Ipsy Bag
Cost: $10 monthly, $110 annual
Cycle: Every Month
What is it: Every month Ipsy sends out a cute makeup bag of samples and full size items. You can review your bag for points that you can trade in for reward items. The rewards change often and the range between 300 points and 1000 points. You can get around 95 points every month.
If you want to subscribe you can subscribe HERE and skip the waitlist. That is my referral link so I do get points to spend but I’m not an affiliate I don’t make any money or anything it’s just one beauty junkie to another.
I love this lemon bag it is so freaking cute. I want to keep it but I’m going to give it to my aunt because we have this thing about lemons and limoncello and its my mom and hers birthday party this week so I am going to give it to her. But so damn cute.
Firma Beauty 103 Angled Contour Brush
Full Size: Yes
Full Size Cost: $14.99
This is super soft I think it will be perfect for highlight this is a little too soft and loose for what I like for contouring so I won’t use it that way. That’s ok brushes are for how you like to use them not what it says on them.
TonyMoly Peach Punch Sweet Foam Cleanser
Full Size: 150 ml
Full Size Cost: $10.50
Sample Size: 10 ml
Value: $0.70
Always happy to see some TonyMoly Their products are always so cute it makes me want to use them. This smells like peaches and I love that scent and I haven’t used a foaming cleanser in a while so that’ll be fun. I noticed this had a sticker with the ingredients on it so I peeled it off to see what was under it lo and behold it was another ingredient list so I compared the two and the last ingredient printed on the bottle was not on the sticker. It was Cl 16255, that is the ingredient name, i looked up what it was and it is a dye if anyone cares. I was curious and now we all can know lol I’m guessing it has been removed from the formula but they did not want to have to make new tubes. Because I am fairly certain it is illegal to not list all the ingredients and it would be really shitty if this was old product but they put the new ingredient list on it to show what is in the new product even though that isn’t what we are getting. Did that make any sense at all probably not. I am not happy with the value of this sample being that it is on the more inexpensive side they should have sent a larger sample at least like 25 mls I feel.
Tarte Base Tape Hydrating Primer
Full Size: 30 ml
Full Size Cost: $30
Sample Size: 10 ml
Value: $10
I don’t love hydrating primers and I am over capacity with primers right now so if it isn’t a primer I think I am going to love I am not really trying to keep it. This is a milky white primer that rubs in clear it is moisturizing and a but tacky. I bet it is probably great for dry skin and holding on your makeup. I’m just not interested.
Nomad Cosmetics Eyeshadow in Blue Lagoon
Full Size: 15 shades x 1.5 g or singles 2.2 g (other shades)
Full Size Cost: $37 (palette) or $12 (single)
Sample Size: 1.5 g
Value: $2.47 or $8.18
I don’t really love the formula of these Nomad cosmetics powders they are so soft that they have so much kick back and fall out. Pretty color though. So this is exclusive to the Antilles palette so I am using those prices but you can by singles from them and I listed those prices as well. Swatched Below
Ofra Cosmetics Rodeo Drive Highlighter
Full Size: 10 g
Full Size Cost: $29
Sample Size: 10 g
Value: $29
I love this highlighter I actually have it in their old packaging, I got it in a Boxycharm. I know that I will never use this all up but I am tempted to keep it as a backup because I know the Ofra highlighters are super fragile to it would be nice to have a backup. This isn’t their old packaging which was black and it isn’t their new packaging which is square. So I am wondering if this was maybe a test run or something of packaging that they didn’t choose and that is how Ipsy got it. Swatched Below.
Getting a full size high end highlighter in an Ipsy bag is like a huge win making this whole bag feel really amazing even if the rest of the products were pretty tiny and so so.
Quick Summary:
Total Value: $57.16
Skincare: 1
Makeup: 3
Tools: 1
Hair Care: 0
Perfume: 0
Other: 0
And as far as sizes:
Full Size: 2
Deluxe Sample: 1
Sample: 2
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