So admittedly, I canceled Ipsy years ago because I was getting a bunch of crap I wasn’t interested in. But I still had access to the shop, so I’d look on there from time to time. It seems to be much better now. So this is my little haul. I paid $146 with a retail value of $460 so not too bad!

These were on a good discount in the shop so I did some retail therapy to try them out. I like both scents but the caramel swirl is my favorite and it is not overly sweet as what I was imagining (and it actually lasted longer than the Korres did!) I have this BBW Christmas Cookie lotion I put on after the shower and I sprayed the Clean Reserve over it to layer before heading out earlier and it smells so good and is still putting off scent many hours later. The only downside of smelling so delicious is it’s making me feel like I want a sweet snack :D

I feel a little stupid but my package’s status has not been updated since it shipped and I can basically guarantee it is lost. Whenever I try to contact Ipsy care it just brings me to the page with the glam-bot. Am I missing something here??? Thanks yall

Ipsy, my dear, why is it so hard to break up with you? Have been canceling our relationship for years and you keep showing up at my door. Finally, in recent attempts, was smart enough to take screen shots, which say it all—this is three separate requests over the past year. You make it impossible even though I explicitly cancel. Stillllll getting charged. Refuse refunds because I suppose that’s not a good business strategy for a brand that profits from being impossible to cancel. Hundreds of bucks at this point.

To make matters worse, I never ordered refreshments. Ipsy added it and I continued to ask them to stop. I recently donated approximately 75 never-ordered razor cartridges (never a handle?!) and trashed the dried up face wipes I was sent for four years.

Okay, so anybody, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, because that's why I'm asking the question. I've been a member for quite a while, and I remember for the longest time that whenever you got a Glam Bag or Icon, or now that it's called an Ultimate, that they would have half of the items marked "exclusive," and that meant that they would not show up in add-ons no matter what for anyone , except for those who had ultimate.

However, unless I am just remembering incorrectly, I feel like the last several, or maybe at least the last two Ultimates that I've gotten, didn't have anything that said "Icon Box exclusive," which led to people being included now on certain items.

If I remember correctly, there may have been some items that were left out, but I believe that some of them were left out for even us ultimate people because there's only so many items they're going to put in addons. I'm looking at it kind of the same way how , if you get an ultimate you get to look through the three dollar and fifty cent glam bag original items?And i'm assuming that there's boxy items in there as well , I just can't think of the top of my head. So if I remember craig now that they're also allowing ultimate items in there , that kind of makes sense , but i'm sure some multiples people , because they're being a premium would not like that.

I ask because I just don't see enough stuff that I want from the Ultimate to risk it. And on the last spoiler, about half the items were super questionable, so I thought about just doing extra and grabbing a few items that I really wanted from Ultimate in add-ons. But I'm not totally sure that they will be there, and I was hoping you guys might remember. Like, for instance, I'm wanting to get a ton of stuff , but I am dying for the ilia the base face milk, because I literally use it every single day and it's so expensive. I would love to be able to grab a few along with a few other items.

I don't want to get my hopes up, so let me know what you guys remember about how it's been going the last few times. Thank you in advance, and I hope you guys are having a great week so far.

P.S. For those of you who normally get Ultimate, in your comment below, let me know if you're going to get it or not because I'm starting to get the vibe that a lot of people are not going to get it, but I could totally be wrong. So give your honest answer in the comments.

I’m back because I don’t feel right not sharing this with y’all 🫶
If you saw my previous post, I was upset with a mix-up that some people suggested was more a failure of AI services than of Ipsy themselves.
You guys were right and I was contacted by a human rep who refunded me AND told me to keep the bag 🥹😭
He did say it wasn’t usual policy but an exception under the circumstances. I appreciate them looking into it and helping me out, it’s that “human touch” that I feel the robots just won’t ever be capable of.
I really appreciate everyone’s input and suggestions, as a long-time die-hard this whole situation really had me spinning (as silly as that sounds 😂).
I still hate AI and hope companies see issues like these and learn to be better from them!!
Keep pushing until you talk to a human xoxox

My box finally came very excited to try out the blush palette. I already have similar colors to the Sunset Stripped palette so I’ll probably be gifting that to someone.

First time getting a bag and confused why it still say this even though it was delivered like a week ago? Does this happen to everyone?

I got several of my products from Ipsy but was most impressed with the estate pallet in my mystery bag. The colors were more pigmented than I thought. The black compares to a Huda beauty black.

