Ipsy Gift Subscriptions

If you haven’t heard the news yet Ipsy (formerly MyGlam) has launched Gift Subscriptions! If you give a gift subscription to yourself or a loved one check out their deals below.

• 3 months for $30
• 6 months for $60
• 12 months for $110 (which is like paying for 11 months and getting the 12th free.)
• 24 months for $220 (which is like paying for 22 months and getting the 23rd and 24th ree.)

If you get a 6 months subscription then get a Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour for free. If you get a one year or two year  gift then get a Sultra Wicked Baroque Wave & Straight 1″ iron.

Tempted? I know I already had plans on upgrading my month-to-month subscription to a 1 year subscription so I think I just might gift myself a one year subscription instead.

Disclaimer: I am an Ipsy Ambassador however I am not compensated in any manner from Ipsy.

Glamour Doll Eyes Foil Me & Control Freak

Woot my order from Glamour Doll Eyes came today! I had ordered both Foil Me products – dropper ($4.50) and tube ($5.25). Looks like the Foil Me dropper is now sold out.

I’ve been using a variety of products to apply my loose shadows and pigments. I have used eye drops to dampen my shadow brush and I’ve applied Hard Candy’s Show Girl’s Secret, Fyrinnae’s Pixie Epoxy, Eye Kandy’s Liquid Sugar and Lit Cosmetics’ Clearly Liquid to my eye lid then applied my shadow or pigment; each product has it’s own merits and while I’ve repurchased many of those products I’m always on the hunt for something else to try.

Foil Me comes with a little card with the instructions on how to use it which is nice especially for those who have never used this type of product. Trust me, when I say a LITTLE of any of these products goes a long, LONG way.

Ingredients: Water, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Polysorbate 20, Propylene Glycol, Diazolidinyl Urea, Methylparaben and Propylparaben.

I’m REALLY excited to try Foil Me since while I like the other products to apply my loose shadows and pigments sometimes I find the other products to be a bit too sticky or dry too fast. Vee can correct me if I’m wrong but looking at the dropper vs the tube it looks like the tube is more of a gel-like consistency while the dropped is a wee bit thinner in consistency.

I also ordered a full size tin of (non-vegan) Control Freak (primer, $10.75) since I finally ran out of my sample (which lasted me four months until Halloween). I think Control Freak is among my favorite primers since I find myself using it along with Lime Crime’s primer the most out of all my primers. I keep misplacing my primer from Saucebox Cosmetics because it’s round like an eyeshadow and I tend to put it back with my round shadows then in my box with primers and foiling products. I have a ton of Urban Decay primers and just don’t use those as often as I do Control Freak from GDE or Shadow Helper form LC. It may seem to be on the pricey side at $10.75 for approximately 0.39 oz of product but it’s worth the price because it will last a long time since you use very little of it. Just to compare prices, Lime Crimes Candy Eyed Eyeshadow Helper is $16.99 for 0.25 oz while Urban Decay’s Primer Potion travel size is $9 for 0.13 oz so Control Freak isn’t pricey at all and best of all it doesn’t dry out as easily as other primers do if you don’t close the top all the way.

Like always, orders from Glamour Doll Eyes comes with a couple of free samples and this time I sent Backstabber (a gorgeous green… which I’m so going to have to hide from my daughter who swiped my other free sample which was a different green) and Veteran (which a gorgeous dark navy blue with red sparkles).

Have you used Foil Me or Control Freak from GDE? If so what do you think of it?

Beauty Army’s Locked + Loaded: A comparison in sizes

There has been some talk on MakeupTalk.com about how tiny the sample of Locked + Loaded eye shadow from Beauty Army is so I wanted to share this with everyone who maybe upset by the size.

I did order the Locked + Loaded in my November sampler box but I won’t get it for about two weeks. So here’s a screenshot from my account profile.

The Locked & Loaded is 0.03 oz. Now for comparison two shadows I have – one came from Ipsy and one I bought at Target.

The S.A.L.T.Y. is 0.035 oz (1 gram) while the E.L.F. is 0.02 oz less than 1 gram but the container is larger. E.L.F. shadow is 0.02 ounce which is about a 1/2 gram (0.056 699 046 25 gram). So the E.L.F. container is less product in a bigger jar. (Note: The E.L.F. jars I have are marked 0.02 oz however E.L.F’s website states the mineral shadows are 0.03 oz now. The shadows I bought came in a duo set sold at Target during the summer of 2011.)

S.A.L.T.Y. shadow against Glamour Doll Eyes sample baggie (0.5 gram). I’m getting the same amount from my sample as I am from ELF except it’s in a baggie instead of a huge jar.

Glamour Doll Eyes’ Veteran (full size) in a sifter jar so it has between 1.5 gram to 2 grams (in a 5 gram jar) vs Fyrinnae’s Bite Me 3 grams (full size) in a 5 gram jar (no sifter) and on the right is the S.A.L.T.Y. which is 0.035 oz (1 gram). This makes the Fyrinnae the most amount of product by triple the SALTY yet it’s in the same size container. The one from Beauty Army is 0.03 oz (just slightly less than 1 gram).

Note: I chose the GDE with a sifter versus one without. Had I picked GDE without the sifter I would have been sent a container with 3 grams of products making it the same amount as Fyrinnae’s. Fyrinnae did not offer a sifter at the time I bought Bite Me.

So while the Beauty Army jar is tiny once you put it into perspective it’s a good size for a sample. It’s virtually the same amount as the one from Ipsy and MORE than the ELF FULL SIZE jar. The ELF container is far larger than any of the other jars yet it has the least amount of product.

E.L.F (full size)	0.02 oz	0.5 gram (0.566 990 462 5 gram)
S.A.L.T.Y (full size?)	0.035 oz	1 gram (0.992 233 309 38 gram)
Fyrinnae (full size)	0.11 oz (0.105 821 885 85 ounce)	3 grams
Glamour Doll Eyes (full size)	0.05 oz – 0.07 oz	1.5 – 2 grams
Glamour Doll Eyes (sample size)	0.02 oz (0.017 636 980 975 ounce)	0.5 grams
Locked + Loaded (sample size)	0.03 oz	0.85 gram (0.850 485 693 75 gram)

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_all.htm