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.
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 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.
Hurray another month of Macy’s I really do love this box I get really excited for it every month. Lately instead of a bag we have been getting like reusable beauty item like we got a brush roll, a brush, and this month a muslin washcloth. I am into it. I have plenty of bags.
I hate this powder so I am of course not excited to see it. I find it to be weirdly too light and to pink. As well as really kinda gunky/cakey on my skin. This is also so tiny you would go through it really fast. I guess good for travel though since powder containers are so huge.
I have always wanted to try a muslin cloth but never wanted to buy one this is actually a bit rougher and thinner then I thought it would be. I don’t see this holding up long but it is so small and easy to fold I think I might keep this with my travel stuff and use it for a traveling wash cloth.
I love these single use body cleansing cloths for throwing in my car or in a bag if I am gona be out at like a festival or theme park all day to clean up when I feel gross. I know this brand is supposed to be very good for skin and taking care of your personal bits so that’s cool.
It is nice to see something from Origins that is not the charcoal mask which I have gotten over and over in boxes. This claims to reduce signs of aging but doesn’t have alot of claims so eh I don’t have that much faith that this does anything except feel nice.
Despite how tiny this is it is about half the size of the full one which says how misleading the full size package is. This is blurring but it has shimmer in it that I don’t love so this is kinda a miss for me.
I have still yet to try this because it takes me so long to get though cleansers. Gel cleansers aren’t usually my favorite but I have the mask from this line and I kinda want to try them together.
I don’t like unfinished cotton pads I feel like they are messy and fall apart and these kinda do that too. These are very soft I will use them up and probably all this month but I would not buy these for myself ever. These are large enough to cut in half which is always great double the bang for your buck
Most of this months value, almost half, came from just the Origins Serum so this was a bit of a low value month in my opinion. I still am always happy with that they send and how unique some of the things they send out but I feel like the samples were just a bit on the small side this month I would have liked them to send maybe 2 or 3 of the Fur cloths to pump up the value and feel of the box this 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.
Though that is changing now so I’ll talk more about that later and next month.
The bag this month is so so cute I love the constellations on it and the fake quartz zipper pull and that it is a nice canvas. This will be the first bag in a while that I am keeping.
This is supposed to be a collagen infused primer that makes your skin look plumper and I would say it did do that but it is nothing particularly spectacular.
I fucking choked when I saw the price of this. For that price it better do some magic. I tried it before looking at pricey and didn’t feel like it was all that special but um maybe it gets better with time. Because for that pricey it better do magic for my eyes and cook me dinner too.
I feel like every Ofra Liquid Lipstick I have is in this same mauve color. The formula on these is pretty light and mousse so they aren’t too uncomfortable to wear.
The Beauty Crop Eyeshadow in Seren
Full Size: 3 g
Full Size Cost: $?
Sample Size: 3 g
Value: $?
So they don’t seem to sell single eyeshadows anymore so I don’t know how much this is but it is full size. This is a pretty metallic plum color. Very smooth and creamy.
So i got a full size eyeshadow and a crazy expensive eye cream that is almost worth what i spend on the this whole subscription each year so that is a win.
So starting next month the Ipsy bag is going up to $12 a month, $132 a year. The bag will now be worth $50+ a month (which it almost always was anyway…) and you will get to customize one item each month starting with the October bag so I will see how that goes next month and talk more about it then.
Well this month has been better but I am so sad summers at an end. 🙁 I thought I was using up a ton this month but it turns out I really didn’t which is kinda unfortunate. I did use up alot of lip balms and hair products for me so that feel slike a big accomplishment so maybe that is why it felt like so much.
Skincare (8)
NuFace Prep-n-Glow Dual Sided Cloth I have gone on and on about
these I love them and I save them for a special treat because they are pricey.
Repurchase: Yes
Blaq Mask I liked this my
skin felt really soft after I got two uses out of this little tube. I don’t
feel like the ingredients in this are the greatest for skin so I would not
repurchase.
Repurchase: No
Garnier Skinactive Refreshing Remover Face Wipes I like these face
wipes a lot I will probably repurchase they are soft enough I would like softer
ones but I don’t know it that is realistic. I don’t find these are harsh or
drying or irritating as a lot of wipes are.
Repurchase: Yes
Wander Beauty Baggage Claim Gold Eye Mask I thought these would be totally gimmicky but they actually really worked. My under eyes were looking wrecked from stress and not sleeping and I was dehydrated and so everything was all lined and dark and I looked like I had recently died and I needed to go out. So I whipped these on while I was applying my makeup just for any kinda moisture I could get and they were great. They stuck on my face really well while I did my makeup I even cheated and used them to get a really pretty wing without struggling because the seal on my face was that good. When I took them off my under eyes were so much more hydrated and less lined and felt softer and better. The dark circles were lessened but not totally taken away which makes sense that’s internal and external treatments can only have so much effect.
Repurchase: Yes
Clinique Smart Custom-Repair Eye Treatment I hated this I felt
like it did nothing it wasn’t moisturizing enough it did nothing positive for
my under eyes.