Primer: Elf matte power grip
Concealer: LYS - LN3 - Ipsy
Foundation: makeup by Mario 6W + Huda beauty 100b - Ipsy
Contour: cream Tarte shape tape + powder - allure Anastasia Beverly Hills contour pallet - allure
Blush: nudestix melon sugar - FabFitFun
Powder: Lys translucent - Ipsy
Eyes: estate rose pallet -Ipsy plus random glitter with glitter glue.
Lashes: random lashes + too faced better than sex mascara. - Ipsy
Sprays: refy setting spray - allure + glow recipe fine mist for hydration - FabFitFun
Lips: elf cream lip liner + an elf nude lip stick ?topped with dibs lip gloss - kiss me quick. - Ipsy
Highlighter - cream la colors topped with miss a random highlighter pallet.
Brow: Anastasia Beverly Hills brow pomade - allure and benefit 24hr brow gel. - allure
Eye liner: la colors too.

Also, for backstory. I used to be a photographer and have a full mini studio in my house. I started doing social content which is reason for photos.

🤷🏻‍♀️ I guess the new rewards won’t be replacing points right away.

Is anybody else not getting a free gift in their cart with an order over $50? I'm hoping if it's a glitch, they fix it before the sale ends.

I ordered my first Ultimate box - thought it would the August box with Choice, but to my surprise, a black box showed up the other day. I wasn’t expecting a package from them so I immediately got so excited… the Amazon courier hands me the box and I wondered what it could be since it was so darn light, and I still wasn’t expecting the August box yet. I slice through the packing tape and open it up - NOTHING INSIDE! Upon closer inspection, looks like the circle tape that Ipsy normally uses to close their boxes was ripped off, and the lid to the box was tucked inside and it was re-taped from the bottom, so no way of knowing if it happened before or after the shipping label was applied. Turns out, they shipped me a May box for my first Ultimate order, I didn’t get to choose anything, and according to what I saw on my account, the products I was supposed to receive just weren’t a good match up for me. I reached out to the GlamBot, got a ticket, and heard back from Ipsy via email (which frankly, sounded like another AI bot). I requested that they just replace it with the August box with Choice, but apparently no-can-do. Has anyone else received an ultimate box at the very end of its quarterly window? Am I just going to get whatever is left at the bottom of the barrel? Not very happy….

My July box finally came the other day and I love everything so much but I’m disappointed because like a lot of others my Rosy McMichael
Beauty Creations Liquid Chroma Trio are all three dried out and just crumble when you pull the applicator out. You can take the crumbs and smear them to use a little bit but idk…I was really excited about them until everyone else said theirs were dried up. But everything else is wonderful!!! 🤩💜

Soooo… the spoilers for this month extra or everything I would wanna want and I’m feeling very meh about the ultimate. I’d love to purchase another subscription so I can get the extra on the ultimate but it won’t let me, what do I do?

IPSY sent me a duplicate blush I just received a week ago as a comparable replacement for my Too Faced eyeshadow palette. Does Ipsy even look into a "comparable" replacement? This is not acceptable. I'm so unhappy. Why doesn't Ipsy let the consumer choose a comparable replacement? Or offer replacements from a list or the Ipsy shop? I feel like Ipsy just sends us whatever item in the same price or value range without putting any effort into truly trying to make sure the replacement item is similar. Eyeshadow for eyeshadow, blush for blush and so on. This is not an acceptable practice in my opinion. Ipsy sent me the same blush palette they sent me a week earlier, so no one actually took a moment to check if this replacement would be sufficient. I'm so upset and disappointed.

Has Ipsy done away with points? If so, did we just get them wiped clean without a heads up?

I was wondering, when exactly do we get to make our choices. Because I’ve noticed that when I do go to make my choices.. a lot of of the colors that I use are not available. So I’m thinking if I kind of know when I can be ready or are those just the choices that they put up to be available?

Seriously, giving me 2000 vibes. Makes it really easy to tell my husband I only spent $30 instead of $300. 😂

Has anyone tried any of these?! I'm way more excited for the Cheetos blush than I should be. Haha

Does Ipsy ever put brown mascara in the subscriptions? I haven’t even seen many options in the shop since becoming a member in November that aren’t black. Maybe one or two. I hope to see more brown and grey mascara options in the future.

Natasha Denona bronze palette spotted in the shop.

Looks good for long time users! The Shop Discount is interesting.

There are FAQs that I posted in the comments.

Not sure why they sent 3 perfumes in a bubble mailer along with an eyeshadow palette. This is the first time they’ve done something actually stupid like that lmfao. I messaged the bot and should be getting a replacement. My eyeshadow palette came damaged too but I should be able to fix it with a lil alcohol.