Ipsy August 2018 Glam Bag Reveal + Spoilers!

I agree! I’ve been with ipsy for two years and my bags have been arriving later and later. My last bag was not only late, but I was sent the wrong color eyeline. (Bright green. Who the hell wants bright green eyeline!?) I also redeemed points for a product which I NEVER RECIEVED! When I contacted customer service, I felt they were very dismissive of me and even tried to lie and tell me they gave me my points back. (They did not.) After I threatened to cancel my subscription, they finally agreed to send me my product in the following bag.
Whether or not it comes, I’m still cancelling my subscription after this month. There are several other companies that offer the same services.

I changed up my Ipsy profile and have gotten different items. I rate everything I get only because this tells them what I love and what I don’t like.. maybe this comment will help!

Hi Dawn, my subscription sister I believe, from when I commented how much I love my Allure and Ipsy? 🙂 I am starting to gather some stuff I would like to trade out as well. There are some facebook groups that are private for makeup sales and trades. I can’t remember the one I joined, I would have to go check, but they have moderators and seem pretty good. I haven’t posted anything for trade yet because I only have 4-5 items. I’ll find out the name for you. If you would be interested in sharing e-mails, I wouldn’t mind a trading buddy. I just don’t have a lot of subs, so it might take me a minute to have anything you might want. I know for this month I will be looking for a home for the bablebar $20 gift code, I just don’t wear a lot of jewelry. In August I’ll probably let go of the lip treatment, as I have another that I already love. I know you already get Allure, but I thought I saw you mention in the comments that it was your favorite thing from August. 😉

Too many Bronzer/Blush~ agreed!!

I just put in my profile that I wear gloss and didn’t check the lipstick. See a comment above about how to tweak your profile (it’s really helpful!)

I know right, I always seem to get the opposite of what I hope to get… smh so I try to not get too hopeful… lol

Your best chance at the kvd would be first to uncheck every other make-up brand except kvd in your profile. Then, make sure you limit the categories of make-up you are interested in recieving. If it’s the concealer then only check concealer and not foundation, tinted moisturizer or powder. For the huda, only have liquid lip selected and only select the shade category it falls under. Uncheck every other lip product and shade range. If you are not concerned with eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner then don’t check them. It’s a computer program that ultimately does the selection and it works based on the parameters of your profile. You need to limit it’s results if you want a chance at specific products and you can’t leave it openings to send you stuff you don’t want. For example, mine stated no blush but I specified blush colors in case they sent it anyway, I recieved blush because I left the program an opening by selecting shades. Hope this makes sense. Good luck!

No, I like the red shadow – would love to get it, actually. Which means that I will be getting yet another black mascara or a lipstick in bright purple or electric blue. Doesn’t matter how many times I tweak my profile or give a product no stars, I just keep getting duds of products.

At least they used to have cute bags – but even those have started to be less than exciting most months.

They keep sending me purple and blue lipsticks, no matter how often I give feedback that I hate those colors. I’m 57 years old, for Heaven’s sake! And my profile hasn’t changed – I’m still pale as a ghost, with blue eyes and greying brown hair.

Every month they send me more and more things that don’t match my profile, and I don’t know how to keep that from happening. At least their bags are usually cute, which is one reason that I haven’t cancelled.

Same here. I get a lot of sub boxes and 2 Ipsy. I like them. Especially since it’s only $10 and I feel like I always get my money’s worth. The bags have come in handy for my daughter’s hair accessories and for organizing my makeup too. I’m looking forward to receiving my July and August bags, I like the colors.

I don’t even know why I’m still subbed. I agree with you about the bags lately they’ve been terrible

There’s really no saying what you’ll receive. It could be all of the items you see in front of the bag to none at all. I know it’s debateable, but supposedly they take your profile into consideration. I both agree & disagree with this as when I subbed the first 4 or 5 months this year, I got nail polish in every bag but one, which is what I marked as something I want, but yet I continued to receive shadows and/or eyeliners in each bag too, which I always marked as “does not work for me” (or whatever their survey says).

