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I had a jammed mailbox again today and one of the packages in it was the pink October ipsy bag! I need to take a picture of my mailbox one of these days. You’d be AMAZED at how much mail can fit in that thing. My mail lady (who is MIA this week) has commented on it and so have neighbors who have gotten my mail for me. It came with the house (who says builders never give you any extras) and I dread the day we have to replace it.
ipsy ships via DHL Global Mail. ipsy’s shipping is the slowest of slow. I get a few other boxes via DHL, but something about the hub ipsy uses or something makes it extra slow. It actually only took a week to arrive (from North Carolina), which isn’t even that bad. Plus, it was “mis-shipped” per USPS and ended up at some Post Office across the state, so that added a day.
The October ipsy theme is “The Art of Beauty” and is described as “a month of masterful makeup tricks and delightful beauty treats”. ipsy releases various spoilers every month, but I try my hardest never to get my hopes up for certain items, because, umm, I never get them. But here is what I did get this month:
~Coastal Scents Medium Shadow Brush ($2.49): I don’t always love getting “tools” in my boxes, but I have been getting an insane amount of shadow lately, so I am have grown to be happy with this. It will get used and it saves me from buying one.
~Nourish Organic Deeply Nourishing Coconut & Argan Body Lotion ($1.50):Totally excited about this. I slather on hand lotion non-stop these days and this is a great purse sized one. I can’t pin-point the scent, but it’s different. Did anyone else get this? What’d you think it smelled like??
~Zoya Polish (Neve) ($8): I love Zoya and was excited to hear that every bag would have one this month. I am happy with the color I got (I would have been happy with any color), but I want to know what everyone else got too!
~Sexy Hair Spray Clay Texturizing Spray Clay ($6.03): My hair needed no styling on this mess of a rainy day we had today (what would have bee the point), but I couldn’t couldn’t resist spray this in to try it out. I would describe it as a winter sea salt spray. I have no better description than that. It adds texture to dry hair without making it all crunchy.
~Bella Terra Mineral Cosmetics Mineral Shimmers (Emotion) ($14.99): I’m not 100% sure about the color on me, so I think I will pass it along to a friend who will wear it better than I will! Had the shimmer been swapped out for something else (cough, cough, Buxom gloss), I would have had an amazing bag!
~The Bag: Meh. Not my favorite bag. Honestly I could even do without the bag every month. I’ve been using them to organize my purse, carry little toys for the kids, etc. I’m trying to use them, I swear! It’s just taking a while!
My October ipsy bag had a value of $33.01 and, as always, I think it was the $10/month cost. I still haven’t tweeked my profile, but I’m hearing that ipsy doesn’t do such a great job matching things up anyway? What do you think?
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