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.
You can now customize your bag and pick out one sample per month that will get to be in your bag which is a pretty nice change even though it came with a price increase.
So Ipsy always does a cute Halloween themed bag this one isn’t super Halloweeny more just pretty simple mystical vibes.
I don’t know if I really like this it is very heavily scent like pistachios and pretty thick and heavy on the skin. I just don’t know how I feel about this yet.
I love tinted moisturizers and have been curious about this one but I have so much foundation that its a bit ridiculous. I hate that light coverage products are still as much as a full coverage foundation it feels like I am being cheated some how.
This is a brand from Etsy that is so interesting I have never received something from Ipsy that came from Etsy. This is soft and very cute very similar to some brushes I have had from amazon. I don’t know that it is worth the $15 but I will happily use it.
Malin + Goetz Mojito Lip Balm
Full Size: 10 ml
Full Size Cost: $14
Sample Size: 10 ml
Value: $14
This was my pick for the month I love fancy lip balms but they are always so expensive this really does smell like a mojito I am pretty pleased.
I wish this looked like the actual packaging. The full size of this looks like a hair brush and that realy is the whole appeal of this mascara so in just this regular boring tube I can’t get any excitement going for this mascara.
Not my most favorite bag ever but you know it is what it is.
What is it: Every month you will get a bag, a $5 off coupon (sometimes $10), 5 deluxe samples and 1 bonus sample. Why not just say 6? I don’t get it. Lately we have been getting between 6 and 8 items per month you never really know how many things you are going to get.
All the brands will be brands you can find in Macy’s which is cool since they sell Mac and a lot of other brands that are never to rarely seen in subscription boxes.
The cool thing about the coupon is that it is good in stores and online also Macy’s does have sales and $5 products so if you are strategic you can score a free product every month. Depending on your state you may still have to pay tax but it is still basically free.
So after a pretty long hiatus Macy’s Beauty Box is back. We are even getting the Jo Malone box hat we were supposed to get for May that every one was super excited about. I am also really excited about this box so let’s get into it.
I wish we had gotten this one in the bigger size. Especially since we got two florals this would have been better in a larger size to suit more people. This is a warmer more “masculine” scent but I really like it. It is very fall. I will probably use it up right away rather then saving it with all my other perfume samples.
Lime, basil, mandarin some of my favorite scents right there. It weirds me out that this is a body and hand wash but I will over look it for how damn good this smells.
This is the thing I am most excited for. I now get to experience a bougie candle that costs so much money maybe this will give me an idea of why certain candles are so outlandishly expensive but I have a feeling it wont. Still excited it smells really nice and light.
This was so fun to get so many different things from this line. I wish the bigger perfumes hadn’t both been florals but at least they were two very different types of florals. Not the best value Macy’s has ever done but a really nice fun brand overview of a brand that feels really unattainable due to the price.
I am really slowing down on empties and I don’t know if I am going to make my $3,500 value goal. I need like $900 in 3 months. With the rate I am going at right now I am going to fall short. I was trying to focus on more full size products and they just last a long time.
Skincare (6)
L’oreal Age Perfect Rosy Tone Cream Fragrance Free this is so thick and it actually left my skin pink I really didn’t like this at all. I don’t get why you would want your moisturizer to make you pink. So thick that I got three uses out of this tiny little sample
Repurchase: No
L’oreal Age Perfect Rosy Tone Eye Brightener not as bad as the moisturizer but still really thick and hard to blend in.
Repurchase: No
Boscia Detoxifying Black Cleanser this was fine as a cleanser nothing special nothing awful.
Repurchase: No
Medusa’s Makeup Black Hawaiian Sea Salt Facial Scrub this was way too harsh to be a facial scrub. I used it up as a body scrub and it was lovely that way really scrubby and the right amount of oils to leave my skin really soft. I hated it for my face though the one time I tried it. They don’t make this one any more it is a sea salt roses one. But as a body scrub I recommend.
Repurchase: No
Caolion Blackhead O2 Bubble Pore Pack so this mask was super fun it’s the kind that bubbles up and gets all foamy on your face. I really enjoyed it but I don’t think it really did anything for my skin but I want to try other foamy masks now.
Repurchase: No
Trader Joe’s Watermelon Facial Mist this was nice and it was cheap it smelled good I like face mists this was fun.
Repurchase: Maybe
Random (4)
Fortune Cookie Soap Company We Were On A Break Teeth Whitener I didn’t like this at all this was not nearly as good as other charcoal toothpastes I have tried. It had no grit and I don’t feel like I got the same clean and whitening benefits as I did from other charcoal pastes. It also clumped up really weird in my mouth while I was brushing. TMI but true.
