[Review] July Ipsy bag

This month's Ipsy kinda sucked. Out of all the things I received, I'd only use one of them and that would be the Bare Minerals eyeshadow. In this month's Ipsy, I received a lip tint, a blue nail polish, a tanning oil and a bronzer.

The bronzer is a joke. It's heavily discounted at Target so I'm not sure what Michelle Phan and her team were thinking when they included it into this month's Ipsy. It's also got tons of microglitter in it, so I can't use it as a contour. I don't bronze my face because I'm rather pale for an Asian, and I prefer to not have that tanned look.

As usual, my phone wouldn't focus properly

The tanning oil is just ridiculous. Firstly, it has SPF 8. For something that I'm supposed to wear out in the sun, this thing would provide absolutely no SPF protection. Additionally, in an email someone sent to Ipsy about this product, they advised her to only wear this product under clothes because the SPF was so low. That makes no sense. It's supposed to be a tanning oil. What was Ipsy thinking?

I swatched the nail polish (no pics sorry!) and it was okay. It was a brand I've never heard of before, and it doesn't look like it's available in any stores in Canada, meaning that I will not be purchasing anything from this brand in the future. Nail polish is too vulnerable to breaking during shipping. The blue was not as dark as I was expecting however. But overall, the nail polish itself was okay; not on par with OPI or Essie or Revlon, but higher than that $2.99 Sally Hansen nail polish.

Now the lip tint. It's a red shade, which I do like but the tint factor does nothing for me. I like my lipsticks to be completely opaque, not some sheer colour. I have not opened this, because I will probably swap or gift it away, but I've read comments from others saying that it has a very heavy cherry scent. I'm assuming it to be the medicinal cherry scent (or fake cherry candy scent), which I do not like at all.

The Bare Minerals eyeshadow is pretty good. I haven't worn it yet, but I have swatched it and the color payoff for the darker shade is really nice. The light pink probably won't show up on my eyelids as well, so I might use that as a inner corner kind of color. According to the Ipsy site, this weighs 0.03oz compared to the full sized 0.1oz according to Sephora. For a sample, a difference of 0.07oz is on the okay side (to me at least), and especially as this is eyeshadow and it takes a while to hit pan on eyeshadow regardless, I don't mind.

So this month's Ipsy was kind of a bust, but I'm going to stick it out for a bit longer, as I've only been subscribed for two months in total. It kind of sucks having random summer items thrown in (like the tanning oil, even though I specified in my quiz somewhere that I didn't like tanning products).