The Bag:

            The bag this month was pretty understated, I had a very zebra moment with it; is it black with white stripes or white with black stripes. The bag is not black and white or striped but it is a navy blue with black hearts, I do wish the hearts were the proper way round though, but overall still really cute. I just have decided that I need to start carrying one of the many makeup bags I have gotten from ipsy around in my purse for miscellaneous things that I don’t want to lose at the bottom. (Ground breaking I know! How didn’t I think of that sooner? I did I just keep putting it off and then regretting it as I have to shove my entire arm in my handbag like I am Mary Poppins trying to find something in the abyss.) 

The Products:

            I am going to say this before I go into the break down, this month in my opinion my glam bag was above and beyond, all of the products were a slam dunk and I am in love with all of them It was a great mix of brands that I have heard of and those that I nowwas to explore. So great job ipsy love you much. 

(1): Eddie Funkhouser Twisted Kisses Matte Lip Pencil in Kiss Me Twice 

I have never heard of this brand but I LOVE the packaging if you have font on your packaging that is reminiscent of KISS I am probably going to be a fan no matter what. I am such a fan of ipsy because it gives me an excuse to look up more makeup brands that I don’t know but might love. The shade is an almost perfect nude for me and with nude shades I have been trying to find a shade like this for a long time; clearly I have just been looking in the wrong places. Honestly I can’t wait to use it more. 

(2): The Balm Cosmetics Mary-Dewmanizer Liquid Highlight 

So I am a sucker for highlighters even though I didn’t have them in my makeup routine until about a year ago but I have fallen head over heels for them since then. Liquid highlighters still scare me a little bit so I do tend to stick with powder but this liquid highlight has a great color pay off and it’s a deeper shade of gold than most of the other highlighters I have. I have been a fan of The Balm for years now, I have one of their old school eyeshadow quads that I just can’t bear to part with because I don’t think that they make it anymore and it is a great little quad. (After looking on their website, I was right it isn’t made anymore) I feel like I don’t appreciate this brand enough with how much I love them and have loved them over the years so getting this little highlighter and a bronzer in my ipsy bag in October was a gentle reminder on how much I enjoyed them when I was younger. 

(3): Ciaté London Wonderwand Mascara

I have a confession to make on this one, I have been a silent fan of Ciaté for years and I have been pronouncing their brand name wrong the entire time, I feel so bad for that, I thought honestly that it was pronounced like Kate not c-ya-tey until I heard someone pronounce it and I felt like my life was a lie! But on from my embarrassment, I am really excited to give this a try because even though I have been a fan I have never actually had any Ciaté products before so there is a first time for everything, right? I love mascara, it is one of those parts of a makeup routine that even if you are going for a natural look and only slap on foundation or a tinted moisturizer and some mascara at least you look half put together. Their packaging is simple and elegant and I am a huge fan of that too. 

(4): Oribe Hair Care Texturizing Spray 

I got an email from ipsy that I was getting an aerosol product and I was a little hesitant because I am normally not a user of many aerosol products, I don’t like hairspray, I only use dry shampoo when I have to, and I was unsure of what other aerosol that they would send my way. It was a texturizing spray which is from what I understand hairspray but not hairspray and I was willing to give it a shot. I haven’t tried it yet but maybe for Thanksgiving I will give it a go. 

(5): Juno & Co. Microfiber Velvet Sponge

Second confession in this blog post; I almost bought this sponge a few weeks ago after seeing a review of it on YouTube. I was aware of Juno & Co. at the time but hadn’t thought about them in a while. I am so excited to add this to my every growing basket of beauty applicators and I hope that my experiences with it are as nice as the reviews I have seen. I think this was the most exciting thing for me in the bag because it is actually something that I wanted and almost purchased for myself rather than letting fate decide on what I was getting in my ipsy bag this month. 

            Overall like I said, this bag knocked it straight out of the park with all of the products within it. I promise I will figure out how to make an ipsy unbagging folder so I don’t have to link all of the past months like I am about to do but here they are: April, May, June, July, August, September, and October.

            If you could have one beauty product show up in your ipsy bag what would it be? 

            If you are an ipsy subscriber what was your favorite product you got this month? 

            -MJ