Ipsy Review – November 2016

I just subscribed so I haven’t gotten anything but I am absolutely in love with this bag

I was not impressed this month.

I got a pretty lame bag tbh, made me go back and redo the quiz thing so I stop getting moisturizers.
-Too faced better than sex mascara aka the only thing i like
-purlisse blue lotus moisturizer i am so tired of moisturizers
-a model co contour stick?? it smells great but i don’t contour so it’s useless to me
-eyeko skinny eyeliner…i try not to complain about eyeliner since i use so much but this formular just kinda sucks
-luxie 524t brush, seems like it’d be good for foundation. i cant really complain cause it’s worth $18

My sister got that mascara. I’m soooo glad I got the Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara. I can’t say it’s better than sex, but it’s the best mascara I’ve ever used. I got:
Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara – YAY!
Luxie Beauty Luxie Rose Gold Small Duo Fiber Brush 524T – I would prefer an eyeshadow brush but oh well
Hey Honey Good Morning Honey Silk Facial Serum – has a ton of aloe, boo
Elizabeth Mott Color is Bae Lip Lacquer in Moxie Mauve – really glad I didn’t get the red one but it’s really drying
Skone Cosmetics Brow Wand Eyebrow Pencil in Chocolate – Actually pretty happy with this. I got one from Birchbox in blonde from another company and this is a much better match. Still not sure why they gave a brunette a blonde eyebrow pencil….

Overall this month wasn’t bad. One sister cancelled already and the other is going to but I’m holding on a little longer. Every time I think I might cancel I get a really good bag!

I wore my Ciate liquid lipstick I got this month. I love to wear red lipstick and I wear it all the time. I laid down and took a nap with it on and when I woke up, I had it all over my face. I kept wiping and wiping and wiping and I couldn’t get it off. My face was all red and around my mouth it was all swollen.

I like the silver! I was hoping for a silver one, and got the gold and like it too. It’s a cute bag. I’m trying to decide what to use the bag for. Maybe to hold a deck of cards? It seems smaller than usual.

The only thing I got twins with you is the Balm mascara. I haven’t tried it yet, but I was really excited about it. I am still on the hunt for a fave mascara. So many of them irritate or weigh down my lashes. So far the least irritating one for me is Neutrogena Healthy Lash, but it takes so many coats to show up on my lashes. I love how weightless it is though!!

I got the Luxie brush-it is like a very thin stippling brush. So far I’ve used it for powder, but it’s not great for that. I think it will be great for highlighter.

Got the mauve Mott liquid lipstick and love the lasting formula & fruity scent, but red would be so much more me!

The clear base coat nail polish is actually a treat! I need to read more about it, but it if it is actually good for my nails, I’m happy!

The last item is the Mint cream which I really wanted, but it smells slightly strange, kind of off. I have other scents of Delectable hand cream, and I love them. Thankfully this one has a lighter scent. The lemon cream is amazing if you want to smell a vanilla-lemon cake. Mmmmmmmmm.

Wondering what your favorite foundation is? I need help. I get boxycharm and ipsy so my makeup stash is growing but I have the hardest time getting foundation right. I am pale but have red tones, and even the palest shades of drugstore stuff run so dark and orange on me. It makes me self concious! Please tell me where to go for help and what kind you love.

I just signed up again for the ipsy bags last month and it was great. Loved my bag!, but the November bag was horrible. I did not like any of the products except for the actual bag. I left just because I signed up for the sephora Play which I absolutely love. I am going to give them one more try with the December bag if its another missed I will cancel my subscription yet again. Maybe if a brush might have been included might of been an ok bag…..

I emailed Ipsy to ask for a brush next month and they also let me pick another item( from my cs rep favorite picks). So some possible items to get next month are
-NYX Prismatic Shadow in Bedroom Eyes or Jaded
–Ciaté London Liquid Velvet Matte Lipstick in Pin Up
–City Color Cosmetics Be Matte Blush Trio
–Hanalei Lip Treatment
–tarte cosmetics Maracuja Oil
–OUAI Wave Spray

Personally I’m excited for the Ciaté London Liquid Velvet Matte Lipstick in Pin Up. Finally a non red lip item!

I received the following:
Tarte Maracuja Oil
Top Faced mascara
Eyetini eyeshadow in Firestarter
Leaders Insolution face masks (two)
Naobay eye contour cream
Overall…pretty happy with this month’s bag 🙂

I quit Ipsy a long time ago, but I have been thinking of giving it another go. Maybe I’ll try for January or February. Has the points program improved at all? I don’t make a lot of referrals, and it was hard to get enough points to get anything before they expired with just reviews.

I always love my Ipsy bags. I got the silver bag. My products were Elemis marine face cream,Elizabeth Mott liquid lipstick in mauve,The Balm mascara,Skone eyebrow pencil in chocolate I think it’s full size and Tarte maracuja oil. I am very happy with everything. That clumpy spider lash look is very trendy right now so I think that’s the purpose of The Balm mascara is to create that clumpy eyelash look. All in all another great Ipsy bag!

I have mixed feeling about my bag this month. I got: Eyeko Skinny Eyeliner, theBalm mascara, Elizabeth Mott Color is Bae in Moxie Mauve, Hey Honey Good Morning Facial Serum, and Formula X in Huntress. I did the math, and it’s supposedly a great value at $49.79 worth of products. However, I reviewed the lipstick poorly because I do NOT want any more mauve; does not work on me, and they keep sending it. I would have preferred the red. It’s a shame, because it seems like a decent formula. I’m also not sure how I feel about the nail polish color, but I’ll try it. I’m a little disappointed about the eyeliner and the mascara, because they just sent a liquid eyeliner to me last month and a mascara the previous month. I know I got my money’s worth and I will use most or all of the products, but please, Ipsy, more variation from month to month! Few people need a new liquid eyeliner and mascara every single month!

