4 Hacks for Getting the Best ipsy Glam Bag!

I currently have received free gifts, however it wants me to pay membership fees to receive them. Is there any way around this, especially since I am an Influencer?

I was a customer for awhile to many glitches due to that I stopped my order. I am trying it again have not received my Oct. bag yet. I’m h
oping I won’t be disappointed.

Also, when you go to the account preferences and there’s an option to slow down samples and to, not complain about the samples but kind of say what’s wrong with them. Like, there’s an option to say the samples are too small or the same kind of samples keep showing up or you don’t know the brands. This usually leads to a sneak peek of what could show up in the next couple of months and you can say what you hope to get and what you would rather pass on. I’ve done it a couple times and I feel like they’ve really taken into account what I like from that as well as doing the beauty quiz.

My tip is for brown girls. Make your profile shade one shade darker than your actual skin color. I did this and now I get makeup that I can actually use. Occasionally, I’ll get a blush or eyeshadow that is almost the same color as my skin, but overall my experience has been much been since doing this. I get great lipsticks!

I feel like the only people that get good bags must be bloggers and influencers. I never get anything like the spoilers, no matter how often I update my profile, take the test or rate upcoming items. I haven’t received any of the items I rate highly. I know they don’t promise you’ll receive them, but not a single one out of so many! I’ve done it all! Now, I have learned to ignore spoilers and I have no FOMO since im not a blogger. I unsubscribed. It’s better to save the $10 and hit the Sephora clearance section.

Actually the biggest deciding factor in whether you like Ipsy, Birchbox, BoxyCharm, GlossyBox, etc…isn’t the your personal selections, it’s how you answer the How confident & knowledgeable you are about cosmetics question at the very beginning of the questionare. If you andwered 1. Not confident or just learning…as in you don’t spend a lot of time on any of it…then you will generally be happy with these boxes because they were designed for you, the novice, to get you to start spending money on it. You are the target audience for all of these boxes.

If you selected option 2. That you are somewhat confident & knowledge about these products, then you have a 50/50 shot of tweaking & manipulating your selections to be happy with your box & occasionally find a few new products.

However, if you picked option 3, that you know what you’re doing. Then you might ocassionally get lucky by tweaking your preferences but you are NOT the target audience for these boxes.
Bottom line, they’re all businesses that constantly need to bring in new consumers and subscription boxes have proven to be a great way to do so.
Just consider your own level of knowledge (or the person you gift one too) before ordering. Someone who already knows a lot about beauty products might get excited the first 2 or 3 times but would probably get bored & disappointed very quickly, no matter how many times they change their preferences.

In general, I tend to review the *types* of products I like getting better than ones I don’t, even if I didn’t love the one I got specifically. I love getting eyeshadows, so I always rate them 5 stars, but if I didn’t like the color I rate it as “meh” for that. But I’ve noticed since doing that, I get the kinds of things I really love getting in my bags, and don’t see much that I hate (I rated enough bronzers and highlighters as 1 star and have not seen one in months!). I also try to let myself be open to getting things I wouldn’t try otherwise. That’s the whole point, right? Some things I really thought I would hate or be bored by ended up as my favorite products. Don’t look at Ipsy as a way to get that one specific thing: you will be disappointed. Try new things! Explore! For 10 bucks a month, it’s okay to get a few duds when you also get some really great things that you’d know nothing about otherwise. Have fun!

Great tips. I do several of these and I have noticed my bag as improved a lot.

If you go to Account, then membership, you will see

Skip a Month
Adjust Glam Bag Frequency

AND THEN….

Improve Glam Bag Products.

Click this and they give you a bunch of possible next months samples to “rate” ahead of time to help pick for your bag!! I just discovered it last month!!!

oh, I love ipsy, and its true about updating your profile, I do this everytime, to get different items…..and ipsy does care about your profile….they are the best beauty box to me….

I don’t want brow products so I say I have red hair and I don’t want skin care so on top of opting out of what I could I also say I am in mid 20s instead of 44 I actually am. Has worked so far.

I have very blond hair, and very dark eyebrows. I wanted to make sure that because I had blond hair listed in my profile that I wouldn’t get blond brow products and wrote ipsy to ask if there was any way to make sure I would get dark brow products. This is what they told me.

“Thanks for writing in to ipsyCare. Right now we do not have a way to customize the color of brow products you receive since our ipsymatch system does take things like hair color into consideration. However, I’ll be sure to share your feedback with the rest of our team so we can explore solutions.”

‘They do not take things like hair color into consideration.’
So why do they even ask?
To make you think they do. That’s why.

I have tried everything to get them to stop send skin care products for complexions with acne. I am 61, and this month received the blackhead removing mask. No matter what I do, they continue to send me inappropriate for my skin products. I have emailed, rated things low, changed profile, but they still send whatever they want. This month was the worst bag I ever received.

