IPSY February 2014

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I received my IPSY bag in the mail. Keep reading to see what I got!

Price: $10.00 (free shipping)

Ships out: Every month.

Extras: Each month the products featured in the bag have special subscriber discounts. Points system that is accrued for each review you post on the IPSY site from the products that you received in each month's bag. These points as well as referral points can be redeemed for extra products in future month's bags. I received my IPSY bag in the mail. Keep reading to see what I got!

First Look!

This month's theme is "The Look of Love"

 Everything I received in this month's bag.

0.14oz.  POP Beauty lip lacquer mini in 'Fuchsia Freesia'  I liked the color of this lip lacquer  I didn't last very long at all. 

FULL SIZE Jesse's Girl eye color collection in "Brown Eyed Girl"

 The palette included 9 different shades in a neutral collection. I'm assuming that this was given out according to the survey you fill out when you initially sign up for a subscription.  

 FULL SIZE Zoya nail lacquer in "Odette" There were two different colors that you could have received in this month's bag.  Odette or a pale pink color. I'm happy that I received this color. 

FULL SIZE J. Cat Beauty 100% human hair eyelashes and glue in  style EL 747XS According to the J.Cat Beauty website. this style comes in different lengths, from the short ones I received to long. 

Dr. Lin Skincare Acne Spot Corrector 

This month was a better month for me than last month. This month make is clearly apparent that IPSY looks at the beauty survey and catered each bag accordingly.  I don't normally wear eyelashes, so I think that will be least used product in this bag. Despite that, I still liked receiving them in the bag. 

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IPSY September 2013

This month's IPSY bag arrived!

This month's theme was Classic Beauty

The creator of IPSY, Michelle Phan, started out as a You Tube beauty guru. She then created a beauty sample company named MyGlam. Which evolved into IPSY. She just released a makeup line called "EM by Michelle Phan" and is doing some heavy duty marketing for her new line. One such marketing strategy is by putting samples of her makeup in every IPSY bag. What I appreciated about this sample is that it didn't count as one of the samples for the months bag. 

The big selling point of her line is the Life Palette. She included this fold out brochure with three eyeshadow samples and a blush sample.

 0.14 fl. oz. It's so Big by Elizabeth Mott mascara in black? The packaging didn't say what color it was and I didn't want to open the mascara up. I have a lot of different mascaras that I'm trying out and didn't want to open another one and have it start drying out. Interesting fact. Elizabeth Mott only makes two products, this mascara and Lash Cards.

FULL SIZE Starlooks Kohl eye pencil in Obsidian

FULL SIZE Cailyn Tinted Lip Balm in Big Apple. I really wouldn't call this a lip balm. It's not sheer like I would expect from a lip balm. The color on this was really strong and bright. It was more of lipstick, in a pot.

This product separated into three pieces like their eyeliners. The top of the lid separates to a brush. This is the same packaging as the gel eyeliners in their brand. The only difference between the eyeliner and the lip balm is packaging color and the actual product inside the pot. I didn't like the brush for eyeliner application and I really don't like the brush for lip product application either. I felt that it was too stiff for use on the lips. I have been using the brush for eyeshadow that I use to set my gel eyeliner.

FULL SIZE NYX eyeshadow in Purple. Love this color.

FULL SIZE J.Cat Beauty Fantabulous lipstick in Honeycrisp I hated this color. It looked even worse on my lips. It made me look dead. I applied the Cailyn lip balm over top of this and I looked a little more alive, but I still wasn't completely happy with the color.  The packaging was really cheap feeling. I received another J.Cat product in a previous month's bag and the quality of the product was not very impressive. I don't think the products that I have receive in my IPSY bags from this brand, impress me enough to want to make purchases from the brand. 

For some reason I didn't take a picture of this month's bag. If you are really interested in seeing the bag, I'm sure you can search what other people received. Overall I was happy with this month's bag.

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IPSY June 2013

I received my June IPSY bag in the mail and I am so happy with this month's bag!

Price: $10.00/month

Ships out: Every month

June's theme is "On the Wild Side"

First Look!

This month's bag is leopard with a lime green zipper. This bag is a little different from the bags that I have received in the past because the zipper is on the front of the bag instead of the top. I really love this bag! I don't usually go for animal print (all I can think of when I see animal prints is the Jersey Shore. I'm trying to expand my wardrobe and incorporate more animal prints into my life, but finding animal prints can be hard to not look cheap. 

FULL SIZE NYX 'Rouge Cream Blush' in "Bronze Goddess"

Value: $6.00

Chella 'Highlighter Pencil' in "Ivory Lace" I used this to line my waterline. The stick was so creamy and easy to apply. 

Full Sized Value: $18.00

FULL SIZE Starlooks Lip Pencil in "Bare"Starlooks has their own monthly beauty box that ships out with various Starlooks products. I tried this lip pencil and I really liked it. I applied it in the morning before work and I saw still seeing evidence of the lip pencil on my lips at the end of the work day. 

Value: $12.00

FULL SIZE Cailyn 'Linefix' Gel Eyeliner in "Iron" with Built in Brush I have heard some really good reviews of this eyeliner. It claims to be waterproof and last all day.  I used this eyeliner and believe the hype. I have a hard time finding eyeliner that stays on my lids all day without smudging.  This product and MAC's Fluid line gel liner seem to work the best for me. The smudging is minimal throughout the day and most of the product seems to stay put. The built in brush is crap though.  I tried to use it to line my eyes and ended up quitting halfway through my first eye.  The brush is basically just a short lip brush. 

Value: $21.00

Close up of "Iron". It's a deep grey color. This is a color that I currently do not have in my cosmetics stash, so I was happy to get this color. 

Swatches of the colors I received. 

TOP: NYX "Bronze Goddess"

TOP MIDDLE: Starlooks "Bare"

BOTTOM MIDDLE: Chella "Ivory Lace"

BOTTOM: Cailyn "Iron"

JCat 'Sparking Cream Palette' in "Volta"This was interesting. I currently do not own anything like this and I really don't think that I would ever use this outside of Halloween. I might eventually find a use for this, but it's nice to be able to try this type of product out. 

Value: $4.49

Swatches (Top to Bottom):

Gold

Emerald Green

Yellow/Green

Multicolored and Black

Silver

One thing I noticed about this bag, was that most of the products all had Cruelty Free Symbols on them.  The only product that did not have a Cruelty Free symbol or say that it was Cruelty Free on the website was the Chella highlighter. I think that it was really cool of IPSY to not only have an animal theme this month, but also have animal safe products within the theme. Great job IPSY!

I love this bag! I think it might be my favorite IPSY bag that I have received so far.