Liz,

I was wondering if you have found anything that conceals under eye circles well? I feel like I have tried everything and nothing works very well for me. I’m a redhead with fair skin and I think it is just my light skin that makes the darkness more noticeable. I’m not tired and don’t drink much or smoke. So I don’t think there is anything that will fix the problem but if I could just find something to cover it up I would be happy. 🙂

I cancelled Ipsy this month so this will be my last bag for a while (not sure how long I will stay unsubscribed). The products overall just seemed irrelevant to me and the sample sizes were so small. My 19 year old daughter gets Ipsy too and we would compare bags and her stuff always was so much better!

I am much happier with what I get from Birchbox and Sephora play, at least for now.

I love my bag this month !! Except for this mascara….I was very disappointed with it…
The bag it self is great !
I got :
– Doucce, Freematic Blush in #49 Zen Orange : I love blush and I didn’t have this color !
– Leaders Cosmetics USA, Aloe Soothing Renewal Mask & Aquaringer Treatment Mask : @ sheet masks, YES !
– ELEMIS,Pro-Collagen Marine Cream : very expensive cream : the sample worth 42$ !! Exiting to try that !
– tarte cosmetics maracuja oil : I’m in love with the packaging !!!
– The balm Mascara…was happy but at the end, not so great…
Very excited samples to try…I needed it those day…

I got my box last night and was excited.

I got the gold bag, which for me is a little sad because I prefer silver ove gold, but it’s still cute.

I used the brush this morning and am really happy with it. It picks up eyeshadow so much better than my older shadow brush. I also got the moisturizer and it is nice. Great smell to it, as well. I got the primer, which feels almost as great as the smashbox one I love.

I have yet to try the Balm mascara and brow pencil. I was in a rush this morning and used my other mascara and no brows today. 🙂

I love the bag and everything else except they again sent me mascara. I have taken that off my list in my favorites and likes for Ipsy but they still send it to me. I don’t need anymore. I probably have enough mascara for the next 2 years. Wish they would quit sending mascara.

Does anyone know how I can get Ipsy to quit sending me an eyeliner every single month? I do not have it checked because it’s something I rarely use.

I’m so jealous of everyone that was happy with their bags. Mine was 4 out of five items that I either said were not a concern of mine or left unchecked because I didn’t want them. Volumizing hairspray, red matte lipstick, the orange blush, the banana powder, and the balm mascara. The banana powder didn’t cover my under eye circles and settled in my fine lines, like I thought it would. The mascara was the only thing I might have used and I didn’t like the formula.

What was worse was when I tweeted IpsyCare the response I got was that they “may” use the profile as a guide. That was it. No we’re sorry you had a bad experience, just a one sentence response about how it was pretty much my tough luck that they didn’t use my profile to make this months bag. I decided to cancel my subscription based on the dismissive customer service. I’m so disappointed.

I love my bag this month! They did a much better job curating after I contacted them about curation. I got:
*theBalm Mascara
*ModelCo Contour Stick
*Tarte Maracuja Oil
*SLMissGlam Eye Brush
*NAOBAY Eye Contour Cream
I love the NAOBAY and the Maracuja Oil.

For the second month in a row, I’m excited to receive every item I got from ispy this month.

But some questions: How is the monetary value of each sample decided?
Also: What is it with mascara? Between ipsy and other boxes, I get almost one a month, despite not checking that I want them on my profile.

I got: gold bag. I’ve loved every ipsy bag but one (the girls spelling out IPSY) since I started in May.
~ Starlooks rose gold cream eye shadow. LOVE the color. I’m tempted to try it as a lippie. Seems like it would be too goopy for eyeshadow.
~ pur-lisse Blue Lotus moisturizer. I don’t have a set skin care routine, so trying out all these products is great.
~ Absolute New York lipstick in Dark Red. I laughed when I read the name because I’m more used to names like Siren, ER, Cherry Bomb, etc. I haven’t yet found a red that looks okay on me, but I’ll keep trying.
~ eyeko eyeliner. I guess I’m getting a lot of eyeliner too, but I really love the felt tip pen style. For the first time, I might actually be able to get a line that doesn’t wobble all over my lid.
~ Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara. I’m really liking Too Faced products, and when I opened the box, I liked them even more: on the flap inside, it says, “Was it good for you?” Cracked me up.

Is there a trick to opening boxes without ripping them? I’m having a really hard time, and some of these boxes, like this one, I want to keep.

I LOVE finding out ahead of time what I’m getting… and then since it takes at least a week to get to me, I forget what the coming products were, so I get to be surprised again when I open my bag!

This nothing to do with ipsy but the constellation on the glambag reminds me of the supermoon tonight? Maybe the theme bag was meant to be?

After a couple bummer months, I’m so pleased with my bag! I’m excited to try 4/5 products.

I have a strong preference for silver in general, so I was hoping to receive that version of the bag, but NGL, I’m really digging the gold, especially on the bag lining.

I received the gold lined bag with these products:

– benefit POREfessional
– ModelCo contour stick
– theBalm Mad Lash Mascara
– Nuxe Nuxellence Detox
– Elizabeth Mott Lip Lacquer Color is Bae in red chili

I have become a benefit junkie so I’m loving this month’s bag!!

(My bag came to about $52 in products if anyone cares. LOL)