Ipsy February 'Red Carpet Ready' Glam Bag Review!

Hi, My name is Erika and I'm addicted to Ipsy Glam Bags!

It's a monthly subscription box started by YouTube guru make up Michelle Phan. Each month, subscribers will receive a beautiful Glam Bag with deluxe samples and full-sized beauty products- very cool!
What's even cooler is that you can go onto Ipsy.com and create looks and browse through posts and video looks created by Ipsy stylists and members. All for only $10 a month.

My fav make up guru all-bit-of-amazing Kandee Johnson recently became an Ipsy stylist and she's just an amazing inspiring women who's really taught me a lot about make up and about life!

Growing up, I didn't know much about make up and what i did know I learned from friends using drugstore products (I still wear some drugstore products).  My mom never really wore make up except for a little bit of lipstick on her lips and cheek for blush (I always found it weird her using the same lipstick she used on her lips for her cheeks but what-do-you-know! Enter our modern day cheek stains and Bobbi Brown pot rouges). But I digress.

Here is what I got in my February's 'Red Carpet Ready' Glam bag!

I was most excited to receive the MICA gel eyeliner in Black. This will be my first go around for gel eyeliner. Something about them just used to scare the Ba-Jesus out of me but I'm putting my big girl pants on and giving this a whirl! I love me a challenge! I even attempted the winged look- how did I do?! (This was literally my first time EVER using gel eyeliner). I've also got on the primer, the mascara and a touch of the eyeshadow 'candlelight' (a touch is all you need as its very pigmented). 

POP mascara was next! You can NEVER have too many mascara's! I haven't opened this one yet but I'm super excited to true it since it claims to really bring out your eyelashes!

This stuff is HA-MAZING! Pixi Flawless & Poreless primer. It goes on super smooth, does a great job of covering my pores and stays on all day. I actually just wore this and no foundation and my make-up lasted all day. Will def be buying a full size of this!

Coastal Scents mini 4 set eyeshadow set. I was hoping to get the set that had the brighter yellow colors only because I already have so many nudes, blacks and whites but I guess its the luck of the draw with these. I will absolutely wear these since these colors look great on anyone! Oops, shoot- I forgot the upload the picture of the swatches of these and now I can't seem to find the picture amongst all these others...they are super pretty though and all had a tiny shimmer to them but nothing too overwhelming.

Lastly, the LASH CARD! Another item I was super excited about. I have really long eyelashes and putting on mascara is always a battle because I always end up painting my whole face with mascara is seems like, haha. Whoa, I just realized how much that last sentence totally seemed like I was brag-complaining- complaining about my eyelashes being long while bragging how long they are because people would kill for this issue. But in all seriousness, its gets annoying something to deal with them getting in my eye, getting mascara residue on my eyebrows and eye lids. So these puppies came into great use! 2 came in the pack so I will definitely be buying more.

Overall, Ipsy delivered a great glam bag this month. I can see the 'Red Carpet Ready' theme throughout. It introduced me to some great finds like the Pixi primer and helped me get over my fear of gel eyeliner (now I just need to practice, practice, practice!).  Most of these products I will definitely get great use out of them and others its always good to have. 

The actual bag it came in didn't do anything for me (it was a black shiny reminiscent of patent leather look and feel on the outside and was red on the inside with the Ipsy logo) Guess I can always turn the bag inside out or re-gift. Recycle and Reuse! hahaha.

Disclosure: I purchased this myself. All opinions are mine and 100% honest.