Repurchase: No
Lancome Bi-Facil Eye Makeup Remover this was totally great too my
eye makeup off easily didn’t sting it was great and identical to the Sephora
Bi-phase eye makeup remove that I have used for years. The Sephora one is half
the price and is identical and I love it. So while this was great did
everything it claimed save your money and get the Sephora one.
Repurchase: No
Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protection Lotion uh this might be the best
sunscreen I have ever used. It is matte and nice feeling on it doesn’t feel
sticky or weird it doesn’t make my skin look a weird color. I wish it wasn’t so
expensive.
Repurchase: Yes
Urban Decay Quick Hydra-Charged Fix Complexion Prep Priming Spray I got this with Sephora Points and I loved it so so much it made my skin feel so hydrated and soothed and I loved every minute of using it but it is so expensive for a facial mist. I really have to think about if I would want to spend that.
Repurchase: Maybe
Home Scents (5)
Victoria Secret Pink Body Mist in Citrus & Mint I mostly used this as a car air freshener and I really enjoyed the light minty smell. I don’t think this is sold any more they change the scents so frequently and this is so old.
Repurchase: No
Columbia Candle Supply Bubblegum Wax Melt not my favorite scent
and not a great throw.
Repurchase: No
Swan Creek Candle Company Break Apart Drizzle Melt in Cherry Almond Buttercream these are my favorite brand of wax melts they have such a good throw and some really amazingly yummy and unique scents. This smells like a warm cherry icing but not sweet the almond really cuts the sweetness and the fruitiness so it is a very warm yum scent. I found and won all mine at an arcade and they are a whole selling website so a bit of a pain to buy from but I recently found a store that sells then so I can buy more in the future.
Repurchase: Yes
Air Wick 4 in 1 Air
Freshener in Fresh Waters this was meh I like other scents more than this one.
Repurchase: No
Fortune Cookie Soap Company Almost Alice Fortune Cookie Soap this
was ok it smelled nice but at the end it sorta lost its scent. It takes so long
to use up a bar of soap I get really really bored with them.
Repurchase: No
Lip (5)
Laniege Lip Sleeping Mask in Grapefruit this was nice like really
nice but not nearly as life changing as every youtuber says it is. Like it
don’t think it is worth the money there are much cheaper balms that feel just
as nice. The nicest part about it was that it was quite thick (because it is a
mask) that it would really cling and stay on my lips for a while and sink in. I
got a gift set of this so I have a good supply of this in a few flavors to last
me.
Repurchase: Probably not
Softlips Tropical Lip Balm in Peach. These tropical ones were
ultra soft so it felt like they melted on to my lips which I like but it means
you go through these so fast. I used the Coconut one from last month in like 2
weeks or a little less. This I had in my car and maybe got 6 weeks of off and
on use. So these are not a good value I feel. This also smelled really
artificial compared to the scent of the Coconut one that I really enjoyed.
Repurchase: No
Fresh Sugar Rose Tinted Lip Treatment I have a weird relationship
which these I don’t like them but they feel nice but I don’t think they do much
for my lips. I find the tinted ones to be really patchy and gross looking on my
lips and to wear off weird. But they keep turning up in packs and in my
subscription boxes so I just try to get through them. They are also so freaking
soft that they melt and break and get messy as you are using them.
Repurchase: No
Sol de Janiero Brazilian Kiss Cupuacu Lip Butter this kills me
beacause this is a fucking $18 lip balm and no lip balm has the right to be $18
dollars. This smells like delicious heaven though it is so coconutty and a
amazing and is so thick and soft and nice feeling on my lips. I wish the lotion
smelled like the lip balm.
Repurchase: I don’t know
Carmex Medicated Lip Balm pretty much my favorite drugstore lip balm I love the menthol tingle and the really thick feeling on my lips when they are chapped. I only like it in this chapstick form though not the pot or squeezy tube.
Repurchase: Yes
Makeup (1)
Smashbox Photo Finish Primerizer this did nothing and was just
meh.
Repurchase: No
Lotions (1)
Bath and Body Works Body Butter in Vanilla Bean Noel I do like the Bath and Body Works Body Butters they are thick and moisturizing (not as much as a fancy body butter though) they smell nice too. This was the typical vanilla scent from Christmas. I don’t think this is worth the full price at almost $20 just wait for the 75% off sale that is how I got my back up one.
Repurchase: Maybe
Perfume (1)
Givenchy Dahlia Divin Perfume I love Dahlia Divin I have a full size version and these samples are good for keeping in the car or your purse since there is no chance they can leak. Even though perfume in a foil packet it pretty awkward to apply.
Repurchase: Yes
Haircare (4)
Dry Bar Triple Sec 3-In-1 Texture Spray I like pretty much
everything I have ever tried from the Dry Bar line. They all smell good and
leave my hair feeling soft and hair like rather than stiff and gross. I don’t
have a ton of use for texturizing spray in my routine like it legit took me 3
years to use this tiny can. SO for that reason only I wouldn’t buy it but it is
great.
