Textured and Trying

  Hiiii again! I wanted to talk a little bit about the 2022 IPSY advent calendar I bought. This is my first year purchasing it and I have thoughts. They’re not organized thoughts yet, maybe they will be by the time I’m done writing. Couple of basics: This is a makeup and skincare (and hair/body/lifestyle?) advent calendar that IPSY curated. It’s a 25 day calendar and is a mix of full size and sample size products. It originally cost $115 if I remember correctly, but I bought it when it was $95. I should also disclose that I actually ordered it from BoxyCharm, another subscription service that IPSY owns. I only did this because of the extra discount. This isn’t going to be a breakdown of every single item like my regular posts, I just want to talk about what the variety looked like, the mix of brands and sizes, the packaging, and whether I think it’s worth the price and whether I’ll try it again next year. The first thing I want to touch on is the time it arrived. I ordered ...

  Hi all ^-^ Currently working on all the December posts - I may have made some tactical errors in purchasing a massive IPSY box and their advent calendar, which by the way arrived on the 23rd. So no time to make an actual post about it. I will do an all-encompassing review of the calendar itself, but maybe not broken down by product like my usual posts are. But I'm still excited about it ^-^ Anyway, I did want to do an end of the year, most loved products and a routine update with the ones I’ve started regularly using. I also wanted to talk a little about having my work schedule start so early in the morning and what it means for my routine. So I leave for work at 7am, to start my workday at 8. Leaving any later and I hit some major rush hour/school traffic, so it’s not worth it. I’d rather get into town a little early, grab my coffee, start my day without the bustle. Even at this time of the morning though, there’s still traffic.  The thing that makes this difficult...

  Hey hey ^-^ Need to talk a little about the Kinder Beauty Box for November. I know it’s a little bit of a late post, but it’ll probably be fast. This has been an amazing Kinder box, even though I gave two of the five items away. The other three have just been amazing and I want to give them shout outs. So the ones I gave away weren’t even because I didn’t want them, just because they wouldn’t work for me or I knew I wouldn’t use them.  One of the items I’m giving away is the Coastin’ Illuminating Highlighter by a brand called Jazmine Beauty . No shade to this brand, I’m sure they’re great, but this highlighter would be ideal for someone several shades deeper than I am. It’s also very rosy toned. Feels like it would be a good sparkling blush on someone with my winter skin and I didn’t even bother to swatch it because I didn’t want to ruin it. The ingredients looked good, the packaging is cute, I really wish it had been a shade I could use. I thought about keeping it ...

  Time to talk about IPSY! I’m so excited. This is November’s box and it’s a little bigger than I was planning 🤗But I’m getting through the testing phase and wanted to try getting this up before December. Maybe try being on time. [Edit: oh well.] IPSY picked two items for me this month: First one is fittingly the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Face Moisturizer . Ever since I got hooked on FAB’s Coconut Smoothie Primer Thingy I’ve been wanting to try other products from them, but this one didn’t really impress me actually. The packaging is a fairly large tube with a cap and a pump like hair mousse, and the pump is not stingy, like girl pumps . So it’s very user friendly. The cap doesn’t give me a hard time, neither does the pump.  The formula itself is decently heavy, like it’s a little whipped but just feels generally like a regular moisturizer. Def not oily or greasy but nice and thick. Maybe it has a little but of a whipped texture at first? But that goes away once y...