Repurchase: No
Tarte Maracuja Oil I used this for hair and my face and just as a multi use oil mostly when I travel or stay over somewhere where. It is nice because I can use it for lots of purposes and it works alright at all of them but not great at any of them. I would use it again but I won’t buy it.
Repurchase: No
Fortune Cookie Soap Company OCD Hand Sanitizer in Can’t Touch This welcome to 2020 we use hand sanitizer like it is going out of style now. I liked this one because it wasn’t really scented where you could smell it but it was scented just enough to cover the alcohol so it smelled like nothing which was a nice change from a lot of the other sanitizers I’ve been using a lot.
Repurchase: Yes
Pacifica Cherry Kiss Hydrating Lipstick Wipes I love these for taking off matte liquid lipsticks they make it easy and comfortable and they taste really good.
Repurchase: Yes
Home Scents (2)
Yankee Candle Red Apple Wreath I swear this candle smelled different every time I burned it. I got this for free it was fine and it burned along time but I don’t really love yankee candle for whatever reason.
Repurchase: No
Yankee Candle Easy Meltcup in Roseberry Sorbet I clearly wasn’t paying enough attention when I bought this or I would not have bought it I didn’t realize it was a floral. I hated the scent but beside that I hated the quality of this wax it was so highly dye that the dye would like separate out of the wax as it was melting and it was really hard to clean out of my wax melter.
Repurchase: No
Lip (2)
Chapstick in Key Lime I really liked this it was a good chapstick I loved the lime. A+
Repurchase: Yes, except I have like 2 years worth of lip balm so not anytime soon
Alaffia Everyday Coconut Vegan Lip Balm this was more like a cookie then coconut. It was fine but nothing I would go out of my way to spend the money on.
Repurchase: No
Makeup (4)
Tarte Stay Spray Setting Spray I really really liked this it is almost as good as Urban Decay All Nighter and it is a little cheaper I think. So good great sprayer.
Repurchase: Yes
Hank & Henry Stick With it Long Wear Liquid Eyeliner in Blickity Black this has started to go on all patchy and like almost clear in spots so I think it has come to the end of its useful life. I didn’t like this at all it was difficult to work with not super black and not long wearing.
Repurchase: No
Colourpop Brow Boss in Brunette hated this so hard to work with really dry and scratchy on the skin.
Repurchase: No
Lancôme Hypnose Drama I don’t really like Lancôme mascaras they are so clumpy and gooey.
Repurchase: No
Lotion (1)
Avon Foot Works Deep Moisture Cream this was not good as the the other foot cream I used up from Avon this was really thick but didn’t feel like it was penetrating well. Either way I don’t like to support MLMs even though the products themselves are often good.
Repurchase: No
Bodycare (1)
Da Bomb Fun Size Fizzers in Cozy Bomb this was more warm fall scent then pumpkin spice scented which I greatly preferred. It came with a super adorable red leaf charm inside that I loved. It was a really nice bath bomb a little small for a full bath tub though If I ever bought these again I would get the full size ones.
Repurchase: No
Haircare (5)
Garnier Fructis Damage Eraser Liquid Strength Treatment With Protein you put this in your wet hair and it is supposed to reduce breakage and I feel like it worked and it has that nice Garnier scent. You do need a fair amount though.
Repurchase: Probably
Earth’s Nectar Mint Leaves Scalp Oil I really liked this it made my scalp feel invigorated and it would help anytime my scalp was itchy. I wish it came in a spray rather than a pump though.
Repurchase: Maybe
Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub with Sea Salt this used to be like such a favorite for me but I think it is just to drying and hard to work in now. I need to find another scalp scrub that works for me.
Repurchase: Maybe
Cake The Posh Wash Shampoo I hated this it made my hair feel like straw and instantly tangled it so much I immediately would have to conditioner and then a hair mask every time I washed my hair.
Repurchase: HELL NO
Cake The Soft Serve Cream Rinse Conditioner this was not very conditioning at all I would use it to reverse the straw feeling of the shampoo and then have to put on a hair mask everything about these products was awful.
Repurchase: No
Declutter (1)
Bath and Body Works Vanilla Bean Noel Body Butter this went bad. It changed colors and had this weird plastic crayon like scent to it.
Very poor showing this month and I wasn’t really overly thrilled about most of the stuff I used up.
