Ipsy, August 2014, Beauty Schooled.

Hmm, I don't even remember getting a notification about my bag being mailed, nor do I really think I saw any spoilers, so I had no idea what to expect from Ipsy this month.

Ipsy is only ten dollars a month, and every month they send you a makeup bag full of products that are based on your profile. The bags consist of full-size and sample size products. I've found their makeup bags make amazing pencil cases for my massively huge pen and sharpie marker collection.

This is what was in my pink bubble mailer.

Perversion Mascara from Urban Decay, worth about $11.00 because it's a generous sample size and I'm estimating it to be about half of the full-size product, which is worth twenty-two.

I FUCKING LOVE URBAN DECAY,  they're my favorite makeup company. I love their Perversion black 24/7 eyeliner... Hell I love all their eyeliners. I love their naked palette. So this product alone made my bag amazingly awesome. I can't wait to wear this. 

SrtiVectin  Present Perfect antioxidant defense lotion,  worth $8.67 based on the price of the full-size product in comparison to the sample.

I'm always looking for an anti-aging skin product, so I'm eager to see if this product works, although it's quite a small sample, so I'm not sure I'll be able to see much of a result. Also, I don't know if I'd want to spend $59.00 for a full-size tube of it because I'm cheap like that.

Jersey Shore Sun Mongogongo Nutrient Defense, full-size, worth $5.50. 

I never say no to free chap stick, and I like how this chap stick is all natural and organic. 

MANNA! sheer glo, shimmer lotion, worth maybe $3ish dollars?

On my hand.

Blended on my hand, as you can see, this is not a good color for me. It make me look like I have a second degree burn that matches the one I have on my wrist from burning myself on the salmon tray after we cooked dinner tonight. 

Bronzer products just aren't my forte.

I have absolutely no interest in this product.

J Cat Flying Solo Eyeshadow in Half-Naked, full-size, worth $2.29.

I love the cute little applicator and mirror on the bottom of the compact.

Swatched on my hand.

This is a nice nude color. It's the perfect base color for a neutral every-day teaching look. It's nothing special, but I surely don't mind having more neutral shadows. 

Total: $30.46, about three times what I initially paid for it.

I was quite pleased this month, I'm thrilled about my mascara sample, that just made the entire bag for me, and I surely don't mind some more eye shadow and chap stick.

So check out Ipsy, it really is one of my favorite subscriptions.

Julep: August 2014, The Wanderlust Collection.

I've been gone for a week. I went to New Jersey, to do tons of wedding stuff... like say yes to a dress... picking out flowers for the centerpieces. Picking out bridesmaid dresses... And while I was gone, my fiance apparently never checked the mail, so I'm not sure how long this was sitting in my apartment complex's office,.

My August Julep box.

Julep is a makeup subscription box. They send nailpolish and beauty products to you on a monthly basis. They also have also sorts of mystery boxes and warehouse sales, and sometimes you can score stuff for dirt cheap. There are two subscription options, My Maven, which is $19.99 with a three month subscription and allows you to customize a box full of products and Maven Luxe, which is $40.00 a month, and allows you to customize an even bigger box. 

As for me, I'm still grandfathered into the old subscription, which is where you pick a style profile, and you get whatever products are in that without customization except for say an eyeliner or lip gloss color.

This month was the Wanderlust Collection. I really loved a lot of the colors in this month's collection. I didn't love all of them enough that I wanted the ultimate upgrade or anything, but I loved them enough that I added on three other colors.

This was the inside of the box.

This was the extra. A cell phone screen cleaning thing. I got something similar from Birchbox once, and never used that one either. 

This was what was under all the wrapping. 

Since I had three add-ons, I got a bonus beauty gift. They send me an eye makeup primer. As extras go, that's really not a bad one. I do wear a lot of eye makeup and I do use primer, sometimes, so I don't mind having an extra primer lying around. It's a lot more useful to me than say something like lipstick or foundation. 

Anyhow, I actually kept my usual classic with a twist box this month.

The beauty product this month was a gel eyeliner pencil.

Classic with a Twist came with the black one, and I saw no reason to switch that to another color. The other choices were a brown color, a purple color, and a taupe color. The pencil went on my hand well, it had a nice point, and it's really waterproof. I took a shower after testing it on my hand and I still have hints of the color on my hand. 

I'm actually very excited about this product, I find Julep really does make excellent eye liner pencils. I love their Kajal eyeliner and I also bought some mini eye liner pencils back during their Christmas sale, and those go on great too.

from l to r: Avni and Katie.

Avni is a bright purple color with a hint of pink shimmer. I really like the color a lot. I also don't have many purple polishes, oddly enough, so I'm very happy to add a purple to my nailpolish collection.

Katie is a mulberry pink color with a purple shimmer. It's sort of the opposite of Avni. It's a really nice shade of pink. I don't think I have many pink colors similar to it.

from l to r: India, Waleska, and Neha.

India is a bright blue color with a green shimmer that you can't really see in my picture. It reminds me a lot of Caribbean Ocean water with the contrast of the blue and green, and I really like it a lot.

Waleska is gorgeous. It's a turquoise color with gold glitter. My picture doesn't do it justice.

Neha is actually not as red as it looks in my picture. It's a dark cranberry with a neon pink shimmer. It's more pink than red. It's also a gorgeous color.

I was very pleased with  Julep this month. The color selection was great. I'm excited to see what September brings from them. They totally made up for the July box that I hated.

So check them out, if you're so inclined. 

AND OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE SCHOOL STARTS ON MONDAY.

I don't know if I'm ready for another year yet!