I have to agree with you on this point. I'll use it up, but my tube of Maybelline Great Lash in clear has much better hold than the Chella. That said, it's not a product that gets daily use on my part anyway, so I'm not too bummed about it. Still glad I got it instead of the Benefit mascara.
I think the mascara was "guaranteed" to the first 1000 new subscribers, but that other members could also receive the mascara. I wasn't a new member this month and I got the mascara. Which was nice since I had wanted to try it and now I don't have to spend $10 at Sephora.
And it was the first 1000 subscribers after that email came out. I was a new subscriber, but I signed up before it went out, and I got the brow gel. I'm fine with not getting mascara, though, because I already have something like five miscellaneous tubes of mascara from various subscription boxes (plus a ModelCo coming from Birchbox this week), but I don't use the stuff *at all*. I know I could theoretically swap it, but I have a lengthy swap list (including a few of the aforementioned mascaras) that I'm having problems shortening because I have so much stuff it's hard to find stuff up for swap that I don't already have. With the brow gel, I probably won't use it, either, but I will feel less guilty for using it a few times and tossing it (I tried it once, and even though I was able to get enough gel out of the tube to use, it didn't seem to do anything for me).
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This idea came to me because I bought an 'always radiant kit' in pharmacy and found the bag in it is just the size of ipsy bag.
I absolutely love getting a new bag each month from Ipsy! I use all of the ones that I have and am sure I'll find uses for future bags as well.
I kind of saw the mascara as not a better product, but a better recognized product by a popular brand that would get 1000 people to sign up really quickly. But I get what you mean - the mascara probably would have been liked (or used) by a lot more subscribers than the brow gel. It would have be nice if the "or" products were the same type of product, like two mascaras, but by different brands.
I agree.
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But after getting TheBalm mascara last month, the Benefit one this month, and the Modelco in my BB I'm really, really hoping that the December ipsy does not have any mascara
I don't think they reserved all of the samples of mascara for 1000 spots for the next 24 four subscribers. That would mean that relatively few people would have gotten the mascara out of 40,000 people. We have been seeing too many people on Youtube and on MuT for all of those people to have gotten the mascara. I think they had more than 1000 samples and some were distributed to current subscribers, but they definitely did use 1000 of the samples to entice people to come and join. But my reasoning behind that promotion was not that Ipsy was trying to short-change their older subscribers. Maybe they wanted to give the new subscribers a chance to sample a mascara the same way older subscribers did (since last month we ALL got the sample of theBalm bodybuilder mascara.)
Ooh, this is a great idea. I definitely have bags with ink stains in the liner because of a loose pen floating around. Love the idea of categorizing everything and giving each its own bag. Now I know what to do with all my ipsy bags.