Also, I believe you can email Ipsy to opt out of one or two product types. For example, you can opt out of eyeliners as a whole, but not a specific color of eyeliner. Clearly, this wasn’t a feature I utilized. 🙂

In July, they featured 60 different products. They make a variety of bag versions/curations with 5 of those 60 products, and based on your beauty profile/preferences, match you to a bag with a curation they think you will like. You can take the beauty quiz before subscribing to get an idea of how they match you to a bag curation. The spoilers every month are just a sampling of the ~50-60ish products they feature per month. I usually don’t receive any of the spoilers in a given month. The IpsyMatch system is highly imperfect imo, but it’s always a good deal ($10 bag for $40-$70 worth of product).

You get 5 samples. You don’t get to pick any. You do a “quiz”, which is just a series of questions that will match samples to your personality. I personally switch up my preferences every month according to these spoliers (you have to do it before the 2nd of the month because that’s when they will match you). Then when it’s assembled you can either see your products or just wait until you get them.

These are just spoilers of what could be in your bag. Usually you end up getting 1-2 things pictured here then 3 more items not shown yet based on your profile. Ipsy usually has a selection of around 30 products every month so this is just a taste.

Hi
You subscribe then you fill out a quiz about preferences and things you do and don’t want to get inyour bag. Then it’s kind of a crapshoot from there. Some people get what they want and some get nothing like they asked for in their quiz.

The picture appears to be a fairly bright orange bag. It has bright yellow piping around the seams, a yellow zipper, and tassel. The tassel is more like a thick cut vinyl or leather instead of fine strings. The word ipsy is printed in yellow at the bottom center of the bag.

Is that helpful L? Is there anything else you would love to know about the bag?

Hi L! The August Glambag looks like it is a very vibrant orange just like the fruit. It appears to be fabric but that could just be textured plastic. We will have to wait on that. It looks like the zipper and tassel handle are a vibrant lemon yellow. It looks like there is also piping around the sides and bottom of the bag in yellow. The tassel zipper handle isn’t a soft or frilly tassel. It looks like the same type of tassel they put on a bag last year. Plastic cut in strips. Hope this helps.

Do you mean the texture of the bag or just how it looks? If the latter, it’s posted at the beginning of this post (the orange bag with the yellow tassle… oh wait, I just described it. haha). 🙂

The picture appears to be a fairly bright orange bag. It has bright yellow piping around the seams, a yellow zipper, and tassel. The tassel is more like a thick cut vinyl or leather instead of fine strings. The word ipsy is printed in yellow at the bottom center of the bag.

Is that helpful L? Is there anything else you would love to know about the bag?

OH MY GOD, I literally did the same thing today. E-mailed them politely asking HOW IN THE F the “ipsyMatch” algorithm is supposed to work, because I’m thinking it needs adjusting. I had even mentioned in my e-mail that it becomes that much more disappointing when we’re able to see the full months products (like you said), and we notice that roughly 50%-75% of the items are better profile matches than what we actually received! I don’t want to cancel, but I’m giving them August and then I’m making a decision.

Give the Allure Beauty box a try.

Same is happening to me. I am 61 and continuously getting masks for skin with acne when there are more appropriate choices available for the month. Also getting an orange eye shadow from The Balm this month. Not sure why they think I would want that. Seems like in the last 6 months or so, they could care less about our profiles.

I think they don’t have that many anti-aging products in Ipsy. It’s demographic seems much younger, like under 35. If you look at their creators, you don’t see anyone who would be using products appropriate for the average 50 year old.

It just is what it is. Yes, I know many of you will respond by telling me you love Ipsy and then telling me how old you are, but those of you who do that have a younger style and appreciate the younger bag. Myself, I lied on my profile and shaved 10 years off so I would still get cool trendy stuff in my bag, but that was 4 years ago and now I think my age – 10 is still old for their demographic! But I still love it and will keep it.

I cancelled a few days ago. My bags content has also gone downhill with barely anything I like and clearly little regard for reviews and personalization. After I saw the reveal of my July items, it was enough is enough. How many times can you say brown just looks bad on me, please give me eye shadow colors like, aqua, teal, plum. Nope. More brown and then a purple lipstick too. I asked myself, why am I doing this?

Exactly my thoughts! I keep waiting for a great design; but instead, the disappointment continues! I feel like there are so many other colors and shades that could be explored, but they seem to be sticking with the same colors, and the underwhelming designs just make it that much worse.

Let us know what they say, please. I think they have stopped doing that (after everyone started emailing requests), so I’ll be interested to know what their response is!