Ipsy Glam Bag Ultimate February 2020 Choice Time!

I’ve completely cancelled my Ipsy – just waiting for the current subscriptions to run out.
Personally, I think Ipsy has “broken” their Glam bag customization software. In recent months, it nearly feels as though they’re going out of their way to send people the items & colors they’ve specifically said they don’t want. I get this feeling of “Oh, you said you don’t wear this color/use this type of product? Well, WE think you should give it a try. So here ya’ go.”
My skin tone is MAC NW15 (not the absolute palest, but pretty pale) and I have gray hair. I consistently get shades more suited to a medium skin tone and the BRIGHTEST lippies. I’ve pretty consistently given away all the makeup I’ve received from them in the past 4-6 months.
Are they a good deal? Only if you can actually USE the products you receive. I’m done.

I ended up cancelling all 3 of my Ipsy bags and they sent me an email offering me a free gift if I signed back up. They offered me the Apto Pomegranate Mask, which is an item I had received before and I was also opted out of masks on that account.

You should be able to today. Contact customer service.

The champagne and rose is gorgeous!

The Goldfaden was a scrub.

IIRC, the Violet Voss palette previously sent by Ipsy was the mini HG palette, although I have to admit, this Berry one looks verrrrrry similar.

I finally got in and it’s all sold out.

Exactly, on the empty mailbox!

The Sweater Weather palette was a choice for Plus. the MUG and VV palettes were choices for Ultimate.

That’s been happening for a few months now. Like you I thought Ultimate was supposed to have the best items because regardless of what they say now, that IS what they advertised at first. When customer service acted like I was crazy for expecting better brands/selection/etc from Ultimate since I was paying double what I’d been paying for Plus I had to rethink these plans and do some calculations.

Here’s what I came up with. If you compare Ultimate ($50) to regular + Plus ($37), Ultimate gets you ONE more full size item but one LESS travel/sample size. Since month after month Plus has the better items (in my opinion/for me personally) you’re much better off to cancel Ultimate and get one regular bag, one Plus bag and a full size add-on at $12 making your new total $49 and getting the same number of FS and one more travel/sample size for less money. Once people start realizing that and going that route Ipsy will be forced to step up their game with Ultimate or just do away with it. I personally think they should just add another full size to Plus as well as sending the bigger/nicer Ultimate-level makeup bags and increase the price to $35. Customers could still get a regular bag (maybe even with say, a $2 discount for getting both) for $47 total (or even $45) if they really want the smaller sizes as well. Or they could just make more of the travel/sample sizes available as add-ons. Just think, the new plan would give you 6 full size products with two of them picked by you and 5 travel size add-ons, ALL picked by you for $50. Talk about personalization! Plus you’d still get 4 surprises if you’re as big of a fan of those as I am.

I just think they need to greatly improve Ultimate or restructure their subscription model altogether if they want to stay competitive.

Ultimate isnt prestige brands, it’s the same as plus, just more products with a dash of deluxe sizes like the glam bag!

AGREED🤦‍♀️
So over the ripoff…

Because they want to force people into spending $50 a month, instead of $12 or $25. Corporate greed at it’s finest, they know people who want the better products will switch and that those people will likely still include add on’s for the stuff they miss out on. Well played Ipsy, but this girl isn’t falling for it. As soon as Plus gets bad enough that I don’t see the personal value, I’ll just cancel. I won’t be signing up to Ultimate just to get the better products and I hate sample sizes, which is why (that and price difference) I stick with Plus. I’ll just be done if they can’t offer better products in Plus. I agree that for the most part Ultimate has been better, but if I get the right combo for me, I don’t think February is so bad. I’d really like to see Plus alternate brushes and tools through the months. Nobody needs new brushes every 2 months, but I bet a lot of people would like to see some sort of beauty tool instead of brushes every now and then. It’s improved significantly in Jan and Feb, at least we aren’t seeing a bunch of house collab products anymore, so hopefully they heard us on that. But yes, I’d also like to see things a bit more even between them.