IPSY Glam Bag Plus Review – November 2020

That sucks the palette is so sketchy. Those colors are right up my alley, and that pigment!

If you watch RawBeautyKristi’s announcement video for her Pur palette over the summer she gives an EXCELLENT breakdown of the pigment vs eyeshadow situation and how the vegan pigments are not considered eye safe in the US & Canada but are fine in Europe. I found it very enlightening. Also now that you noticed this here you’ll start to see this warning everywhere. Many palettes (especially vegan formulas) have a shade or two that come with this warning.

THE COMPLEX CULTURE LIP CREAM IS THE GREATEST LIP PRODUCT I HAVE EVER USED!!! I WANT MORE MORE MORE!

I was really surprised how much I love the CC lip cream and the Yensa silk bronzing base. I thought having the Trestique bronzer and Yensa contour stick would annoy me but I’ll use both.

I used the VV palette without any staining, I did apply primer first.

Has anyone else not gotten their bag yet? My bag has always shipped on the 7th. Still no tracking number. And ipsy has done nothing but taken my money 🙄

I have suffered terrible hormonal acne for 11 years. My skin is VERY oily and prone to clogged pores. That being said… the Murad is a miracle worker! I use this at night and SR UFO in the morning. I notice the biggest improvement upon waking up so I believe the Murad is the reason my face is FINALLY CLEAR!!!

This was the first moisturizer I have used where I don’t wake up feeling like I have a film across my face. Soaks into my skin quickly without residue.

I was absolutely mind blown. It did purge my skin the first 3 days of use and since then I haven’t had active breakouts. I’ve been using the night cream every night for 2.5 weeks

This bag was the worst for me! It was so bad I canceled my subscription right after doing the choice selections. Everything offered were items I indicated as rarely. I literally didn’t know what to choose because I didn’t want any of it. Now I get emails from Ipsy daily with all kinds of “special offers” trying to entice me back. Nope!

I have been using Marc Jacobs’ Youthquake for a month and a half and LOVE it. My skin looks incredible. My jar is now empty so I decided it would be perfect time to try the Murad. Woke up the next morning with THREE big ole zits. To be fair, shark week started yesterday so I am giving it a little time before offering the rest of the jar to a friend.

Underwhelmed ..is there a better word ?? Ugh ..yuck ..boring …bag

I was getting ready to cancel Ipsy because of product overload, but the spoilers got me! Especially the murad! So I was pretty bummed when I logged on at the first second for choice and no murad, no flesh, nada. I had multiple shaded of the item eye shadow and the sugar rush gloss in one category, then in the next the sugar rush in another color, a ofra lip product and more of the shadow. The last had the lip mask, a liner and I don’t recall what else. I was so confused! Where was everything?! I got the same email a while later that a lot of people did, stating that there was some sort of a mistake and offering a three dollar credit towards add-ons. This seems like more than a three dollar mistake, LOL. But a lot of the people who got the same email I did, had the murad and several other nice items as choices. Mine was an utter flop, and I know it’s not because things were sold out. I was on as soon as it opened… The things they chose for me were the mascara and the pallet with the warning, just to add insult to injury, lol.

I am happy with my plus bag this month even though I got a repeat it’s okay.
Ipsy picked Trestique Mascara, I have so many opened I put it away for my daughter
Seraphine Botanicals Vegan eyeshadow palette which I received a few months back so both products will be put away as part of my daughter Birthday gifts!
I picked Murad night cream and I really like it. My skin loves Murad products
Happy I picked Tula jel eye masks and I noticed a difference right away
I usually only use lip balm but I decided to pick Yensa super 8 lip oil in sheer pink. Smells good and very hydrating I even like the pink tint. Value of bag was over 200, worth the 25 dollars.

Just FYI, the Coral Crush palette and the mini Coral Crush have different shades in them. I checked before I ordered the Coral Crush in Boxy Popup.