It seems to make a difference if you review your products ASAP. I have been getting two bags for a year and a half, and recently I experimented by reviewing one bag (always the same bag) right away, usually by the 15th of the month. The other bag I review at the end of the month. I seem to get better matches in the bag I review early. ipsy doesn’t usually have the same number of all products, like they might have 7,000 Manna Kadar lippies, but only 2,000 Huda lippies. So it seems to be that if you review early, you might get the less numerous Huda lip (assuming you like the type and color, etc), and you are more like to get the types and shades of items you want.

I recently choose nothing (in my profiles) in the hair and perfume categories, so fingers crossed that I don’t get any. I’ve never gotten the survey a lot of people get asking which particular products I’d want. I have contacted ipsy a few times and asked if I could opt out of certain categories for a few months or forever. I will never get a bronzer again, hurray! And a few months that are mascara-free.

When ipsy Plus was announced, I was able to sign up (via the special MSA deal) with my primary bag. I also started a third bag so I’d still be getting two regular ones a month. This is my second month for my third bag, and I hit. the. jackpot!! Eyeshadow, lip balm, lip gloss, blush, and highlighter all in shades I love (the more “adventurous” the better).

I hope this helps someone!

I do all of this and it doesn’t seem to matter. I have received a liquid lipstick or lip gloss every single month for 8 months straight— I rate them all 1 star and have deselected all lip products. Yet month after month I get one 🙁

Literally every single product in my October bag is from product categories that i explicitly deselected in my profile 🙄

I want the extremely cool shades of lip, eye, blush and light neutral foundation ( eye colors in the grays, soft plums, the icy colors). I have gray hair that’s professionally colored brown hair and highlighted with light blonde. My eyes are green but my contacts are lavender.

SO, when I fill out the coloring section, I put that my skin is Light ( never fair because I’m trying to find new skin foundation formulas and Fair knocks a person out of most Ipsy shades). I put that my hair is gray ( which it would be if not colored), my eyes are violet and I check ALL the eye shadow colors except the one wheel on the far left which is the traditional UD ” Nakeds” colors.

I do not ever check the cheaper skin products of cleansers, toners, brushes, or lip plumper ( plumpers don’t work on me). I check 3 color products I like most ( eye shadow, lipstick, foundation) and the 3 skin care items I want the most which are Moisturizing cream, facial serum, and facial oils. ( I have mature skin which can’t handle a lot of AHA/ Glycolics/ Retinoids, especially in the winter).

I do NOT check one single HAIR product. I don’t want the shampoos, either wet or dry samples. I also got some really awful hair balm in September that smells like a small rodent died nearby when it arrived.

I communicated with Ipsy Care and have opted out of Shampoos and Facial powders ( because I do not want any shampoo samples and because I do not want highlighters or bronzers ever.)

I fill out their ” Improve your products” thing almost every day. A few things will change and I don’t want to miss the good plummy shades I love most in fall and winter. No matter if you say you don’t like the color, the brand, the fact that it’s not organic, they still show the same 10 products for the next month’s bag. A few new products come up every few days. 😉

I hope this helps someone. I have loved my Ipsy bags since I redid my whole ” checkmark” system and played with the color wheel until I got pure icy colors in my coloring.
Those who want golden shades should do the exact opposite of course. 😉

My glam bag this month I noticed was all based on stuff I favorited to try in the shopping section if that helps anyone…I’m trying to figure out how to get the glam bag plus too

I upgraded and then opened up a new account to get the monthly bag and I got the best bag ever. Everything in it was what I would have picked if I had the choice to pick. This is the first time this has happened from Ipsy.

Oh yes. This is something I’ve learned to do. What I do is look at all the spoilers for that month & take note of what items I want & then go to my profile & move things around. Also, since I don’t want anymore highlighter or blush, for example, I check that I don’t use them. I’ll also play around with color preference too. This has worked out pretty well so far. I know someone has to get the wing eyeliner, again. But, it can prove successful if you stay on top of it.

I just resubed to see if they have changed haven’t subbed in two years. Will keep these tips in mind.

Do we know when the November Glam Bag Plus spoilers will be released? I’m trying to decide if I want to stay with plus or go back to the original bag!

I loved Ipsy for the first 18 months. Then they started sending me anything they wanted- nothing close to my profile. Many were repeat things- how many baby blue and purple nail polishes or teal eye liner does one person need? I consistently updated my account and left reviews.
I finally gave up and use the money to buy quality products that I will actually use.

These are great tips! I will be trying them out!

I do this religiously and my bags still aren’t any good most months. I have been a subscriber for a long time. This does not work for everyone.

Good tips! I’ve also found (maybe I read this here?) that if you see a spoiler for the next month that’s something you really want, go in and edit your quiz so it’s mostly that item. Like a concealer from Tarte, uncheck most everything except “Tarte” and “concealer.” I mean, still leave a couple things checked maybe, but focus on the one item you really want.