Ipsy Glam Bag Ultimate January 2020 Choice Time!

Was the curling wand an option when you picked?

IPSY bag contents and ADD ons are available. Just shopped and saw all my bags contents. I picked up another one of each of the serums. I love serums and these had excellent reviews.

So… on one hand, I’m very excited that Ipsy is branching out into other beauty items with the hair tools. On the other hand, I signed up for makeup and skincare… I have a super short pixie cut and have zero use for a straightener or a curling iron 😐

I went through my profile and there’s no section for hair tools, just hair care. So if I opt out of hair care to avoid products I can’t use, I also avoid products I can use… like dry shampoo and finishing creams. I emailed ipsycare to opt out and received a vague response that they’ll “try, but there’s no guarantees.”

I really hope I don’t end up with one. I can’t use it and judging by the responses here… someone else would definitely like it more than I would.

I chose the vitamin B serum in an effort to avoid the hair tools and the Balm palettes… although I’m sure I’ll end up with one of them, haha. Here’s hoping the other spoilers make up for it.

Just wanted to put out there that it’s not something new for there to be varied selections for choice time. I’ve always had different items to choose from than are mentioned here on MSA. Sometimes additional things, sometimes less things to choose from. Some folks sound surprised and I thought that everyone knew that depending on your profile, you may have different choices than others. Although I wish this were not the case.

IPSY IF YOU ARE LISTENING – please let everyone have the same selection to choose from. Just because I have my profile set a certain way does not mean that I won’t ever choose something I have marked rarely, etc. Please give everyone the same opportunities to choose.

I am thinking everyone will get one hair tool, one Sweet Chef, one Balm palette and one Tarte lippie. There haven’t been a ton of variations for this bag

I didn’t find any of the choices compelling so I opted for IPSY doing my selection.

I’m relieved that the Foxybae stuff appears to have “sold out” since I actively didn’t want miniature curing iron or flat iron. I have almost no interest in full size of these items. Hopefully that means that I will get another high retail value item since I won’t be getting one of the hair items which are theoretically pricy. FWIW, they are both on amazon.

The Balm palettes are not well reviewed and the rest of the items were hardly compelling enough for me to want to to actively select.

Oooo this actually looks so good. Considering getting myself one with my Christmas bonus this year

Target skin care….seriously? In a $50 box. Ugh. I’m hoping they send everyone a hair tool. Although I have a wand a flat iron I think this is a good addition to the box. I picked the tarte lippie because I really needed a new one

I’m so glad i kept my ultimate subscription. Great way to start off 2020 and the bag is beautiful. I chose the wand. I know we’re going to receive one of the styling tools. I hope they put together great products to go along with our choice picks

Apparently, I missed the only good items (foxybae)…..very disappointed in the Ultimate selection (and value of the selection items) this month as I would prefer the GBP items!

This is light years better than last month!

That being said, though I wouldn’t be mad to receive any of these, there’s no “I need it” items, either. I already have a mini flat iron & a Matt Trimony palette from Cult Crushes (RIP).

I did find out that the Festival shade from Tarte is a great MLBB from the last Tarte build-your-own bag.

Not sure if I want to get this bag. I paused this month, so I may go ahead & just cancel.

I don’t have either hair tools as choices. Odd.

a different palette but similar made by thebalm is part of the ipsy offers this week.

I love that the flat iron and curling wand are marbled like the bag!

Did anyone get an email telling them to pick? I sure didn’t and by the time I read about it on MSA and did, (9:45am pacific) they weren’t offering the flat iron, just the curling wand.

Grrrr

I’m frustrated I’m customizing for January and I haven’t even received my December bag yet

Even tho I already own NUMEROUS curling wands, flat irons and heated styling brushes I still chose the mini flat iron. Figured i could gift it if nothing else. N considering we’re getting another 1 items in the Ultimate I may end up several of the other choices anyway. I DO like that it’s a marbled design to match the makeup bag. Will make a nice gift set for someone

Why does it seem like the same products from the previous month keep rolling over into the next month? I’m just waiting to get a repeat of something I’ve already received previously. Being subscribed to all three boxes, I don’t see how I won’t eventually. We’ll see what the boxes actually look like this month, but this might be it for me on all three subscriptions. I’m just not being wowed by Ipsy as of late. Seems since they added the new box, items are worse and being carried over for months. I’ve been seeing these same Huda Beauty palettes in the boxes for three-four straight months now. Glad I never bought any of her Obsessions Palettes because I almost have the entire collection at this point or will very soon. Last month the only thing that made me not regret the Ultimate Bag was the $200 choice item from 111Skin. Other than that, I’ve been disappointed to say the least. I hate to admit it, but Boxycharm is actually more promising than Ipsy. 😒

When I started my sub box journey, I was always excited to see Tarte, but now I’m sort of like meh Tarte again.

I got the curling iron but I also wanted theBalm palette. Hopefully it will be an add on!

I signed up today for the curling wand. I also love the bag

First time I will be skipping Ultimate. I like the bag, but nothing else calls to me.

I went ahead and got the mini curling wand. I already have a mini blow dryer and straight iron from Boxy, so I figured I’d have a complete set for travel and back up. The others didn’t seem to be interesting to me. The lip paint isn’t my favorite, I have way to many highlighters, and the serum shots have mixed reviews. I would have cancelled my ultimate this month, but I loved the bags!