Hi everybody! I received my ipsy bag fairly early this month, on the 10th I believe, so I come to you guys today with my ipsy unboxing for the month of March. This is only my second month using this subscription service, and I already love it. If you don’t know what Ipsy is, it’s a website where you take a little quiz (to get information like eye color, hair color, what skin problems you have, etc.) then by just paying $10 a month, you get a little bag with personalized sample products in it. Ipsy also tends to have more full sized products in it. It comes once a month, about mid-month, and you get 5 samples in it to try out. I think this is a super cool idea if you want to try more beauty products, hair products, skin products, and more, especially higher-end ones, but don’t want to shell out a lot of money for it if you don’t know how it works.
Now let’s get into my post!
So from following Ipsy on Instagram, I saw that they came out with 3 colors of Ipsy bags for March and I got the green and red-orange one. It’s a pretty basic bag, with a rose pattern and a simple material. The theme for this month was hello spring, since spring is coming up and that excited me for some new (hopefully) brightly colored products.
The first thing I got in my Ipsy bag is this Nourishing Argan Oil of Morocco 3 Day Smoothing Cream by Marc Anthony. I had heard great thing about this brand before, and I had yet to receive a hair product in my Ipsy bag so I was super excited to try this. And I absolutely love it! It claims to smooth and almost straighten hair for up to three days. I used this how the directions said, and I was amazed at the results. My hair has a bit of a natural wave to it, but it isn’t near curly. When I used this, I noticed that my hair was much straighter than usual. I don’t know how it would work on people with wavier or curly hair, but for this purpose it works wonderfully for me. It also hydrates my hair, making it look as if I got it styled and washed at a salon. It made my hair very glossy and smooth. And since I have moderately thick, long hair, my hair tends to feel heavy, but this made my hair feel lightweight. Since this product worked so well for me, I decided to look up how much a full prices size would be because it would be something I would purchase myself. I was expecting it to be expensive, but I was surprised at how affordable it is. It retails for about $8 at full size, and is sold in Ulta and Rite-Aid. Overall, this is a really great product I would recommend to almost everyone, and especially for people who have dry hair and split ends.
The next thing I recieved was this Evologie Intensive Blemish Serum. I have extremely sensitive skin, and I didn’t know how I would react to it, so sadly I couldn’t use this and had to pass it along to someone else.
The third item in my Ipsy bag was this Mannakadar Beauty Eyeshadow in Fantasy. I had never heard of this brand before, but I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a pressed eyeshadow, which I prefer way more than loose powders, and it’s a gorgeous shimmery nude color. It’s extremely pigmented, in the swatch above I only swiped it on once. And it feels like a very nice, high quality product. I like how universal this color is, and you can wear it everyday.
Lip and Cheek Pencil by Nude Stix in Mystic
I was interested in this product at first, since I had never tried anything like this before. But when I swatched it, I could already tell I didn’t like it. The color is very nice, but it has a formula that I absolutely hated for some reason. I would not recommend this to be used on the cheeks, because this has a formula that just seems like it should go on the lips. It’s a very thick, heavy, sticky, nondrying product. The color is gorgeous, but there’s nothing else I liked about it. It doesn’t seem like a lipstick to me, but it’s unlike any lip product I’ve ever used. It never fully dries on the lips like lipstick does, and is very sticky on the lips. Overall, I’m pretty disappointed with this product (honestly I threw it away after the first use), but Ipsy is about trying new products.
Nyx Liquid Suede Cream Lipstick in Pink Lust/ Passion Rose.
This last product was the one I was most excited for. I’ve been wanting to try some of Nyx’s new lip products for a while, so when I saw this I was psyched. I know that this is a very affordable product, ranging from about $3-5 in CVS Pharmacy so I love that I got the chance to try it out before buying it without knowing how it works on me. I love Nyx’s original cream lipsticks, so I was hoping that this would have a similar formula. It’s a beautiful bright pink color, great for spring and summer. It’s very creamy, and easy to apply. It only took one application to get the perfect pigmentation. After about 4 hours, it gets a bit drying but that’s not anything major since most lipsticks do that anyway. Then after about 6 hours, it starts flaking towards the inner parts of the lips, but it can be easily reapplied. Overall, this is a beautiful product I would definitely buy with my own money.
That’s all for my March Ipsy! I hope you guys enjoyed this post, and see you next time.
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