Hey everyone! Have any of you out there been dying to sign up for Ipsy, but you’re not sure it’s worth it? I’ve been an Ipsy subscriber for about 6 months now and I can definitely say some months it’s worth it, and others it isn’t. We’ll get into that a bit more in a minute. I wanted to start by sharing with everyone what I received in my March Ipsy Glam Bag.
Let’s start with the bag itself – each month, Ipsy designs a new look for the glam bag. This month’s bag is a sea foam green background with red roses swirled about. The bags typically go with the season or time of year, so this bag is perfect for spring!
The bags typically arrive in the middle of each month (I believe this depends on the shipping speeds in your region). The bag comes in an adorable fuchsia bubble envelope.
To sign up, it’s super easy – all you need to do is go to ipsy.com and create an account. Then you’ll need to enter your form of payment (it’s only $10 a month!). The next step (and the most important step) is to take the quiz. The quiz is the most important part, because this is how Ipsy decides what products you may like to try based on your interests as well as your skin type, hair color, eye color, and a couple of other details.
Not sure what you’re preferences are or what you might be interested in? No worries! You can retake the quiz at any time as many times as you want! I’ve retaken my quiz 3 times so far, and it’s definitely helped out a bunch! Last month, a lot of the products I received weren’t really my style or interests, so I took my quiz again and ended up with a GREAT bag this month!
This month’s glam bag
In my glam bag this month I received the following products:
ModelCo
Be A Bombshell Cosmetics: Heat wave Baked Bronzer this is a pretty good bronzer (and I do love a good bronzer) it reminds me a lot of the e.l.f. brand baked bronzer. It’s a good one and the “sample size” is a full-sized bronzer pallet.
Aphrodite
Illamasqua
Essence
That’s it! 5 samples and I’m happy until next month! After you receive your glam bag and try out your products, it’s important to go review each of the products. This is also a key way to ensure Ipsy gets you the types of products in the colors you like each month. You also earn Points for reviewing which can be collected and used towards a free product. I have been saving my points, so I haven’t yet used them, but I will definitely update once I do! I also believe they expire, but I’m not sure how long that takes (mine haven’t yet and it’s been 6 months :)).
Have you tried Ipsy? How does it compare to other monthly subscription boxes? I’d love to know!
xo,
Glitter Girl
*This post contains affiliate links, but all opinions are my own! 🙂
: Mini Brow Trio in Shades of Brow. This is a great product for someone who may be just starting out with experimenting with brow products. The Mini Brow Trio is a small compact with 3 different shades that include a dark shade, a lighter shade, and a highlight shade. This is a powder product. It does not include a brush for application, but I like to use a small shadow brush to apply. I like that I can mix the two darker shades together to create just the right color for my brows and it includes the highlight shade for under the brow. It’s also not too expensive – it retails for about $6 and you can get it at Target.
: Eyebrow Kit in Medium. This product is one of my absolute favorites. As always with e.l.f. products, they are so incredibly affordable ($3 dollars at Target or Walmart). This Eyebrow Kit is another compact kit. It includes a double sided talkon brush that fits inside the compact. It’s a great little brush, one side is angled to define the arch and shape the brow, and the other end can be used to fill in the brow. The compact comes with two different products, a pigmented wax and a setting powder. There is even a little mirror in case you’re doing your brows on the go!
: Auto Eyebrow Pencil in Medium Brown. This is a pencil product that goes on super smooth and is shaped perfectly for defining the brows. The color is super pigmented and it’s one of the best I’ve used as far as color richness. It’s a twist up pencil, so no sharpeners needed. The other end of the pencil has a built in brush that can be used to blend in the color and shape the brows the way you want. This product was around $5 at Target.
: Micro Brow Pencil in Taupe. I love this product because it is very similar to the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz, which retails for about $21. I got my NYX Micro Brow pencil at Target for around $10. This is another twist up pencil. The tip of the pencil is super tiny and it’s great if you’re looking to draw in some extra hair lines and get a more precise fill. The other end of the pencil has a capped micro wand that allows you to blend the product into your brows and shape them as well.
: Brow and Eyeliner Pencil in 902 Dark Brown. This product is my staple go-to OG brow product. I feel like I always come back to this and it’s a classic that I just love. This is a traditional pencil (that you need to sharpen). It comes in a pack of two and it’s NYC, so it’s incredibly inexpensive – I’m talking like $2 at most drug stores. I love this pencil, because I feel like it is great at filling in my brows, it isn’t waxy, and it looks total natural. For me, personally, the color of this pencil is identical to my hair color and blends so naturally it’s amazing.
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