Ipsy Glam Bag Design Process – Behind The Scenes!

16 options and *this* was the best design of them all? 😬 Of course everyone has different tastes, but this bag immediately went into my give away/donate pile.

Anyway, this was interesting! I think it would be interesting to know more details. How many designers are there? How do they choose, and do they select the theme before or after the design? I also agree with others that it would be fun to be able to vote on the design, even if it’s at least once a year.

Thanks for the post Liz. Like other people have mentioned I thought Ipsy got their bags from some type of wholesaler and stamped their name on it. I am excited each month to see what the bag will look like.

My favorites are the Halloween bags. I’m currently using the December 2018 which is also great.

March 2017 was my fav…a nude pink with a pink and black cross stick on one side, and the top folds over. It’s the only ipsy bag I’ve ever kept, actually.

Super cool to get a sneak peek behind the scenes. I love the majority of the bags. My favorite characteristics are 1) top zipper, 2) larger the better and 3) a FUN zipper pull. No matter how the bag looks, it’s a great wrapper to the gifts within!

Thank you for this post Liz! It was really interesting to find out the process behind the bags…i had no idea so much thought goes into it and that they are made by ipsy for ipsy! I think one of my favorites was Gudetama <3

I have so many favorites! But I would have to say my #1 is the gold sequin with the black tassel and black on back of the bag!

I like the bigger bags to carry in my purse. I’m not crazy about the design but the black & white one where we were given colored markers to decorate it ourselves is one I carry a lot just because it’s a bigger bag. Also I like the ones made from vinyl like material because I can wipe them if they get dirty on the outside. The red Halloween one was pretty & I loved the clear one we got many months ago.

I really wish Ipsy would offer the option of receiving a bag or a 6th item. I’ve got way too many bags sitting in a drawer with samples stuffed in them

These comments are hilarious. So much spite over a simple puff piece. They were just trying to round out the experience.
Funny how some think we all shouldn’t be yes men but then they had actually nothing to point out about the short article they didn’t like only they were “underwhelmed”. Pretty lame.
My fav’s were Gudetama and the passport.

My favorite is the clear bag with the popsicles on it. I use the bags to group together and organize samples. Being able to see through the bag makes it easy to find a particular item .

Favorites: Galaxy print, Valfre Halloween print, ticket shaped bag, the ikat style printed canvas one, the Breakups to Makeup canvas bag, the one that looks like an envelope with the heart on it (nerdy one), the passport one, Gudetama, and then very simple ones like this month with a clean print that looks polished in a tote without a ton of clash, a tassel, sequins or some weird material.

My least favorite is probably anything with sequins, or that horrible garish yellow one with the tassel from this year etc. The sequins seem fun in theory but they break, get dirty, and don’t look as nice quality. I want it to be cute and durable.

My favorite is a halloween one from a few years back. Was pink with black print all over it. Second was the butterfly one.

Back to the question that was asked in the review………
My favorite was the butterfly one last spring (I think April 2018). I’m one of those people that has pink EVERYTHING (kind of a signature color sort of thing) and I’ve always been inspired by the symbolism with butterflies so that was just a PERFECT bag for me.
I’ve loved and hated many of the bags over the several years I’ve been getting Ipsy, but it’s always interesting to see what bag they’ll do next.
I also agree that I would love to see more of the design process and even some of the failed options for each month.
My one suggestion for Ipsy is that I wish they would switch up the size/dimensions of the bags a little more frequently. A lot of the ones I use most are the ones that are “different” in size/dimension.

I had no idea the create them in house either like a previous commentor noted they thought it was contracted out. I love the Gudetama one also and the Sept 2018 one. Looking forward to some unique ones this year.

This is pretty cool. I knew they set them in advance but not THAT far in advance, cheezus! Also, my fav so far was probably the one that came with the markers. Such a cute concept.

My fave was definitely Gudetama. So much so that when I lost it, I was so sad that I bought another one off Ebay.

This January bag was not impressive nor did it seem wintery. I liked the Gudetama bag and the passport one. Of course, others may disagree.

My favorite bags were the Gudetama bag and the Halloween bags. And I liked reading about the design process.

Sept 2017 is my fave. The only one I’ve held onto really.

Huh. I never realized they had them designed in house…just assumed they were generic ones they contracted and had their name stamped on. I guess I assumed that because the bags never feel that unique or well designed. I struggle to give them away month after month. I like to use a larger makeup bag with two compartments or an inner pocket. Judging from the amount of these I see at thrift stores, my only concern is that they will just add to clogged landfills when people tire of then.

I’m torn: I loved the passport stamp covered one from May 2018, adorable Gudetama, and the admission ticket. Hoping for some great 2019 designs, wasn’t very impressed with 2018’s.

My favorite bags were the Halloween 2017 and 2018 season… along with the December 2018 bag… the bags are cute and good for gifting…..

So the next time one of them says on Instagram, “I picked theme XYZ for this month’s bag, because I’ve really been feeling XYZ *lately*” (as one of them did at least once, I recall) we’ll know for sure that she’s full of it.

Might be a good idea for them to narrow some designs down, month’s in advance of course, and let their subscribers vote to pick the final bag. Could be fun.

It’d be cool if subscribers got to vote on one of the undecided bags (like customer selected bag month once a year).

This is one of my favorite bags!