I received the email about the malfunction and was a little confused because i really liked my November box. Ipsy choose the VV palette which i love. Its gorgeous. I have already used it a bunch of times. I love the shade coral pop. It has the warning because we live in the usa. Its kinda like all the products that have on the label for people in california. Glad i live in washington so i dont have to worry about them giving me cancer j/k. Fyi i didn’t get any reaction from it and it didn’t stain my skin. Also like someone said to make colors intense they use to use beattle bugs. But everyone wants vegan and you can’t make bright colors that are vegan using bugs.
They also choose the yensa bronzer for me. I had my doubts bit it surprised me. It feels nice on my skin and it’s very buildable. It is a great color. The brush is awesome.
I choose the murad retinol cream and i love it. I have been using it every night. I’m fifty. Have small pores and rarely get acne. I also choose the CC lip tint in rusty rose and OMG this is my new fave for a natural look. The way it feels on my lips reminds me of sugar rush sugar coat. It feels thick like a balm and really moisturizing. The last thing i choose was the julep cream to powder eyeshadow stick.i live the glow it leaves behind. I added on the sunday riley a+ retinal serum. November box for me was amazing.

Great review! Great choices i wanted the tarte lip oil so bad but I decided to go with the eye masks so glad I did I love those! And I love the vilot voss palette its amazing

Great review! Great choices i love my glam bag too . I wanted the tarte lip oil but it

I’m not thrilled with my GBP this month. I chose the Murad Retinol but am now scared because while I dont have oily skin I have dry skin but do have milia and comedones so my pores clog easily.
I also received that awful Violet Voss eye shadow palette that I only ended up liking one of the colors. I was going to pass it along (holiday gift) BUT now I may just toss it.
Trestique mascara is a repeat for sure. This is my 3rd one so either Ipsy or BC repeated it again cause I have 3 quantity. Two open ones plus one I gave away to my daughter. Its ok but not my ‘reach for’ because I’m spoiled, I have so many mascaras it’s hard to be my go to FAV.

HAPPY WITH:
LOVE the SERAPHINE BOTANICALS Fruit Butter – Lip Mask (my 2nd choice) have this already so chose as a back up.
3rd choice which I am shocked I LOVE is COMPLEX CULTURE Deal Closer Tinted Lip Cream in Rusty Rose. I love the Complex Culture brushes like most of us do. I was afraid I wouldn’t like this make up line BUT this gloss is really nice upon initial try. The color and the formula are NICE!! Great job IPSY. I am now excited to try some of their other make up and skincare items.
Please if anyone else received the LIP GLOSS share what you think of it.
THANK YOU for your excellent review.

I think it has to do with red shades and a specific ingredient but I can’t recall which off hand. There are lots of palettes with this same warning that people have but likely never noticed the warning. They are considered pigments instead of eye shadows. I remember UD had a couple, the electric comes to mind first. And a few ABH ones as well, can’t remember which. I think it has to do with some beetle that’s used to make it, but that may not be this palette. Carmine, if I remember correctly but I have premenopause brain lately so I might be wrong. But I’ve used them on my eyes with no issues but that’s me. And they can be used on other parts of the face, it just has to have that warning dor the eyes.

The ingredients seemed unsafe for the immediate eye area are most likely red no 6 and yellow no 7. It’s not just Violet Boss; Huda, Anastasia, and other high end brands have had to issue the same warning on some of their bright eye shadow palettes.

Many of us felt that the choices fell flat this month. At first, I thought that Ipsy was just saving the cool items for add ons to try to make more money, but then they sent out an email and admitted that their matching algorithm malfunctioned and that’s why some of us saw choices that were not a match for us at all. (Sarcastic comment: fortunately, the computer code for displaying add ons did not malfunction at all). The Murad was the only item that was a hit for me. Let’s hope the December selection is good, or I’ll take a break for a while.

I haven’t received my plus yet. Ipsy added the palette for me. Wow. They will definitely be hearing from me about eyeshadows that cannot safely be used on eyelids. I’m not happy about this.

Has anyone had any luck with that eyelash curler? It’s just not working for me. Sounds handy, but so awkward trying to actually use it!

That is interesting about the palette. I got the Full Time neutral one and unless I missed it, I didn’t see that warning.

The eyeshadows are most likely considered “not eye safe” because they use a red pigment that can cause staining. The fda considers that to be unsafe but in Europe it’s fine. They should be okay to use, you just might get pink eyelids temporarily. Using an eyeshadow base or concealer before applying can help reduce the chance of staining.

Still waiting for mine. Two weeks to get from Texas to Nevada via California seems a bit ridiculous! Even rather have Smartpost over DHL.

how did you escape the complex culture items? like one of my suggestions for picking was all complex culture i was so mad.