Ipsy vs. Boxycharm

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The Ipsy Glam Bag is a monthly subscription that sends mostly sample sized beauty products. It's $10/month and they select products based off of a test that you take when you subscribe.  After each month, you can rate the products and they are supposed to take the into consideration when sending your future bags.  Every bag is slightly different for everyone who subscribes.

Boxycharm is similar but 98% of the time they send full size products.  It's $21/month. With this subscription, you get what you get.

For the month of November I was very satisfied with both subscriptions; however, I will break it down and decide which was really the better of the two!

IPSY

The bag it came in was what you see above. It is almost a windbreaker material.  This is something I may never use, its just not my style.

The contents of the bag are as follows:

Full Size - Crown Brush - Delux Pointed Crease Brush
Retail Value:  $4.95 (Crown Brushes)
I am actually really excited to try this brush, it looks like it will be a great blending brush!


Full Size - Jelly Pong Pong - Liquid Glossamer (Liquid Luminizer)
Retail value:  $22.95  ((Jelly Pong Pong)
To be completely honest, I opened mine to swatch it and the tube was only 1/2 full.  It is a pretty color (almost a rose gold).  I will try this when highlighting. 

Sample Size - SmashBox - Full Exposure Mascara - Jet Black
Retail Value for full size: $20  (SmashBox Mascara)
I like the shape of the spooly, I love samples of mascara because my eyes are extremely sensitive.  I can't have a flakey or runny mascara. 

Sample Size - INSPR Eye Shadow - Carnival
Retail Value for full size: $13 (INSPR Eye Shadow)
Swatched it, my first impression is that its super soft and buttery.  I'd like to see what it looks like with some MAC Fix Plus.


Sample Size - Cool way - Strong Hold Spray
Retail Value: $19.95 (Cool way)
I don't typically use hair spray, and Ipsy should know that by now, but I will try it.

BOXYCHARM

Boxycharm comes in a sleek black box each month as seen at the top of this blog.

The contents are as follows:

Full size - Luxie - Rose Gold Concealer Eye Brush

Retail Value: $17 (Luxie)

I have never used a brush like this for concealer, I may use this brush to pack eyeshadow onto the eyelid.

Full Size - Cool Way - Leave In Treatment

Retail Value: $14.95 (Cool way)

Hmmmm, interesting Coolway has made its way into both of my subscriptions!  This one is supposed to make your hair smooth, silky & bouncy. For all hair types, but mainly for dry or damaged hair.  Its supposed to eliminate split ends.  We'll see!

Full Size - Studio Makeup - Soft Blend Blush - Wildflower

Retail Value: $17 (studio-make-up)

The website won't let you buy directly from them, weird.

The first layer was not very pigmented, but once I got through the first layer it definitely was!  It doesn't compare to my Morphe blush pallete, but its a pretty color!

Full Size - Pur-Lisse - Blue Lotus 4-in-1 Eye Adore Serum
Retail Value: $65 (Pur-Lisse)
Wow! $65 for a tube of eye cream that's 0.5oz?!  This stuff better make my eyes look like they did when they came out of the womb!  I am excited to try this stuff!

Full Size-Manna Kadar-Liplocked Priming Gloss Stain - All of Me
Retail Value $24 (Manna Kadar)
The swatch online looks more like a brownish, nude, pink. When I swatched it on my hand, its got more of a purple tone to it, looks more like the Manna Babe swatch above. Its pretty, but I may put something over it when I try it out to tone it down a little bit!

Overall

I liked both of them very much; however, Boxycharm wins this month for me.
The reason I chose Boxycharm this month is not because it has a higher retail value (get more bang for your buck), but because each product they sent me will be used!  I do like the brush that Ipsy sent me better than the brush that Boxycharm sent. I liked the fact that Ipsy sent a mascara, but that could be because I need to go buy some anyway. I don't like the color of the lip stain that Boxycharm sent, but it may grow on me.  They both have pros and cons, but Boxycharm wins this month!


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~Fancy~