Subscription Blog: March 2014 Ipsy Glam Bag Review

I received my first Ipsy Glam Bag yesterday, I was excited! For those of you that don't know, Ipsy is a monthly beauty subscription for $10 a month. The Glam Bag is filled with full size and sample size beauty products to try out. You take a quiz when you sign up so Ipsy can select which products to send to you. Not everyone gets the same products in their Glam Bag.

I did a video opening/review of my March Ipsy Glam Bag, sorry for the low quality. Hopefully I will be able to get some better quality video equipment in the future!

My favorite product in this month's Glam Bag was the NYX Love in Rio Eye Shadow palette. I got the Bikini Bottom colors and I love it. I actually have something very similar color palette from Wet & Wild that I have been using, but the NYX palette adds a bit of shimmer, which I like.

My next favorite thing was the sample of Marvelous Moxie Lipstick from bareMinerals. I received the Get Ready shade and I really love it. If I saw it in the store, I'm not sure I would have liked it well enough to purchase it. However, I typically like to play is really safe and natural when it comes to makeup purchases and then I end up just having a lot of the same colors. Getting products I wouldn't typically purchase at a store is one of the main reasons I got an Ipsy subscription. The only issue I really have with it so far is that it seems to fade fairly quickly, which is the same issue I have with pretty much every lipstick I have ever tried. So, it seems this is one I would have to continually reapply. If anyone has any suggestions for me on what lipsticks don't fade so quickly, please let me know!

Next, I rather enjoyed the Ipsy Glam Bag itself! To be honest, just like the lipstick, I doubt I would have chosen it if I saw it in the store, but I think its pretty cute! I will definitely use it when I am traveling around. It is a Klari bag done by Klari Reis. It is from a geography-based series, "Street Anatomy". Check out her website at Klariart.com

The last two items in the bag, I was questionable about. I got an Eyeliner Pen in Indigo Blue from Chella. I have never worn an eyeliner that wasn't black. Black just really seems to make my blue eyes pop, which I need since I have small eyes and they are usually covered by glasses. I was happy to try this eyeliner out, but I don't care for the applicator type. It is quite flexible, and since I usually use an eyeliner pencil, I'm not used to that. I tried it on my lower lid and ended up getting most of it in my eye. Ouch. To be fair that was user error, not the eyeliner's fault. I tried it on my eye lid and it went better, but the applicator tip just doesn't seem to work all that well for me. When I sampled it on my arm in my video, it was a nice color and it did not smudge very easily, so that is definitely a plus. It makes me wish that the applicator wasn't so difficult for me. Then I might prefer it over my eyeliner pencil from Wet & Wild, which smudges fairly easily and never stays where I put it for very long. I have tried multiple eyeliner pens and pencils and just haven't found one aside from the Wet & Wild that I can get on my eye and keep it there (for the most part). I have very finicky eyes, so it can be difficult for me to get eyeliner on my eyes without it looking terrible. I have tried contacts many times and I just cannot do it, that's how bad it is. Eye drops are problematic for me as well, so I am surprised I am able to use any liner on my eyes at all! I welcome any suggestions on a good eyeliner I can use that goes on smoothly and stays there.

The last thing in my Glam Bag was the Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer. I was nervous about this because I have such fair skin and it is darker than my skin tone. Once I put it on, it blended in fairly well. I was also nervous about the shimmer or glow it had to it, but it looks quite nice once it is on. So, though I was skeptical of it at first, I think I like the product so far!

Here I am with all the Glam Bag products in use at once (minus the Glam Bag itself, obviously):

The NYX Love in Rio Eye Shadow palette you can't really see but its there!
Get Ready Marvelous Moxie Lipstick
Eyeliner Pen in Indigo Blue from Chella (on my upper eye lid)
Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer.

I also added some of my own makeup to complete this "everyday" look (not that the Glam Bag makeup isn't mine, but you know what I mean):

My CoverGirl powder, which is the nudest/fairest color I can find!

My Lashblast Volume Waterproof CoverGirl Mascara, which I recently switched to from the ClumpCrusherby Lashblast from CoverGirl. Oddly enough, the clump crusher was clumping quite a bit...