My monthly bag of makeup mystery has arrived – my IPSY bag for December is in! My December Glam Bag came in the mail a few weeks ago but it’s taken me awhile to write this post. I wasn’t really interested in playing with my December Glam Bag products. I received a great brush this months which I was pumped about but the other products were underwhelming. Despite being bored by my December IPSY items, I will test them for science reasons. Let’s jump into my December Glam Bag!
DELECTABLE BY CAKE BEAUTY:Iced Gingerbread Hand Cream
During a frigid Winnipeg winter it’s necessary to have a moisturizing hand cream. This Cake Beauty hand cream isn’t too sticky, it has a smooth texture that sinks into my skin. The product itself is nice but the ginger smell it gives off is in a word – overpowering. I had originally planned to keep this product in my desk at work but the smell is way too strong. I work in a scent free office, there’s no way I could get away with using a product this heavily scented.
I love getting brushes in my IPSY bag – every time I get one it’s $18.00 I don’t need to spend. I definitely feel brushes are the best value I get out of IPSY. Usually the price of one high-end brush is equivalent to how much I pay for IPSY each month. I always feel like I’ve gotten my moneys worth out of IPSY when I get a brush. I’ve been using this particular brush for all over blending and diffusing the edges on my eyeshadow. The bristles are soft and the handle is very lightweight (it feels kinda cheap), but this F.A.R.A.H. brush gets the job done.
I ended up swapping this lipstick with a friend of mine who also has an IPSY subscription. The shade is a medium red with shimmer – not a colour I would wear regularly. I have a few other Ciate London liquid lipsticks and I never reach for them. The formula is nicely pigmented but during the winter months my lips are too dry to use liquid lipsticks. I was much happier with the LUXIE blending brush I traded for.
December’s Glam Bag wasn’t a great mix of products. IPSY loaded the December Glam Bags with 6 products – up from the usual 5. I ended up with an extra sample but I didn’t feel any further ahead. I’m still debating if I’ll keep my IPSY subscription. The December Glam Bag I received is making me think I’ll cancel sooner rather than later.
Kayla Collects Palettes 