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