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March 16, 2013

March Ipsy


I feel like I keep bouncing around from beauty box to beauty box. I'm sure you've read about my ex, Topbox. Then I had a little fling with Glossybox, followed by a one-night stand with LipFactory. Now I'm taking Ipsy out for a spin.

So far, the exterior is cute, almost attractive really. The interior can use some adjustments. Here's my beau for March.

Ipsy's theme was "The Great Escape". I can see the resemblance with the items and the theme, but it still left me with wanting more.

The bag is made of what I believe to be Nylon and features a cute nautical design of rope & anchor. Keeping with the theme and images, it is a navy blue with an extremely light blue. I was hoping for a nice white, but this was almost a shade or two off from white. Still cute & usable non-the less. (Besides, we can't judge a man beauty bag, by it's outside.. can we?)

First item pulled out was the LA Fresh Travel Lite Makeup Remover Wipes. I see that this is the type of bag that wants to make sure I don't go walking around with streaky foundation or raccoon eyes from the beach (don't worry, I wear waterproof or nothing at all!) I haven't tried anything by this company yet, but I am looking forward to trying these out.

Next 2 items I pulled out were mini eyeshadows from Yaby. While I call them mini (a little smaller than a dime), these are considered full size. Received were Sand Dune (a yellowy-brown) and So Vein (green based teal). Ok, so this bag also wants me to have a little bit of fun with colour and if I don't like it I can remove it with the above mentioned wipes.


GlamRX was in the bag as well. It's like a Z-Palette but with a mirror (I don't own a Z-Palette). It's roughly the size of a credit card. It'll fit about 8 Yaby shadows (remember, a tad smaller than dimes!) or 2 Urban Decay Shadows (with a few Yabys) or 2 Tarte shadows (with a few Yabys) or 4 Kat Von D shadows. The magnet in this seems cheap. It's not very strong at all. I put on some metal stickers that I had gotten from Yaby and I feel a bit of a better magnetic attraction, but not too much. You can easily remove the shadows you put in (which is good, but I'm not sure about traveling with this). I'll admit, I have my Yaby Freestyle Palette and love it! I guess I got used to something bigger, stronger and more powerful that this little pocket-size palette.

Last item is a hydrating mist by Juice Beauty. The name sounds wonderful, does it not? It smells floral to me. It's supposed to be a refreshing blend of rosehip and ylang ylang (and a few more), but I think these are the key notes, and I'm not a fan. I don't want to smell this on my face!

It's hard to stay with someone something that smells, but I am willing to go on another date. Hopefully without any odors.



*hugz*

-Sam

12 comments:

  1. Wow. I ad no idea just how small the palette or those shadows were until you did this. Thanks for the visual. The palette I thought was great until now. What a useless size!

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    1. Depending on what size you're looking for, I highly recommend the Yaby freestyle palette. I don't own a Z Palette, but I think the price is worth it. I've added the link to my review/depotting in the post when I talk about the GlamRx if you'd like to check it out. Glad the visuals were of help!

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  2. The glamRX palet was made specially for Ipsy customers to try out :) I really like the idea, and one can never have too many compacts :) it is really nice to use on the go!

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  3. I kind of like the small size of the palette, good for traveling or keeping in my purse for touch ups. I want the z-palette because of receiving this. I checked the website and there is only one product available a small touch up palette for $16.50, cute but not something I would purchase. Great review! thanks for the visuals regarding the palette :)

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    1. The small size is nice, but the magnet sucks. If Yaby had a palette about half the size of their freestyle one, I think it would be perfect! And I'm glad you liked the visuals :)

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  4. I found the Glam Rx Palette small, I only could fit in two blushes, none of the yabby shadows. I ended up fitting a Benefit blush sample from Topbox and my Lancome blush inside.

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    1. Now if only it held a blush brush :) Glad that you found a good use for it.

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  5. oo thanks for doing the size comparison! i didnt really get a good look at it today since i opened my ipsy but the bottom of the juice beauty was completely broken off so the whole thing was soaked.

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    1. I seen that on FB! That completely sucks that everything was ruined like that. I hope Ipsy will do something for you.

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    2. That happened to me in January with my Pacifica body butter. It was half empty and all over the place. Send them a message, they'll replace it. :)

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  6. That seems like a pretty sweet bag. I like the palette even though it is small...i mean no one wants to lug around a big palette to the beach or to a party.
    Great pics

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  7. I don't really like the scent...something about it reminds me of baby diapers...after they've been used...blech. :S (Juice Beauty)

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