ipsy Glam Bag Review – September 2015
Its monthly present time again, hot diggity daffodil! This months bag was slightly bigger than last months to allow for the full-sized drugstore hair product that I have mixed feelings about. We got some lotions, we got some eye shadows, we got some eyebrow… goop. And I tested it all out – lets have a look!
It Puts the Lotion on it’s skin…(First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair® Cream)
Who doesn’t need a mini tube of lotion to carry around in their purse? This little guy is pretty okay. Its supposed to provide ” intense hydration for dry parched skin.” I found that its one of those lotions that leaves a soft, powdery feeling behind – like those lotions Victoria’s Secret sold back in the 90’s (they may still sell them now, too lazy and don’t care enough to check). Though, with a name like “First Aid Beauty,” I was really expecting this lotion to be a bit more… medicinal? I was thinking it might be a good one to use for post-tattoo care, but definitely has a scent which isn’t bueno for putting on irritated skin. The only place I could think of to use this guy and test its hydrating abilities was my ankles. For some ungodly reason in the last few years of my life I have developed increasingly dry skin on my ankles- I guess its part of my body falling apart because i’m old. It really didn’t help that much, but i’ll still keep it in my purse for when my hands get dry.
Eyelid Coloring Powders
(NYX Cosmetics ipsy Eye Shadow Trio)
This was probably my most favorite thing out of this month’s bag. A very well matched eye shadow trio that makes a smoky eye really hard to mess up (mind you, that means a lot coming from me.) This stuff blended very well and was decently pigmented. I used it for this 90’s grunge look I got goin’ on. All I was missing was a scrunchie from Claire’s and a clothes pin earring.
Hair stuff I could get at the grocery store (Garnier Fructis SLEEK & SHINE SLEEK PRIMER STYLE PREP)
I wasn’t really expecting ipsy to send me a sample of something I could get at CVS, but I am pretty pleased that I got a full-sized product that costs about $4.50 in my glam bag. Very nice, much wow. From what I could tell, this product is intended for use both with and without heat styling options, but it seemed like it really wanted me to use it with some kind of heat. Since we all know how I feel about blow dryers, I spritzed this in my wet hair on hair washin’ day and flat-ironed it. Here we see the result. Not really impressed off the bat – this guy is supposed to sleek and shine your hair, not frizz and poof it. In it’s defense, my hair always gets like this as a form of protest on hair washin’ day, but I feel like a product like this should work against that? I dunno, a day later I am seeing some lasting sleek and shiny-ness now that my scalp has re-oiled itself. I’m willing to give this a try a few more times.
Too light for me eyebrow goop
(Elizabeth Mott Queen of the Fill Tinted Eyebrow Gel)
I am relatively new to the eyebrow scene and have yet to master this “slaying” everyone on the internet talks about. Its safe to say that my proverbial “eyebrow game” is not “on fleek” (I don’t know what it means, look it up on Urban Dictionary if you’re curious). So this is the first tinted eyebrow gel I have tried. I may be a n00b at this, but I’m pretty sure you need this goop to actually match the color of your eyebrows, mine were a tad too dark for the goop – which admittedly had a milk-chocolate mousse color about it. It made me kind of hungry.
Bronze-y eyeface pencil(J. Cat Beauty #MOTD Waterproof Slide on Pencil for Eyes in Bronze)
Ooh, another full-sized product! That makes 3 in this glam bag if you count the eye shadow. I am pleased. This is a metalic bronze eyeliner with some serious staying power. I had to scrub a bit with my e.l.f. makeup removing wipes to get this swatch off of my hand. I haven’t really devised a way to go about using this eyeliner. I have never had a bronze colored eyeliner before. Perhaps I’ll look at what some other people who got this in their bags have done with it.
In Conclusion
I am so much more pleased with what I have gotten in these ipsy bags so far than what I ever got in my Birchbox boxes. This one had two full-sized products in it! I think this month’s bag was made a little longer than usual to accommodate for the full-sized Garnier thing. I was slightly disappoint because it seems like in transit, the Garnier hair thing was spritzed somehow and as a result the inside of my bag and all it’s contents were saturated in hair stuff. It didn’t damage anything, but product compromisation was never an issue with Birchbox and it made the packaging and skipping seem a little sub-par.
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