December Ipsy Bag

This month was my first ever Ipsy bag. I had heard so many things about Ipsy, and it was all good, that I thought I'd add it to my makeup by mail obsession.

First of all, I love the packaging of it, it's pretty :) and it's small enough that it fits into my tiny apartment mailbox.

I was especially happy that it came today, after a very stressful day in PreK, when my students were driving me nuts because they were ready for Christmas vacation [as is their teacher]. 

I also love that it comes with a makeup bag, and I'll be getting a new one every month, which is great storage for what they send me, or when I go on vacation,and need things to stuff my eye makeups in.

I also really liked this bag because it was black, and it has a texture like bubble wrap.

I got this Julie G Textured Nail Color in Sugarplum Fairy. I love the color. It's purple and blue textured glitter that reminds me more of a twinkling night sky, than the second act of  Tchaikovsky's ballet, but it is such a gorgeous color. I cannot wait to wear it!!! It's also full-size, so score, and it retails for about four dollars.

I got these Pop Beauty eyeshadows in Smokin' Hot, and I LOVE IT!!! They are the perfect colors for me, I am slightly OBSESSED with smokey eye makeup style, and I love silvery shimmery eye color because it brings our my eyes [which are blue-gray], and I could not be happier with this trio. Retail value is 24 for 10, so that's about 2 or so dollars per color, so this is worth about 6 dollars.

A J. Cat Big Lip Pencil in Red Rose. I'm not really a lip color person, so I'm sort of meh about this just because I don't wear lip color, let alone red lip color. But it is full-size. It retails for $3.99. I can probably donate this to some of my more gutsy friends, who are into that red lip look.

A Be a Bombshell The One Stick in Girl Crush, also full-size. I'm meh about this, I don't really wear lip color or blush, and I can't see this as a color I would use as an eyeshadow. It's a pretty color, it's a very pale pink, which is the sort of color that I like, but it's not the sort of makeup I would wear. It's worth $16.00.

So I paid ten bucks, and got products worth $30.00, so that's pretty good. I also liked 50% of the stuff they sent me, which is pretty good odds, so I'm excited about future Ipsy Bags.

Julep has a mystery box for sale, it's called Naughty or Nice, and it's about $25.00 for a box. It promises two new colors: Aviva, which is purple with silver holographic glitter [and Aviva is a palindrome, sweet] and Brenda, which is white with silver glitter, and I'm excited about because it reminds me of how freshly fallen snow sparkles in the moonlight back home in Jersey, and that's the color that sold me.

It promises $125 worth of products, and one lucky winner, who I'm sure will not be me, will get an iPad mini.

I was very happy with the selection of products that I got in my last mystery box, so I do recommend them, and there was free shipping :)  Just an FYI if you're interested :)