Hello Internet Friends. It is IPSY time. Ipsy is my favorite low cost beauty subscription service. For only $10.00 a month 4-6 full size or deluxe size samples are mailed to your door every month. Ipsy has a rewards program. You can earn points by simply sharing you got your bag on Facebook, answering a short survey on how much you liked or disliked each product in your bag, and of coarse referring friends. With the points you can redeem them for full size products such as a beauty blender, a kiss nail art kit, and Benefit Badlash mascara. Those are this months free items. Ipsy also has challenges from time to time to which you can win full size name brand products. Without further ado here is this months bag. To start we have a lovely baby blue makeup bag with an illustration of a makeup items in a silhouetted skyline formation. Of coarse it isn't fabulous quality but there are always uses for free makeup bags.
As we unzip the bag, the first product we pull out is..da da duh... Yaby Cosmetics Foundation in Buff. yaby was developed by Toronto makeup artist Liz Yu. It seems to be a cosmetic company geared to makeup artists. Everything is refillable and their eye-shadows will fit any type of metal container. Nice. Anyhow back to the foundation. The sample size was a nice 8ml. Full size is 15.4 grams which is a little bigger than this sample and it retails for $13.55. I really enjoyed the consistency of this foundation. It was not greasy and it lasted for quite some time. It had great coverage as well. Check it out as they have 18 colors including actual colored foundations which I assume is for color correcting. Yaby Liquid Foundation.
I am reaching back into the bag (yes imagine it..you see my gorgeousness reaching into the bag with my cotton candy pink nails) and I pull out, a cute little tub of Balanced Guru Body Balm. 1oz. The label says. Balm Me Up Organic sweet cocoa & Tangy Body Balm. Balance your dry skin with Cocoa Butter, Babbasau oil, Shea Butter, Lime & Mandarin. When I open the lid it looks like Vaseline but whiter. It smells herbal like, I can smell the citrus. I know what it smells like..
Off .Mosquito candles. It does feel a tad bit tacky for a while on your skin. It does absorb nicely, but it does leave me feeling greasy. The full size is 4 oz and retails for $45.00. Their website is really interesting. It is very aromatherapy oriented. Check it out for many other products http://balancedguru.com/products/balm-me-up. I just read the description and it says Wake up your senses and moisturize your skin without feeling tacky or greasy...lol. Oops. Sorry Balanced Guru. Did you try this product before you wrote your description? To be fair the tackiness only lasts for 5 minutes and now it feels like I just slathered my arm in suntan oil.
Wiping off my fingers I reach back into the bag and pull out...Absolute Makeup Cleansing Tissues with Pomegranate extract. It comes with 10 tissues and I don't necessarily enjoy the pomegranate scent but I do enjoy the wipes. Full size is 60 wipes for only 6.99 at walgreens or drugstore.com. They have citrus, aloe, and cucumber. I will be ordering the cucumber wipes. They are nicely saturated and do get my makeup off and are great for just wiping when you wake up before you put on your makeup as well. I am happy with this find. It is hard for me to like makeup wipes as many make me red.
Back into the bag... and it is a Malin + Goetz Mojito Lip Balm. This is full size at .35oz tube. The consistency is reminiscent of a lubricant such as KY jelly but slightly thinner. After I slather on a tiny drop that seems to coat my lips in a thick layer of substance with a slight tingle. I can smell the doublemint gum scent wafting towards my nose. It does moisturize obviously but unfortunately it doesn't last long and after about 5-10 minutes it gets sticky and icky. I need one of my facial tissues to wipe it off. I'm sorry I just don't like this feeling. It is heavier than most lip glosses. Now just because it isn't my jam doesn't mean you won't enjoy it. Click the link to explore their website and notice this is full size and sells on their site for $12.00. http://www.malinandgoetz.com/travel/mojito-lip-balm So I already saved two dollars plus got everything else free... and we are not done yet.
Finally... I saved the best for last. Cue the drum roll.... Benefit Pore fessional sample. This teeny tiny little tube at 3ml...packs a fantastic product that a little goes along way. I have been waiting forever to try this pore minimizer. Full size is 22ml for a mere $30.00. Now many a YouTube guru swears by this product. For the sake of science and blogging I put the product on my wonderful husbands face as his pores show more than mine. And yes it does help the appearance of pores. The question is..will I be able to find a product that performs as well for less money? I have one waiting to test out and compare. It will be hauled in my next blog post entitled Friend Mail. But for fun check out Benefit's website http://www.benefitcosmetics.com/product/view/the-porefessional to learn all about them and this product.
Well that wraps up this months Ipsy bag. Obviously it was over $10.00 in value as the lip balm was $12.00 on it's own. It wasn't awful and I am excited about the Pore Fessional, the makeup wipes and the foundation. The lip and body balms I can pass on. Perhaps my husband or son will enjoy them.
Until Next time my friends. Friends Don't let Friends buy Crap!
You had an awesome tipsy bag this month! Wish I had gotten the pore sessional by benefit. Awesome writing skills!
ReplyDeleteHi Shanda, Thank you so much for checking out my blog and your nice comments. I know I got a pretty good bag based on the others I've seen. I am sure next months will be better. Feel free to follow me as I subscribed to your great youtube page. I enjoy your reviews as well.
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