r/BeautyBoxes

Marc Jacobs Beauty is back and dropping in Sephora 6/1 !!!!
I feel like I have waited my whole life for this, nothing has ever come close to his mascaras. What are you most excited for/hoping to see come back?

Available for $55. Good value, not very exciting products though IMO
- YSL Beauty Loveshine Lip Oil Stick in Wet Guava
- First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub 10% AHA Fresh Strawberry
- First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream Intense Hydration
- ColorWow Choice: Root Cover Up in Dark Blonde, Light Brown, Medium Brown, OR Dark Brown
- Philosophy Purity One-Step Cleanser
- Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 62 Bum Bum Hair & Body Refillable Perfume Mist
- Essie Nail Polish in “Ballet Slippers"
- Carol's Daughter Black Vanilla Conditioner
- Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Daisy
- Vaseline Healing Jelly in Cocoa Butter
- Native Body Wash in Coconut & Vanilla

Hi ya’ll 👋 I just got home this morning at 1am CA time. Came home from CT where my son graduated from a musical theater conservatory (shout out to the theater geeks!)! But flight delays and misses as a result meant I was up for 24 hours strait. Dang! But the first thing I thought of when I woke up was those ipsy packages I came home to on my front porch, but was entirely too exhausted to open.

But now is the time! I thought it would be fun to narrate for you as we open them, especially because one of them is the accommodation package from my missing ND Palette from my Ultimate. I know there have been experiences across the board with the palette missing, issues with black shadow, and some even reporting an ink issue on the outside of the palette. I believe in you, Ipsy! I believe I will have a happy opening today. 🤞

Without further ado.

PIC 1 - The packages! One is the accommodation and the other is MDS.
PIC 2 - My personal Denonas. Throwing these in for good luck! I love her products! Cheek Trio and Hyper Natural from Ipsy and I need a Nude from Sephora.
PIC 3, 4 - Opening the small package and it looks like that’s the MDS! I got 3 items! ND Hy-Gen Skincare Infused Glow Beautifier, ND Hy-GLAM powder foundation, Makeup By Mario softsculpt skin perfector. I love them all!!! I can’t wait to try them out. I love ND packaging. The foundation might be a bit light. I’ll have to test. The MBM actually was a tiny bit broken up/messy, but not in a way that I would care about or complain. Excellent MDS experience!!
Pic 5 - ok it’s the moment of truth. It looks like I did get the palette as the replacement!!! Yay!!! This was very important to me and I want to say I was wrong because I really felt like I was going to get a shit replacement and I was wrong. I think Ipsy is already making me happier just to know they are trying to make it right.
Pic 6 - From the outside??? A-OK!
Pic 7 - the moment of truth….IT’s PERFECT!!! Yay! It’s such a lovely palette, too.

So I want to say something about my experience. I think it’s very easy to complain when things aren’t perfect, esp when it seems like everyone else is getting a perfect goodie and your goodie is missing. Or broken. 😞 And you were excitedly looking forward to it. You expected a totally different feeling when you opened your package. I compare this to like taking ecstasy and having a bad trip. Having a bad trip is bad enough…but expecting ecstasy and then having a bad trip…is worse…(I’ve never done drugs. But I’ve been to burning man many times and I’ve seen this happen! 😆) So it’s very understandable that those of us who didn’t get our goodie, were upset.

BUT! I have to say I believe Ipsy killed it, here. I’m 52 and have worked for HP, J&J, Apple. My husband and I now have a video production where we do work for big companies here in the valley. And how a company treats its customers matters so much. More than anything because it’s easy to lose a customer and harder to replace them. So a good company will prioritize that. And I think Ipsy did. What they did right:

- they’re on the Ipsy subreddit and I’ve seen them immediately reply to people who have expressed issues
- everyone has mentioned having a good experience with the glam bot when reporting their issue
- our accommodation orders were sent out quickly
- they were smart enough to hold some of the product back to ensure that we didn’t get like an Il Makiage palette as a replacement (not saying it’s bad but ND is the ecstasy we were expecting…). This was the #1 “right” thing they did, and the easiest part to screw up. Because look how many people thought they would just get “bad leftover inventory”). That didn’t happen! Holding back a % of that product from choice and the MDS, meant they could meet this need. And that’s smart customer service.

And even if some people don’t have a good experience with their accommodation, my guess is that number will be very small and not everything can be controlled.

But what they could control…they get an A+ on. And while I have way too many products and my bathroom looks like a Sephora (pics 8, 9) I’m gonna keep buying things I want and don’t need from Ipsy. Because dammit, I want my goodies!!! And they made me happy. 😊

This month’s matching set from Noux (www.shopnoux.com) is by the brand Voight. This was definitely a new to me brand. The matching set includes the 1. Ribbed bralette and 2. Ribbed Bikini. First impression is that this set has great quality, the material does not feel cheap and flimsy like it’s going to tear/wear down after a few washes. I love the simple cut of both the bralette and underwear and the ribbed material. Definitely feels like a basic I would reach for many times and the color feels so light and fresh. Again, I am very pleased with this month’s set/brand!

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https://bluemercury.com/products/bluemercury-the-spring-makeup-edit-2

Did Walmart send me an expired Good Molecules Yerba Mate eye gel? Was delivered 4/20/26