Repurchase: No
Keracolor Color Care Conditioner in Hot Pink I used this to try to
keep up with the color in my hair it did work but it was hard to get an even
application since it was so thick and so the color was still kinda uneven. If
you are looking for like a glaze this might work out or if you have like only
one or two really chunky strips of hair to dye. The conditioning part of this
was great though it was a really nice hair conditioner.
Repurchase: Maybe
dp Hue ACV Hair Rinse this smelled like apple cider vinegar which
I love but if you don’t, don’t get this. This was like a rinse to get product
build up off your scalp I guess. It was ok I think it worked it was kinda hard
to tell.
Repurchase: No
Madam CJ Walker Scent & Shine Coconut Oil they don’t sell this anymore and I am not surprised because it was not good it was really greasy looking in my hair and it smelled like fake coconut in a bad way.
Repurchase: No, obviously
Random (3)
Elf Flat Foundation Brush this served me well a brush to apply my
mask but it is not falling apart after like 2 or 3 years of use which is very
serviceable for the $1 this brush cost.
Repurchase: Yes
Pacifica Underarm Deodorant
Wipes these are sorta touch up deodorant wipes that smelled like coconut they
were super nice I kept them in my car and they held up well to all the temperature
changes in a car. These worked well to touch up when I felt gross from being
outside or what ever all day.
Repurchase: Maybe
Degree Motion Sense Deodorant in Fresh Energy this is my preferred
deodorant even though it is expensive I like it and it works without having a
strong smell. I like my deodorants to smell pleasant for like the first few
minutes I have it on while I’m getting ready and then I don’t want it competing
with my perfume all day.
Repurchase: Yes
Declutter (14)
Too Faced Hangover Rx Replenishing Face Primer (2) I tried a sample of this like 2 months ago I think and I didn’t like it I found it to sticky and heavy for me and I was trying to pull a few things out of my primer drawer that was so over crowded and these had to go.
AOA Studio E103 Brush this was non stop shedding the whole time I
was using it and it just won’t stop. Absolutely terrible.
Tarte Tarteist Lip Paint in
Delish this is a pretty color but super uncomfortable to wear. It was peeling
off and I could feel it on my lips all day.
Coola Mineral Sun Silk Creme Sunscreen this broke me out which a
lot of sunscreeens do so it has to go it also left a heavy white cast on my
face that did not want to sink in and it was thick and uncomfortable as well.
Sol de Janeiro Coco Cabana Cream (2) I love the scent of this but the lotion leave my skin so sticky and uncomfortable. I am giving these to my gf who loves them and they don’t leave her skin sticky so I will enjoy the scent vicariously through her. Not picture because they are already in their new home.
Clinique Chubby Stick Intense in 01 Curviest Caramel this is all
gunky and chunk and smells a pit weird so I think it went off and needs to go.
I don’t love these they are weirdly dry but still only a little more color then
a tinted balm they are just kinda weird.
Sephora Velvet Eyeshadow in Creamy Green 10 this was like a weird
cheap cream shadow I picked up once to get free shipping at Sephora and it was
always terrible. It is a shimmery green cream shadow but the cream and the
shimmer kinda separate on your eye and go in two differet directions not a good
look at all. It also doesn’t come off very green either. It is also far from
creamy it is very dry feeling and hard to work with.
Aurora Intensely Precise Eyeliner in Espresso this was a good
eyeliner pigmented and smooth but the color is too light for the types of look
I do and I don’t really like brown eyeliner.
Ciate London Eye Lustre Cream Shadow In Cupid this is nothing like
the Stila liquid shadows this is mostly glitter and pretty quickly it broke up
on my eyes and as highlighter leaving no color and a lot of glitter just kinda
sliding around.
Morphe Liquid Lipstick in Bloodshot gorgeous color but patchy and
smeary and wore of weirdly from just talking super unfortunate I loved the
color and packaging.
Apocalyptic Beauty Holographic Warpaint in Sleek White Gold this was just ok and then it dried out. It was pretty like a cool shimmery gold veil of highlight but wore off very quickly this was like cool photo highlighter and not like do your makeup and go out kinda highlighter. I did use about half before it dried out which I still think is a pretty good accomplishment.
Ulta Professional Flawless Prime I am pretty sure this isn’t sold anymore and I have no interest in trying it and it was one of the primers keeping my drawer from shutting so it got booted. It is also green and I don’t love green primers.
I am proud that I used a bunch of chapstick and full size products this month and got a bunch of things I don’t need or like out of my life.
Total This Month: 42
Total: 365
Approx Value This Month: $240.86
Approx Paid This Month: $32.64
Approx Total Value: $2,004.44
Approx Total Paid: $508.44
So I’ve only spent about a quarter of the value of the stuff I used and that is a pretty consistent statistic over the whole value of my collection and I am pretty proud of that statistic because when I look at my collection it can be like woah overwhelming but knowing I didn’t spend the full amount on most of it makes me feel better.
