beauty Mystery Box.

Boxycharm and Blush beauty mystery box are definitely my favs! Full sizes for $21 for BoxychArm and $24.95 for Blush. The only wow factor boxes.

I’ll be at around $96-97 a month when I join sample society (6 boxes total) and I really don’t wanna top $100. There starting to all add up. Lol. I’m now an addict!

Oh not counting I did get one quarterly box of Fab Fit Fun Summer box because of the coupon and I really want the New Beauty Test Tube super bad. Ah..

I do not see myself every dropping boxycharm or blush beauty mystery box!

I haven’t even gotten my Ipsy bag yet this month and I already cancelled my subscription. Last month was okay but this month was crap and I wanted to try Birchbox instead. From what I have seen, a lot of people prefer Ipsy to Birchbox but I just wasn’t loving it.

This was my fIrst box and I was not too impressed, I thought I complained a lot about birchbox having small samples and too much shampoo and conditioner but for my first box Birchbox won. I like the idea of getting a cosmetic bag and makeup each month though.

I received a tiny sample of Coastal Scents blush and a tiny Lord and Berry eye pencil. I did get the mascara by UD and Dr Brandt. Pores no more as well as full size absolute lip balm in grape.

I wanted the Glamglow and purple UD eye liner. The mascara is not all the hype. It works like my drug store mascara. Not impressed. They also had a choice to receive a full size eye shadow but i did not receive that either.

I’m hoping they go back to the other cosmetic bags. This is cute for my age 29 but cheaply made and bad for shipping. Did anyone notice the smell of plastic?

Anyway I am fairly satisfied with 3/5 items. The other two are just too tiny. I will try Ipsy two mOre months and see how things go.

It looks like a lot of people share my feelings about Ipsy. I have gotten 2 bags so far and both I was disappointed with! I like Birchbox better, which is surprising – on FB everybody writes how Ipsy is so much better then Birchbox! I feel opposite, for me Birchbox after writing reviews is only $5, and I got better samples so far then from Ipsy. Giving Ipsy 3 more months to impress me, otherwise I will cancel

I got the Jersey Shore Sun lip balm, the dry shampoo, the J Cat eyeshadow, blush and the UD eyeliner. This was my first Ipsy bag and I’m pretty on the fence about it. I feel like I got the $10 worth, but the only thing I was truly excited to try was the eyeliner and then I realized it was purple and not something I’d wear. I ended up swapping it for the mascara. Everything else I feel like is stuff I already have in my collection – I started subscribing to boxes to try new things. I mean, it’s stuff I’ll use but nothing is new or WOW’ed me. I’m going to give it a solid 3 months and then decide where to go from there.

My first BirchBox was also this month and it blew this out of the water which I was super surprised by because it seems like more people prefer this over that box.

So people DO actually get off the waitlist!? I’ve been on it since May!! If and when I do get on, I’ll probably give them 2-3 months to impress me. Right now I get Sample Society, Beauty Box 5, and GlossyBox in the way of straight up beauty product boxes- all of which I have been very pleased with. Plus I am giving Mirenesse products a try, so I’ll be getting their VIP Glamm Box as well. I also do stand alone purchases of the Blush Mystery Box and QVC Test Tube if the products intrigue me. So I am not sure I need another beauty box. Maybe I should just not even bother with Ipsy if the opportunity to get off the waitlist does arise??

I am so glad this was my last month. I cancelled my renewal after last month’s bag with the tanning oil (I’m black and had specified that I did not want any tanning products). I used to love ipsy but it was just getting progressively worse. And this month these samples and bag were so tiny! Ugh. I had already cancelled my birchbox (but kept the boyfriend’s.) because of tiny samples.

I think Julep might be next to get the ax, only because I have way too much nail polish. For now, it looks like the only beauty box I’ll be getting is (occassional) Memebox since I have a couple friends at work who are happy to take the makeup that won’t work for me.

Oh well. Thank goodness there is always a new box out there to try!

I got the Perversion mascara, green apple lip balm, Pores No More, a tiny blush sample and tiny eyeliner this month. I used to love Ipsy, but it bothers me when my bag value is barely $20 and other people receive something like glam glow that is a $19 sample. I wish that they would make the bags a little more equitable.

This was my first ever Ipsy bag and the only thing I’m excited about is the UD mascara. I’m going to give it another month, but I’m not optimistic.

I’m glad I’m done with this subscription. I should’ve done better research before wasting my money. This month’s makeup bag went straight in the trash. That chemical smell gives me migraines.

I agree with so many of the comments that have been made. I have been with ipsy for a year and a half, but each month seems to disappoint a little bit more. I liked the urban decay mascara and the no more pores, but my blush, eyeliner and green apple lip balm were nothing special.

This was my first month of ipsy. I loved most of it. I received the UD perversion mascara, pores no more, J.cats eye shadow, dry shampoo and lip balm in orange ginger all of which I am really excited to try. I also received an orange bag, it was kinda childish and my daughter loved it for her play makeup

I got the exact same bag that you did Liz! Not thrilled but not hating… I really like the UD eyeliner and I can never have enough lip balm or moisturizer.

I’m not thrilled with either ipsy or BB but I hang in there b/c they’re so cheap. (Also I have 2 teen sons with girlfriends and I give them all the products I don’t want.) I like Petit Vour but my favorite beauty sub is Sample Society!

The past 2 months having ipsy after waiting about 3 months to get off the wait list have been disapointing. I dont like the tiny samples – Does anyone know if the Ipsy bag is canceled if it can be reinstated easily without a 2-3 month wait list?

If this box had been halfway decent I would have continued my subscription, but it wasn’t so I didn’t. I have always dissed BB for their tiny samples, but this time Ipsy was the tiny sample winner. Aside from the awful colors, the blush is a joke, as is the liner, & I don’t think I’ll ever need another mascara. Said bye to both BB & Ipsy this month. Wonder where to spend my now freed up $20 a month.

I signed up for Ipsy but too late for this months bag. I have to say I am glad after reading this thread. I hope next month is a great bag. I signed up for BB a couple months ago and was kind of shocked at how small the samples are.

Liz, you should definitely try the subversion and perversion duo! When I saw that they had a primer I had to go pick it up and try it with my perversion sample… It’s awesome!