It’s MAIL TIME: My First Ipsy Bag

I’m pretty sure I should’ve been born in the 1940s or 1950s (minus all of the perfect housewife stuff): emails and texts are great, but I adore getting mail.

Even though I’m an adult and know my mail usually consists of bills, annoying forms, and bad news, I still get a bit gleeful when I hear the familiar tap of the mailbox. As I skipped to the mailbox today, however, there weren’t bills and tax forms awaiting me (okay, one, but that doesn’t count right?).

There was a glorious bag of makeup.

I’ve mentioned before I’m a makeup addict. So it hit me a day a few weeks ago; why wasn’t I signed up for a beauty bag subscription? After hearing some friends rave bout their beauty bags, I decided that $10 was worth a surprise in the mail once a month. Plus, the fact that the surprise involved cosmetics was just a win win to me.

I picked Ipsy because others have talked about how cool it is. For $10 a month (that includes shipping), you get a cute makeup bag with five products; some of these are even full size. You do a survey where you pick your brands, which I thought was neat. Check out my bag above. I definitely think it was worth the $10 and can’t wait to try some of the products. I’m most excited about the moisturizer and the nail polish because both are cruelty free.

Although I’m super excited about my bag, I have already switched my subscription. I cancelled Ipsy in favor of Petit Vour only because it is 100% cruelty free. Ipsy has a lot of cruelty free brands as options, but I’ve read that they can’t guarantee you will only get 100% cruelty free products each month. I’ve been working so hard to avoid products that use animal testing, so I just couldn’t rest with the fact that some of the products wouldn’t be cruelty free. I will do a post about Petit Vour and let you know what their service is like.

I’ve also read that Birchbox has been thinking of doing a cruelty free option. If that happens, I’ll definitely sign up!

Lindsay Detwiler